Six weeks later.
The sound of iron chains moving with the beast's body as it moved above her, its metal seemed light, yet heavy and in occasions, it was even pleasing to her ears. A kind of routine had begun to form amongst the people.
They moved when the creature moved and rested only when the creature stopped, in those occasions strange tentacles would come down from the creature's body and begin to suck up the dirt, alongside any waste they made.
Their numbers had grown, by no means were they a large group of people, but their numbers were at least twenty maybe fifty.
When some were unable to walk anymore the creature would carry them by using strange devices that emerged from its body, the youngest amongst them enjoyed riding the things as for them keeping up with their elders was even more difficult the longer they walked.
On one occasion everyone found themselves being carried by the creature, when it was startled by something and it began to move at a speed it never did when they all walked.
They must have covered hundreds of miles in a single day and they did this while it was raining fire and iron blood, the strange orange glow that so rounded them was like a wall that kept the rain away.
Once in a while, they would find people hiding or running away from something, it wasn't long before they came out of hiding when the smell of food reached them.
From time to time they would find the remains of long-dead armies or destroyed villages and it was because of that reason, that everyone now wore some sort of clothing.
Now she found herself carrying a large bag filled with strange multicolored things, she didn't mind in fact she was glad to have it all.
Why? Well because she could eat it all.
The creature moaned once again, it would soon stop and everyone would rest again. It was strange really ever since the creature had found them, they hadn't encountered any dangerous things and there was always food.
Talk amongst the people had begun to spread, they had all heard stories about Kind Gods and how they protected and took care of people, they all knew Evil Gods existed. The armies of demons and the very world around them were proof of it.
Some wondered if they should start worshiping the beast or at least give thanks for its protection, less one day, it gets fed up with their ungratefulness and leaves them.
But what if it wasn't a God or a surviving servant of a God, one that was now long gone and forgotten.
What if it was just a creature that saw them as if they were nothing more than pets? What then?
Still, none of that mattered the creature had finally stopped and she found herself eating a strand long yellow thing, it was something she had to pill the yellow skin off and eat its white insides, but the object was soft and had a light taste.
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"So far so good," I said as I looked at the monitors, none of the scouts had found anything dangerous.
If only it stayed that way for longer than five minutes, this whole world seemed to have gone to hell. There no water anywhere, food is none existent and everyone is either a cannibal or eats things raw.
And none of that even mention the insane people running around, people and machines covered in blood and decorated with the bones of the dead, animals so twisted that they look like monsters and the won't part about it.
According to the computers, the chances of me winning a full-scale war are slim to none.
More than once, the ship was forced to move because something was either moving inside the clouds or beneath the ground, I was really tempted to abandon the people on the outside, but that felt wrong.
I just could do it.
I tried letting them into the ship, but the computer stopped me, it said that there wasn't any guarantee that they weren't infected by Chaos.
More than once the drones were forced to come back, it was too dangerous to stay out and the chances of someone, something following them back was too high. Even now the clouds seem to follow the ship and the computer detects more and more movement inside them.
It wouldn't be a big problem, if it wasn't for the fact that movement was growing even underground, something was following us.
Today was no different, the drones were coming back, there was an army to the north, creatures were moving in the south and east and west were completely out of the question. How the hell can ice tornados exist in a place where there is no water and another tornado made of lightning exist.
This wouldn't be much of a problem if it wasn't for the fact that entire armies were moving with the storms themselves.
I have no choice but to fly up, the ground itself seemed to be changing by the second and it won't be long before the land itself is completely different. I have to move and I have to move now, the sky is being closed off quickly.
I look at the monitors and see all of the people, either I take them with me or leave them behind.
I look at the computer every means of escape will be game in a minute, for some reason I feel completely helpless, but I have to make a choice.
"Take us up and we're taking those people with us." I said and the computer began to beep.
"No. The chances of their survival is minimum, its best that you leave them." The computer immediately answers.
I listened to the computer and felt the ship begin to rise higher and higher.
"I'm the captain and were taking them with us." I said as the people shown on the monitors, begin to get smaller and smaller. The ship was leaving them behind to their fate.
"...As you command Master..." The computer immediately answers and I see the people being scooped up by metal boxes.
The clouds were getting closer and closer like a tidal wave, even as the ship rose into the sky, I could see the sky burning. There was fire inside the clouds, and the ground itself was breaking, until the ground was gone.
The computer began to beep, something was moving inside the clouds, thankfully the ship was already passing them and was soon high above any of the clouds reach.
"Computer wants going on?" I asked.
"...Processing...Captain sitdown...or... Remain standing...there is no world...All have been consumed by Chaos... No world remains...All plant life is gone...All animals, as well as all remaining Humans." The computer answered
I could feel the color drain from my face and I immediately felt light-headed.
