Chapter 12: The Daniel Chronicles
Written by: Atikkin
The year is 2017. It is happening again. No one knew what it was. Newspapers call it 'the all summers' devil.' But Daniel knew what it was. His mother told him many times to be aware of it. His God father, told him to be aware of it, for he knew that they'd come back for a showdown.
The police station had mass riots of police officers preparing themselves for battle. Of course, they knew it was one monster against them all. That's all it took to destroy an amount of people, especially human beings .It was scary to believe that in something from another world could destroy man in a matter of seconds.
Daniel on the other hand was not going to end up like those people. He would be sure to keep his head on his shoulders. The creature is out there just waiting for him to show up. Out in the streets, he drove frantically, being aware of the government officials that may be breathing under his neck. Those men were the same people who hunted these monsters the first time. He almost felt as if he's following his God father's foot steps when he starts to get in the way of stopping these monsters.
'Only want to study them. They're fucking insane,' He thought. He drove pass the traffic of the streets and made it to his destination. He got out of his car and looks ahead to find a torn building. Swat cars were all over the place. Many of these men were afraid to step inside since they keep losing contact with the men who had gone before them... Rushing towards the Captain, Daniel demanded a report.
"We keep losing contact with the men, sir. Then the Chief just informed that the FBI are coming right this way," he said. "He said don't let the feds see you, and take care of the asshole inside."
"I know that," Daniel said. "Look I'm going in. Those feds could kiss my sweet ass if I disobey a command." He rushes pass the men and went right the door. The captain told five men to follow his lead.
Daniel wasn't a naïve man. He knew the stories of these creatures. He never had thought to meet them in his time; unfortunately, he did when he found five police officers, his friends and family, dead. Their bodies were hanging upon the edges of five different buildings. Autopsy reports stated that they had been killed by the same man, killed at different times. It almost seemed that the killer had taken them out one by one.
Daniel only feared that once this creature has finished its work, it would return with an army full of monsters to hunt humans over and over. It would be a blood bath. However, he grew concern for the creature that is now here. It reacted different towards humans. Of course, it did slaughter a great many humans, but it didn't harm certain numbers. It was so un-common.
"This one thinks," He said. "Since when do these monsters think?"
Daniel rushes within the complex. He didn't turn back, for he knew that all his comrades were screaming, begging for him to not go. 'I'm sorry,' He thought.
Daniel lingered around the corner and came upon the sight. Corpses hung everywhere. They're bodies exposed nothing, no weapons, no clothes, and absolutely no skin. 'Unwanted trophies,' thought Daniel as he starts to walk through them all. He couldn't sense the creature's presence. Strangely, he'd sense something by now. This creature can't hide that well, can it? Then again, Daniel does believe that it has something specialty. He just didn't know what, exactly.
Turning the corner, Daniel saw a trail of blood. He concentrated on the blood as he moved out of the corner. Cautiously, he knelt down to observe the blood. Daniel gazed at it and realized that it wasn't human blood. Daniel looks ahead and found that he had made a mistake. Twisting upon his back, he flips over the shotgun in his hand and starts firing at the flying creature above him. The creature went flying across the corridor and landed upon its back.
Howling out loud, the creature furiously stumbled upon its feet, refusing to give in. Its body is bruised and torn. It felt its life slowly diminishing. Daniel stood up on his feet as he kept a close eye upon this creature. His brown eyes stare deeply into the shielded orbs of the creature. By now, that mask could be supporting the creature with some data about him; information that could destroy him.
"Yeah, keep looking through that thing, asshole. You're going to need it," He said.
The creature huffed out a growl. Slowly it tapped against something upon its arm, and a voice echoed through out the hallway: 'you ugly son of a bitch.'
Daniel echoed. "Boy what a mouth we have," He said.
The creature made a guttural response before it jumped towards the young man. Daniel quickly pulls the triggers and sees the enormous monster land upon its back with multiple bullet wounds in its body. Daniel sighed, relieved.
"Down," he muttered. He glanced at the creature and noticed something rather unusual. 'Okay, remember what he said about their blood, it's not like ours.' He thought as he drew close to the monster. He glanced upon its features. It looked like a human, but resembled that of a reptile, almost. But Daniel couldn't understand is how this creature managed to get pass surveillance, murder scenes, and not even leave a trace of evidence behind for the police to manage.
Daniel bit his lip. He wasn't sure if it's the same creature. Back then, they always hunted those who had certain attributes of a warrior, but now days, they always hunt those who may or not have the potential. Daniel had seen this, but what got to him is this creature. This creature differs from the other one he had encountered earlier.
