The atmosphere was charged with violent intensity as an F4 combat plane
took off hastily, roaring and firing into the air from a distance not too
far away, lights blinking through the darkness.
'Yokota Air Force Base' a sign read on the metal fence.
The boy pulled back some of the wired fence where there was a hole, tearing it away groaning as he did until there would be enough space for the both of them to go in. He stepped back and glanced to the woman, gesturing for her to go through.
She swallowed as she looked at him hesitantly before obeying and slipped in through the space, emerging on the other side into the air base grounds. She turned and gasped flinching, just inches away from the boy.
He rolled his eyes and stepped around her walking off ahead of her. She blinked before hurrying after him. "Th-this is private property, we shouldn't be here" she was muttering behind the boy but he wasn't listening as he headed towards a building.
A soldier spotted them and looked at them with surprise and curiosity, before he started to walk over from where he was stood guarding the nearby building holding vehicles inside. "Hey, you're not supposed to be here" he told them sternly.
"S-sorry, but, if you let us explain"- the woman spoke not wanting any trouble. Maybe if they attempted to explain the situation, they could help them.
The boy knocked the soldier down in one powerful forceful hit, making the soldier hit the ground and slide across the dust for a few meters before lying still on the ground.
"Y-you killed him t-too?!" the woman cried in disbelief, hands over her mouth.
The boy rolled his eyes, "he's just unconscious" he replied casually as he stepped over the body and to the front doors of the building, which had large handles. He grabbed one and with an effortless but strong pull he wrenched open the metal door and walked in, with the woman following behind him. He looked to the side and found the light switch, flicking it on. Then he surveyed the surroundings.
There were about seven vehicles - three on one side, four on the other, and a huge pile of wooden boxes were in two corners of the place, there were chains hanging down from the ceiling too. On the ceiling where the lights were, there were also large glass panels, allowing some light to seep through. It was basically a large, murky and dank building, nothing much.
He walked over to the back of one of the vehicles, going on his toes as he yanked back the sandy material covering it and searched around the space inside with both hands, frowning as he did so.
"Wh-what are you doing?" the woman asked, remaining stood near the doors which she had slowly shut behind them.
"Finding a weapon for you" the boy answered not looking over at her as he moved on to search the back of the next vehicle.
The woman opened and shut her mouth a few times before clasping her hands together to stop herself from fidgeting. "Why are you protecting me? You said. I remember you saying that you could kill me, that I was a nuisance to you. why didn't you kill me when you've had the chance? Why kill Leah but not me?"
The boy sighed as he threw back the material to see that vehicle was empty too so he moved on feeling annoyed to the next vehicle. "You're not like they are"
"They? Who - what are they? What.I'm confused"
"When I said that creature was the other girl, I meant it. She was never human, well not now. Leah was human - until that girl got to her. I had to kill her before she changed completely. The recent sudden boom in suicides in this area isn't because the whole town's fucking suicidal, do you understand?"
"Y-you had to kill them?"
The boy groaned as he leant over to look in the back of vehicle more, "No. They were killed by that girl, she needed their blood. As far as we know she's only turned Leah"
"We?" the nurse asked, "we who? And.why are you telling me all of this?"
The boy sighed and stepped away from the vehicle turning a gun over in his hand, "Here, take this" he said turning and holding it out towards the woman. "You'll need it to save yourself. Even if that means having to kill yourself, if you can't handle all of this, or stop her from turning you"
The woman gasped at that thought and looked hard into the empty dark eyes of the boy. "You think I won't live to be able to tell anyone about this don't you?"
The boy placed the gun into her hand firmly then went to search the rest of the place, "No one would believe you anyway. There won't be any evidence" he said.
"But. the medical room, and that police man's body"-
"They'll be sorted out, so there's no evidence. Its how it has to be"
The woman stared after the boy. "Who are you?" she spoke quietly, "who are you really?"
The boy stopped and paused for a long moment before slowly turning to glance back at the woman over his shoulder. "I'm Lex" he merely shrugged, "all you have to know is, I came here for a reason, which you've clearly found out and seen with your own eyes"
"Are you. some kind of hunter?"
