Sam rushed back to Sarah's office, the voice still in his head. He was getting a splitting headache from it. The high pitched, clown voice was incredibly eery and everytime it spoke, Sam's hair would stick up on end, like a hedgehog's spikes when it got scared. He pushed the doors open and startled Sarah, who was watching the footage of the fight in the courtyard via a laptop. She paused the footage, closed the lid of the laptop and said; "I award you, general, of your fine work out in the courtyard." He nodded but his eyes looked worried and sweat dripped from his forehead; "Voices. In my...head." He stuttered, pointing to his temple. She offered him a seat and replied; "General, please take a seat." As he say down, she did to. Her eyes fixated on the worry in his eyes; "General, are you okay? May I ask what happened to you out there?" Sam nodded and replied quickly, panting for breath, still stammering; "I saw him. I saw Jackel. He observed the....the whole b...battle. He's been ob....observing the Castle for a long time. H...he knows our plans. He's going to attack...s...soon." She stood up turned around and said; "Then so be it. Let that buffoon invade the District. We have the Beast Weapons, do we not? That's what will take him down." Sam shook his head in disapproval; "No, he's going to attack as soon as Sabre is resurrected. We need to get the final weapon to kill Sabre." She turned back to look at Sam and her smile faded and her eyes widened; "We found something out recently. Jackel was... The first Anarchy of The Pure. He was a soldier who got killed by Sabre. The Pure experimented on him using Sabre's powers and inserting him into the Beast Armour. He went mad with power, he was made to kill any man, woman or child who entered a 3 mile radius of a Beast Weapon. Eventually he got bored of being The Pure's slave and fled from them and attacked Districts or just... Wanted criminals or gangs or whatever. The reason he was sighted with the Pure was because... he was trying to steal their Beast Weapons so Sabre wouldn't rise and so John couldn't kill him. But now, we have all the Beast Weapons apart from one. We can kill him and Sabre and save our District." Sam looked down at his lap, then back to Sarah, who was sitting back in her chair; "We need John back. But you killed him!" Sarah shook her head and grinned; "No. We didn't. We shot him and imprisoned him by healed him up. He's fine, just in a cell." Sam nodded, he grinned a little; "Then we get him out and..." He was interrupted as Sarah stood up and slammed her fist on the table and yelled into Sam's face; "If I let John out he'll kill me and you, for betraying him. He'll go after Jackel and get all out troops killed, then when the Pure attack again, they'll have new Anarchies and Sabre. They'll win and kill everyone here!" Sam nodded and frowned; "Then what?" Sarah say back down and swung her chair around so she was facing the window. It was rainy outside, grey and foggy. The fog was so thick and fluffy it was like candy floss. The rain pierced the fog and landed on the floor in a splash and she sighed and said; "Find the final Beast Weapon. Bring it here. We kill Sabre. Kill Jackel as soon as he invades here, then we destroy those weapons. Understand?" Sam stood up. Luckily, the voices had left his head, so he was a little more relaxed. "Yes ma'am." And with that he left.
YOU ARE READING
13: The Beast Weapons
Short Story'War is upon us, General. We must do everything in our power to protect our District, our home!" The districts are under attack. The Pure (an ancient, religious tribe) are attacking the Districts after 3 years of non-lethal war, and trying to keep p...