WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:02.480 Dead bodies litter the streets. 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:06.790 Their skin burned and lesioned, their lips crusted with dry vomit. 00:00:06.790 --> 00:00:08.550 Their eyes milky and white. 00:00:08.550 --> 00:00:14.370 This isn’t the aftermath of a fight, it’s the aftermath of a massacre. 00:00:14.370 --> 00:00:18.370 Nobody here stood a chance against the monster they died fighting, 00:00:18.370 --> 00:00:20.400 And the monster isn’t done. 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:25.830 An unnatural shadow moves between the houses, skittering on pointed legs like death itself 00:00:25.830 --> 00:00:27.179 in the night. 00:00:27.179 --> 00:00:31.500 Perhaps what the elder said was true - Only an even more dangerous monster could stop 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:34.290 a monster such as this. 00:00:34.290 --> 00:00:38.340 The survivors all converge in one building, shaking with fear and following the single 00:00:38.340 --> 00:00:43.739 instruction the elder gave them: Keep your eyes closed at all costs. 00:00:43.739 --> 00:00:48.100 And to think, the village was so peaceful until the demon arrived. 00:00:48.100 --> 00:00:52.410 It is a small, picturesque place nestled in the lush mountains of Chile, hundreds of years 00:00:52.410 --> 00:00:56.110 before the world became the connected whole it is today. 00:00:56.110 --> 00:01:01.430 It is a world where that which exists beyond your borders ought not to exist at all. 00:01:01.430 --> 00:01:06.260 The people there live quiet and simple lives - herding goats and alpacas, growing crops 00:01:06.260 --> 00:01:08.729 in the hills, tanning, dyeing, and weaving. 00:01:08.729 --> 00:01:14.540 They are hardy people, acclimated to the often rough and unforgiving life on the slopes. 00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:19.210 Like most in their time, the people here are ruled by superstition, a firm belief in the 00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:22.790 existence of Gods and Monsters beyond the veil. 00:01:22.790 --> 00:01:27.490 Some would scoff at their faith, call them “primitive”, but the reality is, an open 00:01:27.490 --> 00:01:30.860 mind will often catch more truth than a closed one. 00:01:30.860 --> 00:01:37.229 Because we all know the truth: There are indeed monsters out there, haunting the dark - Always 00:01:37.229 --> 00:01:39.770 have been, always will be. 00:01:39.770 --> 00:01:43.520 The main difference is that now we have an organization on our side. 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:47.920 A group prepared to die in that dark so we can live in the light. 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.430 The people of back then weren’t so lucky. 00:01:50.430 --> 00:01:56.210 They were forced to confront the gaping jaws and burning eyes of the unknown with no aid. 00:01:56.210 --> 00:02:00.200 The same eyes that would soon be turning to the innocent people of this rural, isolated 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:01.850 Chilean village. 00:02:01.850 --> 00:02:04.770 It all began with a missing teenager. 00:02:04.770 --> 00:02:08.679 The boy was out hunting for game in the forest, when his parents realized it had been hours 00:02:08.679 --> 00:02:10.280 since they’d seen him. 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:15.290 As the shadows grow longer and the sky begins to darken, a rescue party forms and ventures 00:02:15.290 --> 00:02:20.900 out into the wilderness to search for him, armed with clubs, bows, and arrows. 00:02:20.900 --> 00:02:24.520 The mountains can be a treacherous place, between the harsh terrain and the many dangerous 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.129 predators who hunt out there, too. 00:02:27.129 --> 00:02:32.319 Little do they know, the boy they are searching for has fallen prey to a new type of predator, 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:35.340 one that none of the villagers has ever encountered before. 00:02:35.340 --> 00:02:38.080 It’s another few hours before they find him. 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:41.340 One of the men in the search party remarks that the boy seemed to have gone far further 00:02:41.340 --> 00:02:43.610 than he should when hunting. 