ZOIDS: Thunderstruck Dawn: Ep.3 An Evil Reborn
Zayre hummed amiably to herself in the cockpit of her Diloforce, while Demon strode through the desert, Corona following closely behind with her wings outstretched. To the West, a faint pink glow was all that remained of the setting sun as it hid behind a row of stony mountains, and already stars were beginning to twinkle in a sky of rich indigo. Zayre gazed blissfully at the beauty of nature, and remarked the landscape.
"Oh Demon, Corona, the desert is so beautiful at night. It feels as though I'm caught in a dream, but it's all too real to be so."
Demon's eyes flashed in recognition as he too averted his stare to the dimming horizon, and Corona growled quietly. It was only a few more moments until the desert entered the realm of night, and was engulfed in darkness. The moon was nowhere to be seen, but the stars were so numerous that one would not need the silver radiance of the moon to light their path.
That night, the stars were in the same positions as they were on the night of the Death Saurer's awakening, four-hundred years ago.
Corona tilted her head toward a low hill fringed on the horizon. A low voice echoed in her mind like a whisper. Something was familiar about that hill. Something about it required closer inspection.
Demon watched through slitted red eyes as the low hill came closer. Like Corona, he too could sense an aura of evil radiating from it. Feeling compelled, the zoid hissed loudly, breaking the dead silence of the night- time desert. Still hissing repeatedly, Demon shot toward the hill at full speed, while Corona flew above, her silver wings spread against the star- strewn sky. Zayre glanced uncertainly down at the head of her zoid, then up at Corona. She was unsure of what they were up to, but when she laid her eyes on the ominous hill, she understood that something evil was brewing there, and withheld her questions.
They arrived. Zayre leapt out of her cockpit and stared grimly about. The hill overlooked a small valley, where decrepit stone buildings lay in charred pieces on the ground. Moss covered the stone, turning them a dark green, as time ate away and crumbled the vast buildings. They had arrived at a set of ancient ruins. Corona returned to the ground and folded her wings, while Demon scrutinized some faint markings that shone in the starlight. Zayre, still in grim silence, bent down to examine the ancient markings that covered the ground also, while Demon stood over her like a guardian. Suddenly, a loud creaking noise brought the trio to their senses as a half-buried building shifted weight in the soft sand, revealing a hidden tunnel. There was enough room for one human to enter, and one organoid. Growling, Demon lay back on his haunches, and watched as his two partners stepped into the darkness.
Zayre lit a match and stared around wide-eyed as she was led by her golden organoid. Corona, impatient to find the source of the evil, trotted at a brisk pace, her silver eyes flashing menacingly. The tunnel traveled deep beneath the earth, and it seemed like hours before either Corona or Zayre could come across anything of interest. What they did come across, however, they burned in their memory for the rest of their lives.
Before the pair stood a colossal stasis pod. It was gigantic. Mammoth. Such words did not even come close to describing its enormity. It was at least, Zayre presumed, six-hundred feet across, and its height she could only guess, since it extended up into the darkness. But whatever had been in it was gone now, much to Zayre's relief, as a large opening in the glass and a hollow interior signified the emptiness of the capsule. Ancient carvings were etched into the blue stone walls of the gigantic cavern, and outlandish machines lay abandoned at choice points. Wires trailed across the floor in mismatched order, yet they all ended up at the base of the capsule. At one time, Zayre imagined, they must have been used to feed the capsuled creature energy.
Corona, however, took little interest in what was already gone. All that mattered to her was what still remained. Dashing out of the cavern, the dragon organoid looked uncertainly about, while Zayre trailed behind, still occasionally glancing back at the cavern that housed the huge stasis pod. The match flickered, illuminating the strange writings on the tunnel walls briefly as Zayre past. She had failed to notice a hieroglyphic of a red and black dinosaur zoid as she darted forward, her heart beating like a drum.
Corona halted abruptly in front of a pewter stone brick that was embedded in the wall. She gazed back at Zayre, who met that gaze and understood immediately what she was expected to do. Reaching forward, Zayre tapped the brick hesitantly, and waited anxiously several moments as the wall swung open, revealing a hidden chamber.
Zayre, after recovering from her shock, looked into the dark, shadowy room, while Corona growled, urging her friend to be cautious. The female pilot nodded and stepped meticulously into the room, while the light from her match threw shadows across the wall. In front of her, was, to no surprise, another stasis pod. However, this one was much smaller than the previous monstrosity that the maiden had encountered back in the cavern; in fact, it seemed similar in size to the very structure she had found Corona encapsulated in. Instead though, no light shone from within it; the pod was shady and dim. Looking worriedly back at her organoid, Zayre appealed for help as Corona nodded, encouraging he to open to the pod and reveal what lived inside. With bated breath, Zayre groped around the base of the capsule, searching for some sort of switch to open it. Her fingers ran over a metal lever, which the blonde promptly pulled.
