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Seriphyle: Chapter 4
CHAPTER 4: Origins
If you were a bird with no wings to fly, then what use would it be to be a bird in the end?
The large male sat infront of his Desktop computer, rapidly typing something onto the screen through the keyboard, his fingers running smoothly on the plastic buttons. Brushing his shoulder length hair away from his eyes, he took a sip of cola and continued typing. He wore a black hoody and dark baggy jeans, the sizes were just a bit larger han the male's body was. He stopped, taking a short break and clicking his fingers, before standing up and stretching his whole body. The large male yawned again, this time making his way through the small room and towards the window, pulling the curtains together. His wristwatch showed it was about 8:00 AM in the morning. Tripping over a pile of junk that was gathered where the garbage bin was put upside down, he opened a small white fridge and glared inside. Empty. Dissapointed, he kicked more garbage away from his path, openening a microwave that was placed ontop of a cupboard. Reaching into the inside, he grinned and pulled the last piece of a 3 day old pizza.
"Pepperoni.."-the male said, sounding amused, he ate the whole piece in one bite, and made his way backwards to the desk. Seating himself, he began typing again, a few mouse clicks emerged here and there.
The room was as small a regular bathroom would be. There was a single door, a desk on the right side, and opposite of it, stood a fridge and a cupboard, with a microwave and a sink that was filled with dirty dishes that were due to be done over 6 months ago, if not more than that. Walls were painted in a fainted gray color, little scribbling and notes were stuck here and there. There was no presence of a bed, nor a bathroom for that matter. Various garbage that included boxes of cerials, pizzas, plastics and other recycling material filled the floor. This guy really needed some tutoring in housekeeping.
Various websites and images appeared on the monitor and rapidly dissappeared, as if the male could read it all in seconds. If not that, he was searching for something, he couldn't find it, and he seriously, was desperate. He stopped typing and smashed both hands on the desk, cursing to himself about something in the lines of "* this bs" and "find it bla bla bla" as well as "screw you blondie". Picking his cellular phone, he dialed a number and put the phone next to his ear, awaiting the other side to pick up. There were a few rings of silence before the other side picked up.
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"Me."- the other side answered the call, it was a male's voice.
"Hey listen, I've been picking on this crap for almost ages, but, no, no signs of any top secret crap or anything that you mentioned. Are you sure about this?"
"I've been on this for almost 2 years..."- the male responded calmly, something in the background seemed to interrupt his voice, and it sounded like hard rain.
"I know. Meteorologists predict an asteroid passing by Earth, but nothing about anything you mentioned. And why can't I mention the names over the line, eh?"- the male asked the other end, his face confused as he held the phone with his shoulder close to his ear, while both hands continued typing.
"They're listening, I told you. You know you're deep in this, they WILL track you down."- the other end insisted on explaining, as if done so over a thousand times already.
"Yeah... I think I'm * anyway. But, listen, you're at the meeting right?"- he continued typing, images of asteroids and various files popped up on his screen.
"On top of it, to be precise..."-the male replied, sounding satisfied.
"Whatever you say..."-the large male replied, face expression suddenly changed to serious, or rather thrilled. He grabbed the phone with one hand, while the other hand held the mouse. "I think I found something."
"Go ahead."- the other end confirmed and hummed something to itself.
"FEDs were all over this a couple of months ago, but dropped the investigation due to lack of clues. You gotta listen to this; It says about 3 years ago, when the first electrical blackout started, a small asteroid with a new species of life was found somewhere around Odessa, Texas. What * would believe this?"
"If you're calling me a *..."- the male on the other side replied, sarcasm ringed through the sentence.
"Alright. Anyway, I'm in * after this man, I broke into the FED's database, they'll be after me like I stole their donuts."
"Worse than donuts, believe me."- the other male laughed on the remark, and coughed.
"Also, says here, FED's believe it will happen again... wait, no *.."- the large male suddenly was cut off as he glared at the atrticle before him. His mouth opened wide as he read a few words ahead.
"What is it?"-the other side sounded concerned.
