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place when he decided to fight back, he faced his enemy with courage. But his bravery alone could not stop the monster. Leaping off the wall he used all his body strength to smash the creature with both fists. As it recoiled back its claw-like hands ripped across his chest and drew blood. Danny managed to dodge the second swipe with incredible speed and for a moment he believed he might actually win. But the alien fought with no sense of self-preservation, no fear of pain. As he swung his fist at it, the Third raised its arm and cut shear through Danny’s right forearm with the razor sharp edge of its armour. The limb fell to the floor with a dull thud. Danny stumbled backwards, his mind racing as shock set in. He thought it was raining and he looked around, then he realized it was his blood spraying on the thick plastic wall covers.
    A pulse of red energy burst from his stump and it blew Danny and the Third into opposite ends of the room. Danny’s blood had turned into pure glowing red energy, blasting out of his wound and his eyes like lasers. As the energy snaked out across the room it did not damage or burn anything, it simply flowed across the objects it came into contact with. The Third had gotten tangled in the plastic tarps and as it tore itself free it shrieked so loud it popped Danny’s ears. Danny crawled across the floor until his back reached the wall, then he gripped his bleeding arm tight. The Third was scared of the strange red energy, it burned and blinded it. Frightened for the first time in over a thousand years, the Third fled the body it inhabited. It took a few minutes for the corpse to fall over but in that moment the alien transferred its consciousness to one of the ants inside it. The instant the body hit the floor the energy faded from Danny’s body and he blacked out. The lights in the room flickered and went out and there was a high pitch whine as the building emergency lights kicked in.
                  His eyes flickered open and he saw his own blood pooling around him. Danny heard voices coming down the stairs but he could not call out.
    “ That you again Norbert? You know you can’t sleep down here. If you’re sleeping in here we’re turning you over to the cops this time.”
    ITSY BITSY SPIDER, EARTH MAN..              
    Danny recognized the voice right away; it was the voice from the forest. The sou nd came from somewhere inside him and jolted him awake. He thought he’d heard it before but he ignored it, but now it was loud and clear. This time the voice would not be ignored and Danny no longer had the strength to fight it.
    ARANEAE. IXODIDA. HOME SAPI ENS. ALL IS ONE.
    Danny ’s skin began to ooze a thick clear liquid. The fluid filled in his wounds and tried to cover his mouth but he wiped his face with his good arm.
    A second voice chimed in, deeper than the first.
    “I don’t know why you keep giving this guy another chance, let’s just toss the bum out into the trash and be done with HOLY SHIT!”
    Danny couldn ’t see them; his vision was fading in and out fast. He tried to call out to them but he couldn’t find his voice. They seemed to radiate a glow like a 3-D image. They were wasting valuable time inspecting the freakish corpse they’d discovered and by the time they’d notice Danny lying at the other end of the room they had already lost valuable seconds. His life was fading and Danny knew it, each beat of his heart sent his life’s blood pumping out onto the floor. The glaze of sweat continued to ooze from his pours and at it touched his wounds the bleeding began to slow.
    The security guards were out of their element and they quickly ran upstairs, yelling into their radios for police and paramedics. Danny couldn’t help but be amused by the fact he was dying on the floor of a hospital. Finally the song of the darkness overtook him and he closed his eyes. He could feel the moulting fluid covering him up and he had no more energy to