"The other one had a scar," he said. "But this guy doesn't. Are there two of them out here?" Daniel said to himself. He grew the distinct feeling that somewhere in the distance, the other one was watching. He shivered, for the other monster, as he recalled, is a bit vicious, intelligent, and a kind of veteran for battle.
Suddenly a light flashes in Daniel eyes. There they were-the feds. They came towards Daniel and glided over their new specimen. They brought heavier equipment to raise the monster and take it to where they will continue their study. Daniel growled at them all for doing something so stupid. Do they not know what danger will come for them?
"Stop," Daniel said. "If you move it, the other will come."
"What other one, Wilks? These monsters always come and go individually. Or are you just trying get in our way like your God father did?"
Daniel turned to the head represenitive, Keyes. The man had blond hair, blue eyes, and a grin that anyone would like to smack off his face. Daniel glanced down at the creature, knowing that it might regain consciousness. Keyes only laughed at Daniel apprehensive gaze. He placed a hand upon his shoulder.
"You worry too much Daniel," Keyes said. "Unlike my father, I was well prepped for what was coming. These creatures were his life, his work, and his reputation. With them, we humans can make millions. Don't you see what they mean to us?"
"They will only kill more people if you keep taking one of their own. They might come down here to prepare a whole world invasion or something."
"No, Daniel," Keyes said. "These creatures don't' think that way. They never have, and they never will. Besides, we all ready have plenty from Africa and South America. They're really good specimens."
Daniel stared hard at Keyes. He thought that his man was out of his mind. He captured more than one. Daniel wanted to smack this idiot's head inside out, for capturing those things will only result to more problems in the near future. He growled.
"You got more than one?" Daniel said. "What the fuck are you trying to do to them, Keyes?"
Keyes smiled. "Well," He said. "Let's just say they're not our only experiment. You see my brother, who happens to work in the US pentagon, found something deep on the ocean floor. You wouldn't what we have found. It astounded everyone. But we just needed something that could match it."
"Match what…?" Daniel rather confused.
"Now Daniel," Keyes said. "You're asking too many questions-"
"Sir," one of the men said, trying to close the tank. The creature inside began to cry out madly within. Its arms began to push the lid open. Ten to fifteen men have to hold the lid down. Keyes screamed at them all to keep creature inside secure. Daniel frowned. He almost pitied the poor creature. But then, something in the back of his mind told him that he's being watched. Daniel turned around and felt awful by a familiar presence, and the sound of something electronically enhanced, power up.
Daniel's eyes expanded and he pushed Keyes to into the nearest door. "All of you get down," He warned. But it had been too late. A flash of light blasted the men away along with the creature inside the tank. Daniel managed to get into another room before that blast could have taken him. Fire embraced the entire hallway as the wreckage revealed the outside.
"WILKS," Keyes screamed out loud. Daniel slowly raised his bruised body out of the rumble which fell upon him. He caught sight of Keyes through a hole in the wall. "What the hell just happened?"
"I told you," Daniel said, trying to catch his breath. "There wasn't one, but two of those freaks around. You took their third comrade out at the docks, remember?"
"They don't travel in groups," Keyes said, confused.
"That's what I thought when these monsters started working together," Daniel said.
"Well where is it now? And what was that, a bomb?"
"Not even close," Daniel said. "We have to get out of here. I ran into this asshole earlier. He's not going to let anyone of us live if we stay around."
"OH no, Wilks; I came here to get this thing. I'm not going to screw it up like my father did with the last one."
Daniel turned his gaze to Keyes. 'Impossible,' he thought. He glared hard at the man before him. He remembered his God father's words about a man he had met once. That man tried to get these creatures. Now the name Keyes really made sense as to why this man had interested in those things.
"Your father…" Daniel said. "He died in a slaughter house, didn't he?"
Keyes froze. How did he know that?
Suddenly Daniel felt a pair of eyes on him. It was that creature. Daniel knew the sound of its breathing. This one always breathes rather deeply. There is also the fact that it doesn't ambush its prey like the other do. Daniel looks towards the edge of the room; fortunately, there was a mirror, and Daniel could see it-this devil.
Keyes eyes expanded by the sight of this monster; it was magnificent, comparing to the others. This one seemed stronger than the rest. 'Amazing,' he thought. The creature made crackle noise. Gripping tightly of its hand it rushed towards Daniel. The man moved before the creature could get to him. Keyes forced his body out of the way before a pair of sharp blades could chop his arm off.
