Rating: M

Disclaimer: Still the same

A/N: This chapter is last before the epilogue, no one will die. Only few background people. However... nah read for yourself.

When the stars are right, part 2

Gates of delirium

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4/23/2006

Morning, i don't know the weather undersea

TDD-1

Tell me her name, shes beautiful and mysterious.
And under white veil, her shoulders are shining through, tell name of her, what boys dreams of her, with love and hate shes giving into songs.
Tell me where shes hiding, when, in last dance, she is pulling with rope from mortuary bell.

Boys eyes are shining, when drums in their minds are spinning.

You hear her name, when kids are playing on her.
About the dream of danger, young boys are thinking secretly.
Her lips are hot and she don't betray her lovers, they had sweet on their mouths, those who are cradling their guns.
Shes got a weep eyes, when, with wedge of her sabot, shes crushing illusions of mommy darlings.


Blood is descending on eyebrow and vampire kiss have a sweet taste.

Her name is war, when shes embracing her lovers.
Mothers are educating still, sometimes uselessly, young freaks.
Then its narrowed in the throat, when shes pointing at you, and then "Save our souls!", often is heard.

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Did i got completely mad in my past days, or the things what i saw, really happened? That child, that man, those things and that girl. The explosion of that city launched me into the sea and waves made their job too. When i opened my eyes again, i saw just this cabin and water i coughed in my unconsciousness. I forgot all things i learned in that town, since the incident in the registry office, maybe i wanted it. Now i am only writing nonsense sentences into my diary, like some crazy lunatic. Maybe i am. I don't know who i am. Crazy, yeah, schizophrenic a little. The pressure i heard, in the walls of the submarine, ensured me in the thing what they were doing. That thing was undersea. Hell, hell, hell... I closed my diary and walked around my room, all of furniture was cleaned out. They took it, in order to prevent me of killing myself. But those things. I'm slowly remembering. I already remembered the thing on coast. Lung shot...

"Lung shot? Yeah that girl with green eyes, so thats why i wrote it..." I slowly calmed and sat at the ground with drawings all around.

That feeling i had, something wasn't right, not only Relmmih something else. Something. Blinking thing, in the middle of one corner, just under the ceiling, watched me whole time. When steps led me left, it turned left, when right, it turned right. I was tired of this. What did they want? Again some images entered my mind, random scraps of my past with a hint of imaginations, drew horrifying scenery. But now i recognized their faces, scary, but it wasn't those from Innsmouth. When their foots landed on ground, it made a strange clapping sound. They talked to me, with my language, i understood it. I already met them twice. Where do you want to go now?

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"What is this place?" I asked when my shock, of their appearance, disappeared.

Great city of Pnakotus...

"Why do i needed to be strong, what battle do you meant?" My mouth left this and my strange tone and pitch of my voice shocked me.

The end is inevitable and close, very close.

"How much time do we have?" This totally got me, i was there before, maybe i saw this before.

Not much.

"If this is the end, where am i suppose to go?" I didn't know what they meant, but i understood.

Its time for you to go back.

"Back?"

Yes, back to your old time, but before you leave there is something you need to know...

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Then loud sounds brought me back to the reality, scratching and scuffing. It almost seemed to be coming from the walls, somehow it pissed me off. My ears were ringing from pain.

The sounds in the walls. Is that possible?

"There are rats... in the walls... scratching... mocking me, rats..." I was whispering first, but then i must stop myself from the shout.

The door opened again and Mao with two of the guards, grabbed me and jabbed some stuff into me, sedatives i supposed. Firstly i struggled, but then i gave up and continued to babble it. This reminded me of Bohnm again, as they dragged me, all five days, everyday. Therapy - shocks. I saw that screwed corridor again, white walls, white metal little tables, hands of mad ones waving from the grates, in their locked cells. Then on the other end of the corridor, was white background with something. Tentaculiform hands, waving with surprising calmness, within eternity of my subconscious. Then blood covered my sight, not me, just this scenery. Then i heard it, from behind, but i couldn't turn around.

"Its not a problem..." I heard myself, 16th of March. "...Elder things, experiments, Yog-Sothoth, Azothoth... Cthulhu kins from the north." And that girl, what died right before me, walked there to visit me. This picture flashed along with blood coming from her mouth. Is she dead?