For several moments nothing occurred. Zayre stood back and watched, positive that the pod would open at any point of time. Suddenly, Zayre heard a low grumbling. She turned to face Corona and found the organoid snarling. The creature was growling hostilely, eyes flashing, silver fangs bared.
"Woah, woah, Corona what's wrong?" But the organoid continued to snarl and snap, completely oblivious to her master's words. Zayre followed her organoid's line of vision and noticed that Corona was growling at the capsule, which was beginning to glow with an unearthly blue light. She watched in horror as the pod began to open slowly, the glass shattered and a milky liquid spread across the earthen floor. Cupping a hand over her mouth, Zayre's eyes widened as a beast arose from the floor like a resurrected monster. It seemed to be the zombie of an organoid, that is, if it even was an organoid in the first place; it's figure was so horrifically mangled that it was difficult to tell. The creature turned its head sluggishly toward Zayre, its white eyes rolling crazily. Zayre tried to scream, but no sound came out of her mouth.
The creature's skin was a burnt black, and was fringed with crimson rust, making it seem as if the monster was bleeding. Its metal limbs were deteriorating, rotting and dragging across the ground as the organoid (?) limped toward Zayre. Wires stuck out of a wound in the zombie's neck, and pulsed with a feeble electricity as the creature used its last strength to reach the girl before it. Zayre, too terrified to move, watched as the black organoid zombie spread its cracked wings and rattled off a bone- chilling cry. Corona was snarling with a dangerous demeanor by now, her jaws clashed together like a spring-loaded steel trap as the organoid approached.
Suddenly, the black monster opened it chest compartment, revealing a hollow interior within. Wires sprang out and coiled like snakes around Zayre's body, restraining her instantly. The rusted creature hissed and began to withdraw her into its chest compartment. But it never made it.
Corona had lost her patience. Boosting forward, the golden dragon roared and began to beat the hell-ridden organoid unmercifully with her broad tail. Smacking the zombie in the face, Corona laid it in into the ground and began to attack viciously with her talons, ripping apart its dying armor and raking out its enduring wires. In seconds the monster was well past dead, its eyes flickering as it fell into an eternal slumber. Corona nodded satisfactorly and roared triumphantly. Zayre however, was not looking at the corpse of the creature. She was staring into the strange light that shone from within its still-open chest compartment. She watched in horror as a pair of strange energies erupted from the creature's core, and hovered just above Corona's head.
"Corona, look out!"
Corona cried in dismay as one of the energy beams took the form of a purple monster that resembled an organoid. The energy hissed, its voice echoing as though it were from another dimension, and it was then that Zayre recognized the alienic form as a spirit. The ghost of an organoid. Crying out eerily, the spirit screeched and dissolved once again into a purple ray of light. Corona shrieked in anguish as the energy spiraled downward and into her chest compartment. With one final cry, the golden organoid crumpled to the ground, paralyzed as the purple light enveloped her body.
"Nooo!!!!!!! CORONA!!!!!"
"Don't worry. Corona will be fine once she's gone through her transformation."
Zayre whirled around to find herself facing a wicked-looking spirit. In front of her stood the second energy that had been expelled from the zombie's core; it took the form of a girl almost identical to her. The girl glowed with a pale blue light and was semi-transparent. She too, Zayre realized, must have been a ghost. The girl smiled malevolently and flipped her blonde hair casually as Zayre stammered a response.
"W-who are you? And what have you done with Corona?"
"Why, I, am your worst nightmare. And your body.. Is now mine."
Zayre gasped in pain as the girl reached out with clawed fingers, touching the maiden's heart. Instantly, Zayre felt her body leaving her, and her mind being pulled into some sort vortex. Crumpling to the ground, her vision was engulfed in darkness as the merciless ghost smirked down at her.
Outside, a cloaked figure stood framed against the starlight. Beside him stood a large green organoid.
"Well, well, it seems that Windcutter, too, has returned. This should make things interesting."
The green organoid growled thunderously in approval and watched with coal black eyes as his master's greatest rival returned to the living.
To be continued..
Disclaimer: I don't own zoids. I do own Zayre, Corona, Zoforlon, Quake, Nightmare, and Demon, however.
A/N: What do you think? Worth the wait, huh? This story's getting good, I believe. ^_^ Please review and tell me what you think of the storyline so far? Okay?