00:02:43.610 --> 00:02:48.910 Another replies that perhaps he didn’t venture out here at all; maybe he was dragged. 00:02:48.910 --> 00:02:50.840 No one honors that with an answer. 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:55.350 They keep their heads down and keep searching - The possibility is too frightening to truly 00:02:55.350 --> 00:02:56.350 consider. 00:02:56.350 --> 00:02:59.950 If a dangerous creature has made its home in the forests surrounding the village, then 00:02:59.950 --> 00:03:02.150 all of them are in trouble. 00:03:02.150 --> 00:03:06.290 Not long after that, they find the missing teenager, injured and unconscious. 00:03:06.290 --> 00:03:11.510 He looks pale and sickly, with three ragged claw marks cut into his chest. 00:03:11.510 --> 00:03:16.230 The silent thought passes between them: What animal has three claws? 00:03:16.230 --> 00:03:17.890 No animal that they know of. 00:03:17.890 --> 00:03:20.300 But now is not the time to think of that. 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:24.250 They need to wrap the injured boy in blankets before he freezes to death out here or succumbs 00:03:24.250 --> 00:03:25.750 to his injuries. 00:03:25.750 --> 00:03:28.650 First, they need to ensure that he survives this. 00:03:28.650 --> 00:03:31.610 Then, they need to find out what did this to him. 00:03:31.610 --> 00:03:36.120 Soon, the boy is lying in the home of the town’s medicine man, a rudimentary scientific 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.250 figure with a wide knowledge of herbs and plant-based medicine. 00:03:39.250 --> 00:03:44.030 But he cannot diagnose the sickness that the boy seems to be experiencing. 00:03:44.030 --> 00:03:48.940 He has nausea, dizziness, a rattling cough that sometimes produces blood, and his skin 00:03:48.940 --> 00:03:51.360 is taking on an odd, unnatural hue. 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:55.220 This can’t be the result of his injury, the medicine man concludes. 00:03:55.220 --> 00:03:57.650 The wounds are actually relatively shallow. 00:03:57.650 --> 00:04:00.340 This malady must have another source... 00:04:00.340 --> 00:04:04.360 The villagers pray for the boy, and leave offerings and sacrifices at their altars for 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:05.730 his recovery. 00:04:05.730 --> 00:04:07.230 But it does no good. 00:04:07.230 --> 00:04:11.780 Later that same night, he splutters blood and passes away. 00:04:11.780 --> 00:04:17.050 His dying words, heard only by the medicine man, is that there is a monster in the forest. 00:04:17.050 --> 00:04:21.040 And the most frightening thing of all is that he’s right. 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:23.770 Over the next few days, it gets worse. 00:04:23.770 --> 00:04:25.900 Far, far worse. 00:04:25.900 --> 00:04:29.820 The same mysterious affliction that killed the teenage boy starts to spread across the 00:04:29.820 --> 00:04:34.730 village, infecting the vulnerable and infirm with deathly sickness. 00:04:34.730 --> 00:04:39.180 Livestock begins to go missing, or are found dead when the sun rises, cleaved with the 00:04:39.180 --> 00:04:42.780 same three deadly, razor-sharp claw marks. 00:04:42.780 --> 00:04:48.000 And if this wasn’t all horrific enough, soon, the crops begin to die off, as though 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:52.660 the same sickness that’s hurting the people and the animals is doing the same for them. 00:04:52.660 --> 00:04:57.800 It’s impossible to ignore the reality of the situation now: There is a demon in their 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.660 midst, and if they don’t kill it, it will kill all of them. 00:05:01.660 --> 00:05:06.039 The town holds a meeting in their square, where it quickly becomes apparent how drastically 00:05:06.039 --> 00:05:07.690 the town’s numbers have dwindled. 00:05:07.690 --> 00:05:10.020 They are a shadow of their former glory. 00:05:10.020 --> 00:05:14.360 Some men suggest forming a hunting party to rampage through the forest, find this monster, 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:15.890 and kill it. 00:05:15.890 --> 00:05:19.479 Others wisely bring up that this might leave the village’s women and children undefended 00:05:19.479 --> 00:05:22.970 - What if the creature were to attack while they were all in the forest? 