TRAPPED
PART 2
Food was becoming scarce and both man and woman didn't know how they would survive. They had found a small store of food amongst the rubble of the hospital, where they had camped, but now there was not much left.
"Look, we've really got to do something. We can't just sit here and slowly starve to death!" The guy was more distressed than the girl, owing to the fact that he could easily have eaten the whole stash they'd found in one sitting.
"Go where? Take a look around you! Unless it somehow escaped your notice the whole planet is destroyed! There ISN'T any food left!"
"Whatever. I'm going. You can come if you want, but I'm that hungry I just might eat you.... either that or eat myself." This last was muttered under his breath, but by her horrified look he could tell she'd heard. He shrugged when she didn't budge and began his long trek. The girl just sat and cried, believing herself dead.
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~*sigh* I wish she'd decided to come. It's pretty lonely being the only thing alive for miles. And really I haven't found any food yet either. Well, apart from those five deer yesterday, but like that was enough to fill me up.....~ Lost in self pity it took a while for the sounds to register. At first they were soft, merely suggestions of sound, but quickly they escalated to a deafening roar - an unmistakable deafening roar.
Gunfire.
~How do I know all these things? Like how did I know that I smelt blood that time? How did I know How to kill those deer? Well OK, I could have just grabbed them and started eating while they were still alive, hell I probably would have if they hadn't started to run....oh well, I guess I really should move, unless of course I want to get killed...~ And that's precisely what he did. Pity it was straight into a trap set up by the invading force, but hey, at least he didn't bare his neck for them.....sorta.... Well anyway the next instant he found that he'd lost control of all limbs, mainly due to the fact that they were encased in a sticky spider web-like material that contained some chemical or other that made everything it touched go numb.
"Well this is great. Just wonderful," he muttered, wondering what he'd done to deserve it.
"It shpeaksh," whispered a husky voice from behind the prisoner. "What ish it?"
"I do not know. The mashter musht sheee thish. Perhapsh," the creature's voice caught with supressed laughter, "perhapsh it wash what built thoshe thingsh we deshtoyed. Do you remember? Thoshe ugly sshellsh that many like thish one lived in." The trapped man could not see his assailants before because they stood behind him. Now how could see nothing because they had sent him unconscious with the slightest tap on the head with a clawed leg.
"Mashter, what ish it?" Three gigantic insects surrounded a limp form hanging by a web from the roof of what appeared to be a cocoon but was in fact a space ship. All three prodded their prisoner as though they would be able to ascertain what it was by poking it to death.
"It ish not what we thought. It looksh like one of thoshe, that evil race we deshtroyed, but it ish not. Perhapsh we sshould let it wake and ashk it, hmm?" Suddenly, at the prospect of a little torture, all three menacing aliens became a million times more horrendous and sadistic.
Pain racked his body, but still the answers would not come. A scream made of pure horrifying anguish tore itself from his ravaged throat, resounding through miles upon miles of desolated wasteland.
It was that burst of primeval torment that drew her to the ship, otherwise she never would have gone. It had landed near her hideout yesterday and spewed forth giant insects that looked like a mutilated cross between an ant and a spider, and all had carried massive collections of arsenal, most of which looked like it could quite happily have blown a hole right through the earth. Personally she thought that was their main objective, considering the fact that nothing much was left alive after the initial attack. It was not surprising that she hadn't ventured out from her hidey-hole since their arrival.
Creeping to the edge of the gangplank she stared in, but could see nothing. ~Damn!!! I'll have to go inside. Bugger, I really don't want to end up like whatever's been caught by those creeps. *shrugs* I don't have much else to do either, so at least this way I'll die with style. That or with a massive hole in my head.~ So slowly, inch by tiny inch, she crawled deep into the bowels of that horrendous ship, but the sight that greeted her eyes at the end of her journey was so terrible she blacked out.
Blood was everywhere, splattered across walls and ceiling, and pooled in thick red puddles on the floor. She hadn't known one body could contain so much blood, and that the victim of these atrocities was still alive was utterly amazing. Her heart skipped a beat as she recognised the purple hair and well sculpted body of that man she knew yet did not know. Without knowing why it seemed that if he died then all light and love died with him. Disregarding the fact that she would most certainly be caught she raced across the room and cradled his limp head in her lap. "Please, please, you can't die. You cant!" Crying profusely the girl wiped the blood from his face and bent over him, pressing full red lips against cold lifeless ones. He stirred once, then went still. Crying all the harder she cared not that now she was surrounded by those horrible insects, for she felt as though all she had ever cared about was now lost forever.
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