"So, does that make you happy Sousuke?" Someone asked, but i didn't understand it.

"I don't understand..."

"Another girl on your score..."

When i opened my eyes from the hallucinations, with another injection from Mellisa, my eyes focused and i saw the commanding room.

Kalinin, Madam Captain, Mao, Kurz... This is bad. What do they want from me? I need my diary. They left their hold of me and i stood on my own legs, little unfocused from the sedatives. Still my sight was blurry and darkened. But like if that mattered?

"Party... for chosen..." I hate sedatives.

"Sgt. Sagara... we want your explanation." Captain started, maybe it was my imagination, but i didn't understand a single word of it.

"About... what?" Like if i was drunk or something.

"The thing what happened in Innsmouth, also all about your connections in the Order of Dagon and so called 'Cthulhu cult', or we will need to use special treatment." Kalinin said in his classic tone and i barely heard it.

"No thanks, i have been fed with the volts already..." My mind came with doctor Relmmih and cords in his hands.

Testarossa seemed to be shocked by my sentence and immediately stood up from her seat and asked Kalinin about it.

"What methods did you use in the interrogation?" She asked and Kalinin had a questioned look in his face too.

"I don't know for sure, i left Sgt. Maj. Mao empty hand in this thing, but her technique, sure is disturbing." Kalinin then stepped right before Mao, who stood beside me.

"I want a full explanation." He demanded with his usual tone.

"I was interrogating him?" She asked into the room. What the hell!

"Nice try Mellisa, but you were the one with Relmmih in that room, you even ordered me to guard the door from outside." Kurz joined into the discussion, with a little angry temper.

"What? I was sleeping in my bed." She stepped back and understood the danger. Just what the hell is happening here?

"Sgt. Major Mao, i need to ask you to show me some proof about your version." Captain Testarossa came with not very calm voice, it was discussion about my life after all.

"I don't know... i was in this corridor, then i saw some blue light and i said 'he told us everything' and then only bed and bad dream." Her voice was shaking, i felt it. But something told me, that she had a truth.

"I know what she is talking about..." I said when the voice inside my head finished.

Suddenly the whole room watched me, as i almost whispered my sentence.

"Its Yog-Sothoth worshiping practice..." I said louder then before.

"What do you mean?" Tessa along with half of the room asked.

"I cant say that for sure, but i saw it... the underground temple under the Arkham asylum. Relmmih was worshiping the 'other gods' there, Yog-Sothoth to be precise... beside other things." When i finished everybody just watched me and i understood, that none of them believed me a bit of it.

"Yog Suhoth-what?" Kurz asked with a face, what somehow mocked me.

Silence, silence occupied the room. Only sounds of monitors, and submarine rotors were in this moment. I watched the picture what camera, placed on the front of the TDD-1, played. Water, blackness. Too deep we got.

"Let me guess, Latitude 47° 9' S, Longitude 126° 43' W." My eyes watched the water and underwater animals, what crossed the picture here and there.

"How do you kno..." She tried to ask me a question, i didn't know myself.

"R'lyeh." This thing left my mouth. Disgusting image appeared before my eyes, i closed them to end the vision.

"What did you saw in the light Sousuke?" And understood who said this thing.

"Why do you want me to tell something i don't know, i just don't get it." I again spoke and they told me.

"We monitored the whispered for some time now, not a single mistake, until that day... 6th of March." The day when i almost died at Devils Reef, day what started it all.

"As you know the whispered are coming with new technical details and plans almost always, but that day, all stopped to use their gifts." Kalinin said with a serious tone.

"What?" I got the picture, but few pieces still left.

"They cant use their powers. Last thing they saw and said were this cults, Innsmouth, and... you." What the hell? Isn't it twisted enough already.

"And i drew this, that day." Testarossa showed me some paper with strange weapon on it.

Strange tube with devices on the sides, ended by sharp spikes, ending it in perfect peak. It was described in detail, notes with lines coming from exact parts, described almost everything on it. I looked down on the paper, in one corner was name of that thing. GEW, great energy weapon, not too much fantasy here, last thing what black technology described in the minds of whispered. As i read the name, picture similar to the one i saw this morning appeared. Things stood in the same places as before, the meaning of it was a real mystery.

-

It wasn't until our strategy based on the great energy weapon was developed, that we had the means to fight their evil.

"Why are you showing me this, now?"