00:05:22.970 --> 00:05:25.380 It would mean certain doom. 00:05:25.380 --> 00:05:28.810 Frightened discourse soon gives way to a heated argument. 00:05:28.810 --> 00:05:32.450 People can become violent when they’re afraid, and when the thing causing their fear is nowhere 00:05:32.450 --> 00:05:37.190 to be seen, that violence is inevitably channeled toward one another. 00:05:37.190 --> 00:05:41.660 However, before things can get out of hand, the brewing calamity is quickly ended by the 00:05:41.660 --> 00:05:44.930 sound of three firm taps against the ground. 00:05:44.930 --> 00:05:50.190 They all turn and see the village elder - an old blind man who uses a gnarled walking cane. 00:05:50.190 --> 00:05:52.020 The crowd falls silent. 00:05:52.020 --> 00:05:56.470 This man commands ultimate respect among the villagers, and for many, his presence has 00:05:56.470 --> 00:05:58.819 an immediate calming effect. 00:05:58.819 --> 00:06:01.300 Perhaps he would finally have a solution to this problem. 00:06:01.300 --> 00:06:05.639 “There is a way...” he says with a slow, rattling voice. 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:07.970 “What is the way, elder?” 00:06:07.970 --> 00:06:09.840 asks a younger villager. 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:13.340 “An ancient guardian spirit that lives in the mountains. 00:06:13.340 --> 00:06:20.770 I can bring it here, and it may be able to help us, but there is one condition, one rule 00:06:20.770 --> 00:06:26.960 which must be followed at the cost of all others: None of you may gaze upon this spirit. 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:29.660 You must keep your eyes closed. 00:06:29.660 --> 00:06:36.440 If you see it, a horror far worse than the ones we’ve experienced here will fall upon 00:06:36.440 --> 00:06:38.120 this village.” 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:41.730 With the approval of the rest of the village, the Elder makes a rough pilgrimage up into 00:06:41.730 --> 00:06:45.810 the mountains, made even rougher by his age and infirmity. 00:06:45.810 --> 00:06:49.900 But the safety of his village is at stake, and there is nothing he won’t sacrifice 00:06:49.900 --> 00:06:52.740 to see that its existence will be maintained. 00:06:52.740 --> 00:06:57.150 The only thing he carries, other than his walking stick, is a length of rope. 00:06:57.150 --> 00:07:01.780 Soon, he reaches the mouth of a cave - An Ancient cavern cut deep into the flesh of 00:07:01.780 --> 00:07:02.780 the mountain. 00:07:02.780 --> 00:07:06.650 He enters - as a blind man, the darkness means nothing to him. 00:07:06.650 --> 00:07:14.099 The cave is silent at first, but soon, he hears something: A quiet, pitiful weeping. 00:07:14.099 --> 00:07:18.789 That is how he knows he’s close to the legendary guardian spirit. 00:07:18.789 --> 00:07:23.680 The old man has never seen his supposed spirit, but if he did, he would know that it is a 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:28.479 long, pale humanoid, with grasping hands and a terrible face. 00:07:28.479 --> 00:07:33.580 He knows the beast is capable of great violence, but he also knows that the beast is not evil, 00:07:33.580 --> 00:07:36.530 for it takes no pleasure in that violence. 00:07:36.530 --> 00:07:40.500 The elder’s knowledge of the guardian spirit in the cave had been passed down for generations 00:07:40.500 --> 00:07:41.500 in his family. 00:07:41.500 --> 00:07:45.110 He had been told throughout his childhood about how the guardian spirit defended their 00:07:45.110 --> 00:07:48.389 village in dangerous and desperate times. 00:07:48.389 --> 00:07:52.949 When bands of raiders had invaded almost a century ago, the guardian spirit destroyed 00:07:52.949 --> 00:07:53.949 them. 00:07:53.949 --> 00:07:57.960 When beasts emerged from the woods, the fear of the guardian spirit warded them off. 00:07:57.960 --> 00:08:02.960 And here and now, the elder is certain that the guardian spirit would be able to defeat 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:04.940 the demon terrorizing them. 00:08:04.940 --> 00:08:09.980 He takes the rope and ties it around the weeping monster’s neck, forming a makeshift leash. 00:08:09.980 --> 00:08:13.020 He spoke a soothing incantation and exhaled. 00:08:13.020 --> 00:08:19.360 “It is time for you to serve us once again, great spirit,” he said. 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:23.060 And so begins the treacherous journey back down the side of the mountain. 