Book 2 the timeline of peace

Book name: Timeline of Peace Chapter 1 Last night I was scared I’m always scared I fear for my children, I fear for my wife ,I fear for all those I care for my friends, the people I work with. my name is Michael Price I live in one of the last standing cities in the world @ fort pacific which is a heavily protected well fortified castle like village with it’s own port off the coast of what used to be California .we however are still not safe within the fort walls where shadow enemy warriors had previously infiltrated and were attacking all within with stealth efficiency. They tore down houses, broke threw walls and then disappearing as help in the form of heavily armored infantry came. The masses would build heavily armored buildings in an attempt to trying sugar coat our vulnerability. The structures we all built would eventually become our tombs with no escape upon the enemy’s entry unless something was done about them. I hoped that my work in finishing my father’s invention would help change this reality. I lived in one of these heavily armored buildings with my family and several other Families.

My fear is a product of what has happened before me. The Two feet Thick Silver platted doors and windows always fail to keep me emotionally secure but I have to stay strong show my strength to my family. It is difficult to feel this way when two nights ago my brother Samuel, his family and those living with him were all killed in the night. The silver plated doors had eventually given way from the nightly attacks that would occur.

Each night that passed would give birth to the same worries and questions after 30years you would think they importance of the answer would diminish but when I opened the platted doors and see the Sunlight there the question burning into my mind would appear was anyone I cared for taken Last Night from the Darkness never to enter the light while thanking that if someone else was killed at least my family was still alive. I worry about the youngest Sarah my sister praying that she would answer the communicator I made her praying that she was not harmed in the night, this call was becoming a daily routine ever since Samuel died just to check on her safety.

She was now my only link to him my father Dr David Price and the past to the days before the war with the others, the ones that lived underground, where Darkness was time for peace rest and relaxation when a man had full domain over his house and those that resided within it and Day was the time to experience the joy that a night of rest would bring. Now practically everyone has insomnia just to survive I missed those Days before they others were known and the world had awakened to there presence, when fairytales and horror stories were just that stories and didn’t hold shreds of truth within them. Now we are forced to sleep as the sun rises like they do.

Thirty years Ago before I Cared about world events and the news I was Nineteen years old it was in the most part a happy time spending it with my father Dr David Price one of the leading scientists in his field of solar physics. My only worry back then was if I’d ever get a girlfriend considering I was labeled a nerd for most of my life.

He thought me that Radiation and light emitting from the sun’s energy which are

within the sun’s atmosphere consist of elements known on earth it was just a matter of knowing how to connect those elements to create a stable reaction. I learnt a lot from him like the temperature at the centre of the sun is about twenty seven million Degree’s Fahrenheit with magnetic fields strong enough to tear you apart before even getting burnt by the sun. David would often take me to the observatory where he worked. We became so close ever since my mom had died. Whenever there was a new Discovery I was right there by his side. He would always take me to the observatory.to look through the spectroscope an instrument used to learn about the sun. I always knew I wanted to be an astral physicist I just never knew that it would lead to the human’s survival.

That day’s learning about positrons, neutrino’s and a deuterium’s were so much simpler. I was also an inventor, it gave me great joy building things my intentions were to become an engineer either mechanical or electrical or a mixture of the two which I was currently taking courses while still working with me dad. With my keen understanding of electronics I would dismantle all types of electronic equipment to see how it worked and re-assemble them sometimes making the item perform better than before. I always wondered where I had received such a talent for electronics from since no one in my family especially my father could understand half of how I could make my inventions do what they do. I was always using my hands it was if my hands knew what to do with a possible invention before my mind had though it out.

David would always comment that I had my mothers Hands and that I must be careful of what I was doing incase I would ruin them and thereby the memory of her.

David was a loving man tall brown hair with a sad glimmer in his eye, people just assumed that it was his wife’s passing but no one understood the way he felt was not the death of my mother but more that he would take on other peoples problems as his own trying to make everyone happier by fixing them which he often succeeded @this but the Burdon of the problems I felt was kind of unreasonable and selfish of his colleges to take advantage of that.

When I recalled the events that happened in my life I always thought of my oldest brother Alex who was the opposite of David rarely thinking of anyone but himself, never making it easier for anyone especially when our mom died. He was a playboy who partied all night and came home either drunk or high. Sometimes he came home just before breakfast and then proceeded to sleep the whole day away. I always felt robbed like I had to be the oldest taking care of my younger Brother and sister who now would have to look to me for guidance. I joust to always have worries about my brother so being an intelligently aware inventor I decided to make a long distance instant messenger which used micro Waves much like a broadcast from a radio station to directly link two or three messengers of which one I gave to him. I wanted to be in constant contact with him for whatever reason like a high powered long distance communicator or walkie talkie similar to what we played with when we were younger.

It was some time in March of 2031 when the first of the others were found and captured. The various news crews were caught the whole event on camera and broadcasted it around the world to all the news channels and across the internet.

Within nine hours the whole world was aware that we may not be alone, that there are those that live below us undetectably deep underground.

The government and International media mogul Mathew who owned Blank Media tried to cover they whole event up but due to they location, quantity of them and manor of there capture. There was no alternative but partial disclosure as there were to many news teams who captured the event. The internet as well as video messaging and multi media messaging also made it hard to hide. The lack of military resources made it very difficult to contain the situation due to the world Military Resource Restriction Act signed by all countries in 2018. This Act caused all countries to decrease there military forces and replace the weapons countries held with non lethal weaponry. The civilian access to such sensitive information was unavoidable and suddenly a huge frenzy was created. Everyone was going mad with questions like, were they aliens? Where did they come from? what did they want? There were no answers being released to the public from the many captives and these new beings were taken to a classified area with no outside civilian access. This only raised paranoia and violence world wide.

Most people my age remembered the first broadcasts and it is told like a running fairytale passed down from generation to generation. they only problem is with every time the story was told the details got more and more warped to fuel the ever growing hatred of the hunter death killers. The truth is the first encounters were rather placid providing they were protecting there young from us. They actually didn’t attack us until we had invaded there privacy and subsequently showed our appreciation for them by the hatred and fear of man which turned to violence toward they unknown.

It all started the 7th of March 2031 there was a building in New York central a large old theatre which was being reconstructed into commercial apartment buildings, residential accommodation and a ground floor shopping mall. The building was vintage but bankrupt so it was commissioned for demolition to make way for the ever growing New York population scheduled for early morning detonation on the 8 th of March. Charges were planned to be placed the night before. Carefully marked plans were determined and re-checked as the contactors could not afford any collateral damage of bringing down the developed buildings around the demolition site. There were fire fighters on standby and members of the Demolition crew of which five entered the building with explosives at eight thirty pm.

Of the five that entered only one came out. He spoke of a white figure that appeared requesting sternly that his and his crew leave .It was explained by him that when one of the crew stepped forward aggressively to communicate with the unidentified individual telling him to leave before we phoned the authorities three other figures stepped out from the shadows and attacked the demolition crew and firemen. After seeing blood the surviving crew member in fear turned and ran out the building only to be met by the firemen outside whom immediately called the police but by nine forty five pm the damage had already been done, there was no one left to tell the story but the surviving man. At ten pm the whole building was surrounded. the police on the on there way to the distress call described people young and old who were thin and white like snow fleeing the scene seaming to disappear into the night. By this time the news crews were rolling cameras and interviewing Individuals.

The police trapping they inhabitants requested that they others vacate the premises.

One of them exited the theater having a darker complexion and more built than those that the Demolition crew member had previously seen warning them and the police witnessed exiting the building and scattering into the darkness. Behind This man now standing @the front entrance of the theatre illuminated by the flashing blue lights of

the surrounding cop vehicles seamed to be a whole family of them women and children. With a pronouncement the man in front pleaded to be left alone, to be left in peace and proceeded to re-enter the building For hours there was no movement within the building it was only @12:30 when the Swat team arrived who were followed by the National Guard who were informed of the quantity of squatters that had been seen fleeing the scene and standing behind what looked like the head of the group unit inhabiting the theatre, On the arrival of enforcements they threatening to come in and remove them from the theatre. On this forty three of them stood @the exit getting ready to escape they obviously had no other means of exit and were trapped with there only option being police custody.

What stood around them was what seamed to be children which made the authorities realize that this was a much more complex matter.

They women, men and children were all white with no muscle tone except for four of them who were seamed more aggressive trying to protect the rest. The whole group of them seamed different somehow not quite normal. They began to all run @the blockade clawing and bighting in an attempt to escape but were slowly rounded up thrown into the back of a windowless National Guard vehicle.

No sooner had the first truck of them left had the military arrived just in time to see the four stronger others attempting to create a path for the rest who had not been taken by the National Guard. The rest protected behind the four that were throwing swat and police men 10meters and turning cop cars on there sides on there own trying to open national guard vehicles all in order to gain freedom against imprisonment for what seamed like there family. the military had effectively blocked there escape and captured they thinner more pale members of there group that were easier to subdue than the four attacking the crowd causing all the havoc by destroying public property and injuring they local authorities. Out of police desperation gun shots were fired at them with no effect but to slow down there resolve and increase there furry but with every bullet that impacted there body there was practically no blood loss they just got stronger and angrier attacking those around them. Out of the four that were attacking there was one larger in height and build an seamed like a giant who was much harder to subdue and ended up escaping at the end Due to ineffective conventional weapons the military stepped in and used there new generation non lethal weaponry. While the aggressors were busy attacking swat they didn’t notice they electrical pulse shock weapons that they military had bought was aimed @them. In a wave pulse they weapon had knocked all of them partly unconscious except for the four creatures in front that were still fighting off swat carrying armored vests and strong thick plastic like glass shields. They pulse weapon only slowed these foreign entities attack by three am all the weaker creatures had been captured and were already in transit toward a secret military base. The last standing aggressors were being shot with they energy weapons over and over again stunning the muscles but not affecting there concentration while two were captured and placed in thick armored cash in transit vans. The largest of the men and the other aggressor attacked the van trying to release there friends as another of them was captured and put in on his own into another similar van. The Giant was on his own and as the sun was approaching he ran off into the fleeting night never to be seen again.

The sun began to rise in the distance as the second heavily armored van each carrying

only one of the stronger individuals was loaded and moving away from the scene the two left on the street surrounded by military personal all aiming the pulse weapons at them held sadness deep in there eyes. With a heavy heart there faces looked up to the rising sun as there bodies disappeared within a split-second from the middle of the street in a blinding light. The army confused searched the grounds for them but there was no sign and they were assumed to have fled the scene Surprisingly there were no casualties except the men from the fire brigade and demolition crew who were still missing no signs of there bodies anywhere within the building.

Meanwhile the secret transports to a military base had arrived and all these creatures had been already been placed in normal bared jails with full surveillance. Not even a second after they had seen the cells and the open cell windows facing freedom did they start to talk all in different languages most were unrecognizable some were English screaming free us you will kill us but the cries of they young and old women and men, cries of mercy were met with no sympathy. There words were not recognized they where placed within the cells just the same there eyes filling with fear as they scrambled like frightened sheep some throwing themselves at the bared exits and room corners while others got naked and stuffed the windows with there clothes and then without warning most of them had disappeared from within the cell much like the two protectors held stunned in the middle of the street.

All that was left was the ones huddled in the cell corners. There was no understanding of what had happened had they escaped? If so why did they leave some of them behind? The guards assuming that half escaped attempted to take the ones left out of there cell for questioning.

The others fought to stay in the darkness and in desperation one managed to bite one of the guards holding him for about a minute before the creature was let go to return to its corner. One of the guards who pulled one of them out from the shaded corners away from the walls of the cell ended up smoldering his hand within the sunlight as there captive burnt up instantly as if from every cell of there body and in flash was gone as all there brothers screaming for help telling the guards that she kills us pointing at the cell window. Covering all cell windows the captives were continually surveyed by scientist and military personnel.

The military unable to cover up what had happened issued a statement and had identified that what they had captured was not a human and the creature was actually from a totally different gene pool, which brought mass hysteria. People were scared, scared of the unknown. No further information about what was being done with these new beings was released to the public until more than a year later. Across the world people were arming themselves. This was the beginning of the war, the war against the others.

There weren’t any cases of them coming out and affecting our way of life they seamed more scared of us proved by how they would flee the scene whenever contact was made. The military was unaware that these creatures had a specific heat signature higher than that of us or any other living thing. Learning only later that Space probes used for deep earth excavations could be used and what was previously stated by

scientists as excess radiation pockets given off from the sun’s heating of the planets crust was now identified as groupings of such beings. These beings heat readings that were not correctly understood started going deeper underground causing a general cooling of the earths crust and colder surface temperature affecting weather patterns baffling scientists. These creatures obvious connection with nature and the earth were ignored and only there fear of us and small skinny frames sparked a local taboo interest and a game where people would hunt them down. I saw a reality television show where they took away a six year old death eater child as they called it and handed it over to the military for lock-up. Soon there were news reports of vigilante groups and underground gambling syndicates starting to form. Just average groups of your normal working class lawyers, doctors, accountants, Police men and Fireman all decided they wanted to hunt down and kill more of these newly found neighbors as a sport. A new market started to from within days and killings were occurring in Japan, China, and London, North and South America and general parts of Africa.

There was a news report of a death eater prince in royal robes who pleaded for the military to release there people. Blank Media who now apologized for the alleged cover up was involved in broadcasting this report through all there international networks and he looked the same as us but seemingly without fat. There were other reports by these depth dwellers that spoke about Egyptian pharaoh’s and “Narmker Menes Palette” who the people of old worshipped and to whom the life treaty was signed and which was standing to this day as hieroglyphics in the pyramids and tombs in Egypt. Regardless of these reports new equipment were still developed catering for this new industry and special tracking systems and weaponry was developed and started to be sold. All such hunts were recorded and footage of such hunts was placed on the internet some of which were even live streaming video. The hunts placed on real time data online streaming were people paid a lot of money to see skin heads and London scum killing what looked like harmless defenseless creatures and sometimes they would capture and torture them.

News reported a Break in at a military base in Johannesburg where many planes were stolen as well as anti-air guns were destroyed in all strategic locations. I and the military believed that this was the doing of the depth dwellers who were actually the calprets as video footage was captured and shared. One of the cool things stolen was the SSP one and two which were experimental Air and Underwater planes. A few months went by but the government were still worried due to the depth dwellers attacks on various number of there air bases. In reply to these attacks they began at the beginning of November to give access of detailed governmental secret files of military research of the new species to mainstream press. It wasn’t until the release of these secret files about the tests, torture and dissections performed by the military reached the world. This broadcast obviously incited the passions of these depth dwellers breaking out a war with the people we had captured.

Chapter 2 The war between us and them started on the 20th of November 2032 North and South America were Attacked First. They enemy was swift and cunning being unaware of

there global presence moving across the continents Japan, Australia, the rest of the East, Thailand Russia, Saudi Arabia, Europe and Africa they killed millions in every country without any discrimination between civilians men and women and believed children. It was many years later that it was discovered that all children were kidnapped and taken underground with them alive. In there campaign they took out key communication Channels and intercepted all international internet transmissions.

No one had a clue they were coming as they attacked continent after continent country after country focusing on all heavily populated city centers, each attack precisely planned and synchronized to begin exactly 10pm in every town, city and continent.

This war was our doing our fault with our lack of tolerance and commercial hunting sport of these beings we destroyed most paths to a peaceful co-existence with them.

The others were for that year of hunting and killing them peaceful until they were singled out. Human nature dictated our fate when we looked upon them as inferior to us and thereby forming groups and hunting and killing them causing this war and ending the lives of millions of the human race most of which were innocent. Human nature had condemned us to death to a fear of complete annihilation.

The night of the attack they walked the streets looking like any other person wearing hooded tops, suits some were male others were not and they were all hidden amongst the crowd. The masses unaware oblivious to there impending doom making there way home jumping on public transport railways, busses sitting @a station reading the paper, thinking of there family waiting for them @home, giving money to the homeless and strippers. Single mothers were buying there groceries for the month while businessmen were going for coffee with friends and couples were having cocktails on a date surrounded by they others unsuspectingly mixing in with the crowd. When the clock struck ten pm they attacked everyone woman, man and child hearing the masses of people screaming for there lives acted like sheep to the slaughter. No one in the streets survived. Roads were left filled with lifeless bodies.

They hid as patrons in clubs dancing all harmless until 10pm and then changing into savages holding people back at the exits when they attacked so that not a single person could escape. Flats and hotels were also taken by the others doors broken down as they entered room by room level by level some were dressed up as hotel employees working for months as the night shift prior to the attack. On entering the rooms as room service they killed all they inhabitants. They would be sitting in bars or in the corner of a coffee shop. Most were surprisingly employed at the relative establishments as bouncers, barmen or waiter’s. Even night security guards were them involved in the gruesome attacks.

This was the first aggressive attack from they others as a group unit and we had under estimated there numbers and intelligence. These attacks were a world event causing any angers over country lines to fade as fast as there attack against the world. By the time the sun had risen the others had left with a shroud of death in there absence.

These ancient silent beings that were unknown to the world just under two years ago except as different names in books of myth were now a reality. Known by the scientific community as nitrounphotosynthesites due to there inability to convert sunlight into nutrients causing an explosive fusion reaction to occur.

Due to releases in secret files of detailed military governmental research certain

information became general knowledge like they had a much higher than normal body temperature almost as if they had a constant high fever and pale if not white skin tone compared to there human counterparts unless they fed assumed since they lived in darkness. Humans were no longer deemed the top of the food chain and we were unwilling to accept this fate. They were discovered to have existed last in human company as far back as Egyptian, Mesopotamian and times of knights and kings.

Biblically known in hidden texts as knowledge keepers or the cleaners of the night taking bodies of evil men as if by gods hand or the bodies of the dead or dying cleaning the earth of evilness and diseases. They were deciphered as being the pharaoh’s personal night guards and an integral member as part of the mummification process.

On dissection they realised that they didn’t bleed therefore making them harder to kill.

There boy acting like a giant succulent or cactus like sponge absorbing all the nutrients in the blood or liquid of other living things. Test that were done on tissue samples inhumanly extracted from them identified rat and other kinds of animal DNA showing that this newly discovered species lived mainly on rodent and other small mammals.

The two of the three stronger more aggressive strangers that were captured left were luckily driven into the underground levels of a secret army base were there differences were determined as having strands of human DNA or to be more specific through forensic tests showed to be that of the four fire fighters and Demolition crew that had gone missing after entered the theatre building on the 7th of march two years back.

Studies showed that those that had fed on a human had changed. They were stronger, faster and generally had a darker skin tone with increased hormonal aggression levels.

As time dissipated there skin tone would fade along with there strength, speed and temperament leaving them rather docile. The creature that bit one of the guards inside the jail changed practically immediately along with muscle tone intelligence and strength leaving that individual a bit light headed. The creature after such a bight knew things about the guard that was bitten.

The horrid act of the military reported that these “death eaters” were shot with 8mm rounds and stabbed in different places to determine how they creatures could be killed. Case studies showed the military using different weapons all in an attempt to kill them. Reports spoke of dismemberment of body parts and torture that the captured others experienced. Explosive rounds seamed to cause the most damage even though removed limbs would re-form and injuries would heal faster unless the head was disconnected from the body.

The military reports did discover that although bullets didn’t stop them or kill them directly the silver on certain bullets that didn’t exit the captives would cause deep infection and eventual death like poison due to there tissue’s reaction to silver slowly dissolving intoxicating the captives body killing them from within unless such bullets were removed timelessly.

Ultra violet rays emitted from the sun had a vicious reaction with the genetic make-up of the death eaters.

Contact with ultra violet rays causes instantaneous combustion emitting a white

blinding light as they burn. Bullets were identified as being useless in killing these death eaters only sunlight and decapitation were effective killing methods. Military reports were cruel and inhumane showing the death cleaners that our intentions for them were eradication.

Military and government began to asses the risk in an attempt to identify the intensity of the threat they tried various methods in trying to determine the magnitude of these foreign entities reach. All methods had failed until a scientist studying heat disbursement identified irregular movements in the temperature of the earth’s crusts.

Regardless of the proof provided by pictures provided by the scientist’s access to a deep crust exploration space research probe, he was assumed to be mad with his predictions of global environmental warning signs in regard to dangerous climate changes by the professional community. This discovery was soon after addressed by military in regard to the idea of the new species having an increased body temperature. The government placed huge resources into using this probe to scan the planet during the night tailoring the search specs to identify there Specific heat signature.

With this new found risk the deep crust exploration research probe was recommissioned by the government from a scientific research probe to be used in identifying how many there might be of these creatures and where they were located.

Upon identifying that there specific heat signatures bordered the millions and were in every continent across the world, they realized that an attack could be imminent and due to the world Military Resource Restriction Act we had made our defense against such an enemy impossible. With careful debate it was decided by governmental office that keeping such files secret from the world would be too high of a risk in regard to the human race for all those countries involved. The probe due to the start of the war on the 20th of November 2033 was henceforth used primarily for tactical advantage.

Chapter 3 I was at a friend’s house playing television games when the others attacked. James my friend was a well skilled gamer beating me in all gaming systems. However James’s favorite games were his shooting games which was fun for me because I was always a more accurate marksman surpassing his scores in every shooting game he had. He used to get so upset when I left high unbeatable scores on his gaming console. We could play all night without getting up for food or water. James’s parents would go out leaving us supper as we played and nine out of ten times they would return normally around twelve o’clock without us even visiting the kitchen. His parents were weird like that always being on time never arriving later than twelve as they forced us to eat and go to bed. In my home we always ran on borrowed time but when James’s parents were way stricter in time keeping getting upset with me whenever I was late in the morning when it was there turn to pick me up for school On the night of the 20th James’s parents decided to catch a film together in town.

Normally they would take us with them when they went to see a film especially when it was in town but in this case it was there date night and they had planned a romantic evening. Feeling guilty they decided to treat us to a pizza and a movie. Expecting them at 12 O’clock we enjoyed the movie it was an awesome horror movie we always enjoyed watching something scary before a legendary gaming face-off. We played

non-stop not even realizing that James’s parents were late for the very first time in there life we would have played the whole night away if it wasn’t for my brother who messaged me on the dedicated instant messenger that I had made for him. I probably would have been oblivious to the exact reason why we had to evacuate and leave our homes and lives behind.

It was about one o’clock at night when his message sent deep shivers down my spine.

