nedjelja, 26. rujna 2010.

Being and Nothingness - Prequel-

November 18th, 2021
Pyron: «Messing with time and trying to change the course of the future is dangerous and you know that!»
Gana: «Yes,but I gotta save myself from being a monster while my brain isnt damaged yet!»
Pyron: «But,no...I cant let you do this. If one little thing goes wrong youll kill us all! Remember the butterfly effect! »
Gana: «You know the things I'll do. Look at me. Im a cyborg. I gotta use this opportnity to prevent more bad things to happen,before its too late!»
Pyron: «You better hurry up then...youre running late...and try not to step on the butterfly»
I close my eyes and go back 3 years in the past,right before the machines captured me and brought me to a transporter.

November 18th, 2018
I saw Flame,Peter,Kyle and myself sleeping. The machines came. «Gana!» Flame yelled. I grab his leg and pull him over. I was a little hard on him so when I grabbed him he screamed of pain. He then looks at me.
Flame: «Gana?? But...how...? What ?»
Gana: «Shhh....stay down.»
Peter: «Flame!!»
I grab Peter and Kyle aswell.
Peter: «What the..?»
We all look at the other me being carried away by those machines.
Flame: «Can you explain whats happening?»
Gana: «I came from the future. I want to prevent a certain event from happening. You see,those machines are carrieing me to a transporter,where there are a lot of survivals. If the tansporter gets to his destination a lot of them will die and I will become a cyborg. Like I am one now. You must destroy the transporter, its on its way to San Francisco. I suggest you hurry up before its too late. You will change a lot of bad things that are to happen in the future. You have to fix all the mistakes we made. And Flame....dont go anywhere....by yourself. Dont try to be a hero and do something stupid. Think twice,before you make a decision. You will change your fate.»

Being and Nothingness

«Gana, no!!» I heard Flame from the other end. But then he yelled. His scream was freezing the blood in my vains. After that I heard nothing. «Flame!» Peter yelled. then he got silent aswell. I didnt see Kyle anywhere but I guess he disappeared alongside Peter and Flame. The machines overruned me. I screamed for help but noone answered. I blacked out.
***
I woke up and noticed Im in a transporter. I look around. There were so many human and dragon survivors and they all are taken into San Francisco,the main hot spot of Buraki, the place overruned by machines. Prison,lab and factory. The main thing is the lab. San Fran is the only place where there are humans and dragons kept. They are not being tortured,held captive for informations and so on. Buraki's virus is using us to turn humans and dragons into perfect skin jobs. Actually, skin and flesh from the outside,machine from the inside. «We are all going to die!» someone yelled. «Nooo nooo!» others cryed. A massive panick attack started in the transporter. «Hey calm down!» I said. «Noone will die. Not under my watch.» I say. «Then do something! Youre a dragon! You have powers!»
«Buraki isnt that stupid! He desgined the machines,the prision,the transporter,everything to reject the physic powers of dragons and humans or any other creatures. Thats why they are so terifying and strong. If they werent,this war would be a piece of cake!» I explain. «So you say they are immune to all the powers we have?» a girl asked. She was so young, I felt really sorry for her to be here in this thing. «Yeah...whats your name?» I ask the girl. «Im Claire. I wanted to be of use to the resitance. Try to save the world. But instead of it I got my parents killed and got myself captured.» I felt it. The pain that she feels now. She was crying,inside. She didnt let it out. «Im sorry....» I put my head down. She didnt say anything. «So you say...you have a power?» Clarie nods. «What can you do?» I was curious. «Its not special,nor something very usefull....» She says. «What is it? Im sure its special» She looks at me. «I have the power of rapid cell regeneration. And I cant feel pain.» I was suprised. Its really a good power. «Now that is really special Claire.» I said and smiled,she smiled back. Sudanlly someone jumps at the transporter. It was Flame. "Flame!" "Step back!" Flame yells. He tryes to brake the prision cell with an axe. For our suprise it was working. He opens the cell large enough for all the dragons and humans to escape. "Look out!" I yell but it was too late. Flame got hit by a harvester that was attached to the transporter. He fell down. "Flame!!" I grab Claire and fly down to catch Flame before he falls to his death. Along the way while I was falling I turned around and used my last bits of fury power to destroy the transporter. The survivors escaped before I turned the transporter into ashes. Finally I grabbed Flame and carried him to safety where Peter and Kyle were waiting. "We have to move on! They know we are here." I say. Flame got up aswell. I pick up Peter and Claire, and he carried Kyle. "How did you guys know I was here?" I asked. Peter,Kyle and Flame looked at eachother. "You told us...." Finally Flame said. "What?!"

petak, 24. rujna 2010.