"The whole electrical thing, it's happening again right?"
"Yeah..."
"* asteroid will come crashing, approximately TODAY, and right where you are, Arizona! By the looks of it's size, it will wipe out the whole city man, I mean entire Alington!"
"I understand."- the other end seemed to be keep itself calm, even though the news weren't the happiest of all.
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"You what? Damn you. You must get everyone out of there before you'll all die!"- the large male exclaimed, kicking away from the desk, he made his way towards the window, pushing the curtains away and taking a look down on the streets. Cars passed as usual, a few people were visible on their way to work, nothing unusual.
"I'm losing you... ca.. yo... h..ar..me... b...ad... re..ce..p..on.."-the other side's signal was suddenly lost. The male tossed the phone away onto the floor, grabbing his face with both hands, he pressed hard trying to wake himself up, hoping this was all a bad dream. Glaring through the window again, he suddenly noticed two things he didn't before. Two SWAT trucks were now parked by his building, and a few police cars at the other side of the street. Police officers were blocking all traffic, both incoming and outgoing, other cops were taking a look around the area. A few chaps with dogs were now patrolling the streets.
"*.."-he whispered to himself and turned around, glaring around his small room. "Told you I'm *.."-he noted to himself.
Making a huge effort to jump over a pile of junk, he made it towards his computer, and without turning it off, he started unplugging all wires that were connected to the tower, tearing apart all wires that wouldn't unplug. He then noticed the large pile of dvd disks he had all over his desk, and payed attention to that. Grabbing all he could with both hands, he ran towards the microwave, stuffing all disks he could inside it. All that didn't fit inside was tossed away into a random direction, and the male was now working on his computer tower. Grabbing it with both hands, he made his way towards the window and tossed it outside, hoping the whole thing would atleast be uncoverable for files and a lot of porn he had on his hard drive.
"Federal officers! Open the door!"- suddenly came from behind the brown door. The large male turned around, in panic, he didn't know what else he could do to cover himself away from the mess he was in now.
"What do you want?"- he replied back, trying to speak in an irish accent to mislead the feds outside. Instead he messed up, and sounded like an alcoholic after a huge hangover.
There was no response, and for a few seconds, the male hoped they moved away to the next apartment, but was dead wrong. He took a few steps towards the door, trying to make out any noise that was supposed to be coming from the outside, and that was indeed, a bad move. Before he knew it, the door broke open and half a dozen SWAT shoulders armed with M16's and other weaponry were in his room, all aiming their lethal weapons for his head. A few backed away as another officer stepped in, unarmed, and wearin a black suit with a black tie, a sort of bluetooth acessory occupied his right ear, and he seemed to be in a conversation with someone. As if only now, taking notice that the large male was in the room, he took of his shades and grinned, it was a forced grin.
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"Ah, Thorlord, isn't it?"-he exclaimed, his eyes shining bright, as if he's just acclaimed yet another trophy to his collection. "Take him to headquarters!"-his face changed from the fake grin, to the serious macho, as he put his glasses back on and walked out of the room, kicking the trash in his way, continuing the conversation with associate through the acessory.
"This is got to be some misunderstanding... I don't know what you're talking about!"- Thor tried to lie through excuses, but he himself knew well, he was in deep * over his head now.
"Move it fatty, unless you want to run around the damn city with SWATs chasing you!- one of the elder officers groaned and pushed Thor from behind with his M16.
His hands, that were pulled upwards, now fell down back at his waist, face dissapointed, full of regret and actual sorrow. He just hoped that the others survived the asteroid attack in time, he just hoped they lived, that they were safe, and soon, would come pick him up.
"Dammit Black..."-he murmured to himself as the SWATs led him out of the room and down the stairs, into the armored truck. What lay next in stores for him? Heh, he definitely hoped it was nothing like interrogation or torture, but in the end, he was the one who broke into the national security database file system, also know as the NSDFS, one of the hardest to crack into.