Reading Alex’s message I looked at James who was shock as I said “I hope your little toy works because people are dead” I tried to contact my dads cell phone but it didn’t work. We needed help and there was no way of obtaining it. My heart pounded after I attempted to contact David realizing that my cellphone wasn’t operational with not even a dialing tone or signal and that this wasn’t a brotherly prank but a real life situation. Scared for Alex’s life I practically screamed at James to use his cellphone hysterically explaining to him the seriousness of what was happening and that it was no joke.

James’s cell phone wasn’t working either, it made no sense why our cellphones didn’t work since our batteries were fully charged and James had a different service provider in an area which always had strong signal strength due to the proximity of the cellphone tower to Jamie’s house. It was as if the cellphone network grid had been shut down.

I proceeded to message Alex walking towards the entry table where James’s landline telephone was sitting telling my brother that the cellphone network was down requesting what had happened and where he was.

Upon lifting the headset of the house phone to my ear I realized that something very sinister was looming the cellphone and landline networks being down couldn’t have been a coincidence, something big was happening and it was beyond understanding and control and it was affecting everybody. The deafening sound of nothing on the landline left me shrouded with a new feeling that I was forced to be acquainted to over the years a feeling of helplessness. A feeling above all others that quickly became the general human psyche as the war and time progressed. The war had built something out of our control and nothing at this point could protect Alex and us in our homes I stood there in shock James attempting to nock me out of It., realizing that my brother was in danger. James and I were probably the only people in the suburban network of homes and school friends who knew about the attacks, but with that knowledge also came the understanding that we were powerless to do anything or tell anyone. It was lucky however harsh that James’s parents had taken the only car instead of a cab because if James or I would have gone anywhere people were noisy and sociable then we wouldn’t have been alive to be involved in our last attempt to bring about the end of this war.

Emotionless I stood stuck for a few minutes staring into space James freaking out in the background as he was grasping the lateness of the time in relation of his parents obsessive compulsive time keeping. James now looking over, with a firm hand shook my shoulders pulling me out of my trance regaining my attention with my dedicated instant messenger on the entrance table., flashing on account of a new message: Alex had replied “I’m at a friends house #25 willow shoot road near the city.”

remembering the address because that house was a war scene bloodied and the last place I visited before we left for the country side by order of governmental protection agency’s. Alex as per usual was hosting a big house party to make some cash and hustling entrance fee while still celebrating his friend’s birthday. he explained “I was dancing and making money when the vibe of the room started to dim with no help from the music, suddenly all around me about thirty people were biting other people, they seamed human at first but when the killing started they were definitely more like animalistic cannibals with sharpened teeth from another world” with a slight pause he replied with a story of his survival” when I saw blood and lifeless bodies fall to the ground I used the crowds to cover my escape to the basement and I didn’t know how much longer I will be safe down here.”

I realized that I had to do something no matter how futile it was .i told Alex that his friend’s house might not be the only place being attacked and he must lock the basement door and wait it out by barricading the entrance.

I went to the television room and swopped it over from our game console switching it off as I changed television channels in an attempt to see if there were any news feeds about what might be happening. At the bare minimum I wanted to know why all communication networks were off-line.

There was no news or any such reports on any channels. The scheduled programs seamed to continue as normal. I changed channels to dedicated news networks that had nothing to say at all as if we were all unaware of what was happening in the real world. The news agencies had reported that they were experiencing technical difficulties as they had lost contact with all news reporters and field crews’ video feeds.

James would panic whenever things went wrong he was so worried about his parents that he began to think irrationally as he tried to access his high speed internet with no effect. He was very good with computer operating systems witch surprised me when he pushed over his computer onto the floor screaming with anger. He explained that the line and internet were connecting but no search pages were appearing as if all the internet search engines had all gone off-line simultaneously which was impossible according to his understanding.

CHAPTER 4 All communication channels were down except for my dedicated instant messenger device that used outdated micro waves to communicate much like old school AM/PM radio channels. What we needed was a radio. James had never used a radio before and barley knew what one looked like never mind what it was used for. Lucky for me I had seen one and knew his dad had one stored away somewhere in his garage.

Walking into the garage, James following me asking questions I couldn’t answer, as I looked for his father’s radio. Bringing the radio out from the garage I began to tune it, crackling sounds of what seamed like a million people talking at once made James take a deep breath. It wasn’t until I heard the words: “don’t leave your house millions Dead and death toll rising” did I stop tuning the radio. The radio spoke of unknown assailants and how they appeared to go crazy barricading exits and entrances as they

moved attacking innocent people with a type of animalistic aggression. Allot of words were reviewed by me masses of people attacking others on the streets, in bars, or night clubs but no mention was made of who these people were. It sounded as if humans were killing other humans but James was thinking of Zombies that might be attacking. It was weird where his mind would go sometimes due to the pressure he would put himself into. I did however feel that they were definitely not humans but real live monsters.

The radio repeated a few times about how people must stay in there houses and lock there doors clueless that wooden doors and locked metal bars couldn’t protect us against the death eaters.

I received another message from Alex” I can still hear screams of pain from the basement and knocking of the people upstairs at the door. There is no way we can let them in without possibly being killed ourselves. The basement door isn’t that strong so I have decided to escape through the basement window.”

I messaged Alex to be careful as I was trying to hear of any other information that could help his current situation.

James on hearing on the radio that people not in doors must stay away from town or highly populated areas. James knew his parents went to the theatre practically in the middle of town on there dates. He didn’t want to believe that his parents were involved in what was happening on the radio but he knew his parents were dead and there was nothing I could say or do to comfort him.

Meanwhile Alex was in his own situation having left all his friends upstairs in the party to be slaughtered. Looking at the window he suggested that everyone move to the window pilling up old bags of sand, corn, potatoes and other household crates to get out of the basement window which was high off the ground. Being the only one brave enough to leave the basement he squeezed out the small open just as the creatures had broken into the basement. The door was smashed to pieces from the middle outward barley moving the doors hinges as they cornering those left behind.

He watched only for a second at the savagery of the death eaters tearing and bighting into those peoples flesh blood squirting across the room. Realizing his bravery had saved him from the same fate he knew he had to find help going toward the police station near town which was only four blocks from willow shoot road.

Upon messaging me of his plan to go toward town my heart sank, he was running towards town, towards his end. If only I knew that my next message was going to be his last I would have said how much I loved him instead of “don’t go to town it’s not safe you idiot u should have just waited where it’s safe you never listen.”

Alex got to the police station only to notice that the place was empty except for the smell of fresh blood and dirt in the air. On reading Michael’s message he understood that he had made a mistake.

Heading towards the exit he noticed gunshots in the distance. The street was narrow with lots of parking and empty police vehicles. Alex on realizing his surroundings noticed what seamed like a ghost town and he was in the middle of it walking into the light as he contemplated trying to come to terms with this new reality. Alex herd a gun shot and identified within the shadows of the beautiful park’s luscious greenery

that was preserved across the street from the police station three dark figures who were standing semi-camouflaged slowly walking out of the shadows blood dripping from there arms and face. Staring at Alex they were almost taunting Alex with his death.

With a burst of energy Alex ran back into the police station in an attempt to acquire a weapon.

The death eaters crossed the road with great speed and agility Alex was just able to lock two doors before the others broke through the first door barley slowing them down. Alex ran toward the holding cell hoping to lock him in thinking it would protect him when he inadvertently tripped over the body of a dead police man holding a shot gun. Alex on seeing the shotgun was quickly on his feet shotgun in hand and fired two rounds at his assailants in an attempt to escape. The bullets only helped to slow them down and anger there resolve.

As he ran he noticed the horrific manner in which the people, office workers and secretaries around him had been murdered. Alex got into a holding cell after realizing that he could wait them out for morning if he found a holding cell and hide, unable to lock the gate Alex was cornered by the three death eaters now surrounding his cell.

Alex shot another round at close range at there head hoping to stop them long enough to close the gate thinking to himself that he would not be able to stop there superior strength. He was at least calm in the fact that his family was safe when the creature didn’t go down and was steering him down in the cage as Alex turned the shotgun on himself James and I stayed up all night listening to the radio hoping against hop for James’s parents and Alex to return. With no reply from Alex for hours I prayed for my father and two younger sibling’s safety.

CHAPTER 5 As the sun appeared for the beginning of the first morning sunrise of November 21 st so began sadness, fear and loneliness. It was the start of the largest recorded global human evacuation and the war. The only television reports were from blank media requesting our surrender.

David picked me up early that morning worried since normally James’s parents would message him when they arrived home safely and last night they didn’t and he was unable to get hold of me or my brother who like usual never came home from a night of partying. In normal cases this would have been considered an over reaction, inconsiderately waking my younger brother and sister who were in the car me, James and his parents up to satisfy his own anxiety unlike a normal parent who would worry with logical rational decisions. Attributable to our deemed current safety it was good that he was way to protective, more so to the three of us which I could have blamed Alex due to his boyish lack of responsibility and David’s guilt due to his inability to control his oldest son which caused him to be harder and more controlling scared that we might follow his irresponsible ways.

Seeing my younger sibling’s safe in the back of the car no luggage in sight I realized that he was way to calm and upon seeing us to have known what had happened the night before. David asked James where his parents were looking at his eyes and his sad face. His red eyes, turned David’s to mine with a bewildered look I proceeded to

show him the messages from Alex and made him listen to the radio broadcasts.

The radio was no longer giving news reports but now under government and military control was informing people to forget about those that did not return the night before as they were most probably dead and there focus should be on remaining calm and informing there neighbors and friends to pick-up there things and head out to the closest police station shopping mall, governmental buildings or any identifiable permanent or temporary military check point and to keep away from city centers.

We were told that military personnel will be waiting to escort civilians to safety.

The radio had now become the only means of communication. The radio now began to re-cap what had happened and that all the continents were attacked.

David fearing for the rest of his families life not knowing what had really happened to Alex not wanting to believe the horrible truth that I knew he forced James to pack up his things and get into his car. James didn’t want to leave in hope of his parents return so we left a message for his parents who he would never see again.

We went back home to pack the rest of our stuff into my dad’s 4x4 four door black Toyota buckie the last time we used this car was the family camping trip when Alex and our mother was alive.

As we left our house reversing down the driveway David was about to reverse into the street and go door to door informing his neighbors to listen to the radio and evacuate there houses when a military soldier carrier vehicle drove into our area making a lot of noise. It was still very early in the morning and the neighborhood was still very much asleep. We were one of the only families awake and ready to leave David slowing his car and setting the gear shaft to park realized that his impulsive decision was sensible as we all got out and looked into the distance. We watched as soldiers jumped out and ran door to door kicking it down informing people of the evacuation with great ferocity. The vehicle had a huge megaphone attached to either side if it’s roof and bonnet telling people to listen to there radios and pack up there things. As the vehicle looked like it was about to drive past it stopped outside our house not only to collect straggling soldiers and release more soldiers that were still sitting on the back of the vehicle but to question us on how we knew of the evacuation before any of our neighbors since they themselves had only been informed of it hours before. My dad looked and pointed to me saying that I was able to figure out before he came to pick me up from a friend that the radio was working when all other technology was malfunctioning .I would have told him that I was communicating with some1 the night before while The killing had started but instead they didn’t even talk to me as they took down our number plates. We were told by the soldiers to go to the big parking lot in-front of the new shopping centre which had a huge parking lot that had opened recently on South Street a twenty five minute drive away from us.

The military had no way of knowing how many of the others there were or there obviously affective entrance or exit roots.it was total chaos. There was no way to pin point where the enemy was hiding. all that was know from the militaries point of view is that was underground sewerage lines and tunnels were used and going down there would be highly dangerous. Civilians were transported to army bases and islands offshore said to be safer due to lack of structures and populous for the other to hide during the day.

Some people were sent to the countryside away from major cities were underground access tunnels, train lines and sewerage tunnels allowed the others tactical advantage and safety from the sun during the day. There was no longer anyway to keep the general populous within areas with underground entry and exit points.

When we Arrived in South street we drove past a tank and army personnel , there were a lot of cars, army banners and a few tanks scattered as if to protect all that entered from all those who had not. The army personnel directed us into groups placing a colored sticker on our vehicle our number was red 185.parking the bukkie in our group we saw other groups leave escorted by armored army vehicles. We slowly began to notice that larger vehicles got red stickers and smaller ones got blue or yellow. The vehicles with red stickers were loaded more with passengers and supplies from cars blue and yellow cars and sent first while the smaller cars pilled up in the parking lots. All civilians were requested to leave there keys within there vehicles.

A boy in an army suite not much older than Alex by the name of Adam stepped forward holding a megaphone, he told us that the city had been compromised and that we were all under attack. He was blatant when he explained that our attackers had thought out there attack thoroughly and based on them not being humanoid were very intelligent. Warnings of a possible second wave of killing at sunset using underground access tunnels all around the city and suburban areas were predicted. Requests for army volunteers were put forward to the masses of people now waiting to be transported to a secure location. The soldier said that his intention is not to scare or cause panic but to get as many people to safety as possible. The soldier informed us that our perimeter around the centre was secured and that we were all were going to be designated secured areas either within army bases secret or otherwise well guarded. People were also sent to country side cities that had no tunnel systems that had no reports of such attacks.

Adam requested all drivers with red stickers to report to him. David then went to speak with the soldier. Adam told all the drivers that due the size of their vehicles they would need to increase there load of passengers and luggage as not all cars would be used. Those cars left behind that had yellow stickers were left available for use by any stragglers. Due to the de-armory act the military didn’t have enough military personnel carrier vehicles.

While the vehicles were loaded everyone who was designated to our group logged in there names and I.D documents if they had any to identify the quantity of survivors.

All survivors received a barcoded number tag for identification purposes. Holding extra luggage and four extra passengers we were uncomfortably escorted away from our homes from all the memories that the past had held. We gave up all the comforts and the house I grew up in for an unsure future just to survive.

It didn’t take much for the world union to remove restrictions placed by the 2018 world military restriction act and set in place a new 2031 unified military re-armory act causing world powers to share arms, resources and various technological developments to whomever or wherever they might be needed. Arm’s factories were re-opened and silver based weaponry was manufactured. We were at war and we were

all slowly realizing that fact.

Following the army humvee we saw residential houses turn into industrial areas with businesses, warehouses and then nothing for miles and miles. Before we knew it we found ourselves on a dirt road somewhere in the country side.

Driving through large metal gates that seamed hidden due to the surroundings .A false sense of security showed our feelings of fear as we looked at all the army soldiers surrounding the entrance to the secret mountain safe house. We were inside an army base code named Fire Mountain being just one of the many convoys arriving from all different areas within the states. The convoys brought people each more confused than the last.

Walking around the base me and James saw Adam and overheard soldiers talking about the aftermath and that government had authorized the use of deadly force by putting together special retaliation mission forces. These platoons were being run from all military bases stationed all around the continent. Looking at James I saw a fire in his eyes that I had never seen before. James said to me that one day he would be in charge of one of those platoons.

As the days went past less and less convoys started to find there way to Fire Mountain. Then Words of the devastation were rumored to have occurred @most collection points around the globe the enemy was attacking said safety zones where fleeing citizens who were waiting at the shopping centers and military announced strong holds for military pick-up and evacuation. Strongholds were attacked as night took over from the light leaving such areas lifeless after enemy raids, even convoys in transit were attacked if they were traveling anytime after dusk.

It wasn’t long before Fire Mountain was sending out retaliation mission forces. Me and James were always running around the army base and were normally the first to hear about any gossip or rumor. One morning while it was still dark we snuck out as James wanted to grab a peek of the armies training areas. We walk right past the gates to the barracks without a man or woman on guard but didn’t get fare before we had to hide from passing soldiers. Looking suspicious as it was too early for civilians to be awake never mind walking around the barracks. The laws on the base were strict due to the martial law like nature of where we lived so together we searched for a spot to hide in an attempt not to get caught by our superiors. We found a white hatch leading to an air vent within what we didn’t know at that time was the bases restricted area control room. Hearing whispers we became aware that we were able to overhear the processes of the control centre as they spoke with the special mission forces. I was unaware at the time that same spot listening was gong to get us into big trouble.

The first time we were able to hear clearly that our soldiers had traveled and camped out the night in camouflage ready to start there mission. Fuelled only by our curiosity we sat as dawn approached and they soldiers left their camp sites and met up with other platoons who were entering the tunnels. There assigned task was to find and kill the Death Eaters destroying popular well known access and exit tunnels as they moved restricting the enemy’s future movements

The sounds of explosions’ echoed within the control room and the mission force spoke of big craters where streets and underground train stations once stood. Different platoons took on different roles, the most important were deemed the soldiers that were working on building a staging area for further military waves. The rest of the teams including Fire Mountains tasks changed as the day evolved into to bringing more light into the cities by destroying other tunnels and buildings or any such hiding places that the others could use to hide from the light. During such bombings a lot of these creatures died some by the force of the explosion and weight of the rubble others by exposure to the sunlight. Word of the task forces victories spread around the army base increasing moral and the amount of people signing up for the war effort.

The task however was simple and it wasn’t long before the soldiers had taken back all major railway tunnels which now had skylights but they began to get bored and kept pleading with their various control centers to go deeper to face there enemy.

There was no strategic plan on going deeper into the tunnels and those that were ordered to enter for scouting purposes would return announcing that they barley found any signs of the enemies presence reporting arrogantly that the others had fled the tunnels, not knowing that the enemy was a master of avoiding detection and were still present in buildings and sections of the tunnels waiting for the fall of night.

The leading army platoons decided with foolish confidence in light of the scouts report to take point at the newly built unfinished and partly destroyed train stations which they had previously decided to make into their staging area. The staging area which was only in the beginning processes of construction had only one access point which was a lead to the surface’s streets which was planned to be were all orders for the liberation of the cities from such a deemed invading force was supposed to come from. The rest of the army platoons were fortunate enough to be ordered back to there camouflaged campsites that they had inhabited the night prior to await future orders deemed to be given from the staging area.

When dusk started to edge nearer I was aware and didn’t care that we had not eaten the whole day but I was starting to get very hungry. I also didn’t want to leave as there were still roaming subdivisions scouting the cities alleys and surrounding areas.

James however would definitely forget about eating dinner & would not leave if I didn’t bring him back into reality. With a nudge I reminding him how hungry we both were and that we would both be late for supper and in trouble with David if we didn’t leave now.

We were lucky that we received one of the best accommodations within Fire Mountain which was probably because of Dr David Price’s status as a professor of astral physics. David was standing at the entrance of the lounge of where we were designated within the army base, he was waiting for our return, as James was instantly considered part of our family he received the same unhappy expression and line of questioning as I did, he wondered why we had left before he had woken up, where we were the whole day and why we hadn’t returned for lunch. We lied and said that we were out making friends.

We went to bed early and the next morning we woke up earlier again and decided to pack an away lunch. Walking stealthily to our hiding place we noticed that the restricted areas were surprisingly overwhelmed with activity unlike the other day

where most of the soldiers were asleep. The bases soldiers were on high alert something had happened and we had missed it. Ducking in and out of corners of the base we managed to find our hiding spot undetected.

It was strange as we snuck into the air vent that this day I was thinking to me not believing that we gained access so close to the mission room again was the same day we wouldn’t be able to leave as minors. Hearing the goings-on of the military in there underground room changed our reality our platoon was awaiting further instructions from the staging area as they began to bunker in for the night but when we arrived the platoon itself was on high alert. There were no reports from the staging area and all the other platoons were ordered from high command to stay alert and in their camouflaged campsites until after dawn when the sun had fully risen. Cross communication chatter also reported that some of the platoons that were camped out in camouflage were also not communicating with central command. The various platoons also reported various gunfire and explosions occurring within the very early hours of the morning When the platoons were finally allowed to enter the city they were requested to report back to command about what they could see from uncommunicative deemed camouflaged platoon camping sites. They were also requested to identify why there is no reply from the staging area and to retrieve the audio tape. The camping sites were reported as having their camouflage removed and being barren of any life with some having the dead scattered within the site and others having no signs of anything except that there were missing soldiers that were assumed discovered by the enemy and taken hostage within the night. Reports were subsequently received that some of the soldiers that were scouting the surrounding areas were lying naked and dismembered in the streets in all directions around the designated staging area.

Within minutes chatter on the communication channels overwhelmed the system with horrific reports of blood and piled up bodies at the staging area of the platoons on point and the missing soldiers from the “Camouflaged campsites.” They were all confused as the night before there was barley any gun-shots or explosive rounds fired and the staging area ammunition was practically untouched. I felt James body tense up as words of our soldiers defeat and the death of many soldiers came through the wall of the control room. Listening carefully we were able to hear reports that not even the ground troops were privy to.

Discussions sparked between the different control rooms across the country as they were not kept in the loop when the staging area was attacked. The countless numbers of casualties that each control centre was experiencing all through the campaign was all due to the high control’s decisions and no recognition was yet acknowledged of the individual control centers suggestions to go deeper underground into the enemy’s territory. The high control was run through the governments personal guard and military who admitted that there were still many unknowns in regards to the enemies tactics and that a lot of decisions were made blindly to identify enemy reactions and tactics as the intensity to which the enemy was attaching and advancing during the night could not yet be defended against. At every Turn the military had underestimated them loosing every pawn, knight and king they had placed in front of them.

Transmitting through radio waves over the conference speaker the high command argued there point against the scattered Army bases: ”It is only the information that we gathered here in our loosing battles that can shape our victory of this world war because don’t be mistaken we are being attack from all directions and across all continents and we are not winning”.

The high commands words were only met by more hostility and threats of desertion.

The military centers were no longer willing to take blind orders and demanded a full report and what kind of information was worth the lives of so many men.

While the control Rooms were heavy in debate the platoons were burying their dead and ordered to continue with bombing areas with tunnels as well as collecting and regrouping all military supplies into gorilla tactic camouflaged campsites. High Command unable to speak from all the chatter and scared of growing opposition and deserters decided to started with their report of the prior nights events as they had kept with strict radio silence, only High command was able to receive and send communications with the staging area and other scouting troops during the night.

Their intention was to identify if a staging area with a bottle necked entrance could last the night and with roaming scouts as to what extent the movement and sound in regards to communications through their direct links to High command attracted the enemy.

There plan was simple they explosions that occurred during the day were also a strategic move positioned in such a way to attract they enemy away from the staging area while at night distracting the enemy from the staging area by attracting them to the scouts. They were aware of the enemy’s efficiency in regards to the enemy’s hearing and ability to search out targets but were unaware to the extent.

