Hello again last chapter about the colony so if you're not much of a fan of the recent parts you only have to bear through one more, soon we will go back to Shepard and the gang so don't worry too much, but I guess you want to get through this so here you go
Kevin's P.O.V
Kevin shot up regretting it immediately as the pain in his right shoulder began to throb.
"Doc he's awake!" Isabel's voice rang through his ears a sweet sound that put him at ease.
"Thought we'd lost you their Kev" the Doctor said as he approached. Kevin went to move but the sharp pain running down his right arm prevented him from moving at all.
"Ugh, Doc why is my arm still jacked up so much"
"the cut is deep, too deep it shattered the bones in your shoulder broke your top rib as well as the massive split in your right shoulder blade, Delesi has been trying to fix you up, but there is only so much she can do with a prototype mod" Almost as if she had heard her name Delesi came through the door.
"Ah I see the patient is awake, how you doing?"
"My right arm burns like hell, but other than that I'm peachy" Kevin then noticed the slight orange glow that was being cast through the window and the fact that the room was very dimly lit, the flickering orange light from outside being the only source of illumination. He also noticed the grimy state they were all in ragged and torn clothes their skin seemed to be caked with dirt and what seemed to be…dried blood.
"What's going on, why are the lights out?"
"The power went out two days ago we haven't been able to fix it"
"Two days? How long was I out" The doc rubbed his chin.
"I'd say close to five weeks now" Kevin couldn't believe his ears.
"F-five weeks what happened while I was out" Isabel sighed and answered.
"Shit hit the fan, Cas ran off into the jungle and we haven't seen him since, a lot of people started to get really on edge you weren't waking up anytime soon so people started to panic, the colony split in two and turned on one another started killing one another for no reason" Izzy choked up.
"It's okay Izzy I can tell him the rest" the Doctor spoke in a reassuring tone Izzy nodded and just buried her face into Kevin's chest tears streaming down her face, although it was painful on his injuries he endured it for her.
"Well as Izzy said shit hit the fan, after the Colony started killing one another a small group appeared, led by someone calling themselves the Mistress of Chaos she had a cult following and managed to recruit a good portion of the colony….the things they do to the dead and the ones who oppose them….Gods….those things aren't human" There was a loud thud from nearby and the room went quiet, the sound continued for a few seconds before stopping and a loud sound of frustration echoed from outside.
"The hell was that?" The doc rubbed his temples.
"Sounded like that Krogan or that other hulk of meat, members of that cult, they've been looking for us, for a few days now" Kevin went to stand but couldn't the pain in his arm was to depilating.
"Izzy…Help me up" Izzy took Kevin under her arm and helped him walk.
"Kevin what are you doing?" Delesi asked.
"We need to get off this rock" Kevin spoke seemingly giving up on the colony, the Doc was surprised by his words.
"a-and just abandon the colony?" Kevin snapped.
"What colony? All we got here is a bunch of raving madmen killing one another, I don't care if this is our colony or not now, we need to get off this planet"
"I agree with Kevin, if we can hold for a few more days, my company should send a ship this way" Delesi spoke, Kevin nodded thankful for the support, Izzy also agreed stating that she just wanted to leave this horror show.
"Well I guess I've got no choice but to come along then" The Doc spoke with an unsteady voice. Anna was also their but her like of the idea was prevalent due to the seemingly passive mood she was in; she just sort of hid behind Delesi.
"It's decided then we make a break for my house and try to hold out until Delesi's ship arrives" All seemed to agree and readied themselves for the trip they would have to get to the other side of the colony to reach Kevin's house.
Zarith's P.O.V
Zarith smiled as several more stragglers were dragged before her, she stood and walked over to them, they struggled under the grasp of her newly recruited cultist. She examined them, fine specimens they would prove interesting in a fighting pit, expectation for the third that was rather scrawny and old.
"Take these two to the pit" she said pointing to the two larger men Jalenk smiled at that idea, he had proposed making this fighting pit and had relished in the bloodshed that it brought, there were times when he'd kill the victor if he did not fight hard enough.
"W-What about t-this one Mistress" The cultist asked his voice whimpering.
"Take him to the torture chambers" The prisoners' eyes widened as he was dragged towards the door. Zarinth took a seat again as James entered the room, he had gone through quite the change, his hair was gone replaced with scars and tattoos, he had gotten tattoos on most of his body, runes that Zarinth had taught the cultists who took a liking to Tzeentch, as well as the symbol of chaos, his clothes were now torn and ragged, stained red from his times in the torture chambers.
"Mistress, Delesi has contacted us, she said that they've got the colony leader" Zarinth smiled, she had been paying close attention to this Kevin, he intrigued her, he was one of the only ones to not have been tainted by the dreams she had weaved through the minds of the colony.
"They, sounds like the Asari has found a friend" Jalenk spoke seemingly jealous, it wasn't surprising the nights they'd spent together on their way to the planet were some of the most rowdy, but she was Slaaneshi it was to be expected.
