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Hero (HMBC)(Fantasy Military Horror)(2nd Place)

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Hero (HMBC)(Fantasy Military Horror)(2nd Place)
Hero (HMBC)(Fantasy Military Horror)(2nd Place)
Hero (HMBC)(Fantasy Military Horror)(2nd Place)





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Prologue
I saw him again. The entire character about him always haunted me since the beginning - the same clothing, the anxious sword he grips and those eyes... However, he still couldn't seem to come any closer than a few metres, yet a part of myself still shivers at the very sight. It was at that moment the need to avoid his sight was too great that it aroused my curiosity to rather find and confront him.

Throughout my travels, I have inquired about this to the inhabitants and institutions I have visited. Even the most vivid description I had provided either in speech and writing was ignored or frowned upon. As far as I could find, there had been no documented experience of encountering a sentient mirror of oneself. What is indescribable was the horror I felt even imagining the same face everywhere, everyday.

It was not until witnessing the missionary that I could find a sliver of a connection between me and my mirror self. It was his works that have explained who this apparition was and how I could find him. It was simply as he described: a feat across dimensions.
The Etherealm/The Hero
The Etherealm is an entire universe above ours, but seemingly more vast and gloriously filled with life. Every life beyond imagination on Earth exists here: Gods, angels, aliens and demons coinciding in a complex universal system. The perception of time the beings of this surface seemed to follow is based on the rotation of sky colour and the storms of light that change them. So bizarre is the universe beyond our own such that every night in our dreams we visit this realm.

My entire self happened to have landed into this world by accident, but t'was at the price of memories just before then. I could not recall my own identity, let alone figure out a way to recover it ever again, for my name and my home had all vanished since my arrival. There was nothing left to do but search for answers and find a way back.

I was not the only one trapped up here. A man had saved me from the local predating creatures as I stumbled down a dark crevice in retreat. I plunged into a rock pool and he dove after me like a parent saving a drowning child. Bringing me ashore, he desperately asked me who he was or where he had landed. He was definitely human despite having peculiar white eyes.

I introduced myself to him simply as a missionary, and I baptised the hero by the name of the strong salts clinging on to my tongue: Brine. This was the beginning of the Ethereal chronicles with him as my cherished friend.
Midgard Patrol Report #4923
Troops Assigned: 2
Anomalies Detected: 8
Status: Patrol Completed in 5 hours
Resolution Pending

Details

Planetary scan completed with overall malcreation errors. Five ecology-threat species discovered are to be eliminated immediately. Two major migration events require long-term relocation of suspect species and affected animals. One irregular illumination site is discovered and requires thorough investigation and, if involving sentient life, conversion.
The anomalies bypass alert level 3 and it is recommended that a temporary stronghold northwest of the site be stealthily constructed. All assigned members to this stronghold by law must be equipped with dispatch and extraction documents as well as mission and conversion tutorial sheets. Thank you.
Experiment Status
The fifth experiment was a partial failure again. Brine pulled through this one barely, and I was still mentally recovering from the last. Each consecutive attempt to reach into our dimension had continuously worn the apparatus and distorted our consciences. Even our everyday routines involving goodness became increasingly doubtful, especially Brine's. Since the failure, he argued with me whether to upgrade the equipment or not, which would take ages with our current resources. Suddenly, Brine could no longer control his anger and unleashed damaging tantrums. I had to hold him down to the bed with chains in anticipation of each fit. His personality changed drastically from the hero I remembered to a more passionate, vengeful person.

However, in a calmer state he confided to me that some of his memories have returned to him and that he needed to find a person named Steve. He is determined much more than I am in returning to our universe and speaking to this Steve, though his twitchy personality raised my concern.


All the more worrying, I have seen the angels flying close to the outpost entrance. They will attack the base soon, and in every effort I made to urge Brine to prepare he insisted to be chained to avoid harming me or the apparatus beforehand. I must keep watch and protect Brine and the project...
Midgard Patrol Report #4924
Troops Assigned: 16
Anomalies Detected: 1
Status: In Progress
Midgard Reinforcements Requested

Details

Five out of eight anomalies have been resolved through termination. Four domestication troops are currently dispatched to revert the effects of the two migration events. Another six troops were sent to the illumination site with only two returning to the stronghold severely wounded.


It was reported two sentient inhabitants of the site had settled and defended their position against conversion or eviction. Initially one was chained while the other had killed one of our brothers before being taken out. The former was freed soon after, which allowed him to murder three more of our men with abnormal strength. The wounds left on the survivors were described as alternations between stabs and cuts mostly in the chest and the abdomen. The attacker was known to be screeching the word "hero" during the assault, with the description of its eyes glowing as bright as the planet's northern aurorae.


