Humanity's fall - Demons and Angels.rtf
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By Morten B. Petersen\par
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When i woke up I felt lightheaded, just like if I was about to faint once again.\par
"Oh! you are awake. thats good" I head a woman voice say, I looked to my left and saw the neko girl I had seen just before I fainted.\par
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"What are you?" I simply asked without thinking about it first, at first she looked a bit strangely at me but then she spoke softly "im an Angel" she smiled softly and gave me a glass of water that I took and downed it in one go.\par
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"And what is an Angel?" I asked and glanced at her, she didn't remind me of the angels I had seen pictures off in picture books and in churches. "Well an Angel is the product of an human that have mutated due to the infamous EV.. also commonly known as the Evolution Virus.. its a human made virus that was surposed to make a few selected soldiers into a new kind of super soldier.. but some of the subjects ran away after they had received the virus" she paused shortly to take a deep breath, her shoulders were shaking lightly "I was around ten when the outbreak happened, one of the escaped soldiers didn't know that the virus was able to mutate and soon started to spread through the air.. Soon everyone in DC was infected, and before the government could do anything against it. The whole world was infected" she stopped talking and walked over to the window looking out at the ruins "its been nearly fifteen years since that day.. And now all of humanity have turned into either Demons or Angels" she turned to me and smirked a bit "everyone except you" she lifts a finger and points it at me.\par
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I tilted my head slightly and pointed at myself "me? im the only human left!? are you mocking me!" I was nearly shouting, I felt my palm burn and I could feel the sweat run down my face.\par
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she looked at me like an angry librarian about to hush you "No.. im telling you the truth, every single human beside you are dead. After over 75% of the humans on the earth had mutated the rest of them got eaten by the Demons" she said and pointed out at the wasteland, "right now over 25% of the population out there is Demons! and the rest is Angels" she said and sat by her desk.\par
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"so what you are telling me.. is that im the only "snack" left for those Demons out there?" I felt my palm burn and my throat get dry, the only thing she did was nod and wait for me to speak again.\par
Instead of keeping up being bitchy about all the *last human left* junk I looked at her and asked "can I please get a bit of water.. My throat is so dry" I smiled faintly and while she went over to the sink I took a small but closer look at my right palm.\par
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The color in my palm had disappeared, but the hard feeling in it were still there and I felt so much pain in it right now, I looked up at the neko as she gave me a cup of water which I quickly drank. "Feeling better?" she asked and sat down beside me, I nodded and looked at her "so does the Angel have a name?" I asked and stretched a bit not bothering to hide my palm since the mark was gone. "My name?" she closed her eyes for a bit "I guess my name is Josephine" she said and looked at me "thats the only name I can remember from before I was hit by the EV" she looked towards the window again.\par
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"Josephine.." I mumbled her name a few times until something happened inside my head, pictures started popping up as well as flashes of who I was. I grabbed my head with both my hands and almost fell down from where I was sitting, Josephine took notice of this and quickly slapped me thinking that I was having some kind of shock from thinking about all the stuff she had told me.\par
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When I felt her hand against my cheek something filled my mind, the sound of war? no it wasn't that.. it was more like the sound of a one sided gun fight, "ahh.. so thats it" I mumbled staring up at the ceiling with empty eyes.\par
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"Snap out of it!" Josephine shouted and slapped me again this time way harder, the slap was so hard that I fell down from where I was sitting and hit the floor "OUCH! what was that for?" I almost shouted and held my hand on my cheek. "Sorry.." she looked away "I though something was wrong when you didn't respond to getting slapped.\par
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We didnt do anything for a moment, she just looked away and I just stared at her. I broke the silence by standing up and offering her my hand "Im Jack.. nice to meet you" I smiled a little trying to lighten the mood in the room a bit.\par
