After explaining to yui and zeus what was going on, they agreed to help Willow in any way that they can. Willow would come with us, because shes afraid to be alone at camp with males walking around, which was understandable. I was even more surprised that she clung onto me like she did, but i suppose it is because she sees me as genuine or something? I dunno....
We all four would make a trek to an abandoned pharmaceutical building, a few miles north.
The walk was calm and we didn't run into any mutants or anything.....which made me uneasy.
Up ahead was a dead Raven Hawk, which are basically huge ass birds that are mutated by the god eye. Some say they were normal birds at one point but when the fall happened, all variants of bird was affected by it, mutating them into large, tumorous, deadly birds with elongated talons capable of slicing stone. They are blind, but have bat-like properties and use eco location to find prey and sense objects.
Finding dead mutant animals is not too uncommon, but the thing that rose concern, was seeing bullet wounds on it.
Raiders could be in the area.
To see other lanterns in the dark is something of horror to the unprepared. Thankfully, we are.
Willow has her shotgun and fire powers.
Yui is impervious to bullets and has drill arms.
Zeus has his electricity powers and his new rifle, the .22 LR. Its a low calibur rifle, but it was the only thing i could get for him at the time. All the pistols were bought by other bearers.
"What is it?" Willow asked.
"Bullet holes.....this thing was shot." I said, wiping off my hands from touching the bird.
"Bullet holes indicate possible humanoid threats." Yui chimed.
"Mhm....." i said.
"Oh no...." said willow.
"We'll blast em away! No sweat!" Zeus said.
"Unless they're armored, kid. You are only running iron sights, so you'll have to be relatively close to hit anything." I said, shooting down his cocky attitude.
He puffed out his cheeks childishly.
"I sense movement by the pharmacy." Yui said.
"Alright, get down and move quietly." I said.
They all nodded and obeyed the command.
I waved my detector around for anomalies, we were in the clear for now.
We would creep up to the pharmacy using the brush to hide out lanterns a bit. Once we got situated, i pulled out my binoculars to see what we were working with.
One at the entrance, two lights inside. Some anomalies were visible at the entrance, roof, on the windows, and some i could faintly see inside. Indoor anomalies consist of fire gouts that shouldn't possibly be there, steam not coming from pipes, mysterious hanging moss, glowing chemical puddles, and electricity not connected to any wires of any kind. I seen some steam, electricity, and chemicals inside, and some moss hanging on the outside.
Right when i was about to say something to the gang, the guy at the entrance had his head turned to paste suddenly, falling to the ground. The other two came out and their heads exploded like his.
What was strange, was that i didn't hear any gunshots.
Suddenly, i felt a thump against my knee and dirt fly up.
"Shit! Go downhill!" I yelled.
"Fuck fuck fuck!!" Zeus screamed as he ran.
Yui tackled him as several bullets panged off her backside.
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The Lantern Bearers
Horrorwhen the god eye fell; 60% of the human population was wiped out 50% of the vegetation destroyed 70% of wildlife, gone but things....became 300% worse when it rose back up and blocked out the sun. the darkness eats you alive monsters and mutants lu...
