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Visage of complex patterns between shifting stages of awoken second incident infected in-coma suddenly rising from where they slept and shouting at the top of their lungs for the satisfaction of pleasure rang inside each building that housed them. Though Prof. Tenorio stood behind the screen of the surveillance of both the southern area and the camp, he could not maintain his full focus when he anticipated the arrival of the rescue team and his fellow Good Will members.
The last recon message was that teams have been divided to lead each group to a safe pickup point. Two of the five teams have reported safely exiting through their chosen paths, securely delivered here in the camp. Cristian and Akyl are back and resting with the others who were civilians they found as willing escapees of the city.
Though not an ideal place for them to stay, Prof. Tenorio later pushed the two to rest in the second camp where the other survivo
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Perri’s warning didn’t stay long though as the Primer pushed through Horaz, puncturing his side, and reaching for Perri and Bernice. The creature pulled the two girls from the jeep after jumping off, it seemed like its goal was met as it growled. Sniffing at what it held, the two girls hugged each other, cushioning the pain of being compressed by a thick hoof. Both could feel the creature squeeze them without consideration or hold them tighter in warning, try any other thing but escape.The growl turned into a mightier roar mixed with purring coming from its chest. Perri is aware of the sudden change in its demeanor as it showed signs of interest to her most. Holding Bernice for dear life, she whispered to her in a shivering voice. “I’m—I’m sorry...you sho—shouldn’t have been—”Bopping their foreheads together in a light manner caught Perri by surprise that she stopped talking. She looked at Bernice whose chee
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Skies have never been silent to anybody’s ears. To them, they could hear the wind or ground move. Footsteps echo as they approached the Primer’s limp body. Nearby, from one of the jeeps, Trust stood to the side and felt the sudden coldness that enveloped Horaz. During the short time, he’s been near the boy, he’s come to form a connection. Not enough to call a bond, but something akin to camaraderie in a budding sense.There was a lump in his throat as the simmering rage Horaz began with simmered down and transferred strongly to the person he considered his partner, Perri. He couldn’t see where she was, but he knew she was in immense physical pain or worse, considering that she was in the grasp of the Primer enemy.He was using his abilities to protect them from attracting Primers coming from the hoard towards the direction of the civilians with him. If the enemy Primer felt it or not, he had little time to assess since his priority was to
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Pushing each a team of soldiers, he orders them to infiltrate the center who was the two girls in the middle of the fray. Easily discerned from their point of view because Perri and Bernice were the only two who are unharmed, including the body of the in-coma Primer.Dr. Munar steadily felt his soul shudder as he stopped Prof. Tenorio. “This isn’t right...I’ve never seen this happen? The affected survivors are awake, intent on killing us.”“Surprising,” Prof. Tenorio drily said. “The girls are in the middle of this chaos without harm. There’s no point trying to figure out where the source of the Primer control is, it’s that girl.”Dr. Munar watched from their distance, the blurred forms of the girls under the sunny sky. He couldn’t discern what Prof. Tenorio saw, but he knew it was not something any of them can confirm without further investigation. Reaching an impasse is not an allowable matter a
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“I’m not certain but I sense her mind has entered a state of depression.” Said Betts, the concern vivid in her voice. “There’s no certainty, of course, but I’m not so sure this group of soldiers are reliable or people I want to believe in.”Trust knew what she meant, he didn’t mind it at first, to be the creature. Becoming another being at will was something out of fiction, and the burden included as a secret to the people around them was easy to conceal.Perhaps, there was no unluck in their life within the walls of the city, yet there is no freedom and resources in this place for him and Betts to live. He would rather risk living in the human world, away from a doubtful place ruined by an existence profoundly mysterious for many.At first, he contemplated letting the world know of what he has become, although only in his internal mind. Knowing that there will be allies beyond his partner was better than nothing,
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Chapter 22A moment of silence filled Betts as she squatted a meter away from the slumped body of the affected citizen, a body with no sign of injury but shows distress to a degree one can only feel upon observation the further they look at the body. Eyes bloodshot and dry to a degree so fearful that you can only look at them in horror. Their mouths were dirtied by the saliva they foamed out and dust getting caught on the edges like a spoiled cup of milk.Feeling their level of desperate yearning for the connection they wanted after supposedly being affected by the incident, they continue to subjugate themselves in completely depreciating thoughts of despair that Betts felt is the reason why some of them fall into a coma. The heavy toll it takes on their will to resist that it becomes a crutch to the point of madness. Add to this is the horrific modification on one’s body during the process that it’s enough to scare their every b
