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Chapter 3: Abnormal Activity
Topic Started: 28th August 2011 - 01:21 PM (1,748 Views)
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The Sprawl -

Recent sightings have been made of strange unatural creatures lurking in the shadows, a small number of residents have already been infected with the spread increasing rapidly. Residents have been advised to stay in their homes and not panic, though naturaly they don't seem to listen. The rate of violence and suicide is continuing to rise, leaving the creatures with more bodies to feed on.
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"Gah fuck!", Arthur jolted awake as his leg spasmed and he fell to the floor, knocking his head in the process.

It was not often that Arthur could fall asleep while stood up, Letalone in an elevator, He'd reached the end of the day's shift and was on his way back down to return the stack of leaflets, It'd been quiet today anyway, He couldn't remember giving out a single one.

Reaching out the doors and tossing the stack onto the nearby desk, Arthur didn't even bother leaving the elevator, He pinged the button to return to the shopping district, He just wanted to go home and catch up on the sleep his body was forcing upon him, Though he avoided leaning against the elevator walls to prevent another accidental sleep.

It was dark in the district, Dark and very cold, It was not usually like this, But then usually Arthur managed to be out of here just before it was closing time for the shops, But now, The place was dead, Every door was shut off except the exit so Arthur quickly paced himself towards it.

"Attention...", Arthur braced himself against the railing, The screen had made him jump, "...This is director Tiedemann, A station-wide emergency is in effect. In accordance with Titan Station Civic Code, I am declaring Martial Law, All ci-", Arthur was taken aback by the message, What the hell was going on to cause martial law?

Suddenly Arthur heard a bang and a scream as the door to the stairs flung open...
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Overtime. Overtime because she could never get to work on time. It was late, quiet and no different to any other night she'd had that week, single handedly running the most irritating store in the whole complex because her boss was off sick. Or she assumed that was the reason he wasn't showing up for work, When she'd called by the apartment to see why he hadn't phoned in his neighbors had spouted some crap about him not looking well. It was his shop, she didn't miss him anyway. So it came as a huge surprise when Max made a sudden appearance in the doorway. His eyes were red and bloodshot, like he hadn't slept in days, his nails were splintered and cracked and she could see thin cuts on his face. "Max, are you alright?"

He stood there for a moment, without motion or words. Then without warning, He flung himself over the desk and straight toward her. "SHIT!" she screamed, Throwing herself out of his path, this wasn't the first time he'd thrown himself at her, but he'd never been this literal about it. As he span round and growled at her, it was clear he wouldn't be reasoned with. She made a dash for the door, Max hot on her tail the whole time, shouting after her in rawrs and snarls. He was behaving like a rabid animal, foaming at the mouth, over-aggressive. Frightening.

"They want our bodies Alexis, your body is perfect, i'll give them your body, let me kill you Alexis" What the hell is wrong with him? i've heard of stalking, but this is too far. The elevator was too risky, if he got in there with her, she was dead for sure. She kicked the door to the emergency stairwell open and dashed up the stairs faster then she'd ever travelled any stairs in her entire life. By the time she reached the top she was so tired, she could barely open the door into the main complex. He was catching up, fast. She decided to test the kinesis module, slamming the door shut in his face. It worked, for a moment. But it didnt stop him ramming it straight open again.

"Get the hell away from me freak!" Redundant. He dived at her ankle and pulled her down, making a desperate attempt to drag her back. "Shit, HELP!" As if her call had been answered, a strange creature appeared behind Max and began to tear into him. She took her chance, kicked him off and made a run for it. Her skin dripped with sweat and her heart raced and before she could think about stopping she crashed straight into a face she'd seen before. He went to speak, but there was no time. "We have to get the hell out of here, NOW!" She grasped his sleeve and dragged him into a sprint.

"Wh-.. where are we going?" He stuttered, in a pant.

