And now a new one!

Bullet

(brains, snuff)

Blinding light filled the tiny cell in which my siblings and I had been held captive. Finally! Until now darkness had been all we knew. I hoped with all my might that I might be the first one chosen, and before I even had time to start feeling nervous, so it was! I found myself being lifted free into the fresh air and sunlight.

For but an instant I was able to glimpse my brothers and sisters gazing up at me wistfully from inside the cell. I wished them the best of luck and hoped that, though I had been chosen first, they might all be released soon afterward. I didn’t have much time for goodbyes, though, as just as unceremoniously as it had opened, the cell was slammed shut again and my poor family was once again left in darkness. As for me, in a moment’s time I found myself pushed into a new and different cell by myself.

This new cell was much, much smaller - more like a coffin, to be honest. I could handle the claustrophobia; after all, my family and I had spent so much time huddled against one another in our prior imprisonment, with barely room to think, that we’d all managed to grow accustomed to it. What really scared me was the loneliness and uncertainty. What was happening? Would I be trapped in here for who knows how long, this time by myself, or might this merely be a temporary holding area for me before my true release as I hoped?

Once again I hardly had time to dwell on my present circumstances before being violently jerked into some new situation. A few seconds went by in tense silence, and then all of a sudden I felt a violent poke in my rear. Some kind of metal spike was jamming itself into me - I was being raped by a machine! Was this my fate? Was I to be abused and destroyed by this mechanical penis, never to see the outside world or meet my destined one as I had always dreamed?

In a single swift motion, the spike drove itself deep inside me and I felt my insides being touched and stirred up where they never had before. It was somehow extraordinarily painful and yet oddly pleasurable all at once. It drove deeper and deeper, never stopping or pulling back as it relentlessly tore me apart from behind, and as it did so I felt some sort of eruption building up inside me. What was this feeling I had never felt before? Would I ever get to experience it again, or would I die here having only done it this once? For some reason, terrifying as it was, the latter possibility aroused me even more, and before I knew it my lower half was bursting in an ecstatic surge.

Just as I felt myself coming to a climax, I also felt myself being thrust forward. The front of the tiny container had opened up, allowing me to rush through it into some sort of long, dark tunnel - but behold! There was a light at the end! I would be free after all! Before I knew it I had reached the end and found myself completely unbound in every way.

Not only was I unbound, but I was flying! I glided forward effortlessly as if in a dream, almost too fast to see the world around me. It was full of shapes and colors altogether unfamiliar and was immensely exciting. That wasn’t even the best part, though - in front of me I saw a beautiful figure which I knew was my fated one, the one I and every one of my brothers and sisters had reassured each other we would one day find and the one alongside whom we would each live out our lives and eventually die happily. It had seemed at times a certainty, yet at others like a tenuous pipe dream - but in a single glance I knew it was no dream at all but a very true reality.

She was absolutely stunning, dressed impeccably and with her head turned to the side in just such a way as to reveal the side of her neck peeking out from under her hair. Unfortunately I didn’t get much time to look at her at the speed I was going, and in a few moments I found myself barreling into the side of her head. The soft skin caressed me for a mere instant before I smacked headfirst into the rigid wall that was her skull. My face was smashed horribly and I was in unbearable pain. I knew I was being deformed irreversibly and would look ghastly to everyone for the rest of my life. Could this beautiful angel ever come to love me as I knew I must look now?

Even that wasn’t enough to stop me, though, and it hardly even slowed me down. I continued to rush forward through the wonderfully soft tissue of her brain. Brain matter surrounded my naked body on all sides like a giant pool of gelatin. It was slimy, but in the pleasant way one’s tongue is slimy during a deep kiss, and it was warm and welcoming. Every part of me was being caressed by this incredible substance and I hoped that I might come to rest inside here and spend the rest of my life bathed in it.

But alas! It was not to be. Before long I smacked into her skull once again, and much as I hoped I might bounce off and remain inside, I was moving much too quickly. It gave way with barely any resistance, even as it crushed my mangled body even further, to the point where I knew for a fact that I wouldn’t survive much longer. Whereas before the bone had merely opened up a tiny hole just big enough for me to fit through, this time it shattered around me and left a wide opening. Fragments and droplets of blood flew alongside me in a great shower.

What a tragedy! I had failed! Rather than become one with my destined person, it seemed my fate now was to die cold, disfigured, and alone on the side of the road, cast away and forgotten like so much garbage. What had I ever done to deserve such a cruel fate? I could think of nothing - I had been good my whole life! And yet here I was doomed to a sad and lonely death.

But wait! What was that in front of me? Something very soft-looking was standing directly in my path, and in the nick of time I realized that it was in fact the breast of my true fated one. I had been mistaken - the girl I had passed through moments ago hadn’t been my fated one at all. Lovely as she had been, the new girl in front of me was all the lovelier, and this time I was absolutely certain that she was the right one for me. I had felt certain before, but as it was now, it was as if all the stars in the universe had aligned just to bring me to this moment.

I welcomed my fate with joy as I plunged into the inside of the breast, the soft tissue barely providing any resistance at all. I moved through a layer of fat, then muscle, then cartilage, and finally muscle once again. At that point my mangled body could go no further, and at last I came to rest inside the wall of her heart. I had finally met my destined one and we had become one in the most romantic of ways. My life was complete.

EPILOGUE

I heard voices mumbling something I didn’t entirely understand. Something about an operation - removing something. Not me! Please, not me!

One of them muttered something about “inoperable” while another said something about “a miracle.” I couldn’t hear them very well, though - the muscle wall surrounding me was constantly moving and thumping, obscuring their words. I could, however, make out a quiet beeping noise in the distance: Beep. Beep. Beep. It pulsed in a steady rhythm for a long time, long after the voices had gone and been replaced by other voices.

These new ones sounded softer and somehow worried and joyous all at once. They said something about “love” and “thankful” and going “home.” Indeed, I knew I had found my home, and I was glad to still be loved, even after all the abuse I had suffered. Truly these were kind people who knew better than to judge a book by its cover, and I was grateful to find myself, and my fated one, among them. Furthermore, rather than die as I had thought I would, somehow the love of my fated one had kept me alive, and I was grateful to live together with her happily for many years thereafter.