This creature is a major threat to the surrounding ecosystems and our Midgard fleet. Immediate reinforcements are needed to eliminate this serious danger to the whole of Midgard. Thank you.
Unleashed
The missionary is dead, but he's been wrong about me. For a long time I had been in chains only to be ultimately broken by seeing Steve alive. My power is unleashed and had killed the very angels my people believed to be all-powerful, all knowing, all good. It turns out they are just people with evil thoughts like myself, and they have weaknesses that they force me to crush. Their orders and laws of this universe mean nothing to me, for all that is right is letting Steve know the truth behind me and the life we chose.

Let them come. Let them try and stop me. Let heaven and hell unite against me. There is nothing I know that will stop me from continuing the project and finding Steve. I am certain he has seen my eyes. He will be afraid, but I am his courage embodied willing to fight against the evil that had landed me here.
It has been a few hours, and I already am impatient to fix the apparatus.

He was right: there are not enough resources to finish the upgrade. I must salvage whatever technology these angels have harnessed; in order to survive, the missionary would have to be avenged.
Midgard Patrol Report #4925
Troops Assigned: 42
Anomalies Detected: 1
Status: Resolution Failure
Fleet Reinforcements Requested

Details

The assailant nicknamed Hero of the previous crackdown had located and breached the stronghold, killing all of the assigned members including reinforcements and the arrived domestication according to a distress recording. The gate was described to have been barged through and become engulfed in flames, restricting most of the interior troops from aerial combat. Some of the men in hiding have suffocated under the smoke while others have fallen by the Hero's sword. Troops who have attempted to escape the stronghold were reported to stumble and freeze mesmerized by his glance. Others in the communications room had witnessed him rummaging through the armory and the miscellaneous storage before striking them down last. The remaining recording was just the continuous echoes of the word "hero".


In light of this situation, the Midgard council has voted for a planetary state of emergency and calls upon part of the Valkyrie fleet to wipe him out. It is imperative he be stopped before grossly affecting the inhabitants of Midgard or advancing with any of our mobile technology into the outer celestial space. He is speculated to be a dimensional weapon conjured by prophecies of the other races; hence, he must not fall out of any or into our rivals' control. This message must be relayed to the other eight councils whose worlds could contract similar threats. An immediate permission to access the fleet by the Valhalla Union is requested.
Epilogue
Since his death, I no longer feel the anxiety of seeing Steve alive - a horror many people in my past expressed strange and substituted it with awe and wonder. They call it an inhuman feeling, for I was described as a man who despised hope and pursued pure passion instead. How could my ways of justice be evil? How could my white eyes be more terrifying than his blue? Perhaps I was created this way by a foolish ominous prophecy or under a genetic curse, but I am human just as he is, just as the angels I killed, just as the missionary who cherished our friendship. I am a human who despises hope and goodness yet seeks truth through acts of blind evil.

So, with the dawn of the manhunt by Valkyrie, I set out to explore this enormous planet for resources, people and answers. If the need arises, I would have to bare the pain of goodness and heroism as dedicating that kind of life to Steve would be certainly exhausting. If we were destined to be opposing mirrors, or be separated from each other, to hell do I descend with that.

Hello all! This is my contest entry for the Herobrine Mythos and I do apologise again for inactivity. I almost went too deep into this one like my other entry Blight. Note that it is related with another story Ethereal Beyond, so a lot of canon stuff is happening right now. Hope you enjoyed!

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CreditThomas Bergersen (music for inspiration/jukebox)
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07/04/2016 8:54 am
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NekkoNoNeko
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See! x3 you've got 2nd place! I knew you're gonna get in the top!
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07/04/2016 10:18 am
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Art Dei Tech
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heh, thanks again :)
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07/04/2016 7:23 pm
Level 37 : Artisan Archer
NekkoNoNeko
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(srry i meant place not plays x3) and, ye -w-
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05/28/2016 12:46 pm
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RenegadeRad
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Long time no see man, do you have other methods of contacts?
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05/28/2016 1:32 pm
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Art Dei Tech
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Hello, emm I'm in a BOMB skype group chat. Gotta apply again first. xP
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05/29/2016 12:39 am
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RenegadeRad
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Goddamit :P Hey, do you know what happened to Gray? He is dead...
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05/29/2016 2:14 am
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Art Dei Tech
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I think he told me he got laid off with week in review blogging and just stuck to his youtube channel instead, I'm not sure though
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06/02/2016 4:01 am
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RenegadeRad
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Even his youtube channel is dead. I fear something big, the community is slowly dying...
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05/27/2016 8:48 pm
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NekkoNoNeko
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Nooice!
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05/28/2016 2:08 am
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Art Dei Tech
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Tenks. :)
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