"My apartment..."
Edited by Trinitykill, 28th August 2011 - 03:44 PM.
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Matthew walked into the kitchen both physically and mentally exhausted. He began to make himself a sandwich. As he pulled out the bread, he stopped to what sounded like scratching in the walls. The noise stopped and he went back to his sandwich, pulling out a knife he spread the various fixtures onto the bread. The noise started again, this time louder and closer to the vent in the hallway.

"what the?" he muttered under his breath as he finished making his meal and taking a few bites. He walked over, prompted by the sound of the vent bursting open. As he leaned around the corner a blade swung, narrowly missing his neck. He jumped back and clutched the knife tightly as the grotesque form stepped into the light. It stood like it was almost crippled and couldn't stand straight up. It still clearly resembled a man with his arms at his side and his face replaces by small tentacles that covered every inch of it. The lower jaw looked to be split into four independently moving pieces. Out of the shoulders came long almost bone-like arms with blades at the end.

It crouched and slowly stepped towards him, staring at him with it's blank eye sockets as a predator would watch prey. He backed slowly to the counter, feeling for anything that he could use. He felt the knife holder and as the creature charged him, he threw it and ran out of the room as fast as he could. He made it to the bedroom and backed into a corner, grabbing the seeker rifle he had moved out of the safe earlier for practice at the shooting range. The creature came around the corner and he fired two shells at it, hitting it in the chest and head. Much to his surprise the shots only made the creature stumble back against the wall. the creature advanced towards him and he fired to more times finally killing it.

After getting some supplies in a pack he left to search for somewhere safer.
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Arthur doubled over in pain, The two of them had been running for what must have been miles to the apartment blocks.

"C'mon, You can feel pain when we get there!" Alexis shouted at him, Urging him back on his feet.

"Well, heres the thing about 'there' why the hell are we going to your apartment?" Athur retorted back at her, After all, He didn't have a clue and he wanted answers from her. "Well, If you must know, Its a hell of a lot better plan than sitting around out here!".

"For you maybe, I still don't see why im going too", Arthur questioned deeper, "Any particular reason you decided to drag me here?"

Still on the lower floor of the apartment block, Arthur noticed Alexis was surveying the small flower arrangement blocks and the above railings, "Well, i was scared alright? i thought maybe you could help, I was being chased!" She spoke, trying to repress her shakiness

"Chased by what? and what help?" Arthur just didn't know where to question first, All this confused him more than he'd like.

"Well, you can start helping by giving me a boost up here, Im not using the elevators and we need a way up, The rest i will answer all day once we're safe".

With nothing but a grumble, Arthur knelt down atop the block and used his arms to push Alexis to the next floor, Where she grabbed his hand to pull him up as well.

A low snarl can be heard in the distance...
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"Hush little baby don't you cry," His mother sang somewhere in the distance. "Momma's gonna..." She gave a ragged gasp. "Buy you a...." Then she wept.
Synclair woke up in his bed with a massive headache. His door was partly shut and through the doorway he could see his mother sitting on a blood-stained chair with a knife in her lap. Her fingers danced across the edges shakily. At Madeleine's feet was Sion's father who's back was oddly shaped as if something was growing out of his back. Sion gave a little gasp. His mother stopped singing and began to stand up, the knife clutched tightly with both hands.
"Hush little one, momma's here." She tried to sing, but it came out as a distorted cry.
Sion hid underneath the safety of his covers. He could see the silhouette of his mother creeping closer and closer until her she was leaning right over him. She cocked her head to the side as if inspecting her son with odd peculiarity.
"Hushhhhhhh....." She sighed.
She coughed once and stumbled back into the corner of the bedroom.
Sion peeked out from underneath the covers. His mother sat in the corner, her head bent to the left and the knife had fallen out of her hands. Her mouth was gaping everlastingly and she gave a final gasp before succumbing to her fate.

