Rating: M
Disclaimer: Still the same.
A/N: Last part in Innsmouth. Things sounds like nonsense.
Purge
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4/9/2006
Early hours
Washington street
What the hell is happening in this town? What was that thing? I am still horrified, that man shoot out his brain right onto me. This people.
Maybe its some kind of sickness everyone is suffering under, and ones with most grown illness are locked tight to quarantine from the others.
Or something else? I need a plan, i will attempt registry again, if it will be locked i force my way in. I cant run away, i need to reveal this mystery, this town. Something is eating my head, that pure child.
I let her die...
The streets were nearly deserted and when someone walked towards him or in his way, he simply tried to avoid them and sometimes hid in shadows, Sousuke walked in Main street and on his left old destroyed refinery laid. In roof was big hole and rest of building supported its own debris, as he looked through the metal gate what seemed to be forced open by a car or something, gold little thing laid just few meters from the gate. When the gate opened by sea breeze, his curiousness about it magnified. Old man in the grocery circulated this building and beside the destroyed things, only small gold on ground could reveal something. Sousuke crouched and understood that this was not just an ordinary gold. Strange whitish color. He examined it for a while and then hid it in his pocket. Some folks stared at him, so he disappeared. When he was crossing Main and Fall street, two strange citizens came from one building. He advanced back and leaned on the wall of nearest house.
"They say that the outsider killed old Waite and his kid." One of them said and they were coming closer.
"Maybe, maybe not, don't believe everything they say." Other ones mouth was almost blabbing, like if he was drowning or something.
"But he was caked in blood and i heard a gunshot." They were too close now.
Pass me, pass me... my heart... beating...
"And how did that kid could have deep scratches on head... i think Miss Wait was ready to go..." The two of them stopped right before Sousuke's hiding.
Come back to us... those voices inside my head.
"Yeah, you're right... wait i forgot my keys..." One searched in his pocket.
"You don't need keys." The one with the strange tone almost lost his sentence.
"But these are to my bolthole..." What?
"I see... new coffins?" He said and laughed with evil tune, then they started to go back to the fire station.
Sousuke almost sat at ground as he sighed in relief. That was too close... I need to solve this mystery, i need to end this horror, that nightmares. When his sight and mind focused again on thing he wanted to do, his steps led him towards the registry office. Again, when he grabbed the handle, only sound of locked door chimed. The square was empty now, so he searched around the house for another way in. Windows were boarded and back door locked, he chose the back door. Now with gun. Sousuke leaned his body on the door and pushed, but even with the age, it was too though to make it only with the pressure. He took a one step back and prepared to kick the door out. When he clashed against them, it just opened and the lock fell on ground. It made no sound at all, probably eaten by termites. Sousuke stepped towards wall before him and in combat position leaned on it. No risking now. Slowly he walked in a corridor and saw red light coming from under one door. He opened it quickly and checked it with the pistol, but it was only a dark room. But yet something told him, that it wasn't right. There were photos hanging on the strings with pegs. And blackboard with some data. Firstly he don't paid much attention to it,but then he understood. What the...?
"I am on all these photos..." He looked around the room and saw his life in Tokyo.
"All of them..." Then Sousuke looked on the blackboard with data.
"Day, school, from school with Chidori... how?" This thing make his mind go dizzy.
Hallucinations, both audio and visual. Come back to us... You need to remember.
Those creatures in the light. He remembered his last moment before the unconsciousness.
Then his eyes laid on one photo on table between instruments to developing the photos. He took it. It looked like a picture of some carving into a wall behind a strange kind of podium. Then he read it.
I know now just how insignificant mankind is in the universe -- a doomed and simple species thrown up as a side effect of an experiment by Elder Things.
It is a blessing that such flawed creatures as ourselves have such a short and limited future.
Its familiar...
"Hmph..." Sousuke didn't believe it, but still something yelled inside his head.
"Huh?" His mouth left and he pointed his gun towards the direction of sound.
Slowly and quietly he walked towards the half open door, in there was a person making shuffling sounds, it looked like he cut something. Sousuke placed his pistol on his head and calmly said.
"Freeze..."
"Oh..." It was a woman voice, thing what fell from her hands was Molotov cocktail. Who the hell?
Sousukes arm lowered and he smelt the stench of gas and turpentine. The woman looked around. She seemed to be in Sousuke's age, green eyes and nearly military clothes on her. When he turned the light on, Sousuke saw the Redhead.
