886: Story 886: The Hollow Hunger 886: Story 886: The Hollow Hunger The Apex Devourer was dead.
But the air still reeked of sothing wrong.
Leon kicked over a charred Stalker corpse, his heart hamring in his chest.
The explosion had ripped the Apex apart, its massive body now just smoldering at and bone.
But Evelyn’s hands were still trembling.
Why weren’t the Stalkers retreating?
Mia scanned the area, gripping her pistol.
“Sothing isn’t right.”
Then, they heard it.
A wet, sucking noise.
The Apex’s remains twitched.
Flesh began to shift, congealing into a pulsing mass of tendrils.
From the gory pile, sothing stirred.
It wasn’t dead.
It was evolving.
The Rebirth Begins
Evelyn’s eyes widened.
“MOVE!
NOW!”
The survivors scattered as the corpse split open, revealing a nightmare within.
A new creature erged, its form still unstable.
Muscle and bone snapped into place, its elongated fra stretching unnaturally.
The skull was no longer armored, but exposed, revealing a writhing mass of nerves.
And then, it opened its mouth.
A low, guttural moan filled the air—a sound that felt wrong.
A hunger beyond reason.
Reaper aid.
“It’s reforming!”
Leon didn’t wait.
He fired a round directly at the exposed skull.
The bullet struck—
And the creature didn’t even flinch.
The Hollowborn Rises
Evelyn’s mind raced.
The Apex had been a perfect predator, but this thing?
This was sothing worse.
The Hollowborn.
The Devourer’s next stage.
It twitched violently, its claws extending into curved blades of bone.
When it moved, its limbs jerked unnaturally, as if the body wasn’t fully its own.
And then—it vanished.
Gone.
Lucas barely had ti to react before the creature reappeared behind him, its claws tearing across his chest.
Blood sprayed.
Lucas collapsed, gasping for air.
“IT CAN BLINK!” Mia scread.
The creature’s form flickered, like a glitch in reality.
Every ti it moved, it left behind a trail of black mist.
Reaper tackled Lucas away, barely dodging the next strike.
The Hollowborn twisted its head unnaturally, its empty sockets fixating on Evelyn.
And then it spoke.
“You… are… food.”
A voice, but not a voice.
A hollow echo, as if sothing else was speaking through it.
Evelyn felt her body freeze.
One Last Shot
Leon fired, but the bullets phased through the creature like smoke.
They needed sothing stronger.
“Reaper, cover !” Evelyn grabbed a shrapnel grenade from Lucas’ belt.
If bullets couldn’t hit it, then they’d tear it apart all at once.
She lunged forward, pulling the pin.
The Hollowborn blinked, reappearing inches from her face.
Its mouth split open, revealing a gaping abyss of teeth and tendrils.
Evelyn jamd the grenade directly into its throat.
BOOM.
The explosion ripped through the creature.
Its body distorted, flickering between forms, before collapsing into a pile of writhing black sludge.
For a second, it was silent.
Then, the sludge started moving.
Mia’s voice was barely a whisper.
“It’s still alive…”
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