Sion was playing with his toys before bedtime. He spent the day cleaning what he could by tidying the fallen appliances in the kitchen and the blood-stains from the linoleum and carpet, they were still there though. If only his mother would just wake up, she could clean it!
It was nearing Sion's bedtime and he crawled into bed, dressed in his spacesuit one-piece pajamas.
"Goodnight mommy," He said to his mother who hadn't moved since morning. "And take a shower tomorrow! You smell bad." He giggled and shut off the lights with two claps of his hands.
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---Some time earlier, before the martial law initiation.---

Carmain finally woke up. It has been hours, maybe even days when he had slept last time. It was the first time he had such hectic days after leaving his government service. The new assignmet he got drained him completely. And to make it worse, the things went worse and worse. He couldn't reach Alexis, nor his uncle for several days now. And the people he was looking for seemed like ghosts. All databases he searched had no whereabouts about two culprits. All Carmain knew that they are planing on releasing some kind of deadly toxins around city. Carmain slowly put on his clothes and went to the kitchen.

"Oh, my dear breakfast. When was the last time I ate normal food..." he sighed. Carmain sat down behind the table and dug into his food. He turned on the TV to check the news, but instead he heard director's message

"Attention... This is director Tiedemann, A station-wide emergency is in effect. In accordance with Titan Station Civic Code, I am declaring Martial Law..." it was enough to stir uneasiness in Carmain's heart. He quickly gathered his equipment and his guns. Carmain couldn't hear the rest of the director's message as he rushed out of his apartament. While running, Carmain contacted Nathan through the comm:

"Hey, it's me. You saw the message too? Great, meet me at the elementary ASAP!"

---Now---

"Ugh... Damn it! It won't budge!" Carmain kicked the doors to the classroom. "Let's try another one, she might still be here." He rushed to another classroom. Fortunately, the doors opened. But the room was empty. "Nothing here."

"Carmain, maybe Alexis already taken her home?" asked Nathan.

"I don't know, damn it! No one's answering, I can't let anything happen to Adaline!" Carmain could barely control himself.

"Calm down, boy! Cool your head and calm down! Rushing things won't help you."

"So-sorry. I just... *sigh* Nathan, those two are like sisters to me. After I found out about my brother, I almost broke down. Only Alexis and Adeline kept me from that, even if I didn't knew them, they helped me." Carmain finaly calmed down. He sat down on nearby table to rest. The fatigue from work still haven't disappeared. But the rest was short. Suddenly Nathan and Carmain heard a woman's scream.

Two men quickly ran to the direction from which the scream came. It was coming from the teacher's lounge. The doors were completely wrecked. For a second, Nathan and Carmain could hear some kind of growling, but when they entered the lounge, whatever there was it was gone by then. Carmain drew his pistol and slowly looked around. The room was clear so he lowered his gun.

"Nathan, I can't see a damn thing, turn on the lights." Nathan carefully walked around the room looking for a switch until he found one. The lights slowly turned on one by one. The sight Carmain and Nathan saw was unrealistic. The teacher's lounge looked like there was a massacre in there. There was blood everywhere. Blood and body parts.

"What the hell have happened here..." said Carmain. The men were sunned by this sight. But still, they managed to keep their cool.

"Carmain... There's something wrong here..."

"Besides all this blood? I can't think of anything else right now... Wait, I can see only two or three bodies... Judging by all this blood, there ought to be more. Something wicked is going on here... Damn it, we need to find Adaline... And fast."

"Carmain, we better split up, I'll finish looking around in this wing, you go check the other. And I'm already calling from backup." while saying this Nathan took out his comm, but suddenly something fell down in the corridor. Both Carmain and Nathan immediately aimed at the entrance to the teacher's lounge waiting for an attack. Something started moving quietly towards the lounge.