The boy's eyes flickered slightly, "you could say that" he sniffed, "enough talking. We have to find enough weapons and then go". He just took a step forward when suddenly BOOM the lights went out.
The woman gasped and gave a small scream as she put her hands over her mouth and looked around the darkness, save for the faint beams of moonlight from the glass panels in the ceiling. "Wh-what happened?" she asked feeling scared.
The boy turned on his feet to look around the whole of the area, before looking up to the glass ceiling above. "I don't know" he replied in his usual low monotone voice, his body itching with alertness.
There was a loud BOOM and metallic clangs coming from the door making both the woman and the boy look over in that direction as something noisily happened over there from the other side. "wh-what's going on?" the woman shook with fear and on verge of crying again, "have we b-been c-caught? What - what's happening out there?" she asked aloud, like the boy would answer her any moment.
The noises had stopped and the boy quickly rushed over to the doors and pushed up against them. Even with his strength the doors wouldn't budge. They were blocked by something. He cursed and glanced up as a dark shadow swept over the building and he looked to the glass parts of the ceiling. "Caught" he hissed a bit pissed off, "we've been fucking trapped" he reached into his coat pocket.
A plane disappeared silently and blinking in the distance.
David and Cole suddenly sat up alert inside the car from the ringing of Cole's mobile. "Who is it?" David asked glancing away from the building where nothing seemed to have changed or happened since they'd arrived.
Cole looked at the screen where LEX stared up at him. He clicked the button and held the phone up to his ear.
"Yokota Air Force Base" the familiar voice stated before there was a click.
Cole held the phone away from his ear and cursed before starting up the engine. There was a massive screech of tires and cloud of dust ripped up as the car sped away bursting out of the school grounds.
"What the hell is it?... It's Lex isn't it? What the fuck's he done?" David shouted, demanding answers.
A dark silhouette loomed over the glass, drenching the inside of the building into darkness before there was a loud shattering SMASH; a rainfall of sharp glittering glass burst down from the roof. The woman screamed as the boy dived shoving her out of the way and pushing her onto the ground to avoid the glass fall.
Above them was an unearthly wail like that from a screeching wild cat from hell was emitted loudly as the falling glass smashed against the ground and splintered even more.
The creature then dived in through the gap and began to soar down through the dark building to land inside.
"Use the gun if you have to" the boy said close to the woman's ear before quickly scrambling away and standing up to run to the glass littered space in the centre of the building, looking up as the creature loomed and howled before it swooped and landed nearby, its bat like wings curling in around itself as it growled and eyed the boy.
The boy growled back narrowing his eyes into dangerous slits at the creature, whilst slowly reaching behind for the sword.
The creature screeched and rushed forward in a burst of movement towards the boy as he quickly grabbed the handle of the sword and slid it out of the case in one quick smooth movement, raising and bringing the sword down in an arc as the creature was suddenly in front of him.
It howled and moved to the side missing the sword, hitting out with a powerful bat like wing and knocking the boy to the glass covered ground, before flapping its wings to loom up over him and dart to attack again.
The boy rolled on the ground across the crushed glass then managed to flip up onto his feet and hold the sword with both hands, swinging it at the creature again and hitting its right wing.
The creature howled out at this and batted the boy with its other wing before kicking him, making him fly backwards through the air and hit the metal wall with a metallic clang. He slid down but landed on his feet, narrowing his eyes at the creature with determination before running back to the creature again for another attack.
The woman was screaming and cowering in the space between two vehicles as she watched terrified, clutching to the gun in her shaking hands.
The boy managed to slice through the wing of the creature, which dipped and continued its screaming cries as it fell to the ground but moved to attack the boy again. Whilst it was currently on the ground though the boy hit its other wing then raised the sword to strike it through the chest - but the creature lashed out swiftly making him fly and fall back onto the ground again.
The woman looked up as another shadow loomed over them and screamed even louder as she backpedaled terrified.
The boy looked up from his position on the floor, cursing when he spotted a similar creature up on the roof, ready to glide in as well. "There are two?" he exclaimed out loud surprised, and then suddenly the other creature was much closer, looming over him and hit out at him, reminding him he should be fighting for their lives.
