NEXUS
by KS Claw
Here's the next part of the "When Nightmares Come True".
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PROLOGUE
He was in a courtroom, only clad in his boxers. He was on his knees, his hands
chained to a ring in the floor, on a stone-block. He didn´t look up and around.
He knew who was watching him. Several versions of himself. Or rather, several
versions of Viper. There where all kinds of them.
A judge, a flock of 12 representing the jury, witnesses....and the executioner.
The executioner was unlike the others. He was tall, muscular and well- built,
his tail even longer and more flexibal than the other Vipers. He was dressed in
a pair of black leather trousers that fit on him like an extra coat of skin. A
black vest with silvery edge covered his upper body, unclosed, showing off his
muscular torso. Around his left eye was a tattoo of a black dragon, and a corner
of his mouth was turned upwards in a cold smirk. The judge had been listening to
all the witnesses and was now calling up the last.
"The jury calls in....David Purvis!"
Elrod lifted his head in a snap. David! Here in this place!?
The small snake-kitten came walking in through a side door, unsure in his
movements the way he always moved when he was nervous. A court-officer version
of Viper helped him up behind the witness-'fence' and made him swore the oath.
The judge then looked calmly on David.
"What hasss the sussspected done to you, child?" he hissed lowly. David looked
on Elrod, hurt evident in his eyes.
"He lied to me."
A choir of gasps emitted from the room and some began to shout, but they where
brought to silence by a snarl from the judge. He looked on David again.
"Lied to you? In what way?" David looked down, trembling slightly.
"H...he....he never told me the truth.....he told me I was gonna be fine when he
put me to bed....he said I was overtired..." the kitten unhappily sobbed out
what Elrod had told him so many times whenever he had been scared, when his
parents had talked about Viper and David had heard it. The more the sobbing
kitten told, the worse EP felt.
When it was becomming too much for the kitten, the judge reached down and gently
stroked the childs head.
"There there child. You don´t belong with hisssss kind." he said with a gentle
smile, and a steel-like glare in Elrods direction. David looked up on the judge.
"I..I don't?" He asked puzzled. The judge shook his head.
"Look around child, tell me what you see..." David looked around, then looked
back on the judge.
"Alot of...snakekats...like me..." the judge nodded.
"Yessssss. We are one of a kind child. It isss your choice if you want to be
with ussss....or him." the judge glared at Elrod once again, causing him to
wince. David frowned, looking on Elrod, who then realised that if David joined
these....he would fully become one of them!
"David..." he whispered. "David...their all lying! They could never be your
family! They could never love you like I do! They...."
"Shut up!" the kitten yelled. Elrod stared in surprise. David growled at him.
"You never cared for me! You never really loved me! All you did was lie, lie,
*LIE!!!!*"
The last word was screeched out, so it ecchoed in the courtroom. Everyone was
silent. David whimpered.
"I HATE YOU! I WISH YOU WHERE DEAD!!" he cried, then before anyone could react,
he ran off. No one tried to stop him, not even the executioner who seemed to
have gotten a more golden and angrier glow in his eyes. Elrod shuddered. How
could anyones eyes be so full of so much hatred?
The judge snarled. "It issss ssssettled. The jury can retire and return with the
decissssion!" The jury muttered together for about a few seconds, then one of
them, looking like as if taken straight out of a "Terminator" or "Robocop"-movie
stood up and said in a cold monotone voice:
"The jury finds the suspect guilty your honor."
The whole courtroom exploded in cheers, and where silenced once again as the
judge stood up, glaring coldly down on Elrod who shamefully looked down on his
chained hands.
"Ssssuspect hassss been found guilty for liessss, liesss and more liesss!" the
judge sneered, showing his sharp glimpting fangs. "Execution will be done
imeadiatly! Nexus! Do your duty!"
Nexus the executioner stepped forwards and grabbed Elrod by his hair, pulling
his head back. The large snakekat growled, glaring into Elrods eyes.
"How doesss it feel to be the lamb ready to be ssslaughtered?" he growled as
someone handed him a scythe with a long blade of pure silver. Elrod gulped. He
didn´t dare anything but sit still, closing his eyes. A odd calmness seemed to
fill his body, giving him a sense of comfort. He was going to die....this was
the way it was meant to happen all along....
