the clash of the immortals
DISCLAIMER: the character Zeke is not mine; it belongs to surfaman. The character Angel is not mine; it belongs to Angel the vampiric.
this is just a rough draft, any and all constructive critisism will be greatly appreciated. i know that this is probably a giant steaming pile of crap compared to the other writers on sofurry, but it's my first giant steaming pile of crap so i am happy, now i should get to the story before i have to put scat as a tag.
"Tell me again, why your throwing yourself into the meat grinder on this one" Tommy, a red fox said with an air of annoyance.
"Because up there" Zeke, a light grey fox pointed a finger up towards a building that was in the shape of a pyramid. "Is a weapon that can finally put Cain in the ground for good" Zeke finished.
"How do you know it's even up there or that this weapon can kill the bastard? I mean I shot him in the face with a RPG and where is he now, holed up in the friggin stratosphere tower, sending his goons to kill us, I think that makes him pretty un-killable." Tommy said, again with an air of annoyance in his voice.
"Oh come on, you've heard the legends about how Cain came into power." Zeke said, looking over to his friend.
"Legends?" Tommy said, confused. "What legends, and why are we relying on some old folk tale to kill this sumbitch." Tommy continued.
Zeke sighed and began to tell Tommy about how Cain rose to power.
Long, long ago there was a leader that everyone saw as a deity. This deity was immortal and frequently gave extensions of life to those that did him well. Cain was the lead general, and a loyal follower of the deity. After one particularly well fought battle, the deity decided to give Cain one wish. Cain wished for a weapon that could kill anything and would give the abilities of the killed to the wielder. The deity saw this as a way to help the military forces of his empire and granted the wish; Cain was given the one and only astral jade kattana. As soon as Cain grasped the enchanted blade he thrust it through the deity's heart, the deity's abilities began to drain into Cain, first was immortality, then was healing, then was immunity to pain, ability after ability drained into Cain, before Cain could drain the final and greatest abilities, creation and destruction, the deity used the ability of destruction on himself, thus preventing Cain from becoming all powerful. The deity had just enough power left to come back to this world and create a second enchanted blade, and hide it where Cain will never find it. Before the deity faded out of this world forever he wrote into prophecy, that a mortal fur would gain immortality, find the second blade and use it to kill Cain.
There was a long silence in the car. "HAHAHAHAHAH" Tommy burst out laughing. "that's the dumbest story I've ever heard" Tommy continued, between bouts of laughing.
"Think what you want, that sword is in there and I want it." Tommy said, looking away from his friend and back at the pyramid, staring at the eerie dark purple beam of light, emanating from the top and going straight into the sky.
"Whatever you say boss." Tommy said. A voice then came from the ear pieces they were wearing.
"Hey boys having fun in the car, were set up over here in the van" angel a wolf with dark raven wings said into a microphone.
"Were having loads of funs over here, why don't you come over here and we can play monopoly or something. Do you have the security feed?" Zeke said sarcastically into the air.
"Wow what's with all the hostility, hmm? Yeah we have the feed; you have two ways of going in, quiet or loud, your pick" angel said, though she knew the answer already.
"Loud of course" Zeke replied.
"Good then you'll love that I had the whole central column rigged with c4 on each floor. You will meet an informant in the top floor he'll open the safe for you and give you the detonator. If the detonator fails you'll have 60 seconds till the whole thing goes boom." Angel said through the earpieces.
"That's why I love ya ang' you think of everything" Zeke said this time with happiness in his voice.
"What should I do boss?" Tommy asked.
"You... are my ticket outa here my friend, you'll keep this car nice and warm till I get back. Shouldn't be long."
"Alright see ya" Tommy said as Zeke got out of the car
Zeke walked into the pyramid, calm and collected, he came to the security booth and a rat, about Zeke's height came out.
"Identification please." The rat said making sure to emphasize that he was armed.
"Go to hell" Zeke said as he pulled out a handgun and blew the rat's head off. Zeke grabbed the rat's assault rifle and began to cut down the security forces. An alarm came through the intercom. Zeke began to walk towards the central elevator
"Security headed your way to your right" angel said through the earpiece. Zeke just turned his rifle to his right and began firing, cutting down dozens of security officers. "Damn what kind of rifle you have?" angel asked.
"Looks like an AK to me, fire rates a bit down though, maybe to increase accuracy or something" Zeke said
"Looks like they deactivated the elevator, ill get to work at reactivating it." Angel said through the earpiece, with a bit of annoyance in her voice.
"You're the best ang'" Zeke said.
The elevator then opened and Zeke stepped inside. He took this chance to reload his weapons and get magazines at the ready.
"Don't worry there's not supposed to be anyone up on the top floor except our informant." Angel said through the earpiece.
"Hey Zeke, it's Tommy, I've been compromised, ill have to get to angel, we'll meet you in the van at the exit point." Tommy said, glad he didn't have to tell him face to face.