The second the surrounding buildings began to cover the suns light dark shadows emerged from there murky tunnels and building complexes. The roaming troops were unaware that their survival rate went right down to zero, no sooner had scouts reported a shady character lurking the streets had they enemy heard tracked and killed them without even a chance to pull a weapon or report there death. Opening up communication channels high command requested for soldiers reply listening only to the growls and grunts of the enemy. With assumption of the soldier’s death they contacted a nearby scout to warn him of the danger which only drew the enemy towards him.

Replaying certain feeds to the large communities of army bases they were all able to hear the time delay between the soldiers answer to the warning message saying: “no targets found” and his death which both caught him and high command by surprise.

High command expected they the enemy was swift and cunning but their ability to identify the direction and distance of the second scout while still maintaining their cover from within the darkness was amazingly scary. Scouts were given strict prior orders to move in a rudimentary directions away from the staging area taking any steps to avoid detection with strict radio silence except where reporting enemy targets unfortunately whenever a target was identified so was the soldier. There was no way to warn the scouts when even reports from soldiers hidden on hills and in bushes who were using high strength binoculars were killed within minutes of reporting to the Staging area. The Governmental personal guard extracted from the data channel report to the staging area and re-played this audio clip of the soldier on the hill who said that the creatures were plainly walking the streets without direction and that the

said shadowed creatures were staring right at him not moving from the moment he spoke out. He was able to report that the creatures were roaming the streets many miles away from his location just as his report turned into noises of scuffling of what seemed like another pouncing on the soldier in his hiding place.

With just a few scouts left their plan was beginning to fail as they expected there scouts to last longer than they did. They at that point could only hope that the scouts distracted the enemy hordes away as regardless of the bottle neck like nature of the staging area it wouldn’t withstand an all night attack. The staging area however was unaware of the scouts orders and high commands plans and ordered to remain battle ready and radio silent as they awaited possible enemy combatants with explosive bullet rounds. According to standard procedures of battle ready posts Bullets are loaded into their respective weapons where they were double and then triple checked for possible bullet jams and Stock was pulled near their respective weapons. They were only allowing to engage the enemy if there cover could no longer be obtained.

The high command was unaware of the staging area’s approaching doom as the others hearing was more acute than anyone could compensate for to a point where any non natural and humanoid sounds were easily identified. The sound of the shuffling bullets and soldiers faint whisperers were identified instantly, way before the bulk of the scouts were killed. The enemy had discovered the staging area and identified there fire power they devised a plan to both confuse high command by attacking surrounding scouts while using their outfits to gain access to and destroy the staging area.

With no communications through the night from the staging area high command assumed that the staging area was undiscovered until an hour before dawn when the communication link was re-established to issue all new orders for the sub-platoons. It was only when there was no reply that the worst was assumed and platoons were ordered to stay within their sites till the sun was high in the sky.

High command and humanity’s ignorance had failed them and their war tactics. We would definitely loose this war if for nothing but the under-estimation of the enemy’s intelligence and superior senses which in this case resulted in bloodshed. The personal guard would never understand what happened if not for the audio tapes that were ordered for recovery by the platoons. Initially the tapes were installed to analyze the armed forces mental state while waiting for the enemy in battle. The recorder ran through-out the night and was able to record everything that happened within the staging area. The tape was subsequently in transit to get analyzed at high command and all the separate control rooms demanded that copies and reports be made.

After the major report from high command we heard the control centers debating with themselves. They were discussing how their strategies must change along with their training. The enemy had an undisputable advantage within the darkness and placing any individual or base out in the open after sunset was to big of a risk to take especially when there were underground tunnels that could echo any noises made in and around a city. Gorilla warfare wasn’t enough it had to be covert to be effective, silence quickly became directly linked with survival.

The platoon’s onsite were anxious about their brothers being killed and wanted to go into the tunnels after the enemy. They felt that they were not making sufficient kills with the explosions and destruction. Moral was down and something had to be done so discussions about what was going to happen into the future continued with the head command centre most of which were non-negotiable. Within heated arguments it was agreed that less soldiers would have died if all parties especially the ground troops were fully aware of the situation. It was then passed that all levels of military forces were full clued up with complete transparency to all who signed up or are conscripted to military forces in regards to war tactics and plans all the way down to the individual soldiers.

Due to the enemies vicious way of finding and killing there foes which grew which every darker shadow of night fall any such excursions into the darkness were normally met with server losses therefore strict safety protocols were put in place by government and coalition of army bases to minimize losses which changed making more rules and became more strict and less strict depending on how many losses occurred Night combat became forbidden and a curfew was instituted which was argued by soldiers to be over precautionary and an hour of fighting was being lost every day while the enemy took advantage of every second of the night. The rules were made to save lives so that deploy troops’ safety was guaranteed and of the highest priority.

Time was given in excess to cease fighting and to find their safety at a location far enough away from the enemies sharp sense of hearing but reasonable distance from the kill zone as not to waste daylight.

The government did not agree with allowing troops into the tunnels and warned of just as many casualties but with the safety protocols the only option was to go into the enemies tunnels and flush them into the light if we had any hope of winning such a war of Light and Dark.

Soldier moral was rapidly decreasing there was talk of desertion as the soldiers thought they had no way to gain ground on the enemy if they couldn’t enter the enemies territory within the underground tunnels. The government didn’t understand that most of the soldiers had loved ones who were killed within the first wave of the enemy’s attack. They were all willing to give their lives to the cause. The soldiers inability to take the fight to the enemy grew their frustrations especially when there were constant reports of platoons slaughtered in the night since there sites were insufficiently camouflaged.

There Levels of frustration were linked directly with their lack of understanding of what they would find within those tunnels. There was a creature which seamed invulnerable in relation to the enemy targets they had been killing. The government was aware of this new threat due to reports from other countries and the tapes recovered and were trying to protect the soldiers from this creature until such a point as it could be determined how to kill it.

After analyzing the audio tapes they released the data to all the individual control centers in an attempt to regain trust and control over the campaign.

The analyzable information began the voice of the enemy speaking out from outside the bunker pretending to be one of the scouting troops reporting that the area was clear. Since they were wearing the scouting uniform they gained access into the bunker. It was hard to identify how many entered the stronghold based on the tapes but we could understand that these others that had entered were looking round the room based on their slow nearly silent movement and shifting posture as they were offered coffee with no reply. The soldier noticed some blood on the uniform as he stated it to the creature when he & the rest of the military were at that instant caught off-guard when one of the disguised scouts bent him backward as it bit deep into his neck watching him bleed out onto the floor. The others turned to attack the army captains, their subordinates and lieutenants whom were now all pulling out there handheld Grand power K100 semi-automatic firearms. Firing at their foe within the bunker there small weapons having no effect while the guns that could have done damage were pointed outward from the bunker and were to big and bulky to turn around with any efficiency.

Not all the soldiers were killed instantly as some were kept alive as if for the enemy’s enjoyment. Listening to the tapes we were able to discover how their enemy’s leadership forces operated and from where they were being controlled. Detailed information was able to be withdrawn about units and how their ranks and positions worked. It seemed as if those that were dressed as scouts were the leading generals of what sounded like drowns that could barely speak answering only in snarls and grunts. They did have there own language which seamed like a mixture of all different types of global dialects mixed into one. The bunker room filled with noise as more of them entered mostly bringing in soldiers they found in hidden campsites and on the streets. Based on the cries of pain they soldiers were clearly injured in some or other way. The more of the enemy that joined the group the more they began to play games with as if they were playing with there food.

After a few hours the enemy had still not killed or touched any of the soldiers in the centre of the room and then something shocking happened the room went silent as if all the creatures disappeared from the room leaving the winning soldiers behind sitting in their own blood. The sound of deep proud prominent foot-steps edged from the entry way into the centre of the room. A loud weird animalistic cry echoed the room, making the creature seamed bigger and different from the drones and generals, before it began to speak out. The generals and there drowns cowered with murmur’s and mutter’s as if ready to be scolded as they listened to the soft tones of this creatures accent. The trapped army forces even settled down as they tried to understand the monsters jargon with no resolve as when the monster ceased talking it started eating, drinking all the life from the soldiers as they sat helpless in each other’s blood.

High Command Requested that the tapes not be released to all army personnel as there was a risk that it would do more damage in regards to moral of the soldiers than good. How could the militia be expected to kill what they have never seen where killing their current targets we already a close to impossible task. The warnings were not adhered to as there was no real understanding of how the armed forces would react.

Surprisingly this news motivated the troops exponentially. Every platoon wanted a

piece of the action that was the challenge of taking down this reported beast and a higher resolve grew amongst the legions of soldiers now forcefully requesting for deeper tunnel excursions during the day. There was now no way around it high command was left with no choice but to maintain control by authorizing deployment of special force platoons into the tunnels or risk all the platoons entering the tunnels.

An order for volunteers was sent from high command to all the control centers and there sub-platoons with only one requirement being the soldier must have had five confirmed kills without any hindering injuries. It was not long before Task force teams were set up preparing to go deeper into the underbelly of the cities tunnel systems that hadn’t yet been destroyed by the surface bombings.

Certain tactical procedures were put in place. Hand to hand combat was to be avoided @every option.

All soldiers would be armed with the newest technology that was available at that time it was the rapid fire ZA47 releasing silver fulminate a powerful explosive projectile which is caused due to a reaction of silver metal with nitric acid which once it enters the enemies body it mixes with Ethanol within the bullets casing and the projectile explodes poisoning the enemy if not kill the subject. Every task force had a robotic imploding decoy incase the enemy began to horde in front of the platoons path Each member was equipped with personal movement explosive charges tailored to small and highly explosive with the ability to differentiate between enemy and soldier movement which once activated will explode within two Seconds after such an enemy or malfunctioning signal passed the deployed charge. This tactic was developed in order to destroy any enemy targets so following a soldier with a failsafe switch monitoring his heart rate detonating any explosives not yet attached to the walls on the event of the soldier’s death. Using historic tunnel mapping and satellite deep probe scanning together with what could only be explained as earth sonar. The platoon task forces were ordered to destroy intersecting access tunnels in an attempt to create a dedicated entrance and exit line. This tactic was developed in order to bottleneck any enemy forces. Special task forces would split up one would cover the others rear as they intersecting tunnel was accessed by a group of soldiers as a single combatant would take point cautiously placing detonators as they attempted to go deeper into the tunnels until such a point where the enemy was identified or the tunnel ended.

If enemy combatants were identified the back-up soldiers would take point and engage the enemy until it got to a point where escape was the only option whereby the charges were activated and the platoon would escape trapping the enemy in the explosion.

As the soldiers went deeper underground more and more of the others were sighted and killed initially being dragged to the surface by hitting them with spear guns. This method of killing them known as the “DD Method” or drop and drag was used often used. In the past the cables would break eventually under the sure strength of the enemy holding onto there lives within the darkness after which they were free to flank the soldiers kill them as they moved back into the shadows. Now the army with knowledge of there strength used triple strength silver infused cables pulling the enemy toward the rest of the army standing only seconds from the entrance watching as there bodies were consumed by the light. This tactic was often used when there was

a large quantity of the enemy so as to free the soldiers in the front line so as to take a foot hold on the territory they were invading. If it was used only to improving soldier moral and resolve it still would have been a worth while tactic. The deeper the soldiers went the more corners and turns that appeared and the less effective the spear guns became. The ‘DD Method’ was the most effective way of killing the enemy. In the past the soldiers were not allowed to venture much deeper than where the DD method was most effective. Pulley systems were developed but could never withstand long use and were themselves ineffective as the distance from the surface grew. No matter how strongly they were placed on the walls that they were installed to. This effective depth was no that fare into enemy territory. The length of the tunnels seamed endless the tunnels darkness consuming the remnants of light eventually trapping the task force teams in darkness with only a torch on the end of there weapons to guide them. Armed with silver bullets the soldiers were aware that there weapons only slowed down the enemy and decapitation of there targets would be there most effective way at that depth to kill them.

Concealed outside the mission room we both held our breath as the campaign was in full mission silence seaming like command had lost contact with them. This silence went on for hours as the mission force was assumed to be going deeper underground.

Every so often within the silence there would be shuffling with the trust of a sword or a gunshot and two words “Target Down” and still the mission would continue.

The large team had no casualties at this point but what they didn’t know was that the Death Eaters were hiding upside down on the ceiling and walls and were luring the soldiers to their depths

The mission room lost complete signal with the mission task force. They were said to be so deep that communications were completely cut-off.

There were other platoons in different sections of the city doing the same task. One by one there communications would turn to static and then nothing.

We had hope but the silence within the room got me deeply agitated until reports started to stream in of explosions from the platoons in the tunnels within radio range, awaiting orders. The commander without hesitation ordered the second wave of soldiers to back up the first. The mission task force was equipped with explosive suits and was assumed to either be dead or over run. The radio transmission crackled with static movement. The crackling got louder and faint sounds which seamed like words started to emerge although hard to make out it was easily identified that one of the mission teams were alive. Unfortunately of all the Task forces that went only the radio transmissions of this team was being received. The message seamed to repeat the same five unidentifiable static filled words and then like a light switch the message came through as clear in my memory as if it were yesterday “Retreat! They are in the walls”. I could remember someone near the vent, as the commander sent an order to all away second wave platoons to retreat back, conversing the words “as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil as thy is the kingdom thy power and glory forever and ever” to himself whispering as he continued .the order excluded the squad backing up what command assumed was the only

member of the mission task forces alive only since he was broadcasting the same retreat message. The commander on hearing personal movement explosive charges going off requested a status report. The soldier reported that he was the only survivor due to the robotic imploding decoy standing within his team being activated and upon explosion somehow flung him away from the enemy who horded his platoon and were now very close on his trail. Shoot back as he ran firing explosive Silver fulminates from the ZA47 randomly into the darkness dropping some PMEC’s behind him as he ran and shooting in the opposite direction. The soldier would have been reporting of his own death if not for the second wave of soldiers slowing down the enemy.

It was a cunning trap as they would have had to know at what position and depth surface communications would be cut off.

I knew from that moment that we were not safe and that we couldn’t rely on the army to protect us as the only people that could save us was ourselves.

A flash of light beneath our feet froze us in our place huddled in the air vent. Hands violently reached into our hiding place pulling us into punishment, surrounded by soldiers it was just a matter of time it was just a matter of time before our hiding place was discovered. The soldiers being fully aware of the sensitive nature of what we herd took us to the commanders’ office. Before The soldiers left they asked us for our parent’s names. James was silent as I answered Dr Price. On that day while I was to busy dealing with my fear worrying of our punishment, James’s thoughts were deeper, knowing of my fear he turned to me and told me that I was all that was left of his family and he would watch over me and the rest of my family until his last breath.

When my father arrived we were called into the commander’s office. We would have probably gotten off with just a warning as the commander was un-aware that we had been there long but before the commander could utter a word Dr Price was already screaming at us asking if this was why they left there beds so early in the morning and hadn’t been home all day? The commander now changing his tone interrupted David’s reprimanding us to tell us all that as far as he was concerned and according to him on behalf of the army in general we could not leave the barracks as children after being privy to highly sensitive highly confidential information most of which Dr price Knew and was forced to be more secretive with his work. As our transgressions we would have to become new recruits within the army barracks until they learned what it meant to offer there lives to protect those that live around them.

David argued in an attempt to convincing the Army Generals no to enroll us within the military system as if they would somehow not be part of what they are really doing within that mountain in the future.

He explained that the kids need only be given clearance by him being factually a higher ranking officer merely by the fact that he was the leading professor in his research for the government. Unfortunate James was happy to join the army as he knew it would be the only way he could revenge his parent and protect me and my family. I was to young to truly understand the full extent of the promise he made to me that day worrying only that I didn’t want to be one of those Soldiers deep within those tunnels cut-off from the light.

My father with all his knowledge had no understanding of what was happening to us and the world. He knew not to what depths this war would take us. My relief at that

point was however focused more on the fact that he had convinced the generals to let me and James go without forced military service. Dr David forced James to sign the confidential agreement but it was only a year before he joined anyway. I knew from the moment joined that this war wouldn’t end lightly and our safety was relative All military resources were considered within The highest military sector dealing with technology and advances as we had the technology but not the application were current military application of troops were ineffective due to the speed .at which troops could be killed especially in small quarters like mere pests. They knew that we would have to evolve as the military believed that we were fighting to win our survival as a nation which relied solely in the development of new technology.

Chapter 5 James and I besides our responsibilities to our home within the army base were still enrolled at school together as the years passed the school system changed. What was once an innocent educational topic was now army pre-preparation. The system gave the illusion of choice but navigation, survival skills and Biology but the subject was no longer human anatomy but the Depth dweller reproductive, digestive, respiratory and nervous system as well as advanced biomechanical engineering and chemical elemental biology. It was supposed to keep us alive making us more efficient at killing them. We learnt the bottom line of how to survive outside the base. Most of the information that was thought was from the files of the tests started on these creatures captured outside the movie theatre when this all started.

With all this knowledge no one ever left or even have a reason to leave the mountains safety. Hidden in the base conscription was a rule all those that were old enough were signed up to the army starting with fire arm training and tech workshops and placed into full army duty protecting the base and areas around it. James who had joined many years ago was basically student a veteran teaching new students when he wasn’t on away missions.

I was fortunately deemed part of a “lucky” few who learnt more than just the basic school subjects under my dad’s guidance I was more than just a death eater slayer he thought me to be a scientist. He taught me all he knew of advanced mathematics and solar physics.

How such energy’s are formed and transferred.

The fundamental principals avoiding the harnessing of such energy was containment and stabilization if such a task was possible. What I knew was even if he could harness that kind of power it’s practical use as a weapon was implausible as the energy couldn’t be focused therefore all within the energy’s path would easily be burnt but we talking 3rd degree burns within seconds. This energy theoretically had the power if exposed for longer periods of contact to cause deep radiation contamination and tissue damage much like cooking the insides of an individual similar to a

microwave.

He spent all his life trying to utilize this energy.

Within those years on the base I was considered by my dad and by proxy the base a child of science initially I was proud of this designation but as the class subject’s science, math etc changed so did my opinion. Maybe it was the pressure that fed my bitterness as math and science were my easiest higher marked subjects but what my father expected from me was way above anything I learnt in class.

It continually became harder to work with David as he had all the knowledge but no drive for practical application. I always wanted to do experiments where he would be to cautious warning me of the dangers of such experiments without the proper math equations and so he continued to mainly do research trying to refine a highly complex calculation that in my opinion was indefinable. Accompanied by soldiers He needing to be transported to an observatory the closest being a two hour drive either way.

Doctor Price would sometimes order the accompanied soldiers to bunk in for the night as he would say “the research decided it”. I was never happy when he never came home as it was equally as plausible that he was dead. Camped out at the observatory Dr Price would forever look up into the sky trying to find some clues on how stars are cosmically created and destroyed. He would easily jump back and forth between prior discoveries done proving an idea one week and then disproving it the next.

I was frustrated and found ways to avoid my father’s lectures often getting in to trouble on lecture days happily staying in detention and even bunking lessons all together.

I began to focus more on Army Studies like Stealth movement and navigation.

There was an audiometer and we were graded on how silent we were on it. We had to keep below two decibel bars of the audiometer which is the general sound level of most surroundings while performing different tasks.

We were taught How find and build shelters often suggested to build flat structures with a lot of earth covering for camouflage digging holes was the preferred method.

Most of those lessons were geared to one concept which was only travel during the day.

As our Biology lessons were now on the topic of depth dweller anatomy we were taught that they didn’t bleed unless they had just fed. There bodies absorbed all nutrients found in the blood awakening dormant cells stimulating rapid growth and evolving there cells with ever improving strength and mobility. We learnt that once the death eater consumed the life of another and there cells would take on specific traits of the person or animal of whom they ate.

Every lesson had its purpose like knowing where to puncture an enemy to kill them or slowing them down making it easier for a final strike of death. They did not breath as they absorbed oxygen mainly from blood and threw there skin therefore they did not have the need of lungs. They could survive indefinitely for long periods without nourishment normally causing a misleading weak appearance and pale complexion.

Unlike us they didn’t need the toilet and gave of no waste products as they absorbed all they consumed.

I learnt that there bodies didn’t radiate heat like normal mammals as their heat signature was much higher than that of any creature. Any living thing with such a high temperature was either sick or dying and all that heat is controlled within their core as it is recycled repeatedly through there system so assumed to allow them to live so deep underground as their bodies are constantly producing heat. Closer studies of military files showed proof of different sexes both male and female much like us on the outside but there was no understanding of how there organs worked internally. Of all those anatomy lessons the most interesting for me referred to the chemical composition of the depth dweller was such that where we need vitamin D produced from our bodies reaction with the sunlight to stop our body from developing cancerous cells and to maintain strong bones and healthy functioning body organs their bodies were are allergic. The energy that is emitted from there bodies reaction to solar rays caused explosive reactions killing the depth dweller in seconds of exposure.

This topic was linked in to my dad’s research on the sun. I was mostly upset with his research at that time as he surrounded himself with only work barley talking with my younger brother and sister even avoiding me to a point. I should have realized at that time that he was just trying to overcome the depression of Alex’s death.

It was often discussed that there may be more than one type of breed of these beings.

It was in theory that how we developed through technology they similarly evolved through breeding often for different purposes identifiable according to varied shape and intelligence. Just like us they had a brain and were highly intelligent based primarily on there breeding. They did however need to rest more based on how well nourished they were sleeping for nearly 20hours a day and less when they were well fed. Those that were kept awake for 24hours started to show signs of a drunken state and disorientation unable to hold themselves up as they would collapse and there system would completely shut down as if the subject was dead kind of like rebooting of a computer system awaking nearly two days later as if normal.

I learnt that silver when introduced to a death eater would react to there bodily fluids and dissolve creating a heat of such a level that basically cooked the death dwellers bodily organs overheating the brain causing eventual death. The silver was poison in there system. Although the silver would liquefy instantly this reaction would not always kill the subject depending on Quantity of silver in there system and where the silver penetrated the death eater. If they were shot close to there heart or brain the possibility of there demise would greatly increase. No other such alloys like copper, Nicole, gold, zinc or mercury had any effect on them regardless of where they were shot. A non silver bullet to the head only made the depth dweller angry as there body would push out any foreign objects as all cells including brain cells would re-generate healing the subject in minutes.

