**Darker White: Judgement Call**
**Chapter description: Warcry and the Ears of Seth.**
Hey there! Ever seen someone scrambling for survival, desperately clawing at their last shred of hope? That's me right now. But before you jump to conclusions, let's rewind. A month ago, life was a different story—normal, predictable.
An Image of a teen could be seen crawling on the ground with blood all over his body, painting the ground crimson with his movements.
Life and death are two sides of the same coin, but what if being alive felt like a fate worsecthan death? Welcome to my chilling reality, a world that tests every ounce of your courage and sanity.
Are, you ready to dive in?
My name is Allen, Flydrod a nineteen year old orphan overstaying my welcome at the orphanage by the time my journey started and this is my story.
The world was stained and painted with sin when the great disaster happened ,wheres isn't a normal world we are talking about but a world where technology was advancing everyday with its own share of conflicts with rumours of another world war on the horizon. Somebody creating a deadly weapon was hailed as a genius at this date and era .
If I remember correctly it was on Monday in the month and year of December 2032 when it happened.
December was always known as the month of love , reunions and happiness but this time it was the start of suffering.
Most religions up to date had held information foreseeing the day but no body took it to heart even when there were multiple warnings until it finally happened. THE JUDGEMENT DAY.
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It started out with all satellites losing signal and power out of the blue due to an unknown energy breaking the circuits leading to a lot of commotion among the intercontinental world authorities who started speculating that the other different countries were taking there move in the new war through destroying the means of communication to block all ways of preparing themselves.
Electricity stopped working allover the world leaving only the energy drives which provided a certain amount of energy but how long would it take for the drives to dry up with no electricity to refill them .
Aircrafts fell to the ground , vehicles caused acccidents and darkness spread in countries that were experiencing night at the time with only the stars illuminating the outside but just know it was the start of chaos allover the world .
Through out the world coldness spread as a virus as if it was in winter , it did not even spare most parts of Africa which did not experience winter.
Sure it was momentarily relief for desert countries but not for long.
The countless questions and concerns from the people increased dangerously as fear started mixing in with the combo when an ear piercing roar or more of a cry was heard through out the whole world .
It carried an ancient anger and depression but nothing could compare to the pain it was promising .
The voice : "cave veniat (Beware ! Beware! It is coming.) AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhAhhhhhhhhhhahaha. What first seemed as a cry turned into a maniac laugh as I heard it .
Sure we hear alot of scary stuff day to day but it is scarier when a weird creepy voice screams in a way like it is right next to your ear screaming like a military drill officer to ready the recruits for hell but then it got freaky when it voiced out in the language unknown but with clear understanding of the words .
Immediately after the roar or cry whatever you want to call it but later on it would be called the war cry. People took it as an opportunity to loot , steal and murder for anything valuable but I wonder how such items were gonna help them in the world we were entering , a dystopian wasteland it was gonna turn out to be.
In a world were a lump of gold was as useless as a rock maybe if you rule out the possibility of using it as a throwing projectile.
ELSEWHERE: River Euphrates .
Date : 20th December 2032.
Time in timezone : 11:30pm.
It had been two weeks since the world was put in chaos each day becoming worse than the other changing the world into a distopian wasteland.
The great river euphrates started drying up despite the lack of heat for it to evaporate but the more it dried up dark black fog stated rising up . This took a total of fifteen days till it almost dried up completely with the fog covering it on the top .
Red and black runes and inscriptions started surrounding the depth of the lake until they all gathered around to make a circle with three pointed edges a hexagram to be specific .
Slowly an arm appeared through it and started crawling out of the circle until the whole form of whatever was crawling came out .
It had snow white skin , edged teeth dripping with a dark fluid ,red blood eyes surrounded by a dark aura promising death , ragged clothes with broken armour , three black crow wings and a broken wing appendage .
It started flapping its wings to arise from the base of the lake. It slightly flattered in the air for a few seconds till it adapted to flight midair .
It started flying up in the sky until it was around fifteen kilometers high then it said :"SikotheÃte adérfia mou giatà Ãrthe i óra sas sti skandinavikÃ(Ariseeeeee brothers, for thy time has come)."
Slowly three more came out of the depth of the river through the runes all of them having almost identitical body structures except their faces .
Together they made the last of the fallen who were expelled with the deceiver or rather the devil .
They moved and made a circle then they started drawing same runic symbols they crawled out from on their stomachs using their razor sharp nails drawing dark black blood flowing through the newly made wounds but as this was going on the sky was darkening and wind was picking up it's pace rapidly. You might wonder how I know all this but you will soon find out.
Back to the fallen , just as they had finished drawing the symbols dark red light started shining from the wounds ,the blood which had dropped to the earth from the fallen created a small pond of blood and it started levitating until it was in the middle of the circle formation the fallen had made.
Slowly the blood started spreading out forming it self into the exact structure and pattern as the symbols on the stomachs of the fallen . Slowly an unbelievable amount of blood continously spilled out of the fallen from all the body spores still maintaining the same pattern as the symbols the fallen started spreading out until they were fifty kilometers away from each other .
The blood continued spreading out in order to occupy the space left by the fallen.
As their ritual looked to be in the finishing touches with all the unnatural amount of blood they lost , it was a miracle they weren't flat out dead from bloodloss .
