Viva La Revolution
~Episode 2
Written by Jeremy
Exclusive fan-fiction for Punkinghthingsup.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.'That....what is that?' Lucifer stammered.
'It's a weapon. They call it The Seed.' Benard grinned as he lifted a long rifle like weapon from the lighted desk. It was light-weight and a chain of bullets wound round it.
'Take it.' Benard passed it to the boy.
'What about you?' Lucifer asked.
Benard smiled, crouched down and drew out two similar guns.
'I hate it when people do that...' Lucifer grunted. 'You mentioned 'They'... who are you referring to?'
'Let me put it this way. There are two groups of people in this world. The Creators and the destroyers. Right now...we're caught in the middle of a war and I've no time to answer these questions.' Benard loaded his gun. 'Hurry, the others wait for us at the other side.'
'Wait...why should I follow you?' Lucifer stood as still as he could. His left hand held on firmly to the gun. 'I don't even know anything about you!'
Benard snarled. 'You have two choices, dear friend. You can live, or you can die in the hands of that monster. What would you prefer?'
Lucifer kept mum for a while and then answered, 'I'd rather die in the hands of that creature then to realize I've been travelling with someone who is just as dangerous.'
Benard locked his eyes onto Lucifer's.
'Alright. If you want to do this,' He said firmly. 'We'll play this game.'
He threw his guns back on to the table.
'Welcome, dear Lucifer to the world which suffers. Wait...considering that you've been living in it for a while now... '
'I want to know who you really are. Who you are, where you came from, and what is going on here.' Lucifer raised his rifle.
'Alright.' Benard began. 'I'm Benard of the council of Assyria. I came here because...because of a certain experiment-'
'That needed to be stopped.' Lucifer remembered from the slip of paper.
'Yes...' Benard nodded. ' It was an experiment that sent this facility ablaze and into ruin...'
'Wait...what was this...experiment?'
'The experiment...was to bring the dead back to life.' Benard sighed. 'It was a secret project held by the people in this facility. A project funded by the government.'
'Dead...to life? Wait...I don't see how-'
'You don't see it now. You don't. Neither do you see the forces in the world. You do not see wind. You do not see what lies at the very bottom of the sea or what lives at the end of the sky. You don't see anything. The government has blinded it's people into thinking the world they live in is safe.' Benard chuckled. 'And they do not realize what lies and deceit they have been living in.'
'Tell me...why does the experiment need to be stopped?' Lucifer placed his gun a little lower.
'Something went wrong during one of the experiments. A...disease..they called it. A disease that would enter into one's body and kill it. A disease that would be able to control and have a mind of its own. We found six people. Dead. The government sent agents from Assyria and all over the world to stop it. Unfrotunately...it's too late.'
Benard's eyes widened and he spoke.
'And it's walking up...right behind you now.'
The dimly lit surroundings flickered on and off. Lucifer felt a cold and chilling sense of aura coming from behind him. Something cold...and dead. He held on firmly to his gun. and slowly- very slowly, he turned his head.
it was a mysterious creature- a skinny one. It was black all over- except for a 'mask' it seemed to wear. It's two hollow eyes peered right into Lucifer's. It remained still- so still, infact, it seemed like a picture.
A sudden shot from Benard's gun rang in the air. The disease climbed on to the wall and jumped back down. Lucifer took aim and shot- hitting a pipe.
'LUCIFER, I want you to run...run to the others! Down the hallway...quick!' Benard demanded. 'And stay as silent as you can!'
Lucifer nodded. 'What about you?'
The disease jumped toward the old man.
'GO!' Benard demanded.
The lights flickered again. Then the ground shook. The loud mechanical wail rumbled the earth.
Lucifer kept running as he thought about the disease that was behind him. He panted as he grew tired. He had to run...he had to- then he reached another tunring point of the long hallway. This time, there was a door with the words- 'Endgame' at the end.
He darted as fast as he could, gun in his hand. Then he stopped. A loud metal twisting sound came from behind him as he realized the floor was cracking.
The loud monstrous wail again sent him against the wall. He tried hard to open the door but it was stuck.
'Oh...great...first, a monster, then a disease...now I'm gonna die because of a stupid door!' Lucifer muttured.
A loud click and a gunshot from Lucifer's gun at the handle sent the door flinging backwards.
The skyline he saw, was orange. It was probably early morning. Dawn- perhaps. The clouds were still full of lightning and it cause the boy's wounds to hurt again. Then, he looked around him. He was at the opening of a cave.A cave leading to a barren wasteland which was once a city. A little further up ahead, he saw a few figures, loaded and redy to kill, looking straight back at him.
The ground beneath his feet shook like never before as the cave- as well as the land around it- burst apart in the air as a large mechanical being that looked like a claw rose up into the sky. The end of the creature was below the gorund- perhaps very very much below. It wa huge...perhaps a thousand times larger than Lucifer. Lucifer - on the ground- looked up in shock. He kept still, trying to remain calm and quiet as Benard had suggested. The man behind him were shooting rounds of gunfire.
The 'claw' seeped back into the ground and there was silence for two seconds. Then the ground beneath the feet of the men ruptured and the gunmen scarmbled as fast as they could.
'What the hell is going on...' Lucifer muttured.
To be Continued...