"You're in some deep trouble kid."- one of the officers noted as the truck started moving on it's destination. Thorlord shook his head and exhaled hard, eyeing the floor. His hands were now cuffed and he was now in the list of the most wanted criminals of the world. Definitely not good for a hacker like him. Correction, he was in the list of most wanted and easily caught deadmen.
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A gunshot rang through the silence, and all the people present in the room either yelled or twitched, covering their faces. Blackout stood motionless with his gun pointed at empty walls. Face showed curiousity, an he was indeed amazed at what he saw. Something was missing from the picture, and that missing piece was his target. Lara pulled away a few steps from her earlier position to find that Wingzero was not where he was standing just a few seconds ago. Mabus, who was of all, shocked and now helped Gencdo to her feet, left the girl standing behind Blackout and charged towards Blackout from behind.
Both guys fell to the floor, the silver plated magnum caliber gun was tossed to Lara's feet. Without hesitation, Gencdo ran towards Lara and picked the gun up, waving for Lara to back off behind her, while aiming at Blackout, holding the Desert Eagle with both hands. Mabus, who slowly rolled away from his target, and stood up to his feet, was too eager to give their nemesis another beating or two. Wiping the blood that ran from his lips, the blonde slowly kneeled up, and then stood up in full hight, shaking, but gaining half of his balance after the unexpected run up with Mabus.
"Where the hell is Wing?"- Mabus exclaimed, aiming his question at Blackout, who shook his head and instead laughed back, as if this whole thing was just a joke.
"You tell me.."
"What did you do to him?"- Gencdo screamed back at the pathetic answer, if not anyone, she was ready to pull that trigger and kill Blackout. He deserved that, for everything he has done so far.
"*'s sake, I was here with all of you. You saw it yourself, he * vanished.."- Blackout now picked a more serious tone to explain the happening.
Lara, who was the quietest of all, seemed to pick up the information piece by piece, but her face, showed something rather interesting. As if she cold smell it, or that was just self concience, her face, and her eyes showed that of an innocent child, as she walked past Gencdo, and faced Blackout, her height almost matching his. Tilting her head to her side just a little, she looked deep into his eyes, it almost looked like one of those scenes where she was about to give him a kiss. Something just ticked in her head, inside her, deep, giving her this little nodge of confirmation, that made her feel confident in her next words. Blackout, who starred at the younger girl with amusement, was wondering what the hell was going on in her head.
"He's... not lying."- Lara spoke at last, turning around and facing Gencdo and Mabus, who stood side by side, the female pointing the gun further behind Lara's shoulder, at Blackout's head.
"What do you mean?"- Mabus exclaimed, exchanging glances with Gencdo.
"He doesn't know, he's not lying."- Lara repeated the words, trying to make it sound clearer for the others to understand.
"How do you even know that?"- Gencdo replied back, wondering what in the world's name was Lara trying to prove now.
"I just know.. I got this feeling.."- Lara explained, her words sudddenly lost confidence and she now sounded unsure if what she was telling them was the truth.
"A feeling?"- Mabus exclaimed, walking towards Lara. Grabbing her by her left arm, he pulled her away from Blackout and back to the other side of the room, where Gencdo awaited for confirmation to fire the weapon and deal with their menace. "You base your judgement of feelings?"
"I don't know... I just felt it, as if I could tell.."-Lara began explaining again, tilting her head downwards and eying the ground. Just a moment ago she was complete sure of what she felt, and now, lost in her own doubts, the couldn't see behind that thick screen of lies if Blackout was telling the truth afterall.
"Right. Well I'm not believing any of this bs."- Gencdo noted no the previous comment and pulled both hands fully outstretched, aiming for Blackout's body now. "Can I shoot him?"
Blackout's face changed from not very serious, to very, very, very serious expression, as he pulled both hands half upwards, nodding his head to the earlier comments.
"Look... I might know what's going on..."-he spoke, his tone, unlike earlier, seemed completely stable and serious, as if he had multi personality disorder, and his wiser, darker, more serious side took over again. "I might help..."
