I'M NO ORDINARY MAN

CHAPTER 3

The silvery substance made its through the windpipe, edging along the C – shaped cartilage and into the lungs. The venom sees its chance when it sees the pure haemoglobin floating by. It moves with lightning speed and fills up the space where the oxygen should have fit in. The rest of them rushed to follow the first. Squeezing inside the haemoglobin was the perfect plan.

The blood – venom moved into the left atrium. The venom grew curious when the atrium seemed to act like a pump. The atrium then contracted, which squeezed the blood – venom through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. After the blood – venom filled that ventricle, the mitral valve swung back and closes. Another valve called the aortic valve swings open simultaneously. The blood – venom finds themselves being filled into the aorta.

The blood – venom swings itself along a circular – shaped cubicle and was shot into these strange branches. There were numerous branches and the blood – venom was separated. It whizzed at high speed to where the red branches led them to.

All of a sudden, it felt something absorbing themselves from the haemoglobin. The venom cells flew at the body cells mercilessly. Destroying every part of them and creating cells that multiplied rapidly and formed new tissues which becomes organs later on, fit for an immortal.

The devenomized venom was swept out of the perfect body cells and the blood once again flowed the useless ones to another place. The heart pumped on steadily, knowing that something else had ventured into its domain. Upon command, an army of white blood cells were sent after the mysterious trail. The devenomized venom knew that they were being followed by the white blood cells. What use did they think they were against the venom?

The leucocytes spun around the venom and started attacking them. The venom knew that they would win the fight too easily but decided against it. The venom swept along billions of other cells, creating an illusion as though they were trying to flee.

The plan worked too easily. The Leos were rather fast and once they were dealt with, they will prove worthy for an immortal body. The venom could picture the fall of the heart just too clearly. The leucocytes stared amazingly at the devenomized venom that struck organs, tissues, bones and body cells.

The effects were fascinating. The parts of the body turned into a strange crystalloid material. The wonder nearly made the leucocytes to forget their mission to terminate the venom. The blood seemed to slow down the Leos. The heart was weakening.

The devenomized venom cheered and suddenly stopped flowing. The heart might just be failing, but it certainly wasn't going to give up too easily. The venom was surrounded. White blood cells encircled them from every corner. Suddenly, the red wall around them seemed to burst and out poured more silvery substance. The heart pumped furiously, determined not to give up and fail its master. It gave orders for the Leos to attack. The attack was useless for the devenomized venom now had recruits. Either way, the leucocytes fought bravely but unfortunately, they were fighting a losing war. The venom vanquished the Leos and produced a new Leo, a batch of super leucocytes. These guard cells were now officially under the control of the venom.

Glad with their latest success, they hurtled on destroying everything and replacing them with the most perfect organisms that had ever existed. The beating heart was really close now. The blood around the venom seemed to hold itself back.

This started to get on the venom's nerves.

The venom ordered the leucocytes to search for a breach and soon enough, the venom found itself flowing at ease towards its final enemy, the HEART.

The blood – venom and the devenomized venom flowed straight into the right atrium from the superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava that brought in blood from the head and arms, and blood from main parts of the body and the legs respectively.

The pulmonary vein appeared as a threat. Since blood could only flow forward and not backwards, because the valves existed. Therefore, the venom decided to send half of its army through the pulmonary vein and into the lungs. The other half would remain here in the heart to destroy it completely and create a new unstoppable heart. A heart that no longer required air for respiration. Thus, creating a being that didn't breathe. But the venom knew that they needed something to feed on.

New plans appeared and the venom now knew what it had to do. But those plans could be carried out later. First things first, the heart had to be destroyed. The remaining army was sent to attack the parts of the heart.

The venom could feel the power of the body surging around it. The heart fought on, pumping threateningly. The venom knew that it was a matter of time before the heart was too weak to resist the power of the venom.

The heart faltered, almost stopped but it mustered the remaining strength within it to fight back. The venom had surrounded the heart completely. A feeling of defeat dozed it for a few seconds.

There was still strength left within the heart. It decided to fight till it stops breathing. The heart released its own leucocytes. But the venom transformed them soon enough. It was losing; it was failing its master.

The heart faltered, the pulse weakened as it released its last beat. Once and for all… The final beat drove the venom mad with delight for it was the signal all of them had been waiting for. And their great enemy, the heart was finally dead. Gone was their Great Enemy...

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Those three strangers had said something. They had been shouting loudly that they were vampires. I mean, was it actually even possible? I had the just – some impression that they didn’t exist. But one of them had bitten me, that made me wonder.

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I was in hell and I knew it. Those vampires have killed me and now I have joined the Dead in the worst and damned place ever, HELL… How did I know that I was in hell? Well, that’s easy. My body was on an endless fire that raged like a freak supernova around me. The fire was red, white, black and blue at the same time. I shrieked in pain as the flames licked hungrily at my body.

I had told them to kill me and they had done just that. Now, I was in a tight spot. I’m in

HELL and there’s no way of escaping it. Oh God! Help me, I wanted to shout. What had I done to deserve this? I had run away from a goddamn place called home, if you could call it one.

I had run away from my mother who doesn’t love me even the slightest? Who was the guilty one here? What else was I to do? Stay there? HUH? That sentence that I had blurted out in my mind got me thinking. If I hadn’t run away, I wouldn’t even be in this hell – hole, would I?

So…Remaining at home would have been a better option.

No! Never will that be true. And I actually growled in anger. All of a sudden, a force had me pinned in mid – air and waves upon waves of fire swept through me. Help! Help! I yelled helplessly.

But I knew my efforts were a complete waste. I mean, who in the freaking world would be able to hear me shouting aimlessly in Hell, exactly? The fire gushed into me, causing more shrieks of pain and I struggled to free myself from the invisible grip that held me.

That’s when I decided to think carefully instead of shouting relentlessly. I know what you must be thinking right now, that no one would be able to think in such a situation as this. Well, I don’t really care because you wouldn’t ever be able to classify me as a person with a right mind.

Since, the pain increases every time I struggle like an outraged bull, I made a simple theory about this. What will happen if I remain still and silent? What would the effect be, then? Would it still be the same?

Only one way, I thought as I directed my mind to freeze. To stand the searing heat and pain, to stand against the Great Fire that erupted around me like a huge wall. Completely inescapable. I focused myself into staying still and I tended to empty my mind of everything. Empty of memories, both bitter and sweet and everything in between.

That’s when the changes began. A hole seemed to blow itself into existence around the raging fire. Cold air rushed and blew around me, swirling to greater heights, speed and evidently overpowering the heat. High winds appeared like coats of arms and swept past the fire and extinguishing it.

This was something new, something unseen or unheard of – Hell’s fire being burnt out. I mean, since when did Hell’s Fire burnt out, extinguished completely, and reduced to black ash. The heat around me subsided slowly, leaving a cool sensation about my body. The torture was at an end. My theory had been proved correct.

But I was still suspended in mid – air. No sooner had I thought of that, I felt myself fall. The only weird thing was the ground didn’t

greet me. Only, once again, darkness