Zen rolled down the stairs, just barely avoiding whatever the hell was sowing death on the roof. She quickly jumped up and started running as fast as she could. She didn't even want to know what the hell it was up there, not to mention fight. She could still hear the rifle shots, which seemed to be in vain, as the screams of mutilated didn't end...
Silver wings and black swords, that was all she could see, before her comrades started turning into bloody chunks and the air filled with bloody mist. It was a good thing she was near the hatch, other way she wouldn't have survived. If seasoned veterans and trained soldiers got ripped apart so easily, what would have happened to a conscript like her…?
She fell on her knees as she realised what she had done. She had abandoned others on the rooftop, her comrades, her friends, her kin… How could she have done this? What kind of person was she after this? She ran like a coward, abandoning the paths she swore just a few cycles ago. She swore to protect this world and its people, she swore to fight until the bitter end, she swore to battle the great enemy until the day she falls in battle. And she broke every single of these oaths… The red coloured light falling through the window in front of her illuminating her as the worst criminal imaginable, traitor…
She turned her head as something changed. She started listening, but everything was silent. Her eyes widened till it was painful to continue as she realised. Everything was silent. The gunshots and screams had ended and not a single sound was heard from the dead building…
This artificial calmness persisted for several moments, until a new sound started ripping through the silence. Droplets of water falling to the ground…
A pipe must have broken somewhere. Zen thought to herself, before she remembered a piece of information, which was hammered into every soldier before deployment. That water, energy and gasses aren't supplied to any of the warzones, as not to waste any resources. This meant that while some of these resources were left in the systems, they weren't supposed to be in such numbers that something like this would be possible.
The tapping increased in speed and intensity. Something was happening. Something unnatural, something unexplainable.
Zen stood up, gripping her assault rifle harder and pointing it towards the direction from which she could hear the tapping. She slowly started mowing backwards, carefully retreating from the sound of water droplets splashing against the floor.
After several dozen steps backwards she stepped into red light. She quickly glanced at the direction from which the light is falling. It was a massive window, somehow still intact from all the bombardment and fighting in the city. After looking at the window Zen turned her eyes to the other side. It was the main hall of the floor, seemingly empty.
Something moved slightly in the corner. Terka soldier fell on one knee and pointed her rifle to the movement she saw…
The red light went dim…
Zen quickly turned around…
A massive winged shadow was eclipsing all light…
The assault rifle started spewing bullets into the dark mass…
The window broke down, bullets piercing it through…
The shadow surged forwards…
The last thing Zen saw were silver eyes shining in the darkness…