Chapter 10
"I really am sorry for breaking your weapon Stella." The woman said, watching as Stella welded her Rock Cannon back together. "Save it Ammy, the stuff needed for a welder are hard to come by now. You should be lucky that this place can support the electricity needed for this." Stella said, not in the mood to talk to Onmyō's suppose clone sister.
"I thought you were the bad guy then!" Ammy replied. "Sure, then how do you even know that this brother of Onmyō died in the first place?" Stella asked. "The remaining clones of the 4th generation and Project: Second Chance keep in contact with each other, I thought I told you this!" Ammy replied. "I WOULD'VE been listening if I didn't have to repair the Rock Cannon. Which I'm still doing…" Stella thought. "… It must have slipped my mind." Stella replied. "… Are you sure you're not a Gray?" Ammy asked.
Stella grabbed her Black Blade and pointed it Ammy before screaming, "OUT!"
Ammy immediately turned around and ran out the room, slamming the door behind her. "She isn't very friendly." Ammy thought as she casually walked back to the main level of the "house" to see Onmyō looking over a railing, as if in deep thought.
"Hey Big Brother, is something the matter?" Ammy asked, walking beside him. "Is it true of what you said, that there are several of us?" Onmyō asked. "Yeah, there were actually millions of us at one point, but you never did get to see that since you were the first clone ever made." Ammy replied before taking a seat on the railing. "But where did they all go, and why was I never awoken from slumber until recently?" Onmyō asked.
"We're spread across the multi-universes!" Ammy said, momentarily holding her hand above her head as if it was a surprise. "You're joking?" Onmyō said, not believing it. "No, father was a wonder when it came to traveling through universes; he was the only one capable of doing it. I know this since I was one of first 100 to be awakened from sub-cryogenic growth." She replied before she used her legs as supports on the railings and hung upside down on the other side of railing.
"Then why haven't I been awoken until now?" Onmyō asked, noticing how flexible his sister was. "You have A LOT of artificial parts in you, father said that you were too unstable and could most likely ruin the fourth generation of clones, and possibly Project: Second Chance if we used your designs for the other clones." Ammy replied. "Then why didn't he have me killed back then?" "He said that there was always a possibility that you could…" Ammy said before trailing off.
"Could, what exactly?" Onmyō asked. "I don't know, he always said that to himself after being asked by the other scientist. He seemed to have some faith in you for something." Ammy answered. "You wouldn't happen to know, would you?" Onmyō asked. "Nope, I only remember what I did as a child, I couldn't even read back then." She replied before sitting back up.
"Man, I hate these suits, they're so uncomfortable!" Ammy said, loosening her tie and started unbuttoning the first three top buttons. "We're wearing the same thing, why are you complaining?" Onmyō asked. "I never was one for suits, I preferred dresses. I want one that shows my chest." Ammy said, removing her dress shoes and rubbed her feet. Onmyō didn't pay attention. "I just don't know how you men can wear such… monkey suits!" She said before rubbing the other foot.
"Does this place have a shower?" Ammy asked. "Yeah, but you don't smell bad or anything, why?" Onmyō asked. "Just in case if I feel like taking a shower." She said before removing her dress jacket and threw it on the ground. Onmyō watched where it landed and looked back to see Ammy stretching her arms in relief.
"I'm not picking that up." Onmyō said, before looking back over the railing. "I thought so… your girlfriend isn't all that friendly." Ammy said. "She's not my girlfriend." Onmyō said quickly. "Oh, is that so? Then why were you and her cuddling in that pile of hay?" Ammy said, letting out a chuckle. "I don't know! I was out in that blind for a really long time waiting for some actual meat to walk by and I grew tired and fell asleep in the pile of hay. You can ask Stella her version, I'm a heavy sleeper." Onmyō said quickly.
"Maybe, but she isn't all that friendly." Ammy said. "You have the open mind of a child some times." Onmyō said. "Only when I'm not serious." She added. "The reason why she isn't all that friendly is because that her Rock Cannon is her main weapon in her arsenal. Since you sliced it in have with that giant glaive you can summon, it is a real problem to find the proper material in this destroyed world that aren't broken or past its date of use." Onmyō said.