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Alexis approached her appartment with caution, the door was ajar and if the not so friendly beast that got max had friends she didn't plan on alerting them. She crept inside as silently as she could, making sure her unlikely companion did the same. The appartment was empty, void of creepy shadows or hostile creatures and suprisingly near enough how she'd left it. "Shit"

He looked at her with a face full of confusion "Shit? We're safe, this is good!" he nearly managed to crack a smirk of sorts, nearly, then popped himself down on her aged coach to recharge his energy. Alexis searched all the rooms, what should have brought her relief only panicked her further. But there was no blood, no signs of death or struggle, she'd take good news where she could find it right now.

"I need to find my sister, now.." she paused. Stopped to gather her thoughts, a clue or a suggestion of where she might find her would have been nice. It had to have be adaline who'd been here first, there was no forced entry and her sister was the only other person with a key. "Of course... You, you work for the unitologist, you can help me find her!"

"Heyy, heyy, I'm just the leaflet guy" he soon stood, stubbornly unhelpful yet again. Alexis slipped on the G.R.I.P and raised her hand.

"Don't make me use this!"
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"Don't make me use this!"

"Alright, alright, would you calm down?", The last thing Arthur wanted was his ass flung across the room by a woman.

"Are you going to help me look for my sister?" Alexis interrogated him. "Fine, just...don't point that thing in my face!" Arthur replied.

Arthur watched as Alexis removed the G.R.I.P glove from her hand and laid it on the coffee table, "Good, because i re-"

*GRAAAARGH!*

Arthur jumped out of his skin, Staring at Alexis as the blood drained from her face to a deathly pale colour.

"What was that!?" Arthur blurted out.

"Be.Quiet..." Alexis had quickly shushed him before creeping over to the door and pushing it shut, The catch making a somewhat louder noise than she had hoped.

Suddenly a steady click-clack of bone against hard floor was heard outside the apartment, creeping towards the door.

Alexis shot out of the room before Arthur had even managed to register what was going on, He rushed over to find her climbing underneath the bed and pulling the covers down to hide her position, She seemed to suddenly remember Arthur as he stood there, dumbstruck.

Arthur could make out the words 'hide' from her lips, So he frantically scoured the apartment, Finding only another space underneath the sofa, Which he squeezed under with much awkward breathing, With only a small gap seperating him from whatever was now attempting to tear the door down.

*CRASH*

Down on its hinges, The door was flung to the ground as this grotesque being slopped its way across the floor, Staggering like a drunk, with the smell of old flesh and new vomit, Also like a drunk.

Arthur had to momentarily stop breathing as it passed him by to prevent himself gagging on the fumes radiating from it, Only he was lucky, The being continued to linger around the bed, Almost sniffing around.

*cough*, Arthur's eyes widened, Alexis had coughed and the beast knew about it as it began to lower itself towards her.

Arthur shuffled out, his mind racing between helping or using the door to get the hell out of there, As his hand stumbled it landed on the coffee table, finding the feel of the G.R.I.P glove.

Slipping it on, The creature began to build up something in its throat.
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Stan stepped onto the landing platform and nodded to the pilot, who flew the gunship away. He walked along the wet, metallic walkway that creaked under his feet. At the end, he saw what looked like a person, but upon closer inspection, he saw this thing was far from human. It raised its arm and turned it to reveal a blade-like hand. A strange gurgling sound spluttered from its mouth and it started wobbling towards him. Stan began to raise his plasma cutter but it was too late; the thing was on him and attempting to dig its razor sharp teeth into his neck. Stan managed to free one of his arms and punched the creature in its mangled face. He climbed to his feet and shot it in the legs, which tore off and left the thing crawling along the ground. It began to crawl towards him, so Stan shot its arms off too.
As the thing wriggled about on the floor, Stan managed to get a closer look. Its jaw was a dislocated mess and then skin on its torso was ripped apart to reveal a rotting skeleton and a jumbled mess of oozing organs. Stan aimed his cutter at the beast's head, which exploded before he could even make the shot. Stan looked around, surprised, but saw a group of EarthGov Security jogging towards them.
"Good." said Stan with a smile.
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