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Witnessing people making love was not the first awkward moment Bernice has taken in through her adolescence and teen years. There was more of that due to her sibling’s activities with whoever current partner they have. She’s used to it to the point she can easily dismiss them. It’s different though if it’s two people she knew, one for only a moment and the other since years ago, in a mindset driven by the death of both her friends.This wasn’t the time to see much but it didn’t disgust nor fascinate her, just the utter awkward feeling of being there. Though, soon, it subsides when she looked at her hands that quickly quivered without incite. She heard the soldier who was assigned to care for her and went back to his side.“Hey, avoid going anywhere. We don’t know if those monsters would rise again like the god-awful zombies.” He said as he escorted her to one of the jeeps. “You’ve gone through enough, so it’s okay to rest with the others.”Following him without question felt like she
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At some point, he fell from the bosom of the silhouette. His arms flailed as his body was pulled down by the gravity of what constituted the ground. Meeting between two solids should've been painful at the height he fell from but all he was met was the never-ending fall.The moment his eyes opened, not showing his body jolting, he was welcomed by the still sleeping faces of his comrade. At least Dr. Munar was asleep and the rest of the escorts are wide awake and alert. A seat up front was Cristian and another escort, Akyl sat beside him while they stayed quiet for the whole ride back to C-city.The remaining time before they entered at least the outer vicinity will be at approximately thirty minutes. He couldn’t believe the company's work in responding to acquiring the second survivor camp, where they were screened and given time to contemplate and be sent to C-city. The current vehicles with them are the two escort jeepneys and that one pickup truck where the captured Primer is tied
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“Your side of experience seems like you’ve had a fun time getting to know the affected ones,” Cristian said as he sat up. “The two people affected by the incident on our end felt like they were sought after by the Primers.”“That’s the same thing with us,” Akyl stated. “Perhaps it’s a kind of desirable change in their bodies but the affected ones tended to call out for the Primers of any kind. None would approach unless it’s been hinted or given to them by the others, did you also notice that?”“Not really,” Cristian replied honestly. “At some point, my mind blanked when we got to the area we got hounded by the Primers. Though I did notice that there were specific ones that hunted us down if we had an affected, but they didn’t approach us, only lead one specific Primer.”“They acted like minions or servants of those Primers,” Akyl said, a conviction
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EpilogueThe caves underground lead nowhere man could tolerate, with the pressure of the world pressing over them, no one can follow the Primer monsters as they exit the premise of C-city. These Primers are not going to be eaten and smothered by power over time, however, they will co-exist in a community built by Memoria.Memoria who sat almost half a millennia awake under the ruins of F-city played another game of race between the lines with several other internet connection nodes that are knowingly joined into the old working cable lines of the dead city. Then when the race finishes, they rest for the while, thinking like a person, old and hesitant.They’ve long forgotten that they could easily browse these connections so that they could monitor the condition of the world and their old friends who now walks the human world with the grace that could only dignify those with experience. They have experience too, of a different kind, all collected from the vast brains and words of those
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Hi, there Nate here :) I've enjoyed writing this story so far, but things have been complicated and I won't be able to write it anymore. There are some moments that I wish I could have fixed in the long run but it's gotten too much to hold in just one hand. After this chapter will be a short Epilog for a short mention of each relevant characters final activities before the future becomest truly a mystery. This story ran its course, pretty long if you ask me, and the development of some characters are slow but steady. There will be a new title coming after this for the coming month, it's tentative title is "Ocular to the Dying Sun." A saga of the Prime Magician and the realm of Slitark according to before their brightest star continues to deteriorate. Have fun reading, please do leave comments~
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Chapter 37 (part 4)
Small-stature wobbled from their place in shock and confusion. They could hear voices, words they thought would not be possible to understand even if they have a sprinkle of memories of being able to say such things, such words. Vocabulary had almost slipped their still able memory of what they seem to perceive as their selves before this blind-like body.Their comrade underlings did not comprehend the creature in front of Small-stature, making them react in a scared way, almost darting to scurry in escape. Managing to hail them back into the premise of Small-stature’s vicinity was easy, what with One-arm herding them back to where they are.“My, forgive me. It seems like you are a newborn to this body.” Soft-spoken, as Small-stature calls them, listened to them say. “Let me soothe your worries, we are not here to relish harm upon our fellow. Rather, guide them.”Hearing and understanding what Soft-spoken said took about a few seconds of Small-stature’s comprehension, but their underl