Zayre hummed amiably to herself in the cockpit of her Diloforce, while Demon strode through the desert, Corona following closely behind with her wings outstretched. To the West, a faint pink glow was all that remained of the setting sun as it hid behind a row of stony mountains, and already stars were beginning to twinkle in a sky of rich indigo. Zayre gazed blissfully at the beauty of nature, and remarked the landscape.
"Oh Demon, Corona, the desert is so beautiful at night. It feels as though I'm caught in a dream, but it's all too real to be so."
Demon's eyes flashed in recognition as he too averted his stare to the dimming horizon, and Corona growled quietly. It was only a few more moments until the desert entered the realm of night, and was engulfed in darkness. The moon was nowhere to be seen, but the stars were so numerous that one would not need the silver radiance of the moon to light their path.
That night, the stars were in the same positions as they were on the night of the Death Saurer's awakening, four-hundred years ago.
Corona tilted her head toward a low hill fringed on the horizon. A low voice echoed in her mind like a whisper. Something was familiar about that hill. Something about it required closer inspection.
Demon watched through slitted red eyes as the low hill came closer. Like Corona, he too could sense an aura of evil radiating from it. Feeling compelled, the zoid hissed loudly, breaking the dead silence of the night- time desert. Still hissing repeatedly, Demon shot toward the hill at full speed, while Corona flew above, her silver wings spread against the star- strewn sky. Zayre glanced uncertainly down at the head of her zoid, then up at Corona. She was unsure of what they were up to, but when she laid her eyes on the ominous hill, she understood that something evil was brewing there, and withheld her questions.
They arrived. Zayre leapt out of her cockpit and stared grimly about. The hill overlooked a small valley, where decrepit stone buildings lay in charred pieces on the ground. Moss covered the stone, turning them a dark green, as time ate away and crumbled the vast buildings. They had arrived at a set of ancient ruins. Corona returned to the ground and folded her wings, while Demon scrutinized some faint markings that shone in the starlight. Zayre, still in grim silence, bent down to examine the ancient markings that covered the ground also, while Demon stood over her like a guardian. Suddenly, a loud creaking noise brought the trio to their senses as a half-buried building shifted weight in the soft sand, revealing a hidden tunnel. There was enough room for one human to enter, and one organoid. Growling, Demon lay back on his haunches, and watched as his two partners stepped into the darkness.
Zayre lit a match and stared around wide-eyed as she was led by her golden organoid. Corona, impatient to find the source of the evil, trotted at a brisk pace, her silver eyes flashing menacingly. The tunnel traveled deep beneath the earth, and it seemed like hours before either Corona or Zayre could come across anything of interest. What they did come across, however, they burned in their memory for the rest of their lives.
Before the pair stood a colossal stasis pod. It was gigantic. Mammoth. Such words did not even come close to describing its enormity. It was at least, Zayre presumed, six-hundred feet across, and its height she could only guess, since it extended up into the darkness. But whatever had been in it was gone now, much to Zayre's relief, as a large opening in the glass and a hollow interior signified the emptiness of the capsule. Ancient carvings were etched into the blue stone walls of the gigantic cavern, and outlandish machines lay abandoned at choice points. Wires trailed across the floor in mismatched order, yet they all ended up at the base of the capsule. At one time, Zayre imagined, they must have been used to feed the capsuled creature energy.
Corona, however, took little interest in what was already gone. All that mattered to her was what still remained. Dashing out of the cavern, the dragon organoid looked uncertainly about, while Zayre trailed behind, still occasionally glancing back at the cavern that housed the huge stasis pod. The match flickered, illuminating the strange writings on the tunnel walls briefly as Zayre past. She had failed to notice a hieroglyphic of a red and black dinosaur zoid as she darted forward, her heart beating like a drum.
Corona halted abruptly in front of a pewter stone brick that was embedded in the wall. She gazed back at Zayre, who met that gaze and understood immediately what she was expected to do. Reaching forward, Zayre tapped the brick hesitantly, and waited anxiously several moments as the wall swung open, revealing a hidden chamber.
Zayre, after recovering from her shock, looked into the dark, shadowy room, while Corona growled, urging her friend to be cautious. The female pilot nodded and stepped meticulously into the room, while the light from her match threw shadows across the wall. In front of her, was, to no surprise, another stasis pod. However, this one was much smaller than the previous monstrosity that the maiden had encountered back in the cavern; in fact, it seemed similar in size to the very structure she had found Corona encapsulated in. Instead though, no light shone from within it; the pod was shady and dim. Looking worriedly back at her organoid, Zayre appealed for help as Corona nodded, encouraging he to open to the pod and reveal what lived inside. With bated breath, Zayre groped around the base of the capsule, searching for some sort of switch to open it. Her fingers ran over a metal lever, which the blonde promptly pulled.
