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Pulse: Human, God, and Beast - A short story
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To know the world as it appeared meant nothing. People boasted about traveling around the world in eighty days, to do what they claimed impossible. To see the sights, watch every horizon, and stare into the depths of each ocean. But at that moment, as Kosef gazed at the world displayed below him, captured and sealed as if it were merely there for show and not to be sold or touched, the longing to reach it, to know it false, rose inside of him. The man reached out a shaky hand to the invisible force he stood upon, and as he knelt to touch it, Kosef confirmed his dread.
This was for real. The man wasn’t caught somewhere between dreams and wakefulness, but instead between the time frozen, and what lay ahead. Kosef rose stiffly with a faltering smile, and an empty chuckle. The people’s disregard for their actions had slowly and consistently killed their home. They overused their fuel resources, sucking it from the earth, and replacing it with their waste. With the water contaminated, and the ground infertile, the humans turned instead to another source.
Ambition and survival drove them to kill and feed off of other species. In time, hundreds had been wiped away. The world was in mass chaos, and rage filled the people’s souls. War broke out. Cities and nations were burned to the ground, men, women, and children slaughtered without remorse. Desolate wastelands and broken cliffs replaced a once peaceful world, and at last, the consequences foretold by the Lady Prophet arrived.
The age of religion had passed. The people only believed in what they saw and what they could prove. It was an improved era of science, technology, and development. That was what they thought. Great companies oversaw the working order of their world, and decisions were made through careful calculations. There were no gods; there were no miracles, and certainly no fate. Everything ran by their actions, the ones they made themselves. But the Lady Prophet’s tellings confused the people, and she was quickly and quietly put to death.
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Kosef remembered seeing the pained look on the young woman’s face as she fought against the bands holding her to the chair. She kept crying that if they did this, then the gods would exact their revenge. Kosef had been part of the greatest company, the Mobile Endurance Corporation. He stood behind the glass wall and watched as the sparks flew down to the helmet, and the woman’s widening eyes as ten thousand volts were sent through her body. After it was done, the prophet’s body was burned, and her ashes thrown into murky waters. Kosef didn’t even know her name. The files were destroyed, and she disappeared from existence.
That same night Kosef lay awake, remembering the crazed woman’s last words. They echoed through his mind, and sleep became improbable. Hours passed before suddenly cries rang up from the streets below. The man had leaped out of bed to the balcony atop MEC’s fiftieth floor. Below the city blazed as the insomniac citizens ran from swift, shapeless shadows.
They’re coming.
That were the Lady Prophet’s last words, and all doubt filtered from Kosef that moment. Planning to find the MEC president, he’d only taken the time to grab a handgun before heading up to the hundred and twenty-first level. Security lay dead in the halls, bodies emptied of all contents to be strewn upon the once pearly white floors. When Kosef at last reached the president’s office, he arrived in time to see a strangely dressed woman caressing the middle-aged man’s head. She sat on his lap in his executive chair; the president’s body limp.
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The woman had called herself the ‘Messenger’, the goddess born with purpose of finding the person who would cleanse the planet of its virus; humanity. It was at that moment, as the goddess drifted towards him, that Kosef’s brother ran into the room. A moment’s pause later, everything went black, and now here he was.
Kosef had awoken and rose to see the planet suspended in a stretching darkness. There were no stars, no moon, and no other planets visible. The forsaken deities had claimed their trophy. For how long Kosef walked he didn’t know. The world stretched on below him. If there was an end, the man didn’t think he’d live to see it. All that lay around him was darkness slightly illumined by the glinting force field he stood upon. It reminded him of a mirror, catching a passing light now and again.
Minutes stretched into hours, as hours became days. Kosef only stopped when he couldn’t go any further, and once he awoke from fatigue, he’d struggle on again. After a while he came to question why he was there. Were all the planet’s population doomed to stumble around for eternity? Never eating, never drinking, never to age until at last insanity overtook them, and they just huddled up into their mind’s crazed fantasies?
