FICTOBER 25, DAY 24
Resident Evil 8, Fanfiction
Hey!!! Late, I know. I am behind but I'm on vacation and trying to enjoy it, but the next two days will be dedicated to outright finishing this challenge, I'm gonna catch up and prewrite the chapters for the end of the month so I can enjoy Halloween stress free lol. For now though, enjoy a Miranda and Scientist Reader watching a cadou take place.
TW: Canon Typical Violence, Body Horror.
~450 word count.
Day 24 - “There’s Not Enough Time.”
“Have you tried taking corpses from the village that haven’t recently died?” Helping Miranda with her experiments provoked these kinds of questions. The morbid curiosity of a scientist with little to no morals was a cruel thing to witness and take part in, but the results were almost always fascinating.
“There’s not enough time. The cadou needs a recently deceased corpse or live subject to take hold. I’ve noticed if the heart hasn’t pumped in the last twenty-four hours, the thing just refuses to even acknowledge the body.” You were both hovering over the body of a male subject that had wandered too far into the forest at night and was unlucky enough to be picked up by a Lycan.
There were large lacerations in the man’s torso and many of his organs were brutally torn out by the beast man. His face was… unrecognizable to say the least. No doubt the villagers would find the man gone and his identity would be found eventually, but for now the man’s name is no matter. He is dead and if he is to come back, he will have no memory of his previous time of life. He will fall into the mass of other Lycans, turning grey and beastly quickly.
Miranda is speaking into a recording device, like she usually does whenever doing experiments and surgery. You, on the other hand, prefer taking physical notes. A heavy notebook and slim pen stay in your hands or in your presence while you work. Thankfully, you’re not doing much work at the moment, merely observing Miranda and offering up the occasional thought provoking question for her.
Eventually, Miranda grabs a glass container from a side table that contains the fist sized parasite that Miranda dubbed the “cadou.” She opens it above the open chest cavity in the corpse and the tentacles around the creature slowly wriggle out and hover towards the two of you first as you’re both living and breathing. It seeks life and warmth you’ve gathered from the times Miranda has let you watch her place the creature. Once neither of you reach out for it, it starts to slide out of the container before it plops down into the cavity with a wet and sloppy noise.
After some poking and prodding, the creature moves around in the man’s chest making unholy sounds. Bones crunch, muscles snap angrily and the cadou wraps itself around the unmoving heart before squeezing harshly. It’s a slow process after that. It takes days for the full transformation to take effect, but eventually, given there are no side mutations, the body that was once a living person will turn into another Lycan to be added to the hordes.
