Opposing Sides

Chapter 22: Cataclysmic

Four weeks after Night’s death, Janz sat on a bed of a ransacked home.  The walls are charred from Janz running his fiery hands along their surface. He feels like all of his loved ones are slowly fading away from his life and he is helpless. He thinks about Cole and Vlam but the thought just makes him shake his head. When Cole opens his eyes he is close to bleeding to death. Vlam is rebellious and unaware. They probably will not last more than four years on this Earth alone.  Guilt gnaws at the core of his conscience. In the past, he thought about his deceased lovers and vengeance. These distractions tore him away from what was important. The loved ones he had with him. Now, death has claimed another life in his circle. The mourning, regretting, and past woes must end because he lives in the present. His mind has been following the trail of his body instead of leading it. At this moment, he thinks of the only family he has left, his sons. They may not be the strongest beings but he must teach them how to be stronger and lead with a better example than a moping figure. Cole left with his human friend two weeks ago. He hopes they have not wandered too far away from him.

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                Vlam wakes up with a black canvas bag tied over his head and his limbs bound to each other. His mouth has a piece of tape on it. He groans and grunts as he squirms. The ground beneath him sways constantly. He thinks about Cine and that guy. This is probably that guy’s doing. A small voice deep within his mind says something but he does not pay attention to it. Then a yelling voice tells him the message he ignored previously. I knew I should not have trusted that guy! The thought sends a cold shiver down his spine. If he would have listened to the small nagging voice that always zoomed by his mind when that guy was around, he would not be in this predicament. Cine sits on a chair that she is bound to in a dimly lit room on slowly swaying cruise ship. Cine does not have a black bag over her face or duct tape unlike her sweet oldest brother who was supposedly sleeping next to an equally bound June.  Cine saw the kidnappers. They must have tranquilized them when they were sleep because all she remembers before getting in the room is falling asleep on a cracked road. Then she saw men with scruffy facial hair and tired eyes give her little foraging group to veiled figures. At first, she thought of the guards that have shadowed her family since she was a little girl, but they smelled different. She saw a lean, tall man with brown hair stare at her as she was taken onto the ship. She may have not been separated from the others if she did not blink just as the veiled guy holding on his shoulder turned a corner on the first floor of this ship, but she did. Now, she looks at the fading sunrays from a single window in the room. The doorknob rattles and someone enters the room. She expected the tall man to come but she saw a veiled guard force a male to his knees before her. A black bag covered his head as well. His scent was familiar but she could only remember the sound of his voice. The guard pulled the bag off of his head. It was Daren.  A quizzical look fell on her face. “Is this the girl you spoke of?” The veiled guard asked. He nodded and a sinking pain filled her gut. She did not know him that well but she did not he would betray her. His betrayal stung her like a swift slap on the face. “Stand up!” The guard exclaimed. Daren left the room as soon as he came. After a little while she felt the boat stop moving forward. Veiled guards tranquilized her. A big hand with sharp nails held her face and shook it until she awakened. When she opened her eyes, she saw the olive arm attached to the hand that pulled her away from her slumber. His thick black eyebrows slightly lifted as he admired her silver eyes for a brief moment. Then he looked away from her and back to Doctor Feir who was standing on the other side of the lab room. “So, you think she is the key to that contraption Doctor Ganashbe left behind?” Lorent asked. “Yes, my king.” The Doctor said.

“What are you going to do to her?”

“The instructions say that you must put her in the seat of the machine and link it to her sternum, wrists and spine.”

“Do what you must.”

A black hair strand on Lorent’s head shifts as he moves out of Doctor Feir’s path. The doctor pushes the gurney, Cine is laying on, into a brightly lit room filled with equipment that connects to a small red seat. The doctor placed Cine on the seat and connected needles to each wrist. Then he placed a medium sized sticky electrical monitoring node on her sternum, which was also connected to the machine. He turned a knob on a remote controller. Cine feels a small shock pass through her body. Blue liquid drips from her nose. 

He turned the knob to a higher voltage and this time Cine feels pain turn into numbness. The blue liquid streams from her nose. As Cine’s life depletes a black crack forms and widens in midair. “Taefeire fviae brrre.” A booming voice says. Cine begins to translate. “This is not what I want. Why do you seek to find, destroy and hurt the unknown? You exist in negative and positive space but when you choose one side over the other destruction entails. Is this truly what you wish for? Existence will allow you to transcend but the rest is up to you.”  A strong suction pulled the doctor and Cine in the black crack that disappears as fast as it appeared. When they left, time slowed down until it came to a complete stop. Bells freezes in the midst of searching for Daren with Aziri and Chad in wilderness. Daren left his father a letter a week ago telling him that he wanted to find his strange white haired friend, Cine. Aziri and Chad fade until nothing is left of them. The same thing happened to the plastic sphere and its inhabitants. Daren is on a shore unconscious. Vlam, Cole, and his father have faded as well. Doctor Ganashbe final experiment erased all of his experiments. At that time the Earth’s magnetic poles flipped and through a an electrically charged hole a purple planet appeared.  The planets gravitational pull forced Earth into its outer atmosphere where the surface of Earth burned and the planet became invisible. It left Earth’s surface charred  and disappeared through another elusive electrically charged or created hole with a lighter suction power. Most of the life on Earth is dead except the bacteria. The new world will now begin through the healing of Earth’s surface.