PREY II: End of Era

Chapter 18

End of Era

Ghost woke up he lay in a heap on the charred soil of Northern Ireland. It hurt to move but still he got up. Then he remembered, "Nicole!" he cried and saw her lying motionless on the ground 5 feet away. Tears found themselves to his eyelids, he sniffed, "What have I done?"

A laughing black figure cried behind him, "Ha ha ha ! See you kill everyone else and I still don't die! You're a mass murderer!" Ghost looked at his feet and saw a glint of silver, a glint of hope and the blade of a knife… He picked it up and said, almost bursting into tears, "You should have died a long time ago!" And he stepped closer and she just laughed at him, "Ha! Are you going to kill me with a small piece of metal?"

"No I'm going to kill you with a large bit of hatred!" And he lunged forward raising the knife but before he struck, a large heavy metal head of an axe drove its way into Julia. Holding the axe was Nicole who released it and watched the dark evil come away from her mother. The nano-bots were in chaos swarming around in an unorderly fashion, dancing in the sky but with confusion. Julia fell to her knees, or what was left of her… she looked up into Nicole's eyes and whispered two words, "Thank you…" And she dropped to the ground dead…

Tristan looked side-ways at Nicole, and said "What are you going to do now?"

"I dunno…you should tell me, you're the time-traveller"

"Time doesn't exist!"

"But then where?"

"Time travel is a different way of putting it, I don't in a sense time travel, and I just go to parallel universes that are either younger or older than our own…"

"Can't you tell me anything?"

"Not directly but I what I can tell you is that there's going to be an extremely long war coming and you must choose a side, it doesn't matter which one because this war is going to last for centuries… but remember, I know it may be hard in war to find peace, even love can bloom on a battlefield…"

"So what about you? You not going…..?"

"I don't exist…I came into form to make this happen I am only a…glitch…"

"But what about your history…your hopes and dreams…?"

"I've fulfilled them and now I am no more use…"

"Does that mean..." But she saw what was happening; Tristan's particles began to float away in the wind.

Tristan smiled, "Maybe I'll become a tree if I'm lucky"

Nicole felt tear running down her cheeks and said in a croaky voice, "Why was this all planned?"

"This was always meant to happen, it becomes decided when the oldest universe did it…"

"What about the clicking thing?"

"There are many ways to die this is one of them, slow but painless…"

Nicole waited 5 painful minutes as her friend disappeared forever… and all that was left was a necklace with a small metal dog tag with the initials 'Tristan' imprinted in it. The last of Tristan, Nicole picked it up and put it over her neck. She saw a lone figure sitting on a pile of rubble; it was Omega still wearing his knight armour. He looked at her as she came closer and said, "What are you going to do now?"

Nicole sniffed and replied, "Tristan's last words 'choose a side and stick with it' and what are you going to do?"

"Tristan's last orders to me… 'Protect you'

End of Chapter

End of Era

End of Story

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