The woman was still screaming as she clutched to the gun and curled up against the wall, watching as the second creature flew in through the roof and screeched wildly, flying down towards them - only as it landed nearby the struggling other two, its eyes seemed to look past the vehicles and focus: on her.
"Use.the fucking.. Gun!" the boy shouted out as he darted to the side, having by now managing to get on his feet, and struck out at the creature with his sword again.
The woman's eyes were locked on the creature though as she trembled with freezing fear, at the creature staring back at her. It suddenly moved making her scream and drop the gun. She scrambled around for it on the ground before grabbing the gun then crawled along the ground along side the wall past the vehicles hurriedly as the creature began to fly screeching.
The boy growled as he got knocked down onto the glass covered ground again still fighting with the creature. He couldn't see what the woman and the other creature were doing as he struck out from where he was lying on the ground. "Shoot the fucking things!" he yelled out hoping the woman heard, as the creature suddenly hit his arm and the sword went flying to the side, before clattering onto the ground amongst the glass.
The woman had stood up and glanced over her shoulder terrified before she began to run, and caught what the boy had shouted. She looked to the gun in her shaking hands before looking over to where the boy was. He was on the ground with the creature looming over him. Shakily she rose up the gun, letting out a small cry before closing her eyes and pulling the trigger.
Time seemed to freeze for a split second, as the bullet ripped through the dark air in explosion.
The car burst through the fence, making the metal wire seemingly explode and fly in all directions before the car swerved screeching and halting as clouds of dust rose up. The car doors quickly burst open and the two men in suits clambered out, guns at the ready and ran across the grounds.
In the distance another plane was taking off hastily and humming loudly and ignorantly.
The men ran desperately and quickly towards the vehicle building where wild screeching and screams were clearly being emitted from. They ran panting to the front of the building, skidding to a halt at the front. "Shit!" David cursed in a shocked whisper.
The soldier who the boy had knocked out earlier was now used as a human barrier - covered in blood and slid between the handles of the double door, preventing them from any access or the people inside any exit.
They took a step back and looked up at the building, both jumping from surprise at the sound of a gun firing, and a loud wild scream.
'Yokota Air Force Base' a sign read on the metal fence.
The boy pulled back some of the wired fence where there was a hole, tearing it away groaning as he did until there would be enough space for the both of them to go in. He stepped back and glanced to the woman, gesturing for her to go through.
She swallowed as she looked at him hesitantly before obeying and slipped in through the space, emerging on the other side into the air base grounds. She turned and gasped flinching, just inches away from the boy.
He rolled his eyes and stepped around her walking off ahead of her. She blinked before hurrying after him. "Th-this is private property, we shouldn't be here" she was muttering behind the boy but he wasn't listening as he headed towards a building.
A soldier spotted them and looked at them with surprise and curiosity, before he started to walk over from where he was stood guarding the nearby building holding vehicles inside. "Hey, you're not supposed to be here" he told them sternly.
"S-sorry, but, if you let us explain"- the woman spoke not wanting any trouble. Maybe if they attempted to explain the situation, they could help them.
The boy knocked the soldier down in one powerful forceful hit, making the soldier hit the ground and slide across the dust for a few meters before lying still on the ground.
"Y-you killed him t-too?!" the woman cried in disbelief, hands over her mouth.
The boy rolled his eyes, "he's just unconscious" he replied casually as he stepped over the body and to the front doors of the building, which had large handles. He grabbed one and with an effortless but strong pull he wrenched open the metal door and walked in, with the woman following behind him. He looked to the side and found the light switch, flicking it on. Then he surveyed the surroundings.
There were about seven vehicles - three on one side, four on the other, and a huge pile of wooden boxes were in two corners of the place, there were chains hanging down from the ceiling too. On the ceiling where the lights were, there were also large glass panels, allowing some light to seep through. It was basically a large, murky and dank building, nothing much.
He walked over to the back of one of the vehicles, going on his toes as he yanked back the sandy material covering it and searched around the space inside with both hands, frowning as he did so.
"Wh-what are you doing?" the woman asked, remaining stood near the doors which she had slowly shut behind them.
