-Chapter 24-
Damn it! Was the thought that
went to Mike's brain as he lay sprawled out on the floor, face down in his own
blood. Why do you seem so surprised....? The voice of his mutated
subconscious said to him in his darkness, She wanted to kill you; there
was no other desire within her but to kill you.
What? What
are you.... saying...?
Tell me,
and I already know the answer... but tell me anyway, why do you keep following
her...? Why do you insist on helping her? She never even really cared for you.
She already knew that you will become what you are. She knew everything....
The only
thing or even person I can trust is you. What do we do know?
Go after
her, and disembowel her, make her suffer!
But...
What?
I don't....
think its right....
You
shouldn't care. We're not even human anymore....
He snapped
open his eyes and lifted himself off of the ground. He heard an inhuman growl
escape from his throat, a growl of anguish of him being aware of what he was
becoming now and of anger towards Kat and her involvement of his death. If he
had never met her, he would still be human.... he would still be a student,
training his own abilities so that he can have a career based on his talent as
an artist.
But no, she
had to come to Alucemet, she had to approach him, she had to know that
he would die soon.
He looked up
and glared angrily at the corpse of the Tyrant he had killed, then the
elevator, which he knew that she had taken down further into this human
made death trap. He heard the agonized and mindless moans of the lower creatures,
the zombies, and shuddered to think that he had once been one of them.
When he glared
at the elevator, his thoughts started to piece together slowly like a thousand piece
puzzle and he suddenly remembered pieces of his memory that he had been missing
since his reawakening, everything that Kat had done to him. His encounter with
the black vehicle in front of the school was her doing, and because of that
violent shock of death was what has triggered his unusual growth, his grotesque
mutation was all her fault as well.
He almost had
his hands on her, almost tore her to pieces; but she slipped away from him once
again because his humanity, though miniscule, had overcome him with the desire
to be with her. Now, as he thought about her, he felt that cold and dark rage
forming within his body again. He darted up to his feet and charged the
elevator doors.
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"Umbrella
Headquarters, please come in!" Kat said into her pocket radio, "This
is Kat, answer me!" She waited for a reply, "Damnit, headquarters!
Respond!"
She heard
heavy static come from her radio, then a voice. "Kat..... th...... brella.....
what.... atus....?"
"Damn piece
of crap.... My status is that I have gained access to the lower labs in the Trading
lab, encountered the ENWC- Chimera numerous times, and it shows no signs
on dying. It has already eliminated the whole student population of the high
school, a Latecomer Police Department S.T.A.R.S. member and the Mr. X
Tyrant. It seems to grow based on its eating habits. Humans have already become
zombies. That is all, I have been able to file the reports on the monster, but
I have not been able to gather a sample yet. I plan on recovering a sample when
I find a way to kill it. Over and out." she sighed, and eyed the handgun
in her hand. "Mike..... Please, wait for me...."
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Lured by the
overwhelming smell of her which now flared through his nostrils, he ripped open
the door to the elevator and peered down the elevator shaft, spotting the small
elevator cabin slowly descending down towards the bottom. He let out an inhuman
screech that echoed through the shaft and lunged down to the cabin.
His clawed feet made contact with the rigid metal of the box containing his intended kill and ripped slightly into the surface. His vision became an even more fiery crimson as his body unleashed a mutated adrenaline into his system, filling him with cold animalistic fury. He thrust his right claw into the roof of the box and he reached for her, he felt a slight nudge on his hand, then a kick.