Last Born Second Alive

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Previously on Last Born Second Alive:

My brain froze in an instant before I started feeling cold once more. I wished to inquire further queries but my mouth formed no words, my voice cut off from uttering anything. I was plunged into darkness once again.

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The sound of a muffled voice filled my ears, and faint echoing moans lurked around every crevice. Fierce bangs of the wind below from out in the dead dry wasteland beyond the yet-living walls. Thrusting their might upon the tower's lifeless shell. Then the sound of a harmonic chirp rang in my left ear, startling me to regain consciousness. My eyes bolted open wide with haze, and apprehension however as to where the sound had originated from.

I rose ever so carefully from the flesh platform I was lying on. My arms raised in the air for a stretch, and the bones in my back cracked, each one louder than the one prior. Dazed and confused as to what had gone down. My head spun for an instant before settling down to an ordinary pace. I feel ever more energized than I did before sinking into that deep sleep.

My vision glanced around to see where I was, yet still in the same hallway. The humanoid lizard was however unseen, as if it just faded away out of thin air. Perhaps it decided to go hunt for its next fresh victim, or maybe I am its untouched subsequent quarry and it is just keeping a sight on from afar.

I slid off the bed I had woken on and recovered the weapon I had selected before I had another blackout. I was a little wobbly on my feet, apart from that, I felt good either way. After organizing my bearings and a minor toil to stabilize myself on my legs again, I pressed on through the hallway. The more I delved deeper through, treading through the eerily quiet.

"Hey! Lizard face! If you're out there bub, you ain't snagging this bat for breakfast at any adequate time soon, at least not yet. I'll give you that" I tauntingly yelped. Yet, zero answer. Merely the vibrations of my voice conveyed through the hall.

With this moment of peace and silence, I continued my pursuit and set out further and beyond with some hope of escape. This is gonna be intriguing as to what more I could uncover, not just in materials but possibly a partner or two, a formidable foe perhaps, maybe even a mate. Who knows, only time will tell. The last thing I need is being eaten by some type of zombie lizard thing or by something far more vicious than that.

I soon came to the entrance of a colossus chamber. A chamber that has been long consumed by gloaming night. It journeyed into an all too familiar to me, wait a second. From the intimidating columns to the looming egg-like pods that now glisten a faint blue glare in the dark shade, I recall this place. However, the presence it gives off is more profound and darker, but so pleasant and calming in some sense. I guess I must be naturally fond of twilight locales. Another experiment room possibly? I didn't feel to query, or an opportunity to wonder, I pushed on.

I proceeded onwards with absolute vigilance. It felt slightly colder and damper than last I tracked back this manner but at the same time, it felt soothing. I went on for a time, passing by cue after cue and activating a fertilizer gadget or two. Finding abiding ammo lying around here and there by a carcass or two. I also came across five mice to conserve as sustenance for later, oblivious that I was being overseen.

As I proceeded, I could take the alarm of a slumberous echo heeded by a faint tune. The melodic strum of a guitar, to the rhythmic rhythm of drums. Their unified surges surpass resonant throughout the enclosure, like a lonesome lassie searching for her long-lost sweetheart. It was as if I could feel their undying love in this very place. Was as though they had never escaped, souls dancing together through to forever ahead of them. I soon found myself drawn to the beat. The sounds sparked a light inside of me as if a fireworks show.