Saga of the Next Generation - Julian II
By Red Turtle
Just as I was getting a handle on this whole situation, just as I had come to grips with my family's murder, and steeled myself to kill as many of the fuckers as I could, then life has to throw this shit at me. Hordes of human ninjas and a giant mutant lion, that was already beyond what we could handle. Now, surprise, here we have a mutant tiger too. Or something, tiger is just the easiest way to describe it. It's also hard to get a good look at it; already our battle has begun, no time for a freak safari watch. Briefly I entertain myself with the vision of going around to all the dead bodies after we have won, maybe doing a personal autopsy on the lion and the tiger...guess I haven't quite come to grips with my grief just yet.
In the time it takes for me to get up from the wall it threw me into, it has grabbed my cousin Judaism. I leap at it, sword out at its neck, so intent on slicing its head of that it's probably at least a few seconds before I realize that I am now restrained as well, from behind. What now, a bear?
No, the claw grabbing me is white and tiger like. Several more of the creatures come into the room, we are all restrained with extra guards. We are so fucked.
"We're running out of ways to kill you guys", the tigerish thing sneers at Judaism.
It opens its jaw wide enough to almost bite Judaism's head off, and involuntarily I flinch and close my eyes, not wanting to watch the decapitation of my cousin.
"JACK! What did I tell you?!", a voice booms out.
I open my eyes a tiny bit, the vision is blurry but I am, shit, too scared to open them wider. The tiger is still poised with its teeth surrounding Judaism's head, but its eyes now look reluctantly in the direction of the voice.
"Take it out of your mouth now!", the voice booms again.
The tiger removes his teeth, but still holds Judaism captive. I decide to open my eyes wider now that the immediate danger has passed.
"Well, I thought there was a provision if they attacked us-", the tiger stammered.
The source of the voice comes into view. It is another tiger, a tiny bit bigger than the rest and slightly differently colored with lines, but otherwise identical to the others as far as I can tell. It has the aura of being a leader.
"He was going to kill the bird ones anyway-", another ventured, "If they hadn't escaped. So what difference does it make-"
"Would you like to go and ask him yourself?" the lead tiger dared.
There was a noticeable wave of fear through them all, even the one holding me. I really didn't understand this set up, why all these humans and now these monsters were in league with, and even awe of, this lion creature. It had seemed pretty simple, by mutant standards, it didn't have mechanical parts or wings or super powers, and if it hadn't been for all those damn ninja we probably would have beaten the crap out of it.
"Okay then, lets toss them with the others."
This lead tiger approached the computer and started pressing buttons and things. It seemed slightly unsure about what it was doing in that respect, making me very nervous. It was a small enough comfort that maybe the lion knew the full plan when it evaporated my cousins, but if the lead tiger- thing was suppose to evaporate us and messed up...
My mind swan with visions of slow painful disintegration, or appearing in the middle of space, or fusing with a mountain...
I turned to my sister, wanting to remember her should she die or we be otherwise forever separated. After a second of shock from seeing her covered in blood, I was actually very pleased with what I witnessed, given the circumstances. My sister had managed to get her powerful fox-jaw around the wrist of her captor, and currently held him fast in her teeth.
"Please can we kill them?" He asked the leader. He kept his voice steady but his body quivered slightly; obviously it was hurting him a lot.
The lead tiger looked over and saw the predicament.
"You should have accounted for her being a fox, McVeigh", he replied nonchalantly as he activated the pink hole.
They started bringing us over to the hole, to throw us in. My body was, at this point, limp. I couldn't quite work myself up to fight. Suddenly I was filled with visions of my mother and father, and how they were gone, and my little baby brother who was on his way to being the best ninja ever, and my cousins, and how now we ourselves, the last of our kind, we're going to be gone. How empty the world was going to be...
I heard a tremendous noise then, something like squawking and shrieking. Looking over I was temporarily blinded by a swarm of feathers. When that cleared I saw both my bird cousins fighting fiercely, even while still being held by the tigers they were kicking, clawing, and pecking every piece of tiger flesh within reach. The tigers looked very annoyed, and some were showing bleeding wounds (but not as much as the one trapped in Romea's teeth).
"Can't we hurt them just a little-", one of the tigers pleaded.
He was silenced by the glare from the leader. But when Cathy managed to give him a good beak jab in the arm as she was being dragged past, he reached out and swiped her wing. I couldn't see how bad, as a renewed flurry of fur and feathers arose.
So far everyone was making their last stand but me. I was, for the first time in my life, annoyed with my turtle body. I didn't have sharp teeth or claws. My protective shell did nothing here. Or did it?
I allowed myself to be dragged closer. Then, I pulled my legs up partially into my shell. Because my captor had been pushing with all his weight to move me, the sudden loss of resistance caused him to fall forward on me, and again my shell came in handy so I didn't feel him. I managed to kick him in the stomach and then in the head before being roughly grabbed by two of the other ones. I don't think I really hurt him though.
I was thrown backwards into the portal, I think after all my cousins and sister because I didn't see them in the room now, just the tigers. Looking at the room as a whole, I was surprised to see how small they were, barely bigger than I am and I'm not even five feet. In all the chaos I assumed they were like ten feet big or something. I guess the mind can play tricks on you, especially in a fight like that. I should remember this lesson.