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But as he walked still, Kosef didn’t meet anyone else. What drove him to continue he didn’t know. Maybe it was the aspect of finding what this was, to see if there was an end, or maybe it was because there was nothing else to do. Either way there wasn’t much of an option.
Kosef remembered that in college he studied the Old World, and found the beliefs and religion they held close intriguing. He couldn’t imagine a place where one could sit and think quietly to themselves. Even children were on schedules. What free time he’d had, Kosef spent studying for his degrees, and to make his dream of joining MEC come true. He wanted to know how things were run, to know the truth behind the samples the people were told. For two years Kosef remained loyal to the company, willing to give his life in the ongoing wars so that order may be reclaimed, and the people brought to focus once more.
But now as he gave it more thought, Kosef realized how foolish MEC had been, to believe they could control the world through force and propaganda. They proposed a world of order and abundance, and instead delivered a world of loss and misery.
Still Kosef’s feet dragged him on. The man’s back was arched with his misery, and his sight was blurring. His hand went to the pistol at his side subconsciously, and he stopped to gaze back into the stretching darkness. Something felt wrong. His neck hairs prickled around his ears, and Kosef felt his chest tighten as his body tensed.
Part of MEC’s security, the man had been trained in the use of guns and his body. Were he ever caught unarmed, Kosef could fight his way through. He swallowed, remembering the shifting shadows that had clawed their ways through the streets. The gods’ Figures as the Lady Prophet had claimed them.
The Figures of the gods will be outlined to us all, and will take the form they see the world as.
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They see it as shapeless and blurred then, Kosef thought miserably. The Figures had found the people as nothing more than burdens.
There was a glisten from the darkness, and the silhouette of a person drew slowly closer. Kosef was shocked by the appearance of his brother.
Straightening, exhaustion temporarily forgotten, Kosef muttered disbelievingly, “Vahn?”
The older man paused at his name. Roughly six feet with fine locks sweeping over piercing, blue orbs, Vahn smiled warmly at his brother. A strange feeling arose in Kosef however, and he reluctantly stood his ground.
Vahn brushed unseen dust from his leather jacket as he replied casually, “What a strange turn of events to find you here, brother.”
Kosef’s hand tightened on the handle of the gun as he asked flatly, “What do you mean? Where are we?”
Ends of mouth turning up to form a lopsided, dreamy grin, Vahn replied simply, “On the other side of forever. You see,” he continued, raising his hands to suggest the area, “The silly woman’s words were true. The Messenger would bring down the gods’ Figures to seek out the Deliverer. It is the Deliverer that will find the Keeper’s Well, and allow judgment to be passed upon the humans.”
“Stop talking nonsense,” Kosef muttered.
“Ahh, so you hold no belief, just like the others,” Vahn sighed, closing his eyes. Still that smile stayed.
Watching his brother apprehensively, Kosef replied slowly, “No…I just don’t believe what you’re saying.”
“Oh?”
“You mean to tell me that you are the Deliverer? We grew up together,” muttered the man flatly. “You hurt, you bleed, and you sleep, eat, and drink. Just like everyone else. I may not know what happened, but I know that you can’t be responsible for it.”
But as he said these words, Kosef’s pulse quickened. Could Vahn, this man who had just appeared as a hard working, dedicated MEC executive, really be the so-called Deliverer? Kosef couldn’t believe it, but in some small way, he wanted to. He wanted to think that humanity had another chance…that he had another chance.
Suddenly shadows rose in disfigured human outlines around him. Kosef looked at them, pulling out the handgun, and pointing it towards the nearest. Pulling back the safety, he tightened his grip on the trigger. A loud bang rang the air, and the bullet struck the Figure with such force that it fell back.
After a few moments of looking at the fallen creature, Vahn turned his gaze to his brother. The smile didn’t stray. Next moment the shadow reformed itself and rose back up. Kosef stared at it hard, and his hands began to shake. Was this how it was going to end for him? Kosef had only feared death the first real battle he was in. But having seen so many fall around him, and live through a mortal wound, that dread eased from his mind. He had accepted it as part of his duty.
