Book #1 Covenant

Chapter 7: Cloning Chamber

Aiden made his way deeper into the armory. Battle suites lined the walls along with rifles, grenades, food packets, and weapons he had never seen. Aiden grabbed a few packets of food, stuffing them into a backpack he found. He kept one in his hand, opening it. He looked inside. "Hmm, looks like meat and bread. Reaching inside he pulled off a chunk of bread, it was moist and soft. "Delicious! Not at all like the bread they gave me." After finishing the food packet he continued down the stairs.

Finding nothing else of interest, Aiden followed the stairs back to the entrance of the room. While on his way up, he heard the door to the armory shut followed closely by footsteps. Thinking quickly, he silently walked over to a large crate and knelt beside it in the darkness. The footsteps moved closer,every step made Aiden heart jump. He slowed his breathing, trying to focus on making as little noise as possible. The footsteps stopped. His head began to pound as if he was being pulled out from his hiding. Closing his eyes and trying to focus, all suddenly went dark.

The colors he had seen while in the container came back, but this time they traveled with much speed, as soon as they came they were gone and replaced with an image of the room he was in, as if he was looking out of the eyes of where the footsteps had stopped. He noticed that he could feel and control the body of what he was in. He walked forward towards the large contained he was hiding behind, looking next to it he saw his body, huddled there, eyes closed. The lights came back, darkness devoured them like before.

Aiden opened his eyes exhaling and breathing hard. He peaked around the corner, looking for any sign of the creature he had looked through. Nothing. He stood and walked around. "What did they do to me?" He thought. He walked over to one of the armor suites and put it on, strapping the rifle that rested next to the suite to his back. Picking up the knifes he had gotten from the two Galkarian guards, he sheathed them into pouches on his suite, threw on his backpack and walked towards the door.

Quietly opening it, he strained his ears trying to hear some sound of movement on the other side. Hearing nothing, he crouched down and walked out, cautiously making his way to cover. He looked down the hall, brightly lit except for a moving shadow across the floor. Looking closely, he saw what made the shadow, a lone figure standing at the end of the hall. It wore Galkarian armor, holding a laser pistol with a blade underneath the barrel in his right and nothing in his left. The figure turned, looking straight at him.

Aiden quickly dropped back down behind cover and out of sight, but the moment he did, he knew it was a mistake. Quick movements always attract the eyes.

Aiden unsheathed one his knifes and drew his pistol. "He probably saw me, I need to act quick and strike accurately." He told himself. Footsteps came closer as the figure walked towards his hiding place. Aiden Jumped up from his cover, raised the gun and pulled the trigger several times. As he did this he noticed something dreadfully disturbing about the figure, every laser beam had missed and the figure kept walking forward. The face was somehow familiar. It dawned on him of who,it looked like. "It can't be, the figure has my face!" Aiden blinked, trying to get the image out of his mind, trying to see if he was dreaming. But when he opens his eyes he was no longer staring at the figure, he was the figure.

Adalyn rounded the corner entering the room, rifle drawn and finger lightly resting on the trigger. Nothing, just like the last few rooms they had checked. Samuel and Adalyn had decided to check each of the rooms down the hallway. He would check right while Adalyn would checked the left. "Samuel, do we really need to check every room? I mean, there's nothing here."

He walked into the room and stood next to her as he looked around. "I guess not, although we could miss something."

"Not likely, we haven't found anything." She walked out of the room looking down the long hallway. Dust covered everything and drifted throughout the interior of the aircraft, a blue mist like substance flowed out of one of the rooms, it glowed unlike anything she had seen. "Samuel, what do you think of that?" She said while pointing to the blue mist. He walked out of the room and looked in the direction Adalyn pointed. "I've never seen anything like that before."