"Yeah, yeah… can you make both the white flame and the black flame appear at the same time?" Ammy asked. "Yes, though that was after I killed my brother… he didn't even say his name." Onmyō said. "Amazing… though, the sibling you killed was never one to think right. Father said he suffered from his insanity and kept on seeing things that didn't make since to sane people. He abandoned his name when our numbers started depleting." Ammy said before standing back on the ground and walked behind Onmyō to pick up her jacket.
"What exactly happened to vast majority of our siblings?" Onmyō asked. "They were all killed… by Father himself." Ammy said coldly.
Onmyō turned around like he didn't hear her right, though Ammy repeated the words after hearing the sudden movements from Onmyō.
"He killed over 3/4th of us." She said coldly, almost depressed. "Why did our dad kill more than half his family? Shouldn't he also be dead if I'm over 400 thousand years old?" Onmyō asked. "I don't know why father just started killing his family, though a lot of them started to fight father after seeing so many of our siblings fall dead. They all had the same fate though." Ammy said, sniffling a little. "When was this?" Onmyō asked. "200 thousand years ago." His sister replied.
"Just whoor what is our father?" Onmyō asked. "Someone… no, something that isn't either human or alien." Ammy replied.
"Sounds a lot like the game mother played on humanity with the clone generation." Nana said, walking down the ramp that led to the sleeping quarters. "How long have you been listening?" Ammy asked. "Not too terribly long, but long enough to know that your dad seems a lot like our mother." She said, walking towards the two.
"I don't think our father would do the same process that Sing Love would do just for some game." Onmyō said. "We can find out Project: Second Chance, but it is really risky where I think a central data base may be in this universe." Ammy said. "Where is that?" Nana asked. "I think it's hidden somewhere in Korea." Ammy said. "What do you mean, in this universe though?" Onmyō asked.
"Sometimes these stone doors appear and if you walk through the doorway you'll find yourself in another universe, its random though. I'm lucky enough to have found this universe." Ammy said.
"Where is that creature you came with?" Nana asked, looking around. "You mean Leeron? He changed into a bat and is hanging from the ceiling of the cave." Ammy said, pointing up to reveal a rather large bat hanging upside down.
"I still can't believe that creature can change into any animal it wants…" Nana said looking up. "We can all talk about this later, for now we'll head to bed and head out to Korea in the morning." Onmyō said. "But we don't have an extra bed." Nana said. "I can sleep with Big Brother." Ammy said. "Are you sure about that?" Nana asked.
"I've lived with you and Stella for over a month now, I'm used to seeing a woman by now." Onmyō said. "I know that you've seen, but…" Nana started. "Did you forget that you tend to forget to put a shirt on after taking a shower and start walking around all over the place? I'm more mature than you think." Onmyō said, as a slight blush came from Nana.
"I-I'm going to bed!" Nana shouted as she quickly went back to her room. "Is that really true?" Ammy asked, picking up her shoes, jacket, and tie. "Every single word, being the only artificial male human left on earth with two artificial clone girls isn't as shocking once you've been with them for over a month." Onmyō said casually before he started making his way to bed.
Ammy watched Onmyō walk into the sleeping quarters and didn't come out. She then went inside to bed after something went through her head.
Although everyone was going to bed, Leeron, the one who came with Ammy was fighting something inside him back. But it seemed to have been rather teasing him than actually trying.
"We're here." Ammy said, looking at two giant rusty steel sliding doors built into a mountain. "Ok… we… found the entrance… can we take a break now?" Nana asked, leaning against a tree, Stella was doing the same thing. "I guess…" Ammy said observing the door.
At that, they dropped to the ground like a sack of potatoes and rarely moved, except for the breathing that they were giving.
"We could've have had a few more rest on the way here." Onmyō said turning to Ammy, Leeron on her shoulder as a squirrel. "Perhaps, but you and I both want to know what this is all about. Leeron, open the door." Ammy said.
The squirrel jumped off Ammy and went through a ventilation shaft before the doors suddenly opened and a German Shepard waited for them on the other side.