"Jesus," he said.
"RUN," Daniel ordered as he ran out the door. The creature rushed after him. Keyes saw the two go.
"My God," he said.
Relena twitched on the couch. She also started to cough lightly. Heero took a look at her from the doorway next to the kitchen, where Millard concentrated on Daniel's story.
Relena moved her body around as she slept on her side. Heero's face softened. She looked so peaceful when she's asleep. The look that she had upon her face so early in the day made her appear demented and inhuman. Heero frowned. He remembered that face so clearly; he remembered that voice so clearly.
'Relena,' he thought. 'What's happening to you?'
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. Everyone in the room grew silent. Millard got up and glanced at the door.
"Yui, go see who it is," he ordered. Heero made a slight response before he slowly walks towards the door. He glanced through the peep hole in the door. Heero's face suddenly turns sour.
"Dude, what's up?" Duo said.
"If I mention it, you're not going to like it."
Duo blinked, but then caught what Heero was saying. Duo suddenly panicked with a hint of malice. "What the fuck is she doing here?" He hissed. Heero ignored him and opened the door. There, Lisa stood in the door.
"Heero, babe, where were you? You said you were going to be at work," she said, pushing herself inside. She closed the door behind her and saw everyone in the kitchen. "What is this, Poker night?"
"Like we ever have any," Duo muttered.
"I'm sorry, Duo, did you say something," Lisa said. Duo made a false smile.
"No, Lisa. I'm just talking to a wall," He said.
"Whatever," she said. She turned to her husband who looked rather anxious and upset. "Sweetheart, why didn't you tell me you were on a mission? And why are you working with these guys. I thought you resigned as head security from the Peacecraft family?"
"I did," Heero said.
"So then why are you here?" Lisa demanded.
"That's classified."
"Classified, my ass, Heero Yui; these people can't control you anymore. Not even that girl you watched over can. Especially when she's still comatose how can she?"
"She's not so comatose anymore," Duo said. Lisa glanced at him.
"What was that?"
"I said," Duo hissed. "She's awake. Heero jumped back in the game the moment that woman woke up," Duo said, correcting Lisa for calling Relena a girl.
Lisa spun around to look at Heero. "Is that true?" She said. "Did you go back working for her again? What is it with you and her-"
Heero grabbed his wife and pulled her down the hallway to another room. Everyone blinked about this all this. Duo only shook his head.
"I knew that, in some way, that bitch was going to come over here and find us," he said.
"I just hope to God that she keeps her hands where they belong," Quatre said, remembering that awful experience. Duo shivered. He glanced over at Relena and had another bad thought.
"If that woman finds Relena's here she's going to flip."
"Certainly the most of us really don't care," Trowa said. "If she lays a hand on her, she will pay for it."
"I assume there some love triangle spinning around here," Daniel said.
"Somewhere around the line it is, man." Duo said.
"While Yui is busy with his wife, finish your story," said Millard.
Daniel felt his body bruised and bleeding with multiple gashes. The battle had been fierce. He felt that he may not last much longer if he continues to fight like this. The creature probably thought the same as he did when it tried to free itself from the rumble. It glanced at Daniel who stared back at him.
"What the hell are you?" Daniel said, almost choking.
"What the hell are you?" Daniel voice played from the device the monster had. The creature glanced at the device and pressed something against.
"No," Daniel said approaching the beast. He slammed his hand down upon its arm, stopping it from making a big mistake. The creature growled angrily at Daniel for doing this. "Just leave," he said. "Do you understand me? Just leave here and never come back."
The creature only stared at this unusual human. Its golden eyes blinked once or twice. Daniel removes his foot from the creature's arm.
"I don't want to kill you. But if you stay here any longer, my kind...they are going to come after you, and do horrible things to you. They're all ready doing it to some of your friends. If you get away, you have a better chance. I don't want to start a war with your people."
The creature made no response. Daniel figured that it might have listened. But then, he felt something-no-more than that. Daniel turns around and there they are. The man thought it was the end of the world for a moment. Might they all kill him for harming one of their own?
"Okay," Daniel said. "I'm game. Who's next?" He said. The creatures made no response, but they did walk towards one of their brethren. Six of them pick him up and walk into the darkness of a very large ship Daniel hadn't seen earlier. 'Damn Mike, you weren't kidding about the ship.'
Daniel sensed one of them approaching him. He looks up to see one of them staring down at him. Unlike the others, this one appeared ancient.
"Hello," He said.