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She looked at my hand and then shook it smiling softly "its nice to meet you Jack", she let go of my hand and went over to the desk and sat. "Okay jack.. I want you to take a look at this" She grabbed a book and handed it over to me, "I want you to know what wanders around out there and how to identify who is what". She said and I opened the book "Angels - the fist branches" was written on the first page with blood red letters, when i turned to the next page four rather holy looking creatures was shown on the page. Each with a name under it, I looked under the first "Arch Angels" I mumbled and looked at the last three pictures and their names "Bokke", "Youkai" and "Archeons" I though about the names for a few moments knowing that I had heard them from somewhere.\par
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"Let me explain a bit" she pointed at the bokke picture "Im a from the Bokke branch of Angels.. Bokke is only a name for about 100 more Angels of my branch.. my species in here is called Nekone" she pointed at the Arch Angel picture "Arch Angels are a branch made of only five species. Each of them have wings.. they go from having 2 wings.. to have 10 wings in total. if they have 10 wings then dont go near.. its an berserker then and they are dangerous since they hunt Demons and Angels alike" she pointed at the Youkai picture "wont bother explaining all these.. but there are a lot species in this branch.. all looks like monsters but are quite docile and kind spirited" she pointed at the last picture Archeons "the final evolution of the Angel species.. all of us Angels end up turning into this one day.. I guess you could call this species for *God*" she smiled softly and closed the book.\par
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"we will take the demon branch another time, right now I want you to explain something to me" she looked into my eyes "where did you.. the last human alive.. come from?" she tilted her head slightly and I let out a deep sigh as I walked up to the window and looked around scanning the area outside.\par
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"There" I put my finger on the window, I was pointing at the building I had left quickly after I had woken up "I came from that big building over there" I turned towards Josephine "I came from a water tank in there.. that would explain why I know nothing about this world right?. And why im the only human left" I watched the surprise grow on Josephines face, as she put her paw like hand on the window "you came from the old EV lab.. The root of all that have happened to this world." She looked at me "tell me.. what is the place like now? I havent been near it at all, I feared what I might have found in there" she looked into my eyes and waited for my reply.\par
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"Let me tell you what it isnt like.. it isnt with any life beside the maggots in the few corpses I have found outside my *world* where I woke up.. where I returned to life" I covered my mouth with my hand as I shocked myself with what I had said.\par
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"what do you mean?" she asked as I sat down on a chair, "I dont know.. I dont know but yet somehow I know" I closed my eyes and pictures popped up in my head, the pictures showed me lying on a hospital bed with god know what kinds of machines connected to me. the EKG was only showing a thin line that didnt jump at all. Around me was a lot of doctors standing all with a very sad look on their face and all talking at the same time, I could hear some of what they said "a failure", "I though he would survive", "I guess no one can survive that much --- directly injected into the heart and brain" and "My poor son.. my poor poor son" I tried to listen to it again trying to hear what the third doctor said, but every time I heard him say it the missing word got more and more clouded.\par
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I looked at Josephine "what I mean is that im a dead man.. I died long time ago, of what i just recalled I got too much of something injected into my heart and my brain.. and I died because of it" I felt a few tears run down my cheeks "I even heard my father" I cried "my father regretted letting me die" I covered my face with my hands and cried out loud, Josephine soon at my side to comfort me.\par
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Many minutes passed while I was crying and when I stopped it wasnt because I wanted, it was because of something I saw in a flash "no.. No!.. NO!" I screamed and jumped up and away from the window pulling Josephine with me "HIDE!" I shouted and jumped behind a closet while I held Josephine tightly. "what! whats wrong!?" she asked and looked up at me blushing a bit from being held tightly so suddenly "shh" I said and closed my eyes hoping that it would hurt only shortly as I heard the windows get hit in by something big.\par
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I felt several shards of glass pierce my back and then I felt the impact of a big sharp claw like object impale me through my back, I was unable to let go of Josephine as i got pulled out the window and thrown onto the ground where I landed hard on my back still protecting Josephine from harm. I looked towards what had impiled me while I spitted some blood onto the ground "Jack! Jack are you okay?!" she shouted at me, I wasnt okay. Not okay at all, my left lung had been impaled and most of my bones had broken. yet i felt no pain at all, only anger and a burning sensation that spread from my right palm.\par