“Look,” Vahn said, taking a step forward. The older man paused as Kosef took a couple back. Hesitating slightly, Vahn continued, “Kosef, I am searching for the Keeper’s Well so I may fix this misdoing.”
“Where is it?” asked Kosef flatly. What would he do with that piece of information though?
Resting a hand lightly on his chest, Vahn replied softly, “It pulls at me. There is a force, whether from the gods, the Figures, or just a sixth sense, that will bring me to it.” Reaching the same hand out before him, he continued, “If you come with me, I promise that I will set everything straight.”
“And if I don’t?”
“Then you’ll be lost in space when the Earth is set back in its appropriate location. Time will pick up where it left off before the Figures’ assault.”
“So the world will return to ignorance?” spat Kosef.
Shaking his head, Vahn admitted, “I don’t know what will happen then. But do you really wish to be wandering around here for countless years?”
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Hesitating slightly, Kosef considered his sibling. Vahn’s face and words seemed pure and true, but Kosef had learned many simple things were deceiving. He hadn’t known his brother was the Keeper, assuming Vahn wasn’t lying, and he didn’t know now if any of this was even real. Kosef’s instincts told him to run, to find his own way through this, but his mind knew that impossible. Here was a chance to learn more, to find the truth, even if it meant taking a few risks. Either way, Kosef didn’t really see how it mattered. If he lived through this, he wouldn’t be able to work for MEC, knowing what he did.
Sighing, the youth lowered the gun and stuck it through the strap on his belt. Vahn lowered his hand, smile lifting almost to his eyes. Kosef gave his brother a strange look, and the shadows crept back down through the force field. He watched as they were swallowed by the darkness. No, reunited with it.
Glancing back up as his brother passed him, Kosef watched Vahn’s back apprehensively. The older man looked at him, asking casually, “Coming?”
Exhaustion became a memory. There was no fatigue, no tiredness, and no thirst. Kosef pondered over this new change, throwing glances at his calm brother now and again. Vahn was still smiling with gaze fixated on what lay before them. Their stride hadn’t changed; easy and straight. Kosef wasn’t sure of who was leading at this point, or if they just kept walking forward because the sides were walls of black. The field gleamed before them, as if signifying the path.
After a while, the gleams would get to a point, and Kosef thought he could see a wall illumined there. But it would be gone a moment later, and he’d be left wondering again. Vahn’s appearance didn’t change the whole way, and not once did he glance at his companion. The silence was a bit uncomforting, but Kosef felt it was better than walking alone. At least when he was with Vahn, his mind didn’t continuously wander.
No Figures had approached them since either. A few times Kosef had looked down to see the darkness shifting. He hadn’t noticed it before. A slight shiver ran through the man, and Kosef’s eyes snapped towards Vahn again. The other’s eyes met his, flashing once, and Kosef faced forward once more.
At last Vahn halted, and Kosef looked back at his brother curiously. The older man just stared ahead; fixated on something outside Kosef’s sight. The youth looked curiously. The gleams that ran forward once more illumined a teal, cobblestone wall that reached up out of sight. Kosef stared at the mass structure. A bit to the left was a staircase and a sealed, automatic door. Another moment passed before Vahn started heading towards it, giving no significance to his brother.
Kosef followed at a slower pace, pulse quickening. Did the Keeper’s Well really lie beyond that door? He looked to either side, and saw that the wall stretched out of sight on both ends as well. Kosef paused at the staircase, watching as Vahn approached the door. It slid open with a mechanical sound, and as the man stepped through, Kosef darted up the steps after him. The doors closed a second behind him, and Kosef sighed in relief.
The room was relatively large, with columns and roof beams running crisscross up out of view. The cement floor led to passage break-offs on either side. A winding staircase led up around the beams. Vahn paused at the white illumined steps, gazing down at the first one. Slowly he placed his foot on it, and began the ascent. Kosef stood watching in hesitation, before gazing up at the darkness that gave way to light upon the staircase.