The creature presented something to Daniel. Daniel didn't know what it could be, but then the creature responded: "take it." It has a guttural voice. It almost used a growl to speak. Daniel's eyes expanded. 'Did that thing just speak?' he thought. The creatures all turn around and vanish... The ship on the other hand didn't, but it made a rumble that made Daniel panic.
"Holy shit," He said, running before it could ever take off.
"Relena," the maid said. The girl didn't respond to her. The little girl focused hard towards the large room. Something there made her mind pound with fury. Other than that, she felt that she had to be around here as much as she had to be out in the gardens. He toes tingled with pain. Something was pulling towards the Earth; something below was trying to pull her down.
"Princess Relena," the maid said again. "Your mother wishes to see you. Come now, I'll take you to her," said the made holding out a hand. But Relena made a snarled and snapped the maid's hands away, hard. The maid made a shrill cry. She felt for her wrist as a bruise appears upon it. But she could also feel that the bone had been damaged as well.
"Mary-Anne," another maid called as she came towards her. She cried out, seeing that her wrist. The old man glanced at the child and slowly approached her. "You pest--it is no wonder that your father doesn't enjoy the company of you. You are the spawn of a devil, a monster. You are no where close to being the future Queen we will bow before-"
"Shut up and go away. You're blocking my view, Porky," said Relena in a tone that didn't sound like a little girl. The old maid gasped with fury. She grabbed hold of Relena's shoulders and starts to scream and her. Relena screeched and started to fight back. The girl screamed loudly as her hands took hold of the maid.
The young maid watched in horror as blood began to splatter of the wall. The older maid fell to the floor, blood coating her. Relena glanced at the younger maid as her blue eyes turn gold. She glances at her hands raises it to her.
"Syrup…do you want some?"
Another scream echoed through the room. Lady Peacecraft stood in the door way with her hands covering her mouth. She stared at Relena who glared at her.
"Relena," she said with tears in her eyes. "How could you? How could you?" Lady Peacecraft said, approaching the small child. Relena glared harder at her and Lady Peacecraft stopped when it did. The look upon her face is all too familiar. Lady Peacecraft stepped back.
"What's the matter, Mother? Don't you like my masterpiece? I won her blood. Maybe I should take her head, too." Relena said, with a teenage woman's tone. She stared at her mother as she gasp, shocked. To Relena, she could see the fear dancing in her mother's eyes. "You scared…?" She said. "I'm the Boss of this city, you god damn bitch."
"Relena," Lady Peacecraft said, beginning to sob.
"Fuck off," Relena said.
"What..?" Lady Peacecraft said.
"Fuck off," Relena said. She turns around and jumped upon the other maid. With one a single punch, her screamed died down, her body stopped jerking around. Eventually, a puddle of blood formed onto the ground. "She tried to touch me when I didn't want to be touched. Don't you think its wrong Mother-" Relena said. But couldn't say anymore, when pain shot through her chest. The young girl stumbled to the ground.
Lady Peacecraft held the gun tightly in her hands. She twitched as she saw her own child fall to the ground dead. She drops the weapon and covers her mouth with both of her hands. Slowly, she approaches her daughter's dead body.
"Oh Relena," she sobbed. She went on her knees and glanced at her daughter. She brought her to her arms and cradled her. Tears ran down her cheeks. Lady Peacecraft glanced at the bullet wound, but then saw something strange. Her blood…why did her blood look like that? Lady Peacecraft didn't understand. The doctors said she would be fine. Why does she look like this?
She glanced up at Relena, who glared with golden eyes, flaring with anger. A roar of hatred echoes through out the room…
Relena finally opens her eyes after hearing loud screams from another room. She curves them to her right and sees a familiar woman. Relena glared. 'Well, well, Heero's whore,' she thought. She saw Heero appear from the hallway and he looked very upset.
"I can't believe you. You and I both know she's responsible for those murders. Why even bother with her after she's been in comatose? You and I are married. We should concentrate on 'us.' Not pay attention to some spoiled brat who you had some child like crush on you," Lisa said.
"For the final time Lisa, she needs my help."
"She has Duo and the rest of them. She doesn't need you."
"Excuse me lady. In case you'd forgotten, Heero was Relena's personal bodyguard; she doesn't trust anybody else for the job. What do you think of that you fucking slut?" Duo said.
"Duo stay out of this," Heero said, snapping, not just for Duo's interruption, but for calling Lisa a 'slut' as well.
"This is none of your damn-"Lisa paused when she saw Relena on the couch. "What is she doing here? And what the fuck happened to her face, she looks like she came out of a meat grinder?"