They are still down there Sousuke, they are plotting, plotting to break free of their bonds and do a terrible revenge.

The end is inevitable... but there still is a chance... but if you fail...

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What were those things, what am i seeing? When i was in seizure, they locked me into my cabin again. We were still deep under the ocean, we had small chances, no chances. I watched the door, leaned on the other side of my room, apathetically. 6 started it all. What power brought me there, fate, coincidence, accident? My thoughts jabbed my mind, as a thousands of wasps, but i must got to the bottom of this thing. And more that i tried to remember, more i saw white walls of sanatorium. My own door with grates. My own sanatorium cell. I crawled towards the door, but my sight started to spin around, door opened. After a moment i saw myself with the gun, alongside with someone. My eyes focused and i saw the person what stood beside my figure with gun.

This is not possible not possible... so many are dead. What am i becoming! Then it vanished, as inside Marshes house. My ears rang like after explosion. I heard nothing, only slight knocking on the door.

Mocking me again? Rats? Rats cant knock on door. Why did they knock? They opened it whenever they wanted. Knocks disappeared, i left a relief sigh and thought about it for a while. Who exactly stood beside me? I couldn't tell the difference between the reality and imagination, but this wasn't from a shock. Something else it was, maybe truth. Ringing inside my ears left me alone, but now i heard muted scuffing. Then some steel thing, in the lock of my door, moved with the lock.

I don't want shocks from Relmmih again! Door started to open slowly. Each centimeter it got, my eyes spread wider and wider, sound of squeak again. When it opened fully, my heart pounded as hell. No this is impossible... how long it was? Then i calmed instantly. Its just a hallucination.

"Sousuke..." She spoke and my heart again pounded as in marathon.

"What... are you doing here?" My guardian, my angel. What the hell is she doing here!

"They brought me here to do some research." She said and i just watched her, as that photo i had.

"Tessa told me everything..." Kaname closed the door and sat beside me.

"You think i'm crazy too, huh?" I said after a while of uncomfortable silence.

"Not entirely..." She said, almost whispered.

"Well, fuck that." She was in a shock, when i said this and watched me, as i continued.

"Leave if you don't trust me, better now when you still have a chance." The suggestion i made, angered her petite temper.

"What are talking about, i came here because i trust you!" She shouted right into my ear, i just watched the floor.

"Maybe... but its already too late... there is no point in believing to anyone." I calmly said maybe a question.

"What are you talking about?" She looked now right into my face.

"It already started, cant you see it. Whispered are seeing black technology, which is cutting-edge machines." I said staring into her eyes.

"In fact we can say that you're seeing future. And now... you stopped." I finished and she look questioned.

"You mean..." Her mouth left this.

"There is no future at all..." I finished her thought and looked at the floor again.

She looked away too, leaned at the wall for a while, but then she jumped.

"There have to be some chance, what about that GEW i saw when my visions ended?" Kaname was full of hope.

"Its deep under the Antarctica, in the city of Pnakotus, its lost." I, on the other hand, held the wisdom of the great race of Yith.

"Just... how do you know this..." She sat on the floor before me, last hope slowly vanishing in her.

"I heard it...humanity is finished, its their time now." My mouth left, as i singed the end.

"Who?" Kaname didn't know anything.

"Elder things, Cthulhu. Maybe today is the new era, it is really a blessing that such flawed creatures as ourselves have such short and limited future." Then i understood what the photo in the dark room meant, photo of my room in the sanatorium, from the 16th of March. When that girl visited me.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Kaname was still mystified.

"Maybe i started it all, when i activated that teleport on the Devils Reef... 6th of March, year 0. Then those creatures, Yithian, Pnakotic manuscripts. All is piecing together. That light in the portal." I sat at the ground, in hopeless state.

"But we still have to try it..." Kaname said and pined with her sight into my eyes.

"I don't care... its hopeless." On the other hand my pessimism destroyed all hopes.

"You know something, you really changed. No soldier talk, coarse language, giving up before the battle end. Are you sure you're Sgt. Sousuke Sagara anymore?" Kanames words somehow dug into my brain.

"Everybody is changing." I said glooming all the time.

She stood up instantly.

"Ok! If you want to eat yourself here, then do it! I will try to help them to save the earth, you stay here and DIE!" Her shouting was far more louder then before.

