Horned Dawnbringer

Signal Lost

[Theresa]

One minute I was in the kitchen, the next, I was at my house on the island, holding Haywood.

He was bleeding, a lot.

"Mom?" It was Ava, she sounded like she was about to cry, finding us both in the teleportation chamber.

"Mom? Are you okay?"

She looks down at Haywood, who was slowly slipping out of consciousness.

"Who's that man?" Her eyes look up at mine, filled with fear.

"Hey would you blow me? Heywoouldjabloom" "Haywood." He muttered. His dark eyes, closing as his consciousness began to drift.

Later...

I did a medical scan on him, made sure he was going to recover in good shape, but unfortunately I found something surprising..

I was disassociating, all emotion I had felt or could feel were gone..

As a typically emotional person with a lot on my plate I found something rather off about this..

Haywood was in better condition by now, yet, within this newfound bewilderment, applying any force to his body or pressure at all causes him to bruise.

Emotionless..

Eccentric amounts of strength...

That could only mean one thing.

There is joy in my system.

Within my research, if ingested orally, Joy has similar effects to sour candy, since it's an acid based drug, related to the drug commonly referred to Acid by the hippies of Olathe. That and mixed with various hard drugs, neuro poisons and additives for it to become an unnatural color. I'm not even sure how it turns people into those monsters, that in fact is Spectra's closely guarded secret.

No burning, or acidic feel on my teeth, no white residue on my tongue. I began to click my pen..

The thing is, a haunting sight flashed before my eyes.

The horrible screams in pain from Tommy and Celeste. Tied up within an electric whip, the sickening smell of electricity and burned flesh followed.

I almost cried an inhuman scream within the flashback.

Those same sick fucks that stole Benny and Yvette, the same scum who killed a mother and her child within an area where women and children are short. Who imprisoned my innocent husband.

Within a flash, the table I sat at was in shambles. The pen within my hand was decimated almost into a fine dust..

And then me.. injected with joy. Thought I gave up the hard drugs when I met Robin huh?

[Ezekiel]

They wouldn't fit into this small trapdoor entrance, but I'm getting too ahead of myself.

Well, tough shit.
The flight was boring anyways. A couple of docile men reviewed the captain's licence and papers and searched our passports and belongings.

Anyway, where are we now?

Yeah.

We entered the shack rather deep within this marsh, hidden from the airport and or any sign of civilization in that matter. The knee high waters were abysmal, so was the cold rain. I knew this place wasn't like Italy.

Things got worse upon entering this shack, it was rather old, the wood far gone on the roof that it wouldn't keep us from the rain.

Mice resided here, hiding within the stringy rotten mass of what used to be the bottom section of the wall.

There was a trapdoor below, upon opening it, an aroma of flesh and chemicals filled the shack. Looking over, I could see Toni's brow furrow as his skin began to rapidly grow pale.

Looking down, into the abyss below, I swallowed.

"You won't be able to fit guys." I murmured. I was rather small for the average 18 year old. I was able to get into anything.

Both of them didn't trust me with this, I shined my flashlight down to show them I was looking at.

Everyone is free to hate me, but I'd say it's only a 3' x 3' diameter hallway. Rather cramped for someone my sized but for someone over 5.5' it would be too much of a struggle.

"Guys, stay back. There's no room."

"Ezekiel!-"

"Stop, Aryn. If I don't come back alive, tell Mia that I love her and hope she has a good life." Holding back tears, I dropped down onto the metal platform below.

"Call us if anything comes up. Please. I wish you wouldn't do this.."

"Too bad. I got a son to save a lab to explore. I'll see ya later." I tried to hold back the tears as I squeezed into the vents.

I love you guys, I don't know what's going to happen next, yet any sense of danger I had began to drift within these metal walls.

There was almost a calm sense, a tranquility within this new silence that I found myself in.. yet, I felt something shift under my hand.

There was a sharp piece of metal sticking up within the floor of the vents. Shortly after, blood began to ooze out of my hand, as I wrapped it within my sleeve. Looking back at it, it's form began to shift from what I first thought was a sharp knife sticking up between the shaft's segments.

[Aryn]

I heard my phone go off.

It was a message from a past contract from mine, one I haven't heard from for a couple years.

"Mained Wolf, I need your help." I do know that he lives around this area.

"Busy at the moment, what's going on?"

Disappointment burns within my heart when he asks a simple question. Yet, where said question's source was rather intriguing.

"You learned German right? Lived in Hamburg for a while?"

"Yes..? Why?"

"So the Emergency Alert System has been active here this morning, and recently.. it got hijacked by this unknown source." He breaks his professional composure, I can see the fear within his partial texts.

"So you know german right?"

He sends me a picture, it was blurry but it's a black screen with white text, I can make out a word.

Ich or I/I'm.

"Type it."

He took a while but he sent me what was on the television.

"Ich bin keine Bedrohung."

"It says, I am no threat. Hmm... That is very strange."

"There's a noise following it too, I don't think I can sleep, but it's that sharp tones used within the emergency system."

"You sure are busy on your phone." Toni cuts into the intense silence.

"Apparently someone is telling Brighton that they're not a threat, that's what a- a friend told me."

[Saucious Necronos, Eva Mattens]

My vision is darkening right in front of my computer. Kris, no where to be seen.. I sit alone...

Series of numbers.

The scene I loved, fading away.

It was all me. I was the one who alerted Toni, who hacked Brighton's TV system.. who freed Robin.. Now for my final move...

[Signal lost]