Renegade Chronicles Book 1: Dark Honor

April, 20th, 3005 N.W. Location: Old Oblivion Labs

 

      I wake up with to find my sight from my right eye gone, I panic only to find out it is just covered with a bandage with my whole right side of my face. I look around at my surroundings, it is a place that was old, sickening, and is very dry. The room I am in is dark, but the hole in the ceiling have rays of light shining through making it easy to see. I skim around the room to find Angel, and Sin talking in the corner of room, messing with machine of some sort. I turn my head slowly on the other side to see Metalion standing guard to the room entrance with his spear. I move my hand a little feeling on myself, and not surprising that my side is sore and is kinda burning along with my face. The thing that caught me off was that my upper back was hurting a bit. I am trying to recall why it was like this; then it came to me that Aero thrown me off that cliff, mostly likely making me drop into the sand and rocks. Processing even deeper in the situation leading me here, makes me think of one name. Sizzy.. Who is she? She talked to me with an expression that she knows more than she lets on. The hug she gave me caught me off guard, if she wasn't my enemy I might have hugged her back. Sizzy the Rabbit, I need to remember her and Redival says I'm something special to this little plan of theirs, so I need to be careful. I slowly lean up, pushing myself up with my arms attempting to get into a sit up position. "Angel, Sin, what happened?" I ask as try to get the dryness out my throat. Angel turns around, rushing to my aid as I fully sit up now. "It's okay, we're at the labs." Angel explains. "After you fell off the rock you fell unconscious, so Aero carried you all the way here." Sin says as he was walking up to greet me. "The rabbit got away once again; we checked the area to make sure but no luck." Metalion says joining the conversation. I move my hand on my head trying to process this information. "Where is Blitz and Aero?" I ask. "Blitz and Aero went scouting around the building, because the place is quite large" Angel tells me. I try getting up, but my side gave me a sharp pain. "Shit" I curse as I struggle to get up. Angel supports me standing up, leaning on her shoulder. "So here we are right, so what are we looking for?" I ask Sin. "Well there is a lot of things here. Technology, but I can't barely understand what it does." Sin says looking at the machine. The Old Oblivion Labs is a place that survived from the Old World, it is one of the last places that we know of that is still standing from that era. Most of the kingdoms don't come back to this area, because it reminds us of the past we don't want to remember. It only reminds us of the death and suffering. Aero and Blitz enter the room, rushing up to me seeing that I am up and about.. "Man, you were heavy." Aero complains. "Sorry about that, but thanks Aero for carrying me." I tell him. Aero smiles. "Anything for you, my king but do weigh less next time" he replies smiling. His comment makes me smile before I look over to Blitz. "Blitz, what is here that could help us?" I ask. Blitz looks down, gripping his fist. He looks troubled again like he wants to say something, but he can't. "Blitz.." I call again getting worried. "Before that, I need you guys to know about this story in my past" Blitz turned from us, looking up at the light in the ceiling.