"Indeed a sheepish girl by the name of Anna" Zarinth's mind went to the times she looked into that girls mind, Delesi was always on her mind, such lustful dreams, she wouldn't mind seeing just what the people of this dimension could do, she already had a gauge of James's abilities and he was…lacking.
"Keep an eye on them but do not engage them, I want to let them suffer" Zarinth giggled as she sat down again, this had been more fun then she had expected.
"Oh and mistress we found the remainder of those who have yet to be converted, they are going to try to reach our ship" Zarinth smiled.
"Set the animal lose"
Kevin's P.O.V
Kevin raised the arm that had his pistol in it and shot a charging cultist, they had run into a small group of four heading towards Kevin's, Kevin looked around spotting the same symbol he'd seen on the ship just as before he couldn't look at it too long as it hurt his eyes to look at.
"L-let's keep moving" Kevin spoke as Izzy picked him up again, the fight had been shorter than expected thanks to Delesi's biotics.
"We're nearly there, just a little more" Kevin yelled getting the others to follow him and Izzy, they worked their ways through a twisted maze of blood, gore and ruins, until they came across the town plaza, once a wondrous site lovely flower beds and plants, with a beautiful fountain in the centre, now in ruin bodies lay strewn all around the fountain had turned red, the sound of flies was loud and ringing as they crawled through and on the torn and rotten flesh, Kevin now understood what the doctor meant when he said that the cultists weren't human, the wounds that were made seemed almost as if someone had taken several buzz saws to the flesh all intertwining to tear just perfectly leaving the most horrendous wounds.
"Gods" Kevin looked upon the centre of the fountain with horror as an obelisk of flesh and blood seemingly jutted out of the water, the flesh was slowly rotting maggots and all other forms of disgusting were writhing their way through the twisted mangle of flesh.
Kevin covered his nose at the stench of the rotten bodies, they began to move through the site of the massacre, they moved through at a slow pace, as it seemed they could move no faster when in the sight of the obelisk of flesh, it was at this time that Kevin saw the alter nearby it bore the same symbols that he had seen before eight pointed stars and a manner of characters he couldn't decipher.
"W-what in the…"
"Magnificent isn't it" all turned to see Haymitch propped up against a nearby wall partly covered in shadow his voice sounded off, almost as if he was gurgling water…or blood.
"H-Haymitch; are you okay" The doctor went to approach him.
"Doc, No stay away from him" Izzy called out, the doctor stopped midway.
"Why, it's Haymitch we need to help him!" Haymitch began to laugh; catching the doctor by surprise, the sound of wet gurgling laughter filed the air, Izzy called out to the doctor again.
"Haymitch is dead!" The husk that was once Haymitch rose form its place where it was sitting and stepped out into the light, he was a visage of death, his flesh was torn and rotting so much so that his bones were beginning to show, the missing chunks of flesh let his organs drag along the ground leaving a trail of pus and blood behind the walking corpse, the laughing broke off into garbled and twisted speech.
"Yes…Yes, feels the glory of Necrosis and Rejoice, Nurgle loves you all!" at the mention of the name Nurgle there was a feeling of unease filling the air, the piles of the dead began to stir and twist and the once dead began to stand.
"Oh you've got to be fucking kidding me…Zombies!" Kevin yelled as Izzy pulled him towards the exit of the plaza, the others right behind them. They moved faster and faster to escape the faces of the dead and the sounds of the rotted, feted laughter.
"W-what the fuck….I saw those people die, they-they were dead!" The doctor spoke in a hysteric tone his sweat visible as it ran down his face.
"Doc calm down"
"C-C-calm down, Calm down how the in the fuck do you expect me to be calm, they were dead and now they are not, that shouldn't be possible there are only two things with the tech to do that the Geth or the Collectors, but it doesn't seem to be either!"
"Doc, we can worry about that later for now we need to…"
"Why do you flee? You cannot escape your fate, let the maggots crawl into you, take the lord of decay's loving embrace with open arms" the husk of Haymitch rounded the corner; it was faster than it looked.
"How the…Oh shit run!" They took off again running through the winding alleys and streets that were strewn with bodies.
"Keep running!" In a matter of minutes they reached Kevin's house however they arrived to a horrifying sight, a large group of people surrounded what seemed to be a person.
"Stop him!" Someone shouted from nearby as several more people ran towards the circle, what was heard next chilled Kevin to the bone, it was Castor.
"What is this…You lowly vermin wish to escape, you would dare deny the gifts of the Dark Gods, you all will suffer, None shall escape their glorious rebirth!" Kevin looked on seeing Castor standing in the centre covered in blood two axes in his hands, several people charged him each died.
"Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne, Let the Galaxy Burn!" Castor screamed in a berserker rage.
"C-Castor" Izzy spoke looking at her old friend slaughtering the life that they had all built.
"Izzy that's not Cas, come on were almost there!" Izzy nodded.
"Right!" they all began to run towards Kevin's house, the screams of the victims of Castor ringing through the air, as Castor screamed at the top of his lungs, maim, kill, burn he chanted this over and over again at the top of his lungs as he killed the people who charged him. They reached the door once they entered Kevin sealed the door.
