Dark Extinction- Chapter 3

“We don’t have mounts!” Sean panicked. “What do we do?”

Rook didn’t answer.

“Rook?”

“Growl......grrr...” the Alpha Nameless said. It clutched something in its hands and lifted it up for Sean to see.

It was Rook’s severed head.

“Aaaah!!!” Sean screamed, and ran for his life. He sprinted up the paths towards the Fertile Forests. The Nameless were in hot pursuit.

Sean made it. The nameless would not come to him. They stayed in the Blue zone.

“Grr...Why...don’t...yer....come...to...we?” The alpha nameless struggled to put the human words out of its mouth.

“You can talk?” Sean gasped.

“Of...course...we...talk.” The alpha’s voice scratched Sean like a sickle on a rock. “We...has...been...human...too.”

“You’re human?”

“Purple....pools? Remember...?”

“Yeah, they were far down the Spine.”

“When a human falls into one, they become a Nameless. Us.”

“You’re talking normally!”

“I don’t talk much. It takes a while to get the hang of it when I do.”

“Okay.”

Sean stopped short. The nameless were confused.

“What’s happenin’, Gormar?” One asked the Alpha.

Sean fell down, a dart stuck in his back. Two people riding a Rollrat dragged him off, away to an island in the middle of a lake.

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Arciro talked with the tribe leader for a long time. Finally, the silence was broken.

Broken by a massive asteroid crashing onto the surface. They ran for cover under a building. The asteroids blew up on impact with the city, but the Wolves of the Wasteland weren’t quick enough. Most were blown to shreds as massive meteors ripped through the wasteland.

“Please don’t tell me this is a normal thing.” Arciro groaned.

“Um...it is.”

“Dammit.”

“That didn’t go well.” Arciro said back at base.

“No, it didn’t.”

“Sir! The scout rushed back. “We’re being raided!”

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Tentacle swam through the oceans, minding her own business. The X-Mosas and Megachelons paid no attention to her. The Genesis Ocean was quiet for once. The islands were black shadows at the surface that faded away as Tentacle swam down deeper, grappling at a basilosaurus.

“You can’t grab me, stupid squid!” The basilo laughed.

“Oh yeah?” Tentacle shouted. She whipped a tentacle hard and killed the basilo in one hit. She continued her way home.

When Tentacle got home, she was in for a horrible shock. All of her family members and friends in her colony lay dead, or rather floated, being harvested by survivors on X-Megalodons.

I’m going to be starting a new story, called Locked and Loaded (after the Genesis mission Loch’d and Loaded.) It won’t come out for a while, but it will be in the tuso section.

Swamp Guy