"Damn it that's my favorite car too, aw fuck it we can have all the cars we want after we put Cain in the ground." Zeke said as the elevator reached the top floor. "So you're my informant eh, I was expecting someone a little more spy like." Zeke said to a big bull. He typed some numbers into the keypad and the safe behind him opened. Zeke walked into the safe and grabbed a purple kattana sword off of a table. He felt a sudden pain in the back of his head and collapsed to the ground.
"no I'm not your informant" big bull grunted"let's see what plan b is all about" the bull said as he pressed a button that had the words plan b written in sharpie. Zeke pulled out his hand gun and shot the bull 3 times in the chest before he went down.
"the detonator malfunctioned, you have 60 seconds to get the hell out of there, hold on ill give you a shortcut." Angel stepped out of the van and pulled out a custom made, crossbow like weapon. She pointed it towards the top of the pyramid and fired, a streak of red flew towards the point of the pyramid and an explosion rocked the building. "Slide down" angel said as she got back into the van.
"You think of everything ang'" Zeke said as he grabbed the purple kattana and leapt off of the building.
"45 seconds" angel said as Zeke was just past half way down.
"30 seconds" angel said as Zeke got to the bottom of the pyramid and began to dash towards the van.
"15 seconds" angel said as Zeke approached the van. Zeke leapt into the van.
"DRIVE!!!" Zeke yelled as he got into the van and closed the door.
"What do we do now?" asked Tommy, a concerned look on his face.
"Now we go back to the hideout, clean up our wounds and plan our assault on the stratosphere tower" Zeke replied, as he looked back and saw the glass pyramid engulfed in flames and crumbling to the ground.
"What did you just say?" Cain, a grey tiger with one eye an eerie purple and his other a blood red, growled to the much smaller rat in front of him.
"Umm, they t-took the a-artifact and blew up the p-pyramid sire" the rat stammered under the angry gaze of the much bigger tiger in front of him. "s-should we mount an assault on their base sire" the rat sputtered out.
"No... I think I will take care of things a little more" the tiger says as he cracks his knuckles, "personally"
"What do we do with it now Zeke?" Tommy asked
"It's a sword, we slip it in between his ribs, what else" Zeke replied. The pair then heard gunfire sounding from above. Zeke's phone rang.
"Were under attack sir" a voice sounded from the phone.
"How many?" Zeke said into the phone. There was a long pause.
"One sir, its c-Cain" there was the sound of an explosion and then the beeping of a disconnected phone.
"Fuck he's here" Zeke said as he reached for the kattana. Once he grabbed the enchanted sword there was a loud crash as the doors were blown apart. Cain stood before the two foxes, the occasional jolt of electricity jolted across his trench coat. Cain's eyes locked onto the sword and the two foxes could see a glimmer of fear in the tiger's eyes.
"Do you know how long it's been since I felt the adrenaline rush of knowing I could die here." He didn't wait for an answer, "5000 years, now that's a long time even for an immortal to feel this." He pulled out a long steel kattana. "I would much rather have what you have but this will have to do." Tommy pulled out an Uzi and pointed it at Cain.
"You know that wont do shit Tommy put it down before he kills you." Zeke said, not taking his eyes off of Cain. Tommy complied and backed off. Both the fox and the tiger leapt at each other, it was a blur of grey and purple as the two fought each other to get an opening to kill the other. Angel came behind Cain. And pulled out her crossbow like weapon from before, Cain whipped around and caught angel right in the face with a punch. Angel was sent back at least ten feet; Zeke saw this opening and took it. Cain turned around to face the fox again when the blade of the kattana sliced his neck, decapitating Cain in an instant. The fox dropped to his knee to catch his breath.
"Is it over?" Tommy asked.
"No, not until I put this through his heart." Zeke said as he stepped toward the immortal, the headless tiger grabbed Zeke's leg and he doubled over in pain. Black bolts of electricity jolted from Cain's hand to Zeke's leg. Zeke's fur began to turn a darker shade of grey. Tommy lunged toward Zeke, tackling him to the ground, but for just a moment the black electricity arced to Tommy and a grey line appeared from his leg to his chest. He coughed and looked at the lifeless tiger that was formerly Cain on the ground in front of him.
"Are you ok Zeke?" Tommy asked.
"Sure, just one problem." Zeke said. Tommy turned around and instead of seeing the green eyes and light grey fur; he saw a dark grey fox with one dark purple eye and one red eye. The next thing Tommy saw was Zeke's fist flying towards his face. The punch connected and Tommy toppled to the ground. "Zeke has left the building. Man this kit has a mean punch." Cain said as he shook feeling back into his hand. Tommy felt his breathing stop, as well as his heartbeat. "Well I guess I killed 'im," Cain said beginning to get the hang of moving in his new, smaller, vessel. He took his trench coat from his last body and put it on; the coat draped down past his legs and dragged on the ground like a cape. "Gonna need to get another, I don't do capes" Zeke said as picked up his katanna and left the room.