Nexus smirked as he held the scythes cold blade pressed a short second against
Elrods throat to get a proper aim.
"The sinners shall be brought to justice, and I shall execute them for their
crimes!" He said in a low growling voice, raising the scythe above his head.
Elrod closed his eyes, fear grabbing his heart once again. "Sharrakus, thy old
God of the light, please. Please, protect my soul, I beg you!"
But the ancient God did not hear him. Elrod felt his breathing in short
strangled gasps now.
He opened his eyes a single second before the silver-blade of the scythe slashed
downwards.
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"HAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Elrods eyes flew open and he sat up with a cry
of fear. He sat staring out blankly for a few seconds, then curled up, his whole
body shaking. He felt a pair of warm arms embrace and hold him close, soothing
him like a child who had awoken from a horrible nightmare. Elrod sobbed and
quivered as Kathy soothed him, then after a while, he calmed enough to fall
asleep once more. He lay down tiredly and dozed off once more.....
Kathy watched her beloved husband as he lay close to her, curled up like a
frightened kitten. She sighed and reached down, and pulled the bedcover over the
sleeping tomkat. Kathy gently stroked Elrods cheek as he slept, receiving a
soft, peaceful purr from him. She smiled at him and kissed him gently before she
lay down, next to Elrod who was finally sleeping peacefully.
But still, the dreams would keep comming. And they got worse for each time Elrod
as much as closed his eyes. It had been like this for 3 whole weeks. No one had
found David, it was as if he had vanished from the face of the earth. Elrod had
seeked help to find a way to re-mutate David, but it had been hard. Kathy sighed
as she recalled Elrods expression when he had realised he directly had to beg
the person he despised the most for help. The only other person who knew about
the Vipermutagen and its effects besides Elrod....
Dr. Zyme.
She had been there along with him when they went to Zymes home. Ever since the
Giant Bacteria incident, Zyme had been a nervewreck and he had needed rest. In
the end, he had become a loner, and preferred to mail his reports to the labs.
It had been a shock to him when he opened the door and saw Elrod Purvis standing
in the doorway. As Elrod had predicted, he fainted.
After Zyme had gotten concious again and Elrod had explained the situation, the
redhaired kat stared coldly on him.
"So...the proud and stubborn Elrod Purvis AKA Dr. Viper one of the most
psycopathic villains of MegaKat City, comes to my own home with his *wife*, to
ask me to make a potion, that will re-mutate his *son* who has somehow been
infected with the Vipermutagen! Now why would I wanna do that!!??" he snarled
and turned away from Elrod who paled.
"Even before you became Dr. Viper, you would always bother and mock me, call me
a idealistic fool and other names..." he growled as he paced back and forth. He
then stopped and looked cooly at him. "The answer is no! I will not help you."
Elrods eyes widened. "No! Please! Zyme..." Elrod began, but Zyme only turned his
back on him. "I don't see why I should help you." he growled as he turned to
go. "Now excuse me, I have business to attend..." he stopped as he felt a hand
grab his arm. Looking up, he saw Kathy. She closed her eyes a second then took a
deep breathe.
"Dr. Zyme, please...." she whispered. "Please listen to us....this is not about
us...but about our son. He is only but 6 years old. He is out there somewhere,
alone, lonely and maybe he is even hurt! Please....if anything....help us...."
"And if not for us, then please...do it for our son. He is only a child! He has
never done anything wrong! Would you really go that far Zyme? To let a child
suffer!? I know you hate me and all....but since when did a child have to take
the burden of his parents sins on his shoulders!?" Elrod whispered. As Zyme
looked on him, it was then he noted the shadows below the tomkats eyes and the
golden color in Elrods fur seemed to have faded a bit, like one time where they
had been up all night to work on a important project that had deadline in the
morning. It was as if Elrod hadn´t been getting a proper nights sleep for
*years*!! Zyme then sighed. They where right. Just because he disliked the fact
that Purvis had been a psyco who had nearly managed to kill him, he couldn´t
let a child suffer because of that....
