The Long Road Ahead

Chapter 8 - Watch the sun fall

Fri / 19th / Aug 8:00am

"It all began 1 year ago, when I was living with my wife. I was an actual carpenter, and my wife did work at the markets." Says Wilbur. "She never told me what she did exactly, it was just 'sales and business'." "So you had no idea? And you didn't think to ask?" I said. "I just figured she was doing okay, you know? I didn't think I needed to intrude." I got the idea. "So as I was saying, she worked at the markets and such and then came home before dinner time. One day, after dinner, my wife told me she had something she needed to say, something to get off of her chest. She had told me that she was not working with business and sales, but instead, the trading of drugs and illegal medicines." "Really?" I said in disbelief. "Really" Wilbur replied.

Fri / 19th / Aug 8:05

*Enters Wilbur's memory* I was so disappointed in her...I thought she was better than that. said Wilbur. But then one day...She came home with a man driving a big, dirty, yellow forklift, which was carrying a giant box. The box was placed inside our house. We had to wait until the sun went down. I guessed that the cargo was filled to the brim with marijuana or something, but no, it was nothing like that. Mainly because it was alive. "Alive?" I cut in. "Yes. It was a living creature. Not unlike the one you just saw." *Re-enters memory* Anyways, the creature stood in the cage and look a us both. Silently. She told me that the drugs she was selling was a steroid that was added with a new mineral that had been found in a volcano. She said that the mineral, once applied, made the object become more like steel. You know, tougher. so it was only reasonable that the mineral was added to a steroid. "But boy that was a mistake" He said. And why is that?" I asked. "well..." The mineral, once combined with the regular formulae, became a strange goop like substance when it was added. After a few days from injection, the subject became a horribly deformed monster. With ten times the strength. "And she thought it was a good idea to put this thing in your house?" I said cutting in once again. "she said it was to help explain why she was so secretive." Replied Wilbur. She told me that she didnt know what it did to people, she only sold the stuff, thinking it was just a regular steroid. After a few minutes of talking, the creature began to push on the bars and jump around, yelling all the while. It pushed and pushed until it began to bend the bars. Me and Julie (my wife) freaked out and began to run. The creature pushed the bars aside and slipped through. I turned and saw it. It was hunched as it ran, its hands almost touching the floor. And it was fast, so fast. "And it took her?" I asked. "Yes it did jack; it took her away from me..." He paused. "That thing, that stepper took Julie away from me, MY... JULIE!" He began yelling. "And now she gone. And I can't get her back. What am I to do?" He sat down and put his head in his hands. "Where did it go? Tell me, it'll be better if you described it to me." I said; hoping to comfort the grieving man. "Okay, okay...I'll describe it to you." He said lifting his head.