As Daylight Dies

«Ok guys,you have to be quiet now» I said to Flame and Peter who were chating and sharing interests. «Focus on finding a shelter where we can finally go to sleep!»
«We have been searching for it for hours now...lets just lay down right...here!» Flame said. «On train tracks? No way!» I said.
«Hey you two,what about this?» Peter yelled. Flame and I walked to him. He found a little tunnel. We manage to go in there and have a rest. But it wasnt too long when... «Wake up!» Peter shook me and Flame. «What?» Flame asked. «Shhhh! I heard something....» Peter said. I started to listen very carefully. After a few minutes «I dont hear anything.» Flame said. Neither do I.
«Its 2 a.m. Its dark outside. They are better hunters in the dark....» I got scared «Ive heard them,theyre hear...» Sudanlly we hear something coming from the end of the tunnel. We exit our shelter. «Ok guys grab something very sharp.» I said. Each of us found something long and sharp «You will go straight for the neck. Thats theyr blind spot. It will disorientate them for a while,but only for a little while! After you did that...run as fast as you can. Peter, climb my back,now!» So he did. Flame and I stayed low and quiet,and kept listening to the footsteps coming from the distance,and another unfamiliar sound. «Here he is!» Flame said. «Stop!» Peter said. «Its not a machine!» The thing we heard runing,was actually a young boy. Id give him 19. It looked like he was runing from someone. As soon as he saw us he stopped and pointed a gun at us. We froze. «Wait! Dont shoot us!» I said. The boy was breathing really fast. «Come with me if you want to live!» He said and ran away. We looked at each other,then we heared motor sounds not so far from us. «Motorcycles?» Flame said. «Runed by machines...go!» We ran after that boy. Two motorcycles cought up to us. One of them drove next to me. Ahead of us there was a post. I pushed it to the left side and it crashed into it. Flame grabbed a sharp piece of metal and pierced it thru the motorcycle that was driving next to him. It crashed down.
«Nice move.» Gana.
«Thanks!» Flame
We stoped runing. «Well at least we got rid of those pests...» Flame
«And we lost the boy!» Gana
«Up here!!» we heard that boy and followed his voice. He led us to the exit of the tunnel and we climb a large rock. He showed us the downtown of Los Angeles,the part from where we first came. It was overruned by transporters,aerostats and T-800's.«Thanks to you they know we are here!» the boy said and turned around. «Hey wait! You cant just leave us here!» Peter yelled. «Oh yea? Well watch me doing it...»
«Stop!» I yell. He turned to me.
«Look at us... We are tired,hungry...we really need your help...please.»
The boy looked at each of us. Then he breathes in and out. «Follow me...» he said.
***

We soon reached a building. It looked like it was about to colapse. I was worried a bit. «Its ok...its safe here.» He said. We enter the building. The boy lights small fire in a flower pot and gives us food. We ate,but we saved a part of the food for later. «So whats your name boy?» Flame asked. «Im Kyle...» Then I felt goosebumps. Oh my God... Kyle... «Im Flame. This is Gana and Peter.»
«So your all by yourself here?» Peter asked,«Yes...»
«Arent you afraid that you will get caught?»
«Each and everyday...»
Thats a good answer.We talked a bit then we went to sleep. After a few hours I felt a hard,cold,metal hand grabbing my neck.

nedjelja, 19. rujna 2010.