Just as I was getting a handle on this whole situation, just as I had come to grips with my family's murder, and steeled myself to kill as many of the fuckers as I could, then life has to throw this shit at me. Hordes of human ninjas and a giant mutant lion, that was already beyond what we could handle. Now, surprise, here we have a mutant tiger too. Or something, tiger is just the easiest way to describe it. It's also hard to get a good look at it; already our battle has begun, no time for a freak safari watch. Briefly I entertain myself with the vision of going around to all the dead bodies after we have won, maybe doing a personal autopsy on the lion and the tiger...guess I haven't quite come to grips with my grief just yet.
In the time it takes for me to get up from the wall it threw me into, it has grabbed my cousin Judaism. I leap at it, sword out at its neck, so intent on slicing its head of that it's probably at least a few seconds before I realize that I am now restrained as well, from behind. What now, a bear?
No, the claw grabbing me is white and tiger like. Several more of the creatures come into the room, we are all restrained with extra guards. We are so fucked.
"We're running out of ways to kill you guys", the tigerish thing sneers at Judaism.
It opens its jaw wide enough to almost bite Judaism's head off, and involuntarily I flinch and close my eyes, not wanting to watch the decapitation of my cousin.
"JACK! What did I tell you?!", a voice booms out.
I open my eyes a tiny bit, the vision is blurry but I am, shit, too scared to open them wider. The tiger is still poised with its teeth surrounding Judaism's head, but its eyes now look reluctantly in the direction of the voice.
"Take it out of your mouth now!", the voice booms again.
The tiger removes his teeth, but still holds Judaism captive. I decide to open my eyes wider now that the immediate danger has passed.
"Well, I thought there was a provision if they attacked us-", the tiger stammered.
The source of the voice comes into view. It is another tiger, a tiny bit bigger than the rest and slightly differently colored with lines, but otherwise identical to the others as far as I can tell. It has the aura of being a leader.
"He was going to kill the bird ones anyway-", another ventured, "If they hadn't escaped. So what difference does it make-"
"Would you like to go and ask him yourself?" the lead tiger dared.
There was a noticeable wave of fear through them all, even the one holding me. I really didn't understand this set up, why all these humans and now these monsters were in league with, and even awe of, this lion creature. It had seemed pretty simple, by mutant standards, it didn't have mechanical parts or wings or super powers, and if it hadn't been for all those damn ninja we probably would have beaten the crap out of it.
"Okay then, lets toss them with the others."
This lead tiger approached the computer and started pressing buttons and things. It seemed slightly unsure about what it was doing in that respect, making me very nervous. It was a small enough comfort that maybe the lion knew the full plan when it evaporated my cousins, but if the lead tiger- thing was suppose to evaporate us and messed up...
My mind swan with visions of slow painful disintegration, or appearing in the middle of space, or fusing with a mountain...
I turned to my sister, wanting to remember her should she die or we be otherwise forever separated. After a second of shock from seeing her covered in blood, I was actually very pleased with what I witnessed, given the circumstances. My sister had managed to get her powerful fox-jaw around the wrist of her captor, and currently held him fast in her teeth.
"Please can we kill them?" He asked the leader. He kept his voice steady but his body quivered slightly; obviously it was hurting him a lot.
The lead tiger looked over and saw the predicament.
"You should have accounted for her being a fox, McVeigh", he replied nonchalantly as he activated the pink hole.
They started bringing us over to the hole, to throw us in. My body was, at this point, limp. I couldn't quite work myself up to fight. Suddenly I was filled with visions of my mother and father, and how they were gone, and my little baby brother who was on his way to being the best ninja ever, and my cousins, and how now we ourselves, the last of our kind, we're going to be gone. How empty the world was going to be...
I heard a tremendous noise then, something like squawking and shrieking. Looking over I was temporarily blinded by a swarm of feathers. When that cleared I saw both my bird cousins fighting fiercely, even while still being held by the tigers they were kicking, clawing, and pecking every piece of tiger flesh within reach. The tigers looked very annoyed, and some were showing bleeding wounds (but not as much as the one trapped in Romea's teeth).
"Can't we hurt them just a little-", one of the tigers pleaded.
He was silenced by the glare from the leader. But when Cathy managed to give him a good beak jab in the arm as she was being dragged past, he reached out and swiped her wing. I couldn't see how bad, as a renewed flurry of fur and feathers arose.
So far everyone was making their last stand but me. I was, for the first time in my life, annoyed with my turtle body. I didn't have sharp teeth or claws. My protective shell did nothing here. Or did it?
I allowed myself to be dragged closer. Then, I pulled my legs up partially into my shell. Because my captor had been pushing with all his weight to move me, the sudden loss of resistance caused him to fall forward on me, and again my shell came in handy so I didn't feel him. I managed to kick him in the stomach and then in the head before being roughly grabbed by two of the other ones. I don't think I really hurt him though.
I was thrown backwards into the portal, I think after all my cousins and sister because I didn't see them in the room now, just the tigers. Looking at the room as a whole, I was surprised to see how small they were, barely bigger than I am and I'm not even five feet. In all the chaos I assumed they were like ten feet big or something. I guess the mind can play tricks on you, especially in a fight like that. I should remember this lesson.