Chapter 1: Union
“Another bombing has occurred in the African country of Mali, devastating about 247 families in the area.” Were the words that were shot from the television. Again, I was at a loss for words; I knew what was occurring and yet could do nothing about it.
“Let’s play hide and seek.” my daughter Mia laughed.
“Yea, let’s do it” my son Mal responded “You can count first” he added quickly. I observed them as they played for an hour or so. I could still hear my wife’s maddening snores, it sounded as if a truck was backing up into my bedroom, but I was happy to have her by my side.
“It seems that Reign’s Helicopters are encroaching on American soil, they are flying over the state of Florida as of now.” I began to have a slight panic; do they know about us?! Attempting to calm myself down, I took a sip of coffee and leaned on the wall next to me. It’s impossible they couldn’t possibly have found out. Finally calming my nerves, I took a seat on my sofa and took in one last breath as I heard the sound of propellers spinning overhead as if they were just passing by, but there was this unpleasant feeling that I was having, something of a looming danger.
“ALL CITIZENS WHO ARE STILL IN THE SARASOTA AREA, EVACUATE AT ONCE” Those words caused me to freeze up, my children stopped dead in their tracks and had caused my wife to awaken from her slumber.
“MOV-” I attempted to scream just as an explosion left me unconscious. They knew what we were, but they didn’t come directly for us, they decided to bomb the whole place to leave no living person able to speak of what was occurring here… no, if they wanted to do that, they would’ve just taken us at night why now… I awoke to a plane of ash and smoke. My house was destroyed as well as the entirety of St. Armands. My legs were trapped under pieces of the roof, debilitating me. My gaze met with a figure cloaked in black. I didn’t think that death was a physical entity but here he was, staring at me. Slowly his teeth stretched from ear to ear, as if a demon has just overcome him, he chuckled and laughed, slapping his knees as if Kevin Hart made a hilarious joke and everyone in the room lit up with laughter, just this time, there was no comedian, no crowd, just a man filled with hysteria and insanity.
“Dad… where are you” The broken voice of my son called out as the man’s eyes widened.
“I’ll go take care of that” he smiled as he walked to the rubble and pulled him out by his neck. “Looks like you’re the first to go” the man chuckled as he put the barrel of his Beretta M9 to his head.
“…Help” Mal cried out as three bullets slew through the back end if his skull and onto the ground below. Mal’s lifeless body was dropped as tears filled my eyes. I heard footsteps to my right, Mia had gotten out of the rubble and was dragging her mother out from under it.
“I can’t let you two get away either.” The man laughed, pulling out a pistol I didn’t recognize, he shot four bullets, destroying their knees leaving them unable to move and stuck on the ground.
“DON’T DO IT” I screamed as the bullets were discharged from the barrel, penetrating their bodies. Fueled by rage and sorrow, I pulled myself out from under the shattered roof and charged at the man who quickly stepped to the side.
“This is what I love to see, a man so angry that he can’t control himself any longer pushing himself to the utmost limit to kill me and take revenge for his family.” He grinned with malevolence and tripped me up “oops” he laughed “I didn’t see you there, now let’s finish this, shall we. I turned to swing again, but as my arm was about to meet his face, he grabbed and twisted it forcing me to the ground quickly. I was helpless against him.
“Well, it was fun but we got to get someone to pick you sorry disgraces up” He placed the barrel to my head “Tata” he smiled as the deafening shot went through my skull. With only the feeling of defeat, battered hands, a broken leg, a hot metal and blood trickling down my face, I lost consciousness and “died”. I felt the world around me converging as if it was molding around me. How’d they know where to find us, why do they know what I am and why am I still alive, I should’ve lost complete consciousness by now. I heard voices flying in and out of my mind for a few seconds until I woke up fully, my body locked down by restraints and men in white standing over me.
“Hello Number: 10, I am Dr. Yumi, I am her-”
“To experiment on me, right”
“Right you are Number: 10 and we’ll be starting now” as he gestured for someone to turn the switch I immediately felt a shock throughout my system, worse than anything I’ve ever felt, but I refused to give them the satisfaction of my screams. “Crank it up to level 4, this one amusing” He laughed as the electricity intensified. My body tossed back and forth in pain and I finally gave in, my cries filled the room quickly. “Come and show those Demise genes already” They had to have experimented on others like me before, someone from the origin area. Yumi let out a Laugh, “We’re done for today.” It was only 10 mins of torturing my body, that bastard wasn’t as wicked as I had originally thought. After he left, my restraints loosened and the walls opened up to reveal rooms of the others right next to me.