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I let go of Josephine who were shocked to look at my wound "hide" I simply said and stoop up, even if my bones were broken I stood with no problems. I looked at the Demon that had attacked me, it was a big ball of eyes and mouths with a few legs and two long tails with claws at the end. "What a Demon" I said and clenched my right hand "i-its a Beholder" Josephine said and fell to her knees "they usually live in the mountains and dont dare getting close to the ruins of towns.. why is such a highly evolved Demon here!" she shouted.\par
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It was easy to see that she was afraid, afraid of getting killed, afraid of watching me getting killed. "Dont worry.. it will all be okay"\par
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Josephine could not belive her eyes from what she saw, one moment I had been stading in front of her covered from head to toe in wounds. the next moment I had been impaled by one of the Beholders tails and where currently lying lifeless right beside her, she was crying.\par
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Why where she crying? she didnt even know me that well.. was she even crying for me? and not out of fear? I remembered my father whom had cried for me when I had died.. I felt like that Josephine should be allowed to live without such a feeling in her heart "Jack! Jack wake up!" she cried at me. I dont want her to cry for me.. -I dont want it!!-\par
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In front of us were the Beholder looking at us, studying us -watching Josephine suffer- I felt it was amused -it could feel?- I got pissed, -dont you dare laugh at her suffering!- I moved my right hand. lifted it until it was pointing at the Beholder with a bloody finger "Dont you DARE mock her feelings!" I shouted and stood.\par
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I wasnt in pain but I felt that my spine was damaged and I was lacking blood "Jack! dont!" Josephine whimpered and grabbed my left hand "sorry" I said and punched her in her solar plexus making her faint "im really sorry" I put her down on some rubble and turned towards the Beholder "YOU!" I shouted and held up my pitch black hand "im going to rip you to shreads".\par
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The Beholder stared at me for a bit and then it laughed "you.. amuse me.. human" I heard it say with a deep bass like voice "I wanna.. eat your.. flesh as soon.. as possible!" it chuckled and opened a big mouth that was hidden underneath all the eyes, letting its tongue roll out of it "im sorry.. but the only one who is gonna get eaten today is you.." I said and felt my hand burn so bad that I wanted it to disappear. But I endured and I just stood there and stared at the beholder, I held back all my rage and all my power until the right moment "BAH!... big words.. from the.. lowest.. of the.. food chain" it laughed and launched both its tails at me "who's the lowest?" I mumbled and just before the tails hit me I released what I had held back.\par
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The resonance between my anger and the *power* inside my right hand, it was like time stopped for me. The tails were just in front of my face and yet I could do nothing against them, I smirked as what was inside my right hand had agreed on my new form.\par
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Time moved again and I felt the tails impale me. yet the pain was still gone "im dead.. yet alive.. im alive.. yet dead.. im an Angel.. yet an Demon.." I could not help but to laugh a bit as I glared at the Demon "and guess what my food is.." I grabbed the Demons tail and its tail suddenly got a big hole appearing in its tail severing it from the rest of its body.\par
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The Beholder Howled in pain as its tail had been severed from the body "y-you.. what are you!?" I looked at the Beholder "me? I am an Archnoa" I smirked knowing what I was without even really knowing it "do you know what that means in Demon language?" I said and slowly sat down as the other tail already had been consumed by my body to heal my wounds.\par
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The Beholder stared at me with fear in its eyes "it.. means.. The Ethernal.. and in.. Angel.. it means.. God.. dont tell me.. that you.. are that high.. in the evolution.. chain!" it coughed as it were starting to turn to dust "who.. are you?" it said with its last breath and I answered it with an pained expression on my face while I looked at the dust that got carried away by the wind. \par
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"Salvation"\par
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To be continued in Humanity's fall - Jack's Two Faces.\par
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