They say god made us in his image but who made them and maybe god was referring to them as they were clearly physically superior to us humans who are weak in comparison. They seamed nearly perfect beings evolving more rapidly in strength and knowledge if it was not for there allergic reaction to silver and sun light Through out all the lessons that the lecturer taught me he would often look at me and referred to my father’s research. Eventually after all the years in his class he asked me to stay after class to chat. Our discussion made me understand that the pressure that David was getting everyday from his peers and the base was from all sides and could

not compare to the pressure he was placing on me. I was not fully aware of the level of importance his work for the military was. That biology lesson taught me that my fathers needed my help as his work was too important to just leave to him. From that point it wasn’t clear to me yet that I had unconsciously made the decision to dedicate my life to this war starting with helping my father develop a method to synthetically replicate the sun’s power.

I rushed to the lab that day in the hope to tell my dad of my new found commitment to his project but he was at the observatory. I knew it wasn’t efficient to keep going there just because it was the only spectroscope which David could have access to.

Those spectroscopes were large old and outdated equipment couldn’t it be possibly to make one smaller more user friendly, so I decided after researching how a spectroscope works to design blue prints of building our own. I worked all night telling Army security personnel that I was waiting and doing work for Dr Price. When David returned with a surprised look on his face to see me in his laboratory I looked at what he was wearing and couldn’t keep in the laughter as he and his entourage were in weird mechanical armor like body wear that I had never seen before. I showed him my blue prints and with a smile on his face we began to share in all the failures and victories of the projects development starting with our plans on building our own spectroscope.

We managed to re-create a smaller spectroscope with the help of Electrical Engineers who were assigned to Dr Price’s experiments. The new spectroscope was stronger and could be calibrated to a measurement of accuracy higher than that of its predecessor sitting two hours away in an observatory stricken with rust and about twenty times bigger. All the spectroscopes in the learned astral physicist community used large scopes that needed a building of a significant size to accommodate. These observation towers were normally old and technologically outdated as some were using cranks winded by hand if the scopes angle of alignment had to be changed. Our Micro spectroscope was the first of its kind and it was a very complicated to construct and calibrate. Most spectroscopes were either a great distance away or to unsafe to visit so for scientists in David’s field of study they needed such instruments to continue with their research. We were obliged based on agreements to share all developing technology with worldwide scientists. To help these scientists we were forced to place our further testing and development stages on hold as starting production of these MS Scopes took out a lot of our time just to create one instrument due to the nature of the accuracy and delicacy of the measuring instrument.

James didn’t stay in army training as long as I did because he was reaching legal age and could finally make the decision to be a part of a platoon. James had decided that his own path lied with the army. When I had started working with Dr Price It became hard for James to connect to me. He was a man of many military related skills and therefore it was not long when James was of the correct age for the army to enlist him.

He was signed up and placed within a platoon within in weeks of his birthday.

The MS Scope was the spectroscope of the new generation and because of it old calculations were refined while some ideas were scrapped as disproven creating new theorems that were identified across the planet. Using the new spectroscope was breaking the mold of what we thought we knew about the universe that it is actually a never ending eventually orbital space of pure creation and destruction. Due to the MS

Scope’s new technology it was both able to inspect light streams with an even greater level of detail and Separate different beams of particles into spectrums in order to study the different energy patterns.

Making all these spectroscopes gave Dr Price and me the child of science, instant recognition which gave my father a new drive for the practical use of the new readings from the spectroscope and an even greater bravery to perform live experiments. David began by looking over the research from Joseph Fraunhofer who was the closest to a machine that could re-create the sun and its awesome power.

The sun consumes hydrogen to form helium releasing energy through nuclear fusion.

Under our laboratory conditions we began to re-perform the fusion reaction which is the energy released when you convert four hydrogen nuclei to form a single helium nuclei that is equivalent to the energy that emulates from the sun.

I rarely saw James anymore except on a random occasion for the family meal occurring every Friday. I normally not free to see James being busy with my work which he found boring. When James wasn’t waiting at the base he would be off base on an away mission that he couldn’t talk about.

Due to the destructive nature of our experiments as well as the Deadliness of unfocused randomized beams of unstable solar energy all experiments were performed incased in a non-transparent shell making it hard to actually know how the experiments reacted. Only through the use of special camera’s was it possible to see the size and density of the reaction occurring within the shell made from four different 5inch Thick alloys designed to contain high temperatures and violent magnetic fields.

The Mixture of alloys was built to withstand strong pressures due to the 150g/m 3 density needed for the hydrogen and helium to combine.

We did our work in converted store room on the far right side of the army base. I had been working with David for nearly seven years and although we had a large contribution toward the designs of battle suits and other mechanized technology used on the battle fields the science behind sustaining the creation of a Solar energy in a stable source being the core of the new age of weaponry was still theoretical. Each weapon was designed to each hold a miniature version of the sun within its core. We incorrectly thought our work was valid and our equations were accurately calculated and thoroughly applied but there were still no signs of why our experiments were dematerializing. With every new technological advancement and improved redesigns of old technology it brought us closer After all the years of failed missions fighting in abandoned cities standing our ground in a unsuccessful attempt to gain back our once great cities the army’s decided to focus less on gaining territory and more on clearing and creating safe areas where protection could be provided and safe houses could be built.

The place where we were living being so well hidden was one of these Safe areas.

The fact that this base was deep inside enemy territory made it possible for soldiers to acquire valuable intelligence about their Movements and plans. Enemy command outposts were known as black circular structures much like a black boil on the earth’s surface. These domes allowed for day time defenses and were hard to destroy. Made of a deflective alloy the domes refracted bullet fire of heavy and small arm’s as well as dissipated electric assault weaponry. The pre-emptive strikes around the world in the destruction of the underground tunnels and buildings previously deemed as being

used by the enemy had no effect against the depth dweller’s advances and actually helped in the construction of these death domes, normally built over wholes caused by the caved in tunnels and other underground explosives that our soldiers set. The enemy always seemed to be strengthened due to destruction, the more a city was destroyed the larger the impenetrable death domes became and the stronger there control over that area was. Most major cities were now lost to them.

Anywhere with extensive underground hiding spots and buildings were unsafe. If a campaign to take back a district succeeded during the day it was over run by midnight.

Chapter 6 I had been working with my dad for nearly seven years and with a new more improved spectroscope created by our foreign allies we were able to finally conclude on our findings as we began to break ground with our experiments which were previously off a fraction of a percent in basically every calculation. We were close now to making the science work as molecule stabilization was possibly the most important step of our experiments. All experiments were performed incased within the hard shell. With the use of a large quantity of power we were able to create the sun but when the power would weaken so would our experiment.

Dr Price requested to be moved to a safer location to continue with our work but that request was denied due to the Military’s decision on the tactical superiority that the weapons of that nature would create within the war with the death eaters. When they stated that it was for our own safety we had trouble believing them even though we were not really aware of the true nature of the situation on the outside of the base.

The fact that the military was being partially true as the enemy was literally at the bases door step, the closest safe house was more than a day drive and leaving could actually cause the compound to be discovered was irrelevant to us. Our mistrust was already fueled by our knowledge of the benefits of being able to produce such a solar emitting weapon at such a strategic position deep within enemy territory. Attacking any one of their central command outposts would leave there forces confused.

I had been working with my dad for nearly seven years. By now the military was treating us like VIP’s as the development and use of such technology was imperative in winning this war. Weapons were already stockpiled awaiting there heart which was the technology that we were the closest to perfecting.

Within our calculation we identified that an explosive reaction was immanent if it was not sustained by an external power source. David had been fearful of this conclusion and convinced everyone in the lab that this was a bad idea. For a time I understood and agreed with him but as time moved on my impatience grew, I knew that if we didn’t take this risk our project would not move forward. My understanding change as I tried to determine what the explosion would cause.

It was unavoidable that for the core of the sun to be self sustainable the centre would have to be filled which I believed would occur with the explosion, but David would not listen to reason and so I took matters into my own hands Awaking early I decided to act against Dr Prices orders and being awake just before

sun break I re-created the experiment on my own knowing that if anything went wrong it was only me at risk. I was cleaver noticed while I Set up extra shielding around the machine the night before. I started up the Power cells increasing the power wattage in increments in an attempt to cause the explosion we all had been afraid of. I forced the machines to pump-out more power than it had ever before. The temperature rose exponentially before the gauges broke from the intensity as I starred at the machine at a safe distance ready of any eventuality. With Special cameras within the machine I was able to see the orb growing as everything within the lab began to shake. I got scared as the size of the orb looked like it was growing to big to be held by the machine thinking to myself that I have to shut down the experiment as David was right but then before I had a chance a shock wave traveled through the machine, my heat proofed room and to the whole base knocking me to the floor as it ripped the oxygen from my lungs like a vacuum shutting down all electrical systems.

Thinking the experiment had failed I lay flustered on the floor half conscious as I looked up at David behind the sealed door before completely passing out. What I thought was a few minutes later I thought I began to hear noises of all the scientists congregating behind me feeling David’s hand in mine but actually I was already wheeled out of the laboratory and was in the infirmary hearing everything that was going on with all the patients.

Sitting up in my bed my head lowered in shame towards David I looked around the hospital. I noticed that they were over-run with patients some of whom were slowly waking up scattered within the sickbay.

I knew David had been crying as he looked at me with tears in his eyes, I didn’t mean to scare him but my experiment had knocked out random people within the base.

I was preparing myself for a screaming match but instead he embraced me tightly because what I thought was a few minutes were actually three hours. Everyone eventually woke up and there were no serious injuries David Walked me to the canteen and we sat to eat lunch but still I was uneasy as I expected David to eventually scream at me as he had many times in the past when I disobeyed his instructions.

Although David didn’t reprimand me I still wanted to clean up the mess I had mad in our laboratory. Walking back to the labs a group of fellow scientists were huddled together near where the experiment occurred in of deep debate. Wondering how such a shock wave occurred and how it didn’t affect everyone on the base. The laboratory was never filled with as many scientists as it was that day and when they noticed my entrance they crowded me practically pushing Dr Price aside barking questions at me.

It took me a minute to see based on the type of questions they were asking that the reason my father didn’t reprimand me was because I was right. Contained within the metal shell Without a Power source was a solar orb constantly producing fusion with miniature explosions fueling the ball of pure energy and heat. Looking at the special Camera I saw that the size of the sphere was smaller than I had seen when the shockwave was released. I expected that the shockwave knocking out all electrical systems was the decrease in size and increase in density which was the explosion we predicted.

All that was left was Focusing such energy to a point were the power source could be moves and utilized as the power in it’s current state was raw and dangerous and

unable to be merged into a weapon format. The solar explosions alone without the metal shell it was incased in would cook the soldier before it could ever be used as a weapon. The Sphere was now magnetized and had its own gravitational pull making it easier to be close to the machine but extremely hard to move away from it.

Having a new found level of access I was privy to information on the battle field. We had the numbers in troops and our soldiers never gave up but after a raid the death toll was against us were about one Depth dweller killed for every soldier. Nights passed by each other as we lost more troops and territory if we continued in this course we would loose this war. Extensive Intelligence reports spoke of captives whom the others kept and fed from keeping them strong and able to fight. All attempts to free the captives were met with lost trails and heavily protected underground tunnels; every single recovery mission was a failure often loosing more troops in the attempt.

The others laid traps for convoys in the day or just intercepted convoys of people escaping over-run cities and fortified strongholds that were taken in the night.

They were stronger, faster and harder to kill and our weapons although highly advanced were not 100% effective as the enemy could still fight if they were heavily wounded or dying Luckily our research wasn’t the only being done Biomechanical external body armor increased our soldier’s strength and protected them from the enemy’s bites normally used as away to effectively kill a platoon de-capacitate our soldiers making them weak to fight as they got stronger. The exoskeletons also prevented the Death eaters from being able to tear there enemies limbs off with as much ease. With the Exoskeleton the soldier’s strength was on par with the enemies but there speed was still far more superior. The suits could not withstand extended periods of attacks where the enemy focuses their maneuverability and strength with there speed. The biomechanical exoskeleton would shut down and detach from the soldier and detonate. The detonation process would open up from the back release the individual from the exoskeleton the explosion would kill anything within six meters with a count down allowing the soldier to escape in fear that the others could use such technology against us. Well aimed attacks would need to be close enough to there heart to do sufficient injury to weaken them from prolonged engagements. Lesser injuries would allow the enemy to continue fighting normally taking out the soldier that shot him before dying. This new age of weapons shot silver explosive rounds which if they didn’t kill them would poison them due to there nervous systems reaction to silver.

The most efficient way to kill the death eaters was decapitation with the sharpness of old ceremonial swords called kitanas issued to all soldiers or the complete removal or destruction of there heart. The others with an injured or stabbed heart would eventually die but were still sixty to eighty percent combat effective. The others had minimal weaponry most didn’t even use guns as they used preferred hand to hand combat obviously due to there superiority and those that used guns mainly had old style weapons acquired from old gun manufacturing factories like machine guns, shot guns, etc.

Chapter 7 Samuels’s death two days ago brought back all those feelings of loosing my dad at Fire Mountain within the mountain army base.

The last hours of my dad’s life were also his greatest to bad the secrets of that brilliance had been lost for all these years.

I remember it was a Friday night, this was the night me and my two siblings had to avoid the death dwellers clutches and leave Fire Mountain the place that had been our home for so many years.

Every Friday David would come home and be with us for one of the only formal meals of the week as we normally ate on the go it was a tradition which he was extremely strict about. He would force the whole family to attend regardless of illness, Injury and depression even if it was his from failures at work. It was a tradition which a few such families around the base practiced.

They including Dr Price would invite Soldiers, Orphaned survivors and other families not accustomed to this practice so as to get then to join into this tradition. A tradition that helped bring everyone stationed and living on the base together like one big family. This particular Friday James had the weekend off army duty and joined us for the meal.

I remember my dad was sitting at the head of the table dishing up food for the family and his guests when one of them commented stating that it was amazing how such a simple tradition could create such a warm family bubble forcing love and safety in a world of war, destruction and hate. This tradition attracted the whole base of a thousand different nations together and maintained that connection like an extended family forming an invisible force around the base stopping warmth and love from escaping to be corrupted by the naked air keeping us in hiding.

David’s reaction was not normal to that comment as he shot up off his seat thanking the guest for his brilliance everyone in the room looking at him in wonderment. I would have assumed the worst if not for the big smile on his face. David apologized and proceeded to the door exiting the house as me mumbled ‘break through’. I stood up and followed him when he told me to be the man of the house and a good host. He requested that I stay and tell his quests that he had made an astonishing discovery which might make it possible to be one step closer to winning this war. I wish I had stopped but I did what he said and with a cheer for his pending discovery we all went back to our meal almost oblivious that he had left.

I was at that time unaware of my father’s discovery ignorant of the fact that it was the last Friday meal and second last time I would see my father.

Foolishly feeling in control and important I sat at the head of the table proudly announcing my dad’s accomplishments and the probable end to the war. Our guests rejoiced at paraded at our family’s accomplishments both in science and social development and continued with the meal.

About an hour and a half some time in the middle of dessert we herd a big explosion that shook the doors and walls of the room we were sitting in. Everyone jumped up from there dessert plates as they looked outside a burning flame lighting the night sky.

Panic struck our guests eyes as they knew such a light would attract the enemy.

Realizing that the flame was emanating from the lab I grabbed Sarah’s hand (the sister) and called Samuel to follow me. James by our side we were

all running down the hallways when they evacuation lights turned on directing us away from the lab. I lead Sarah’s hand into James’s instructing Samuel to follow him which really meant that they would follow the evacuation orders we were all taught in school. I turned to James as I told him to take care of my family and not to leave on the transport vehicle with me and David as I was edging away from there path toward the laboratory.

Running down the hallway I was passed by officers and civilians who were pleading with me to turn around to turn to safety that all that was waiting at the end of that path was the death eaters who were invading. Ignoring there warnings I asked weather they had seen Dr David Price. They looked at me with a blank stare as they ran in the opposite direction. I continued determined not to loose another member of the Price Family and focused on my task I approached room B15 which was the entrance to the armory bunker where all the biomechanical exoskeletons’ were stored. I had been in that store room before and I had never seen it so empty. An officer stood guard in his mechanical suite I asked if he saw Dr Price and he told me that he was trapped in the lab after they explosion. All he knew was from the soldiers that had already been in the stores kitting up in there armored suits that had run out spreading out into different hallways of the base. He said as he stepped in front of the door frame that they couldn’t get him out as the base was over run and that right side of the base was not of tactical importance. With a brash reply I demanded him to step aside as no one was going to save him. He offered me an armored suit and gave me the access codes for a BE27 Unit. I knew I had no time to waste and putting on the suite might slow me down so I left without it. Walking past the officer I turned right looking toward the lab.

Moving towards it I turned a corner to a different area of the base. I was alone felt the heat of the fire warming up the hallways. As I turned a corner all I could see was the bright glimmer of the lab fire. All the soldiers had gone focused on different areas of the base. I was alone when from a doorway appeared a death eater steering right at me. The death eater holding a weapon in each hand saw I was unarmed and instead of aiming one of his weapons at me it dropped them to the floor and slowly approached me. I was about to run when I saw Dr price running towards us down a linking hallway with one on the new age weapons armed with silver bullets it was an automatic shot gun. The death eater distracted by my blank motionless expression of fear didn’t notice David as he aimed the gun at the creatures head pulling the trigger as he stood right behind it. With a bang he blew it’s head clean off as we turned running for the emergency exit as It’s body lay in the passage behind us. Glancing back at the fire I saw two death eaters emerging from the flames. David was quick to notice the speed at which they were pursuing and demanded I continue running as he started to fire on them telling me to leave the base now and take Samuel and Sarah with me to fort pacific which was a well known stronghold near the coast and not to look back.

As I ran in the opposite direction of Dr Price he screamed out “The answer is in the bubble of love we create for ourselves to keep all the forces in to use the sun’s strength on itself” I ran until I went past room B15 which was now empty, a warning light was flickering as I stepped onto the podium. A screen with a count down appeared with only a

minute on the clock. When I entered the access code the detonation timer increased by thirty minutes but was still counting down as one of the Bio-Mechanical Unit BE27 exoskeleton moved forward toward me.

Although I was aware of the technology I had never put on such a mechanical suit as I didn’t have a need to until now. I took off my top and placed my arms into the metal sleeves and my feet into the boot shaped armored shoes connected together by an elastic type metal alloy chest plate. Feeling my temperature the suit validated that I was human and enclosed around me re-shaping to the size of my Biceps and calves. I started to feel claustrophobic due to the weight of the suit which began to restrict my movement until the hard metal shell mechanically locked into place behind me along my spine with a small electric shock. This electric pulse seamed to shoot from my spine to all my limbs giving me full mobility and then some making it not only as if I was not wearing a heavy suit of armor but also making it feel like my body was floating. Every movement was effortless as I left the armor bunker room B15 with a sword holstered on the left side of my waist holding a large weapon with only my right hand.

Now fully kitted up I was ready to face them. I proceeded down the hallway ignoring my father’s warnings as I had to try save him. I didn’t know that I would never see him again and that the only thing I would accomplish was killing some of the enemy.

As I got to the action other soldiers were holding down the front line as depth dweller had blocked off two of the passages both of which would have lead me to David. I would have gladly fought my way towards the flames as I stepped forward into the hallway and began to fire at the approaching enemy. My aim was pretty accurate as I killed my targets with fewer bullets than the soldiers around me. I tried to entice the soldiers to follow me as I slowly edged forward but the soldiers stood there ground.

Eventually with great force one of the soldiers gripped my shoulder and with his force enhanced with the armors strength he yanked me back asking me if I had a death wish. With a shrug I asked him if he had seen doctor price. The soldier looked at me with wide hollow eyes as he told me that his platoon had walked over his lifeless body as they were attempting to clear paths and cover strategic points in the base. He advised me that there was no reason to go in after him since by now the fire would have taken his body if not the enemy.

I knew all was lost and it wasn’t going to be long before the whole base was over run by death eaters my attention then moved to my siblings and I remembered my promise to my dad to take them safely away from the base. I suggested to the soldiers to evacuate and retreat to the underground evacuation tunnels but according to them some of the tunnels were already overrun. Leaving the soldiers behind with fear of my

sibling’s safety I proceeded to the tunnels where I left James with Sarah and Samuel.

Running past room B15 I saw a handful of the others trying to gain access to various restricted access areas luckily the destruction sequence had not already been started. I left as the mainframe of the base issued a self destruct order got as far as room B3 before the base started to self destruct behind me. Knowing at that point that they other soldiers were trapped by the explosions debris and side passages were full of Hunter death eaters. I had no choice but to save myself. Passing many hallways in my path in began to identify in the corner of my eye figures emerging from the fire enveloped hallways but I didn’t waste to look as I continued on my path. As I passed more intersecting walkways I saw how many were just standing oblivious to me in one of the rooms I went past I knew that the enemy was on my heel as I locked a steel plated enforced doors behind me. I was unaware that I was experiencing what Alex went through when he died but I knew I had no chance against so many of them.

Locking the second plated door as I herd them banging on the first.

I prayed in vain wishing that they wouldn’t break through the bunker doors of the army base but as I ran to another door a sound of scratching metal emanated behind me as It was warped and bent crumbling of the walls that held that door in it’s place which made me grind my teeth as they had broken through the first door. On closing him 3rd door behind me I turned back to my path where a few meters in front of me stood one of them looking right at me. I ran at him with a reflex type motion as I desheathed my sword slashing it through the air without hesitation, it’s head rolling down the walkway as I moved swiftly towards the exit without looking back to admire what I had done. On turning left and walking down a flight of stairs I had made it into they evacuation tunnels as I ran I saw other soldiers standing guard at the top of the access tunnel of a 3feet thick plated hatch door leading down into the vehicle escape bays.

One of the officers manning the door assumed I was part of the platoon that I left behind and requested there location. I informed him that I had seen many dead bodies lying in the hallways which were now completely over run by death eaters and that keeping this hatch open any longer would place all who had been saved at risk.

Closing the hatch I walked down the tunnel noticing that they were mainly civilians and that there were not nearly enough transport vehicles left to take everyone to safety. I asked one of the soldiers why everyone was still here. When he told me they were waiting for a seat on the vehicles I realized how insensitive I was thinking only of my family as I screaming out to the crowd that I was the last to leave the base and that those not with us were surly killed by the death eaters and we should all scatter into the forest as the vehicles would not guarantee our survival. I didn’t tell them that at any moment they others would find the floor hatch enter and kill everyone so as not to ignite panic. I announced with a stern warning that this plan would be better and would deeply increase our life line reiterating that we all had survival and camouflage training and now was the time to use it to walk into the jungle and away from the dangers that lay within the base.