Ashes to Ashes

Pyron is gone,again. Flame also didnt notice he left cause we both were focused on Peter. Pyron probably must have used his shadow power after he said to Peter to show us his abilities. How was I so blind? But then again I know he knows exactly what he's doing. I know that he can take care of himself and that he will be back someday in the future. Maybe tomorrow,maybe next week. I just hope it wont be within a few years. It's been an hour since we left Peters village and Ive started to fear we are lost. «Im tired...were are we going again?» - Flame. «I dont know Flame,but keep up!» -Gana. I was also a bit tired. «Hey! I see someth

ing!»- Peter. «What? Where?» -Flame. «Over there!» Peter pointed to the distance infront of us. It was a smoke rising. It looked like and smelled like a city war. «They need our help! Lets go!» -Gana. We flew towards the smoke and landed in the city. It was a big city,it looked abandoned. We were wrong. There was no city war going on,this town has been destroyed and abanded for over a year. The smoke that we saw was because of an old building that colapsed. «Look at this place.» -Flame said. He grabed a rock and then threw it away. The rock hit a car and broke the car door. «Nice throw...» -Gana. «Thanks!»-Flame. «Hmm...hold on.» I say and ran to the car. «What are you doing?» -Flame. «Im trying to see where we are. What city it is.» I fond the cars registration a

nd picked it up. I turned to Peter. «(213) 897-3656 LA, this is Los Angeles!Well...what's it left of»- Peter. I droped the registration and turned around. I couldnt believe it. I was once in L.A. Actually just passing it by. The city was so big,so full of life. So many humans

lived here. And now whats left of the big city L.A. is just a dessert. I could only imagine the war going on in this city. Cruel,violent,mercless,painfull. «Hey,whos that?»-Peter pointed at someone standing in the distance. Looked like a human. Only a little bigger. «Could be a survivor!» - Flame. «HEY!» -Peter yelled. The misterious figure turned to us and stared. «I dont think that is a...» Before I could finish,that figure started shooting at us. Peter screams. I grab him and we take flight and hide inside a building. «It was a machine? Humanlike»- Flame «Ofcourse..Thats what that king was talking about. But that machine had skin on it! He never mentioned a machine with half skin and human chlotes!» «Yeah I know,its a skin-job. We will review that thing later! As soon as we manage to capture it....somehow» - Gana. «Yeah,how?» - Flame. «I dont know...» - Gana. «We better hide somewehere!» - Peter said and looked around. «over there!» He pointed to a tunnel. «Are you kidding me? Who knows what things are hiding in that darkness!» -Flame. Then sudanlly we heard an explosion. Its coming from the entrance. A skin job was after us. «Its either that or HIM!» -I said. We ran in the tunnel. It was really dark but we could see and I somehow managed to find a light switch on the wall and turned the lights,or whats left of it, on. «A subway!» - Peter. «Lets follow the tracks,it will lead us to the station where we can exit.» «And get back to that skin job? No way...Id rather stay here and look for,I dont kow...food? Place to sleep? Im really tired.» - Flame said. «Flames right. That machine probablly emited signals to others,they will start looking for us around here. Besides,its nearly dark and they are better hunters at night. Im tired aswell, and we do need rest. Specially you Peter. Lets look for shelter. Maybe there are survivors that can help us and give us food.» I said. «Ok...youre right.» - Peter agreed. We continued thru the tunnel,not knowing we were being watched.

Unsettled

Remember when....