"Quick start barricading all windows and any other way into the building" they set to work making sure that they would be safe…to a relative extent. It took them about an hour to secure the house. Kevin leaned against the wall with a sigh of relief they were safe, for now.
"Okay we've barricaded ourselves now what?" The doc asked clearly on edge.
"Now we wait…nothing else we can do" The doc seemed shocked by this.
"So that's it…we just wait here until they brake in or we die of starvation?"
"Delesi said that a Ship from her company will be making a pass in a few days, we wait for it to get here and contact them"
"And what makes you think they'll help us"
"Doc calm down"
"How can I be, you've seen what's out there….and speaking of Delesi where is she?" The Doc remarked noticing that she and Anna were missing.
Delesi's P.O.V
Delesi rested her head against Anna's.
"Will we have to do it?" Anna asked a little afraid.
"Don't worry my dear I'll keep you safe, unless…you want to"
"What about the mistress, won't she help?"
"She will be pleased with us both if we…"
"Delesi, Anna there you are" Both turned to see Izzy walk in.
"Oh Isabel, something the matter"
"The doc and Kev are worried about you, you kinda just disappeared"
"Ah yes sorry about that we were….are you okay Isabel?" Izzy seemed to jump at the question, she seemed a bit off.
"Oh, what, y-yes I'm fine, just a little shaken"
"Well that's to be expected…but something else seems…different" Izzy turned a little give a worried look.
Isabel's P.O.V
"Look at them they question your every move, masking their hate with concern" The apparition spoke whispering into her ear, it had appeared several days ago and had been talking to her since it had appeared to her, whispering thoughts of doubt and mistrust into her mind.
'Quiet they….they don't hate me' she screamed in her mind, resiting actually talking about it out loud.
"I'm fine really, just tired, I mean shit like this would take it out on anyone" She reassured Delesi and Anna.
"Look at them, look into their eyes they would slit your throat in your sleep, and you know why" Isabel bit her lip keeping her thoughts stashed away, she had told no one about the apparition, she was convinced that they would surely think her insane.
"Right…well you get some sleep okay, you of all people need it" Delesi reassured her placing her hand on her shoulder.
"Lies, lies and more lies, kill them now, you know you could do it, you still have that knife in your boot"
'Quiet, Shut up now!' she struggled to keep the voice quiet, she turned to leave.
"I'll tell the other two you're hear, okay?" Delesi and Anna both agreed as Izzy left. She walked the corridors of this place her home many a happy memory had been made in this place, and now it could well be her grave. Izzy walked into the living room to find the doc and Kevin arguing as they had been before.
"I'm telling you we need to….Izzy did you find them?"
"Yes they were in the spare room, they're safe, no need to worry" the doc seemed to be relieved that they were safe, but his expression of anger returned as he continued his argument with Kevin.
"Look at him, this Doctor such a fool; see how ungrateful he is, you've saved him more than once and this is his idea of repayment?" Izzy sighed as she went into the master bedroom and crawled into bed she huddled up into a ball and pulled the sheets over her head, she needed to sleep, she wondered if this was all a dream and that if she slept she wake up and nothing was wrong.
"Now we both know that is not going to happen" the apparition spoke lying next to her.
"Leave me alone, I'm trying to sleep"
"Izzy…do you know who I am…"
"A Hallucination, a dream, not real"
"Oh I am real, more so then you realise, I am you, your fear, your hate, your disgust, we are one Izzy, you can't deny what you are" Izzy blocked her ears ignoring the apparition and slowly drifting off to sleep, the sounds of shouting audible from the next room.
Zarith's P.O.V
Zarith stood at the head of the table the people seated at it loud and rowdy; she smiled a fine day for a feast held in honour of the birth of the first major chaos cult of this new universe to finalize their victory all they had to do was wait, she stood.
"Brothers, sisters, hear me now!" All paused to take notice of their mistress.
"In but a few days we have begun something that will echo through the folds of space and time, we have gathered all those who remain of this colony, the weak, the frail, the broken" she spoke motioning towards the large group chained up nearby.
"And we have gathered you, the strong, the wilful, the bloodthirsty" she motioned to the in habitants of the feasting grounds, which resulted in a massive cheer.
"With this victory, this triumph it begins, soon we shall spread this Taint to all corners of the Galaxy" They cheered again.
"By our bloodied hands, oceans will run red" More cheering.
"Millions will be slaughtered and enslaved!" The Cheering turned to chanting
"Planets will burn, and we will relish in the carnage, we shall have it all war, blood, bodies, food we shall want for nothing, all in the name of Chaos!" The chanting grew louder and louder before erupting into a cheer of 'For the Dark Gods' as the feast began, a debauched and depraved feast began, Zarith smiling at the spectacle, her positioning of this feasting ground was perfect for the few remaining to see, to bear witness to their fate.
Boom chapter end that's right this the last one for the Colony we go back to shep next time, Things here will be revisited later but I shall say no more, but anyways thanks for reading and all that nonsense, hope you liked it…if not well Meh.