"...Temporal anomaly detected...Setting course to the nearest warp gate...Captain what are your orders?" The computer asked me.
I just sat there listening and then I remembered the people.
"How are the people?" I asked, fearing the answer.
"...All recently arrived crew members are resting, beverages, warm clothing and food are being supplied to them." The computer answers me.
"Get us out of here" I ordered the computer.
I turned to look at the monitors and noticed that even the clouds were disappearing, there are cameras all around the ship, so I know what's going on, both inside and outside the ship.
There are no stars period, the sun is now gone, only the clouds are left and even those are almost gone.
The ship is headed towards a tear in the sky and its beginning to close, the ships started to cross the gate and the last light of that world is finally gone. The last thing I saw before the ship finally went completely thru the portal, was a massive armored hand closing around a small spark of light and hellish laughter that followed the ship.
I could feel my heart beating in a way I never thought possible an entire dimension was gone, even if the ship was floating in space, there should at least be the tiny speaks of stars in the distance, but there's nothing.
A strange glow covers the ship, it seems like we finally left the other dimension behind, the ship begins to send out drones, but after five minutes they immediately come back, everything looks the same.
There are no distinctive markings anywhere, everything looks the same here, so much so, that even machines can't tell the difference. Luckily for me I have a tone of drones, hundreds of thousands of them to be exact.
So I can make a net, for them to be able to move further and further away from the ship. The drones begin to leave the ship, this time in numbers so great that they seem like a cloud of blinking lights, soon they begin to transmit what they see and I don't like it.
The ground itself moves and it even looks like if it was made of some sort of living being, the water here is so polluted, that if oil was poured into it, the water would actually be cleaner.
Trees grow rotten fruit and the animals are decomposing, even if they are still alive.
"Am I in hell?" I asked myself.
"...No...thus world has fallen under the rule of the God of pestilence...the Great Unclean one..." The computer answers.
"Is there anything still good here?" I asked.
"...Yes...processing...there is a small drive of nomads...around sixty to seventy...elven beings left..." The computer answers.
"Have the drones covered the entire planet?" I asked.
"Yes...there is no world...we are currently on what appears to be a broken comet...warp gate detected...Captain what are your orders...the computer asks.
" Let's go get those people." I answered.
I could feel the ship begin to move and even as it did that, the drones were already coming back in swarms, until only the ones leading up to where rhe elves were, were the only ones left.
As I looked at the monitors in front of me, I couldn't in my right mind, consider anything that I saw good.
There were healthy people, but they were all being what could only be called sacrificed, by a bunch of bloated, rotting creatures.
"Fire at those things and get us out of her." I said, there was no saving those people.
I watched as a blue light hit the elves and the creatures, one moment they were there, the next they were gone. The ship immediately began to fly straight up, until it found a tear in the sky faster and faster the ship went, until it crossed thru the gate.
When I looked at the monitors I understood why, the planet, no the rock we had left behind, was actually chasing after us.
"...processing...secure location found...suggestion...do to the fact that everything we have encountered...acquiring all...untainted material...should be...top priority..." The computer said in its usual robotic voice.
"Let's go." I said.
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She was certain she died or was hallucinating and even if she was, she never wanted it to end.
The land was green and it didn't hurt when she walked, strange metal things moved from place to place, completely uncaring for her or any of the people.
Trees filled with strange things grew everywhere and she could see many of the things she had eaten hanging from their branches. She ate so much that her stomach hurt and drank so much that her body couldn't hold it anymore and forced everything back out.
All around her people were doing the same, well that and fucking like animals.
The women int he group had gone into heat and the men had gladly taken their offer.
She slept for the first time in years and she didn't wake with every passing sound and even when she did wake up, the dream didn't end.
Metal giants walked around and when they laid eyes upon her and her fellow survivors, rhe giants simply waves at them, before continuing on its way.
"Over here!" A man screamed and everyone ran towards his voice.
When she finally arrived her eyes widened and she felt her mouth stretch into a large smile, all around her people gasped. The land was green as far as the eye could see, metal beings moved here and there and the sky was covered with lights that hung from a metal sky.
A metal giant walked past them and asked something to the giant.
"The Captain" the giant said as he let out a green light that formed into a man, no bigger than any normal sized person.
"This is his body, the captain sees all and knows all." The giant spoke, almost as if it was praying.
"Last of his kind, the captain gave up all his power to create all you see here. Even I am but a fragment of his power, it was he who chose to keep you safe and it was he who rescued you." The giant spoke, his voice almost sounding like if it was in amusement.
"Why would he do that?" Another man asked.
"That is like asking, why anything exists. What can we mortal know about that?" The giant said before bowing his head and continuing to walk.
"Thank you captain" a woman did before kneeling down and being to pray.
One by one the people around her began to do the same. "Thank you Captain" they said in union, hoping that whoever that man was would hear them.