Hi, another chapter. Ti took a while to write it but here it is.
Shadows of the city danced over the lightning stirkes. It echoed all over the city walls. Storm was coming, maybe even worse than the last one. Korhu and his crewmates were searching for android around the city. Malakh was still in the ship, regenerating. This time his recovery was getting slower than before.
Ueru was obserwing city square. Shadows of the dead inhabitants seemed alive under the incoming storm. Even sounds seemed like whispers of dead. He didn't felt fear, but he still felt chils from this place. It was like he is walking throught the coridors of hell. If there is a hell… He checked the location of others. They were on different sides of each others.
''We shouldn't have gone in a search alone. We should have sticked together.'' But they didn't listened him. ''Damn! If this goes wrong, I'll burn this entire planet down all by my self and come to end of this madness. The elder decisions were all wrong. Damn and their merci over their creations! We didn't want to create and sacrifise our people anyway. That was their ''sacred'' decision!''
Ueru was clenching his fists till they started to bleed. But he didn't feel it.. He was to furious because all of this. And now they are at risk to lose another life because of humans. As they didn't lost enough.
Korhu was caling for Ueru, Haneer and Hestu. They all answered but Hestu didn't. He called him again but still nothing. He checked his signal, he was still moving around the city, but why didn't he answered.
Korhu and his men met at the city square to see what to do. The storm was almost in front of them and they should hurry inside the ship if they don't want to get hurt. They called Hestu again, but still nothing, just sound of statick. They thought something is wrong with his suit. But that happened almost never. Maybe once, but that was because of acid of the being they killed.
Chills went over their bodies. No way that thing could be here, or... Nommii said the woman pulled out of herself two of them. He remembered then.
''We have to hurry if we want to find him and save him! Which way is closest to his location?!''
Ueru looked the city map. ''We have to go thought main hall and a small cave inside one of the inhabitants rooms. There we could get out and reach him in few minutes. If he is still alive.''
''Think he is, he is still moving. Hope he is just lost conection, and nothing more!'' Korhu said nervously. They hurried the way Ueru showed them.
David was still disconected, and heavily injured, but his conections were slowly putting him togeather again. When he got his vision back he observed the place he was in. It wasn't familiar to him. How did he got here? He didn't remembered he managed to get here alone becauce he was to much hurted. He didn't saw his children inside. But it must be them.
''My loved ones!'' He said with losing his voice under the conection still damaged.
He thought of what is going on in the city, are the Engineers trying to find him. Did his children found them?! He has to wait till he fully recover, if they don't find him first. He can't do anything else now.
After a while David begun to feel his energy levels rise again, so did his legs and arms movements, but still partially. His AI nerve conections didn't heel fully. He observed his suroundings, he was in somekind of cave. He couls see stalactites and stalagmites around himself.
The weather was getting wild outside and he was near the entrance to the cave, but he couldn't walk to get in to get away from it, so he tried to crawl. In the distance he could hear sounds like his children cry, but it was probably just the wind. But the sound was getting stronger no metter how strong the wind blow.
He could hear a silent cry, like wounded animal after the fight. Than it came in. It was breathing slow and deep. It was in great pain. It curled up ner him and cried. David looked at his child. His abdomen was almost ripped of and burned with something.
''That animals!'' David was furious. ''How could they do that to you? Do they not see how perfect you are? Where is your sister, is she alive?'' The being just observed David not reacting a bit.
David was almost fully recovered, and his arm movements were back in completly. He reached in his pockets to see are there ampules with regeneration serum he made. He cut his finger on broken one but two were still intact. He broke the cap on it and aplied on burned and ripped area. It wasn't reacting at first, but then it started to heal a bit. The area was too big so it's going slowly, but it will help.
David touched it's head, like he is trying to calm a child. It was starting to purr like cat. It wasn't crying in pain anymore, it fell to sleep.
Korhu and his team were coming closer to the cave they found on map. ''Faster, Hestu is still out of reach. And getting farther away!''
Ueru was first inside. He looked it, it was occupied by someone recently. It looked like a medical room. He observed place around himself. ''Quickly! You have to see this!'' Ueru yelled.
Korhu and his team came inside in a few secounds. They were in confusion. ''What kind of place is that. They haven't got second medical room in the city!''
''Look at ilustrations and text. It was that being! It was making test's on their bodies, and our embrios. It used Black Death, and the serum! Here is something more. It seems he made some improvement on the regeneration serum!''
''What?! Is there any sample of it?!'' Korhu asked.
''I don't know, I don't see anything.''
''We have to go! HURRY! Take the scripts and intact containers. We'll deal with that later, after we save Hestu!''
There was smal crack on the wall, like an opening. Ueru kicked the wall with his boots and after a few blows with his boots, small opening begun to show. They entered outside of the cave in the direction of Hestu's last signal.
Wind was blowing really hard now and storm was almost on top of them. Hestu was still on the oposite side of them but they were reaching him fast now. Korhu looked over his sensor, but still there was nothing to see, he felt confused when he saw they past right next to the place of his recent signal, but they didn't noticed him. He looked again around himself in confusion.
''What?'' Ueru asked.
''We passed his last location, and didn't see him at all!'' Korhu said.
''How, we were observing all around us! Where is he now?''
''Two hundred meters behind us! Look very carefully! THERE! We can't loose another man!'' They slowly returned.