"Finding a weapon for you" the boy answered not looking over at her as he moved on to search the back of the next vehicle.
The woman opened and shut her mouth a few times before clasping her hands together to stop herself from fidgeting. "Why are you protecting me? You said. I remember you saying that you could kill me, that I was a nuisance to you. why didn't you kill me when you've had the chance? Why kill Leah but not me?"
The boy sighed as he threw back the material to see that vehicle was empty too so he moved on feeling annoyed to the next vehicle. "You're not like they are"
"They? Who - what are they? What.I'm confused"
"When I said that creature was the other girl, I meant it. She was never human, well not now. Leah was human - until that girl got to her. I had to kill her before she changed completely. The recent sudden boom in suicides in this area isn't because the whole town's fucking suicidal, do you understand?"
"Y-you had to kill them?"
The boy groaned as he leant over to look in the back of vehicle more, "No. They were killed by that girl, she needed their blood. As far as we know she's only turned Leah"
"We?" the nurse asked, "we who? And.why are you telling me all of this?"
The boy sighed and stepped away from the vehicle turning a gun over in his hand, "Here, take this" he said turning and holding it out towards the woman. "You'll need it to save yourself. Even if that means having to kill yourself, if you can't handle all of this, or stop her from turning you"
The woman gasped at that thought and looked hard into the empty dark eyes of the boy. "You think I won't live to be able to tell anyone about this don't you?"
The boy placed the gun into her hand firmly then went to search the rest of the place, "No one would believe you anyway. There won't be any evidence" he said.
"But. the medical room, and that police man's body"-
"They'll be sorted out, so there's no evidence. Its how it has to be"
The woman stared after the boy. "Who are you?" she spoke quietly, "who are you really?"
The boy stopped and paused for a long moment before slowly turning to glance back at the woman over his shoulder. "I'm Lex" he merely shrugged, "all you have to know is, I came here for a reason, which you've clearly found out and seen with your own eyes"
"Are you. some kind of hunter?"
The boy's eyes flickered slightly, "you could say that" he sniffed, "enough talking. We have to find enough weapons and then go". He just took a step forward when suddenly BOOM the lights went out.
The woman gasped and gave a small scream as she put her hands over her mouth and looked around the darkness, save for the faint beams of moonlight from the glass panels in the ceiling. "Wh-what happened?" she asked feeling scared.
The boy turned on his feet to look around the whole of the area, before looking up to the glass ceiling above. "I don't know" he replied in his usual low monotone voice, his body itching with alertness.
There was a loud BOOM and metallic clangs coming from the door making both the woman and the boy look over in that direction as something noisily happened over there from the other side. "wh-what's going on?" the woman shook with fear and on verge of crying again, "have we b-been c-caught? What - what's happening out there?" she asked aloud, like the boy would answer her any moment.
The noises had stopped and the boy quickly rushed over to the doors and pushed up against them. Even with his strength the doors wouldn't budge. They were blocked by something. He cursed and glanced up as a dark shadow swept over the building and he looked to the glass parts of the ceiling. "Caught" he hissed a bit pissed off, "we've been fucking trapped" he reached into his coat pocket.
A plane disappeared silently and blinking in the distance.
David and Cole suddenly sat up alert inside the car from the ringing of Cole's mobile. "Who is it?" David asked glancing away from the building where nothing seemed to have changed or happened since they'd arrived.
Cole looked at the screen where LEX stared up at him. He clicked the button and held the phone up to his ear.
"Yokota Air Force Base" the familiar voice stated before there was a click.
Cole held the phone away from his ear and cursed before starting up the engine. There was a massive screech of tires and cloud of dust ripped up as the car sped away bursting out of the school grounds.
"What the hell is it?... It's Lex isn't it? What the fuck's he done?" David shouted, demanding answers.
A dark silhouette loomed over the glass, drenching the inside of the building into darkness before there was a loud shattering SMASH; a rainfall of sharp glittering glass burst down from the roof. The woman screamed as the boy dived shoving her out of the way and pushing her onto the ground to avoid the glass fall.
Above them was an unearthly wail like that from a screeching wild cat from hell was emitted loudly as the falling glass smashed against the ground and splintered even more.