I got up, slightly struggling from the electricity and made my way over to the person who was staring at me with such intensity. She came to the glass, but didn’t say a word, she just smiles and pulled her shirt off. Her exposed body revealed the names carved deep into her flesh. Her happiness turned to sorrow as her walls began to come back up and tears filled her eyes just as Yumi walked into her room. When it finally closed the room filled with an intense and sharp sound piercing my eardrums. It was so immense, forcing me to my knees. I slowly turned to see a man in a white coat, who was documenting my movements and reactions, gaze through the window, quickly jotted down what was occurring and seemed to have ran into the room where Yumi was torturing the women to disclose his finding of me.
As Yumi ran into my room, I lunged forward choking him, but his assistant amplified the sound waves just as he was losing consciousness, forcing me to shield my ears from the pain, releasing the struggling Yumi.
“Well… you’re a quick one” He laughed and gasped for air simultaneously. “Turn it to the max and let’s leave for the day.” The dial was turned to max as they left the room, leaving me to cry out in pain. I WILL KILL THEM was the only words that filled my mind. The women came to the glass window and looked at me. Without a second thought and with the determination of cheetah chasing after prey, began to punch the glass, but to no avail. I went back and sat down on my table, trying to drown it out as much as possible until suddenly, it became too much for me to bare, I began to black out, but not before seeing an image of my wife, a ghastly white, crying.
“I’m so sorry” She cried out, which forced my body to stay away, triggering something within me. People from the other rooms all looked in my direction as my body began to change like something had called to them. The ear-piercing sound had no longer bothered me, my skin hardened and pieces of bone broke through forming an inch-thick layer covering my chest, neck, and parts of my limbs. A mask covered my face with horns protruding from the back of my jaw, my fingertips we’re sharpened. I felt holes form in the palm of my hands and bottom of my feet. I had become what they wanted, forcing my body to use this “Demise gene”, but I won’t be theirs to control, my people won’t be used as their weapons.
I took in a deep breath as my mask opened up and let out an appalling and deafening screech, shattering the glass and crushing the walls that held mine and the surrounding rooms together. This rally also forced something to manifest within the other “experiments”, they began to experience their own evolution’s, the women’s body began to evolve, blades protruded from both her forearms, her bones served as her armor as they masked her skin. A man around his early 20’s became armored as well but grew a new appendage, a giant tail, about twice his size, in which he used to pounce forward and slam a few of the scientists to the ground, shattering their ribs and collarbone. He chuckled as a soldier ran forward, firing his assault rifle towards him. Smirking, the man slammed his tail against the soldier, killing him almost instantly.
The women moved forward and let her rage and sorrow show as she slaughtered a small group of soldiers, slashing their bodies in half with the efficiency and swiftness of a trained killer. I put my hands out in front of me and let out what seemed to be a blast of concentrated sound waves, which blew open a wall and tore some skin off the bodies of cautious soldiers and stole the arm of a scientist who hadn’t escaped in time. It seemed like I could feel and see the sound, the ripping of bullets through the air, the exact direction of the bullets, the sounds of men and women screaming at the top of their lungs, as well as the sounds of the tortured coming closer. I smiled as more with the Demise gene came forward, one even flew overhead and threw two scientists out the opening. We all smirked at the army, who were too afraid to move anymore. A man in his late 30’s walked forward and stopped when he got in front of me. his body was armored, but covered in holes, his mask heavily resembled a gas mask. He stared at them and released a blue gas out in front of him, he gestured for us to watch and as the gas cleared, the small army was decimated. He turned and nodded to us.
“We all need to leave here now.” I proclaimed.
“Wait, I have an idea” a Woman who’s K9’s had protruded out of her mouth similar to the saber-tooth tiger. “Gas mask, can you produce something that blows up?” She asked as he stands still, filling the entire facility with a red gas. We all left through the opening, and looked back at the woman as she pulled both fangs out her mouth, throwing them in with all her might, they grazed the floor causing a small spark which in turn led to the entire facility blowing up, killing the remnants of life inside. What would we do next, we would now be targeted by this organization, we all stared at the blazing fire and as sirens began to wail into the air, we faded into the woodwork.
Fantasy
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This is a great opening to a story. It’s engaging and interesting and I ocujldn’t stop reading. Nice work!
Thank you! I honestly wasn’t sure how any of this would do. Thank you for checking it out.