PREY II: End of Era

Chapter 17

'Terra per Mortis'

London was much smellier in the dark ages and much dirtier than it is today. Omega and Ghost tried to fit in by stealing clothes from a nearby stall. They made their way to the blacksmith and Omega paid for two sets of armour and a variety of weapons for the two friends. They went into a nearby inn and two rooms, changed and then warped back to their normal time.

It seemed to Nicole that the zombies kept coming and coming like something of a stuck record. But suddenly something was making the zombies frightened, they began to cover their faces and just behind the hordes a bright flash appeared. Cutting sounds were distant as two huge axes tore through the army. Two 'knights in shining armour' began to walk to the group slicing opponents as if they were training dummies. Once they reached the group the lifted their visors to reveal the smiling faces of Omega-Upsilon and Ghost. Both of them lifted out a bow and took an arrow from their quivers. They then let arrows fly straight past the zombies. Both arrows found their target, a feminine figure made its way up through the army it controlled.

Mrs. Foreman smiled like a vampire as she saw the remaining staff of the complex and she seemed to be carrying three spheres. As she came even closer she held up what was in her hand, the heads of Hanyou, Ruth and Richard. Mrs. Foreman spoke in a metallic voice and said, "This is what happens to those who oppose the 'Amicitia Per Mortis' the 'Friends of Death', oh is Tristan all sad?" she added mockingly. Ghost smiled and said, "Julia, I was wondering where's death?" Julia looked puzzled and then smiled like a contented cat, she drew a sword that seemed to be made of a black swirling mass of nano-robots. Ghost nodded at Omega and they both took out L.A.W. missile launchers. Point Blanc range and they still missed and Julia laughed at them, "You miss at a time like this Ha! You fools we will destroy you!"

Ghost smiled again, "Who said we missed?"

"There are only the fuel tanks down there….."

Then everyone realised what Omega and Ghost had done but it was too late. The entire base was engulfed in burning flames and the whole city of Bangor exploded. The sound was heard in London and even as far away as Paris. The emergency services were quick to respond but not quickly enough for some people. Bangor is now the 'terra per mortis' or the 'land of the dead', a desolate place where nothing was alive and at the centre of it a huge crater that stained the countryside forever.

Many people died that day, for many it was the second time…Soul in the resurrected bodies didn't survive the blast but there was still a lot of the original Soul floating around unaffected by the blast… A figure with blackened armour stood from the debris, he walked over to the swarming mass and raised his hand, and blue electric sparks sprang from his hand and hit the floating black mass. That was the end of Soul, its circuitry couldn't stand a large electro-magnetic pulse and it died as dust in the crater forever scattered by the wind. The shadowy figure sat down looking at the charcoal coating on his chain mail; he said to himself, "That's not going come off in the washing machine!" He laughed a sorrowful laugh, everything was gone, his purpose, his life and his destiny. Even though people have a goal in life that they try to aim for when they get to it there's nothing left to do… no hopes, no dreams and no goals, Omega now knew what depressed people felt…This was the end of era of science and this what was going to happen, a dark era, where innovation is the thing of the past, this was the watershed the day that two rival companies made the same thing, the day no one would remember but they would remember it's after-effects.

End of Chapter 17