00:08:23.060 --> 00:08:28.680 But in his absence, back at the village, the situation is deteriorating. 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.300 Hours have passed, and night is about to fall. 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:35.060 The demon only attacks at night, when they’re most vulnerable. 00:08:35.060 --> 00:08:38.469 Fear has already poisoned the hearts of many of the village’s men. 00:08:38.469 --> 00:08:42.610 They sequester most of the remaining population away in the village’s largest home, and 00:08:42.610 --> 00:08:44.420 arm themselves. 00:08:44.420 --> 00:08:47.480 They have no faith in the Elder’s mystic solution. 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.500 They will find this abomination and kill it themselves. 00:08:50.500 --> 00:08:52.450 There is no other way. 00:08:52.450 --> 00:08:56.209 But as they gather in the village square and prepare to lead an assault on the forest, 00:08:56.209 --> 00:09:00.770 they never would have expected the monster they’re hunting to come to them. 00:09:00.770 --> 00:09:03.770 And in an almighty flash, it appears in front of them. 00:09:03.770 --> 00:09:08.930 It is even more horrible than they’d ever imagined: A large, spindly beast with black 00:09:08.930 --> 00:09:14.130 spikes for legs, an emaciated body, the same three black claws that had left those terrible 00:09:14.130 --> 00:09:16.490 marks on all of its victims. 00:09:16.490 --> 00:09:24.000 But worst of all is the face: A featureless, tooth-lined maw with a huge, glowing eye inside. 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.790 It is a monster worse than what even their nightmares could conjure. 00:09:27.790 --> 00:09:31.950 Before they can even attack it, it unleashes a blast of energy that blows back the ones 00:09:31.950 --> 00:09:36.970 closest to it, leaving them dead or dying, their skin horrifically burnt. 00:09:36.970 --> 00:09:41.070 Those further back run in to attack the monster, screaming with a fury that they hope will 00:09:41.070 --> 00:09:42.260 hide their terror. 00:09:42.260 --> 00:09:45.650 But the monster is far faster than them. 00:09:45.650 --> 00:09:50.630 It whips out its claws and slashes at them, hitting each one with a deadly kill strike. 00:09:50.630 --> 00:09:54.070 They aren’t able to land a single hit on the beast. 00:09:54.070 --> 00:09:58.650 As the bodies hit the floor, some try to run, but it’s already too late. 00:09:58.650 --> 00:10:02.420 One person attempting to run suddenly feels a pain in his chest. 00:10:02.420 --> 00:10:09.090 He freezes in place, and then, is simply sucked into himself - Screaming, crumpling away, 00:10:09.090 --> 00:10:11.390 and disappearing entirely. 00:10:11.390 --> 00:10:15.870 While the language to understand how this man died would not be developed for centuries, 00:10:15.870 --> 00:10:23.240 we today would be able to say that the monster - today known as SCP-001, the Prototype - created 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:27.290 a singularity within the man’s body, absorbing him into himself. 00:10:27.290 --> 00:10:32.459 The people cowering inside can hear the screams and the terrible sounds of their fellow villagers 00:10:32.459 --> 00:10:37.510 - their friends, sometimes even their families - being massacred outside. 00:10:37.510 --> 00:10:40.810 They believe in the elder and follow his teachings, despite their fear. 00:10:40.810 --> 00:10:42.889 They keep their eyes forced closed. 00:10:42.889 --> 00:10:46.810 Some of their strongest men have gone out there to face the monster, and been slain. 00:10:46.810 --> 00:10:51.510 There is truly nothing they can do except wait and hope. 00:10:51.510 --> 00:10:55.760 Outside, the creature - the demon that had been the ruin of their village - is the only 00:10:55.760 --> 00:10:57.380 thing still alive. 00:10:57.380 --> 00:11:00.940 The many bodies of those slaughtered lay twisted on the ground around it. 00:11:00.940 --> 00:11:03.560 Then, it begins to hunt. 00:11:03.560 --> 00:11:05.180 It wants to find the others. 00:11:05.180 --> 00:11:09.360 It gurgles and chitters, its legs making a tak tak tak sound on the ground beneath its 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:10.360 sharpened points. 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:15.870 The surviving villagers do all they can to remain silent as they hear it getting closer. 