"Good job." Ammy said as she and Leeron went inside. Onmyō helped Nana and Stella back up and they both sighed. "Aren't you tired?" Nana asked. "Not really, I'm actually stronger since that incident in Afghanistan where I nebladed my brother." Onmyō said.
"Well your sister seems just as rude as him." Stella commented. "She didn't know that I was the one who killed him, she probably heard that you killed him through rumors from other clones." Onmyō said. "Pfft, whatever." Stella said before bumping into Onmyō's shoulder intentionally and walked into the mountain. "It looks like a storm is going to hit paradise." Nana said, knowing that Stella was starting to resent Onmyō.
"What the hell is wrong with you Stella?" Onmyō thought, touching the shoulder she bumped into. He shook it off and walked down into the mountain, leaving Nana in the thick forest for only a second as she seemed to have gazed off somewhere before running after them.
Nana caught up with Onmyō and saw that the inside of was FILLED with researching technology and other tech that seemed far to advance to be even CLOSE to the 20th century.
"AH! I HATE THIS COMPUTER!" Ammy shouted, her hands roughing up her hair incredibly. "What's the matter?" Onmyō asked, looking at Ammy in front of a very large computer and console. "It's this damn password! I put in the password but it doesn't work!" She said before moaning. "You know the password?" Onmyō asked, looking at the monitor. "The hint for the password is, "Who is Onmyō's wife?" so I put in, Wasure rarete ita. But it says incorrect and I've checked my spelling at least 15 times!" Ammy said. "She can type pretty fast in such a short amount of time…" Nana thought.
"Amaterasu." Onmyō said. "When?" Ammy asked, looking at him to see him starring at the monitor intensely. "The password is Amaterasu." He said. "I doubt that, considering that…" Ammy hit enter after typing in the name and was giving access to the entire thing. "But… Amaterasu is the sun Goddess of ancient Japan." Ammy said with her mouth wide open in surprise. "You said father was capable of doing multi-universal travel or something, he should be capable of falling in love with someone of the same name." Onmyō said as they searched through the files for the first record of the entire project.
"Here it is, though it's a recording." Ammy said clicking on Record #000001.
The monitor switched to a man looking very similar to Ammy and Onmyō, looking confused at the camera he was facing. "I don't think this thing is on… is this on?" He said, looking away and to the left of the monitor.
He looked back at the camera and cleared his throat, moving a mic closer to him. "This is professor Onmyō speaking into a camera; I asked that these be recorded vocally considering my tendencies to accidently… blow up computers when I press a button. Damn mortals and their fragile shit." He said, muttering that last part.
"Mortals?" Onmyō thought confused, considering that he looked mortal too.
Professor Onmyō pulled out a cigarette and lit it before puffing out a breath of smoke. "Since this is the first recording, I'm going to tell you what Project… crap…" He said before looking off screen with a disappointed look.
"How many times have I told you not to smoke in the lab?" A female voice said, before someone snatched the cigarette from his hands. "About… 136,854 times." Professor Onmyō responded. "You didn't have to be literal." The female voice said. "You asked me a question, and I answered." The professor said.
The screen suddenly went black while the other entire techs were shutting down all around them. Until the main lights went off before the red emergency lights turned on.
Stella came into view after coming out of the halls of memory storage banks with her Rock Cannon raised in front of her, an unrealistic screaming or howling in front of her.
"What happened?" Ammy asked, turning to Stella. "You pet… Leeron is turning into a monster." Stella replied. "W-what do you mean?" Nana asked, not liking that sound from in front of Stella. "His body grew to be around 9 meters tall, and I didn't get a good look at him, but he started growing wings with feathers and wings like a bat. He also had razor sharp teeth inside a beak, before he started breathing fire." Stella said.
"Run." Ammy said. "What?" Stella asked, turning her head to face her. "Leeron would not and will not turn into that form, he is afraid of that form more than anything else." Ammy replied. "So what? We can just kill him and get it over with, he's only 9 meters tall and I've fought bigger." Stella said, turning to hear the sound of fast moving low sounding footsteps.