For several moments nothing occurred. Zayre stood back and watched, positive that the pod would open at any point of time. Suddenly, Zayre heard a low grumbling. She turned to face Corona and found the organoid snarling. The creature was growling hostilely, eyes flashing, silver fangs bared.
"Woah, woah, Corona what's wrong?" But the organoid continued to snarl and snap, completely oblivious to her master's words. Zayre followed her organoid's line of vision and noticed that Corona was growling at the capsule, which was beginning to glow with an unearthly blue light. She watched in horror as the pod began to open slowly, the glass shattered and a milky liquid spread across the earthen floor. Cupping a hand over her mouth, Zayre's eyes widened as a beast arose from the floor like a resurrected monster. It seemed to be the zombie of an organoid, that is, if it even was an organoid in the first place; it's figure was so horrifically mangled that it was difficult to tell. The creature turned its head sluggishly toward Zayre, its white eyes rolling crazily. Zayre tried to scream, but no sound came out of her mouth.
The creature's skin was a burnt black, and was fringed with crimson rust, making it seem as if the monster was bleeding. Its metal limbs were deteriorating, rotting and dragging across the ground as the organoid (?) limped toward Zayre. Wires stuck out of a wound in the zombie's neck, and pulsed with a feeble electricity as the creature used its last strength to reach the girl before it. Zayre, too terrified to move, watched as the black organoid zombie spread its cracked wings and rattled off a bone- chilling cry. Corona was snarling with a dangerous demeanor by now, her jaws clashed together like a spring-loaded steel trap as the organoid approached.
Suddenly, the black monster opened it chest compartment, revealing a hollow interior within. Wires sprang out and coiled like snakes around Zayre's body, restraining her instantly. The rusted creature hissed and began to withdraw her into its chest compartment. But it never made it.
Corona had lost her patience. Boosting forward, the golden dragon roared and began to beat the hell-ridden organoid unmercifully with her broad tail. Smacking the zombie in the face, Corona laid it in into the ground and began to attack viciously with her talons, ripping apart its dying armor and raking out its enduring wires. In seconds the monster was well past dead, its eyes flickering as it fell into an eternal slumber. Corona nodded satisfactorly and roared triumphantly. Zayre however, was not looking at the corpse of the creature. She was staring into the strange light that shone from within its still-open chest compartment. She watched in horror as a pair of strange energies erupted from the creature's core, and hovered just above Corona's head.
"Corona, look out!"
Corona cried in dismay as one of the energy beams took the form of a purple monster that resembled an organoid. The energy hissed, its voice echoing as though it were from another dimension, and it was then that Zayre recognized the alienic form as a spirit. The ghost of an organoid. Crying out eerily, the spirit screeched and dissolved once again into a purple ray of light. Corona shrieked in anguish as the energy spiraled downward and into her chest compartment. With one final cry, the golden organoid crumpled to the ground, paralyzed as the purple light enveloped her body.
"Nooo!!!!!!! CORONA!!!!!"
"Don't worry. Corona will be fine once she's gone through her transformation."
Zayre whirled around to find herself facing a wicked-looking spirit. In front of her stood the second energy that had been expelled from the zombie's core; it took the form of a girl almost identical to her. The girl glowed with a pale blue light and was semi-transparent. She too, Zayre realized, must have been a ghost. The girl smiled malevolently and flipped her blonde hair casually as Zayre stammered a response.
"W-who are you? And what have you done with Corona?"
"Why, I, am your worst nightmare. And your body.. Is now mine."
Zayre gasped in pain as the girl reached out with clawed fingers, touching the maiden's heart. Instantly, Zayre felt her body leaving her, and her mind being pulled into some sort vortex. Crumpling to the ground, her vision was engulfed in darkness as the merciless ghost smirked down at her.
Outside, a cloaked figure stood framed against the starlight. Beside him stood a large green organoid.
"Well, well, it seems that Windcutter, too, has returned. This should make things interesting."
The green organoid growled thunderously in approval and watched with coal black eyes as his master's greatest rival returned to the living.
To be continued..
Disclaimer: I don't own zoids. I do own Zayre, Corona, Zoforlon, Quake, Nightmare, and Demon, however.
A/N: What do you think? Worth the wait, huh? This story's getting good, I believe. ^_^ Please review and tell me what you think of the storyline so far? Okay?