00:11:15.870 --> 00:11:18.089 Death itself draws near. 00:11:18.089 --> 00:11:21.880 Then, someone and something else enter the village. 00:11:21.880 --> 00:11:25.360 The demon hears them arrive, and skitters over to investigate. 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:30.460 The elder has arrived - He knows what happened, he can hear the demon, he can smell the burning 00:11:30.460 --> 00:11:35.990 flesh of the dead - and he has brought another monster on the end of a rope. 00:11:35.990 --> 00:11:37.370 A guardian spirit. 00:11:37.370 --> 00:11:44.730 A thing that, centuries later, would become to be known as SCP-096, the Shy Guy. 00:11:44.730 --> 00:11:48.589 And the demon had made the terrible mistake of looking at its face. 00:11:48.589 --> 00:11:50.820 The monster began to cry and wail. 00:11:50.820 --> 00:11:56.450 “You have defiled and profaned my village, demon,” the Elder said, speaking over the 00:11:56.450 --> 00:11:58.020 guardian spirit’s wailing. 00:11:58.020 --> 00:12:00.899 “This is your divine punishment. 00:12:00.899 --> 00:12:05.060 You will be removed from the face of the earth for your crimes.” 00:12:05.060 --> 00:12:10.700 The demon releases a blast of radioactive energy, striking the Elder directly and killing 00:12:10.700 --> 00:12:12.190 him instantly. 00:12:12.190 --> 00:12:16.440 But despite the residual burns from the attack, the guardian spirit is unaffected. 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:22.820 It continues to bawl loudly, then, with the fury and speed of a bullet train, it roars 00:12:22.820 --> 00:12:26.870 and gallops towards the demon, its clawed hands extended. 00:12:26.870 --> 00:12:30.959 With one strike of the back of the guardian spirit’s hand, the demon’s body is thrown 00:12:30.959 --> 00:12:35.250 through a nearby empty house, tearing through the brickwork and sending it skidding across 00:12:35.250 --> 00:12:36.500 the ground on the other side. 00:12:36.500 --> 00:12:40.410 The demon rises shakily to its feet, dazed and hurt. 00:12:40.410 --> 00:12:44.590 It doesn’t understand - How had that creature resisted the radiation poisoning? 00:12:44.590 --> 00:12:47.830 It only showed minor burns, it didn’t make sense. 00:12:47.830 --> 00:12:51.769 It makes even less sense to the demon when the guardian spirit comes bounding through 00:12:51.769 --> 00:12:56.480 the wreckage of the house, its burns already somehow completely healed. 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.910 There is no hesitation from the guardian spirit. 00:12:58.910 --> 00:13:03.720 It leaps towards the demon, and the demon only narrowly dodges the spirit’s grasp. 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:08.490 It rakes its claws along the spirit’s back as it glides past, leaving another three distinctive 00:13:08.490 --> 00:13:09.490 scars. 00:13:09.490 --> 00:13:13.380 But by the time the creature lands on all four spindly limbs, the wounds are already 00:13:13.380 --> 00:13:15.560 seamlessly healing. 00:13:15.560 --> 00:13:18.500 This is nothing like fighting a mere human being. 00:13:18.500 --> 00:13:23.070 Perhaps the Elder was right - this creature is a divine punishment, and it really is here 00:13:23.070 --> 00:13:26.589 to wipe out the demon once and for all. 00:13:26.589 --> 00:13:31.389 But if that is the case, then this demon won’t be going down without a fight. 00:13:31.389 --> 00:13:34.170 It creates a singularity within the guardian spirit’s chest. 00:13:34.170 --> 00:13:37.640 The spirit doubles over in pain, howling and clawing at the dirt beneath it. 00:13:37.640 --> 00:13:42.370 But, to the demon’s surprise, the guardian spirit doesn’t crumble like the humans did 00:13:42.370 --> 00:13:47.120 - The massive amount of radiation being caused as a side effect of the singularity barely 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:48.949 seems to phase the beast. 00:13:48.949 --> 00:13:52.860 The demon strains to increase the power of the singularity within the guardian spirit, 00:13:52.860 --> 00:13:58.920 but other than causing it to wail and bellow louder, it seems to have no meaningful effect. 00:13:58.920 --> 00:14:03.459 The demon, on some level, thinks: It’s as if the creature is held together by an invincible 00:14:03.459 --> 00:14:04.459 skeleton. 00:14:04.459 --> 00:14:08.540 No matter what it does, it only seems to be able to leave superficial damage. 