DT 2020: The Worms

The Worms

This fanfiction article, DT 2020: The Worms, was written by Distant Tide. Please do not edit this fiction without the writer's permission.

During a school-sponsored FTX, undercover Spartan Zachariah-D111 tells his classmates a tale.

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“For a moment, Kev thought he felt the chills running across his body. Up to his spine, along his ribs, through his muscles. He looked down at his arms. In the light of his headlamp, he saw how they shook. But it wasn’t his arms shaking, no, little veins contracted in and out like hearts – slowly getting bigger within seconds. He felt his gut twist and crimp like a knot, twisting-twisting until he felt like his stomach would explode.”

Zach gestured with wide arms to his audience gathered around the charcoal-wood fire.

“He fell to his knees and grasped his shirt, struggling to pull it up as his muscles – its muscles fought against him. There in his stomach, the skin turned an inky dark gray, but not swollen or bleeding or bruised.”

Nicole, particularly intrigued by the tale, leaned forward and closer to Zach, on the edge of his peripheral. He subtlety brought his left hand down, hovering just by her back.

“Transparent; his skin turned transparent, and within, little foot-long eels piled up and squirming within.”

Zach reached out with his right hand and exaggeratingly waved his fingers., leaving his left in shadow.

“They poked out like fingers, hands trying to get out. As he opened his mouth, he made to scream but the only sound that came out was a hiss – a low, collective hiss like a symphony of snakes. Hiss...”

Nicole leaned further forward as did Zach, all was well. He noted Merlin off in the shadows, an ear now directed towards the campfire gathering.

“He felt his throat clench up and little-by-little a long black tendril rose from his within his mouth, slouching out and into the air. Its sucker mouth turned towards his wide eyes, baring its teeth... Just to jump out and SUCK OUT HIS RIGHT EYEBALL!”

Zach leaped forward from the log bench, acutely running a pair of fingers across Nicole’s back bottom-to-top. She promptly went with him, a sharp shriek escaping her lips as she jumped, lost immediate balance and planted her butt on the grass below. Other students from Packer Company jolted as well at the punchline and scream.

Nicole grabbed onto Zach’s wrist and violently pulled herself up, failing to set him off balance. She punched him in the shoulder but immediately regretted it feeling her knuckles contact muscle and bone built like iron. “Ow! Fucking heck Zach! Why did you do that?”

The undercover-Spartan-student grinned sheepishly but raised his hands in surrender.

“Sorry, sorry. It was for the sake of the story. You freaked, didn’t you? I got what I needed. Everyone jumped, well except Andra,” Zach explained. “I saw you over there, Merlin!”

“I did not!”

Andra joined in, tapping Merlin over the head and pointing him back to his spotter scope. “I felt it through your leg, idiot.”

“Aw come on...”

Zach chuckled to himself but turned grim – remembering the woman devoured inside-out by Lekegolo worms in 2552, on Tribute.