What if animals/entities such as the chupacabra, skin walker, and yowie didn’t originate here on earth, but were test subjects sent through a black hole. -- Latino Thor
[AN: I am WAY too white to play with native legend domains, so I'll try some other stuff]
Theoretically, it is a slow and painful death. Theoretically. From the outside, it is quick. The vessel and the victim inside stretch out and blend with the aura of light around the event horizon, and then they are gone.
Inside... it is long. Time stretches out. You see the Universe's life play out before you, behind you, all at once. It's enough to ruin a mind. Did you know? That which travels through a black hole is changed forever.
It is not death. Not really. It's far, far worse than death. This is not death. It is not life, not as we understand it. It is worse than life. It is worse than dying. I have forgotten my crime, but I remember the fall. The Universe's destiny. Stars dying. Darkness. So much darkness.
Then there was a faint light. The hint of a face. I remember faces. There was a voice.
"Bloody Mary," they whispered.
It was a name. Was it my name?
"Bloody Mary," they said.
Anger. Rage. Fury. I was boiling with hatred. How dare they call me like that? How dare they have a face? How dare they hold the only light? I, who had nothing, was insanely jealous of this stranger. I was made of rage.
Mad enough to kill.
"BLOODY MARY!"
That was the last straw. I had movement, so I moved. I had anger, and it compelled me to act. I had claws. I had teeth. I used them. I took their face for mine and extinguished the light...
...and fell back into the darkness. Once I was nothing again, I felt... horrible. I had killed a complete stranger for having light and saying a name.
Just as I started to suffer, there was another light. Another face. Another swelling of jealousy and fury. The black hole had changed me. I am become rage. I am become fear, I am become a test. I am become... death.
I am Bloody Mary. Do not call my name in the dark.
I may answer you.
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