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CHAPTER 6
Monument of death
The Hunters had taken a hour to recover from the attack, and to prepare for the mission. Sean, Sarah and David had gone to their families to alert them that they had a mission, and that they might be gone for a few days.
After all was delt with, and Squall finished flirting with the lady at the Hunters Guild counter (eye rollage), they silently entered the teleport statiobn, already having set the cordinates for the area surrounding the newly discovered Monument, where the disappearances have been occuring.
Upon arrival, as the golden light of teleportation faded, one could clearly see something was up.....
"This is just wierd....creepy, in fact...they're just...stareing at us....with some kind of attitude problem...." Dr. Montague said, thoroughly freaked out by this..."yes....it is pretty freaky. Be on your guard, just in case. I fear that something may be behind this.....I can feel Dark Force's eyes on us, as if IT were watching us through the eyes of the native creatures....look how they glare with loathing at us..." Squall said, all normal humor gone, replaced with grave calm....though.....he did stick his tounge, and then wave, at one of the glaring Boomas, just to releave some of the tension that had built up.
One of the Boomas saw Sean, locking eyes with him for a moment.
He heard a hateful voice in his head...."You foul thing....creature spawned of genetic fusion of two more loathful beings, neither of the other's race, a hybrid....you are too dangerous to allow to live." it said into his head.....but the voice was so foul that it made him feel ill to merely have it in his head...like something of pure evil had entered his head to force those words upon his mind. He swayed slightly, Sarah saw this. "you alright?" she asked, concerned. "y-yeah....I'm fine...." he said....not feeling fine. He straightened, trying to look like he was alright, like he was able to easily take down this Booma like it was nothing, like he would be able to take down the foul thing of darkness that had spoken to him.....it was an act of defiance, that he walked over to the glaring Booma, and grinning, he messed up the hair on its head. It merely glared back at him.......
"Sean, stop it." Squall said, getting a bit nervous around al these glaring creatures....even the Rappies were glowering fouly at them, one of them using Montague's hat as a toilet, glaring at him the entire time as it flew over him and made its deposit.
"Let's get to the Monument." Squall said.
They all made various comments or gestures of agreement, glad to leave the area where the glaring animals were.
As they arrived at the Monument, the first thing that was strange besides the unusual, but different from the Ruins, arcitechtre was that there seemed to be statues made of weak sandstone...statues of Hunters, Rangers, Forces...even places where there had been statues...but were now little more than piles of sand. They were puzzled at this for a moment, until Squall touched one of the statues, and it crumbled, but not before he had seen the face of the Hunter it had been formed after....."Zechs.....I knew that guy......dangit...I could feel some of him IN that statue..as if he WAS the statue. See all of these guys, Montague? Isn't that Herris, over there?" quall asked.
"yeah...that was him....I think that you are right, Squall, these statues were once people.....this is like when Metroids attack. Hm....I hope none of those stinkers are here.....that would be just the gee-darned-dandiest of all happy things in the universe, if we had loose Metroids flying about.....just a buttload of Happy-Happy-Happy...in fact, I might just sing and dance my freakin' butt of right now, I am so happy!....wheres the Tylenol!?" Montague said, in a bad mood, accompanied by eye rollage.
They walked up to the closed doors of the Monument. Squall had checked every single remainling statue, to see if Adus was among them, and was releived to seee that Adus was not amoung the statues outside. He was surpirsed to see people not from Pioneer 2 amoung the statues...in fact there was someone from Pioneer 1, a well known Hunter, named Graun, frozen in eternal terror...Squall noted for the record that Graun was not easlily shaken, let alone flat out terrified...."something really, majordomo bad happened here..." Squall said.
They tryed to open the doors, but the doors would not move.
"Hmph....this is just GREAT!!!!" Montague said, now getting mad.
Sean got a feeling......an odd one.....
He walked up to the door, and as he got within a meter of it, it opened.
The others looked at him, confused. He returned their looks, feeling the same way as they did about this, unnerved.
"looks like we can get in now." Sean said to break the silence, as they had been standing around for a full five minutes waiting for something to happen...somthing good, something bad, just...something...and it did not come...
no avatar of death to destroy them all....
nothing...
They walked in the open doorway....
as soon as they had all entered, the doors slammed shut behind them, the stone doors banging together loudly.
They were now inside of the Monument.
