The Line Within
CHAPTER ONE
The rain had soaked me to the bone. I liked the rain. I brought me to my calm place. Even in battle, I was calm when it was in the rain. Nothing felt better then the rain.
I stood in the street, facing a tall tower. It was old. About 2000 years old. I walked towards the front doors, which were completely stone. It was built that way to withstand the battles from the wars. That was, the wars that had begun almost 500 years before.
Most people were sick of it. But most people were too afraid of the new government that had taken over to say or do anything. Everyone except me. I had been a pain in the new president's side even before he had been elected. I had to laugh at that thought.
He wasn't elected. He was simply… there. He had just stood and took over, after a short lived battle with the former and once great man of President Kalfree. Now it's President Halman. Halman. Now that was a name the whole world knew. Not just the united states. Like I said. New Government. It had command over the entire world. Well, more like Halman did.
He had began running slaves again. The men that stood with him were no different. They rapped, murdered, and worst for wealth and power. Then came the Vampires. And The monsters. And monsters… wow. I guess if you wanted to put it simply, The whole world has gone past the depths of hell.
I entered through the doors and found myself at the end of a short hall of stone walls. It ended at a circular stair case. I began to climb it. Nothing made as sound as I climbed the stairs. Not even the floor creaked as it did back in the twenty first century.
No. In this day and age, every was perfectly built. If it wasn't and you were the one that built it, then you were either imprisoned, or killed. That was the way Halman ruled the world. And that was the way I was going to stop his rule.
I came to the top of the stairs, no doubt at the very top of the tower. I faced yet another two doors. I took out a small circular device and pressed the three buttons on it. I then placed it in the center of the two doors and walked a few steps away.
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The three men stood around looking out at the top of the tower. They loved their job. That was… doing absolutely nothing. Guard the tower. Yea right. What for anyway? There was nothing here. One of the men tossed a bottle out of the window and listened. Crack! He chuckled.
He turned and leaned beside the door and yawned. Suddenly the door imploded, sending it flying in all directions. A few coins flew into the room. They too exploded, and began to emit gas into the small circular room. I walked in, calmly, and nodded at the men. One hissed at me, revealing his Fangs. They were all vampires. They called themselves 'Ravens Of The Darkness'.
The Vampires were, as well as the experiments that he ran, were Halman's guards and soldiers. The man that hisses, lunged at me, pulling out a knife. I caught him by the throat, and his arm too as he raised it. I kicked his legs out from under him and stabbed the knife into one of the other two as he came up behind me.
I kicked him down and slammed my fist into the third one. The first one leaped up and tried to attack me with a series of punches and kicked. I simply stepped aside and he fell over his own two feet. I stomped my foot down and a knife came out of the bottom of my boot. I quickly, but calmly kicked the man in the neck.
The second ran at me again and He too caught the knife from the boot, this one through the mouth and into his brain. I glanced over at the third one, who pulled out a control device the size of a remote. He pressed a button as I kicked it out of his hand and slammed him against the wall took out one of my dual pistols and aimed it at his face. I fired. His face melted away into ash, and the rest of his body followed suit.
It was the custom UV bullets I made. Made of a special plastic steel, with Ultraviolet Light in the Center. I looked out the window. 30 commando troops had suddenly pulled up in HATs, or Heavy Assault Tanks. The commandos were also part of Halman's Arsenal. They were the best of the best in terms of his human troops. And they had the hardware to match.
It was time to go. I quickly put my pistol away and took out a special line pistol. I ran out to the stair case as guard were coming up it. They saw me and open fired with their assault rifles. I looked up and pointed the pistol at the ceiling. Too far away to a good spot. I felt on my belt for a round object and twisted it like a door handle Suddenly I felt lighter and I leaped onto the walls, and ran along them, over the troops who now just stared in awe.
I fired the pistol at the ceiling and a thin rope shot out and clanged to the ceiling. I let go and fell gently down the middle of the stair case. I landed softly and leaped over some troops who open fired. I landed on both their shoulders and I leaped up slightly and kicked them both in their heads. They fell down and I ran outside.
Into a dozen waiting assault rifles.