"Very well...I will help." He said.
by KS Claw
Here's the next part of the "When Nightmares Come True".
-----------------------------------------
PROLOGUE
He was in a courtroom, only clad in his boxers. He was on his knees, his hands
chained to a ring in the floor, on a stone-block. He didn´t look up and around.
He knew who was watching him. Several versions of himself. Or rather, several
versions of Viper. There where all kinds of them.
A judge, a flock of 12 representing the jury, witnesses....and the executioner.
The executioner was unlike the others. He was tall, muscular and well- built,
his tail even longer and more flexibal than the other Vipers. He was dressed in
a pair of black leather trousers that fit on him like an extra coat of skin. A
black vest with silvery edge covered his upper body, unclosed, showing off his
muscular torso. Around his left eye was a tattoo of a black dragon, and a corner
of his mouth was turned upwards in a cold smirk. The judge had been listening to
all the witnesses and was now calling up the last.
"The jury calls in....David Purvis!"
Elrod lifted his head in a snap. David! Here in this place!?
The small snake-kitten came walking in through a side door, unsure in his
movements the way he always moved when he was nervous. A court-officer version
of Viper helped him up behind the witness-'fence' and made him swore the oath.
The judge then looked calmly on David.
"What hasss the sussspected done to you, child?" he hissed lowly. David looked
on Elrod, hurt evident in his eyes.
"He lied to me."
A choir of gasps emitted from the room and some began to shout, but they where
brought to silence by a snarl from the judge. He looked on David again.
"Lied to you? In what way?" David looked down, trembling slightly.
"H...he....he never told me the truth.....he told me I was gonna be fine when he
put me to bed....he said I was overtired..." the kitten unhappily sobbed out
what Elrod had told him so many times whenever he had been scared, when his
parents had talked about Viper and David had heard it. The more the sobbing
kitten told, the worse EP felt.
When it was becomming too much for the kitten, the judge reached down and gently
stroked the childs head.
"There there child. You don´t belong with hisssss kind." he said with a gentle
smile, and a steel-like glare in Elrods direction. David looked up on the judge.
"I..I don't?" He asked puzzled. The judge shook his head.
"Look around child, tell me what you see..." David looked around, then looked
back on the judge.
"Alot of...snakekats...like me..." the judge nodded.
"Yessssss. We are one of a kind child. It isss your choice if you want to be
with ussss....or him." the judge glared at Elrod once again, causing him to
wince. David frowned, looking on Elrod, who then realised that if David joined
these....he would fully become one of them!
"David..." he whispered. "David...their all lying! They could never be your
family! They could never love you like I do! They...."
"Shut up!" the kitten yelled. Elrod stared in surprise. David growled at him.
"You never cared for me! You never really loved me! All you did was lie, lie,
*LIE!!!!*"
The last word was screeched out, so it ecchoed in the courtroom. Everyone was
silent. David whimpered.
"I HATE YOU! I WISH YOU WHERE DEAD!!" he cried, then before anyone could react,
he ran off. No one tried to stop him, not even the executioner who seemed to
have gotten a more golden and angrier glow in his eyes. Elrod shuddered. How
could anyones eyes be so full of so much hatred?
The judge snarled. "It issss ssssettled. The jury can retire and return with the
decissssion!" The jury muttered together for about a few seconds, then one of
them, looking like as if taken straight out of a "Terminator" or "Robocop"-movie
stood up and said in a cold monotone voice:
"The jury finds the suspect guilty your honor."
The whole courtroom exploded in cheers, and where silenced once again as the
judge stood up, glaring coldly down on Elrod who shamefully looked down on his
chained hands.
"Ssssuspect hassss been found guilty for liessss, liesss and more liesss!" the
judge sneered, showing his sharp glimpting fangs. "Execution will be done
imeadiatly! Nexus! Do your duty!"
Nexus the executioner stepped forwards and grabbed Elrod by his hair, pulling
his head back. The large snakekat growled, glaring into Elrods eyes.
"How doesss it feel to be the lamb ready to be ssslaughtered?" he growled as
someone handed him a scythe with a long blade of pure silver. Elrod gulped. He
didn´t dare anything but sit still, closing his eyes. A odd calmness seemed to
fill his body, giving him a sense of comfort. He was going to die....this was
the way it was meant to happen all along....
