The Winds of Change Ch4

From: "shiningsun_820"
Date: Tue Jan 21, 2003 8:01 am
Subject: The blue fog

As i sat there outside my house, staring into the blue fog, i began to hear a noise. It sounded as though it was a cat, or maybe a pansy ass dog. Just then i noticed a small catlike creature emerging from the mist, it looked like a cat, but it hat spines on it's back.

"Damn governments, experementing on poor defenseless...."

I had hardly finished the sentence when i realised it was speeding towards me hissing, it jumped at me it's claws ready to slash my face. I grabbed it and booted it into the side of my house.

"Whats your damage little kitty"? i asked it puzzled.

"My only damage will be to you mortal".

I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!! a talking cat threatening to kill me. I pulled my sword from my back and stood ready.

And eerie glow came over the kitty and before i knew it it was the size of a large tiger. I thought to myself "Damn this government it Really needs to stop fucking up".

It bolted towards me, not quite as fast as before but damn quick none the less. It swiped at me with it's huge claws that were maybe 4 inches long, i attempted to dodge but it caught my arm with one of it's claws.

"You bastard". I yelled at it as i slashed at it's leg with my sword.

"Whomp" with a mighty blow i sent it's leg off, it howled in pain.

"Prepare to die". It yelled.

Haveing severed it's leg i would have hoped it would have slowed, Not by a longshot, if anything it got faster out of anger. It again ran at me but it this time tried to bite me, i just managed to jump to the side.

"This is stupid, It's a cat". I murmered to myself reaching for my dual pistols. I let loose with a flurry of 10 shots into it. "Slam" the cat fell to the ground, but as the cat died it said the strangest thing.

"Lord Deus.....Will rise again, and your world will be destroyed".

"Deus" i thought to myself, i've heard that name before......

From: Delith Nightblade
Date: Tue Jan 21, 2003 4:33 pm
Subject: News

"And in earlier news today, there were scattered reports of odd deaths occuring throughout Zanarkand. As you all know, a Minotaur was spotted yesterday, and today the dismembered foot of an unknown man was found in a dorm at Star Tech College, along with the body of a mysterious creature. Also, an odd cat was reported to have attacked another man today, but was gunned down by a near-by citizen, who is in the hospital tonight."

I unplugged as they moved on to weather. I shook my head as I considered the golden amulet in my palm. It was warm, almost hot. It was inset with a ruby in the shape of a drop of blood.

Marick...

I stood, and grabbed both my jacket, and floatboard. Outside, I hooked up, and joined the streaming overhead traffic. I dropped out near Tech Star, and stopped at the gates. "Hey man, I'm here to see Marick Waters."

The dude in the booth punched up marick, and I gave the guy my name, and he gave it to Marick, and I was let in. I moved forward, heading to Marick's dorm. I crouched down, then jumped, and stopped at Marick's balcony. "Yo, Marick!"

Marick opened the balcony door, and I landed as he walked out, a jacket on to protect against the rough wind. "Hey Carl. What's with that chip you gave me?" "Huh? I don't know. I saved it on impulse, and then gave it to you. Was it viral?"

Marick hesitated, "No, but it really screwed me up, and there was a file on there that was labeled Lucien. What's in there?"

"I don't know, it's coded."

"Ah. Well, what do you need?"

I pulled out the amulet. "Do you know what this is?"

"No."

"Well, I grabbed it when the Minotaur vanished, so maybe, well, I was hoping you could help."

Marick grinned. "Not me, but maybe Issean."

From: "Delith"
Date: Wed Jan 22, 2003 8:33 am
Subject: The Amulet...

We sat in marick's dorm, waiting for Issean. When he got home, Marick quickly asked him to check the amulet out. Issean did, and when he came back, he said, "Nothing special, besides the fact it's two thousand years old. Pure gold, flawless ruby." He handed the amulet to Marick. When he did so, it flared up, a blue and white light.

"Ahhhh!" Marick yelled, dropping the amulet.

As soon as it was no longer touching him, the glow vanished. I bent, picked it up, and the glow appeared again, white dominating the blue, instead of the other way around, as it had been when Marick held it. "It hasn't done that before."

"What's that?" Issean asked, pointing at a faint blue mist creeping under the balcony door.

