A night earlier
As a city crumbles away, and the earth shutters in fear, the shivering cold ate away at those who lay hidden away…
[Kipley…I'm cold…] said a child no less than 10
[It's ok… the bad monsters are gone…] replied Kipley to the sounds of rolling tin cans
[Kipley… we should move…] replied Rebecca
[why?] question Kipley with concern
[Because they found us…] replied Rebecca shakingly, as she stared out the basement window of the police station
[HISS!]
Breder Pov
[...cough… why should I tell you, my story? What will you give me in return…] said the old fish with a poker face
{oh! How cute, the old fish thinks he is in a position to bargain! Smart… but stupid! But you are in luck… had you responded like this to me on any other day, I would have just left you here… but since I'm in the mood I will bite… alright what do you want to trade for your story?} replied Breder with curiosity
[Free the children! Please… it's all I ask.] replied the old fish with stone eyes
{Umm… that will be difficult… You see, I need them… In fact, I need every single member of your race…] replied Breder
[For what? Food? Our cores? I can't think of any other reason you need us for.] replied the old fish
{Oh! That question delights me! Well, it's for both food and for reproduction!} replied Breder with a smile.
[...] replied the fish with disgust while clenching his 'cheeks'
{Wait, no! Not like that! Let me explain! My species require using other living creatures as incubators… in other words, we force our eggs down…} replied Breder as he abruptly stopped mid-sentence when he realized the explanation sounded worse given words
{Look! I need them! And that is all you need to know! If you want me to give them up, then you better have something worth in return!} replied Breder
[My story is more than just a story; it's worth amounts to a thousand years of history! History that started with a God! And ends in betrayal! A story I can show you rather than tell you!] replied the old fish
{Yes… Yes, you are an excellent salesman… But that does not} replied Breder before getting cut off.
[I know what I offer doesn't sound like much, but if you plan on going to war with our 'father,' you should at least want to know more about him… No.] replied the old fish
{sigh, this conversation is going in circles... Fine, let us do this. You tell me half the story, and then if I think it worth going forward, I'll make a pact with you.} replied Breder
[*chuckle softly* finally I see some hope...] replied the old man as he began his tale.
Meanwhile back to the night:
[Run!] yelled Kipley as she fired her weapon into the darkness.
But through the hissing and roars of bloody aliens. Did the girls run down to the sewers beneath the station! Sewers they didn't know were already filled with the haunting monsters! And as they ran through that labyrinth under the city, the aliens didn't give up the chase!
They crawled along the wall, or swam in the muck beneath the railing bridges, or popped out from the ceiling above their heads! A maw of moving flesh and teeth, covered in a shroud of darkness with the dimmest of light shining through old lamp posts or broken wires. This was a scene that burned its image into the mind of a little girl!
Though she didn't scream or show the horrors on her face, she couldn't hide the fear that gripped her! That held her! When it reached its breaking point, it broke her little mind as she remembered the sight of her mangled brother!
In that moment of lapsing judgment, little Rebecca took a wrong step! A step that sent her plummeting down into the murky waters below their little tin walkway! And as if in slow motion, she locked eyes with Kipley! And as she fell, while Kipley watched, they both yelled in unison:
[Kipley!]
[Rebecca!]
Intermission old man story:
[As our god looked to us as eggs… he made us a promise… a promise we know he couldn't keep. For as we sat there drowning in what we believe to be half the world, the one who ruled the sky came to challenge us! To challenge our God! For another god came and promised them freedom… but freedom only to one!]
[It's funny… now that I think about it… with all their power… their might as gods… they were no different from us… But I digress… it was this moment, this single act of betrayal, that broke off our father's pact. With it broken our father began to lose battle after battle… war after war… it got to the point where he started eating us…to throw his own children down his maw!]