I get out of the water. «Are you ok?» Flame asked. «Yeah,you put up quite a show there...» Pyron said worried. «Im not ok!» I said and put my head down. «Gana,whats happening?» Pyron asked «We can help you» I get up. «Noone can help me...its over for me. I cant....fight the machines.» I say. «What? What are you saying?» Flame was shocked. «Im starting to loose my abilities! I lost the power to run fast,to breathe ice,move objects with my mind,control other peoples thoughts.... Whats left is...pain infliction,low level electricity and I can see at least 1 hour in the future.» Pyron and Flame looked at eachother.
Pyron: «What about your fury? You used it to save me,remember?»
Gana: «The last bits of my fury powers...yes.»
Flame: «Thats...terrible! Whats happening? Are we all gonna loose our powers right before the main fight againts Buraki??»
Pyron: «Noone knows! But Im sure that Buraki has something to do with Ganas loss of powers! And Im gonna find it out! Lets go!»
As we got up we noticed someone standing at the beach and looking at us. A human. He seemed like he was not scared of us. He was just standing there,watching us. Like we were Gods. And then I felt it. The power,the vibe around him. Thats it! Its... «Peter ?!» I ask. The man didnt say anything,he ran away. «Wait!» I run after him. Flame and Pyron followed. He lead us to a village. The villagers seemed like they never met dragons. The all stopped doing what they were doing a looked at us. I clear my throught «Has anyone seen Peter Petrelli? Anyone?» Quiet. «This is pretty importaint.» Noone said a word. Until... «Heres the little dirt bag!» someone said and pushed Peter infront of us. I was shocked by the way people treat him here. «Peter Petrelli?» I ask. He looked at me and nodded. «What do you want? Are you taking me away?!» Now,he was afraid. I can sence his fear. «We prefer to ask you first...are you feeling different? Like you dont belong here?» He didnt say anything. By that I concluded that -yes- is the answer. «Show us what you can do,dont be afraid.» Pyron said to him. Peter got up and turned around to a few boxes. He rased his hand and lifted them up with his mind and threw them on the other side. I was shocked. He can do something that I could do before I lost it. I wasnt sure,but I'll test him. «Thats nice... have you ever tryed...runing very fast?» I asked. «No..» he said. «Wasnt it wieard to you that you outruned us dragons?» he didnt say anything. «Or have you ever thought about something...like if that guy over there...» I pointed to the village bully «...was giving you a hard time. Then you thought that he stoppes doing that... Did he?» He nodded. «When youre angry,sad,full of bad emotions and then you grab something and it sudanlly....» «Freezes.» he finished my sentance. I looked at him and smiled. «You have my powers Peter, and we didnt meet just randomly. Everything noew happens for a reason!»
Peter knew what he must do. He picked up a few things from his house and climbed on my back. We took flight but we didnt know our next destination.

Akkadian Empire

«Are you ok?» I asked Pyron. I can see that he's confused. «What's going on?»
«I am sorry...I had to bring you here. They were gonna kill you if we came to Wells! I had to do this. And besides, Nera will lead everyone to that city,then she will meet us in our current destination...» I looked at the road that was leading thru the forest..«...Bellvalle.» Then I look at Pyron. He didnt say anything. Its obvious after all those years of me changing destinations and other suddan suproses,he just rather goes with it instead of asking questions. I breathe in and out. I look at a puddle beside Pyron. It was strange. Inside that puddle there was a formation. Looked like a castle or something. I shake my head. «Hey,look at this...» I say to Pyron. «What?» He asked. «Ugh...nevermind.Lets move...»
«Hold on!» someone yelled behind us. «Youre not going anywhere without me!»
«Flame?! What are you doing here?!» I was angry. «I decided that its time for me to stick with you,Gana and Pyron. I want to help you out. So...can I tag along?» he asked. «Flame...» «Whatever you say Gana wont make me change my mind. Im coming with you!» I didnt say anything I just noded. So we went.
**
We were walking pretty long. Flame was behind us. «Woah..» he said looking at a rock. On that rock little drops of rain formed into something that reminded Flame of the ocean. And a castle. «Hurry up Flame!» I yelled. «Damn...How long are we gonna walk??» Flame was nervous. «Just behind the....» I stopped. «You ok?» Pyron asked. «Something's not wright....» I felt something. Then I get a gimpse. Flood. Lots and lots of water. We were sinking. «C'mon let's fly!» So we took flight. «Would you please tell us whats happening?» Flame asked. «I saw floo—ah!» Not so far from us there was a wave coming. Like a tsunami. «C'mon! Go as high as you can!» So we did. But from the wave 6 hands streched out,grabed us and pulled us into the water. I was so afraid. I never been more afraid. I don't like....I...I hate water. The hands didn't let us go. We enter the water. I hold my breath as long as I could. I tryed to brake free but I couldn't. We strugle but it was useless. The darkness of the water surrounded us. We had no air.
**