I turned, and stuffed the amulet in my pocket, and drew my nine-millimeter, while Marick grabbed his gun. Issean grabbed a short metal pole, and thumbed a switch, causing a brilliant blue blade to appear. I threw open the balcony door, Marick and Issean covering me, only to see the whole campus filled with the fog. Quickly, I grabbed my floatboard, and got set up. I rose into the air, telling Marick I'd be right back, and sped off, gaining altitude and speed. I finally got over the fog, and saw it covered only the campus, as though there were a force-field or invisible wall blocking it from spreading further. Just outside of the campus, I saw a bunch of guys with pulsing blue rifles, and alot of tanks. I dropped back to the balcony, and quickly filled in Marick and Issean.

"Quarantine." Issean said, flicking off his techno-blade.

I kept my nine out, and then, it began.

Roars, and screams, drifted out of the fog, and Issean re-ignited his techno-blade. I unhooked myself from my floatboard, and walked into the dorm, checked the lock on the door, and then went back to the balcony. I jumped onto the float board, hooked in again, and floated down to the ground.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm checking it out."

"We'll meet you down there."

"If you'd like." I said, my eyes scanning the fog.

When I touched down, I tucked my floatboard under a picnic table, and kept my nine out, and leveled. Last time this had happened, I had faced a Minotaur.

Now, it sounded like an army. I slowly advanced, nine raised.

A dog-like lizard thing leapt out of the fog at my, and I fired, blowing it's head off. I heard an angry chittering sound, and spun, only to see a legledd weasel thing, with big black eyes, no mouth, and a tail, or tentacle. It's head split in half, revealing a mouth of needle teeth. I put two rounds through it's head, then another through it's body. I heard another chittering, and saw another creature, this time a cat with spines on it's back, leaping at my, hissing.

A bright blue beam cut through the air, slashing the thing in half.

From "Chys Lattes"

Marick POV

Deep Fog

Issean made it downstairs before I did. I saw him run ahead of me to aid Carl by striking down a few of those gross assed monsters down there. On my way down the stairs, as he had already taken the elevator and left me behind, I ran into Ran and that woman, Lisa, still in a liplock, completely oblivious to the danger around them. I smacked him upside the back of his head and told him to take cover and get his gun. Lisa screamed and ran back to Ran's room, where she had been staying since the 'incident' and the 'copperheads' had gone to retrieve that man's foot from her bathroom in the Witch's Hall.

When I made it oustide I hid behind a tree and took out two of the rat-lizards, which made very interesting sounds, like wind chimes, as they ran across the grass then the bricks as they came closer to me. Two of them lay dead and the others had spread out around me. Luckily I had brought my Tech-blade with me, just incase I would need to slice and dice, that was what had taken me so long to get my ass downstairs, retrieving it from where I had hidden it in my dorm room.

I would have two more good shots before I would have to either reload or switch to my blade. Carl was busy off in the distance, taking down some nasty ass looking critter that was almost as tall as he was. He seemed to be yelling at it, either cursing it or just cursing for the hell of it, but I heard some words in the din that would have made Yuri pass out.

Issean had just made it through the fog to the cat like creatures that were coming up alongside the north wall of the building. He slid his blade through one's neck then ran on to the next. Where in hell... or thereabouts... were they coming from?

There were a lot of people hanging out the windows, watching us fight. Some of them cheered us on! The rest of them took some shots at the beasts and even came down stairs, in the doorway, guarding from letting the bastards in to the dorms and the college doors with their various swords and guns. Every little bit helped. The interesting thing about them, though, was they were only trying to get into the women's dorms, where Yuri lived, and attacking the three of us outside primarily.

I let off my last two rounds and hit down a catlike creature and another rat that had been about to team up on Carl's backside. I slid my gun into my pocket and drew out my blue-violet tech blade. After running to hide behind another tree, then catching a horse-like creaure with two heads from behind, I felled it and ran out to help Carl and Issean, who were now back to back, but only for a moment, as Carl dashed forward and struck down another black furred 'thing'.

That was when I heard the sick cry and the mantra they all seemed to be chanting... "Deus revived...."

What the fuck were these things anyway? No time to think on it though, something grabbed me from behind...