She started to leave and i opened my diary to write this down, accidentally i opened it on the other page. Page long before my last entry. Hits: 8, Shouts: 25, Lucks: 0.5, Lecture: 13. I smiled a little, as i remembered that day as the days long before, and something lighten up in me again, hope maybe, i didn't know. The diary closed and i stood up.

"Wait..." Kaname stopped, when i said this word.

"What do you want, coward." She turned her back to me and crossed her arms.

"There is something i need to tell you." All targets and mission goals were left behind that sentence.

"Speak." She was strict, still angry.

"I came through a lot in my past month, i don't want to describe these things, but only one thing is important. Its not about distance, in all dangers i came through, you, or image of you, saved me from the certain death. I saw her, but the scythe was too slow, with your help i managed to jumped from it for many times. Then i understood, that with you, i can do anything even beat the death, or save the world and..." I tried to finish it, but she turned and her fingers connected on my back. She embraced me.

For a while we stood there not even thinking about dialog or breaking the embrace.

"And thank you." I finished the thing, i needed to tell.

"Now i need to go, to save the world, or just try it..." My face gloomed again and strategy was constructing in my brain.

"We will go together, i wont leave you now!" She shouted and i cant force her to stay.

"Ok... I'm sorry i changed." I said as we left my cabin.

"Maybe the moron left you at last." Kaname joked, as we walked together in the corridor.

We had to be careful, if someone caught us, they could place us both behind the cabin doors. But we were lucky, broadcast firstly shocked us, but we hid and all the crew, was summoned in the kitchen room. They left the hangar empty, maybe i could use the AS to get us to the surface. But still i wasn't sure about the depth, so the danger of big pressure haunted my mind. But what after that? Search the Antarctica? No, i had a better plan. I planned to launch Kaname to safe place and then encounter the danger, along with the rest of our group. As we sneaked through the darkened corridor, something blurred my eyes, something i saw before. I suddenly stopped sneaking, i saw that thing, what hung before me. No monster just ordinary submarine equipment.

"What did you saw in the light Sousuke?" Kaname suddenly asked me.

"What?" I heard this somewhere before, mechanic.

Suddenly the TDD-1 clashed against something and all hull shook. The impact threw us both forward. The contact with wall hurt as hell, but i focused in a short time and caught Kaname by my own body.

"What was that?" She asked before she understood our closeness.

I saw this somewhere. The engines stopped, i felt the vanishing pressure of the outside water. The submarine was coming up slowly, we both stood up. Slowly we walked to the place, where we were before the clash and i saw that sing again. 'Living quarters 3-4', again i heard pounding inside my chest and head. My breath magnified and Kaname realized, that there was something wrong with me, my forehead started to sweat, i stepped into the corridor on my right and it was empty. Then something dropped in the corridor, we just left and wall covered that thing. Those two bodies. Us? My gun was confiscated, so i grabbed the rail on my right side and protected Kaname with my body. With a pipe in my hand, i waited for the thing to reveal itself, Kaname grabbed my chest from behind and embraced me, she whispered something, but i didn't hear it. We will die, we will die. This thing what was stumping in the aisle. It will kill us. I saw it. Those things from Innsmouth? No, this was something else. Again Kaname whispered something, but i don't heard it. Shit... what now? I stepped back and my move forced her to do it too. She now said something louder, but still not enough to made me hear. I smelt the stench of dead fish now. Was it my imagination, or that thing what will reveal just moments later? Why are you following me? I want my daddy back. Maria was there. It hurts... Will we end the same way as that little girl in that town? Stench made me cough and my eyes blurred, i heard my heart pounding. We both lost our balance and fell on ground, as the submarine jumped from the underwater. Now we were on surface. We laid there, still steps before us and the stench was coming closer. I grabbed her hand and led her into one room and closed the door behind us. The thing still came in our direction. I ensured it with the pipe and slammed a few times in it, to secure it. The room, where we were, was dark. It was impossible to see the interior. We heard steps coming towards the door. Kaname grabbed my hand, i felt her fear.

"Will we die here?" She whispered.

"No, we wont, if we will fight to the end." I encouraged her.

"Did you heard what i said before?" Kaname meant the thing in the corridor just moments ago.

"Yes, me too." I lied.

"I'm glad..." She embraced me again, i didn't know why, maybe because of the situation.

But this time, she did it tightly.