A shiver ran through the youth as he approached, and slowly began following his brother. Kosef kept wondering that if he died somehow right now, would he join the gods up in heaven, or would he be damned to Hell and reside with all the other sinners?
The climb was long and tedious. Kosef couldn’t will himself to move any faster, or even to pause for rest. All he knew was that he had to keep climbing, keep moving. Part of him wanted to know if what Vahn said was true; if the man really could fix all this, and restore the world.
But if the planet and its people returned, would everything go back to the way it was? Kosef couldn’t imagine living in such a place, knowing what he did. Or would they all remember, and take up the responsibility to right their wrongs? He wasn’t so sure about the last.
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Finally the staircase wound up to a platform, and Kosef could look up and see the teal, cobblestone ceiling. It was dim up here, which made little sense, considering that there didn’t appear to be any lights in the place. Vahn stood at another door, staring at the white steel. Kosef halted at the top, watching curiously. Still the doors didn’t open. There wasn’t a pad for hand or eye recognition, and nowhere to enter a password. Vahn half turned to his brother expectantly. That smile remained transfixed on his face, and his eyes seemed distant and almost lazy. A moment passed before Kosef stepped reluctantly forward. Pausing beside his brother, he looked Vahn straight in the eyes, but saw no life there. With a slight shudder, he strode to the automatic doors, pausing before them. He looked up above the doorway to where a red bar was illumined green, and the doors began to slide open.
Vahn strode forward, making Kosef step back so he could get through. Kosef followed, the doors sliding shut with a soft click. The room was dark; the walls having an eerie, oozing look to them. There was a soft, consistent drip from a corner, and debris lay scattered across the cement floor. The walls and ceiling of the small room were made of stone blocks perfectly placed to meet each other at all points.
A small staircase led up to a platform, and on it rested a small, black stone altar in the shape of a dragon’s head. The altar was formed so that the dragon’s eyes stretched down as the back, and the snout came out as the top. Resting between the four nostrils was an orb the size of Kosef’s fist. Inside was a swirling red mist, and an aura of light to blood red shone in the area. A gleam flashed across the artifact, making Kosef’s eye flinch.
Vahn paused before the altar, staring straight ahead. Kosef could hear his heart pounding in his ears as he waited expectantly for his brother’s move. Slowly Vahn reached his hand down to clasp the orb. As his palm rested around it, the walls began to shake, and more debris fell dangerously around them. Kosef swallowed hard at the sound of shifting stone.
Turning back to his brother, he called out, “Vahn, it’s going to crumble! We have to go!”
The calm man carefully picked up the orb to examine it, turning it slightly this way and that. Grumbling, Kosef darted forward, avoiding some falling stone, and up the steps. Snatching his brother’s hand, he tried to pull Vahn back, but the man refused to budge.
“Didn’t you hear me?!” Kosef shouted. “We have to go.” Still Vahn didn’t respond to the tugging.
Lowering his arm, the older man turned casually, and began slowly walking down towards the door. Kosef paused a moment before following. Vahn stopped before the automatic door, and remembering what happened previously, Kosef strode forward. The doors opened, and the pair stepped out onto the platform. The whole room was shaking, and some of the beams began to come loose. Kosef ran to the edge, looking around him. The staircase had given way and fallen to the floor far below. Then he spotted it; another platform against the far wall; a closed door illumined by a red light over the top.
Turning to Vahn, Kosef told him, “We have to cross the beams to get to that platform.” He pointed at it.
Kosef didn’t know if his brother understood. Spotting the nearest one, he braced himself with a deep breath, and leaped towards it. His arms caught around, and Kosef swung himself up. Kneeling carefully, he gestured to Vahn. A moment later the man followed, and Kosef helped him to get steady. Together they inched along it, till Kosef guided them down another, and leaped over to a few more. They were just about to reach the platform when the beam they were on shook. Kosef could feel the wood splinter beneath him, and he began to panic. They wouldn’t have time to jump to another beam to reach the platform.