Talking to the crowd I had my back towards James, Sarah and Samuel I realized that they were there but they didn’t recognize me with the armored suit as it was the first time I had every worn it and “now a days I rarely take it off ” . Looking at Samuel and Sarah crying I realized how insensitive my words were as they probably thought I was dead. I Approached the three of them, there heads arched downward except for Sarah

who was looking in my direction her unfocused eyes fuzzy with tear drops than started to run down her cheek .With a windscreen wiper type motion her hand swept across her face her body shaking as she recognized me bouncing to her feet as she ran into my arms. She knew that David was dead but asked for him regardless out of the hope that by some miracle she had not seen him in the room either.

Sarah not letting go of me as I had no choice but to carry her as I walked up to James grabbing Samuel in the process giving them both a hug. Looking at James with blunt determination I told him that our hope for survival lay hidden in the woods avoiding the enemy until day light. James on hearing my instruction immediately walked into the jungle he had decided that he should begin scouting out the area ahead.

With my families hand in mine I Suggested again to the civilians not loaded on the convoys to join us in the wild nature around us. I pleaded that the convoys just to load to full capacity and those left to follow me. I announced that I was taking my family into the jungle and that if others wanted to live that they should follow me. Most of the people stood still shocked into the failed opinion that some of the convoys would come back for them. As the last of the convoys left I manage to convince a group who followed me away from the others who were illogically waiting for a convoy that wouldn’t come.

I de-sheathed my Standard military issued double sided Kittana Blade. My weapon hanged on my back as I tightened the strap closely against my chest as I knew using my gun will attract more of the enemy which would be impractical in evading them.

Within the darkness of trees we escaped the shadows of the trees creeping back and forth moving as if they were alive.

We proceeded with hast until suddenly I herd a sound coming from my right. Hidden by darkness I paused for a second holding my left hand in the air instructing those following me to crouch. Walking towards the sound I made sure to remain hidden in the shadows of the forest trees around me as I lifted my sword into the air ready to kill my heart racing as my arms shook with fear.

Standing in the darkness for a few minutes I slowly began to lower my sword as my nerves started to calm thinking it was a forest creature when I saw it as if the tree was growing a new branch. The figure seamed to look outward as it crept closer with it’s back turned I again raised my sword into the air preparing to strike the shadow and If not for James familiar voice I would have. He knew I was standing behind him as James stepped out from the shadows. James had found a small sinkhole deep in the forest he explained its exact location being 1km South West from where we both stood. The sink hole had only one entrance that was easily camouflaged and we could all wait out the night and the enemy that was closing in on the surrounding area there.

James and I doubled back to were our party was huddled in fear which only intensified when we herd explosions near the roads in the distance. James led the way as I instructed everyone to follow holding back while the last person went past me.

I looked into the distance back at the evacuation tunnels at all the people who chose to wait to get a seat on an armored transport vehicle questioning weather my judgment of waiting for death was an incorrect statement in my mind and weather it was in my decisions that were risking the lives of those around me. My gaze started to drift back

to Sarah, Samuel and the rest of my party as I herd an explosion and then witnessed a sight that removed all my doubts changing me forever.

The others had found the hidden floor hatch and with an explosion had gotten access to the evacuation tunnels. What was once a way to safety was now a slaughter house.

There were to many to count like a constant flow of Death eaters that poured down through the blown up floor hatch jumping into the middle of the crowds of people biting ripping and tearing off limbs as gained control of the mass crowds of people.

There was no sanctity of life as they threw the scraps of the mangled human bodies over there shoulder to the other death eaters behind them so as not to waste anything.

They would attack the stronger individual’s adult males and female’s barley tacking notice of the young and elderly. Within minutes there were none left strong enough to fight? This disaster had happened so quickly that no one tried to escape initially. At first glance the death eaters looked cannibalistic as they ripped and bit into the bodies but actually the flesh was left lying every where when they were done. Looking at the scene closely you wouldn’t have even seen a drop of blood spilt. Any blood left on the floor was quickly licked up by them as they now walked amongst the survivors torturing the elderly captives by poking and pulling of an index finger or a thumb here or there to maintain dominance as they laughed with e tormenting glee. Others went around pushing people on wheel chairs to the ground playing with the fear amongst the people as they enjoyed the screams of the tortured.

It was not long before the large creature that was often reported on military missions appeared. I was probably one of the only people at that time to have witnessed one of these creatures which was probably the same creature that me and James had herd the military generals speculate about hiding near the mission room when we first moved to fire mountain. The death eaters quivered as the creature entered the room with a deep sound of prominence nearly standing to the sealing of the evacuation tunnel as it let out a loud cry that echoed to were I was standing deep within the jungle.

One of the armored vehicles filled with people hadn’t left yet but when the driver saw the large monster behind them they began to pull off in an attempt to escape.

A group of death eaters held the vehicle in its place as others ripped off the armor. It was like monkeys holding a walnut it was just a matter of time before the vehicles windows were broken and bars bent as they began to pull out passengers. The driver was a highly ranked officer but they did not take heed to the strategic intelligence they could acquire but instead they slaughtered him and other army personal without question. The young were asked by the creatures to form into troops to be lead out as captives. This was definite proof that they did have hostages held under the layers of ground which was there home. From the angle that I was looking there were three kids noticeably hiding behind some of the unharmed elderly disobeying the death dwellers instructions. It took a few seconds before they were identified and as they were demanded to join the troop the death eaters didn’t realize that one of them started to leopard crawling towards the jungle. The other two kids stood there ground to scared to escape to afraid to move. The large creature looked at two of his minions and without saying a word a gust of wind moved towards the kids grabbing them from within the clutches of the elders breaking one of there arms in the process. They held the two kids with one hand in front of the troop of children five feet above the ground looking up to there leader. The large depth dweller stared down at his minions holding there prize and without even a small gesture it seamed as if they were talking with there minds as they stared into each others eyes and then without warning the one

death eater took a hold of the Childs hair with his other hand and removed his head from his body with blood spraying from his neck. The death eater with a smile on its face arched the Childs body toward its mouth with such ease as if holding a cup pouring the blood downs as other depth dweller to the child by its feet and drank up all the drops he had spilt. The other death eater lowered the kid he was holding pushing him into the troop as the other Childs body was still twitching and bleeding as the death eater lowered the body to the floor in front of all them other kids. These kids were now traumatized and this disaster that they witnessed happened so quickly that none of them, except for the one brave sole leopard crawling to the exit would ever even try to escape.

With strength in his eyes I saw the child who had now leopard crawled to only a step away from the forest get up and run into the forest. The largest depth dweller and his death eaters minions laughed as the child leapt into the forest. Ignorant of my presence two of them lazily walked in the direction of the escaped child showing the other death eaters what an effortless kill this one kid would be.

Hiding in the shadows I got closer to the kid escaping as I let him go past making his own path unknown of my watchful eye. Waiting as I knew from my training that they would follow the kid’s tracks as I slowly moved deeper into the forest hiding and waiting for the enemy to catch up. With no regard to stealth I herd the enemy argue in a strangle animalistic type dialect they seamed to picking up speed as if challenging each other and as the leading depth dweller passed the tree from which shadow I was hidden beneath I silently released my sword in the direction of the second depth dweller slicing through his flesh releasing it’s head from it’s body with an effortless strike. The other depth dweller running in the opposite direction attempted to slow down as he looked back at his decapitated friend but with a backward spin and lunge through the thick forest shadows masking me and my sword I quickly killed the other death eater without making a sound. Running after the child I realized that he was not aware that the enemy was no longer chasing him I grabbed him as he let out a scream as he kicked punched hurting his hand on my body armor before he realized I was the same man he had run into the woods to find. I was counting on the enemy thinking that his scream was just the death eaters tearing into the young child as I refocused on getting us both to safety The rest of the group was now far ahead and using James directions and my navigation skills I learnt in class I quickly regained my bearings. With the body armors superior strength I quickly dragged one of the bodies in the opposite direction to were based on the stars the rest of the group was moving. We had to travel quickly to rejoin the group as well as covered our tracks as we moved away from the enemy’s body allowing the darkness to consume our form being carful to keep the child quiet and within the shadows. I knew if we didn’t find the group soon they would be hidden within his forest. Luckily I saw the group huddled as one after another disappeared into the ground but James unable to recognize my face within the shadows had identified my movements. With the group being exposed He attacked de-sheathing his sword as he had already assumed that it was my scream and not the boys and that I was dead together with the fact that I appeared from a different angle to where he had left me giving him no choice but to strike.

James holding his sword blade down he swiped at my left army with all his force

hoping to cut the arm and then my head of in one quick movement. If James was wearing body armor or if I was not I would have definitely lost an arm and possibly a head. James with shock in his eyes realized he had hit body armor holding his sword frozen in place as he stepped into the dwindling light child in hand. James apologized as his face filled with remorse for trying to kill me.

At this point everyone except for the kid, James and myself were in the sink hole but we had to move quickly as the sound of the sword vibrating as it clanged on my armor would surely bring enemy combatants. James took charge as he practically pushed me and the kid into the sink hole while he camouflaged the whole and kept watch.

Arching my body against the side of the sinkhole I looked deeper into the whole not being able to make out anyone residing within and hearing nothing from our group it began to feel like I was alone if not for the child in my arms who was like me beginning to fall asleep.

Chapter 8 Just before the sun rose as dawn was upon us the next day James woke everyone directing us to the road. Now that it was daylight I was actually able to see that we had more survivors than I thought. I watched everyone moving towards the roads as I counted 38 excluding James and I. I held back to speak to James as I thought it to be wise to return to the base in search of supplies armor and a transport vehicle. As the group moved out from the forest our argument became more heated as I argued that there could be survivors but he knew there wouldn’t be and in his mind the base was now a death trap for all that would enter as a lot of the base was underground making it possible for the death eaters to be lurking within the base hiding out the day. I really just needed to find a way to acquire transport as not all in our group could move as quickly as me and James and everyday traveling would greatly put us all in harms way. I needed James knowledge of the surroundings if I wanted to go back to the base and eventually to fort pacific and so I pleaded with him with no effect and since I would be walking blind without his help I reseeded the argument and followed his orders he was in any case the highest ranking officer within our group.

The soaring greenery of the trees cracked for a second as the spacing between trunks rapidly decreased in front of me leading us to a gravely road as if hidden amongst the trees the upper leaves covered the sky as large beams of sun light mapped in and out of the crest of where all the facing trees touch and move leading us along a narrow path of sunlight it was as if we weren’t even out of the woods as we moved along the path of light that often appeared as quickly as it disappeared and then in the distance the trunks of the trees parted opening up into what looked like fields of gold in the distance as the branches above us began to reseed behind us forever giving us a bigger peace of the light sky. We were encircled by open spaces which in turn were surrounded with clumps of trees.

The roads view was clear as you could see far down the road its length becoming more visibly definable as a pattern of armored vehicles tipped to there side seaming completely useless. Some of those vehicles looked like the vehicles that were supposed to transport survivors to safety but they were now empty with no signs of there death or survival. As we got closer it was easier identify that the roads were

plagued with craters. Each vehicles tyres had been slashed and the engines removed.

The depth dweller made sure to take every precaution to stop any possible survivors of their raid on the base to escape. Likely for our party I could fix one of these vehicles if I could only find the parts.

Walking from vehicle to vehicle we inspected every vehicle taking anything we could salvage and decanted the tanks for petrol as we moved on. Some vehicles had one or two wheels that were not thrashed having the body amour made it easier to hold the wheel dangling off the ground as others un-tightened the bolts. The kids with us had fun wheeling the wheels to the next vehicle. The biggest problem was still that not one of the vehicles we checked so far had an engine and this task would be pointless unless I could find one. I questioned myself in regards to how they could hide such a big and heavy thing as taking the engine home wouldn’t have been practical. As the others did there thing I wondered off the path and back into the woods along side the road as I remained conscious of the rest of the group while I searched for any parts removed from the vehicle. Most of what I found was scrap as I went a little deeper into the woods.

I searched for hours and without the benefit of finding anything hidden on the outskirts of the woods. With a painful gulp I headed towards the group and was planning on giving up when I tripped the weight of the body armor propelling me forward as my face slowed my momentum. I looked back down at my feet to a metal piston hidden amongst the dirt. Our lives depended on weather the rest of the engine was in tacked. I realized at that point that we couldn’t see the engines because the enemy had berried all of them and it was dumb luck that I even to found one of the engines. The engine was so heavy that I was only able to walk nine steps as the enhanced strength of the suit together with my own would decrease lowering the engine towards the ground when I tried to move further. It seamed like I was carrying one of the armored truck engines. Leaving the forest I looked to the group in the distance calling for there help. James herd my cry and with seeing what I was carrying sent the oldest of our group to help me. We managed to move the engine to where the group was beginning to salvaging parts of one of the armored trucks. Standing in front of the vehicle I announced that I could fix this truck and the fact that the vehicle was turned to its side actually made it easier to take of the destroyed wheels and attach the wheels we had salvaged and work on the engine. With my engineering know how I re-attached the engine. With all the peaces attached I checked on the undercarriage of the vehicle before our groups combined strength arched the vehicle back onto its wheels. The vehicles tank was then filled with the petrol decanted from all the other tanks as I made sure the wheels were tightly wound onto the vehicle. I hot wired the car and tried to start the engine, the gasp of disappointment moving through our group as no reaction occurred but I wasn’t going to give up. I thought it could have been the lack of fumes from the tank or a loose wire and so I showed James how to start the vehicle as I went to inspect the engine. Licking my fingers I was able to determine that the battery was low announcing this to our group hoping for suggestions there expressions blank with intellectual thought. The situation seamed helpless as everyone began to get out of the truck when I realized that I was practically wearing a battery. I quickly took the wires of the battery and ran it to my suit asking James to try start the car again. I felt a tingle through my body as the engine drew power from me giving it life when James connected the wires in the dashboard. Everyone climbed back into the vehicle as I re-connected the wires to the engine battery which would

now start building a charge as the engine consumed petrol. The truck was able to transport more like 70 people so there was definitely space. Most of the day had gone as the sun reaching the horizon but it was worrying that we had not yet gained much distance from the base. We began to pull away from where we had found the truck as James made sure to missing all the pot holes as we got further away from the base. It seamed like we had a lot of petrol but I was not sure how far that would take us so I suggested that James drive sparingly but he said that it would not be wise to travel when it gets dark and we needed to gain distance now and fast as we were still surrounded by the enemy and hopefully setting up camp later was our only option as there was no way they could reach the designated safe zone away from enemy territory. James was well informed of where all the safe areas were and enemy habitat zones. There were camping sets clipped in place under the seats of the vehicle that were left behind. These inflatable tents would make setting up camp faster.

Unfortunately even after traveling a great distance we were still in a red zone surrounded by enemy habitats.

Looking into the distance I saw the sun beginning to set on the horizon as James started prepping everyone in order to get them ready to make camp. One of the more verbal passengers by the name of Justin was not happy with this and wanted to continue driving. I didn’t know Justin neither did I know that he had four other members of his family sitting in the back of the truck but I didn’t matter as James and I being under military employment were unable to communicate most of the knowledge we had to civilians making it hard to explain. Justin and his family further made arguments in there case to the rest of the civilians. I turned and told them with a stern tone that survival was our goal & that the lights & vehicle noise would surely attract unwanted attention. We were all lucky it was not there choice as then our story would have had a brief ending we scouted for any kind of opening amongst the trees where we could hide the truck as we drove. James began traveling off the road path so as to get away from any enemy scouts that could be hiding in the shadows of the trees.

He made sure to drive close enough to the trees to see any possible openings which all seamed to narrow to allow our entry and covered with bushes and other greenery.

Many of our group was tired and hungry from the long day of walking with no supplies to feed them. The food that anyone had brought with them was by now eaten and we were all going to have to go to sleep without eating which was normally an easier task for the adults than it was for the children. Looking in the back it seamed like most of the passengers were already asleep. James was cutting it close as we were having difficulties finding a space to park the truck as time and the sun was quickly becoming unsympathetic. Without understanding or warning I cringed as James’s desperation took over so as not to panic our passengers I did not air my opinion as he turned in the direction of the woods the cut between the tree trunks that he was driving towards seamed to narrow and the depth was unknown.

James turned his lights on seconds before we entered the woods so as to gauge it’s depth I on the other hand was still flinching as the truck barley fitted in-between the tree trunks scraping the side of the vehicle as we lodged the truck in it’s parking for the night. James turned off the light announcing that if anyone couldn’t set up a tent and go to sleep within fifteen minutes then they should rather spend the night in the truck. We both jumped out from the vehicle and started camouflaging the truck as the passengers still awake started to set up there tents that already had built in camouflage. James went passed the tents inspecting them as he gave warnings of

silence that a whisper could kill us all. I was aware that if discovered we would have no chance but I knew that we had no other options. All it would have taken was the enemy walking the outskirts of the forest and so I stayed awake sitting in the driver seat giving James the night to rest. If fate was going to meet us with death I was going to meet fate with my sword.

The night went smoothly our camouflaging worked as there were no signs of the enemy entering the camp. It was lucky we were not discovered with all the noise we made on entering the woods but now looking at a new day at where we had set up camp I knew we had to get moving already. I left James to sleep a little longer knowing that we had to get going as Food and other supplies was also an important part of what we had to do today. I went to all the tents waking everyone up informing them that we were planning on leaving soon. In one of the tents was Justine with his family already complaining about getting food as if he and his family were the only ones hungry. James woke up as I reversed the truck the metal screeching as it scrapped against the trees as I prayed that we would not get stuck. Turning the truck towards the road I told James that we needed supplies. We drove for a few hours as he directed me on the path toward fort pacific. I then saw a sign of a town that was not far away and although going into any town was risky being a definite enemy habitat we needed food supplies and petrol for the trucks tank that was now dangerously low.

We headed into town hopping an abandoned petrol station wouldn’t be far. We passed many empty petrol stations on the outskirts of the town checking each one as we moved to the next. Driving deeper into town I saw another refueling station in the distance.

Driving a little further I stopped noticing that there were food markets all around us and our group was malnourished and getting weaker by the minute. Unconscious of the risks and ill-advised by James I suggested that the older members of the group scout out the area and collect any non-perishable food stuff’s. James also got out the vehicle in an attempt to inform all that got out about all the risks of entering any such buildings and possible safety precautions they could take in an attempt to preserve there lives. I told James to meet up at the refueling station down the street hopefully there was still petrol there. Parked at the refueling station standing in front of the open petrol cap having the fuel pump in hand I paused for a minute bracing myself with concernment as I pulled the trigger. The release of fuel into the vehicle brought my mind harmony as I realized that our plight in life seamed to be improving. We filled up all our jerry cans and any other containers for back-up petrol. Out of exhaustion I planned to take an hour power nap as I fell asleep across the front seats of the truck. I awoke hearing the chattering of people outside as it got louder the closer they got to the vehicle. I realizing that I was out for hours being hard to say for how long but definitely longer than what I planned.

I left the shadow of the vehicle thinking that I would find James and all the people I had dropped of next to him holding a huge pile of supplies. The group that stood in front of me was much smaller than the one I had left a few km back and James was not among them.

No one seemed shocked that the other members of the group had not returned. With the sun light lingering I feared that we might need to leave without them. Out Of the five scouts they all had different pieces of the picture of where they had seen the

others go being deeper into town as they had found an extra vehicle which had no petrol and they were intending to fill it with supplies and hopefully find a petrol station thereby driving back to a Ronda view point.

This seemed like a good idea which since no one had returned had obviously backfired as they had also taken an unnecessary, unexpected risk by going into town for there would surely be death eaters there waiting for them, either in the dark alleyways or inside the buildings protected from the light. I had hoped that they would have been more discrete and had not entered particularly dark areas of the town to gather supplies.

With a confused look, I processed the new information, not knowing the layout of the town as I directed those standing in front of the truck to pack all the supplies and jerry cans of petrol into the vehicle. Once all the supplies were loaded the remaining passengers began to board. I saw Samuel running into the dark convenience store of the petrol station unable to follow him, as I was trapped behind the supplies already packed into the vehicle. I feared for his life as I was too scared to go into the dark store of that petrol station. Samuel knew by the look on my face that I would get lost if we went searching for the other group so On his return, I noticed he had grabbed a map of the town. As he got close enough to hear the tone of my voice without thinking to the future I scolded him for all to hear “Are you crazy to walk into a dark building. Is that map worth your life.� The group now looking at Samuel with distaste thought of his stupidity and didn't make themselves aware that they would all benefit from his selfless act.

I turned the truck around and headed back to where I previously left James and part of our group listening to the scouts as they directed me closer to the possible location of where they may be. I was directed left then right then left as I tried to remember the way out oblivious of the movements of the enemy behind us as we ventured deeper into the thick of the city. As I turned the corner, we saw part of our missing group huddled around a small rusted Toyota Hatchback in the distance. Moving closer we noticed that the vehicle was parked outside what looked like a large supermarket shrouded in darkness, the back seat of the vehicle filled with random supplies.

With the day lingering we worked quickly to fuel the car to get it ready as we waited for those already inside the supermarket to emerge. Lucky for us the rust that had consumed most of the vehicles body had not attacked the engine, as it started as soon as I turned the ignition key. It was getting too risky to wait for those in the store as we called out to them. Looking around at those that were standing by the vehicle when we returned I could help but wonder where James was as I did not see him. I knew James was inside the building and it was probably a trap to get us inside. The Existing the light was fading and we knew we had to move fast and discreetly Our intention was to identify survivors and assess the risk as we moved down the aisles.

The silence was defining as the shadows appeared in different and unidentifiable figures that seemed like they were sitting on the floor against the food shelves. The smell of rotting corpses was piercing the smell of rotten food in the fresh vegetables aisle surrounding us. When we got closer to the figures sitting on the floor we noticed

they were people who had been dead for a very long time. Stepping over the lifeless bodies we moved further into the building, becoming desensitized from the stench of the rotten food and dead bodies.

Being nearer to the end of the store, we heard noises from the back room, as we moved closer, we held our position on either side of the storeroom doors.

I carefully peered through the circular window to see a group of death eaters had surrounded three of the parents and James ready to attack, There would have been no hope for them if we would not have come as the enemy had covered the exist.

Looking down into the storeroom, I saw a few more of our group hiding under the storeroom shelves, shielded by the boxes above them. If we wanted to save anyone we needed distraction as I was the only one wearing body amour, I dived through the store doors knocking down the depth dweller that were standing in front of the door.

