Chapter 1:Prologue
It was past 3 in the morning when I got home. I walked all the way here from college, as I was a bit tipsy from the graduation party we just had. I may be underage, but I doubt anyone will either care enough or notice that. We lived in an apartment with my little sister, Cheyenne, who is 16 years old, and I, Josh, who is 19 years old. We lived alone in our apartment as our parents were killed when I was 9, and my sister was 6, by a notorious gang known as The Jesters. We lived in an orphanage for our lives, until I reached 18. When that happened, I was a legal adult and was able to adopt my sister. I grabbed my keys to the apartment and opened the door to be hit with a stench that I remembered all too well. I entered the room to see red staining the carpet and walls.
"Cheyenne! Where are you?!" I yelled out beginning to panic. No response. I walked around in search of my sister. I walked around a corner to see an image that sobered me up immediately. Around the corner was a body mutilated beyond recognition with a message painted in blood behind it saying 'We have come to finish the job, and you will be next.' I stood there shaking at the last part of that message. I began to feel sick as I felt the contents of my stomach come up my throat. I puked on the ground from the shock of the message and the body who I once knew as my sister. I ran outside my apartment screaming and crying from what had just happened. People began to come out of there rooms in pajamas wondering what was going on. "SOMEONE CALL THE COPS!" I screamed.
I woke up sweating and screaming in the ship we were in. "Are you ok there November? You must have had one hell of a nightmare." My teammate called Whiskey said.
"Fuck man, it was the same one again." I said. I had been having these nightmares of what happened a few months ago over and over again lately. I was in the army on our way to do a raid against The Jesters on the planet Dertardok III, a few solar systems from Earth. I joined the army because when my sister was alive, all she ever wanted to do when she was old enough was join the army. I felt like I could potentially kill two birds with one stone, do what she wanted to do for her, and kill those who killed her and our parents. Everyone knew of my story and why I was here.
"Yeah well toughen up buttercup. You're about to see even worse things than what happened to your sister." Whiskey said. That asshole had been getting on my nerve for the longest time. Although he was right, I was probably going to see much worse. My life deteriorated after the murder. I lost touch with friends and was put with a squad of absolute shitheads who would call my sister a bitch who must have deserved it or something along those lines. It usually ended with them walking away with a broken jaw, but it always pissed me off how they could ever think something like that. I was beginning to become depressed and thought about committing suicide after The Jesters were dead if I didn't die during the raid.
"Yeah yeah, I'm gonna attempt catch a few more Z's before we land." I said as I began to dose off again. I was tired and didn't want to deal with Captain Dipshit over here. He didn't even have a chance to say a word before I passed out again.
"McAlister! Get your ass back here now or so help me God I'l-" The captain was cut off by a shriek as I just continued running away in fear. We had landed after I woke up and entered The Jesters base to find bodies everywhere with holes in them or missing limbs, or a combination of the two. We continued to move when a black creature came down from the vents and started kill most of my team. When I saw it, I ran for it, abandoning my team. After I was out of breath, I darted into a room and put a table in front of the door as I began to calm down my breathing and heart rate. After I pushed the table to the door, I got into a corner and began to get into a ball in an attempt to hide myself from everything. I began to sob as I realized what I had gotten myself into, and that I had abandoned my team to die. I began to hear something move above me. I looked up to see a hatch that had been to a vent that was now open, and in it, the creature. I didn't even have time to scream as I was grabbed by it and dragged through the vents, knocking me out as I hit my head on a vent wall.