The macchine stopped at his peak, emiting a tremendous sound, the kind of which make men ears bleed. The man was immobile on the chair, white as a corpse, the sensor didn’t detected any life signs.

“Well, I will call this a success.”

A little above the room full of wires an speakers, protected by a thin layer of glass, were men in lab coats, talking and taking notes.

“The subject died still.” one of them remarked

“Well…” he paused “but we reached a new peak.” the other replied

While the men were discussing a tiny tip continued to move, up and down, registrating something.

“Sir...take a look at that”

The researched looked at the tip, it was still registrating energy, even if now that the experiment was concluded.

“It’s- it’s impossible!” one of them cried “this macchine is broken!”

But the values continued to increase and decreased, reaching peeks and lows that they never saw.

“What we are to do sir?”

The head researcher stood a moment thinking, a long forgotten feeling was returning to him, a sense of uneasiness and discomfort offuscated his judment “Close the macchines and doors, we will take understand what is going on tommorow.”

Suddently another macchine was registrating something, it was the medical one. The subject was still alive, somehow.

“It’s impossible!” a many cried “there is something wrong!” and it was at this point that many of them went away overtaken by fear, including the head one. A few remained, too curious to see what was happening.

“What we are to do?”

there was a little pause and some silence “turn the macchines on, this is data to valuable to be lost out of fear.”

If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.

So the macchines were turned on again.

A great peak was detected, the lights begun to malfunction, many men vomited. The man in the room looked at something with wide open eyes.

“Do- do you see it?” he said

“What?”

“Tha-that thing! Is coming towards me.”

“Calm down, what you are seeing?”

“It’s- it’s like…” the man went silent

“It’s like?”

One of the men noticed that the glass was breaking. There was a strong shock in the room, the macchines and lights exploded. In the chaos one of the researchers jumped in the research room and went to the man in the chair.

“It’s like?”

The man was in tears, a great emotion took hold of him.

“It’s like a galaxy of stars and void made of thousand faces componing one m-, no not a man, one creature of chaos and energy.”

A loud scream was heard, it was from another research room.

“Researcher… what is your name?”

“My name is Paul, yours is... Christopher?”

“Yes. Paul could you free me, I don’t feel save with that thing watching us”

Paul turned, there was nothing out of the ordinary in the room

“Where is it?”

“There, in that corner, he is watching us patiencly. Couldn’t you see his eyes? Look at them! He wants us.”

Nothing except dust and cabble was in that corner

Another scream was heard, this one further.

Paul freed Christopher but he remained there, still. All the sudden Paul felt a strong agitation and anxiety “it’s here, isn’t it?”

“Y-y-ye-yes… the-there” he pointed to Paul shoulder

An allarm was activated, the whole structure was now closed.

Paul turned and saw it, the creature with a thousand faces

“It’s hor-horrific! Horror! Monster!” Christopher said blocked on his chair

Paul looked at it a bit “beautifull...”

“You are going mad, but you have seen it!”

“But look there is also a composition, a pattern to it, in all those screams, in all those pains, there is order…”

“Is pure chaos!”

“No, no, there is order and beauty if you look at it with the right eyes...”

The lights went out.

When hours latter they returned both Christopher and Paul were gonne, their corpses would be found days latter in a far lab. One in excrucing pain, the other with an expression of peace and calmness, there was a note on that corpse “Venerate and fear the light of a thousand faces”.

The end