Not all people have the same job opportunities, yet most would like such privilege.

Not all dancers dance for Bolshoi ballet, yet many would like such honour. Not all women are dreaming of luxurious life, yet some find happiness in the most common things. Just like Elina, who only wanted to be a ballet dancer yet now works in a strip club downtown.

A student as she is, she can’t say no to some extra money here and there. As a result, her first bad decision had been made. One night, a VIP client paid her a visit… right before their… meeting… this man disrespected her in the most outrageous way and she had to do something about it. Picked up her high-heel and…

She is so proud of herself now. Her blood boils underneath her skin and suddenly the burns are visible on her body. Under such circumstances we feel powerful and unstoppable but the truth lies far beyond that. The conquer of fear is what gives us the illusion of power over people. From my personal perspective, the scared ones are the most dangerous ones. A dog for example won’t harm you normally but when its wounded it will feel the need to protect itself. Normal, right? Now take a look at her body… The scratchiness is unbelievable.

Elina got the virus… Scavengers were already on the way after security called them, to pick her up. There’s something different on this girl. The virus seems to collaborate perfectly with her. What a prize for the Director!

Amynta spend many days on the surface looking for hunters when she finally managed to capture one and brought it back to the Secret Underground Facilities. The Director is standing petrified of the its image. She touched it, wearing gloves of course, and smiled. Her scientists have now to examine it and find a way to combine it’s D.N.A. with one of the successful experiments in order to create a stronger and more advanced Assassin. Hunters, as we know so far, have the ability to heal faster than any other creature plus they are extremely strong.

The “Elina” project started.

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Design by Argus Dorian | Dark Cyberpunk Artist
Story by Revna Dorian & Argus Dorian

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If you had a chance to get your revenge, would you take it? Would you stand side by side with Nemesis or would you rather take matters into your own hands?

The scientists explained everything to her. They noticed that Elina’s body heals faster, unlike any other and yet the virus still exists in her just with zero symptoms. The director asked her if she wants to take place in this experiment and join the Elite’s team, being the most valuable body in the facility… able to heal and all.

‘’if everything goes well, and it will… You will become the leader of the Assassins! They will follow you Elina. After everything you’ve been through… imagine been treated as the hero that you are from people around you! Elina who helped the humanity in the darkest times of history!’’

She gladly accepted. and why wouldn’t she? Elina had nothing to lose… or so she thought. Despite her past, her pain, her being a victim in society’s hands, she wanted to help humanity. On the other hand, her being an unstoppable being, superior to all her abusers, sounds tempting as it is.

The doctors first thanked her and then they took her in the operation bed. Elina is lying on the the bed, looking at the lights on the ceiling spotting on her body and some huge surgical machines all around her. Her scars are closing and she is almost healed. Director is in the same room… right next to her… while the doctors are checking all the equipment to see if everything is in place for the procedure. They placed her body in the right possession to tide her up so she can’t move at all.

They don’t need screams while they’re trying to help humanity, right? Salvation is near now.

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Design by Argus Dorian | Dark Cyberpunk Artist
Story by Revna Dorian & Argus Dorian

© Decaydead | Argus Dorian

After many surgeries and injections of the new virus, Elina was taken to her room where she begun to transform.

She’s alone, standing in the middle of this cell, down on her knees. In addition to her unbearable pain throughout her whole body, now her insides are burning as well. It can’t stop now and it won’t. Not just yet. She must adapt to this new state. The transformation lasted for hours and hours. Βlack fluid flows from her every hole.. mouth, nose.. ears.. it’s her liquefied old organs that her new body expelled. The wounds start to close and her body heals once again. It makes you wonder, it’s not the amount of pain that tramples me.

It’s the state of her mind that is equally important if not more.. what kind of thoughts was she drowning into? Memories perhaps, childhood beautiful ones or dark adult ones? You think she still remembers her mother’s touch on her shoulder? maybe her fathers first gift? all the above, I would say. I hope.. she needs strength from every aspect in her life now to manage and handle the situation.