**Elsewhere:LosAngeles.**
**DATE: 6th December, 2032.(First day of the disaster.)**
Time :6:30pm.
POV: ALLEN FLYDROD. ( main character)
I have acquired alot of names but my name was Allen Flydrod , a deaf orphan by the time my journey started .
I couldn't believe my eyes or rather my ears when it started , I was walking around the orphanage using the matron's phone searching the internet for a part time jobs in the area when out of nowhere the phone powered down .
I tried tasting the battery using the little physics I knew to try and see if the battery had a problem because I remembered charging it before leaving but this was becoming frustrating so I proceeded to go back to the orphanage .
I experienced something I once took as imaginary , a miracle but in this case a curse in the making .I heard , but it wasn't one of those faint sounds I dreamt of hearing but a scream so loud it shook my whole body , my first instinct was to close my ears but i felt a war liquid flowing from them which I confirmed to be blood by bringing my hand up to my face showing me a red pattern allover my hand increasingvthe panic in my heart .
Then at the corner of my eyes I saw two of the other kids who were playing outside kneeling down , crying while clutching their ears .
That's when I knew this wasn't just affecting me , instinct kicked in and I bolted towards the kids ingnoring the absurb pain in my ears.
I picked up both the kids on to my shoulders and ran towards the orphanage but just as we were about to enter, one of the nearby walls shattered and exploded sending off razor sharp glass everywhere , using my body I blocked the shards i could and threw the kids inside hoping they could withstand the harsh landing .
I covered my face with my now tattered jacket to try to protect it from the shards and also jumped inside only to find a power outage inside too . Not like it mattered at that moment since the moment the adrenaline ran out , I fainted due to excessive pain and energy loss .
The moment I blacked out I started hearing crashing and unpleasant sounds with a soothing voice in the background trying to calm the crying voices .
A FEW HOURS LATER .
The matron said: "This must be one of the government tricks on us ." She tried to joke to enlighten the mood around the kids then she stated telling them a bed time story to calm their nerves which was difficult considering the shivering and coldness.
The matron: " Susie, where are the blankets ?" She called out to the other matron .
The now named matron susie : "Am coming . The boys are helping me carry them , these old bones can't do much. But is Allen awake, now?" She joked and inquired softly to make all the stress more bearable .
The moment i heard my name I started awakening but then the coldness hit my skin despite the heavy clothes i felt on my body but the moment I tried moving I could feel multiple cuts allover my skin covered in bandages , even my ears had ear plugs to prevent me forcibly going through that again.
I would have believed that everything before was just a dream but I was picking up muffled sounds despite the plugs .
My continuous movement caught the attention of matron Bella who was telling the kids a bedtime story specifically 'goldilocks' specifically if my lip reading skills were up to date .
Matron Bella- Are u okay - she inquired through sign language . (-- for sign language)
-I think am okay .- I replied with a small smile .
" But I think I can now ...." I voiced out mid way not being able to belive my own words .
Matron Bella : " Hear ." She finished the sentence with an overjoyed smile .
Matron Bella : " But for now let's not test it since the moment we found at the front door, your ears were bleedingngng ."
-So you guys also heard it .- I said with slight shiver passing through my spine .
" Son, just rest we shall talk about that with the others later ." She said fully understanding the meaning of my signs which were slightly shivering.
I was kinda disappointed and discouraged by her words but but her reassuring smile made everything better .
"When do you think the power is coming back?" I asked trying to divert the topic .
Matron Bella:" Am not sure but it shouldn't be too long ." She replied unsurely.
As I waited for the power to come back I tried sinking deeper into the jacket i was wearing but the soft material on the inside only made me groan as it touched my injures.
I went or rather attemped to go outside to look at the stars to pass sometime but just as I put my foot outside I was assaulted by skin piercing coldness , I immediately went inside but nothing could stop the cold weather in spite of the blankets or jackets we used.
It became so cold in the orphanage that we had to huddle up to get more warmth . I and the other adult orphans started calming the kids while the matrons tried to start the fireplace.
Just as I started getting a little warmth I remembered the disturbing piercing voice or rather scream and how every inch of my being was screaming with fear by then but I got the guts to put that at the back of my mind and tried to quiet down the kids but it was kind of unfruitful but the elder females and matrons were able to accomplish it adding to the irony of the situation.
The coldness stopped increasing but it was still unpleasant leaving all of us shaken up even our old matrons. Threating our candles and the fireplace to blew out at any moment and our Solar lights were brief relief till they had to charge again but after a few hours tgey stopped working leaving us with only flames lighting the large living space we were in.
Matron susie :" let me come back ." She said and went up the stairs in a hurry .
Coming back she was holding five brand new energy drives which she brought to the table and activated one which immediately spread an electric field allover the house turning on the electric appliances and lights providing a five day source of energy .
ELSEWHERE :THE FALLEN. RIVER EUPHRATES.
DATE: 27th December 2030.
Time 6:10am.
POV: NARRATOR.
Slowly the blood started feeling the gap . Just as the gap was being fully filled .
The fallen let out a cry:"thánatos na gemÃsei ton proorismó mas .(May death fill our destination.)"
Suddenly something massive fell out of the blood runes leaving a trace of smoke as it fell.