      In the year 3/15/2996 NW, Blitz was 12 years old at the time of this story. Blitz took in a child he would had to take care of after this day. This child name was Pistil. He had brown eyes, light brown hair, and was very weak and pale. He was almost the same age as Blitz only 2 years younger. Blitz at this time was becoming a warrior in his village, training in the woods when he hear the Muta Wolves in the distance. Pistil was getting chased, and was almost eaten if it wasn't for Blitz shooting down the wolves with his weapon. Blitz slayed each and every Muta Wolves chasing the boy. The boy was all alone when he found him with no signs from where he was from. Muta is short for mutation in the New World. Most wild lives and animals from the Old World got transformed into stronger, angrier, and disgusting versions of their old selves. There are some animals that are normal. If a muta animal has pure water in its system; it will change back into their regular shapes in the next offspring. Since that Blitz was also an orphan, he lead him to the orphanage in Buken village. Pistil never talked, but he would only stay near Blitz at all times. Blitz's overtime just figured that Pistil must be mute. Blitz fed Pistil before he ever got to ate. He found clothes and shoes for Pistil as he was growing older. Pistil depended on Blitz following his footsteps in whatever he did. Blitz never knew how Pistil felt about him till one day, Blitz was getting over pushed by his warrior chief. Blitz only wanted to use his weapon not a sword or shield. Blitz's weapon is a old rifle that doesn't use gunpowder, but uses a flintlock mechanism and air pressure to fire. It also has a blade on the end of the barrel so he can cut down people who get to close. This is the last memento from Blitz's parents, so he refuse to use anything but that. Blitz was pushed to the ground and stepped on by his chief who was not showing mercy. Pistil came from behind the commander pushing him off Blitz. The commander got furious telling all his troops to kill Pistil. The troops beat him senseless till Pistil couldn't move. Blitz was pinned down watching the entire thing, fighting his way to Pistil. To see the person he take care of getting hurt for him brought overwhelming guilt for Blitz. Seeing Pistil eyes of pain toward Blitz's changed his heart, letting him know that he isn't just somebody, he is his little brother now. The warrior chief unsheathed his sword as he pointed it to the beaten boy's slowing heart. A inner berserk in Blitz arose with a terrible malice of anger. He manage to push the soldiers off of him, running toward Pistil. He stood right in front of the incoming stab until the village chief stopped the warrior chief. The warrior chief was told to back off as Blitz held Pistil in his arms. Blitz couldn't stop crying over his injured friend who was already not that healthy to begin with. However, Pistil didn't blame Blitz for any of this. Pistil was able to hug Blitz back after waking up showing that he would survive. After this event, they left the orphanage and made their own house on the edge of the village. Pistil stayed with Blitz and lived with him for years. They loved each other to the point they were had each others backs for whatever reason. Blitz started to train Pistil in combat just in case, he needs to defend himself. Pistil was too nervous to commit violence onto others, ever since the beating of the soldiers. Blitz says that he loved Pistil like a little brother, he was the only family he had to care for. That's why he decided to protected him instead of teaching him how to fight. That's how he wanted it to be, then soon a terrible group arose bring destruction to village to village. There was disarray everywhere in the area that soon arrived to Buken Village. Pistil's and Blitz's home village, Buken Village, was attacked and was set on fire from an attack. Blitz fought hard with his fellow warriors, but they were outnumbered and soon the village was getting ransacked. Blitz abandoned his post as warrior and ran straight for the shelter Pistil was at. Blitz cut and shot down everyone who stood in his way. He made it to the shelter, cover in blood and sweat looking for Pistil. The shelter was being overrun with enemy troops. Women and children in the shelter was getting grabbed from multiple entrances made by the enemies. All the warriors that was assigned to protect everyone here was slain brutally. He didn't spot Pistil, but he didn't just want his villagers to die so he fought again. Blitz fought off the warrior going for the citizens, killing them one by one. He manage to save some people, but not all. The women and children that was taken was most likely will be killed or worse turned into slaves. He evacuated the survivors leading them into the main troops. Blitz started looking for Pistil again, looking through panicking bodies and dead corpses. Blitz made it out the village, that was almost gone from the fire. He scanned around the places around the village, and found a slave carry unit for the enemy nearby. Then he spotted him, Pistil in the giant cage in the back of the wagon with others from his village. Blitz charged in, shooting down every member of the unit. Someone manage to get the wagon moving, speeding away with his only family. He kicked off the guarding unit that had a horse and rode after the wagon. The wagon driver notice that he was being pursued, so he went off track going into the entrance to the Destroyed Lands. He chased the wagon for a good hour not able to catch up to it because of it tricky quick turns and incoming dust storms. The wagon driver lead them to the Oblivion Labs in the distance. Pistil reached his hands through the cage for Blitz as he started to catch up. His tears going down his cheek for Blitz made him furious as he was pushing his horse harder. The wagon went inside a open part of the lab, speeding inside tracking dust behind it. Blitz made it inside about three minutes behind as he hear a large noise up ahead. He seen up ahead that the wagon had crashed into the wall, and has tipped over. Blitz jumped from the horse, looking for the driver. That's when he notice that the cage has been opened and Pistil was missing. Blitz freed the remaining people as they told him they went deeper inside the labs with two kids. He hurried inside aiming his musket on every cornered he turned. The labs was quiet and pitch dark. The sound of sand and dust getting blown was the only thing Blitz heard. A voice nearby alerted Blitz, causing him to find the driver. As he got to the room that they were in, instantly he saw Pistil getting stabbed in the chest with a sword. Pistil had his arms out standing in front of a small girl, protecting her from the stab. It seems that Pistil stabbed the guy with a old needle on the ground and bit him as well. Blitz could only stand there in shock as the driver pulls out his sword from Pistil chest, then kicking him into this open pod. As Pistil falls in, the driver attempts to stab the girl as well. Blitz with a darkening look, aims up his rifle with little care shoots the driver in the shoulder making him drop the sword. The driver grabs his shoulder in pain, and rolls around the floor. Blitz didn't care about him anymore, he ran up to the pod where it starts to close on Pistil. Blitz is slamming his fist against the pod were his little brother starts to bleed to death. Pistil coughs up blood, holding his wound as he starts to slow down his movement. Blitz was trying his hardest to get the pod open, but it wouldn't open. Tears rolled down Blitz's eyes uncontrollably. "I promised to protect you...so don't you dare leave me...DO YOU HEAR ME!" Blitz shouted at the top of his lungs. With Pistil right arm, he places it on the pod glass, looking deeply at Blitz. His eyes slowly fading down as he slowly brings up a blood written smile. "I w-won't.. B-big...brother" the first and last words that Blitz ever heard from Pistil. Pistil stopped moving, as his eyes died down but his smile remains. Despair filled into Blitz heart as he turned away from his brother's smile. He looked down at the driver who was trying to crawl away. A shot fired into the driver's back as he screamed in agonizing pain. Then shot after shot was fired as screams turn to pleads and as pleads turn into mercy. Shot after shot was fired into no fatal areas of the man's body, countless streams of blood flowed on the ground, as now there are no more bullets left on Blitz. Blitz never tortured before but this is what this man deserves along with his allies who are rotting in hell. He climbed on the man's body and with the blade on his rifle he stabbed the man over and over now in fatal areas. The quiet room of squishing was interrupted by a plead. Blitz stopped, turning to the little girl who had a face of pure terror and sadness. That's when Blitz realize the yelling stopped as the man been dead from blood loss and constant wounds located all on him. Blitz got up from the body, backing away slowly as he collapsed over near the pod. He notice he was fully covered in blood from his hair to his shoes.. He curled up and buried his head in his knees and arms. No tears fell from his face anymore as he just sat there hollow and empty. All he remembers after that in that room is the little girl that sat next to him, leaning on his back as she cried deeply on his back.