Suddenly blinking and then light filled the room, emergency generator, it was ammunition room. I stood up, grabbed the shotgun along with the box of shells and reload it at once. The sounds of the shells, entering the weapon, rang along with steps of that thing behind the door. Now it tried to get in, and clashed against the door. Even if this was ammunition storage, still it had thin door. I entered the last shell and pulled it to finish it. My first shot came through the door and exploded outside. This was experimental shell. We saw bottom of that thing, strange skin shaped, as a human legs. Then it jumped to the left and disappeared. I grabbed the handle and opened the door, jumped out and checked the left side. Kaname was right behind me, the thing appeared again. Head shaped like a star, it was something i saw, something i knew. Star-spawn. I searched my memory if the shotgun laid along with the bodies in decay. I shoot again, the shot hit its head and substance covered whole corridor. This time i killed it. We wont die. We will survive. Star-spawns came to the earth along with Cthulhu. Did it really awaken? Shit! We walked through the submarine, i was checking every corner with the shotgun and when we came to hangar, only one AS was left. I tried to activate it, but nothing happened. Change of plans. We came to the elevator and i pressed the button. The elevator stopped in the middle of its way.

"What now..." Kaname almost gave up.

Suddenly i fell on the ground and my shotgun with flash disappeared. Then, in the middle of the elevator, strange thing appeared. That thing what captain showed me. GEW. I came closer and grabbed it, even with the size, it was quite light to lift it up. Then again the elevator started to move. Did someone stopped the time? Great race of Yith. When the thing stopped the pad, where the AS were launching to the long distances, could be saw. I walked few meters forward and then saw the terrible scenery.

"Christ..." I understood what it was.

Island, mud around it, surrounded great structures, built with horrifying geometry style, town or something like that, all around the island, Arm Slaves fought with those creatures bigger, than that we saw, flashes and explosions, gunshots, screams of humans and that things. Basalt, nonsense buildings were home to those things, until now. It started, R'lyeh arose already. In the middle of it all, hideous building in some almost alien architecture stood, monolith-crowned citadel. Cthulhu's tomb. Then explosion in the middle of the TDD-1 sounded, luckily the reactor survived. Then other of those things, just tall as AS, appeared before us, i protected Kaname by my own body. It moved, i pressed a button on the side of that new weapon and it started to load an energy, the blue lighting was attracted to to the center of this thing and the spikes started to spin around. This thing needs some time to shoot, as i see. I shot and great blue lightning missed my target. Then the star-spawn moved with surprising fastness and the claw which it mutated, injured my chest. I fell and pressed the button again, the spawn targeted Kaname now. This angered me and i fully hit my target, it exploded and the thing was all over the submarine. The blood came from my chest, i grabbed the wound with my left hand, blood descended on my eyebrow too. Kaname ran towards to me.

"Sousuke!" She shouted, but i didn't paid attention to it.

"No!" Kaname grabbed me.

Then the horror began, great stone door launched open and green hand, with small sharp claws, grabbed the remainings, it was big hand with something as a membrane, on the one side of it. Another hand came out from the tomb and with big earthquake and scream, the head appeared. It seemed to be squid head, tentaculiform beard, but i knew that this was some alien, what came on the earth aeons ago. When it completely came out, that yellow eyes saw some AS, it grabbed it and the machine, was like a little doll in its hand. Now it launched it on the ground and another explosion was heard. I and Kaname just watched it with opened eyes. Suddenly large bats wings came out, it had wings, that colossus turned around and singed its purposes. Amoral thing with a strange sense of good and evil. I aimed on the head with my Energy gun and pressed the button again, then i shoot. The blast made only a small scratch on him and the scratch healed up instantly. It was hopeless. My eyes were dizzy and one of them blinded by blood, coming from my head. The GEW fell on the ground and then after a moment i fell too, Kaname instantly reached to me.

"Don't die!"

The pad doors were closing, someone was diving with this thing again, i closed my eyes in the pool of blood. Only one day remained, 24th will choose it all. I already explored the gates of a real delirium now... and gates of R'lyeh too. Just what did she said back there. "I l... y...".

-

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

Yet He shall rise and His kingdom shall cover the Earth.
Avatars B'moth and Chorazin will help.

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You know your fate.

You have only a second.

The brightness is growing stronger.

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Still, there is a chance.