1. From the sands
On a far distant planet, located in a vast sandy desert filled with dangerous alien organisms there was a huge cyclone of sand.
The sandstorm was by no means normal and very mysterious, its ferocious winds inside caused the harmless grains of sand to turn into flesh stripping razor blades. Any unlucky creature would have its flesh stripped off as easily as plucking a petal from a flower. It had dug 100m+ deep gouges into the ground but when the sandstorm disappeared the ground would return to normal.
Upon careful observation, the ground had a different consistency compared to its surroundings, the ground where the sandstorm had been was fresh and fertile compared to the dry, barren and cracked earth in the surroundings however any of those differences were buried underneath 50m+ layer of sand.
Another oddity was despite the sand flying around in the sandstorm, from outside there was no wind no matter how close one would get to the spinning vortex of sand.
Lastly hidden within the veil of spinning sand, looking closely there were glimpses of blue light that would flash for less than a second before disappearing swallowed by the vast sea of swirling sand.
On a particular day, during the time the sandstorm was present, a bright flash of light burst out of sandstorm and a shadow emerged from the light before being caught by the twisting wall of sand. There was a grunt before a tiny portion of the sandstorm was dyed red and a few seconds later the shadow was ejected from the spinning vortex flew across the sky with a trail of blood following behind.
It landed on the soft sand below causing a small eruption of sand, then bouncing into the air before crashing into a nearby rock face stirring another cloud of sand.
After the sand and dust settled, a bloody imprint was painted on the rock face and underneath the bloody imprint was a mound of flesh.
Minutes passed and the pile of flesh that seemed to be faintly breathing shivered. A groan came out of the clump of bloody meat before a pair of hazy eyes dyed with blood opened.
The pair of eyes blinked and began refocusing its vision, afterwards the eyes roamed the surroundings as if looking for something. Seeing nothing of interest, a grunt was heard and the bloody pile of flesh began shivering. The pair of eyes also began trembling slightly and had become a little bloodshot, "crick!" the sound of bones rubbing together was heard. "crick, c***k, snap!" More and more of those sounds were emitted becoming more frequent as the mound of bloody flesh slowly heaved itself upwards using the rockface as support.
Blood began oozing down the rising mound of bloody flesh painting more of the rockface red as well and after a few minutes a 2 meter something tall humanoid emerged.
The human had no skin at all revealing all the red muscles, veins, organs and bones with tiny fragments of cloth soaked in blood clinging to the muscles.
It slowly began moving various parts of its limbs one at a time such as clenching and unclenching the fingers & toes, bending & straightening the joints and twisting & turning the body. Finding that its body was still functional despite the various broken ribs, shattered tailbone, cracked hip and skull as well as no skin at all. As if noticing that it was naked it began stumbling and swaying as if it was about to fall at any time behind a boulder.
A few seconds later a blue flash of light was emitted from the boulder and a skinless hand emerged behind the boulder with a skinless male wearing clothes that looked brand new leaning against the boulder.
The brand new clothes soon began getting soaked in blood but the man didn't seem to mind, instead he stared at the sky and a smile emerged.
"I am finally free." He whispered.