James now lifting his weapon saw an opening and started shooting his way out while the other death eaters who were startled bit into the parents in front of them, ripping out chunks of flesh as they started a feeding frenzy. The hidden individuals under the shelves knocked the boxes out of their way as they made a break in our direction; I stepped in trying to protect the group now fleeing for the exit.

The death eaters grabbed some individuals from the group throwing them to the ground as they scratch the clothes off their chest, clawing them and drinking their blood as they bled out in front of me. Fighting off the countless depth dweller, I was unable to save them as I was protecting the main body of our group now running behind me. Disengaging the bi mechanical exoskeleton that was overheating, I stood knees crouched as the body armor began to release me from its metal shell. With the shock the spinal brace disconnected from the rest of the suit and the elastic metal alloy quickly expanded releasing my arms and feet. Taking a step back I stood leaving my sword behind along with the metal shell that blocked the enemy off as I turned and ran towards the light.

A few depth dwellers jumping over the suit were now right behind me. Running past one of the children, I grabbed her hand, pulling her along when the depth dweller got hold of her. The death eater being way stronger easily weakened my grip and with the explosion of my armored suit behind me, she was taken into the smoking darkness.

Next to the car I looked back at the crowded hoarded of death eaters under the shade of the supermarket sign. Going back to the petrol station with no time to spare, we intended to retrace our steps so as to leave the town behind us. On the horizon we all noticed a flame, thinking it was survivors we drove faster, only to approach a scrap heap of smoldering rubber of burning car wheels and other parts. We quickly realized that this was no survivor, but a boundary. Turning around we went down each side street which we saw was barred up, forcing us deeper into town. Soon it would be dark and the enemy would exit the buildings and attack us. Luckily for us we had Samuels map and he had already assessed three ways out of town by going through the middle of it. Using the small Toyota as a scout we were able to identify that the three routes were sealed off but at different points, this took time and now darkness was closing in on us. Dark figures were appearing around us as the kids started to panic and cry and these figures began to run at us, stopping only when a ray of light was in their path. Within seconds death eaters were in front of us and running at the truck hitting the sides, Carrying an armored chasse the transport vehicle ploughed

through those in front of us with ease, the sides vibrating from the unwanted passengers attempting to turn over the speeding vehicle, Looking through the rear view mirror, I saw six of them three standing on each side waiting as they stared at us, There were still piles of rubble on the roads as I looked away from the rearview to miss the rubble. Remembering that all the trucks outside the army base we had escaped days ago were turned on their right, I looked again in my rearview and saw that the death eaters had gone. Opening the back hatch to the passengers, I told them to put all their weight and supplies on the left hand side of the vehicle, How I knew that this would work, I would never be able to explain as I suggested that everyone break themselves for impact.

I carefully directed the vehicle off the pavement towards the buildings on my left; looking back I saw all six of the others that were previously in my rearview mirror drop down the side of the vehicle, lifting it slightly off the ground. As mindless drones, they did not know where the vehicle was driving as I slammed the vehicle straight into the buildings, damaging the left side of the vehicle, scraping off and hopefully killing the death eaters off the vehicle, leaving them dead and injured behind us. Looking back all the others were running behinds us, we were gaining ground as long as we had petrol we were safe, as the scouts directed us in and out of the boundaries and out of the city, These days fighting for the right to live had been a grueling task as the open and clear roads ahead of us and tall buildings formed into small housings and shrank into nothing. Driving away from the town I couldn’t shake the feeling that we were being watched as James knew it was a strategic mistake to come into town. He knew that in our travels so far the enemy wasn’t looking for us in a group but now on seeing us they would actively hunt us down.

Looking deep into the darkness, I felt the rhythm of the road as James was driving; I sat staring into a trance of sleep. Unfortunately we had spent too much time in that town and had lost our hours of sunlight. For James it became dangerously clear that we couldn’t hide the vehicle and it’s contents.so we took the risk and drove through the night with our lights off withy the Toyota trailing behind us we couldn’t stop on fear of getting caught and killed by the enemy.

Chapter 9 We traveled through out the whole night surrounded by darkness we were lucky not to run into any more of the enemy. Being us more thoroughly than we did the night before. We drove for a few hours before James told me that we needed more time to set up camp tonight. This time I didn’t wait for it to start growing dark before I pulled off the road the trees more openly spaced to accommodate the two vehicles which we agreed to hide separately. We began to look for a perfect spot where the trees shadow and shape would deform the vehicles shape hiding it amongst the leaves and shadows of its growth. James announced that the enemy would be looking for the vehicles and we needed to find an alternative camp site that was not so close to the road or our transport. I noticed that our group was becoming arrogant as the whispers started every time James or I gave an order. There were no incidents any of the nights we had stayed outside and because of this and the empty town even though the enemy grabbed a few of us they didn’t see them and so started to think that there was nothing to be afraid of. We left the group to finish camouflaging the vehicles as James and I split up and scouted the area for a better safer place to wait out the night Moving

deeper into the woods I eventually walked into an opening and in the middle of that opening just happened to be an abandoned cottage. Staying inside the cottage was definitely not a good idea as the enemy would surely see it and search it. James then appeared from the bushes on the other side of the clearing staring at the cottage and then me. I then to stared at the cottage with more careful inspection and noticed that there was an underground cellar that had access from the outside. We entered the cellar with steps leading us down into cob webs covering every corner. It seamed like noting had stayed there for years. We had found our sanctuary and James already started preparing it for our groups arrival by tearing down any evidence of a cellar incase any death eaters visited.

James could see that I was better with the people in our group than he was and so left me to bring them to the cottage. On my approach to the armored truck I saw a fire in the distance which seamed like it was right next to the truck which meant they were blatantly disobeying his orders. Every step I took so the fire got bigger and so my rage grew stronger. I repeated the words in my head who would dare risk our safety, my brother and sisters life for warmth and luxury. With a leap from the bushes I pushed the man who was feeding the fire to the ground kicking sand on the fire as I stood on the flames the heat barley penetrating the suits armored souls. Justine who was ignorantly feeding the fire stood in objection as my rage took control of my arm punching Justine and shattering his jaw. Not realizing the damage I had done I announced to everyone that Justine has stood at every juncture in disagreement with every decision we made that has directly kept us alive so far. Some of The members of the group started to disagree where is the danger they said since the start of this war we have not seen any signs of threat. I looked at Justine who was unable to speak and I felt bad for punch him as hard as I defended my position announcing that most of the group was lucky not to have seen the threat because if they did they would most likely not be alive to talk about it. I could have told them my stories of my interaction with the enemy but instead I announced that if they really wanted to hear stories of the enemy then they should ask the child that escaped the evacuation tunnels after the enemy had entered them which happened only two nights earlier.

I turned to Justine and apologized sincerely for how hard I had punched him as I did not realizing the suits strength I announced to him and his family that it was not my intention to injure him but to rather only shut him up as the direction he was leading people was out of ignorance of the enemy and there strategic practices causing more harm to our survival than good I told them that building a fire was the stupidest thing to do and would surely kill us all as the enemy would now most probably do an intensive search of the whole area and find our vehicles.

Because of my violent act a portion of the group refused to follow me into the woods towards the cottage saying that I had gone mad with the suits power and that they felt safer next to the fire. Pleading with them and continually apologizing to Justine had no effect he was not going to leave the fire just to prove a point and neither were the other five people who wanted to stay near the vehicles. I counted just ten people who would not leave which included an old couple, Justine’s family of five and another family of three all of whom was sympathetic to Justine’s injury and had no tangible reason to move. I left them my gun as I directed those with the understanding and intelligence to follow members of the army to the cottage cellar. Thirty nine people

followed my instructions from the base but now only twenty eight including James and I were sticking together. I prayed that I was wrong and the ones left by the vehicle would be safe by the rising of the next light.

Arriving at the abandoned cottage I was unable to locate the underground cellar as I stared at where I thought the entrance was. Staring blindly at the grass around the cottage moved towards a patch as I saw the grass shake for a second but there was no wind. The ground opened up as James popped up, the grass on the wooden cellar door camouflaged the basement entrance. He immediately asked me where my gun was and why it seamed like there were less people with me than he had left at the camp.

Everyone entered the cellar as me and James discussed how I lost my temper and that those by the fire were of the opinion that there was no danger to be scared of except for me. James was disappointed not that I broke Justine’s jaw as he wanted to do the same thing from the second that he opened his mouth but rather that I left them my weapon out of the guilt of punching him and with the sun failing and the darkness consuming the land he quickly ran to the camp site. I thought he was going to convince them to return with him but what I found out later was that left to get the weapon back asking why they needed a weapon if they though there was no danger.

James then gun in hand left that group there by their fire to there ignorance and to be slaughtered by the night. James appeared again holding my weapon as the last rays of sunlight faded from the sky I asked him where Justine and the other two couples were.

James replied as we walked into the cellar that their mistake must be paid for by there lives, a comment that showed me that he was no longer that boy I played video games with and that the army had rid him of his humanity.

He truly believed that because of the fire there death was sealed and saving them would jeopardize our lives. He told me that the enemies’ sight was beyond our comprehension and they would see and smell the smoke from miles away in all directions. The enemy would therefore expect to find something when they arrived and would have taken apart the forest to do so. They would have mathematically searched every pebble every blade of grass and not stopped when they found the cottage until our whole group was found. It was a case of death of the few to save the many.

The group now properly fed began to go to sleep the kids held within the deemed safety of there parents arms as one by one our group passed out all except me, James and one of the youngest of our group who was just about to close his eyes when we herd the wails echoing through the woods. The sounds of the tortured souls invaded the underground basement seeping through the basement door and cracks in the roof covering the floor of the cottage. The melodies of pain and execution seamed to continue through the night as if the death eaters were playing with there food. Finally the youngest filled with the lullaby of death that seamed to never end became desensitized and quickly fell asleep. James and I stayed up guarding the entrance counting down the time till salvation of daylight. Clenching my sheathed sword I felt anxious that they would find the well camouflaged entrance that James has so well hidden. The screaming stopped and it was James had predicted now that the depth dweller had eaten they did not have as much drive to find our trail thinking they had found what they were looking for.

My anxieties still however turned into fear when I herd something approach the cottage. It was a small platoon of death eaters as they entered the cottage speaking loudly not realizing the basement entrance outside or the hidden room beneath there feet. With great anger James raised the tactical assault weapon tempted and ready to fire at the floor boards above us. I grabbed his arm and shook my head as I pointed to the others hiding with us which told him that we needed to first protect our group and attacking death eaters was a secondary task performed only if there was no choice or if it wouldn’t affect the safety of the individuals within our group. James and I however did stay on high alert ready to fight if events needed us to.

The cottage got less crowded as some of the death eaters left before sunlight approached but there were still death eaters within the cottage planning on sleeping out the day. It was an hour before daybreak and three death eaters were left in the cottage. I was customary based on our studies that as daytime approached they would eventually dig a whole in the ground covering there bodies to protect themselves from the light while making it hard for us to find them in the day. Jams was just edging to kill them. The depth dweller being so close to the time of the sun raising left the cottage to find a place to hide there bodies. I carefully creped out from the basement using the camouflage of the entrance to conceal my form as I followed them to were the outskirts of the opening amongst the taller trees which was were they planned on hiding. I covertly moved up to one of them managing not to alarm the others of my presence. The depth dweller were good diggers and had practically buried there whole body when I emerged from the back of the camouflaged door to attack. I swung my blade knocking the one death eater into his whole. The other two death eaters herd this and came at me as James ran out from the cellar door his finger squeezing the gun’s trigger as the bullets blazed through the air and into the death eater. I focused the strength of the exoskeleton and my kittana on the two injured death eaters cutting the ones arm of as I opened up the chest cavity of the other James distracting the one without an arm with his gun fire as I walked passed the whole of the first death eater that I though was dead raising my sword high in the air as I held my stance for a final blow. The death eater with his chest cut open came at me as I swished my sword downward barley penetrating its skin as it maneuvered around my attacks knocking me back as the armless death eater jumped over my head. James being a good marksman was able to shoot the depth dweller that was now behind me without hitting me with any stray bullets. Both injured creatures were now attacked me in unison even though they were both injured they were so fast I could barley protect myself. I swung my sword blindly behind me cutting open the armless creature’s torso leaving it to die. James managed to keep the death eater off my back as I stood over the now dead armless death eater preparing to fight the other. We both didn’t realize that the third depth dweller wasn’t dead. If it wasn’t for one of the other parents in our group wielding a stick who noticed the death eater that I thought was dead climbing out of the hole and coming after James, he would have been killed. James turned his weapon onto the arisen death eater slowing down its advances toward James and the cellar. Realizing there was no hope in killing James as he was wielding a weapon turned to me as it ran at me while I was still fighting off the other death eater and so I braised for impact while James tried his best to cover my position with gunfire. The creature was however to fast managing to dodge James’s bullets while they began to over power me. At this rate one mistake and the creatures would kill me but I had time on my hands the sun was raising and so was my chances.

The sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the trees above us then suddenly a stream of light hit one of the depth dweller burning it up into dust. Seeing this, the last death eater tried to escape as I dropped my sword and grabbed the creature embracing it while it scratched at my face just long enough for the sun to burn it up in an explosion of white light. The cuts on my face cauterized from the sudden release of energy burning my skin slightly along with the hair on my head. In great pain I kept a stiff face as our group moved back to the camp site where we knew we would find no one.

Walking into the abandoned camp we saw that the camouflaged tents were shredded bits of the dead campers dismembered bodies lay everywhere. It was a miracle that they did not destroy the vehicles probably thinking there was no point if the people using it were dead.

We didn’t have much time to mourn there death as we repacked the truck with the supplies scattered around the camp, removing the rocks anchoring the trucks wheels and uncovering the leaves from the rusted Toyota. It was not long before we were back on the road.

Moving in time with the scenery we were a day away from Fort Pacific. Clouds of black smoke rising from the trees in front of us, we were entering a war zone of demolished buildings, helicopter crash fights and smoldering vehicles both army and civilians and enemy bodies scattered around us. Being around such scenery, it was surprising quiet. Only the noise of the transport vehicles front bull bars knocking through obstacles and the tires climbing over the rubble, covering the roads echoed through the forest, splitting the silent around us.

Driving on and off the road we had to travel amongst demolished buildings avoiding large unmovable structures within the road path. Driving into a clearing where the land and forest had taken back the urban jungle, we heard only the sounds of the grass swaying in the breeze and the tress branches tapping the half destroyed buildings, on which they had been resting. Moving with the breeze, we were unaware of the movements around us.

We began to rejoice that we were still alive, surrounded by tranquility, I closed my eyes in an attempt to sleep, when suddenly the vehicle screeched to a stop, and a scream came from the passengers behind me.

We were surrounded by large metal monsters, holding even larger weapons aimed right at our convoy. Our passengers started to panic, their fear had become psychotic and their logic had vanished, due to all they had witnessed. The passengers were unable to determine friend from foe. Most of the passengers now awake from the screams, irrationally beginning to fire the weapons they had picked up in town, out of the truck at the monsters around us. They had yet to realize it was day time as the aggressive campaign by Mother Nature had covered the skies with tall trees, placing our convoy in shade.

James who had now been nagging at me and screaming at the passengers ever since the large metal monsters arrived from the shadows of the trees around us. He was the only one who knew what was happening. The metal monsters did not retaliate but instead one of them stepped forward into the gun fire and began to speak to us from a

megaphone. I knew from then that this was not our enemy. The others never spoke a word to us before they would attach and neither did they possess such technology.

In an attempt to calm down our party, James put down his weapon, stepping forward out of the vehicle and walked around putting himself in the line of fire between our convoy and the mechanized machines.

Sargent Adam introduced himself from the mechanized monster. James knew who he was immediately being his superior ranked officer that he was previously stationed with.

Before we had all left fire mountain underground base, James was actually transferred to Sergeant Adams platoon, and if the base had been raided a week later, he would have probably been in front of us in one of those monstrous mechanized machines.

Adam was sent in the direction of Fire Mountain to try rescue any survivors of the base and specifically my father Dr. Price, probably due to his break through in solar emitting technology. Adam on hearing for the death of my father and the kidnapping of the children on the base decided that it would be better to escort us back to Fort Pacific, being one of the last and safest human colonies in America.

Before meeting him in person, I heard Adams mechanized monster opening up with a mechanical sound of the machines joints and links decupling with the monsters chest moving up moving the suit pressure with a� whoosh� . The long mechanized legs crouching down to the floor, opening up to Adam who was climbing out of the machine. On seeing Adam in person, I remembered that he was one of the first soldiers we met on the first day the world was evacuated and we were sent to the underground base of Fire Mountain. It was ironic that the skinny young soldier we had met that day so confused was now standing in front of me with a beard, well built being an experienced general being one of the same person. Was Adam destined to always lead us to safety?

Following Adam off the path we moved at great figure as his machine was surprisingly faster than our vehicles. Adam kept all his troops in check as three were sent ahead to scout. Announcing to us return to our group as he told us we were practically at the front gate of the fort. He told us that due to the sun setting on the horizon we might need to camp out till morning before we can try and enter the compound, since the others were consistently attaching the fort as they had found a way to protect themselves from the suns light. To attempt to enter the gates would be too risky at such a late hour of the day. This suggestion of camping out was mainly because once the gates were open, it would be harder to defend against the enemies attack, as the others looked like us and might try to infiltrate the group and gain access to the fort.

Back then, if just one Depth dweller could overpower our group, the soldiers and guards and open he gate for others to enter. Unfortunately all old secret access points to the fort had been found by the enemy and sealed off and now became bunkers used by the enemy for offenses and defensive attacks on the base as they hid from the sun.

James stepped forward and introduced himself as private first class. He was decorated soldier and although Adam did not know that he was to be assigned to his platoon within the week, James explained to Adam that he was previously given strict orders to watch and protect the Price family as he volunteered to join Adams platoon

right there and then as he announcing his experience with the mm5000s mechanized machines being the newest and best model of machine that Adam and his platoon were using. I at this point was not aware that James had been assigned to protect me ,my father and the rest of my family as I looked at him in shock I began to question our friendship. Was he hanging around us because he had to or because he wanted to? I hoped it was a combination and that he didn’t see it as an order from his superior officer.

Adam Accepted James request and from beneath the mechanized monster’s underbelly dropped a back-up bio mechanical exoskeleton which molded to James body. The bushes in front of us were rustling opening up to two scouts returning from the forward and right flank that reported of a clear opening and enemy UVI protected vehicles scouting the surrounding area that would eventually find any camp sites and our group if we didn’t make a break for the clearing and entrance to the fort.

Preparing everyone to move Adam requested that I put on one of the back-up exoskeleton suits. looking around at all the mech warriors I refused to put armor on unless some of the other civilians in our party were also given an equal chance of protection ans survival which the armoured exoskeleton would provide.adam turned to his troops and ordered that all back-up suits be given to civilians first and then I put on the body armor making more of our group like soldier combattants. Our whole group some now wearing exosceleton body armor Climbed into one vehicle as we decided to leave the toyota hunchback behind in the thick of the jungle.The bushes infront of us were russelling as we all raised our weapons including sargent adam at the movement. The shrub opened up to reveal the two scouts who had left earlyer and had now returned from the forward right & left flank to report of what was happening in the front line near to the walls of fort Pacific. The report was not favourable as the scouts spoke of externally armored UVI-protected enemy vehicles that were themselves scouting the areas around the base and would eventually find any camp sites in the area. The scoute did however report of a clear opening where the vehicles were in the distance and shouldn't notice our approach???? On our departure we had only moved like 3meters before Adams 3rd scoute returned from a different advantage point reporting that there was no way we could get to the gate without being attacked by nasferatu Death hunter killers. Time was always against us either we waited to possibly be found by an enemy vehicle which had an average of about 10 to 12 Dark hunters or we make a break for the fort with our truck for the front gates of the fort risking being overloaded with enemy combattents and be ripped up alive.

Hearing this decision I knew we didn't really have one as I looked back at the abandoned Toyota hunchback thinking I couldn't help but think. . That retreating further back into the forest would be the best possible option.

Adams intention was to try gain access to the fort the following day which sounded like a safer choice. The issue was James, I and most of Adams soldiers believed we were to close to the enemy and would not find a suitable hidding place for such a large group of civilians and a platoon of mech warriorrs. The sun was setting and it was going to be dark within a few minutes. Adam look at our group confussed about his next step when I stepped forward tosuggest we use the hunchback as a distraction while the truck with all the passengers and the rest of the platoon move toward ford pacific's front gate.

Adam looked at me and with great precision formulated and excicuted a plan of action. Adam looked at one of the mechanical monstors and called over Trevor and told him to jump-out of the mech warrior and into the Toyota hunchback. From the crouching machine appeared what looked like a ninja covered in black cloth without a gap of skin or any other colour. On his legs were sheathed swords and two kitana's pearing over his shoulder. He shower us a very hard and mean facial expression which was already hard to identify with all the clothing and face paint.walking past us he looked into the truck there seamed likeno fear in his eyes only contempt for his job.his mission here was to create a distraction. Adam assuming that James knew how to operate the mech's requested that James take control of Trevors mech warrior.

Adam then seporated half the mech platoon and placed them behind the enemy's left Flank ready and waiting to attack with what we learn't in specialized martial arts clasases that Dr price made me and james go to ever since we were caught hidding in the airvent. It was called shadow warefare and it greatly improved our chances of diversionary skills fast movements without a sound eminating from the ground or air.

Radio silence was a given even though the mech's cockpit was sound proofed. Orders were specific attack the left flank and avoid being captured. The transport vehicle was accompanied by three of Adam’s platoon including James who was going to make a dash for the right flank to the front doors of the fort.

Chapter 10 Without prior warning Trevor drove off like a maniac with no regard for stealthor the precision that he is known for by Adam. The toyota wasn't initially driving in an open field but rather in the woods dodging trees,rocks and other such jungle like danger.the vehicle was driving more between the the rocks and trees and then into the open field surrounding the fort.

He succeeded in making the enemy believe that he was distressed human in a small vehicle and with all our supplies in the back it seamed like more than one person was within the vehicle. Adam and the platoon stood still ready as part of the ranks of the left flank of Adams shadow faction identified a noticable movement in Trevor’s direction.

Being the platoon general Adam sent a line of sight message to the rest of his platoon including James standing fare on the rtight flank with the transport vehicles.now that the decoy was distracting the enemy making the path to the front gate clear.