Nexus smirked as he held the scythes cold blade pressed a short second against
Elrods throat to get a proper aim.
"The sinners shall be brought to justice, and I shall execute them for their
crimes!" He said in a low growling voice, raising the scythe above his head.
Elrod closed his eyes, fear grabbing his heart once again. "Sharrakus, thy old
God of the light, please. Please, protect my soul, I beg you!"
But the ancient God did not hear him. Elrod felt his breathing in short
strangled gasps now.
He opened his eyes a single second before the silver-blade of the scythe slashed
downwards.
*********************************
"HAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Elrods eyes flew open and he sat up with a cry
of fear. He sat staring out blankly for a few seconds, then curled up, his whole
body shaking. He felt a pair of warm arms embrace and hold him close, soothing
him like a child who had awoken from a horrible nightmare. Elrod sobbed and
quivered as Kathy soothed him, then after a while, he calmed enough to fall
asleep once more. He lay down tiredly and dozed off once more.....
Kathy watched her beloved husband as he lay close to her, curled up like a
frightened kitten. She sighed and reached down, and pulled the bedcover over the
sleeping tomkat. Kathy gently stroked Elrods cheek as he slept, receiving a
soft, peaceful purr from him. She smiled at him and kissed him gently before she
lay down, next to Elrod who was finally sleeping peacefully.
But still, the dreams would keep comming. And they got worse for each time Elrod
as much as closed his eyes. It had been like this for 3 whole weeks. No one had
found David, it was as if he had vanished from the face of the earth. Elrod had
seeked help to find a way to re-mutate David, but it had been hard. Kathy sighed
as she recalled Elrods expression when he had realised he directly had to beg
the person he despised the most for help. The only other person who knew about
the Vipermutagen and its effects besides Elrod....
Dr. Zyme.
She had been there along with him when they went to Zymes home. Ever since the
Giant Bacteria incident, Zyme had been a nervewreck and he had needed rest. In
the end, he had become a loner, and preferred to mail his reports to the labs.
It had been a shock to him when he opened the door and saw Elrod Purvis standing
in the doorway. As Elrod had predicted, he fainted.
After Zyme had gotten concious again and Elrod had explained the situation, the
redhaired kat stared coldly on him.
"So...the proud and stubborn Elrod Purvis AKA Dr. Viper one of the most
psycopathic villains of MegaKat City, comes to my own home with his *wife*, to
ask me to make a potion, that will re-mutate his *son* who has somehow been
infected with the Vipermutagen! Now why would I wanna do that!!??" he snarled
and turned away from Elrod who paled.
"Even before you became Dr. Viper, you would always bother and mock me, call me
a idealistic fool and other names..." he growled as he paced back and forth. He
then stopped and looked cooly at him. "The answer is no! I will not help you."
Elrods eyes widened. "No! Please! Zyme..." Elrod began, but Zyme only turned his
back on him. "I don't see why I should help you." he growled as he turned to
go. "Now excuse me, I have business to attend..." he stopped as he felt a hand
grab his arm. Looking up, he saw Kathy. She closed her eyes a second then took a
deep breathe.
"Dr. Zyme, please...." she whispered. "Please listen to us....this is not about
us...but about our son. He is only but 6 years old. He is out there somewhere,
alone, lonely and maybe he is even hurt! Please....if anything....help us...."
"And if not for us, then please...do it for our son. He is only a child! He has
never done anything wrong! Would you really go that far Zyme? To let a child
suffer!? I know you hate me and all....but since when did a child have to take
the burden of his parents sins on his shoulders!?" Elrod whispered. As Zyme
looked on him, it was then he noted the shadows below the tomkats eyes and the
golden color in Elrods fur seemed to have faded a bit, like one time where they
had been up all night to work on a important project that had deadline in the
morning. It was as if Elrod hadn´t been getting a proper nights sleep for
*years*!! Zyme then sighed. They where right. Just because he disliked the fact
that Purvis had been a psyco who had nearly managed to kill him, he couldn´t
let a child suffer because of that....
"Very well...I will help." He said.