"What's happening" Tommy asked himself. Angel then came into the room.
"Oh god, not you too." Angel cried to herself. She gasped as Tommy began to twitch. He felt his heart resume beating and he took a ragged breath, and coughed at the sensation.
"Someone gets medical down here now!!!" angel screamed as she held the red fox.
To say Cain was in a bad mood would be the understatement of the century as he walked back to his tower.
"Identification pleases sir." A wolf in uniform said to Cain.
"Go fuck yourself Joe it's me Cain" the fox yelled at the security officer.
"s-sorry sir you usually chose more... well... intimidating forms." The wolf said
"Yeah well I didn't have much choice, I had a tough fox and a pussy fox, and I chose the tough one." Cain said as he entered the elevator.
The elevator took him up to the top and he walked toward his throne.
"Get me a pack of cigarettes john." Cain commanded
"I don't think that's you Cain, there's no way you'd be caught dead in a fox." The rat said.
"What the fuck did you say?" Cain said now enraged.
"I don't think that's really you in there" john said, unclipping his handgun.
Cain grabbed the rat by the throat, and the rat pulled his handgun and fired his entire magazine into the fox. With each bullet the fox just winced slightly.
"They hurt more than usual." Cain thought to himself. He looked deep into the eyes of the rat who was now about his height and remembered how he used to tower over the rat. Cain lifted the rat off of the ground with just one hand. The rat began to gasp for breath.
"Ohh, the mousey can't breath, let's get him some fresh air." Cain said as he walked to the window that was all that separated the two from a thousand foot drop. Cain pushed the rat against the window and it shattered, pieces of glass flying everywhere.
"S-sorry sir." The rat managed to blurt out around the paw that was grasping his throat.
"well after all you just shot me at least ten times I guess that makes it all better, huh." Cain said as he grinned, loving the feeling of power he got from holding the rat high above certain death. He let go and the rat fell down. He managed to grab the ledge and held on for dear life. Cain stepped on the rat's right hand, grinding his boot onto the desperate rat's hand. That hand soon fell away, leaving the rat dangling over a thousand feet above the street below by one hand.
"You aren't worth the clothes you messed up." Cain said as he began stepping on the rat's left hand. Soon a guttural scream left the rat as his hand fell away and he fell down to the street below.
"Damn will someone get me a pack right now!!!" the fox yelled out to the entire room. Every fur had been fixated on the merciless punishment Cain had just delivered.
"Right away sir." A small cat said as she took a small bow and left the room. Cain then opened up his trench coat and looked down as several bullets were expelled from his gut and the flesh began to mend.
"Here you go sir" the cat returned with a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. "Would you like it if I got the tailor to come and measure you for new clothes sir?" The cat asked quietly.
"Thanks I'd like that" Cain said as he picked out a cigarette and lit it, he sucked on the tobacco and immediately began to sputter and cough.
"Would you like some water too sir." The cat asked politely. Cain just nodded in response, still coughing. He was given a glass of water soon after and he began drinking like it was his last drop of water.
"Shit this kit never smoked one before, going to have to break this form in." Cain said as he sat back in his throne.
"You say he was dead right?" a small wolf asked angel.
"Yes, he wasn't breathing and he didn't have a pulse" angel told the wolf, still in shock.
"Well we can find no injury on him, not even a scratch, there's been only one recorded case that is similar to this, when Cain's body was dead and he brought himself back to life. If what you say is true, then Tommy is now immortal "the wolf said to angel
"Hey guys can I get out of this bed now." Tommy asked slightly annoyed.
"We'd like to keep you for observation but if you'd like you can get up" the wolf replied, looking over at the red fox. Tommy then got up out of the bed, pulling out his IV's. The needle holes healed instantaneously. A white rat ran into the room.
"Thomas, Thomas we've got some news from one of our informants in Cain's intelligence networks. We've got some coordinates and a picture that matches the astral katanna Zeke brought in." the rat said in between gasps.
"A mortal fur will gain immortality, find the second blade, and use it to kill Cain" Tommy muttered to himself, realizing that the legend Zeke had told him was coming true right in front of him. "OK, where's the coordinates, let's set a course right there, we need to get there before Cain." Tommy said to the rat.
"Umm" the rat said as he typed some things into his laptop, "the Himalayas sir" he finished.
"Great that aughta slow Cain down" Tommy said as he walked out of the room. Tommy entered a room that must have held the entire resistance. "Alright, guys we've suffered some major losses today. A lot of us died, and our leader became Cain himself, but that's just even more reason to fight, don't let them die in vain. Techies, I want all the info you can find about Cain's defenses, I want to be able to see everything from the floor plan to the life stories about the security guards, I want it all. Everyone else I want this place built back up, fix everything and lock this base down, I don't want so much as a roach getting in here unauthorized. Angel, your with me, were going to go climbMt. Everest. Let's get to work!" Tommy said as the room began to cheer.