"You destroyed it, i only needed one more!" She shouted and stood in anger, she treated him as some kind of... kin.
"Who are you?" He asked pointing his gun at her again.
"Its not important..." She said and walked towards something as a gasoline can.
"Put that gun away, you will spoil it again." Girl grabbed one can and filled a empty bottle with the turpentine.
"At least you seem to be normal..." Sousuke said and sat at one box behind him and checked his ammo status.
"Give me a hand here Sousuke." One can fell on the ground.
"How the hell you know my name." He pointed his gun again.
"I know you will come here..." Suddenly the things started to fit in.
My name, Innsmouth...
"I see... Arthur..." Sousuke said and looked from the window remembering the e-mail.
"I am sorry." She placed the bottle on table and looked on ground.
"Sorry for what?" He asked.
"For getting you in it all..." Sousuke thought about what she meant.
"Why are you doing this?" He looked on the Molotov's and in the room he saw double shotgun and few handguns, along with scraps of papers.
She paused, Sousuke looked at ground. There was a photo frame laying on the glass fragments, when he took it, there was a picture of an old man along with her. But just like with Maria, piece was torn out from it. He laid it back as she began to talk.
"I'm not from Innsmouth, i lived happily in Boston with my parents... For fifteen years nothing wrong happened and we all just enjoyed a normal life. I lived a student life with both my parents... i was happy." There were pauses, where she seemed to stop from sadness. Sousuke just listened.
"Then a year ago, my mother and father both died in traffic accident on crossroad, semaphore failure, they named it... And because i wasn't adult, they assigned me into my grandfathers care. My grandfather didn't live in Innsmouth too, he was from Arkham, but his bills made him to rehouse..." The girl turned to wall and Sousuke felt her pain.
"In Arkham he was a priest, when we both came here people disagreed his believe and continued in worshiping of 'Dagon' - 'Elder Things'. They started to call themselves the 'Deep ones'. Sousuke was interested in this. She made another pause.
"One day, when they started a fire in church, grandfather came home and told me his secret." She came closer to Sousuke and took the photo from ground.
"He was talking nonsense, later he told me that all town will be purged by fires of hell. Firstly i thought that he was crazy but he told me that all that year when we lived here, he was placing bombs all under it, in sewers..." She told with horrifying tone in the word sewers.
"What happened then?" He asked when the pause was too long.
"One day, i found him on threshold in pool of blood, he was talking about devils down there and handed me a bible."
"Bible?" Sousuke asked, a little bit mystified.
"Why bible?"
"They are scared from consecration."
"I thought it was an ordinary book and placed it between the others, but then it fell on floor one day and detonator jumped out of it." So thats it, but still. Why shes dressed like that, why she has guns here?
"Why me?" Sousuke asked, when the e-mail jumped in his mind.
"There was a rumor that a man fainted on Devil's Reef, that they found him on the coast. When they brought him to Arkham, he was talking with language what horrified them and then they committed him to the asylum, i visited you there on 16th March." She talked with terrifying calmness.
"What? So you visited me, do a little search and then chose to use me?" He didn't know what to thought about it.
"Yes i dug out an informations about you and Mithril and chose you. I needed your help with getting out of this town. Then we will blow it here!" She shouted.
"Thats not the real reason!" Sousuke didn't understand why he.
"You were talking... with their language... those who came from sea, Deep Ones."
Calling to me... pounding in my head... pounding in my chest... Pa pa pa pa ra pa...
That light i saw there in that portal. Why i forgot? It wasn't a Deep Ones, it was something else. Something. "Where am i?"
The great city of Pnakota... Pnakotic manuscripts, classic Greek... That photo, experiment - Yith.
"Just what the hell is happening in this city..." Sousuke said to himself, girl laid a book before him.
It was big book heavily bound, written by hand. Translation which captain Obed Marsh made from the old tablets, in there were things described in our lettering, Dagon was a member of the 'Elder Things' - first inhabitants of earth. Even that he wasn't the strongest whole half of the book was about 'Cthulhu', what was great old one. With their servants, Shoggoths, they built a great underwater city - R'lyeh and lived there. But Shoggots dreamed about freedom and once almost destroyed whole race. Cthulhu died, but there was a link to Necronomicon. Couplet.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons, even death may die.
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. Yet He shall rise and His kingdom shall cover the Earth.