00:14:08.540 --> 00:14:11.190 The monster is unbreakable. 00:14:11.190 --> 00:14:15.750 The guardian spirit flails and lunges, breaking the demon’s concentration and causing the 00:14:15.750 --> 00:14:17.940 singularity to collapse. 00:14:17.940 --> 00:14:21.870 Taking advantage of the sudden respite, the guardian strikes the demon on its disgusting, 00:14:21.870 --> 00:14:25.620 bulbous head, causing it to stumble backwards, dizzied. 00:14:25.620 --> 00:14:30.660 The demon steadies itself and gives a defensive screech, but the guardian spirit ignores it. 00:14:30.660 --> 00:14:34.780 Instead, it leaps onto the demon and grabs it. 00:14:34.780 --> 00:14:38.930 Shocked by the sudden ferocity of its attacker, the demon clawed at the guardian spirit’s 00:14:38.930 --> 00:14:41.639 face, wounding it, but not deterring it. 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.880 The guardian spirit has a grip that would put iron to shame, and despite trying to wriggle 00:14:45.880 --> 00:14:49.130 free, the demon couldn’t seem to escape. 00:14:49.130 --> 00:14:53.560 As the guardian spirit roars and stretches open its jaws, the demon activates its emergency 00:14:53.560 --> 00:14:58.651 escape feature: It creates another miniature singularity around itself, a wormhole, and 00:14:58.651 --> 00:14:59.779 vanishes. 00:14:59.779 --> 00:15:05.060 The demon reappears in the woods, feeling, for the first time in its wretched existence, 00:15:05.060 --> 00:15:07.450 a pang of mortal fear. 00:15:07.450 --> 00:15:10.810 At least it was able to escape back into the woods, where it could steal away into the 00:15:10.810 --> 00:15:13.630 night and fight again another day. 00:15:13.630 --> 00:15:19.579 It understands its enemy now - It could figure out weaknesses, it could plan, strategize… 00:15:19.579 --> 00:15:23.500 But its thoughts are interrupted by a familiar horrific wailing. 00:15:23.500 --> 00:15:28.230 Shocked, the Demon looks up - It sees the guardian spirit, bounding towards it across 00:15:28.230 --> 00:15:32.140 the forest, barging through trees and splintering them into wood chips. 00:15:32.140 --> 00:15:33.140 How!? 00:15:33.140 --> 00:15:34.430 How had this creature gotten here already? 00:15:34.430 --> 00:15:38.209 It’s like it has an innate sense of the demon’s location. 00:15:38.209 --> 00:15:41.370 The demon steels itself and summoned all of its power. 00:15:41.370 --> 00:15:45.940 It would need to annihilate the guardian spirit now, or it would be done for. 00:15:45.940 --> 00:15:50.550 It opens its freakish head, and the eye in its mouth glows, releasing a wave of radioactive 00:15:50.550 --> 00:15:55.089 heat that bakes earth and disintegrates trees in its path. 00:15:55.089 --> 00:16:00.009 It catches the guardian spirit in the blinding blast and wipes it out. 00:16:00.009 --> 00:16:05.069 When the smoke clears, there is nothing left of the guardian spirit but a charred skeleton. 00:16:05.069 --> 00:16:09.610 The demon approaches, perhaps to investigate the kill, perhaps to take in the victory. 00:16:09.610 --> 00:16:16.200 But suddenly, the skeleton rears up, already beginning to regrow its flesh, and closes 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:20.641 its clawed hand around the demon’s throat. 00:16:20.641 --> 00:16:22.149 The demon screams… 00:16:22.149 --> 00:16:23.149 But not for long. 00:16:23.149 --> 00:16:24.149 When silence falls over the forest once again, the surviving villagers open their eyes at 00:16:24.149 --> 00:16:25.149 long last. 00:16:25.149 --> 00:16:26.149 They leave the home that had been their temporary refuge to see the devastation, the wreckage 00:16:26.149 --> 00:16:27.149 of what their village once was. 00:16:27.149 --> 00:16:28.149 The mutilated and the dead laying across their streets. 00:16:28.149 --> 00:16:29.149 But at least the worst has passed - The demon is gone. 00:16:29.149 --> 00:16:30.149 The scars will never fade, but they can rebuild. 00:16:30.149 --> 00:16:31.149 Rebuild and carry on. 00:16:31.149 --> 00:16:32.149 Meanwhile, miles away, up a treacherous mountain pass that may never be walked again, there 00:16:32.149 --> 00:16:33.149 is a dark and lonely cave - With a quiet weeping within. 00:16:33.149 --> 00:16:34.149 Check out the Dr. Bob Patreon and become a junior researcher today! 00:16:34.149 --> 00:16:34.165 Now go and watch another entry from the files of Dr. Bob, like SCP-001 The Prototype.