In front of Stella was a 12 meter tall creature, with fur, feathers, scales, tentacles on its back, several different kinds of tails, four different kinds of legs, ears like a wolf, a pair of feather like wings and another pair of dragon like wings on its back, and an open beak showing razor sharp teeth inside. This creature was just barging through the small halls of the stored memory data banks, destroying everything in its path.
Stella charged her Rock Cannon to full power before firing the shot, but when it hit the creature right in the forehead; all it did was just disperse into small little bits, like a snowball that didn't stick together when thrown.
The creature gave a screeching roar that almost hurt everyone's ears. "You've fought bigger things, but you've never fought things as fierce!" Ammy said before she started looking for something to slow "Leeron" down as they ran away.
She noticed how the mountain shook, but didn't collapse as the creature barreled its way through everything. She immediately turned to the metal support beam that were just outside the long slightly, upward tunnel with branching parts. Smoke covered her hand before a two handed glaive appeared.
"Everyone, I'm going to cut the support beams here, I need you all in the tunnel now!" Ammy shouted. Everyone didn't waste time and ran into the tunnel before with a two swings, Ammy had broken the support beams and jumped into the tunnel before the entrance to where they were just at collapsed.
"Great, we came here for absolutely nothing but to almost die from a monster." Stella said. "I think father possessed him or something. So it wasn't his fault!" Ammy shouted back. "Sure, did he tell you that he could possess things?" Stella retorted. "Ok, what is your problem?" Onmyō asked, a little bit annoyed. "What is my problem? The question you should be asking is; what is your problem?!" Stella shouted. "I'm sorry, but can you please not argue? It's strange to see you two do this." Nana said.
"I'm sorry, I had to stay up ALL night to fix the Rock Cannon, and it takes EXACT precession to get that thing to fire properly, and I was almost killed by this woman who mistook me to be some murder of her brother, when Onmyō actually did it by neblading him and never told me that he could do that or had the option over me or the knowledge of Project: Second Chance when he was dying in a chasm." Stella shouted.
"What are you saying?" Onmyō asked. "I'M SAYING THAT YOU MAY ACTUALLY BE LYING THAT YOU CHOSE ME OVER THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOME STUPID PROJECT!" Stella shouted her blue flame appearing on her left eye. "Stella, you need to calm down." Nana said. "AND WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT I LIED TO YOU?!" Onmyō shouted, not able to contain the rage rising in him.
"I SAW A MAN THAT LOOKED LIKE YOU AFTER A WALL OF BLACK AND WHITE FLAMES ROSE FROM THE CHASM. HE SAID, "Phase 2, failure" AND THEN HE FOUGHT THE ENEMY SOLDIERS! THE SAME THING WAS BASICALLY SAID WHEN YOU KILLED THAT ALEIN A MONTH AGO, BUT WITH SOMEONE DIFFERENT, AND YET YOU DON'T REMEMBER IT!"Stella shouted.
The rocks blocking the end of the tunnel busted down to reveal the creature before it screeched and everyone started running as fast as possible.
Tentacles burst through the stone walls, ceiling, and floor and tried to grab someone from the group.
"Just how long are these god damn tentacles?!" Nana shouted, jumping over one that tried to grab her ankle. "Do you really want to know?!" Ammy shouted, ducking from a tentacle on the ceiling. "I don't!" Onmyō shouted, pulling out his swords and started cutting the tentacles that got in his way. "Does anybody?!" Stella shouted, doing the same thing as Onmyō.
The rusty steel doors were now in sight, still open to reveal the heavy forested area of Korea.
Ammy pulled out her bow and an arrow before notching it on the string and pulled back, aiming at a power box next to the sliding doors. She released the arrow right as she jumped over a tentacle on the floor and watched as it soared through the air, right before the tentacle grabbed onto Ammy and pulled her to the ground.
Onmyō immediately stopped and ran back to cut the tentacle and helped up Ammy before they continued to run.
The doors were sliding shut thanks to the power box being destroyed and Stella and Nana were outside, waiting for Onmyō and Ammy.