Remember when you said you don’t like your hips? Your breast is too small? Your nose is not straight enough? Remember when your muscles were not good enough to fight? You were called ugly, weak, not much of a man? Now think of all the compliments you got for these exact characteristics on you as well as the ones for your character.

Imagine being someone else. who would you be? If I were you.. I would be.. just different.

Your soul is what makes you, you. Your mind.. Your inner fights and wins and loses. You are beautiful just the way you are. Unique and irreplaceable.

Elina’s mind is still hers and the director, who was watching the process, ordered the guards to take her for the nest step…

Model @kohona_felis

Design by Argus Dorian | Dark Cyberpunk Artist
Story by Revna Dorian & Argus Dorian

© Decaydead | Argus Dorian

Eyes wide open, black tears running down her face. She’s finally complete!

Fully recovered and healed. Fully upgraded. She’s able to breath on the surface despite the toxic polluted air and in addition to that, her reflexes are beyond imagination, vision and hearing is just unreal and equally important detail is her secret most beautiful feature on her body… her new adaption… the long, sharp, shiny blades coming out of her elbows when she needs them to.

A new body like this can have many secrets, wouldn’t you agree? What if I tell you that there is something even Elina isn’t aware of? But not yet… in the meantime let’s talk about something highly disturbing. You see, her mission is to capture hunters and humans of any age or and sex and bring them back to the facility. Instead of following the given orders she hunts and kills not only hunters but especially human men.

Do you understand why this is disturbing?

Her memories are erased. Burn. There’s absolutely nothing there for her to be triggered by, in case you’re wondering. Since hunters are dangerous to every other kind, yes they all must die, no matter what but when it comes to humans… why is she only killing men? And keep in mind that when I say killing I mean brutally tortures them till they beg to die.

Now I ask you, since it is time for our question to you… do you believe that something like this can happen? Even if we don’t remember why, we just don’t like a place, or a person. Our phobias must be coming from somewhere after all, right? Some people say it is because of our past life, others say it’s just the survival instinct. In either case, could our DNA hold memories that out brain doesn’t remember? And if that’s the case, does that make our body even smarter than we can understand and accept?

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Design by Argus Dorian | Dark Cyberpunk Artist
Story by Revna Dorian & Argus Dorian

© Decaydead | Argus Dorian

She only had to come very close to one of her victims to understand that she can do so much more than she thought she could.

Elina just unlocked a new ability without even trying. She managed to spread the virus through her saliva. I mean exactly what you have in mind. She literally knelt next to a half-dead hunter, hold his head in her hands and spit on his mouth. For no reason. She just felt like it so she did it. Little did she know that this action will actually make the hunter, her pet. In other words, she not only spreads the virus but she also has the ability to turn her victims into her personal army. They would have no other choice but obey to her… and out of nowhere Elina has her very own team. Even the dead hunters or humans or whatever dead creature there’s around her, can become her follower just by a drop of her saliva into their system.

The Director couldn’t be happier when she found out about this! Being able to build something this great and insuperable can mess with your head. Such power she holds and for this reason she knew that she must do it again! Achieve it again! Play God… again.

In fact, the Director already has a name for her next creation.. Amphitrite. A beautiful name, isn’t it? Success can play tricks with our mind, that’s for sure. Especially when we are not aware of someone else who might be greater than us. Where does skill come from? Experts say that it’s a gift given to you since you were born, others say that skills is something you need to work on in order to make it work for you. I believe that no matter your nature talents, if you don’t try to work on them they will fade and leave you.

Practise wins over nature talents. Remember the bedtime story..? The fairytale..? The rabbit and the turtle? Who won? And which team are you siding with?

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Design by Argus Dorian | Dark Cyberpunk Artist
Story by Revna Dorian & Argus Dorian

© Decaydead | Argus Dorian

One of the most primitive feelings of humankind is fear.