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"* your explanations!"- Gencdo yelled, a few teardrops ran down her cheeks, before she pulled the trigger and a shot rang through the air. Mabus waved both hands up, trying to somehow stop the situation, but was completely helpless. At the same time, he yelled, but was too late.
"Gen, no!"
Blackout accepted the bullet with both hands spread open, a smirk shining on his face, as the force of the bullet pushed him backwards, and he felt airborn, the force sending him flying towards the first obstacle in the way. Crashing against the wall that was about 5 feet away from his earlier position, Blackout slid down the white concrete, leaning againt the wall, he sat there, glaring at the open wound a little bit above his kidney. Touching it, he felt a deep hole inside him, and retreating both hands to expect blood, he found something completely ridiculous to believe. His hands were covered with sticky, black mass. Eying in disbelief, he watched Mabus rush towards his side, his eyes open wide, glaring at Blackout's face.
"You'll be ok..."-he whispered rapidly, trying to give any first aid that he could in order to stop the bleeding. A few moans as Mabus pulled the black hoody off Blackout's body, revealing a white shirt stained in earlier blood, and now some sort of sticky black substance, beneath his lungs.
Gencdo dropped the gun as more tears rand down her cheeks. Falling to her knees, next to the gun, she let out a cry of agony and regrett, beating the ground with her fist. Lara, whose face showed sorrow, wasn't the one to cry this time. Instead, she rushed towards Blackout's side to reveal what Mabus has just seen a moment ago. Both exchanged looks as Blackout coughed, more sticky substance flowing right out his mouth and nose, slowly dripping all over his white shirt.
"Last.. time, I checked, my blood was red..."-he groaned, trying to force some sort of an excuse for a smile.
"What the hell is this?"- Lara questioned both guys, who echanged quick looks of amazement and disbelief. "Mabus, you seen anything like this before?"
Mabus, who shook his head twice, helped Blackout to sit up more, ir order to examine the wound that was excreting this sort of weird substance.
"I'm a dead man, I know..."-Blackout continued groaning, trying to say anything despite spitting the black substance out everytime he spoke. "Can you make me a favor Mabus?"
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His face suddenly showed tears gathering in the corner of his eyes. He wasn't the type to cry, but in this situation, anyone would want to deal wit their last regretts and go to heaven, if it existed like everyone believed it did.
"Tell me."-Mabus grabbed Blackout's hand and gave it a strong handshake, putting his other hand over it.
"Closer..."-the blonde indicated with his other hand for Mabus to lean in closer to him. Mabus, who decided there was no time to waste, and that his neutral ally was in his last moments of life, didn't hesitate and leaned in closer, both eyes locking on each other.
"Don't tell anyone I died a virgin..."-Blackout whispered, more sticky substance came out of his mouth as he tried not to laugh, some of it came all over Mabus' right cheek.
"Oh come on..."-Mabus pulled away, and shook his head in dissapointment, letting go of his saviour's hand. "Is this the time to kid around?"
Lara, who was by their side the whole time, tried to ignore Gencdo's desperate cries and listened to the conversation, her face now showed the same innocence that masked her face earlier. Tilting her head, she blushed and replied to Mabus.
"He's not lying..."
Mabus gave her the "what now" look and turned back towards their dying friend. For the first time, both of them noticed a change in Blackout's condition. The earlier smirk was gone, and his body was starting to shake all over. He looked like he was drowning from the inside, most probably internal bleeding.
"Stay with me..."- Mabus exclaimed, trying to put pressure on the wound that seemed to be leaking with the black mass, reminding a broken down water pipe with a large hole in it.
"Mabus..."-Blackout groaned, eyes eying the broken down celing above him.
Lara, who took the first signs of change as bad news, pulled Mabus away as Blackout spread both of his arms to the sides, clinching his fist together, body starting to shake even harder than before.
"Leave... now..."-he tried spelling the words as more fluid came out of his nose, mouth, and was now running down from his ears.
"Mabus, we have to leave.."- Lara sounded concerned, pulling herself away from the horrible picture, she ran towards Gencdo, trying to pull her up.