From: Delith Nightblade
Date: Thu Jan 23, 2003 10:40 am
Subject: The power of the Amulet...

"Who the hell is Deus'?" I yelled at one of the beasts.

"Deus...will come again...." it croaked as I slashed it's miserable head off. Issean and Marick were there now, and the monsters were concentrating on us.

They pulled back, all croaking about Deus.

I spoke, but didn't take my eyes off them. "Anybody know who Deus is?"

"Nope."

"Not a clue."

"He must be important though. Him, us or both. Because has anybody noticed that these things are only after us, and the woman's dorms?"

"Yeah. It's weird."

I took a few minutes to reload my nine millimeter, and saw Marick do the same. Issean spun his techno-blade, and got a firm grip on it.

I swore as I saw more creatures appear in swirls of fog. "We're really out numbered." I stated. "I don't think we can win."

"No, probably not."

Then, I felt as though my voice wasn't my own. "What the... where am I?" My voice was now deep and resonant.

Marick responded in another voice, one I recognized.

"I don't know, but we're in deep shit."

"Noted."

"I think the amulet may help."

"I don't have it. The Minotaur, remember?"

"Damn."

"Well, we won't fail, not this close to Deus."

My voice returned, as I seemed to rise from a dream, and Marick shook his head, and looked at me.

In unison, we said, "The amulet."

I grabbed it from my pocket, and it flared, white over blue. Marick grabbed part of the chain, and the white and blue equaled out, and a bubble appeared, forcing the fog away from us. Issean was still ready to fight, and then, with a burst of light, the fog was gone, but the monsters remained. A golden light hung in the air, and the creatures howled, chittered, or screamed in pain, then the attack bagan again.

This time, when I wielded my sword, I was in the Zone.

I slashed down, continued into a thrust, and then brought my sword backwards in an uppercut. The creature facing me died fast. I spun, aimed, and fired at one of the weasel things, then spun again, my sword cleaving into a two-headed horse. My sword got hung up inside it, and I fired twice, taking off both it's heads. With a strong pull, I ripped the sword clear, then returned to the slaughter house.

Suddenly, with shocking clarity, I saw bright blue lines slash through the air. Everywhere they hit, whatever they hit was vaporized.

"Plasma weapons! Get to cover!"

marick, Issean and I broke for the dorms, plasma bolts streaking around us. We got there, and I rolled under a picnic table, ontop of my floatboard, while Marick and Issean slipped behind it.

Soon, the battle was over, and we were, in a sense, heroes...

From "Chys Lattes"

Marick Waters POV

--Yuri's Room--

"What the fuck was that, bro?" Yuri was panting, glaring out the window for the third time that hour.

"No idea." Ryu said. He was standing by the doorway to the dorm room, gun in hand, waving to the people down the hall.

"Did you see Marick and Issean? Who's that guy with them?"

"Er, Carl, I think."

"Yeah, Marick mentioned him, so what the he'll... did you see them kick ass?"

"Uh, yeah, they were being mauled out there. Did their fare share of mauling the competition too. What was it, sis?"

"Not a damn clue. I killed the last one with my frying pan though, but right after, the fucker disappeared! Just poof, gone!"

"What do you mean, gone?" He paused, "What happened while I was in the hall?"

"It came in through my window and tried to rip my arm off, screaming something about a 'god' of some sort, 'Deus'? I really don't know. I bashed it a good one and knocked it to the floor."

"It died?"

"I thought it did. But it just vanished..."

--in the courtyard below--

"Yo, they're celebrating." Issean said to me. I looked at the dorms and saw all the people waving. Carl was beside us, still on his floaterboard. He had the amulet in his hand, and it was still softly glowing whiteish.

"What...is that?" I asked him. "Where'd it come from? I have the stupidest idea in my head, that I have seen it LONG before, and know what it is, but...not quite..."

Nodding, he looked up at me and held the jeweled amulet in his hands, letting it catch the light as it swung back and forth. "I think it has something to do with what was found in the history chip. I wonder if we shouldn't look it up real soon..."

"Uh, you can use my computer if you want to hook up, plug in, and do a massive search. I am powered by the shool, so it's kinda a free ride on high speed." Issean mentioned to Carl with a wave of his hand.

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