The things here in the town were members of Deep Ones, led by father Dagon and mother Hydra.
When Sousuke tried to close the book his fingers automatically got to certain page, dizziness entered his mind.
Breed with humans is the key.
What the hell is happening here... what... those visions... those dreams...
He closed the book and laid it beside the box he sat on.
"Very... interesting, but i don't believe it." Sousuke looked at her.
"And the thing in Marshes house what everyone is talking about?" She said and Sousuke took out the golden piece he picked up at the refinery.
"That is their gold, from under sea..." That would explain the whitish color.
Sousuke stood and walked towards the window looking out of the hole in one plank.
"Can i ask you something?" She suddenly said and he felt her presence behind him.
"Depends on the thing you want."
"How old are you?" She asked taking a step closer to him.
"Old enough..."
"Any family?"
"No... but many people raised me." Sousuke membered his childhood.
"Is there anyone you like?" She suddenly asked out of nowhere.
"Why do you want to know that?" Sousuke turned at her.
"Well if there is someone special waiting for you, you should run out now and leave my plan to me." She explained her interest.
"No... well maybe..." He said and looked before him blankly.
"I see..." She leaned her body on the wooden wall.
"Why are you doing this?" Sousuke seemed to be repeating.
"I already answered this question." She was strict.
"I mean, this fight... this things..." He pointed around the room.
"Well... i always wanted to be a soldier... and now its fulfilling." She watched him with serious look now.
"Tell me, how the war looks like?" Girl with green eyes and body what was worth a sin said.
"Its just a series of random battles... it changed..." He said.
"Maybe long time ago it made a sense. But now its not about ethnics, good, freedom or tyranny, its just a medley of enhanced soldiers and machines. No purpose, just profit. Only territory, money and economy... Total control..." He said and she silently listened for whole time.
"Maybe i was stupid to want that..." She said and with loud noise bullet came through the plank in the window.
The bullet missed him, but hit the girl right into her body. Sousuke fired a few rounds out into the planks and then he understood that something went wrong. Again a normal human in this town. Sousuke came closer to her, grabbed her and on his back carried out of the fire. When they came into the corridor, she pointed towards door into some room.
"Bible..."
She said and Sousuke immediately understood. It was library, there was a special place in the middle of shelf, only one book laid there. He grabbed it and opened, thin black thing was there. Detonator. When he came back, she was dead, line of blood coming from her mouth. Lungs. Sousuke closed her eyes with his right hand. Everyone here is dying, always dying. What did i saw there? What? Suddenly the things called onto him.
"Where am i?"
Great city of Pnakotus.
"My head... there was screaming... that head... that green and white lighting...
"Its not possible... that portal."
"I have to get out."
Where do you want to go, now?
"I don't know... who are you?"
"I don't understand."
Sousuke grabbed the shotgun and box of shells along with two Molotov's and matches. The door opened and he tossed one Molotov out, there was screaming from things, what weren't exactly human. Then he fired from shotgun two rounds and ran out from the door. Out there, those things gathered, some had pistols, some revolvers and some knives and axes. He ran in the State street, railroad station was his chance. His movements drained stamina extremely, but he simply had to make it. The shotgun handed on his arm when he tried to reload, in the middle of the run. Screaming all around the town and shouting from all directions. The box fell on the ground, with anger he tossed the shotgun and only with pistol ran towards his goal -explosion. Sousuke stopped, he mistook the direction, instead to railroad station he ran towards the Water street and coast.
"Damn!"
Then behind him, thing with staff appeared, horrible fish like frog with fabric over its body. Only the look on it made him feel dizzy, but this was more like a dream, so what to bother about it. He took the other Molotov, but the thing moved with hand and Molotov flew on the other side of the town. Power of the winds. Sousuke fired few times, but bullets only crushed into the meat, no visible injuries. He shoot more, then the thing tossed him back with its crystal and yellow power ball, knocked him down into the sand on coast. Pistol was from the reach and the damn thing came closer and closer.
That features, almost like a human... breeding, fish man plus woman. Come back to us... Shut up! That light, that nameless girl. That child, that Waite. This thing. His mind wanted an amulet, his photo of Kaname, but he reached something else in the pocket.
"I am sorry..." He said.
"Again?" Gills of that thing said.
Sousuke pressed the button on the detonator and light made the world dizzy again, as he flew into the ocean. When the stars are right, he will wake up.