"He's going to die!"-Mabus turned his head to face the two girls, and back towards Blackout. His yes started to fill with the black mass, and in seconds, were completely pitch black, black tears running down his cheeks. Eying in disbelief, Mabus backed off a few steps, watching his friend suffer to death. The black mass, was now, acting on it's own. Black viles and strings started reached towards the walls and the ceiling, as if alive in it's own. Growing in size, the black mass now reminded black, thin snakes, acting on their own, wrapping around everything they could find. The remaining liquid on Blackout's body, joined with the vivid mass and pulled the male's body up slowly attaching him in midheight of the white concrete. The rest of it was now spreading all over the broken down conference room, covering up all sorts of holes and entrances, multiplying in size and spreading over anything solid. The whole show was accompanied with cries of agony, pain and moans.
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Blackout was no longer in conciousness, nor did he know what was going on. Something overpowered his mind and body, and he could no longer control it. Mabus, who stood and watched the events uncover in horror was pulled away by Lara and Gencdo, and the trio ran towards the only exit available. The whole place started falling apart, the broken down conference room was about to fall apart into ruins. Dodging a few rocks here and there, the trio made their way outside the conference room and away from the remains of the institution. Finally stopping and turning around to face the fatal ending of their friend, all three were trying to regain their breaths. Shaking his head, Mabus tried not to show tears as the building started to fall apart, piece by piece, the black veils of the weird mass could be seen reaching out towards the surface. And then the veils, the mass and the moaning all dissapeared as the last rock covered the top of the ruins. Their friend, was now, most probably dead, buried beneath the cruel concrete.
"You think he made it?"- Lara spoke, her voice concerned, she was almost whispering to herself, but the other two heard her well. The silence was too clear. And there was no response. Mabus stood there, supported by both girls, helping him to stand. Gencdo looked up at the neverending gray skies above them, her make up smudged all over her face. Lara, brushed her face as she felt a few rain drops land on her face. Glaring up, she watched snow flakes slowly descend over them and all over around them.
"Impossible.."-she murmured to herself. Gencdo agreed with her friend and produced a humming noise.
Mabus, who took notice of the possible phenomenom as well, now exchanged views from the ruins to the skies above it. Shaking his head, he smiled.
"It's a miracle..."-he stated. "Simply unbelievable..."
All three were in silence for some time, now sure that their friend didn't survive the collapse of the institution, or the remains of it to be precise. It was a whole 10 minutes of silence before slow footsteps broke the silence, coming frm behind them. Mabus rapidly turned around, and faced yet another miracle-to-be.
"Seifer?"-Mabus questioned the figure before him. It was him! Mabus was sure.
"Can you believe it?"- the male with medium length brown hair spoke in surprise. "First this traffic jam... then this asteroid, and now it's snowing for world's sake!"
Seifer seemed to be rather pissed off at any events that happened for the past two days. Who wouldn't? Coming closer to Mabus, he shook his oustretched hand and nodded to the other girls, whose faces weren't showing anything of that of a warm welcome. Well, not after the latest events they weren't.
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"And I'm wearing shorts.. and sandals..what a genius.."- Seifer continued to critisize himself, but judging the trio's faces, decided to stop, and instead face the truth on what just happened. He did notice that the building behind them has just collapsed, but knew nothing more than that.
"Something's bad happened?"- Seifer questioned the silence. The trio nodded their heads.
"Let me guess, long story?"- Seifer continued to guessing the trivia quiz, and somehow, getting all the answers right. Afterall, not some hard trivia to guess.
"I got some bad news as well.."- Seifer nodded, facing the sandy ground beneath, he made his way towards the three, all turning around, and facing the ruins again.
"You go first.. my news are worse..."-Mabus replied, the tone in his voice was neutral.
"You better be prepared..."- Seifer noted on the remark and coughed. He was starting to catch a cold, maybe a flue. Before them, was the perfect vista of snow and sand, both combined in one picture. But there was no sunlight, and thus, no vivid colors, the whole picture seemed to be dead, drained of colors and life. This was their origin.
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