[...cough…You know… even with all these years past… I still remember the smells of the sea…that day… The feeling of the current against my body…while my wife looked at me in tears! Tears that dripped as precious pearls. As we tossed our children down that hole! Now, Cursed in blackened waters to forever be mended into my mind's memories! The crunching sounds and the bloody teeth that rotated like the whirling in the pools… Sure, he tried to justify it… But a promise broken is a promise broken! For it was normal for us to watch our god devour whole species in a spectacle! But when it was our turn… after we tasted life's joy! When we gain our mental freedom thanks to the meddling of the sky god… we too want to live!] said the old man
{Hold up your children?} question Breder
[Yes, my children… for I was the firstborn! The first to witness our father's greatness, and fall. The first to be enslaved by trickery, the first to sign a pact to counter-betray our father, and now the last living fossil of our race's history!]
{interesting… now describe to me what your "father" looked like} asked Breder
Intermission over:
As Rebecca fell screaming into the arms of the aliens! Kipley fired what she could, but it was no use! All she could do was scream her name, while Rebecca was carried away in the arms of a runt! In her roaring rage, she turned her gun at the aliens approaching her back! While firing, she remembered that the alien preferred to capture their prey alive for reasons she didn't know. But the reason didn't matter! What mattered was that there was a chance she would live, after all… they could have just torn into Rebecca already if they had wanted to!
With clarity of mind, Kipley yelled in between the growing distance:
[Rebecca! I promise you! I will find you! I will save you! Just wait for me!]
While taking the fading words of Kipley to heart, Rebecca closed her eyes and waited! But while she waited, Kipley calmly took a deep breath to calm her mind, and while in that trance-like state, she could still hear the sounds of her gun firing a bit softer, while the smell of gunpowder discharge swirled in the air. Then when the inevitable sounds of an empty gun made her through it down.
With her gun behind her, she turned and ran as fast as she could through a tunnel filled with monsters! Monsters whose hands tore through pipes to reach her! Or arms that burst through open holes in the brick walls! And while crawling through the shit-stained waters, she dodged flying acid! Acid that so much as grazed her would claim more than its fair share of flesh!
Hearing the sounds of acid-burning holes around her, Kipley came across a dead end, whose only exit was to swim deep into pitch-black waters! Not knowing if there was an end, or how long it was… Kipley looking at those waters…. With going back not an option, she made the leap without hesitation!
Intermission:
[our god skin was as black as ink; it could absorb the very light of the sun! While his tentacles were as monstrous as the river mountains, the whole currents of the sea could be changed by a simple motion! The warmth in the water was gone! Forever cold they were… so cold… with each breath, he would breathe out frigid cold! That was of course, before he tore that open… with a portal of a world unknown open to us, a terrifying heat rose from the ocean floor on one side, while the other where our master lived, was unlivable cold!]
[I still remember the only light, that resigned in those times… was light that shined off our master eyes! Like a window to his soul! To us it was beautiful, but to others hell! When one has yet to receive his blessing, simply looking at him is enough to drive you insane! While his wings could drain the air of the winds with a beat. He still could not escape his own reflection in the mirror! And I fear to this day… the moment that mirror breaks!]
Intermission over
As Kipley swam in the pitch dark, her temperature dropped by the second, in the cold sewage. But as she swam not knowing where the light was, the moment she began to choke was the moment she looked up to see a light shine through the waters! And as it shined on the alien at her back, revealing its shadow. she began to panic and swim as hard as she could! But as the alien slowly crept onto her, she could feel the warmth of light, and as she reached for it, while her version began slipping into the shape of an eye! And with her cloudy vision, she reached for a glass wall! But while she reached for the wall, the alien reached for her legs! But as the alien nearly touched her foot, black tendrils popped out from the darkness below and pulled the alien under! Allowing her to punch a hole through the stained-glass window that shaped an unknown god from a time lost!
While coughing out disgusting water, Kipley looked up to see a perfectly perceived statue, with a burning candle in the center of it. A candle that has been lit for millennia of time… never running out or burning away… and as she approached the life-like statue, her bones froze from fear! For it was far more frightening than all the aliens she had seen until now! Scared but curious, she reached out to touch it, when she realized that she was standing in some kind of cathedral beneath the city!