Chapter 1 - Control

Eclipse was walking home with Rosette one night. It was beautiful out. The stars decided to come out from hiding this night, unlike all the rest of the nights, in which they hid from the city.
"Eclipse?" Rosette asked, "Do you, too, think this night is so perfect? Just look at the stars! They're actually twinkling!"
"I... uh... sure" Eclipse responded, not quite focused on the sky at the moment. His head was aching strangely fro some reason. He needed to hurry home and check that out...
Suddenly, Eclipse stopped. His head... it was getting worse... he dropped onto his knees and moaned
"Hey, what's wrong?" Rosette asked, puzzled, and slightly scared for her secret love. Something was wrong. She could feel it.
Eclipse then looked up. His irises had grown smaller in distress, around that was a deep shade of glowing, firey crimson red.
"How??" Rosette gasped. "How can Condemned be taking you over now? You weren't angry! You were perfectly fine!... Weren't you...?"
Eclipse moaned again, and held his head in his hands. He was losing more and more control by the second... his teeth turned into long fangs. His eyes went fully red. His fur turned blue, with different markings.
Everything grew hazy as tenticals crawled like worms up all over his body, embracing him... feeding on him... Eclipse yelled out a cry of pain! It felt like a million needed were stabbing him all at once!
Finally in the Condemned form, he collapsed, seemingly unconcious.
"Eclipse...?" Rosette pleaded fearfully "Eclipse... please be ok... please..." Suddenly, like a marionette being pulled up by it's strings, he rose, his head looked down at the ground, and his face was not visable, for the shadows his his features. Rosette took a step closer. Big mistake.
"Eclipse" looked up. Large, grusomely sharp teeth ripped out of the skin of his once-mouthless face. He screeched out a sound that was so loud, and terrible, it would make any dog on the block howl in pain.
"Condemned..." Rosette gasped. Condemned raised his mighty claws and trapped Rosette behind them against a wall in an alleyway that he scared Rosette into. He laughed a terrible laugh.
"AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!" This did not sound like Eclipse at all...
"Eclipse? Eclipse please... you have to fight him... please don't do this... I know you would never do this..."

a pause.

He thought.

"You're right" Condemned hissed "Eclipse would NEVER do this..." Rosette's spirit's raised up a bit. Then Condemned finished his sentence. "To bad I would..."

It was the most terrible sight anyone could see. Condemned ripped out Rosette's organs, he broke her ribs, he cut out her eyes, he ripped her heart to shreds... he did everything to her that he knew, and even chewed off her tail. Screams of pain and terror rose in the city for half an hour... and then it ceased.
Condemned looked over the body. He looked over his host's former lover, and cackled. He had finally destroyed her! Finally, the one thing that got in the way of complete control was gone! FINALLY!!!
"AHA! AHAHAHAHA!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAH...!!!"
Eclipse soon came back to control, only to see the terrible sight. The funny thing was... he remebered all of it. He remembered, even, when he chewed off her tail, and ate her flesh... his friend... his love... gone.
"NO! This isn't happening!" he denied. He shook all over. He was going to fall apart...
"It IS..." a voice in his head came up. On that was terrible... wispy... full of hate... "She's gone... and soon... you shall be too!"

And the voice laughed, causing the searing pain to spread out through Eclipse's skull once more. It laughed, it cackled, it howled in enjoyment from Eclipse's distress. It laughed... It laughed... it laughed some more until finally -

"AAAGH!" Eclipse awoke, terrified. He looked around. He was in his room, covered in sweat. He looked at his hands. They were trembling. There was a knock on his closed door that made him jump. It opened. There was Rosette.
"Are you ok?" Rosette asked him. "You had a nightmare again, didn't you?" Eclipse shook his head and looked at her.
"I..." He thought for a minute. "N-no..." he managed to force out. He directed his gaze away from her. He did not want to look at Rosette.
"Are you sure...?" She asked, suspisious of his answer. Eclipse nodded. "alright..." Rosette sighed, and she shut the door again as she left the room.

Eclipse stared at the door, then made sure no one was around.

He was alone

Then, alone once more, Eclipse silently began to weep.