Hessian Hex part 2

As things progressed that night, Ariana was beginning to become more concerned about what was happening to me.

She knew that something wasn't right, she could tell that something bad was going to happen and that I was in danger of 'turning' at any minute.

I was trying to keep it under control so I wouldn't have to worry about trying to hurt anyone. As we carefully walked through town and headed to the research building, I began to feel a chill in the air.

"Aaaah..."

"Nathan. What's wrong?"

"I don't know, but suddenly. I have a really bad feeling about this. I mean I could just snap at any moment - and bam, there would be a mess of severed heads flying all over the place."

"No. You wouldn't do that, you are my friend and I trust you. I trust that you won't go full-blown Hessian and kill anyone - you're too nice for that."

"You're right. I've got to keep it under control. Gotta keep it under control."

"I'm sure we'll find a way to fix this."

"And if we can't...i'm afraid you wouldn't want to be around me once it happens."

"I have faith in you. I know that you will be able to resist this. You are a good person, not a killer."

"You're right, but this is some seriously scary mojo going on here. This is like a horror movie, what with all the carnage, gore, multilation and death! Oooh...hang on, calm down..you're only making it worse, Nate."

"Wait. You were never this excited about the prospect of violence and death before, from what i've seen - you've never actually gotten excited about this sort of thing before...wait...is the spell already starting to affect you?"

"I'm fine, Ariana. It's not like it's going to happen right away, it's going to be a slow and gradual thing - you know, like with werecreature and vampire rules."

"I hope you're right. Because I would hate it if you were to lose it."

"I know. It's alright. I'm not going to lose control. I am fine."

"I can help...trust me."

Just then, I heard Reginold coming around the corner- and was suddenly overcome by feleings of bloodlust.

"Oh boy! Fresh victims!"

"Nathan...where are you going?"

I crept carefully through the shadows and snarled as I went over to face Reginold, needless to say he was a little shocked.

"Grrrrr...."

"What the hell? What's gotten into you?"

"Grrrr...."

"Are you possessed?"

"Grrr....how about you come here and I slice your head clean off?"

"Ummm...how about this instead? Bite me."

"Gladly!"

I leaned in closer to him and opened my mouth and as I did my teeth sharpened and lenghtened a bit, resembling vampire fangs.

"I didn't mean it! Someone help me!"

I snarled as I reached over and tried to bite him but I was stopped by Ariana, it wasn't a strong enough bite to possibly kill him but a little bit of blood dripped out, and I could help but taste it.

"Man, this stuff actually tastes nice."

"Nathan. Nathan! Snap out of it!"

"Woah. What did just happen? Did I just bite someone? And why do I suddenly find the taste of blood to be delicious? Am I becoming a vampire?"

"It worse...take a look for yourself."

I grabbed a mirror from out of my coat pockets, and as I looked into it I screamed in shock, what I saw was unbelievable.

"Gah! I've got fangs!"

"And more than that...you growled at someone earlier."

"I growled at someone too? Oh no..."

"I'm afraid so...you're starting to turn into the Hessian."

"What? Oh no. Say it isn't so."

"I'm afraid so."

"My dentist is going to freak out if she finds out about this."

"Calm down, as long as you keep control - everything's going to be okay."

I calmed down a little and as I did my teeth returned to normal, the feelings of bloodlust fading away for a while.

"Phew. Thanks."

"No problem."

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, i'm fine."

"You don't seem fine to me."

"Trust me, I am."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

I nervously turned around and smiled, but as I did my eyes turned from their normal brown colour to a ghostly shade of blue.

"Wait...your eyes! Did they just turn blue?"

"That's odd - my eyes were brown a second ago."

"It's already starting..."

"Uh....what are you talking about? I feel absolutely fine. In fact...."

"What?"

Just as I was about to finish my sentence, I turned around and a low growl of sorts escaped from my throat:

"Grrrr.....YOU BETTER RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN!"

"Did you just growl at me again?"

"A growl? What do you mean? Oh..it must have been something in my throat."

"Calm down, you don't want to hurt anyone, you're a nice guy."

"You're right, I am."

I calmed down a little and regained my compulsure, turning around to check and see if anyone had been hurt.

Luckily only one person had been hurt, and they did not die from the bite I gave them when in my more bloodthirsty state.

"So what do you say we head over to that inn over there and rest up?"

"That sounds like a good idea."

"Maybe a little rest will make things better."

With that the both of us headed over to an inn and decided to rest up for the night. I settled down for quick powernap before continuing on further.

However I awoke later on to a rather nasty shock, there was a severed head on the table next to me. And I don't know where it came from.

"Gah! What in the world? What the hell happened?"

"Looks like there's a severed head on the table."

"But...how?"

"I'm guessing the transformation into the Hessian is progressing further and that you went off to kill someone but don't remember it happening."

"Hmmm...kind of reminds me of how it goes with werecreature transformations. The victim has little to no memories of what happened after they transformed the night before."

"So what are we going to do?"

"Well I guess you could always do what they do with werecreatures and chain me up so that I don't end up killing people."

"Chain you up? I could never do that."

"Too bad - i'm not turning into a werecreature, or that would mean having to do the whole silver bullet routine. Oh wait...that would kill me, not cure me."

"That's true."

"Oh well. What are we going to do?"


"Don't you worry...we will think of something."

"I sure hope so."

I was starting to get more worried about this by the minute, if the changes were already starting - then I feared that I could go full blown Hessian at any minute and kill someone only to not realize i'm doing it.

What if the changes were progressing more quickly than I thought? What if there wasn't a way around this? What if this was going to get in the way of our friendship? What was I going to do?

For the rest of the night I fought about what to do and how to keep under control, for lord knows how much longer it would be until it would actually happen.

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Will our hero find a way to keep things under control? Or will the Hessian side take control of him and make him turn against his own companions?

Find out in part 3.