The Lantern Bearers

chapter 33: haven fall part 2

The gunfight outside was getting more crazier by the minute. Moro, Zeus, and Fuko just left to go participate.

I patted cyrus's back to get him to burp, and he would cutely burp for me.

"There you go, baby booooy!" I said, smiling at him, pretending that everything is okay.

He started to cry from all the noise outside. He knew i was faking it. I held him close and rocked him to try and get him to calm down. Nothing seemed to get him to calm down.

"What are we gonna do, kiddo...." i said, staring at the window.

The longer i stared, the more i expected something to burst through the doors and seek to harm us. However, i have my shotgun positioned and aimed at the door, ready to blast them, as well as my lantern on my hip, and ready to gun it for the back door.

The gun fire seemed to not end, with the three and the others outside, yelling and unloading bullets. I would lay cyrus down, after finally calming him down, and investigating the window. Just a peek is all, just to check up on them.

I would look and see the battle outside, and to my horror....it was a nightmare.

This was Hive's calling card technique, he created dozens of clones to invade the haven. He done this before, while trying to capture me and take me back to the bastards in the underground market. All of them are fakes, they have the potential to kill and will, but they have the integrity of paper. One bullet will kill one, no matter where they're struck, however he can make sturdier ones if need be.

This is a mass invasion, so these are weaker ones, he must be perched up somewhere and picking off people!

I looked around to find him, but was met with one of the clones pointing at me and making an ungodly wailing sound. Before, i knew it, all of them stopped and pointed at me, making that horrifying sound in unison.

He knows where I'm hiding, and are now going to send them to this house to kidnap me!

They can't hold out for long, and i can't bear the thought of what will happen to me if he got his hands.....no....what would happen if he got his hands on my son! He won't be put through that underground market hell like me! Those sickos will sell him for a high price and put through a life no sane person would want a child to go through!

I would peek again to look for where hive was. I'd see lantern bearers get shot in the head at an angle. I'd follow each shot angle and would eventually see a small flicker of light over and over on the top of a building. He was hiding up there and shrouding himself in darkness.

I looked back at my baby boy, who started to cry again.  I walked over and picked him up to comfort him.

Such a perfect little angel....

I would open the door.

"Moro, i need you to protect cyrus! I know you're a stranger and new to all of us, but i put my faith in you to watch him!" I exclaimed, passing him to moro.

"Wait, what?! But i-" he stammered, but i cut him off and started running with shotgun in hand and him yelling for me behind me.

Taking the back door, i would sneak out back, out of the clones' sight, and making my way to the building the real Hive was hiding on.

It was an old, ruined house that looked like it could collapse at any moment, but i had to climb.

Each time i grabbed a ledge, brick, plank, and foothold, it felt like someone was shoving a barwired dildo up my vagina and made my stomach feel like it was lit on fire and filled with fire ants. I would feel every muscle sting with unimaginable pain as i climbed and stretched my legs, trying to not make any noise or scream. I would even feel blood trickle down my leg, presumably hurting myself during all this.

However, as soon as i got to the top, i stood there behind that sick bastard.

My personal warden to my own hell....
The "man" that watched me used like a sex doll and got his rocks off to it....
The "man" who gleefully would snatch me up and dragged me back over and over.....
A demon....
A shit stain on existence....

Sitting right there and has no idea that I'm behind him....

All of the pain went numb....

As i unloaded my entire pistol magazine into that son of a devil. Blood splatter everwhere as i shot his backside, making him grunt and howl in pain as he dropped his rifle and fell to his hands and knees. The clones below would all collapse at once and turn to dust.

I didn't even bother reloading the gun, i just holstered it and brought out my shotgun.

Right as soon as he was about to pull a pistol on me, i perfectly timed the shot and blasted his arm off with a buckshot round, then half his face, and the right half of his torso.

His mask fell to the roof, well what remained of it, revealing a grotesque face.

"Myyyy myyyy.... how the tables have turned eh?" He said with a garbled speach.

"What the fuck...." i shuttered as i tried to comprehend what i was looking at. A mutant? A creature? Runaway experiment??

"What's wrong? No seething words for me? That's okay....actions speak louder than words. The sins of man make us all ugly beings.....but you know what else is louder than words?" He said, pulling out a device.

"What the-" i managed to utter, before he activated it.

A high-pitched sound was emitted, just barely audible to the human ear. One.by one, lamp bulbs, hanging bulbs, any kind of bulb that wasnt a lantern would bust instantly.

Screams of agony and pain would start to fill the haven as people were being eaten alive by the darkness anomaly. I quickly turned on my lantern, and i seen Zeus helping the others down below turn on theirs.....but it was too late for most.

Nathan screamed in anguish as he thrashed in his wheelchair, dying a terrible death.

Sullivan screamed till his vocal cords gave out and fell into the campfire and seemingly burned alive.

"YOU SICK FUCK-" i screamed, before seeing that he was already dead. I would see something glowing in his pocket and would take it.

It was a small marble that glowed blue. It didn't seem too important, it seemed more of a good luck charm rather than a beneficial artifact.

I pocketed it and hastily made my way down.

"NATHAN!!" Zeus cried out.

I ran over to him, Nathan was still alive, but was fucked up pretty bad, like something had chewed him up and threw ink or tar on him.

"You kids......find.....san.....stay safe...." nathan wheezed.

"Not without you!" I cried, tears streaming down.

"Baby girl....you're a....momma now.....cyrus first.....me very last...." he said with a bloodied weak smile.

"Nathan don't go....don't go...." zeus said with tears streaming down and his nose running.

"What would.....captain lance....or whatever his.....name was do?" Nathan said, as blood oozed from his mouth.

Zeus would look down and started to bawl his eyes out.

My new home....
The place where we would gather around the campfire and simply vibed together.....
The place where i felt at peace and safe....
A place that felt...happy and even opened my heart to my loved ones....

And Hive just had to take something else dear to me before he died......

"Take.....anything you need.....in my....shop.....i love....you kids.....and tell San....he's no demon...." nathan said to me, before he slumped in his chair.

"Na.....nathan?" I said.

There was a deafening silence as we all looked around....

We didn't even get to talk to Sullivan before he died....

It was a miracle we even got to talk to Nathan. He seemed to really push himself to do so though.....

Haven 38 has fallen...
I wonder how San will react....