The doors were about too close and only Onmyō or Ammy would be able to get through, while the other would get squished by the doors. So Onmyō grabbed onto the doors and pulled them open with all his strength before he managed to get his back against one side of the doors and push with his foot and back.
Ammy didn't waste time and crawled under Onmyō's legs as fast as she could, but a tentacle that didn't come out of the stone but farther down tunnel, wrapped itself around Ammy's ankle and tried to pull her back into the mountain. Out of reflexes, Stella grabbed onto a reached out hand from Ammy and was pulled by the sudden force of the tentacle, but Stella managed to plant her feet against the door and hold onto Ammy.
A hissing could be heard, along with the sound of footsteps getting closer.
Ammy looked down into the dark tunnel and then back at Stella and had a face full of fear. "You could cut her free Stella, like… now!" Onmyō shouted, having trouble against the force of the door. "Stella, please don't let go…" Ammy said, tears in her eyes, "I'm scared of the dark, especially when I know what waits for me on the other side…" She said, the tears now rolling down her eyes.
"Sorry, but we all have to make sacrifices, say hi to your brother for me and Onmyō." Stella responded, before trying to let go, only for Ammy's grip to be stronger than she thought. "LET GO!" Stella shouted, punching Ammy in the face with her other hand and she let go of Stella, screaming her name as she cried and was pulled into the darkness of the mountain. Stella immediately pulled Onmyō out of the doorway and the doors slammed shut, cutting off Ammy's screams full of tears and fear.
Onmyō was thrown pretty far, but he caught his balance and slid to a stop before picking up chunks of earth as he burst into a very fast sprint towards the doors. Stella stepped in the way, her arms spread out meaning she will not let Onmyō pass. Onmyō came to an instant stop right in front of Stella, picking up a lot of dirt and dust into the air. When the dust settled, Onmyō had the black pistol placed right between Stella's eyes, anger in his face.
"MOVE!" Onmyō shouted in anger. "No, she can't be saved, it's too late." Stella replied. "STELLA, IF YOU DO NOT MOVE YOUR ASS RIGHT NOW, I WILL KILL YOU RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!" Onmyō shouted, the black flame appearing on his eye again. "Try it, I couldn't stop you when you let go of me, will you do it again?" Stella asked, her blue flame appearing on her eye. "You guys need to stop this, before something happens that will make us both regret it." Nana shouted.
"THIS DOESN'T CONCERN YOU NANA!" Onmyō shouted, before his white flame was ignited on his other eye, making both Nana and Stella gasp in surprise. "I'M GOING TO TELL YOU THIS ONE LAST TIME, MOVE!" Onmyō said to Stella before pulling the pistols hammer back. "Not unless you walk away from here, or you'll have to suffer the loss of two instead of one." Stella said, making Onmyō look even angrier before he wrapped his finger around the trigger and paused for a moment.
BANG!
"… Stella!" Nana shouted, as she ran towards her limp sister as Onmyō threw the gun to the ground and pried open the doors and stepped back inside, the doors slammed closed behind him.
Aint I just a little angel? :3 Not really... or am I? Doesn't something near the end there seem a little funny or odd? Oh and by the way, this is actually in the real world, not like before with the Afghanistan thing, this is really happening.
But I'm going to admit, that I loved Ammy's character probably the most, since her personality is almost child like even though she is several years old. I actually wanted to add her to a few more chapters before this, but I couldn't come up with anything and had to stick with her only being in one chapter (mainly, the one before doesn't count).
But yeah, this chapter reveals something that I have been depating to put into until I said, "Fuck it, I hace nothing better." and just went with it. That thing is the creature that Leeron became and tried to kill everyone, it's a more graphic creation of mine since you (as the reader) get to think of how ugly and disgusting the thing is and how much more violent it is.
But I hope that you all enjoy this chapter and had a shocked expresion at what happened. If you can guess what seems wrong at the end and how, you get a shout-out for getting it right.
Make sure to put it in the review box below so that I read it (I don't have mind reading powers people ("-_-), even though I wish I did)
But I'll see you next time! Later!