The Lost Chronicles Of Pangea: Apocalypse

Old Enemies

“I think we need to split up.”

David suggested as they were about to leave the station.

“Why?”

Lilith asked with a tone of voice that showed she was not going to agree without a good reason if at all.

“First I need to get back to our crash site, apart from my hover bike, there were quite a few things in the cruiser that we might need. Besides if we have a particular mode of transportation, it might come in handy, just in case.”

Minerva looked out a window as she arranged the shoulder strap of her first aid kit. But she had heard enough of this conversation to lodge her own complaint.

“But its too dangerous, and I think we should stick together in case something goes wrong.”

“It doesn’t matter, because with those monsters in this town, something is bound to go wrong. But it should be relatively safe since we’re choosing to move at night. You and Lilith will be going together Minerva, the tortoises would be with me.”

David hoped they agreed. He really needed to get to his hover bike, but he also had to carry out an investigation of his own. Of course he could not tell them that he was going out into the night to go look for that lizard, or they would freak out. So he had to give a very logical reason why he wanted to go rogue.

“Fine, but remember the rules David. And if you’re not back here in three hours, I will close this door behind you.”

Lilith threatened with a stern face. Then she came close and hugged him while also whispering in his ears.

“Be safe.”

Then she turned and left the station with a protesting Minerva in tow. David expected her to easily agree, but not with such reluctance in her eyes. To be honest Lilith confused him, one moment she was cold to him, and others She’d be getting all soft and cuddly with Minerva, and then moments like what just happened would come along. And she would show so much care for him that David would feel his toes tingling.

“RARRRR”

“I don’t know Veni, she is a little strange to me too. Come on boys let’s get going.”

Ever since he got his abilities, the three tortoises had been the test subjects on which he tested them. It was the reason why he bought them in the first place, but overtime he had come to care for these three shelled reptiles. And as such they had a connection, and it was deep. Training with them had also let him understand that his telepathy was also reliant on emotion, when he was out of battle its effects were a little weaker, or rather it would described as varied.

As long as he was in contact with any living being, he could somewhat communicate with them by feeling their thoughts or intent. When somebody thought about something, there was always an ensuing feeling accompanying that thought. David could not read emotions or outright thoughts, but once he was in contact with the person doing the thinking, he would be able to feel the thought, almost as if he was the one having it.

Basically David’s none battling telepathy worked like a projection. The person thinking would be able to project the rough image and feeling of whatever it was they were thinking about, and from there David could read minds. It was his oldest telepathic ability, but it was also his weakest. Unlike his battle sight where he could sense the hostile intent, and even see what the next move would be, David had to make contact for the thought projection to work. He had no idea why it was that way, because being unable to talk his tortoises from a distance was getting frustrating. But he was getting better at understanding them and the way they thought.

David made his way out of the station and spotted Lilith and Minerva almost twenty meters away from the station entrance, keeping to the shadows and slinking around buildings. The station was built south, but it was facing the west side of the town, and since that was actually where their commercial district, stores and malls could be found, that was where they were heading. David was going north, so he had to turn to his right. He climbed over Vidi, while keeping a firm grip on his shell opening for his head. Then David bent down and whispered to him.

“Buddy can you take me back to where our cruiser landed, we have to be fast and we have to be silent. Can you do that for me?”

David asked in a petting tone, and Vidi rubbed his head over David’s hovering palm, much to the annoyance of his jealous siblings.

The monster activity in the town was heavily reduced whenever it was night. The theory that most of this monsters were not nocturnal held up as it seems like they had all gone to rest. However that did not mean there was no activity at all, with the fall of night, the predators around were sure to be more cunning, more dangerous, more stealthy, and more capable.

Which was why they had put together a set of rule that they had to follow through. The first one and the most painful for David was that guns were forbidden. None of his weapons had a silencer except for the sky wolf sniper rifle, but the bullets in that gun would level an entire high-rise building to rubble, so it was completely out of bounds.

Second they had to keep the talking, or any sort of communication to the minimum, but David’s companions were a trio of mutated tortoises, so there was not going to much communicating. And lastly, no matter what happens don’t go into the light.

The final rule was open to interpretation, and the fact that Lilith was the one who made the rule made it very funny. But whatever interpretation was there to be cleaned from it, David was not going to be going into any light whatsoever, no matter how peaceful it might look. Dying a virgin was not a part of his future plans.

The town was rather silent, too silent in fact with the only sound being the soft steps being made by the three tortoises as they made their way towards the crash site. The streets in Oak valley town were much to wide, which meant they were mostly exposed, in the end it made David a little nervous. The only other option they had was to stay close to the buildings and keep as silent as possible.

Their journey towards the crash site, was actually uneventful, there were no monsters in sight, and no humans either. But there was a nagging feeling at the back of his head that he could not place or reconcile himself with. David chalked it up to paranoia and kept his focus on the road ahead.

They eventually got to the city park, the insurance was right at the other side and they had to go through the park together. But the cluster of trees, bushes, flowers and a playground was rather ominous. This looked like a good place to set an ambush, and David was not to keen about walking through a park at night.

“Vidi we have to go around and please keep silent.”

The journey around the park took another fifteen minutes before they eventually got to the area of their crash. However the moment the insurance office came into sight, David sucked in a cold breath of air. He was looking at a something he was very familiar with, and not just one but a pack. His very first kill in Pangea; cats.

However these cats were big, about the size of a large dog, the signature red eyes and three barbed tongue were there as a proof. David shuddered as he remembered his first encounter with these felines, it was a rather horrifying experience and he wouldn’t wish it on anyone. But he was a very different guy than he was when he was first attacked by the three tongued cats. He was not completely fearless, but he could not be said to be someone who was controlled or driven by his fears either.

David pulled his battle blade from his back and switched it into it’s axe form. The silver metal gleamed under the moonlight as one half of his face was reflected on it. The park was still looking ominous, and David could bet one big bad wolf or something else was probably hiding within its confines, so he’s only hope would be to take out those cats before he is noticed. The worst possible thing that could happen to him right now is if he gets surrounded, so he had to attack and kill all seven of them with extreme prejudice.

David knew he could count on the three tortoises to have his back in whatever way they could, so without saying anything he sprinted straight for the cats, however Veni, Vidi and Vici were faster than him and they shot past him to dive into the fray of playing cats, putting the claws and razor sharp teeth to good use. It was a rather brutal display if animalistic instincts and savagery, but David did not really care about what it looked like, he had done worse before, much more worse.

David cleaved down with his axe, completely splitting one of the cats in half after it pounced on him. He used the momentum of his swing to turn around while also twisting the blade of the axe so that it’s flat side would hit the next cat that pounced on him. There was audible crunch as the brain of the cat was completely smashed into a pulp and its blood and grey matter were dripping of the axe. The remaining five were already taken care off by the tortoises, and neither one of them had a single scratch. But it was not over as David heard a series of growls behind him

“What the hell?”

David could not help but ask out loud. If the cats were the first things he faced when he came to Pangea, then the unknown beast with the armored body was the second. There were five of them standing in front of him, and right behind them was the third and most dangerous monster he has faced so far. The lizard was here.

“f**k!”