The creature then dived in through the gap and began to soar down through the dark building to land inside.
"Use the gun if you have to" the boy said close to the woman's ear before quickly scrambling away and standing up to run to the glass littered space in the centre of the building, looking up as the creature loomed and howled before it swooped and landed nearby, its bat like wings curling in around itself as it growled and eyed the boy.
The boy growled back narrowing his eyes into dangerous slits at the creature, whilst slowly reaching behind for the sword.
The creature screeched and rushed forward in a burst of movement towards the boy as he quickly grabbed the handle of the sword and slid it out of the case in one quick smooth movement, raising and bringing the sword down in an arc as the creature was suddenly in front of him.
It howled and moved to the side missing the sword, hitting out with a powerful bat like wing and knocking the boy to the glass covered ground, before flapping its wings to loom up over him and dart to attack again.
The boy rolled on the ground across the crushed glass then managed to flip up onto his feet and hold the sword with both hands, swinging it at the creature again and hitting its right wing.
The creature howled out at this and batted the boy with its other wing before kicking him, making him fly backwards through the air and hit the metal wall with a metallic clang. He slid down but landed on his feet, narrowing his eyes at the creature with determination before running back to the creature again for another attack.
The woman was screaming and cowering in the space between two vehicles as she watched terrified, clutching to the gun in her shaking hands.
The boy managed to slice through the wing of the creature, which dipped and continued its screaming cries as it fell to the ground but moved to attack the boy again. Whilst it was currently on the ground though the boy hit its other wing then raised the sword to strike it through the chest - but the creature lashed out swiftly making him fly and fall back onto the ground again.
The woman looked up as another shadow loomed over them and screamed even louder as she backpedaled terrified.
The boy looked up from his position on the floor, cursing when he spotted a similar creature up on the roof, ready to glide in as well. "There are two?" he exclaimed out loud surprised, and then suddenly the other creature was much closer, looming over him and hit out at him, reminding him he should be fighting for their lives.
The woman was still screaming as she clutched to the gun and curled up against the wall, watching as the second creature flew in through the roof and screeched wildly, flying down towards them - only as it landed nearby the struggling other two, its eyes seemed to look past the vehicles and focus: on her.
"Use.the fucking.. Gun!" the boy shouted out as he darted to the side, having by now managing to get on his feet, and struck out at the creature with his sword again.
The woman's eyes were locked on the creature though as she trembled with freezing fear, at the creature staring back at her. It suddenly moved making her scream and drop the gun. She scrambled around for it on the ground before grabbing the gun then crawled along the ground along side the wall past the vehicles hurriedly as the creature began to fly screeching.
The boy growled as he got knocked down onto the glass covered ground again still fighting with the creature. He couldn't see what the woman and the other creature were doing as he struck out from where he was lying on the ground. "Shoot the fucking things!" he yelled out hoping the woman heard, as the creature suddenly hit his arm and the sword went flying to the side, before clattering onto the ground amongst the glass.
The woman had stood up and glanced over her shoulder terrified before she began to run, and caught what the boy had shouted. She looked to the gun in her shaking hands before looking over to where the boy was. He was on the ground with the creature looming over him. Shakily she rose up the gun, letting out a small cry before closing her eyes and pulling the trigger.
Time seemed to freeze for a split second, as the bullet ripped through the dark air in explosion.
The car burst through the fence, making the metal wire seemingly explode and fly in all directions before the car swerved screeching and halting as clouds of dust rose up. The car doors quickly burst open and the two men in suits clambered out, guns at the ready and ran across the grounds.
In the distance another plane was taking off hastily and humming loudly and ignorantly.
The men ran desperately and quickly towards the vehicle building where wild screeching and screams were clearly being emitted from. They ran panting to the front of the building, skidding to a halt at the front. "Shit!" David cursed in a shocked whisper.
The soldier who the boy had knocked out earlier was now used as a human barrier - covered in blood and slid between the handles of the double door, preventing them from any access or the people inside any exit.
They took a step back and looked up at the building, both jumping from surprise at the sound of a gun firing, and a loud wild scream.