The Eyes of Death Book 2 - The Awakening

The Awakening Part 1 - Chapter 1

A dark warehouse at the corner 9th and Industrial. 

A priest was sitting at a desk writing a report in his journal with an almost dried out pen. A dim suspended light giving insufficient illumination which seemed to annoy him to no end, as the light kept balancing back and forth, as if the building was being shaken like a martini.

*Journal*

Recruitment via church goers has been going down since 30 years ago and is now an insufficient method. But other sources have emerged,street kid recruitment helps our organization and has proven to be a reliable source of personnel. Just yesterday I have found three new recruits.

The new dosage is effective, I could see an almost immediate effect on them. I am positive that with it we can quadruple our efforts. I will try it on Sunday's mass by infusing the sacramental bread.

Suddenly a massive crashing sound came from outside the room. The priest looked up from his magical journal as the page he wrote on shimmered, a sign that his report had been sent to 'HIM', and looked at the door leading to the warehouse. He signaled two ugly decomposing guys, once human now husks of their former selves, to investigate the sound.  He smiled at how they and the rest of the world were oblivious to what they had become, if only they knew that the gorgeous sexy bodies they saw themselves as was only an illusion. 

He then proudly looked on his desk at a grey misty liquid, not letting himself be interrupted by the new crashing sounds that were getting closer by the moment. He got up from his seat, grabbing the bottle and looked through the rooms window just in time to see soldiers placing explosives all over the place.

*Outside 5 minutes ago*

The doors to the old worn down warehouse opened to let two sexy well muscled security guards come out, guns in hand. To the uninformed, they would have wondered why these guys were not in the gym working out instead of looking stressed out like that with their weapons. They had perfect white t-shirts, perfect black jeans, perfect hair,perfect workout shoes, perfect everything. Suddenly a shadow passed them, almost invisible to the eye. One of the guards shooting at it only to hit a metal lamp with an echoing sound resounding throughout the night.

Then, a hooded female dressed all in-black appeared behind the two men,snapping the neck of the guard on the left in record time. She looked around, and vanished without a sound, leaving the second guard scared and pissed.

"Get up and snap your head back into place moron, now's not the time to sleep on the job"

To which the seemingly dead guard obliged, standing up and snapping his neck back into proper position. Goo came out of his mouth and eyes, and this time he seemed somewhat slower, different. A shotgun then was heard firing, and the second unharmed guard's eyes went round, as he poked at a hole in the middle of his forehead. He then started screaming has flames erupted from the new orifice in his head, and started melting into a pile of the same goo that the other one had coming out of his face. But this guy didn't get up, he was really dead this time.

A second louder gun shot was heard and the first guy was now stuck in an electrified net, which quickly fell him to the ground, unconscious.Two woman in black suits approached him, one removed her gloves and put a hand on his head which started to glow. After a moment, the man started shaking, looking empty minded and the woman nodded to the other one that was standing nearby. Smoke engulfed the man from everywhere and also from the goo that he had been exuding, and he started screaming. Once the smoke cleared, everything was gone, goo,bones, nothing remained of any of the once two gorgeous guards.

Five military guys approached the ladies who then pointed to the door in an authoritative way, so one of them promptly blasted it with a grenade. Debris flew everywhere, and as the five soldiers tried to enter, they bounced off of an invisible wall. They didn't flinch though, the front guy instead signaled the one on the back who threw a device at the invisible wall. Blue energy started creeping all over the opening, revealing a magical force field which the device quickly took care of, leaving an open doorway for them to charge in.

They looked around and found piles of huge crates all around the building on the far right, hiding what seemed to be an occupied office. On the left, light was shining dimly at piles of smaller crates that had seen a better day compared to the first ones that seemed fairly new. As the soldiers went around the crates, they found a lab of some sorts, grey smoke coming out of several beakers.

They were on high alert though, so were not surprised when six scientists with machine guns started shooting at them from behind more crates.They were trained soldiers so easily shot them dead, leaving only grey mist coming out of quickly vanishing goo, bones and muscle masses.

The first soldier yelled "All clear!" as the other four soldiers placed timed explosives on everything. Meanwhile the two women from before entered and approached the office slowly. The door opened revealing a priest drinking a bottle of grey smoke.

One of the ladies then spoke for the first time

"Oh shit!"

The other woman smirked and said "Language love."

Suddenly the priest started transforming, growing in height to somewhat over eight feet tall, muscles twisting and growing rapidly. Is front teeth became longer, almost troll like as drool poured out of the side of his mouth. His fingernails became long crooked claws as well, turning the once peaceful looking priest into an efficient killing machine.He looked at the two women and growled, launching himself at them head first with his clawed hands reaching for their heads. He managed to get a punch at the woman on the left who flew through the wall of crates behind her and slid flat on her butt. The other woman made a little 'yipe' sound as the first woman got up, seemingly angry. Blades flashed into focus from inside her long sleeves, they were golden with runes decorating them, three per hand, very similar to that guy in the cartoons. You could see as the material pulled back the full weapons now. A jewel encrusted gold wristband held a hand guard that was attached to the hand by a richly decorated leather strap. From the hand guard, 3 long blades sprang forward  for several inches.

The woman then crouched in a cat like position, to which one of the soldiers proudly commented

"Just wait for it! She's gonna do the butt wiggle thing.

Wait for iiit!

And she did the butt wiggle thing just like a cat. One the other soldier then said

"Damn Mike you won again!" handing Mike 20$ as the other guys laughed.

The woman then growled and Launched herself at the beast, has he did the same thing in deep heavy slow steps. The woman accelerated to incredible speed, smiling and suddenly she was behind him saying in his ear "Psst behind you", impaling his stomach with her claws.

He started turning around, only to ignore the second woman who promptly plunged a gorgeously decorated sword inside his guts. The priest monster started burning from the inside where the sword and claws were plunged and he was visibly panicking. They withdrew their weapons and he started flapping around trying in vain to extinguish the fire from his insides.

But the pressure of the flames seemed too much as he started blowing up like a balloon and exploded from the inside, throwing pieces of priest monster everywhere over the woman with the hand claw weapons.

Francine removed her hood and started laughing "You OK Tali?