Gate of Sheol: Chaos Uprising
Prologue: Meaningless Desperation
Year 2150- Month I
There is nothing to be done… They are coming, their vile influence seeping through the Sheol Gate even as I write this letter to you, my dear love. Nothing can harm them, not steel nor did plasma or even the magic we were bless with by the Lady of El- the original Guardian of the Sheol Gate can repel them from the boundary where they are gathering. If you find this letter, be reassured that I am thinking of you even as I hide out huddled by the Sheol Gate alongside my teammates. I fear the end is coming… please, look after Add for me.
Year 2150- Month VI
They have broken through, five of them, their forms, incomprehensible to the mortal imagination. Just by looking at them, two of members of my research team lost their minds, taking three others with them. All around them, the air warps… my vision grows fuzzy and my head throbs I cannot sleep for the pain is nigh unbearable… The taste of ozone dances on the tip of my tongue and all food and beverage are tainted- befouled with the flavor of tin and plastic. I am unable to eat, the taste is unbearable; it makes my stomach twist. My body… is wasting away, even as we inch closer to a possible way of ridding Elrios of these Eldritch Abominations- Wraiths they are dubbed now, for how ghostly their forms are and how they writhe like the tentacles on a mythological Cthulhu. Is Add doing alright? Please tell him that his father loves and misses him.
Year 2150- Month X
I'm a skeleton now… A skeleton… I can… My mind is fading and my body is degrading… I can barely think… I can barely write… Twenty members of the research team have died since I last wrote to you. News of the world outside is precious little but I gather that all the races- Humans, Elves, and Nasods are taking refuge in cities of steel protected by domes of sparkling glass… The Wraiths- their foul children, the Shades flood the land like a swarm of locusts. Eventually the sheer amount of numbers will overwhelm you and will crush your pretty shields of glittering glass even if it is special, El-enhanced glass designed to withstand the most savage of attacks. For what good did the El do us even as we were scrambling in the beginning to prevent the Wraiths from breaking through? Tell Add to be a good boy…
Year 2151- Month VII
A breakthrough has occurred… A small band of researchers has traversed the Boundary into Eureka itself, bringing back a sizeable hunk of Sheolian steel. But at what cost? Their minds obliterated… like mine… Never again… never again… they have went crazy and never again shall they talk anything but nonsense and commit any actions save for random acts of violence and suicide. I wonder, is a hunk of metal truly worth twenty precious lives even if it does have otherworldly properties? Are our lives so cheap in the eyes of the whoremonger government?
Year 2151- Month IV
The steel… has been tempered… The first Guardian has been erected- Guardians, dubbed for they shall guard the Sheol Gate and all of Elrios. The furnace blast from the smelting was something awful… I have lost all the research I compiled so far from the flames and thirty lives were claimed for the abyss, but no one gives a shit… They're all too busy cooing… cooing over the newest abomination of war they created. More lives will be lost… both on the battle field and in the lab... but no one will remember us behind the scenes…
YREA 2512- MnHt 11
My h-hand… bur-rnt… trembling… I had to sm-smelt Sheolian Steel to construct a g-g-g-gu-uardian… Hands are not madde for this un…nat-t-tural task… highly-y-y-y vo..latile Sheolian Steel is… I'mnot suppossed to be… no hrard labor for me… but the goverrnrnment doesn't give a damn… Keep having nightmaires… Blooddy handprints ramdomly appeareng onthe the wall… Blackooze dripning down from ceielings… Sleep is ven mor of a strruggle… Spuurring halloocinations further… Soohn… I shawl nt bee fit for ven menail laebor…
YEAR 2153- MONTH VII
I CAN'T. NO LONGER… CAN'T HANDLE THIS… PAIN UNIMAGINABLE… BODY JUST A STICK WITH CHARRED FLESH DANGLING FROM LIMBS. I THINK I CAN SPELL. YOU TOLD ME. I MISSPELLED WORDS. RIGHT? RIGHT? WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER TRYING? YOU HAVE TO AGREE THIS IS POINTLESS. WE'LL… WE'LL ALL. ALL DIE. KILL EACH OTHER OFF IN OUR GREED. INNOCENT AND VALUABLE PEOPLE ARE DYING. DYING FROM BURNS. DYING FROM CUTS. DYING AS THEIR BEST FRIEND MURDERS THEM. THE WORLD. DYING. PEOPLE. SO STUPID. STUPID… STUPID… STUPID… STUPID… STUPID…
STUPID…
REAY 3512- HTNOM X
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REAY 2153- HTNOM IIX
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RC: Guess who's back from the dead? :D
Elsword: *Crying* W-why did you have to come back? QAQ
RC: Don't look so down… where are the others? -._.-
Elsword: .-. They had the good sense to run away while they still had four limbs… Why is this chapter so short and fucking creepy?
RC: Life sucks… Can't write too long of chapters… but at least I'm writing… Beggars can't be choosers oh smart one :D 'Sides… if I'm so awful, why aren't you with the others? O3O
Elsword: *Holds up chained hands* You had me pre-chained before you came back. D:
RC: =w= Yup, yup I did. Kufufufu…
Elsword: TTATT
RC: Yup… I return with a bang and an encrypted/ misspelled deliberately last few parts… Can anyone guess what the comprehensible coded parts say? It'll make you go O_O I guarantee it. :D
Elsword: Being a creep is nothing to be proud of… Who are you to disappear for seven months and then come whirling back, chaining me up to the walls, and plotting ways to kill us again? :P
RC: I'm Ruby… lololol… Besides… you had others to make sure you got tortured good and slow… Thank El! Elesis x Aren has grown in fanbase and so has stories with IS… BUT… WHERE IS THE GOOD ELSEVE?! D:( *Rages* You people disappoint me…
Elsword: My virtual 2D plane of existence is disappointing me…
RC: *Takes a deep breath and forces herself to calm down* Well… R&R if you're glad about my return and think this story gave you chills while you were gone! Ja Nee! *Flies out the window, dragging Elsword behind her*