Encrypted in the message were access codes to fort pacific which is due to the angle Had to be sent by James Or any platoon soldier if Adam sent such a message the enemy Could intercept it and Identify Adams location due due to Adams proximity to the hunter death eaters. On sending access codes to the fort the target convoy moved as the transport convoy was fast as the mechanized monsters completely covered the transport on every side while still taking a silent stealthy approach. The mech's exosshell shifted colours mimicing the look around them more like a camellion making them seam invisible.

The nasfeatu now to deeply focus on the decoy were being slaughtered by Adam and his platoon. The machines ability to remain invisible The nasferatu now to deeply focus on the decoy were being slaughtered by Adam and his platoon.

The machines ability to remain invisible and hide in the shadows coupled with the fact that the mech machines run with no noise and can move quietly and with great agility. Without as much as the sound of a broken twig under the machines weight, made them highly efficient in shadoe warefare.

Shadow warefare learn't from the nasferatu was a highly effecive means. For them of hunting and movement In an out and around enemy territory they went past the enemy groups without detection most times using gorilla warfare and the shadows amongst the jungle to attack killing there enemies in silence. These units were often used as a first wave of attacks in full army raids to disperse enemy camps. It was the most efficient means of killing.

Ance these mech machines were introduced in there small numbers two years ago the death tols went down as whole man platoons would scout out an area and the death hunter killers would accessed your group and killed nearly half the troops before they would even think to look around or communicate with your soldiers. Without warning or realisation of death in the air a platoon of twenty to thirty fully armored troops would be surrounded and intercepted and reduced to five to none in a matter of minutes.

Shadow warefare wassimilar to the old school gorilla warefare in South America and in the Boer war in South Africa where they used nature and the enemy's movements as a weapon against them. Shadow warfare tactics made each soldier an independent killer but in a group they were unbeatable as they worked heavily in groups with in there sound proof cabins communicating on untraceable undetectable channels.

The soldier’s tactics included silent quick one strike kills while agility of movement and disposal of dead bodies from line of sight were imperitive to ever kill.

There was no radar or land mapping programs that could tell how many enemy units were in The area so normal tactics of the platoon was to work as quickly as they could. The darker the sky got and the more the shadows of the trees absorbed even the moons light the more dangerouse and harder it became to kill the enemythe enemy. The enemys spectrims of light used to be on a different and far supperior level to our simple human cornary's. There was no question that the nasferatu were the kings of the night not even our technology could compete.

The death hunter killers had covertly surrounded the Toyota chasing after it as they hid within the tall grass of the fields around the basem Trevor looking back noticed with his training the movements around him as the camofluged mech warriers started taking down Depth dwellers soldiers as they remained hidden from the bulk of the enemy. Trevor knowing the eventual doom of his current path drove at an angle as he used a long stick to lock the accelarate pedal and stearing wheel in place as he jumped out un-noticed by the enemy and camaflauged himself within a bundle ready to strike any enemy that entered his current location Trevor lepard crawled away from the crash site getting only a meter and a half before poping out at a nasferatu in his path decapitating it as he continued useing the shadows to get to the forts gate.

The convoy of mech warriors now light up by crash site of the hunchback causing the effectiveness of the camaflauge. To fail as the enemy noticed the transport vehicle in the middle of the open field field. Volnerable to enemy advances.

The around the fort moved it was due to the darkness now covering the battle field.

There had been death eaters berried there from the night before and now that it was dark enough it was safe enough for them to awaken as they attempted to infiltrate the fort. The explosion of the Toyota had lit up the sky showing the convoy’s position as the unberried death eaters rose up from the battle field around the convoy as it moved towards the semi opened gates of the fort. I don't think they would have taken such a risk if I wasn't part of the group as my protection was of prime importance to the military. James ordered the convoy to continue on route with two mech's pushing the vehicle from behind increasing the trucks top speed. James aswell as the other mech's not pushing the truck turned to face the enemy.I looked back from the truck behind the machines pushing us closer to the walls of the fort at one of the metal monsters being covered with enemy combattants.

With explosive rounds the mech's faught off the death hunter's within the direct path toward the convoy but the nasferatu distracted by the Toyota moved away from Trevor’s position as they had herd the explosion. The enemy's movement was liniarly towards the armored truck. On noticing this movement Adam and his suprise shadow faction opened fire moving in & out of the trees using the shadows and the morphing desplays to hide there attack from there targets and any enemy combattants hidding within the jungle.

The mech next to jameks was now horded with the enemy James foring as he began to walk backwards slowly ready to cover the soldier inside. It was not long after he receeded his position before the mech ejected its pilot the nasferatu tearing the now hollow chassey ripping off the machines arms & legs before it exploded killing all the hourded combattants. James seing the pilot’s ejected trojectory moved quickly into his location. The pilot wearing the bio-mechanical exoscheleton re-collected himself as James moved across next to him covering his location. The soldier began to fire at the enemy as James lifted him up onto the mech as he slowly retreated towards the entrancer of the fort taking a step back. For every death hunter they shot.

The friendly turrets on the fort wall were firing at the enemy based on heat signature to identify targets firing at them as the enemy approached the fort wall. Adam's line of mech's disapeared into the woods as the number of enemy's from within the jungle began to increase as they moved to attack.

In the distance a shrowd of the enemy was running towards us as we knew if we didn't gain Access soon we would be over run. James now surrounded by dead nasferatu with the help of the forts external defenses. Within his mech James radio'd a general retreat command as he steppedback toward the amored transport vehicle transgressing the rough gravel travelling at emense speeds away from him.

The truck now traveling at speeds nearly 100km's above its normal speed. Traveling at such speeds caused each rock that the vehicle drove over to feel like the vehicle was going over. A ramp bouncing the vehicle Around until the vehicle landed on an old school land mine which in a normal case

wouldn't have exploded but due to the force the front of the truck was badly damaged and stoped. With dust and gravel showering the sky the mech's tripped and rolled forward over the truck damaging the roof indenting it injuring some of the taller members of our group. We were trapped the worped metal from the explosion restricted the front exit door from opening. Those of us with bio-mechanical exoscheleton body armor tried to use the suits supperior strength to pri-open the door with no effect.the two mech machines that fell infront of the truck turned there backs on the fort wall and saw us strggling even with our superior strenght enhanced suits to exit the truck. The mech's looked down at us ordering our group to move to the back as one of the mech's de-sheathed the largest kittana sword I had ever seen. . The sword wasn't even in proportion to the mech's large size but in its hands it seamed as light as a feather. With quick movements the large sword disappeared into the folds of light and darkness of the air around us. And then with a precise strike half the vehicle was cut without even a problem. The other machine took hold of the two parts of the vehicle as it seporated a space and moved the front with the engine and wiring to the one side.

Walking through the truck over the sharp metal where the kitana had once been we entered the dark sky breeze that blew over our faces and into the large opening of the armored truck. . Most of our group had never seen the dark open spaces for many years and I could see even amoungst the chaos a small smile on some of there faces Trevor was in the mean time waring away killing the enemy who was heading towards the front gates of the fort wall to cut us off. They incorrectly wanted to go after us and if not for Adams attacks and Trevor covert killing skills they would have succeeded. As our group recollected I looked infront of me at the fort's gate and saw Trevor standing by the forts gates a few miles away as if taunting his fellow platoon and us to catch up.

James was still slowly retreating while they avoided the enemy and kept them at bay but were now quickly catching up to us. The enemy had the numbers and jame's mech together with his rescued fellow platoon soldier. Were able to keep a defensive line as they moved back word james taking out the bulk of the enemy with his sword and explosive rounds while any staglers were taken care of by his platoon partner. We headed in Trevors direction the second I made sure both Sarah and Samuel were infront of me.

Undenounced to me or Trevor there were enemy combattants hiding in the grass around us picking us off with precision attacks. Being so quick it took Trevor some time to even realise it was happening. I began to see infront of me Members of my team being pulled below the grass being so quick that I was unable to save those taken around me.I moved with purpose protecting those infront of me while being weiry of the enemy jumping out at me at any point.My gun was still in my hand which at this point seamed like a meaningless peace of equipment to be holding as I couldn't see the enemy to use it on. Stupidly dropping my weapon I began to see the enemy poping up from the grass running at the group and the fort walls while being to close to the high walls of the fort for the turrets to work.from the walls of the fort the enemy would have seamed. Like innocent civilians.an I saw the enemy draw near I turned and de-sheathed my sword without thought for my own safety and attacked all whom I knew were not part of our group. I was heavily outnumbered as

the enemy was attempting to infiltrate our group James had nearly passed me as he shifted his direction and was now standing by my side. James followed my lead and faught by my side and with a nother mech standing by my side we carved up the enemy walking backward on the path of those we were trying to protect. Trevor was in the background shooting in our direction being a sharp shooter he never missed his targetfrom his angle the civilians were scattering between him and the enemyas his bullets missed everyone taking straight head shots of the nasferatu.standing there swordS dripping of nasferatu blood biding time for everyone left to escape.we were fighting a loosing battle the hunter killers had already climed up and all over the one mech fighter worping the machines mechanics as the legs and arms began to fail trapping the soldier inside and since it was covered with the enemy the ejection failed and the mech exploded.

Once the machine went down all the nasferatu on him came after me at different angles. I first thrusted my kitana at the first but in the split second after the explosion I was distracted letting my guard down as they attempted to surround me. James without hesitation droped his sword and lunged infront of me trampling those that were so close from tearing my head from my limbs. His mechanical arm swinging round to grab me up as the shift of the mech's hips sprung propelled me in the path of the fort doors in the direction of safety. James ejected from the mech just as the machine was over run seconds later by the enemy with the gate closing he got to his feet and ran for the door. Looking back the excursions from within the forest the sounds of the plant breaking and explosions echoed toward us and reverberating back to the forest. At different intervals the light from all the combat that was occurring in the trees illuminated Adam and his platoon of metal monsters. They were keeping the main body of hunter death eaters away from the walls of the gate with distractions and shadow tactics. All of Adam’s platoon as well as James and I were taught in this art.

Adam’s platoon however were specialists they took down the groups on groups of nasferatu that were converging on there location. I felt they were making to much noise. I felt now that Adam and his platoon were identified there means of escape and survival diminished along with my hope for them if they continued to fight but again they were highly skilled and I didn't think I would make it through the fort doors with so many nasferatu around us.

Two hours had passed since we entered the tall confines of fort pacific the boarder spanning for miles on end and still it seamed that Adam and his platoon had not cowerd into the darkness of the forest. Our whole group thought that they were brave but I thought they were more suicidal. I glanced over at Trevor looking outward to the battle field with a smerk on his face. By just the look of him he neither was worried nor did he fear for there lives.

I went to go speak to Trevor about the fate of his platoon and I said:”Don’t you think they should be hiding more they attracting to many of the enemy” When I asked I was addressed with extreme prejudice like my question offended him as if my question was attacking his personality and character. It was as if I was supposed to know there fate like it was common knowledge. I was trapped basically in a mountain speaking to James he told me how sensitive the soldiers are to there fallen brotherin. He told me how some soldiers knew we were loosing the war that the forts without sufficient tech support are lost every day. Foreign connections were

strong but a lot of other forts and strong holds would get compromised loose all connection with each other. They were normally presumed dead. All I knew of was the bases with Tech support and the bases that had fallen which is always the case when connection chatter decreases and fail safe protocols kick in. These bases were always linked to the central military system. The bases were autonomously aware of the enemy without human intervention. The machine would track their movements within the base and self destruct at a point where the enemy casualties were at its highest. All base held armories were sealed in air tight break proof, fire proof access proof bunkers before any explosions occurred. The automated protocols would automatically seal doors and access tunnels the second the last human was killed or when the enemy was closer to the armory than another human.

I knew of the excursions and technology used on the field. All the reports I had seen had bad combat performance reviews. Although the bases could survive the entire tech supporting it was still inefficient. I was even aware of the weaknesses of the machine suits that they were so relying on in battle.

I was worried for the platoon as although there cores had a sufficient power cell to easily move with constant attacking power and agility through two nights of constant battle and it even could move in constant quick bursts of speed in avoiding or running through the night the problem comes in where the power fades much more rapidly if the mechanicals movements met with a constant physical counterforce.

I never spoke to Trevor gain but I didn’t need to with James’s high battle kill rate he was already posted into there platoon with my side protection order. Adams special ops grew with a member that day.

Our group including Trevor who already lived within the fort was directed to the waiting room by the stationed fort guards a seporate Door was the entry point for all army personel where Trevor and James were forced to enter by military law even I was later requested to enter that door.

Chapter 10 Looking around me at the tears in my sisters eyes and the blank emotion in my brothers I stayed with both of them to be processed the waiting room was round filled with huge brown fluffy coaches were I and the rest of our group were sitting traumatised I wanted to get them siggar water but instead we walked into a round room filled with long halls each leading to a different designated camp based on weather single, with family, male and female. At the end of the hall was a camp with different buildings some tall others made from concreate. Most were damaged but small domestic houses were in good condition, wooden houses and tin shaks Camps were to a point segregated based on social norms language and nationality. As soon as we entered our area in a 3bedroomed cubicle like room in a wooden house I got Sarah and Samuel a large glass of sugar water and put them to bed before I lay down and I like probably most of our group fell asleep within seconds.

My family & I woke to star treatment being escourted to our own luxuary rooms and we were all introduced to the supreme general head of American tactical security and

defense and part of what was left of the presidential cabinet reporting directly to the president. The American governmental body was practically in ruins due to there enemy's successful attacks on all forms of leadership. No one has since the last attack seen the president. The enemy thought that we were nothing without our leaders and targetted without worry of casualty’s leadership targets but they were wrong.

Our leaders now became marters in there death which only strengthened our unity with the other countries who as like us were morning there fallen leaders. My rank and our families status especially with my fathers advances in solarphysics amoungst the military afforded us luxuary flats with seporate rooms and kitchen and bathroom's unlike the comunal camps were slept in the night before. were we all with other high ranking officers within one of the most secure buildings in the city.Sarah and samuel now well fed and safe at the penthouse suite level of the building surrounded by electrified windows and thick wooden doors put me at ease.

Until now I couldn't have bared to leave there side. Being in The penthouse suite was so relaxing and fun that we spent the whole day there. There was no need to leave the hotel anyway.

The next morning I was awoken by knocking at my front door it was a tall skinny man by the name of Jim who kinda looked like he was part of the military but more an office worker than a soldier.

Based on my conversations with the tactical security minister I knew that they wanted me to continue with my work and had now sent me a personal assistent. He sat down with me as he gave me a day plan of people I or better explained Dr price would have had to meet with if he survived the escape.jim directed me out the top levels front doors and down bellow the levels of the flat to the basement were a pannel of government generals were waiting to greet me later I was introduced to legal authoritative powers of government. Everyone wanted my time asking for straight answers to a science that was still very much theoretical.

I finally met most of whome were living in the same flat building as my family. The whole building was connected in one or other way to the world through an on-line interactive network undetectable by the enemy. There was no way of trully knowing how many countries were on-line but the rumour was it was everyone who was left as more independently hidden locations joined everyday and sometimes some would disconnect often for good like fire mountain was once on the network and now isn't.

If I knew how many people were listening to me I would probably have not been as calm as I was. They spoke about me and the late doctor price's work and our developments in containment and its use. Without my knowledge the world of weapon's and broader protection was basing there models on me and my father’s technology. I was amazed by the brauder developments in pretective gear.

The next day was the same I had gone through serious emotional trauma just to be braught to a room of strangers who were insensitively pushing me to remember the pain of the memories in that lab seing my dad killed that I had been trying to forget in my struggles to survive. I was no longer the man I once was on that last Friday night meal. It had been more than a week and in that time I had changed so much. The emotions in my mind were kripling and in order To save my siblings I blocked out the

emotion of those family meals and my fathers death. It was the only way I could function and without that driving force I would have just stayed in that holding area under Fire Mountain and there wouldn't be any survivors.

The leaders looked at me as a savior like I was there answer to all there prairs of winning this war. They kept at it with the questions again so I explained that in theory if stabilization was possible the source would be containable and focusing such energy would be a matter of calibration within the stabilised source to release energy from one point of the orb.

I began to get irritated as I was only able to answer theoretically as I anounced that it was close to impossible to be sure that such theories would apply to a real life situation and further studies of an orb in full form in fully stabilized status would be needed to make it adaptable it to a weapon grenade or any kind of War like or protective type gear What they didn't understand although recreating the sun was possible its creation was into its natural state and stabilization was as an unnatural way of storing that power and not as easier a science as it did not occur naturally.

They kept hounding me as to how I can stabilize the sun's power which I announced that although I had a lot of untested theories and some tested that I believed my father didn't do properly I still lacked the knowledge of how to stabilize such a formula.chatting on the data line around the world became swomped with chatter as I herd different languages arguing and discussing variouse rhings in different languages. I started to see my leaders talking amongst themselves and in the confussion of conversation I began to leave the podium.

One of the generals got up and escorted me away from the exit. He placed me on my seat as he left to fetch a recorded clip. I sat as they showed me a clip of my father in his lab the night of his death pushing machines around like a crazy person inadvertantly obstructing the camera's view of what he was doing. I was looking at the film not being able to concentrate on anything but his face and body manarisms. Once the film ended I immediately requested a copy and due to my security clearence it was granted immediately but my reason was not for the military's benefir but instead to show samuel our father one last time just to try get some kinda rise out of him as it was enough that I felt blank but he didn't need to.

On receiving a copy of the clip I requested to watch it again. Looking at the last proof of doctor david's existence I thought watching it twice would evoke some emotion either sadness,angre,hatred,lonlyness but allas nothing steared within me not even a sence of emptyness it was just memories and now those memories had no feeling attached to them anymore it was as if I never knew him. After the war had started and all those times I went with him to work I found myself believing in the idea that I was really just his lab assistent.

I looked again at the machines he moved around covering our view trying to determine what he was doing as he was making it very hard to understand what he was doing. The top of the camera's view still had the tip of the containment unit showing over the metal towers of equipment as Dr Price’s experiment continued. the camera recorded the Doctor leave the view as he re-created the sun sending out a wave and then minutes later you saw him again in a fire safe suit electronic cooling suit as the equipment rebooted with red and green lights.David was now collecting

things from the room and was measuring the distance of the machinery from the containment unit as he would take things out of the room.I watched the containment unit as it reacted normally sparking out solar flares if not for the containment unit there would be no mountain nevermind lab to watch as everythging would melt. The containment unit heat guages were included at the bottom of the video and for stabilisation of the reaction the guages extreame heat would have to decrease and the temparature within the containment unit didn't change.he walked in again and questionably pushed the machines a little bit closer to the conatinment unit and then left locking the door behind him I watched as the machines around the unit suddenly began to shake and the guage increased in heat slightly and which is what David would do in testing the waters and then he did something contrary to what he would normally do something I had done in the past. He increased the intensity of the experiment to maximum suddenly the machines were no longer on the ground but were now magnetically propped to the side of the containment unit. LookiIing at the temperature guage he had done it the temperature within the unit was decreasing. As the tempature decreased so did the contaiments magnetic hold on the metal towers of equipment which began to fall back to the ground some falling to there sides he had succeeded in stabilization of the sun's energy it even seamed that it was using no electricity. He then went inside the lab and it looked like he was going in to routenly take readings and as he began pressing the console the power fluctuated,the equipment shook and a then without warning a blinding blast came from the side of the containment unit that just continued for a few minutes blowing a hole right through the thick sealing of the underground experimental lab and the warehouse above it and through the side of the base all the heat from the blast began to melt the concreate burning the supplies and anything in it's path. This blast drew a lot of electricity as it's blast faded and the sun was no more and was the direct cause of the black out of the whole base and also the burning down the wing if not the whole base. I objectively felt that he was negligent as testing at the day time would have been less risky and because of his negligence he had brought death and had sealed the bases horrible fate.

I tried my best to recreate what I had seen but found it hard to understand how he craeted such a violent magnetic reaction. I made many reports for the leaders to read but no reports or expeiments I tried brought hope to these leaders that I was capable of accomplishing my fathers science little did they know that I was to blame for the final reaction that formed the first atrificial sun.

Every week I was included in a world conference which united the whole of humanity under one banner. Every topic was discussed from supplies to death tolls to population, Conscription, new technolgy's and martial arts training. In my time I often spoke of the ability to use the sun as a defensive weapon warning of dangers of such as a weapon within the city. Suggesting to fort pacific's military of the ability to provide sunlight durring the night discussing a led container led mounting piece of equipment using the sun to be hoisted above the tallest building to contain the heat unlesss at sertain times of the night when there were no people on the streets.but also of the dangers without protective gear.

The last time I reported though it became clear of the diappointment due to the silence on the network which didn't last long as there bikering started. I sat down and herd as

the one faction mentioned the constant braudcast that had been aired on a loop after the nasferatu attacked the world when they scrambled data lines and television networks. Now a year after the year the enemy was using such networks that had long been forgotten by most of us to send out a message of peace offering no death to those that surrendered and joined there support in a new world order by showing unchallenged loyalty and dedication to the nasferatu's government and laws. Many people believed that the freedom we would gain would be substituted by the freedom of our blood.

I was unaware of this braudcast but having knowledge of it would not have changed my reaction. As the world leaders bikerred something grew inside me filling my heart.

I didn't understand this feeling inside of me as it filled every limb all I wanted to do is disfigure those who were even thinking of surrendering, my rage took hold and the next second I was standing up kicking my chair accross the room as I commanded the committee's silence with my crazy outburst. I then with great passion addressed the committee with the following stern words " All the deaths all the fighting all the sacrifices over all these years just to do what we could have when this war started and give up. If you our leaders can't keep the faith and maintain our freedoms and rights then you are not fit to be our leaders or deserve to have my family's technology."

Once I continued I couldn't stop screaming at the world leaders as I asked them how they did not have faith when they had such things as the mech worriors and all my suggestions of alternative and new break throughs and practical applications of the sun's power in containment as a weapon.

There was silence again and then I asked the network of leaders a question with a statement "what are your scientists doing with the spectroscopes me and David created what developments had they made. It was time for me and everyone to realize that were I could not succeed in my fathers legacy others had to be given a chance to.

CHAPTER 11 I continued to apply my other knowledge to supporting this Tech empire that me and my dad had help build but there came a day many years later that I found myself walking through the lab after touching my last spectroscope until now. It had been a bad day as I looked through all the files of failed tests and blind data that now retrospectively had no meaning. The military moved me out of research and away from the high security flats. My siblings and I moved into communal building complexes Times had moved on quite quickly back then and things evolved but didn’t change as Adam was still commanding new recruits with high kill ratings some things luckily did as there were many more Special killer units now as the old members previously in Adam’s team were more in tune with there own special Ops platoons some being the various leaders of there own group of killers like James.