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Two presences from the premise disappeared when the small-statured creature sensed the sensation of an optimal sound and light came from underneath the ground. There was a pause as they waited for the arrival of this, oh so, comforting resonance.Anticipation. Tension. Pause.There was a definite halt in their senses when another sensation overpowered their most awaited event, that was just been triggered moments ago. Because of this, they knew that there was something wrong. Something that would bring them great demise and abandonment, even if they know they could survive without this “thing.”Grasping this “thing” was an answered prayer they knew would be something that could help develop their comrades and these sweet-scented underlings of theirs. Telling them that they would grow and develop into better creatures that could well benefit each other. Without words, just sounds and resonance, deeds.Still, they could not help but waver in tenacity when they felt the loss of this “thi
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Chapter 37 (part 2)
Waking up in another body is hellish beyond comparison. Imagine opening your eyes to blindness you didn't know existed, with the light coming from nowhere and everywhere. You don't see with your eyes, but you feel the world ten times stronger with nothing but your body who is sensitive to every kind of noise. Magic would have been more believable than realizing that your blindness is not caused by pain of any internal kind, but by your eyes absorbed inside your skull, sunken deep. Protected by a layer of skin thin but tough, while a substance within shakes and serves to stay it in place. Something moved within their skull, surreal but they could feel it moving with every shake and stir as if a jar of pickles with one pickle inside swimming in its vat of juice. Why am I comparing pickle to my situation? Calming themselves was easy, they “breathed” slow and steady, through a nose they could not feel or sense its presence on their face, but they know its there. Wildly adjusting their t
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Chapter 37 (part 1)
Chapter 37Skies don’t rain beans or bacon, but Horaz, who’s gotten himself used to the way the Primer identity roams his mind, sees that this Primer sure knows how to mix the setting they stand in by displaying all food he’s been craving for. Nothing beats being human and wanting nothing but to satiate your day with all the good comfort food that lives in your head, at least the ones you’ve tasted before.He has been yearning to eat more than raw meat, which his tongue and throat burned from the bitter taste, not sweet or delectable, but bitter and tangy at the same time. The youth of sixteen years has not tasted flesh the same way it’s described with a raw steak, though he prefers well done, he probably would have had the chance to taste raw steak in the time his family would celebrate special occasions.But he prefers well-done steak, baked beans, and the occasional tacos on the weekends. Softshell because he needs to cater to his girlfriend’s taste for cleanliness, hence food with
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Chapter 36 (part 7)
“Stand… down,” Akyl said slowly to the escorts. Her eyes watched the one arm that clung to the tail.She could tell that the tail, or the identity that controlled it, is strong today. There must be a correlation between their method of physical examination and their tail’s response to their body. Rather, she could sense that Horaz is just realizing that there was more to the process happening in his Primer body and just noticing it now.The other escorts, with guns that bore metal ammunition, followed through but the tranquilizer bearer did not ease his aim. The escort shook his head in rejection of her request and Akyl had to acknowledge this.Purce stood still, feeling her tension, more from fear, stiffen her body. The only part that could move was her eyes and she watched in anticipation if the doctor would do something first, or the Primer’s tail.Because, by now, she could see that the Primer is not just fighting the tail but struggling to keep its hold. The twitching stopped for
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Chapter 36 (part 6)
The confines of Horaz’s room remained cold with the sprinkle of “nature’s touch,” meaning the occasional soil and other debris that could serve as “entertainment options.” Noticing the Primer consciousness be a creature of boredom was one the laboratory did not expect, and so did Horaz.Discovering this was not hard to conclude when the Primer tends to play and hunt the staff and escort that enters its domain whenever they feed or try to clean his “room.” At most, if they didn’t leave any kind of living creature to distract the Primer during its stay in the laboratory, the likeliness of it trying to destroy their place seemed likelier.Reina remembered the kind of creature the first Primer was, despite staying for only a few days in their presence. This alpha Primer did things in calculated actions as if, the creature itself wanted things to go their way so it could pretend to give them what they want.She concluded this according to how the staff then felt its actions were much devis
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Chapter 36 (part 5)
Purce had to double take, knowing that the answer used, one thump of any body part meant “no.” Hastily, she signaled to Elbi that Horaz – the human consciousness, did not agree to the next procedure.Because of this, Moss suddenly wondered why the electrical current request they were aiming to control, and monitor stopped. She saw from her peripheral that Dr. Akyl left her post, the other touchscreen panel, and approached Elbi and Purce.Elbi was adjusting the program, already on its way to booting up enough electrical charges in the ideal percent, but an abrupt stop in this charging requires a reset for the application and machine. Because if it did not stop and proceed to use for its intended purpose, it would go haywire or overflow.The very machine of the gurney can only hold enough electrical charge, the extra energy that flows through the needles are nodes that cannot let one charge in it stay still. It must go through and ride the sails and winds or else it will burn. This is n