«Wake up young dragons» an unfamiliar voice said «It's ok...» I open my eyes and get up. I felt kinda lighter,sudanly I was hoovering. And so did Pyron and Flame. «What the...?» I asked. The I saw a dolphin. «Welcome to the Akkadian Empire!»
«What happened to us?» Pyron asked. «Yeah and how can we....breathe under water?» Flame said. The dolphin explained that they gave us the power to breathe under water for 12 hours. «Oh thats nice. The invite couldave been nicer tho...» I said. I really dont like water. «I am sorry,but since you hate water we knew you would never try to enter it,so we had to do this...» the dolphin explained. «Good! Now that we are forced to be here...» I was nervous «...explain to us who are the Akkadi and why do we need to be here.» I tryed to fast forward this. The sooner I get the information I need the sooner I can leave the water. I started to feel wieard.
«The Akkadi are very gentle and proud creatures. You do NOT want to insult them. It may be the last thing you ever do. They are also known as «Generous creatures of Darkness» ... If you are afraid,don't show it.» he said. «Now...what are we doing here??» Flame asked. «The Akkadi king, Slaifon, needs to speak to you. Follow me!» So we did. We enter a big castle. «Follow this guard,he will lead you to the king.» the dolphin said and left. Then a guard was comming towards us,it was a sword fish. Kinda obvious that a sword fish is a guard. «Move it» the guard said. We finally came to the royal hall. «My guests have arrived. Please,come in. I am sorry that our hands grabed you and forced you down here,but there was no other way to contact you except for the signs that we were sending you,but none of you havent noticed. We had to do it this way then.» Signs? Ofcourse! The puddle. «Woah...that trick you did on the rock was pretty good» Flame said. «And not enough good for you to realize it means something.» The king said to him. Flame put his head down. I smiled at him. «I have brought you here to tell you that Buraki made new types of machines. Stronger,faster,bigger and more powerfull then any other machines we ever seen before,and they all have the same,the only task: Whipe out dragon resistence and dragon allies. We examined the current machines that your army fought againts. You remember death hounds, hunters, dragon killers...» We all nodded. «Wait,you can see whats happening above the water?» Pyron asked «How?» «I can see everything thats happening on the surface if I want to. I just pick a destination,then I can see everything. Thats how I saw Mistfalls end. The war at Dragonopolis. The war between Eastern and Western dragons. Good becomes bad,bad becomes good...and now,Embers death.» We look at eachother. «This is how I found all about his machines. But without you,I would not see it. Cause those machines top prioriti was,and still is,to destroy the new born and the main leaders. The main leaders are you two I guess.» He pointed to Pyron and me. «The new born is....Angel?» I asked. «Hmm...your daughter. Yes.» I got scared. I started to shake and cry. Pyron came to me and hugged me. So did Flame. «Our child is on Burakis top list. I am just afraid that I wont be there for her,when she needs me the most.» I say. «Gana,she can take care for herself now...» The king said. «what? For crying out loud,shes still a baby!» I yelled. «With great powers...» he added. «With great powers,comes great responsibility» I said quietly. Pyron looked at me. He was worried. «Tell us everything you know,even the tinyest details about the new machines!» I said.
«Burakis scientists built various types of machines,they still have the same name but with an added number by side which describes the machine likely to be much more powerfull then the older version. For example: Dragon killer lets say evolved into Dragon Killer S-100, Death Hund to Death Hound C-44... They also created 1,400-pound T-800 that is designed as a human metal skelton. They are more focused and designed for killing humans,not dragons.» Pyron,Flame and I couldn't believe what we are hearing. The new,improoved army. Buraki, a robotic-dragon monster,human scientists replaced by a factory that works on the base of computers: machines creating by each day,more and more robots,non stop. This is it. We are not in a war againts the living,breathing creatures made of bones,blood and flesh...but in a war againts non living,metal,robotic army. Againts computers. Againts a virus. We are in a war againts the machines. As the king,Slaifon,was telling us about the new types I started to loose all my hopes. The last,the only hopes that I had,are now gone.
« Theres also a machine that is like a prisoner transport called the Transporter and its huge attachment is the Harvester,that is used for capturing targets,it also has very powerfull wepons,if you ever see those,stay out of the way. Hide underground,anywhere that they cant see you. And last but not least, the newest,water-proof Hydro-Bots, which we describe as a cross between a psychotic crab and a deep sea fish with an eel body. So,our empire is going to be attacked by those. Noone knows when. But our forces have been gathered and train every day.»
«Its not enough!» I yell. «It has never been enough. We are outnumbered! By..by machines!» I couldnt take it anymore. «I need to get out of here....Im sorry but we cant even help ourselfs!» I say and swim to the shore. Flame and Pyron came after.