The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 11: Kill or Be Killed

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“Well, EXCUSE me! We’re not lovebirds, freak!” Aurora shouted at Lil Jack with a soft glare. Aurora put her hands on her hips and Samuel rolled his eyes.

“We don’t know who you are, but you’re a fool to think you can just take us prisoner so easily. We have weapons, and you do not. Stand down now or else things are going to get ugly,” Samuel boomed.

“That’s where you’re wrong,” Lil Jack chuckled, “I do have a weapon.”

Lil Jack reached for his back and pulled out a black whip, with a weird fiber at the end. It was a whip made of graduation gowns! Lil Jack began twirling it around and then snapped it in the air, making a crackling noise.

SSSSNAP!

Aurora stepped back a little and snuck behind Samuel.

“Are you seriously gonna use me as a meat shield?” Samuel asked.

SNAP!

“YOUCH!” Samuel cried as a mark was left on his left arm. Lil Jack continued to laugh and laugh as he kept lashing Samuel, and Aurora began to step back a little bit.

“What the- OW! OWWWW! Aurora what are you DOING, HELP ME,” Samuel screamed as his skin began to burn. He tried moving forward to attack but with another quick lash from Lil Jack, he retreated in pain.

“Nyah hah hah! Feel my wrath!” Lil Jack bellowed. Lil Jack’s goons began to laugh.

BOOM!

“Woah what the- Was that the whip?” one of Lil Jack’s goons asked, scared.

“No Larry, whips don’t make booming noises!” the other snapped back.

“Y-You don’t think it’s a T-Rex or something, Mikey?”

“Don’t be a coward. Let’s just go back to whipping this monkey-”

KABOOM!

“WOAH!” Everyone shouted in surprise and stumbled like bobbleheads. The island beneath them began to shake and rumble, and suddenly giant obelisks of glowing metal began to rise into the air from different parts of the island. One was red, another was blue, and the final one was green.

“Just like the sky before we were taken here…” Samuel thought as he began to sweat. Glows suddenly came from everyone’s implants, and everyone gasped in shock.

“THE DIFFICULTY OF THE PROTOCOL HAS INCREASED. AS A RESULT THE SYSTEM MUST BE UPDATED,” a robotic voice blared from everyone’s implants.

“System must be updated? What does that mean?” Mikey asked confusingly. Suddenly, everyone’s implants flashed purple!

“SYSTEM UPDATED. THE LAW, KILL OR BE KILLED HAS BEEN APPLIED. KILLING WILL NOW MAKE YOU STRONGER.”

“Woah, stronger? Maybe then, I’ll get my master’s degree!” Lil Jack said.

“What does that even mean?” Larry asked.

“It doesn’t matter. Let’s just kill these two now, I’ve had enough playing with them-”

Aurora took a spear and hurled it at Lil Jack, and it plunged into his chest. Lil Jack coughed up some blood and his eyes began to waver.

“W-What was that?” Lil Jack asked as he began to cry.

Samuel ran up to one of the goons, Mikey, and swung his hatchet as his head. With a deafening blow, his skull was crushed and collapsed to the ground. Larry let out a little girl’s scream and fell to the ground.

“Yo! P-please, we can talk this out, please I don’t wanna die!” Larry wept. He began to sob, “Please, please please I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die!”

Aurora had a dark look on her face, and as she plucked her spear out from the now deceased Lil Jack, she began to walk up to the poor guy with malice in her eyes. It looked like her eyes were exploding a wavy blue.

“Pfft, you’ll pay for your insolence. No one’s going to hurt my companion like that,” Aurora snarled as she began to trot toward the defenseless Larry.

“W-W-Wait! That’s not fair, I wasn’t the one with the whip!”

“Doesn’t matter, you’re going to die right here, right now.”