Chapter 6 - Death and Loss.
He crawled through the house. His eyes part of him yet not. He flapped his wings and shot up into the air. He circled through their portion of the complex and laughed as he passed over Charlie's sleeping form. He dropped down exilerated and landed on Charie's nose.
He bounced away as A hand rocketed up and smashed into his nose. He laughed as he continued on through the complex. He picked up a few voices from his parents side. The first voice echoing through the area was clear.
"Have you lost your mind? Why would I allow a group of bloodthirsty Arachne to invade our globe! Let alone Put them on here myself!" Conflicted, He strayed a bit closer. His father wouldn't want him to hear or see this, But on the other hand, How would he know?
The second voice was unfamiliar but was rich with anger and betrayal.
"We found papers with you authorizing transport of exotic 'Animals' to be transported to our globe."
"And are you not thankful that we have a herd of Mooshrooms residing here now? Or would you prefer going without a constant supply of soup?"
"six Mooshrooms came over when the barge carried enough room for sixty."
"Some Died on their way over." He turned around the last corner into his fathers office. He was standing behind his desk conversing with a heavyset man with a dark expression on his face.
"You won't get away with treason. I won't let you." The heavyset man pulled a sword and moved to hit his father. He panicked and flew at top speed into the man's face. The bug emitting a sharp whine as it taxed its flight parameters. Small appendeges at the ready he cut into the mans face and burrowed through the mans eyeball into his skull.
He emerged on the other side and watched his father stare at the now dead man. His father reached down towards his stomach and took his hands away covered in blood. "They ripped my spawn core out." He whispered. Then fell to the ground. He flew up into the wall and zapped back to reality to find himself running and screaming towards his father's office.
Lights flashed on behind hima dn people followed all arriving to find the corpse of their leader lying on the ground, and the face of his assilant ripped to shreds. He fell to his knees in front of his fathers body.
"Its okay, he'll be back soon!" someone said. But He merely pointed at a small pearl lying oon the floor in front of his body.
"They ripped his spawn core out. He isn't coming back."
Achilles walked into the academy, and laughed to himself as the crowds seperated, deferring to him. It had taken less then a week to gain mastery over the entire school. The instructors worshipped the ground he walked on, while the students writhed in fear under his gaze.
He excelled in all of his subjects. not through deceit but through him truely studying the material. He wished he could correct some of the assumption the Cognits had adopted from the humans about the world, But he didn't want to gain too much attention yet.
He continued on to his first classroom and sat in a nice chair, and relaxed as the instructor began his lecture.
"Time after time, We must return to the thoughts of our past." "We must look back to find the path that led us to the here and now." "Our species has advanced more in the last hundred years then the humans have in the last thousand." "How do we explain this?" "Our best guess is that through some outside intervention, Something either benevolently changed us to be able to rise over our human oppressors, or that that something was malovent and raised us up to strike the humans down." "If the first globe had not destroyed the city of Gaol, we would be in a steady peace with the humans." "We have conversed with the humans through diplomatic talks, and they no understanding for how or why their globe crashed." "In fact they report that they have had no other crashes since that first, and they have other globes from that era still flying without a problem." "The best we can deduce is that the something that changed us into what we are, also provoked us to war." "Thoroughly eliminating the idea of the peaceful benevolent creature." "The humans believe in a deity called 'Notch' Who created our world and the first human." "But the humans also have a sub culture that believes in a deity called 'Jeb' that took over from the great 'Notch' Who supposedly continued working on our world and fixing it. Supposedly to this day." "Something altered us from what we were into what we are." "It is safe to assume that the same force that altered us is also driving us to war with what could be our greatest allies."
A low tone sounded through the hall and the Cognit stood and dispersed as the instructor called out. "We will continue this discussion next week, have a good day."
he strode up to the instructor, hoping to get a word in but the instructor dashed from the room.
He squinted his eyes confused at the instructors behavior. He thought back to his mindset as he too walked from the room, just slightly behind the mass of departing Cognit. He had been intently focused on the lecture, he hadn't even been focused on his customary feel for deference.
He looked up and saw the instructor conversing with a group of darker carapaced Cognit. He noted into the instructors mind and felt apprehensiveness and anxiety. He's probably being investigated for his teaching. He thought and walked away towards the center of Vengeance. His adoptive family were having lunch in one of the skydomes, He loved the height, though contrary to most Cognits feeling of height.
Andrew was still lying in the floor beside the spot where his father had died, when they came for him. His body was gone, but he thought he could still feel him, lingering on after death.
They sliced through the room and took Andrew from where he was lying. He started to scream but the calm presence of the Nest father flooded his mind and he quieted. Seemingly moments later, they stopped and he found himself placed on a large glider.
He looked confusedly around but received no answers to the questions that floated through his mind. They strapped him to the glider and pushed it off the side of the globe. An apology echoed through his mind as the Nest father left him and he drifted down through the endless night.