The Unfallen consists of all of us brave enough and strong enough to stay alive. I was 17 when it happened. I came home and saw my family getting slaughtered. My mother, Shelby, looked at me with pleading eyes begging me to go save my sister and leave her to die.
My sister was 15 and our parents weren't really around so she never got the chance to remember her them. She was pretending to be dead in a corner, and when she heard my footsteps she started sobbing thinking I was one of them. She opened her eyes expecting the worse and instead she saw me and smiled. Joanna was never that happy in her life. I told her what happened to our parents, how their heads were The Signal's new chew toy. She cried herself to sleep that day.
The Signal didn't believe in the whole stab you and you die sort of situation; they had a whole system of how to make somebody suffer. Pay for what they believe you did.
1st: They hunted you down. Not just "Oh we find you now you die." No. They had a list. It started with the people who were too weak to defend themselves. The kind of men that let The Signal kill their families because they wanted to live, the kind of women who have to raise 3 kids on their own while balancing two crap jobs, and the kind of kids who don't even know the difference between right or wrong.
2nd: They tied you up. The Signal would put chloroform over your mouth so you wouldn't scream. And then take you to the one place you love with all your heart and kill you so wherever you went, you would remember something you love coated with disgust. You would be stuck and they would come back with the rest of your families. One by one they would take you and just end you.
3rd: The killing ritual. Once they had you there was no turning back. First they started with the eyes. They had these long metal fingers that could cut a window in half. "Any last words," they would say. But before you would have time to answer, you would feel this sharp pain go through your body, and then all you could possibly see would be darkness.
After the eyes they would go for your hair ripping it out in clumps. After the hair it would be your skin. With their blade like teeth, they would eat your skin bunch by bunch. Later they would puke your skin out and wear it as jewelry.
4th: Publicity. They wanted to be known and for what they stand for. Death. You knew how they killed people because the first time they killed someone they aired it. The first person to die was Olivia Herst. She was 9 years old, just started 4th grade when it happened.
The first person to die was different. For her she had to witness what happened. They ripped her nails out, ripped her hair out, bit all of her skin off, then they tore her eyes out.
5th: Warnings. Once they would finish killing a household, they would announce what house would be there next. Like I said though, the weakest they would find first. You still might be rich and powerful but you would die. It was just your fate.
When they attacked I found there one weakness. Love. Since they were soulless monsters, they didn't know how to feel. I figured this out the time I followed them and saw them sacrificing one of their own by making them feel something. And that slowly ate away at them.
That is how I got away from them the first time that, and shooting them with a M4A1. The thing is though, they are humans. They are not aliens or they didn't come up from the dead. No, they are uncared for unloved humans.
That's the second chapter everybody! Next chapter I am going to introduce the rest of the characters. Please R&R! And I promise the chapters will get longer