Author's Note:
Hi! I hope everyone had an awesome New Years! I've recently gone back to school so I am most likely going to try to either update on Fridays or on the weekends, just a little heads up to those loyal readers!
As always I want to thank everyone who was gracious enough to leave a review and if you have any questions at the end of a chapter I will gladly answer them either by PM or at the beginning of the next chapter. Also I have some skills in drawing and have been doing a few sketches recently of either scenes from this story or just random pictures, I'll usually post them as my Icon since Deviantart doesn't work on my computer sadly. Also I made changed it from mystery to horror if that gives anything away ;)
Ok I think I bored you enough by now so enjoy!
"Ultimate, are you ready?" his hazel eyes lock onto the small rodent's sharp golden one's urging the young creature to answer, "Yes," he replies his voice calm despite his wagging tail which can't hide his excitement.
The man grins at his creation's eager attitude towards the unknown activity, just a few weeks old and yet so smart, so well coordinated, "Do you remember one of the reasons why you were made?" the man asks gently as he leans down to the rodent's eye level.
He swiftly nods causing the red tag pinned in his left ear to flop against the side of his temple, "At first you just wanted to see if it was possible but word of a strong force lurking in an undersea volcano got you working harder, trying to actually create something like me, in the end it worked, here I am!" the little chipmunk explains jumping happily at the last part while giggling at his story.
"Good, but you do know that you can't stop the force unless we know you're capable of fighting right?" he questions the chipmunk who stops giggling proudly to stare up at him with a small frown, "I have to do what?" he asks obviously clueless as to what fighting was.
"Fighting or killing," the man empathizes carefully as he straightens up to press a large hand flush against a clear panel, a few seconds later a beep comes from the device and the white colored door slides open, "Come on I'll show you," the man ushers letting the rodent scamper inside the large white room first.
"Wow!" he gasps hopping to his hind paws mid-stride to get a better view of the enormous room, the floor is covered in thick soft white foam boards as is the ceiling and walls, a few targets hang from the ceiling suspended by steel wired cables at least two feet thick, another wire comes from the floor keeping a pacing lion at bay, it's yellow eyes train on the two new creatures in its domain, suddenly it releases a ferrous roar showing off four huge incisors and a mouth packed with smaller yellow teeth and a large rough pink tongue.
The chipmunk winces and takes a timid step back looking up at the man worriedly, "Don't worry Ultimate, he can't get you," he assures the frightened animal.
"It's not that," the rodent mumbles more to himself then the man, what did the lion mean by killers and monsters? Or that one word, bloodlust? Shrugging the lion's weird words off he eagerly looks up at the man, "What am I going to do?" he asks.
He hesitates trying to decide if he should start the chipmunk out on the targets like the others said, or just have him go right for killing the lion?
"Kill the lion,"
She jerks awake at the sudden pain in her back, turning over she narrowly escapes the claws lashing out towards her nose, "Alvin?" her wide electric blue eyes lock in on the squirming chipmunk laying beside her in the hotel bed.
"Alvin," she echoes just as his claws scrape over the skin on her arm, she yelps in pain jerking her sleeping sisters awake behind her.
"What's wrong?" Jeanette asks her voice thick and groggy as she blindly reaches out for her glasses which Eleanor supply while yawning, Brittany sits up and dodges another wild swipe from the red clad chipmunk.
Theodore and Simon stir awake at the wild movements, "Alvin?" Theodore questions worriedly looking down at him, suddenly Alvin jerks upward gasping and coughing for air.
Brittany stares in shock at his trembling form before cautiously reaching out to lightly touch his shaking shoulder, "Just a dream," he whispers to himself as his golden eyes meet hers.
"What's going on?" Dave stumbles out of the king sized bed and flicks on the lights making everyone flinch, Claire slowly sits up from the other bed, Cream and Copper don't stir in their makeshift blanket nest under the table.
Alvin resists the urge to hiss and dive under the covers to protect his sensitive eyes; instead he chuckles and stands brushing Brittany's paw from his shoulder. "Nothing, just a dream, I think I'll go get some fresh air," he grins innocently, before Dave could respond he was already climbing through the hole in the window and vanishing into the night.
Dave stares after the russet furred chipmunk worriedly, "I'll talk to him," everyone stares in shock as Brittany heads for the hole, she climbs through it with more difficulty but more grace then a human before also being swallowed by the darkness.
"No don't let the spider monkeys in! No! They're space squids in disguise!" Copper screams in his sleep making everyone jump, Cream smacks the chipmunk in her sleep silencing his random screams.
"I guess I'm going back to bed," Claire sighs obviously not in the mood to really go to deep into the little issue at hand, the others mumble agreements and settle back into their beds to hopefully slip back into a peaceful sleep.
Brittany massages her bare arms as her small teeth lightly chatter together, why is it so cold? She cries inside her mind as her gaze travels over the wide open walkway, they're in one of those hotels that have rooms that lead to the outside, not fancy warm hallways, but cold dark outdoors.
Squinting her electric blue eyes in frustration the chipette's ears twitch side to side trying to find any small sound that could indicate where her stubborn confusing counterpart could be, " Ever heard the saying that if you want to find something you'll end up never finding it, but when you're not searching it turns up?" her whole body bristles in fright at the voice before she whirls around seething.
Alvin's golden eyes glow brightly in the dark as he stares at her from a few feet away, Brittany can barely see his outline, but she can still make out that he's leaning against the railing of the walkway, " Ever heard that you shouldn't walk up on someone in the dark or they'll murder you!" she yells furious.
He chuckles without humor and moves forward, Brittany timidly steps back her instincts warning her, if something can move without making a single sound then it's not human, but she already knows he isn't!
Something flashes through the liquid gold of his irises but it vanishes before she can tell what it is, he's suddenly right up on her, towering over her a good ten to twenty inches.
His sharp eyes catch the small twitch of her body as she responds to his close presence; curiously he reaches out with a claw to lightly touch the corner of her small pink lips before carefully trailing the tip of his claw down to her throat.
Brittany tries to keep her body from shaking at the feel of his deadly claw against the soft unprotected flesh of her neck, "What?" she manages to hiss between her teeth trying to force some anger into her frightened eyes.
Alvin's eyes suddenly narrow and his paw closes fast around her neck, Brittany's paws fly up at grasp at his her eyes widening as a straggled yelp escapes her lips, "A-lvin!" she cries as his paw begins to tighten slowly lowering her air intake.
"Why are you scared?" tears burn at the back of her eyes, he growls and lifts her off her paws bringing her to his eye level while also cutting off more of her oxygen.
Her paws fumble desperately now in vain as the tears escape spilling out and rushing in silent streams down her cheeks, he feels the warmth of her fear trickle over his fingers but he ignores it, "Tell me," his voice rumbles low and vicious in his throat.
"Be-because, you're s-scared," she chokes out grasping his wrist in her paws, "W-when yo-you're scared, I-I get s-," his paw falls from her throat just as his lips crash down on hers breathing life giving oxygen back into her aching lungs.
Alvin's mentally breaking down, that's why he began to choke her, I told you guys there was going to be twists! That's also one of the reason's I changed the genre to horror.
R&R!
