March 3, 2022

Harmonia steps out into the hallway of the SCP Foundation and sighs, holding her face.

A green, distorted man appears in front of her, blowing out cigarette smoke as he steps out of the shadows. "Heard you needed a ride." He says, dropping his cigarette on the ground and stomping it out.

Harmonia pauses, looking at the man.

"Uh. Who are you exactly?" She takes a step back.

"That's not all too important right now. Just know I'm on your side." He says, chuckling a bit as he rests a hand on her shoulder. The two disappear in a green flash of static, appearing in Apollo's house.

He appears alongside Harmonia, a raggedy-looking table in front of them. "Go ahead, have a seat, you can thank me later. We have a little talk to have." He says, as he walks to his seat and sits down.

Harmonia looks at him, almost annoyed and somewhat dumbfounded as she crosses her arms. Harmonia is 5'5 with long black hair and bangs, her eyes and back of her red glow slightly red. She has large butterfly wings on her back, slits cut in her sweatshirt, and antennas on her head. She wears fingerless black gloves, a red sweatshirt, black leggings, and tennis shoes. Her neck has a long slash scar on it and the side of it has a portion that is completely black and reflects no light. She also wears a nose ring in her septum and her nails are long and painted black.

Apollo looks the girl over. Was this the girl he'd heard so much about? She looks... tinier than he had expected.

"...Just double-checking here, you are Harmonia, correct?"

"Uh. Yeah. Why??"

"Phew! Okay, good, didn't mix it up again." He says, pulling out a HUGE ASS KNIFE. "Take a seat.

"Who the hell are you." Harmonia growls, bearing her teeth. Her teeth are sharp and serrated as she draws her claws.

"...Oh, riiight! How rude of me!" Two McDonald's bags appear in a green flash. "My name is Apollo, nice to meet you. I know your name, no need to tell me it, you have a bit of a reputation." He brandishes his blade, wiping it clean of the blood that was on it.

"Right. Who’s the reputation from? The tourney?" She looks him over. "You don't look like a demon from my hell"

"That's because I'm not, but you'd be right about the tourney. I'm here to discuss, well, disposing-" He runs his thumb across his neck. "-of you."

"Why?" She asks, seemingly curious.

He opens up his bag, taking out a fry and eating it. "Well, you fucked up my bets!" He says in a joking tone, chuckling with his mouth full.

"You bet on the runts?" Harmonia laughs. "That's on you, man. Anyways don't know if you heard but I don't die easily bud."

He gets up, fries in hand. "Well, 'bud', neither do I. I'm not like any of the runts you fought. I'm a little more... synthetic than that." Harmonia smirks and opens her arms.

"Come at me then. My best friend just died so I'm down to get my anger out."

"You sure you wanna do this, little girl?" He lays down his fries, a slight grin on his face. "I don't hold back."

"You were the one who said you wanted to off me! So do it!"

His eyes begin to glow green, as do Harmonia's. "Oh, you just made me want to do much worse than that." She puts a hand over her eyes.

"W-what did you do-"

A green flash of static swallows the two, Apollo now disappearing. A new presence has entered Harmonia's body as Harmonia is shoved into the back of her own mind. Harmonia is freaking out as she tries to take control of her own body again. Apollo can feel how tired she is. And hungry. Didn't she just eat? He's too busy admiring the features of this body to worry about hunger.

"Both eyes, both arms... AND WINGS? This thing is deluxe!" He says, pulling down on Harmonia's eyelids to check for any imperfections. "You've got quite the vessel here! Mind if I give it a go?"

“GET OUT! GET OUT OF MY GODDAMN BODY-” She yells inside her head, panicking and attempting to take control back.

"No can do, princess. I'm gonna go have some fun." He grins as he picks up a machete from a nearby counter and exits the house, heading to the forest to say hello to a nearby survivor group.

Within Harmonia's body, he comes across three survivors. One male, two female. He goes up to their tents, knocking on them. "H-Hello?! Is anyone in there? I need help! There's this tall thing a-and I don't know what it wants from me!" He yelled in Harmonia's voice.

“GET AWAY FROM THEM STOP IT-” Harmonia yells inside her mind.

One of the survivors opens the tent to only be met with a machete through the eye.

Apollo laughs in his own voice as the other two survivors attempt to leave. He appears infront of them in a flash of static and shoves the two of them down to the ground. He starts sawing away at their legs so they can't run. Harmonia screams, begging him to stop, crying inside her mind.

He eventually finishes, grabbing some rope and tying their hands behind their back. He sits them up against the tent. "So, which one of you wants to die first?"

The two survivors, one male, and one female start screaming for help.

"Okay, you're making this decision too difficult, SHUT THE FUCK UP!" He jabs the machete through the male's heart out of rage. "...Shit. Well, guess it can't be helped now." He says, starting to carve into his chest. "Can't let these go to waste!" He starts eating the man.

Harmonia had given up on trying to get her body back but was still fucking losing it.

Apollo finishes eating him, turning to the woman who had to watch it.

"Here, let's get you untied there. I'm gonna give you a minute to crawl out of my line of sight, and maybe I'll let you live." He cuts the woman free, counting down from 60 out loud as she tries to crawl away.

"5... 4... 3... 2... 1... 0!" He makes a buzzer sound effect with his mouth as he walks over to the woman, who's pleading for her life. She had barely made any progress at all. "Sorry, but I gave you a chance!" He drives the machete through her head.

“I'm sorry- I'm sorry I'll do what you say-” Harmonia thought.

"Well, this went better than I thought it would!" He says, throwing the machete far into the woods. He exits Harmonia's body, his form appearing in front of her in a flash. "Glad to hear we're on the same page now!" Harmonia stares at her hands in horror, shaking like a leaf.

"Oh god..." She wipes her mouth, gagging at the taste of blood and flesh.

He wipes her mouth with his sleeve. "Here, let me help you here, girlie-" He says, blood getting on his overcoat. "Well? You on board with the whole killing you thing now?" She nods slowly, still traumatized as hell.

"Great! Okay, do you want it quick or slow? I don't give many people this choice, you know!"

"Quick-"

He nods. "Alright, just take a seat on the ground for me-"

Harmonia does so and Apollo swiftly shoves the machete into her neck. Harmonia goes limp as the wound would quickly stop bleeding blood, instead of bleeding black goo. Her skin and body would begin to feel as if it is burning, the flesh around the wound turning shadow black as it heals and feeling begins to return. Harmonia blinks and touches her neck.

"Well.”

"...Well, it was worth a shot."

Harmonia’s clearly shaken up as she takes a deep breath. "So what now?”

"I don't know, I thought you'd be dead!"

"Right. Anyways I'm going to actually get a ride now." Harmonia takes out her phone. She gets up, still shaking.

"Oh, you wanna go home? I can do that." He smirks, kicking Harmonia backward into a green, static-filled portal that led to her living room.