Chapter 12
Again not beta'd. Will repost as soon as I can after being beta'd. This chapter will be Carlisle's point of view. If you have any questions feel free to message me. I have done some research into the greek Goddess Ankhiale. She was the goddess of the warming heat of fire. I kind of changed it a little to make it fit the story so now she's the goddess of all heat and warmth. Just to clear that up. So now on with the story.
I was getting tired of staring at my computer screen. The different views on why the dead was rising was all over the spectrum. One was saying it was all the radiation and nuclear products on the planet while others was saying it was aliens. I had even read that it was a virus. I really didn't know what to believe. I also researched what could be taking the heat out of the planet. I couldn't find anything yet. I rubbed my hands over my face trying to clear my aching eyes. I sighed and powered my computer down. I had just shut my eyes and laid my head back on the back of my chair when I heard a knock on my door.
"Come in." I sighed
"Hey Doc."
"Hello Jasper. What can I do for you today?"
"I was just curious if you were ready to begin your transformation?"
"Now?"
"Not right this minute but as soon as possible. I don't think we are going to have much more time left." He replied.
I sighed. I would never really be ready, but I knew we had to get this show on the road. "Yes, when ever you are ready. I have gathered the items you stated you needed. It was hard but I found the synthetic blood. I think I have gotten enough for everyone. They were kind of leery of selling it to me especially with everything going on but I told them I was running a hospital and didn't want to lose patients because we didn't have enough blood. It arrived yesterday. Is the cabin sufficient?"
"Yes. Victoria has helped me prepare it. I know you wanted to do it here in the house but to keep harming the others during the transformation, we need to do the transformations in the cabin."
"I understand. It's just hard to be in the dark about everything. Jasper, can you believe everything on the internet sounds like a joke?"
"Yeah, I laughed after I read a lot of it. I can go in the sun it's just painful. Garlic and mirrors don't hurt me. Just fire. You are basically indestructible."
"I locked a bottle off the synthetic blood in my safe so that after everyone is transformed I can study it and make sure I know how to make more. Just in case."
"I agree with that idea. We don't know what is going to happen so best to be prepared."
As he was finishing that statement Alice burst in..
"Doc, does the name Ankhiale mean anything to you?"
"What?"
"Ankhiale. I was laying on my bed thinking about all of this and I had a vision of this beautiful woman dressed in fire. She proceeded to tell me that she was punishing us for being immoral and was tired of us ruining the gods beautiful work. She said she was punishing us by taking our heat."
As she was speaking I powered up my computer and started to type in the name. "Uh Alice how do you spell that?"
"I'm not sure." she said as she plopped down in Jasper's lap.
I typed in what I thought was the spelling into Google and came up with a bio on her. "Great doesn't tell us how to defeat her just that she was the sister to Prometheus."
"How are we going to defeat her?" Alice asked.
"First we all make it through the transformation and then we try to confront her. IF we can find her."