I own nothing, except for the 9 characters I made and the ending shown here. Yes, I'm afraid this is the end of the story, but I'll try to make it as lengthy as I can. In the meantime, I will be working on a sequel. If there are any characters that were in this story that you want to see in the sequel, you can say who they are in a review. After this there will be 2 alternate endings. These are the characters that will definitely be in the sequel:
Clover
Rob
Verakka
Enjoy!
Chapter 11
The Aftermath, 10 Years Later
Dan coughed and waved his hand to clear the smoke that had sprung from the room. He entered, rifle at the ready, and surveyed the room before talking out his radio. "This is Officer Dan. Apartment 1034, still standing. No survivors in the entire building. Not even a single body!" he waited, hearing nothing but static, and then he heard Admiral Stark's voice. "Roger that, Officer Dan, return to base for further reconaissance." "Sir, if I may ask a question, why are we doing this if the Hammerdown protocol really was used? Don't you think that would have been impossible to survive?" "We think so, Dan, but that's why we're checking. Ten years ago we didn't think that monsters who stood 300 feet tall existed, either, but then again something that large appeared and was the reason that the Hammerdown took effect! If there are any survivors out there, we need to question them to see what happened!"
"But Admiral, sir, can't we just ask some of the army soldiers who were alive while it happened?" Dan asked, strapping his gun to his waist and walking out of the room, then starting the long trek down the stairs. When the static had stopped, it took the Admiral a long time to answer. "Those who suffered the most remember most clearly. Even for an event like that, ten years is a long time. Who knows what happened?" Dan sighed and then stopped as he heard a critching sound. He looked up and saw a mangled corpse of one of the parasites that had assaulted the city sticking to the ceiling. He shuddered and continued towards the critching noise, gun at the ready. He saw a flurry of movement around the corner and ran after the thing to see it was a parasite the size of a small horse. He yelled and fired his gun, and the parasite screeched before breaking through the metal door leading outside.
He ran out and saw it was already a quarter-mile away from him. "Damn, this thing moves fast!" he muttered. He raced past all of the broken streets, vaulting over the many buildings that had collapsed by using cars or still-standing lamp posts as springboards. He fired a round of shots at the distant creature, the sounds echoing all around the deserted city. Dan shuddered as he thought of all of the people who had died without warning, and suddenly the Admiral's voice came from his radio. "Dan, what the hell are you doing, soldier?! I can hear you firing bullets for miles!" "Sir, I've found a parasite! It's still living, sir! I think now I know why there have been no corpses; this thing must've eaten them to keep itself alive!"
"Don't shoot at it, you idiot, follow it! If it's going somewhere then it's doing it for a reason! I want to know if there are more of those animals out there!" the Admiral bellowed. Dan turned his radio off, fuming, and raced after the parasite. If his memory served him correctly, it was heading for a 16-way intersection near Central Park. He rounded a corner and his jaw dropped open. His rifle clattered to the ground and he sank to his knees. "Sweet Mother of God..."he whispered weakly.
In the middle of the intersection, right next to a collapsed building, was the body of a creature larger than any he'd seen before. The parasite had scuttled up the back of the creature and settled down next to an object next to the end of the tail. Dan slowly stepped forward for a closer look, and saw the body of a 17-year-old boy. But that wasn't the most amazing part. He leaned against the thing and felt slight shudders in it. The creature was still alive! He jumped back from it, reaching for his rifle and remembering that he'd dropped it. "Shit!" he growled, then he looked back to the boy. He couldn't believe his eyes.
The boy next to the parasite...was breathing.