Looking back at his brother, Kosef told him loudly over the din, “We have to try and jump it.” Vahn gave no sign that he heard; hand still clenching the now dim orb.
Kosef paused, knowing that he didn’t want to risk leaving his brother behind. Reluctantly, he swung Vahn’s arm around his shoulders, taking the larger man around the waist. Taking another deep breath, Kosef leaped down towards the platform. At first his pulse quickened as it neared, and he feared that they wouldn’t make it.
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This is the end, he thought. The end for us, the world, everything we’ve known. I suppose we deserve it…
Closing his eyes, awaiting the certain doom, Kosef felt his feet crumple beneath him, and a series of snaps met his ears. Searing pain raced through the man, and he thought for sure it was his legs being ground up through the rest of his body after the long fall. But as he opened his eyes, clutching at his legs desperately, Kosef found them on the platform. With a relieved sigh ruined by a loud groan, he turned to his brother crouched beside him with no apparent injury.
Silently Vahn rose to his feet. Kosef watched his brother curiously. Would Vahn really just leave him here? But after a moment the older man reached down, and took hold of Kosef’s wrist firmly. Vahn dragged the half shocked man across to the doorway, and threw his companion at the steel barrier. Kosef’s back hit against it painfully, and then the doors slid open. He fell back, and lay there painfully as Vahn stepped over him and into the room. Realization hitting him, Kosef through himself back as the doors closed again.
For several long moments the youth lay there, gasping in deep breaths as he struggled to gain control of himself. Perspiration broke out at his temples, and Kosef wanted to scream. He inched his head back to watch as Vahn climbed a long staircase to where a large test pod of green-blue liquid stood. Kosef could make out the sides of a stone well centered on the steel platform. The room was dimly lit by the cylinder shaped, glass case; wires running from it up into the ceiling and sidewalls.
Vahn glanced back at Kosef with the same expression, telling him quietly, “Well done. You’ve served your purpose, sweet brother.” Kosef stared at the man incredulously, trying to make sense of the words.
“What do you mean?” he called, desperately trying to stop the shaking.
Turning fully to Kosef, Vahn replied with a loud laugh, “Don’t you see?” His voice was taunting now as he added, “You were a mere pawn.” Kosef blinked at his brother, his fears confirmed. Raising his hands above him, clasping the red orb, Vahn’s eyes illumined the light eagerly as he continued with a wide grin, “This small artifact…this orb, is the answer! Within it lies the knowledge of the gods! It was sealed away so that not even they could access it! Hidden in a place of technology, where no one would think to look for such an ancient relic!”
Kosef felt his heart die in his throat as he swallowed. His body tensed, and the only thing he could hear now was his brother’s insane laughter. Even the pain of his broken legs didn’t matter.
“And now,” continued Vahn softly, lowering the orb before him at waist height. His eyes looked bloodshot, as if the fatigue was finally taking effect. The man’s body began to shake, slowly at first, but growing as he spoke. “Now with this, the Memory Crystal of life itself…” He turned towards the well, finishing, “I will be able to refine the world in my image!”
Kosef’s body seemed to snap, and after a moment he cried out desperately, “Vahn, don’t do this! Restore the world to what it was!”
“Why?!” snapped Vahn angrily, glancing back at his brother. His expression had hardened. “Why should I do what you want?! This is my chance to rise up, to not be cast aside as just another minor!”
Kosef grimaced. Vahn had been overlooked often in MEC because he held no specific ability in anything, and didn’t socialize. In fact, Kosef had heard that his brother was to be fired that next day. As he remembered this, the man wondered if this was why the Figures came that night. Did Vahn call them because he had had enough?