"Lisa," Heero said through his teeth. "She went through Hell. That's all you need to know."
"All I need to know. After three days, I don't' know where you are, and I see you hanging around with that needy bitch, Heero. You said yourself that you don't find women of that type interesting. Why the hell are you doing around her? We're married remember?"
"I can't leave her alone on this one, Lisa. Someone is going to kill her if I don't' do something."
"They can do something," Lisa said, pointing to the men in the kitchen. "You don't work for them anymore. Come home, now!"
"Yui, keep her down, she might wake Relena up," Millard said, hissing.
"I think she succeeded," Duo said, staring at Relena who now sat up on the couch. Her dreadlocks covered her face. Her abnormal blood began to seep out of her nose and onto her clothes. She turns to everyone who became speechless at Relena's appearance.
Daniel came out of the corner and glanced at Relena. Relena turns her gaze to Daniel and gave him a terrifying glare. The former policeman made a loud gulp. "Hi," He said.
"Relena," Millard said. "Are you all right?" She didn't answer. She took one look at her brother and turn away in disgust. A growl spills out of her mouth. It vibrates against Millard. He steps back from her as he saw the glare on her face.
Relena suddenly gets up from where she was. The men in the room had their eyes spread by how tall she is. She's practically the same height as Heero, perhaps Duo.
"Relena," Noin said. "Are you okay?" She places a hand upon her shoulder. As gentle as she was, Relena hates it, and recoils violently like an animal at Noin to keep her hands off. Noin jerks back as Relena as well as everyone who sat close.
Daniel eyes scan this girl from top to bottom. He remembered 'them' being rather tall. 'Shit,' he thought. Relena lifts her gaze to Daniel.
"Three times…" She said in a small tone. She voice sounds as if she were hissing. "They find me. How are you they finding me?" Relena said. Daniel blinks. 'How did she know?' he thought.
"What is she talking about?" Heero said.
Daniel licks his lips and presses against the side of her temple. Relena glances at his hand and then at him. "They put something there. I'm not sure, if I can get out..."
"Who putwhat there…? In her head…they put something in her head?" Duo said. "And how the hell would you know that?"
"They told me," Daniel said. "Keyes wanted to be sure that Relena doesn't get too far. Using whatever impulses she makes with her brain, the easier Keyes would find her."
"A transmitter..." Heero said. 'They put a transmitter in her head. That's how Keyes managed to find her all the time. If I'd known better, he'd probably know her exact location now,' he thought.
"We have to get out then," Quatre said.
"How...! We don't have medical equipment here." Duo said.
"Who cares," Relena said, as she walks towards the hallway. "I need the bathroom. I hope you still keep a knife under the sink," Relena said to Heero. The soldier could only blink with an odd gaze. Relena suddenly sputters blood from her mouth. She chokes on it, realizing that the red hue had finally diminished into something absolutely, inhuman.
"Relena," Heero said, reaching out towards her, but receives a powerful blow to the chest. Heero flew across the room and lands towards the glass door. Heero held his head about to crack into two.
"Heero," Lisa yelps, rushing towards her husband. Everyone leaps after the fallen soldiers, only to ignore the young woman, heading towards the bathroom. However, Daniel keeps his eye on her, not allowing her to disappear, like they did.
Relena slams the door shut. She locks it, hoping that the men in the next room will not barge their way in here to stop her. If these people are after her, they will indeed do more damage to her when they find her. She vaguely remembers the kind of experiments they were doing on her when she was in the hospital. She refuses to meet that sort of treatment again.
But something puzzles the young woman. What is this Primal experiment they continue to speak of? Finding that Primal is somehow in link with her, Relena will have to find some way to finding out what really happened in the past. Something tells her that she wasn't the Ms. Goody-two-shoes then as she is today.
Reaching to the bottom of the sink, Relena finds the knife. She presses the switchblades carefully, not wanting to cut her skin. She observes the blade. Apparently it is razor-sharp, and thick enough to cut through skin and perhaps strong enough to penetrate bone.
Pushing her dreadlock hair back, Relena moves her fingers around, trying to search for the spot these people put in her cranium. Relena moves her hand over the front of her forehead, and saw something she has never seen before. A vivid scar marks her skin. It seems rather large to a simple cut when falling off a tree, having a car accident, or almost getting crushed by a bricks of a building when Heero suddenly saves her. No, this scar is the key of getting whatever it is in her head, out.
Chapter 13 Unleash the Beast