Ruins

13-Fate

The meteor has just surfaced above the water, rising up to the boats main deck. Kaleb stood upon the meteor, clutching the chain in one hand, axe in the other. The other guests on the ship applauded in their sun chairs and tanning beds.

They must've thought this was some kinda ceremony, no this was war.

Kaleb looked around at the main deck, the control man had just been beaten over the head with an aluminum baseball bat, Stan. Stan winked at Kaleb and took over the controls, setting him down on the main deck.

As the stone was slowly set down in the direct middle of the main deck, the chain released and retreated to its slot where it comes out.

Kaleb stood upon the top of the stone majestically weilding the axe at his side, no shirt, with stitches along his chest.

A few seconds after Kaleb standing in glory, black skull emerged from the hallway, his face wiped clean of blood. A scar still ran down into his eye though.

His eyes, sorry, eye. Filled with terror, "don't touch that! You could damage the material!"he said and put his fist together, begging."don't listen to him, Kaleb!"Stan called."he'll do anything to get his hands on that mineral!"he reminded.

"We can just talk this out, you know? Find a good way to sort this out?"black skull said, trembling. He began to take a slow, steady step forward, immediately, Kaleb slammed the fireaxe into the shell, cracking halfway into the armored exterior.

Black skull jumped back, terrified."come on, Kaleb! This is what we've been working for, all along!"Stan yelled. Kaleb's eyes hardened, staring into black skulls eye.

He brought the axe above his head and crashed it down, through the shell. When he removed the blade, a sterile, lime green smoke, emitted from the blade. Through the crack, a glowing, beautiful, calming, exotic lime green light shone through.

"Come on, what if you ruin humanities only chance for redemption, our only reality of a safe haven? You'd be a monster."black skull reasoned."Just do it!"Stan yelled, stomping his foot against the deck.

Time then began to slow as Kaleb stared at the light for a moment. Then he began to raise the axe above his shoulder, in slow time, black skull began darting towards Kaleb, screeching"Nnnooo!!!"

As soon as the blade drove into the mysterious substance, a large lime green tendril bursted from the meteor, spiraling through kaleb's chest, throwing him about 25 yards into the ocean, silent the entire time.

He soar through the air, almost gracefully, as smoke began to emit from his chest before he crashed, back first into the ocean. Black skull dove back for cover as the hole, opened up further revealing multiple smaller plasma tendrils.

Suddenly, a small creature, about the size of a six year old toddler, emerged from the hole, crawling.

It bared small fangs as if protecting someone, small tears could be noticed as they were the color of the plasma, he bared two, developing horns, though one, it seemed, was severed off when the shell was removed.

He was close to a human except for the horns, teeth, abstract energy rays, small non usable until further growth black feathered wings on its back, on all fours, naked, seeming same male genital area.

It looked only a child protecting someone, until it switched completely berserk. Lunging at all guests, tearing at their skin.
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Two and a half hours after the event.

Stan emerged from his hiding place under a tanning bed. All of the other guests had been brutally defiled. Black skull may have escaped, he didn't know. He had to befriend those creatures, it's what Kaleb would've done...

Stan would not cry, Stan would not.
Kaleb would've called him a pussy,"quit crying you fucking pussy!"he could almost imagine him saying those exact words. Stan laughed weakly through choked down tears.

He slowly and cautiously approached the stone, kaleb's kukri in hand. Once he was in front of it, he leaned over and peaked at the creature inside.

Stan found that it was creatures, not creature, as the interior of the meteor was split into thirds, each a different color. Crimson, Lime, Teal. They were all beautiful and majestic.

They all shared the same bodily traits, except for wing sizes, and horn sizes. The creature from the crimson section, bared enormous wings, as the lime bared one cracked horn, other enormous.

They had all noticed Stan observing them, but ignored him. The lime one seemed like the oldest brother, Teal being middle, crimson youngest. The lime was checking them for injuries and feeding them meat samples of dead humans.

Stan was amazed and decided that he would attempt to raise the creatures.
He smiled and leaned his head on one arm.

Suddenly, an aluminum bat smashed into Stan's head, immediately smashing him unconscious, the creatures unaware. Above him stood black skull, and an old man holding an m16. They both glared down at Stan.

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