“Please,” Kosef called quietly, wriggling as the pain filtered through him again. “Please, Vahn…”
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But the man wasn’t listening. Lifting the orb above the well, he chanted some words Kosef couldn’t make out. The room began to darken, and a great shadow twisted up from the hole, towards the ceiling arching down to hover over the transfixed man. Kosef stared up at the shadow incredulously. The chanting had stopped, and Vahn stood staring up at the shade beast as it opened its jaws to reveal two feet long, white fangs. Obsession sparkled in the man’s eyes, his mouth wide in a heavenly smile. Vahn looked tired and restless as his body quivered. The shadow gave an immense roar; its mass circling in bits, stretching out to dim the room till the only light was the testing tube.
“Vahn, get away from it!” Kosef called, back arching. “Vahn!”
As Kosef’s last call rang out, the shadow pulled back its jaws and swerved down as the red orb began to shine, covering Vahn till the creature ground its teeth into the cement platform. The orb shone even brighter, and Kosef closed his eyes as he looked away. Tears streamed from his eyes as the man sensed his brother’s presence disappear.
The Shade Beast gave an almighty roar as it reared back its head, jaws closing. When they reopened, saliva mixed with blood as it spilled down to create a layer on the floor that drifted down towards fallen man. With another roar, the shadow fell back into the well, and the room darkened again.
Painstaking moments passed, and Kosef’s body collapsed. Minutes stretched till the room began to shake once more. Another roar echoed up from the well, and Kosef stretched his head back, and painfully turned on his side as the shadow curled itself back up. This time however, it had formed with its prey. Vahn’s torso merged with the round, dark, solid shape now, with an air of darkness swirling around it. His face was contorted; the skin of his cheeks and forehead pulled back by his hair that merged and ran down his back to meet the dark mass. The skin was so tight at his face that it outlined his bone structure, and the skin of his arms, chest and neck strained so that the flow of blood was visible. The red orb was inserted in the middle of his chest; the veins emerging to hold it in place. Vahn opened his mouth for a roar to reveal, long white, curved fangs. The sound echoed around them, and Kosef winced at it.
“You see!” Vahn shouted. His voice echoed after him as he lifted his arms. “Do you understand now, Kosef?!” The walls shook threateningly. The fallen man could only stare up at his deformed brother in shock and fear. “The only significance for your survival was to ensure my passage here! To lead me out of the darkness, and to the altar! To lead me to the well, and the destiny that awaited me!” Vahn lowered himself to stare cruelly into his brother’s eyes as he finished, “To deliver me to the gods’ fear.” Light dazzled across Kosef’s face as realization hit him.
He was the deliverer. Kosef had helped to guide his brother up above the planet, and he’d seen the gleams that pointed them towards the room with the altar. He had opened the doors leading to the Memory Crystal and the Keeper’s Well. Kosef grimaced as he stared into those oval, blue, red shot eyes. He had led the world to its doom, and his brother to his cruel intentions.
What do I do now? What can I do?
Nothing.
The answer was that he could do nothing. Kosef closed his eyes, and presumed that his death would come shortly, perhaps even quickly. As he heard Vahn rear back his head, and the sounds of the searing darkness filled his ears, Kosef pictured Earth one last time. He saw his childhood, when he and Vahn had heard about their parents’ deaths from a tragic car accident, up to when they separated to foster homes. Kosef witnessed his first kiss, his graduation, and college up till the day he joined MEC, and his brother’s beaming, proud face. It was that very moment that Kosef held tight, and treasured. When he felt everything was at ease, everything was right. Then Kosef felt himself covered, and he sensed nothing but darkness.
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For how long he knew nothing, Kosef wasn’t sure. It seemed to stretch on forever, and yet took no time at all. He couldn’t see anything, but he wasn’t sure if it was because there was nothing to see, or that his eyes weren’t open. It was quiet; he couldn’t hear any roaring, or feel anything around him moving. However, a floating feeling drifted in Kosef’s stomach, and the pain has disappeared from his legs. He couldn’t sense Vahn.
Was this death? To know, feel, and see nothing?
Or was it hell? To be left with nothing but memories to tease you?