With the constant explosions and fire arms around the fort walls it kept me on edge moving around constantly as we met a lot of survivors from across the country and overseas Before I could realize Samuel Price had found a wife and Sarah now much older was

not that far behind with her still living with me but having a boyfriend that practically lived with us most of the time.

I had not found my life partner and was still involved in weapon development with the military as we focused on some of my alternative inventions as my research and equipment on the sun gun died in a dust filled abandoned factory warehouse. My heart was calm due to the quantity if years that had gone buy without a single war related death within the confines of the base. My status as a professor inventor grew through-out the whole fort even though the sun gun was a constant failure in the back of my mind I wouldn’t let the death of all those people and my fathers go to vain.

It was after my brothers wedding that I began to doubt my life.

It was only when I lost hope that Toni found me. It was after a Scientist convention, the learned individuals were discussing war statistics and the theoretical population of the depth dweller when an argument sparked. Toni was in the middle of the crowd as the debate continued around her over the future which was now the very real present of the human race. I understood that the aftermath of every attack on the enemy’s base left our armies much worse off then there defenses and they always built it better and even stronger than before. It seamed like a hopeless war.

Toni was standing in the middle of the argument, She had beautiful black hair and seamed to be a Mediterranean woman but no one noticed as she B-LINED through the scientists whom were to busy screamed out at each other. Chants of a peace agreement and comments of surrender moved through the crowd meeting with distaste by the military and highly educated as they knew surrendering was never an option. This would appear weak and eventually we would all become there slaves and cattle unless we could prove our strength as a nation. Toni now standing beside me looked up at me her eyes like a magic mirror pointing out a bright future for me and hopefully our race.

It was more than five years ago and Samuel and his ever growing family had another baby and had to move to a new safe house within the fort on the outskirts of the town closer to the walls of the fort. The building was a military designated safe house.

Sarah decided to move in with her boyfriend down the block and besides Toni the house became empty and silent. Toni moved in permanently and we were married at a sunset wedding soon there after.

For the longest time I could remember life was peaceful within the fort walls away from the explosions and death that continued every night. It was a different world on the other side of the walls. The fighting and boarder patrols consistently protected the port town and those within it.

I slowly watched my brothers children grow up as we continued to have our family dinners on a Friday leaving a chair open for our father. Sarah was always the goofy member of our family often clumsy she would do and say things that made her the topic of comedy. She was always able to put a smile on Samuels face and thereby the whole family would light up with happiness.

Samuel was a strict but loving father his kids obedient and well behaved unless they went out with me There uncle or Sarah there aunt would spoil them and we were often the ring leaders in most of the mischief often against Samuels amusement. As the town was relatively small there were times where Samuel would find out what we were doing.

James had chosen the army life and was pretty high in the ranks of it all. He was revered and respected and often had more than one partner. He joust to joke about the pregnant women on the base and that they were pregnant due to him. It jousts to be very safe for children to wonder through the town within the fort walls even at night.

Young children couldn’t get lost and even if they did the town was friendly and everyone knew and helped each other Our delusion of safety was crushed when one of the walls was penetrated and the enemy allowed running free within the city. As time continued more and more cracks appeared and the structural integrity of the wall was never going to be the same.

Strategically the machine worriers couldn’t protect the village and the perimeter which made it dangerous to walk the streets or stay the night in unmarked safe houses.

People were forced to move out of there residential homes and into designated high security heavily populated buildings. Such marked buildings normally had silver plated doors and boarded up windows.

My family was forced to live with three or sometimes four other families venturing out only in the day to counteract our uncomfortable overpopulated living environment. Samuel and his family had already been living in one of the marked bunker like buildings and two families move in with him making his life uncomfortably crowded. Samuel liked his own space and privacy so he would phone me and complain daily hoping that complaining to me with my military connections would change something. He found out that I was in the same situation as me.

Those that didn’t leave there suburban homes and unprotected flats were in danger every night. Reports of civilians being pulled out of there locked up homes through broken windows and doors were broadcasted on a daily basis. Sun rise started to bring bodies lying scattered with no signs of the aggressors. The enemy seamed to use gorilla tactics to avoid scouting army squadron’s and were taking victims and leaving there body’s on the rooftops of there houses. The enemy would disappear but not leave the inside of the fort hours before sun rise.

As it became more and more dangerous within the confines of the fort more people joined the army which was safer and others lived secluded in safely off shore on floating islands or boats in the sea being the safest place to live in this new world.

The army was ill-equipped with the enemy now having access within the city to detect such threats and so a high alert and town wide curfew was put in place in the day. It seamed like it was safe but beneath the shadows lurked death. The killings occurred

haphazardly some twenty victims one night then nothing for weeks or months.

I shouldn’t have been surprised that after 15 years since we first arrived at fort pacific that our peaceful lives would be interrupted. Fort pacific was until now largely unaffected by the fighting occurring on the other side of the wall. There was different living protocols in fort pacific than there was in fire mountain. In Fire Mountain for safety and survival you had to maintain a level of silence and turn off all light emitting machinery which was not part of the tasks you had to perform while living in fort pacific.

Times had changed and as the war outside continued so was the inner village of the fort affected by similar rules and protocols of safety similar to that within the old fire mountain base. I found myself putting my old Bio mechanical suit back on as the war was no longer just being waged outside the walls that surrounded the town but was now within the fort as well.

Having strong connections with the army I was informed of all news within the town.

Reports of killings started coming in daily some were whole families others were people and soldiers walking the streets. Less town folk began to take chances in walking the streets at night which made the enemy desperate and so as the reports of the dead lying in the street alleys decreased the breaking down of doors and windows and the deaths of whole families who refused to move to designated safe houses increased I would visit the homes reporting back on how vulnerable houses with windows and wooden or even metal doors not of a certain thickness or strong enough locking mechanism was to death eaters. The residents still refused to leave there homes, some to old to do so. Instead they armed themselves with old style hunting rifles and shot guns which normally only succeeded in a1arming the army but the enemy was to quick and before anyone arrived they were gone leaving the civilian’s dead.

With an ever growing number of lifeless bodies appearing I was shocked to see that most of the towns live stock was untouched. It seamed that for the most part they were keeping us alive instead of starving us out of our enclosures. What the enemy couldn’t have known was our main supply of food was coming from an off shore floating island. Years went by and I began to believe that this was just a big game to them.

Those that stood there ground were often left with ripped up skin and disembodied limbs of fathers and sons as others would be feeding on the mothers and Daughters in another room. Often there attacks were silent and sometimes they took people alive there bodies never to be seen again. Out of all the reports I read there were only a few families that would survive an attack but if they stayed they would all ended up dead.

Families that survived all had similar stories where they saw the enemy coming normally there was a dog which was attacked as two or three o them would enter a building without regard for stealth either by tearing down boarded windows and metal

gates making enough noise to identify there entry point but the most import thing that actually saved all those family was the fact that they took head shots or just hid an protected themselves for long enough for the sun to rise. 90% of families weren’t as lucky. The surviving families never questioned the militaries safeguards again and tried there best to convince others to move to army protected safe houses.

With every shadow killing and slaughtered family more and more families left there homes. Space became a commodity as people would open up there already full homes. The live stock within the base was moved and kept behind the army barracks.

Soon the killings slowed and stopped completely. While more civilians joined the army and therefore helping them to better protecting the perimeter The streets were free from innocent civilians and now army personnel were keeping the streets free from attacks but danger still lurked in the shadows as an occasional innocent standing within the shade would disappear even within the safety of daylight around them.

As time moved on the danger never diminished sometimes for months they would hibernate giving the elusion of safety but those that were calm enough to venture never returned. Most missing cases were forgotten within 24hous and filed under deceased.

Chapter 12 The soldiers hid the livestock that was still left on the fort behind the barracks. This didn't help as the creatures’ desperation to feed grew over time and the hidden livestock and pets were there next victims. Even a few scouting team members were attacked and snatched into the darkness quick as if within a blink of an eye, while he enemy fed on them on rooftops and dark alleyways.

The death eaters were assumed to dig holes and cover themselves so as not to be detected during the day. Sometimes the army was lucky and would find a freshly moved mound of dirt but the army barracks ere the safest place to be within concrete reinforced walls and unmanned automatic weaponry.

I found myself working even harder on my inventions but none of them would ever amount to any kind of tactical advantage. Looking through army prototype and case files of abandoned inventions and projects I couldn’t help but notice practical applications and records of stockpiles of units sitting in a warehouse waiting for a theoretical type technology and referencing a special file called project phoenix.

There were also upgrades to the bio-mechanical exoskeleton suits that also referenced project phoenix. These upgrades were stated that in theory light fields could be used as shields or battering rams. Curve light saber swords and flash bang light bombs could be used to clear a room of creatures, for silent attacks. Light darts were modifiable to handheld blow dart guns or diamond shaped arrow heads capable of heating up a room with light emitting refractory surfaces sparked by the energy source. These refractors can also be modifiable to tower defenses sending ultraviolet

rays out as a pulse triggered through motion sensors. These ultraviolet towers were Said to vaporize any depth dwellers and there guardians or hunter death killer soldiers within a 70meter diameter clearing.

Most of the weapons warned of the same thing that the phoenix programs focusing technology and power source were dangerous and such energy would cause 3 rd degree burns on a human subject and eventual death. With every weapon I read I was amazed at some of the tactical applications. Most of the files had a section with mathematical equations which were way over my head and the revolutionary technology was beyond even my imagination.

My interests turned to the phoenix project but looking through the files alphabetically but I saw no such file on record. The only file that jumped out at me was called Price, Dr David Price. A flood of emotion reached over me as flashes of my father and I in the tunnels deep within the underground mountain base. Steering blindly at the file my guilt freezing me in the paradox of the guilt of leaving him behind and all the pain of remembering those images of people hunted down and killed. The past was paved with the brutally ripped apart bodies of army soldiers and civilians alike. Most of what I was remembering was blocked out as I made my past confusing to myself so as to cover and fool myself into thinking there was any hope. The second I stepped forward to grab the file I felt my body’s delusion of hope was intersected by the pain of my past.

I held my fathers file staring at it’s binding but instead of opening it I took it home and let it sit on my entry table just looking up at me to hard to open. I decided that my search for the phoenix file was not over and I began to interrogate various soldiers.

I identified that every fort focused on a different type of technology, using only practical and successful technologies passed on by the network of forts making all such forts and neighboring forts on the dedicated supply chain of such tech. Fort pacific focused on cyber enhancements like the popular biomechanical exoskeleton and heavily armed highly camouflaged manned mechanized machines.

Project phoenix was what the fire mountain base our old home within the mountain was focused on. It was a power source to which the world had never seen. All the undeveloped prototypes were linked to a power source that was never developed.

Most of these prototypes were from totally different forts. The only survivors of the fort were traveling with us and they were civilians the only others with a high ranking and clearance level were myself and James.

James was barley ever stationary since the day we arrived at fort pacific. James over the years had been promoted as a squadron leader moving from fort to fort and across oceans to promote the war effort and protect man kind. Our friendship was reduced to telegrams and video conferencing. Most of our communications would get lost and sometimes only be received months later unless it had military authorization which my communications did not.

I waited for months for a reply from James but nothing meanwhile the attacks within the fort got worse and although access cracks in the walls would be fixed when they occurred more parts of the wall began to crumble down from all the attacks. One of the cracks that occurred was close to where Samuel was living and it was assumed

that the enemy couldn’t gain access to such a building. The enemy was hided in storm drains and basements attacking any who entered there hiding spots. I wished I had aired my worries to Samuel as it was days later that I received a whole report of the partial destruction and entry of the enemy into a designated army stronghold. The enemy had not touched the doors protecting those inside but rather destroyed the walls surrounding or next to it killing all inside including Samuel and his family.

It was only due to Samuels’s death that I was finally able to get a direct communication channel with James whom was very sympathetic and offered to return. After discussions with James about project phoenix he said that when he was placed in charge of me and the rest of my families’ safety he was handed a file called project phoenix. James said that when he opened the file it referred to technology that our family was in charge of and that the Price family was project phoenix. I realized that I had had the file the whole time sitting on my table. Rushing home I walked into the front door grabbing the file as I sat in deep thought reading through its pages. I remembered that my dad announced in the halls before he died that he had found the answer to the technology.

If I remembered correctly he said “Use the suns strength back on itself.” That was it the answer was the bubble of love that one of the guests mentioned as my father rudely left the dinner table to see to his experiments. It was the all the forces of the suns magnetism that could be used to focus the energy to which the sun emitted.

Finally all I had figured out what it had all meant and it all made sense when adding what the guest said to what David said. I had to use the external gravitational and magnetic strength of the fusions power back on itself. I had to create a way to make a magnetic field of exact opposite intensity to the suns fields in order to focus such extreme power.

Thinking about this method I rushed to my laboratory. I re-arranged the whole room and brought back some old machines that Dr Price was using back in fire mountain and then I started again working on the technology that we all had given up on. In my testing it didn’t take long to realize what we had previously done wrong. I recalibrated the equipment and within days a stable fusion reaction was created. I could have celebrated as in theory I had completed my fathers work and at bare minimum the technology at its raw stage could be used as a grenade to clear out bunkers and tunnels with the power and light of the sun.

Thinking more deeply as to how my father destroyed his lab and unintentionally signaled the enemy of our location was that he tried to focus the reactions power and blew a whole within the side of the secret underground fort. The idea was simple as the power could be focused in one direction just by making parts of the external magnetic field’s energy weaker than the rest of the magnetic orb that was holding the suns power. I was most probably his excitement and my influence to run the real time test before doing theoretical assessments calculations which caused him to take a risk that I would have probably at the time suggested to him.

Out of respect for his memory I decided not to jump straight into real time testing and only after many calculations and theoretical assumptions did I put my finding into action. I calibrated the orbs iris to weaken at a fraction of a millimeter aimed downwards as to diminish any possible collateral damage. The second I entered the

new instructions into the computer the reaction was as predicted I had succeeded and now the only question was left now that we had this technology what would we do with it.

With this new weapon we would finally win this war. I knew that if this weapon entered the mainstream supply chain there would be another ten years of war which would probably result in the eradication of the depth dwellers. I was not happy with the idea to many people were already dead and nothing I could do now would bring back those that I had lost. I felt that even if the war continued for even another year it would be an outcome that I did not want and I felt with this weapon I could with the help of others force a peace between our people now.

I heard rumors of forts and areas of colonies that had developed peace treaties with their death eater enemies. Listening to the radio I herd a name mixed in the reports of peace that was spreading through the world. The name Edward was repeated and stories of his connection and alliance with the depth dwellers that he called knowledge keepers was such that I knew with his help we could end the fighting. I needed to talk to him to identify if this all was true and how stable the peace between our nations was in the areas he had visited.

I was able with my military connections and James help to send out a message to Edward who agreed to meet with me but it came at a cost. There was much interest as to why I wished to meet with such an individual and it was not long after it was confirmed that Edward was on his way to fort pacific that news of the success of project phoenix was discovered. It was impossible to stop the military from taking my power source miniaturizing it and installing it in the many weapons already manufactured and stockpiled away for this possible break through. The shipments were ready to be sent to the different colonies around the world and power sources on their own were similarly ready for shipment to other forts that had these phoenix prototype weapons for installation and activation. I was able to hold off on distribution and agreed that if we could not reach a solution for peace that all military personnel worldwide would receive a shipment of this new technology.

A few days later I herd word that a Seasub SSP2 had landed within the confines of fort pacific. On the plane was Edward who similarly had wished to meet me. He was reported to have been accompanied by a larger than normal man in thick layered robes whom did not speak. Edward on getting of the Airship introduced him as his guardian who stood next the ship as Edward continued to enter fort pacific. Edward and I along with all the heads of the military were escorted to a large board room where I saw Edward for the first time. The board room was filled to capacity with every important member military and with streaming real time audio with other colonies across the world. I did not know that all major state leaders and colonies were listening to this meeting. Edward was a knowledgeable man and being much older than me and some of the leaders in the room he began to talk. We all listened and learnt of his stories of how he had survived this war. He communicated about how he had been living with the enemy but not as a prisoner but a guest. He spoke about how he was eventually given respect which was on a higher level than most of the elders of the knowledge keepers. The war generals began to get agitated and called him a traitor while they attempted to leave the confines of the meeting.

Unknown to all of us including Edward his sub-conscious mental link with his guardian had caused it to slowly approach the board room prior to the generals’ frustrations and intention to leave. Before the generals could get to the door the guardian burst through it without his hooded covering and scared the agitated military leaders back into their seats and closed the door behind him. The generals were scared because they recognized this creature. Those that were on streaming audio were confused as they did not understand the basis on which the questions that followed were. Edwards guardian is the same breed of the most dangerous of the enemies troops which was responsible for most of the fatalities on the battle field. Their frustrations turned to interest as they wanted to now know how Edward had control of such a creature for the benefit of their own military means.

Edwards tone suddenly changed with their probing query’s as he screamed out 'we are not so different from the knowledge keepers, you have brought me into a board room to discuss an outcome that some of you have already decided prior to entering so do the leaders of the people you wish to kill. I will point out that those that decided to get up and concluded that I am a traitor and wished to remove themselves from these proceedings are not in any way different from the royals who did the same when I entered there tribunal chambers before I had even said a word. It is because of that ignorance that this war started in the first place.’

Edward explained that we are known to them as day dwellers or land walkers and that he is not here to point out our similarities in a hope that it may sway our decisions for peace as they see us as different as we see them. Edward came to communicate that as like the royals of the knowledge keepers and the discussions between the military and citizens we have between our people the outcomes of many personally attended tribunals on both sides have many conflicting opinions as to weather a peace can work between us. Edward further announced ‘I am only here to give you the facts. The knowledge keepers have existed longer than we can understand and before our own existence. This is the longest war between our people but it is not the first and we did once have peace but our knowledge of them disappeared with the passage of time and our inability to correctly decipher ancient texts like hieroglyphics. There are areas right now that have put down there arm’s and have stopped fighting because the royals and the day dwellers in that area are of the opinion that peace can work again.’

I replied to him asking about those royals that are stubborn and do not see a peaceful future and either want revenge or complete dominance and control as that seems like the only way to have peace on our side in its totality. In reply Edward communicated that my name was not unknown to him prior to receiving my invite and that he altered his peace mission’s path of converting colonies of day dwellers and death eaters into a state of peace to find the an answer to the problem that I had just mentioned.

The fact is there are Royal knowledge keepers who see day dwellers as a weak uncontrollable plague of this planet. The issue is that there is no stopping these royals as they will never give up and that they are the cause for the destruction of the strongest land walker strongholds and fortresses. There followers are focused on the negativity that our existence has had on the eco-system’s natural balance. They are aware of our capacity for waste and inconsideration of our environment and generally feel like they doing good when they kill us. They instigated the beginning of the war not because of our discrimination against their race but rather to reset the balance due

to our over consumption and now wish to remove the planet of the being that was causing the imbalance. These royals have at this moment no fear of the day dwellers and no care for their own people as they will pointlessly sacrifice intelligent life in order to take care of the natural order of things. They do not understand that with peace will come education where both society’s will learn from each other and become more in sync with the natural balance of the world To fight against these royals we need a weapon that not only shows them our superiority but also the risk that if used incorrectly could greatly offset the precious balance of nature that they are trying to protect and maintain. Edward then mentioned project phoenix and that he heard about this assumed failed technology from one of the now peaceful colonies of depth dwellers and day walkers. With this technology we could either destroy the right wing royals or force them into a peace by threatening to destroy the ozone layer causing the seas to boil and all plant life to die. Edward a missionary of peace had traveled to meet me and now instead of convincing us to cease and desist with development and distribution as I thought he may he was all for it which made it all seam like this course of action was correct and that it was going to be the key to developing a peace between our people.

There was no more discussion in the board room as they attendants starred at Edward and then me in shock. None of us expected such an outcome and with that silence I requested that Edward leave the room for further discussion without his presence. One of the lower ranging officers lead Edward and his guardian away from the board room and a debate began. The higher military generals stood up and said so we are in agreement in the mass distribution of the weapon to every base site and military outpost. I contested as I never considered the planets reaction to the introduction of such a weapon. A few other attendants on streaming audio aired there concerns of Edward being either a spy or extremist who could either turn the weapon over to the enemy or go through with such a scary threat of destruction of the earth’s ozone layer.

I agreed and told them that I felt it unwise to issue weapons to those that do not know the risks behind using them as well as being properly trained. We also all agreed that threatening the partial destruction of the planet and it’s eco-system were not an option. We all still had to live on the planet after the war was over and I stated that being so stupid as to point the weapon up into open sky for long periods of time will greatly affect the earth’s atmosphere.

The rulers and military generals of the city and outta colonies were not prone to words of peace but Edward had convinced them and It was eventually agreed that with Edwards help and my technology we would identify areas were peace could not be established and then special shipments of the sun gun with accompanied reinforcements that were there to teach any approved military personal how to use the weapon without any mistakes while learning in detail all the risks and realities of such a dangerous weapon.

At this point Edward was still not aware that we had the technology operational and how we had decided to use it. I approached him in private and communicated our decision and intentions. Edward then confided with me as I was not military and told me of the many bases that had been conquered by the knowledge keepers. He told me of how the people in those colonies were still alive and that he didn’t want anyone to

know as it may be seen as captives and that they are at peace and one with the future that is the unity of our great people. All those forts and bunkers that he had gone down and assumed lost to the network of the military way before rumours of peace started to circulate were in actual fact living in peace but disconnected from the rest of society.

Edward now knowing that he had an a solution to the knowledge keepers that would not be open to peace and whom choose to kill every day dweller they encounter he requested my help to send out word to the people my military would consider as captives of war. They had all women and children been disconnected with what has been happening since those royals who were with Edward in the idea of having peace between our people. There re-introduction with the network of people and knowledge of this new weapon would spiral into a wave of peace and fear of not giving into the idea of having a peace that could finally end this war I was able to help Edward and his guardian to the sonar beacons that could send the message that Edward needed. We all rested and early the next morning Edward was with the high generals identifying which targets besides the obvious ones outside the walls of fort pacific were overly aggressive while I was with the special task force training on the use of the phoenix weaponry. The commotion of the fort began to buzz it was like fort pacific was a bee hive of information of forts and lost soldiers and districts where radio connections were lost many years ago behind enemy lines they all started to awaken. It was all confusing but It was the start of a sustainable peace and now it was all going to be based on an uncertain final battle and balance of nature.