''He is here!'' Hanner yelled. ''On that rock! He is bleeding a lot!''
They all run to him. He was breathing heawy, already in shock from blood loss, but still conscious. ''I tried to kill the dragon but he managed to ripp my suit and burn my skin. I don't remember what hapened next, I was unconscious for a while.
Korhu sccned his body, something was inside his abdomen. ''We have to hurry! We don't have much time if we want to save him!''
''Why! What's happening?! Ueru and Hanner asked.
''He is carring dragons embrio! We have to take it out before it grow larger!''
Korhu raised him from the rock, Ueru and Hanner helped him to carry him to the ship.
Inside the ship, Elizabeth and Malakh were still sleeping under the influence of drugs they gave them. Nommii was watching over them. Elizabeth belly was a bit more swolen, but not from injury, from growth of the baby.
Nommy heard loud noices when Korhu and his team returned back.
''Move!'' Heaneer yelled at her, while draging Hestu in his arms.
''What hapened? Where are you taking him?!'' She asked.
But they didn't answered, they just ran inside other medical room in their ship. They slowly put down his body on one large table in the middle of the room.
''Stay with me..''
''Stay with me..''
''Stay with me..''
Elizabeth turned around, and again she saw familiar face in a distance. The face of Him.. the One she let to be killed so she could live.
He is strugling, losing the last of the oxigen in his lungs. There is nothing left there anymore, cities destroyed.. screams are fading, so is his hope in his people and human race. But his child is alive, he left her to be guarded with that human woman.
He looked at her with broken heart.. ''Why did you left me there?! Why did you release it on me? I could have save you!'' He reached to touch her, but she steped away from him, turning her backs to him. He touched her hand with light touch on her fingers. She felt burst of his emotions, almost breaking her heart.
She turned to confront him, but he was gone, ans she was left alone again in warm desert night, looking at the camp fire she thought her father let on fire.
With a sudden jerk, she jumped from the medical table feeling deliric from the dream she had again. She saw Him again, but why..''I could have save you!'' His words still echoed in her head. ''That's not true! You tried to kill me!'' She covered her ears despretly trying to stop the voices in her head. But maybe..If she didn't reached the axe.. maybe He wouldn't..''
STOP! You were defending yourself! He would kill you anyway! '' She tried to calm herself, but she couldn't succed.
She looked the table next to hers. Malakh was still sleeping, he looked well. She came closer and took his hand in hers. It was warm, pleasant, like it belonged in her hand. But then she left his hand and turned away from him. ''I left Him die! Your brother, maybe..maybe it would be diferent if I..?!'' She felt the warmth of her tears on her face.
Nommii heard her scream so she came in to see her.
Elizabeth felt like something …. She observed Nommii for a while.
''Are you OK?!'' Nommii asked her a bit confused with her behavior.
Elizabeth was lost in her thoughts, and memories. Something was trying to reach her mind, but she couldnt manage to see it. ''Stay with me…'' A memori of a voice echoed in her mind. Than she remembered.
''I know you!'' Elizabeth said to her.
''Of course, you saved me!''
''Not like that! You are….!'' She covered her mouth trying to stop the words from spilling out. It was her. She is HIS! How can it be?!''
''I left her to you!'' She heard a voice in her head. ''It can't be!'' She covered he ears with her hands trying to stop the voices coming to her head back again.
Nommii was still looking at her in confusion. She touched her lightly over her shoulder. Elizabeth was in tears. She hugged Nommii so strong she almost lost her breath. ''I'll Look after you with all I am!'' She told her trying to forget what she did to her father.
How she's gonna explain it to her. How''ll she understand?!
''Don't worry, I know!'' Nommii said.
''But how?!''
''You were talking in your dream while we were still in the city. I was an experiment. Only one that succeded.
''I'm sorry!'' Elizabeth said with shame. Maybe she could got here alive with out killing Him.
''Stop! Everything is for a reason, so is my father death. Come, we have to see something! They have returned, but one of them is wunded. They were in the hurry, they didn't even answered me. It must be serious!''
Nommii took Elizabeth hand and ran out of the room foloving the Engineers path. There was another medical room in the ship. Like a surgery room. One of them was on the table. Conected with tiny cabels and instruments. His biosiut was lying on the floor next to the table he was in. It looked burned. They were puting some paste on his abdomen wound, it looked like they cut it with something.
He was covered with sweat and trembling. Over him they were talknig something with fear. Like they were in fear for his life. One of them was putting something in the glass like jar. It was small, grayish, familliar. Then it started to move in his hands, trying to get avay from his hands.
It was that THING! The thing she pulled out of her self! And it was alive. What are thwy trying to do with it?! Preserve it?! It was getting more and more agresive. It scrached his arm hard and he lost it. It ran away!
Elizabeth screemed. They all look at her, and then at Hanneer who lost the embrio.
''What!?'' Korhu yelled. ''Where is it?!''
''I'm so sorry! It srcached me deep, don't know am I infected.''
'' But you gave anestetic to it, din't you?! ''
''Yes! But it wasn't enough!''
''NOW! We have to find it before it gets bigger!'' You two, stay here and don't go anywhere! Take this! It will protect you from it!'' He gave them something like a shutgun.
They left the room in hurry. Elizabeth and Nommii were scared like hell.
The corridors of the ship looked to big to them now, like they were going through that disaster again. Their ship was the only survivor from that facility.