But then Kosef remembered what happened. All the things he went through to get to MEC, only to find that none of that mattered anymore. He remembered the screams of the Figures’ victims, and the deceiving look on his brother’s face. He couldn’t just let everything end that way…
Slowly Kosef opened his eyes, and he found himself in a large room. His eyes fluttered open to the dimly lit, large, square room. He pushed himself to his elbows painfully, and glanced back to see an identical well to the Keeper’s. His brother emerged from it, and looked about him a bit confusingly.
“Where’d you bring us?” Vahn snapped intolerantly.
Grinning weakly, Kosef replied casually, “Who knows.”
Vahn narrowed his eyes at his brother, and suddenly struck down with his claws hands. Kosef urged himself to move, and rolled away as the arms collided into the cement floor. Groaning softly, the injured man looked up as Vahn reared back, recovering from the assault. Kosef racked his brain for a way to defeat this thing. Then his eyes rested upon the orb pulsing in his brother’s chest.
“All right,” he whispered, bracing his shaking body.
Vahn reared down to strike once more. Kosef cringed up his body, and cried out as Vahn’s thumb claws lodged themselves into either of his brother’s arms; pinning him to the cement. Grinding his teeth determinedly, Kosef reached out his hands, pulling against Vahn’s strength till the claws broke from the Shade Beast’s thumbs. The youth’s palms closed around the orb, and light pulsed out. Pulses ran through Kosef’s body as Vahn roared, trying to dislodge himself from his brother’s hold. Kosef held on tightly, tugging at the artifact with all his might. Images of the world’s past, of different places, of people and gods and creatures, of distant lands and foreboding creatures, of data and technology, flashed through Kosef’s head and before his eyes so it was the only thing he knew. He felt as if his head was going to split apart.
The room was enlightened in crimson, and cries called out. The dark form Vahn had joined with began to break apart, forming transparent images of people as they drifted through the walls. The people of Earth were being released. Vahn gave mighty roars of pain, and Kosef just wanted it all to end; for both of them. At last the orb broke free from his brother’s chest and blood poured out, covering Kosef. The youth forced his head away as the flow filtered through his mouth and swept past him. Kosef clung to the orb; the images coming more quickly now. There was a final roar and a blinding red light and then everything went black.
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When at last Kosef managed to open his eyes, he sat with his back against the Keeper’s Well, now crumbled on the platform. The test tube glass cracked and broke; fluid flowing past the sides of the ruined well and down the steps. The lightly pulsing orb rested in his loose palm on his lap. The youth’s head was bowed; body exhausted. His breath came shallowly, and blood swept down from his locks and over his face and eyes. Some of it flowed into his mouth, making him choke on the horrible taste. Kosef’s body twitched, causing the orb in his right hand to twitch slightly.
Slowly, Kosef forced himself up. He struggled on numb feet. As he fought to take a step, his legs gave out, and Kosef crumpled. The man rolled down the steps like a rag doll and landed hard on the cement floor on his stomach. Kosef shook horribly, eyes closed as he tried to focus on something other than the pain.
The only relief was that it was over. The Earth he sensed was restored. Kosef had seen the people be released, had seen his brother’s death. Finally his body relaxed as the numbing drifted up from his feet. His sight was becoming unfocused, and he knew his was duty finished. But then the orb rolled down to rest a couple feet from him. Kosef’s pupils focused on it, and they widened as he took the sight in.
The orb was cut cleanly down the middle as it gave a calling pulse.
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That is a very good story arts you should make that into a book 
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lol I've heard that before, but I think it'd get ruined that way. It's already my top story for my short story book...now I just need to make the othesr. xP
But thanks. ^_^ I'm very glad you like it.
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Great story, even if it confused me in some parts... That´s because of my stupid English level ><
Anyway, congratulations and good work
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Thanks, glad you like it. ^_^
It is a bit confusing if you don't know the things behind it. It was originally different, but it ended up totally like away from how it was supposed to end. Like, there was another point to the gun and there was no stonewall or orb before, lol. They were supposed to have swords too. xD
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