Grimm: New story, first chapter! This was inspired by mTShadow's Zone 10 story so I recommend you read it. Hope you all enjoy!
Blood ARK
Chapter One: Everything Leads To Blood
On the planet Mobius, in the year 3146, a portal was found that lead to the world's greatest discovery.
It lead to another world with many similar factors as Mobius. The only differences were that the air was unbreathable and that there was no inhabitants. No living ones, that is. There, specialists built a facility to further investigate the history of this planet. That facility was named The ARK and the portal that connected the two worlds, The GATE.
20 years later, scientists have found very little clues as to what ended the lives of the people who lived on the planet. Every finding leads to a dead end, like a withering root of a dying tree struggling to live. However, researchers refuse to give up and still continue to go about their business on The ARK. Little is known about what projects or experiments that go on.
Until now...
Panicked feet patted across the steel floored hall. The raccoon swiveled his head back but kept running. But running from what? His breaths were ragged and heavy as he came to metal door with a keycard slot beside it. His hands shuddered as he brought the card to the lock, dropping it in the process. He turned back and scanned the area with scared eyes. He lowered himself and grabbed the card and stood back up.
"DR. PERRY!" a voice screamed.
Instantly, he faced the direction of the voice. His eyes wide, watched as a rabbit ran down the same dark, chilling hall he did. Perry reached for the lock again, his hands getting a grip of reality and finally the door unlocked. A roar of pure predatory rage consumed the hall's dimming safety and the raccoon abandoned the corridor.
"DR. PERRY! WAIT!" the rabbit screamed with urgency, nearing the door. In the last moment, the rabbit reached out his hand for Perry to grab. He only succeeded in chopping the thing off as the door showed no mercy and closed. Crimson liquid poured from the dismembered limb. The raccoon heard the screams of pain and everything became surreal to him. He gathered the nearest computer and quickly sent out a distress signal. The pounds of heavy padded feet nearing his location brought nothing but fear to him.
Even through the solid metal door he could hear low growls of the thing that caused this mayhem. With sweating palms and unstable breaths, he focused the cam onto him and began his message.
" Dr. Perry of The ARK. We have a-" he was interrupted by a loud bang and spun his head in the noise's direction. There, on the door was a relatively large dent. Whatever was out there wanted in. His breath stopped for a brief moment as a second and third dent appeared in the door. He turned back around and continued on with haste, hearing his own heart beating in his skull at a deafening pitch.
"A level five breach in procedure. Quarantine effective immediately!" the raccoon begged nearly sobbing as another bang sounded from the door, far louder than the rest. That only meant that the thing outside was close to breaking the only closure the scientist had left. His gray fur soaked in the tears just like his sweat leaving trails of darker hairs defining his face. With one last bang, the door broke. With a screech, it was torn open to form a hole, just big enough for the creature to move through. With that, the transmission stopped, ending the video without another thought. Leaving anyone who watched it completely befuddled to the bone.
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Laughter sounded out. A ball bounced on a gray tiled wall, as the familiar techno beat of a game also sounded. A large green crocodile sat on a most uncomfortable bed, head against the bed frame, listening to loud beats of metal music. A purple weasel was lounging not far from him on another bed, throwing and catching a tennis ball from the opposite wall.
"Yo, Dune! What do you think? Red or green?" a black and white patched fox asked his comrade, holding up two the absolute most tacky Hawaiian shirts ever. Both his eyes, green and blue, focused on the wolf lying on the bunk in front of him.
The ebony wolf, Dune, glanced at the conflicted fox, barely raising his head up from his novel. Closing his red and purple eyes, he shook his head, his dreads thumping against each other gently.
"Nickolai, if you wore either one of those, chicks would run at first glance." he chuckled dryly, returning to his novel. Which for fact, was not a book but a playboy magazine.
The domino fox grinned, "Yeah, running TO me. Now, choose." Nickolai held the shirts up again, "Red OR green?" he raised each shirt when he named their color.
The wolf didn't even look up this time and flipped a page of his magazine. "Blue with polka dots." The fox's grin disappeared, and he sighed.
"Yo, kit!" he called out to a golden fox, whom was playing a portable gaming device. He looked up when his nickname was called, only to sigh at the older fox and his terrible clothing choices. "I'm going to Casinopolis for vacation and I need you to decide which shirt I'm gonna wear because that asshole-" he pointed to Dune, who merely grunted, "is a douche. Now, red or green?"
"My name is Tails, you know you can use it, right? And ummm... red." He switched on his game again, beginning the repetitive music and sound effects.
"Great! " the dual-colored fox turned and placed the shirt in a suitcase not far from his bed. As he was, he glanced over to one of the last people of their little group. Over in the far corner was a gray hedgehog. He was currently cleaning out a pistol that was sitting on his lap. He scratched his short black bob-like quill that lied underneath his skull cap. The hedgehog paid no attention to the fox.
Nickolai grinned and grabbed the tennis ball the weasel was bouncing on the wall. The purple male growled in protest, "Oy, whatcha think ya doin' there, mate?!" he sat up quickly, his thick accent showing through.
"Shut up, Nack." the fox stated, aiming for the hedgehog's back before throwing. The hedgehog immediately turned around and caught the ball, his burgundy eyes glared at the fox. "Really?" he said, before throwing the ball back to Nack, whom went back to bouncing it against the wall, happily.
"Can't help it Ghost. You looked lonely." Nickolai laughed.
"You should shut the hell up, Nick. It looks like Shadz is trying to catch some shut eye before vacation." Dune announced, motioning to the ebony hedgehog near Ghost. His back was facing them and his breathing was slow and calm. In reality, he was looking at a picture of his ex-girlfriend; he was holding her up as she gave him antlers. They were smiling.
The thumps of combat boots soon started up as whoever wore them came down the stairs into the room. A large bear looked among the team as they all stared back at him. Even Shadow turned over and sat up, watching the movements of the bear closely. Nack, sensing the important news to come, threw the ball at the crocodile. It hit its mark and knocked the croc's headphones off him. He growled and threw the ball back at him and adjusted his headphones but before he was able to retaliate, Shadow spoke up.
"Vector," he snapped with a smirk, " you can play with Nack later. Right now, we need your attention." Vector glanced at Shadow then grumbled and moved his eyes to the bear. Shadow's rust colored eyes joined to meet the bear's.
"What's going on, sir?" he inquired, raising a brow.
The bear cleared his throat at his question and began his speech with a deep baritone. "We've acquired a distress signal from one of the scientists aboard The ARK. A Level 5 Quarantine has been activated as procedure." He switched on the screen the was on the wall nearby. It played the transmission that was sent. He allowed the team to watched the video and when it ended, he turned it off. " I'm sorry, team, but those pansys need some men to go up there and fix the problem."
Nickolai grabbed the hair on his head and nearly screamed at this news, "THAT MEANS NO HOT BABES!" As quickly as his tantrum started it ended and he sighed, "Fine, Let's get this done." The domino fox tore off the yellow shirt he wore and replaced it with a white tee.
"And one more thing, men." All heads turned back to the large bear, confused on what he could what now,"Since Epsio has retired. The big wigs have assigned a leader. He came from another branch and was placed in charge." as he announced this news, a second pairs of feet came down the steps. He was a toxic green hedgehog with pale blue eyes; he grinned like the devil himself.
"This is Scourge. You'll be taking orders from him on this mission."
Grimm: Chapter one done. Tell me what you think. Review, favorite, and follow. Check out Zone 10 from mTShadow. It's really great. See ya next week. Thanks for reading.