The Brilliance of A Monster Chapter V - Blazing The Trail .............. By: Scarecrow76

Chapter V - Blazing The Trail

Once the castle had partially burned, I weighed out whether or not I should inquire about Victor and confirm if he had survived or not. In an odd way I had rather mourned him than know for sure. I do not know how I felt the sorrow and void. Maybe it was some primal instinct that made me think of him being my father in some sick way. No matter who you or your parents are, we all have something inside of us that makes us love those who brought us into the world even if we do not realize it readily. Ths did not quench my curiosity but then the day came that I saw Victor return to the woods clearly tracking me. I had ruined his chances at creating a healthy "new man", I destroyed his "new monster" and he blamed me for his feeling that he would never find the love of a woman again. Not only did I make a failure of him in his eyes but I had taken all that he loved when really I only led his thinking into the state leaving him blind to the fact that he was destroying himself. So in his madness and anger, the hunt to take back the existence he had given me away and do so with extreme prejudice.

I had already made peace with the injustice and disregard I had been caused by Victor's decisions. I was tired of killing. Although no one was able to kill me, the methods used in these attempts were quite painful when they were carried out. Now I just wanted to exist in whatever way I must far from the world of men and women where I would hopefully be left alone. I am not welcome to the world around me and I do not welcomes it either. So I used my stealth to gather my few possessions and sttarted to walk north east. I have to applaud Victor for only this reason, he had sharpened his tracking skills. I could only delay his finding my trail as to where before he would have to make his best guess and hope he was right. I was able to cover much more ground than Victor as I tried to find a lace void of humans and now additionally, where Victor would never follow or could never follow. After I had walked some 112 miles, there were jagged mountains made of volcanic rock. I thought it was most certain that this would be the ideal place for me to be located as I prayed that I would eventually get old and die without need of honoring any friends or loved ones.

Midway up the muntain I stepped onto a peak over looking the trail i had cme from and I saw Victor. Unkept and eerily focused, he was moving at a steady pave for the mountain I was then crossing. I waited for him to begin hisclimb and allowed him to catch a brief glimpse of me and when I thought he had lost sight of me, I circled the mountain and climbed down where I had climed up. I went into the thickets of the surrounding wood and walked around the mountain instead. I intentionally slowed down my pace so that when Victor came down from the mountain and assumed I was on the same trail, I could place myself behind him allowing him to set himself on a wild goose chase. I was amazed though that when I looked back, there Victor was. He boasted he was going to send me to hell. I replied "You made sure I live in hell Victor! Only God can send someone to Hell Victor so stop pretending and being deluted enough to fathom being the lord of anything". I quickly found a place where I could go undetected until Victor left that general area and using my stealth again, I changed my path slightly where Victor's path and mine would resemble a wishbone if seeing it from some above vantage pointe.

In sipte of it all, I think we were both quite aware of eachother's locations/ If this is true then Victor haad a place in mind for the final confrontation. Or perhaps we both had our intuitions that something was wrong. Something that was far more dangerous then either of us. We heard crashing as something huge wa bowling everything in it's path over and there was little doubt that it was chasing one of us down. I lost my barings as I am sure Victor did as well and we were not waiting for this thing to show up. Our pathes crossed again but neither was thinking of killing the other. Finally we decided to atand our groundin hope of fending whatever this creature was off. It finally reached he clearing we were now standng in trying to be both brave and ready. Bursting through the trees was Victor's "New Monster" survived the blaze as well and had been animated by electrical mega surges dispensed by the generators I destroyed. It may have seen me destroying the lab and had enough memory to know the evil Victor dispensed upon them all in their lives and in some cases their reanimation. It was an enraged creature and a savage one at that. I grappled with it, it bit off my right ear, I hit it hard enough to stun it and quickly moved out of the way of the acidic compound that was fired upon it from Victor's cannon. It howled and writhed in a ghastly demonic voice. My suspicion from an earlier date proved to be true.... The acid did eat even bone.

When the confrontation ended with the "New Monster", Victor and I were spent and disgusted because we could not have a final confrontation with each other on that day, it would have to wait. My disgust was based partially in the never ending saga and how this "genius" just could not see the error of his experiments. In his own mind, he had become God BUT could not at all see the evil he thrusted upon God's creation. He was using the creations of God and changing them for his own ends Just as the Satans made famous by the churches long ago who created a new species by changing what God had created into abominations much Victor had thrust upon me by no will of my own. Victor and I parted with that unspoken understanding and is disgust that this would not end today and we both accepted that this was not the time for us to end this war that Victor blamed me for but he alone created and so we waited for the fate of that day to come and pass. I continued to travel and Victor was never far behind me but I was determined to not have a physical confrontation. Now he was unarmed and a confrontation would force me to kill him. Now my wish for his life to be preserved and to be prolonged was motivated by knowing the misery he lived with. I did NOT want him to miss a moment of the suffering he so richly deserved as the consiquences of his deeds.

You know when Mary Shelley took her stab at the story (n pun intended) I related more to the creature. As this story develops, even more so especially in the coming chapters (right now I am about 2 chapters ahead of what I am posting). But all in all I think Mary felt the same way when she wrote her take on it and that is why it became such a classic. Please remember folks, what I am posting is just the outline of the story. If I can get it to a minimum of 12 chapters (which is looking like a foregone conclusion at this point) I will publish it in it's entirety. For the 3 of you who are actually reading these posts, thank you so much LOL. See you in the next chapter.

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