THE LEECH

        As flashes of energy fill the surrounding void, it comes out of it's semi-hybernative condition and places itself in stand-by mode. A predator. Or rather, a parasyte. Whichever way one may take it, deadly as the Devil himself.

        It lurks in the dark, awaiting unexpectant victims and, they, unaware of the consequences, willingly envoke it. It waits for them, patiently. When they commit that one simple, yet so undeniably lethal mistake, it springs to life, attaches itself to the brain of the still unsuspecting prey, and sucks away, while the victim is held captive by a hypnotising display of flashy colors and caleidoscopical patterns. It thrives on intelligence, much like a leech thrives on blood, stealing it from others, because it has none of it's own. How could it, when it's Maker has even less.

        It's there now. Waiting. As the potential victim, one it recognizes from previous psycho-leech sessions, unsuspectingly draws nearer and nearer. Within it's tiny intellect, it is still capable of wondering how come that it's prey still doesn't realise the existance of such a powerfull parasyte, of such a massive thief of active cranial substance. It wonders how can the prey have more intelligence then the predator, and yet still be caught in the web every time.

        The familiar power surges envelop it, and it is almost euphoric, the time is here, the time to be fed, again, and again, and again, until it is replaced by it's equally brain-thursty successor, it dances, twirls and hops in euphoria, as it detects it's victim commit that one tiny mistake that brings him to it's jaws, the error that brings his mental energy to the always-hungry predator as if surrendering it on a silver platter, and it is ready to jump from it's hiding place at the very same moment the naive looser presses that one life-giving key after he has typed in those preciouss three little letters:

"win"

Phuzzy Logik of CoRRoSioN