Hunted Chapter 12
After getting onto Larxs ship, I was quite startled when the odd voice came back.
Well...you are wondering why you saw that little vision.
I shook my head, ignoring the echoing, venomous voice in my head. I leaned back into the wall of the small moving space in the ship, looking out the window.
Oh, so you dont care.
"No, I wish I wasnt talking to myself though." I hissed under my breath. I was actually hearing voices. Tugging at the collar of my uniform, I looked down at my black boots, quite content with standing.
"Fine then."
Ah...so you do know that this is not a imagined voice...
"No, it is. I just think Ill entertain my insanity for a while."
You are just lonely. Anyways, its actually very simple. The biological cells in your body are being changed, much more receptive to any type of energy. To access someones memory, all you did was read the brainwaves that regulate that memory, and use the patterns in your own brain to see. You can do this consiously. Basically, if its electric in any way, its your playground. Sounds a bit far-fetched, but it has the same principals as...oh...a CT scan. Just enhanced. Your cells are stronger, much more resiliant.
"Are you going to be talking the entire trip?" I shook my head, closing my now acid green eyes. I was actually crazy.
No. Actually, soon I wont be around at all.
"Oh, thank all the gods in the universe for that."
"For what?" Larx perked up, turning the chair around to face me. I flushed.
"Nothing. Just talking to myself."
"Okay...what is wrong with you. Youve...been different."
"Well, did you expect me to be the same? After all, its been 13 or so years..." I sighed, then winced as one of the interface cords on my spine rewound itself. It felt like a snake was underneath my skin, and that is very much so an uncomfortable feeling. My interface piped up.
"Virus Detected. Mechanical 90. Biological 40"
"It was just at 2!" Larx hissed at me.
"A virus! Kai! Why didnt you tell me!" He stood up, walking over and grabbing my hand. "Computer, do we have any medical-"
"No!" I pulled my hand away quickly, looking fearfully at the ship.
"Kai, I-"
"Larx, it will get into the ship. That will kill us both."
"Then what am I supposed to do?" I felt a twinge in my chest, seeing the panic in his eyes. I knew that mine reflected the same thing.
"Larx, ill think of something. Lets just kill me and get it over with."
"Not funny."
"I know." I sat down, beginning to feel very awkwardly off balance and tired. Putting my head in my three fingered hands, I realized how numb I felt. No sense of feeling. Just...tingly. And cold.
Sleep. You need it.
"No, I dont."
If you do, Ill be gone when you wake up.
"Still..."
Just sleep.
"I..." My head slumped forward, and I fell asleep, unable to protest anymore. Slipping into sleep, I was quite infuriated when my eyes opened into yet another frightening dreamscape. Noticing a wall swaying infornt of me, I realized that I was hanging upside down, swaying.
"Oh. Sickening. So not cool." I tried to wriggle free, but none of my muscles responded. I hated dreaming.
"Okay. Time to wake up."
"Uh-uh." A voice, like mine but sounding more raspy, responded. I bit my tongue.
"Thought you said youd go away."
"Not yet..." I craned my neck up, noticing a mirror image of myself hanging on the chain that suspended me from whatever roof there was here. Her eyes were acidic like mine were, but her teeth were sharper and her skin was nearly white.
"Oh. Well, can you go now and let me sleep?"
"Meh. Dont want to." My double scaled down further, now leaning near my face. Having those teeth that close to me was unnerving. She hissed, then smiled. "Have to finish what I started, dont I?"
"Im not liking this..." I closed my eyes, then opened them quickly as an ice cold hand was placed on its corresponding match on me. My skin began to regain feeling, and I noticed that it was turning slightly more pale as the doubles hand dissapeared.
"What are-"
"Im you, remember?" My entire body went quite hot when the strange, dissapearing thing happened to her entire body. I snapped awake, taking a deep breath, then yelped in pain as I did so. My chest burned oddly and very painfully with the air I had just put in it, and I choked.
"Ow, ow, ow..."
"What?"
"Nothing...ow..." As the burning subsided, I took another breath. It still hurt, but much less. My mouth was very dry, and I ran my tongue across my teeth. They were definetley sharper, as they nicked my tounge. Badly. I hissed as blood filled my mouth. Eww...I hated the taste of my own blood. I sighed, trying not to let the blood spill onto my uniform, then touched my tongue. The blood that came away was green, as usual, but looked like it was nearly glowing. I went to check on my tongue again, but was surprised to find there was no cut. Not even a scratch. Leaning back against the wall, I took another painfull breath of air. What was happening to me?