Without someone telling us, we used to fear the time when the night falls and yet we were enormously afraid of the light either is comes from the sky or the ground. Anything new could be nothing but scary. We knew better than trying to have a beast as our pet. We used to fear the deep water and the highest of places. Somehow.. we were never afraid of dying. How come?..

Fear has a special skill.. it tricks you into believing that something bad will happen even when you can’t be sure about it because you never tried. People found a way to keep themselves safe during night time by building homes. They found a way to use the light, wherever it comes from for their benefit and the community’s. We can’t be afraid of deep waters now that we found a way to sail on it or even traveling in it without keeping our breath. Now we have airplanes and submarines.. boats and ships. Now we have animals that used to be called beasts. Cats and dogs were not so cute and adorable back in the day. To sum up, there is no difficulty that we haven’t found a solution to. Such clever species.. why our youngest still fear the dark then? The deep seas and the highs? Not all children of course but a noticeable amount of them do.

We are grown ups now and we know better! The less fear you have, the best life you get. No anxiety, or any kind of mental illness. How come the earliest generation suffers from mental illnesses then? We have all figured out! When you have nothing to be afraid of, nothing can bring no harm upon you. Right? Right..

Is it though?

The problems and concern that I used to try and wrap my head around mean nothing to me now. Now we are dealing with actually problems! Fear has a face now.. a specific smell.. a mind of its own.. a pattern. One more of our natural fears is the loud and sudden noises. No matter how brave you think you are, when you hear gunfires, your heart will stop for a second or two. You see, our mind is trying to keep us safe by sending signals throughout our body that danger is near.

Our evolution caused the addition of infinite fears.

Fear of dying, failure, loneliness, rejection, other people’s opinions on your life choices and the list never seems to end. We end up having millions of reasons to be scared, therefor deeply unhappy and in order to keep our children safe from the same unbearable feeling.. instead of working on ourselves to find the very roots of our problems, we burden them with them. Is it really the only way we can help them? To share with them our biggest fears? Will this help them escape the feeling or the possible bad outcome of a similar situation?

In our life, we never stopped speaking ways out of trouble and problems. Eliminating the dangers, we succeeded to have lees to fear from the outside but the human’s mind is way more complicated than that. We are problem solvers, we are fixers, builders, hunters.. and we chose to live without the basic functions. By making these decisions the fear couldn’t come from outside so we turned inside and we found traumas, wounds, scars in our souls and minds. Turn the lights on in a room is easy, try and do that in your deepest bits in you. What keeps you awake at night? Its not the wolf that’s howling.. its not the bear that smelled your food.. is it the fear of losing someone? Or is it still what happened in second grade? Or maybe, what your parents think of you.. or what’s wrong with you and they all leave you.

We hide in underground shelters, caves and abandoned houses so they can’t find us. We are looking for a way to keep them away from us so we can survive another day todo the exact same thing. You know what keeps me awake last night? The ‘I love you” I should have said when I could and instead, I chose not to and that is something that truly hunts me day and night but it also keeps me alive. Another day.. another opportunity. We can never know what is going to happen the next minute. No relaxation at night time, no resting. All day, every day.. fighting for our survival. Now there is no more slackness, just death waiting outside. We can’t possibly know what might come through the shadows.. and if the shadow is the last thing our eyes will come across.

If we are lucky Elina will not come in our shelter. Keep in mind that it’s not the same Elina any more. She is far from the Director’s obedient pet. Elina has been upgraded, changed, evolved. Her death had a greater impact than we thought it would. I don’t have many informations about her yet but i’ll tell you this much.. you don’t won’t to come across her. Ever. I named her Shadow Assassin just to keep the right truck in her story. I wish I knew back then, how things would turn out today so I wouldn’t pick her.. I wouldn’t change her.. once again, we were condemned.

Model @kohona_felis

Design by Argus Dorian | Dark Cyberpunk Artist
Story by Revna Dorian & Argus Dorian

© Decaydead | Argus Dorian