The scene faded and reappeared in a radically different place. In fact, we appeared to be in the middle of nowhere! That shouldn't be of interest though. What was of interest was what was taking place below the site. The site was surrounded by tanks and hundreds of military men were patrolling the perimeter. Below the site was a fully functional military base! US flags were placed in certain places, so it was not difficult to tell which country owned the base. Then the scene slowly made its way to a room labeled 'Oval Office.' This Oval office on closer inspection was in fact, not oval. It was a square room and 3 people were in it. In front of the 3 people were screens. The screens housed representatives from 5 countries : the UK, France, China, Russia and Spain. The 3 people in the office were actually the President, Vice president and Minister of defence of the US respectively. All the individuals had overly serious faces and were visibly sweating as they analyzed a projection of the globe. The projection was filled with red spots and the amount of red spots seemed to be increasing.
"It has only been 7 minutes since the start of the 'tutorial', yet we've lost exactly 5 countries." The US minister of defence said. The views of all the people fell on 5 countries with extremely dense red spots. "The countries may not be gone, maybe the 'things' rose up from extremely sensitive places, cutting off communications." One of the representatives said. He was most likely the prime minister of China and from the way his mouth moved, he clearly wasn't speaking English. But all present heard what they could immediately understand. "Regardless of what happened, something must clearly be done, else those countries are over run and the damages spread elsewhere." The voice of a lady said. She was the only lady present and was the prime minister of the UK, Ana Wales. "Unfortunately, before we can help others, we must first help ourselves." A dark skinned man said. He was the current president of France, Étienne Blanchard.". He had a grim expression and beads of sweat rolled down his fore head. Strangely, he was also the youngest person in this meeting. It seemed like he was in his early forties.
"Despite the fact that we've dispatched majority of our armed forces, it seems like they have been unable to strike down a single one of these things... or at least, no kills have been reported." Another man said. He was the president of Russia and was staring at a large zero on his phone's screen. "What are our Options?" Someone else spoke up, this time it was the US president Donald Odina .He was Native American and had long graying hair tied in a bun. The vice president of the US opened his mouth, it was like he wanted to say something, but he was cut short by another voice "Options? Fu*k the options, Why haven't we called Black Luck?!" Hearing those words, all the representatives turned their head in the direction of the Prime minister of Spain. "Black Luck? Impossible! Our civilization is clearly not ready for them!" Said the US minister of defence. "If you said that yesterday, then sure but today? It doesn't even matter..." Another voice spoke up. He was seated next to Ana Wales. He was a fair skinned black haired man and seemed to be in his mid forties, he was the new King of England. "He's right." The US president said before opening his mouth to continue "At this point, it doesn't matter. It's either them or Nuclear warfare.... I guess it's time we pick our poison." The place remained silent for a couple seconds then "The Black Luck administration is also quite difficult. The fact they haven't come out is exceedingly strange." Ana said.
"They are probably waiting for our call." The prime minister of China continued. "Then let's make the call." said the president of Russia while staring at the zero on his phone.
Silence took hold of the meeting for a good 10 seconds before a new screen popped up on everyone's side. A logo flashed on the screen for about 5 seconds. The logo was the image of a black five leave clover on a white circle. When the logo disappeared, the face of an Oriental aged man appeared on the screen. He was looking at his watch and opened his mouth to say "If this had been about a minute later, i would have released these guys anyway." Then he looked forward, gave a smile that wasn't a smile and said "Hello everyone. Dangerous time of the year am i right?" After saying that, he chuckled before a really serious expression adorned his face.
"Han Sen of Black Luck, We have several questions ,but there's no time for that. Rather, i believe Black Luck is more equipped to deal with the situation. " Said the Prime minister of Spain.
"Even if we had time, Black Luck probably couldn't answer your questions. The recent event is completely unprecedented in all of human history. Quite frankly, this is probably the beginning of the end." Han Sen said while stroking his gray beard with a serious expression. "From what those voices said, there's still hope!" Ana Said.
"Hope..." Han Sen muttered while stroking his beard, his eyes had lost their focus, but his expression still remained serious.
"Anyway, you do know what 'public' intervention from Black Luck means right...?" Han Sen asked.
"Yes, but does it even matter...?" Donald replied.
"Agreed. To finalize everything, let me state that total control now belongs to Black Luck." The representatives of the nations looked at each other with grim expressions, before nodding their heads. "Very well." Han Sen said. At that moment, it was as if the gears of Earth's history shifted and radical changes took place behind the scenes. Access keys were passed, databases were transferred and power had completely shifted.
"So what should we do now?" Asked the prime minister of China. "Pray, pray to whatever you believe in. But apart from that, The 11 has just issued order--."
He was clearly not done, but his words were cut short by a mechanical 'ding' followed by a pop up.
[Congratulations to Streamer Cain Adamson for making the first kill!] [Watch?]
The Soul Stream system had just given everyone on earth a new notification. The first kill! Someone had killed one of these things. The thoughts of billions of humans buzzed, things like "Fuck, who did it?" and some cringe ones like "I thought i was the protagonist!" flied through millions of minds. Some minds ,however, didn't even register the notifications as they were too busy trying to preserve their lives!
The president of Russia's eyes shrunk as he registered the notification. 'What?!' he thought as he soon noticed the 'Watch' prompt and instinctively agreed.
Soon the scene around him changed and his vision appeared above a dark skinned man. The dark skinned man was obviously Cain. He had a raised eye brow as he analyzed the Giant bird thing before him. Soon though, something else caught his attention. He had just received another prompt [View(s) : 1].
"Hun...?" A confused sound left his mouth, but before he could react, the view count changed! [View(s): 1]...[View(s): 4]...[View(s):10,000]...[View(s): 25M].
The count's change began to slow down while hovering around 25 million. Cain looked at the new pop up with a questioning gaze, and as if to answer him it expanded and the words changed.
[27, 456, 789 Humans are watching you...]
Chapter 8 -- Black Luck