Merciless ch. 1
It had been many nights since Jack had slept. He looked down at his watch and saw it was already past midnight. He looked around his almost bare cell and winced when someone knocked on his barred door. Jack did not like loud noises because many years ago, on a night much like this one he had watched both his parents die. All he could remember was a shotgun going off twice and the screaming. The horrible screaming! Jack started to twitch at the thought of it.
He had only been 7 years old when his parents were murdered. Since then Jack had changed quite a bit. He had done drugs, he drank massive amounts of beer, he often wondered the the streets late at night, wakeing up in strange places and not having any idea how he had got there and he also saw things, horrible, frightening things that scared him so much that he had admitted himself to the asylum he was in now but that did not stop him from seeing things. It made it worse.
What he saw he told the asylums phsyciatrist was death images of people screaming, people on fire and people with various deformalities. He told the phsyciatrist that he had put a gun to his own head many times but he never had the courage to pull the trigger.
So now sitting in his cell rambling to himself in a way that made it sound like he was speaking another language, he heard the knocking again but louder this time. His rambling became louder and more incomprehensible. Suddenly the door opened. A large wolf he had never seen stood in the doorway. He stopped rambling at once and stared stared at the strange wolf. He was wearing a large trench coat a grey shirt and worn jeans.
Finally Jack said"who..are you?".
"I'm here to help" was all the wolf said.
then Jack noticed two strange bulges in the wolfs coat. He took cover fearing the worst. Suddenly a guard from outside said" your times up leave already" with a note of irritation in his voice.
The wolf smiled and said" I don't think so".
There was a bang and a flash from underneath the coat. All was silent I looked up to see the wolf taking a pair of keys from the dead guards belt. Suddenly the wolf looked up at him and said" we should probably go now before more security shows up."
I stared from the dead guard to him.
"What do you wan't with me?" I asked.
The smile left the wolfs face for a minute and then it returned.
"Do wan't to know what really happened to your parents?"
The screaming suddenly filled my head again and I fell to my knees with my paws clamped over my ears.
Suddenly I felt a strong paw on my back.
I looked up. The wolf was staring at me. He got up again and started to walk away. When he realised I wasn't following him he turned around and said" if you follow me I can tell you who did it."
I simply nodded and followed him out the door. The night wasn't over yet. as we were walking through the hallways an alarm started blaring and the sound of footsteps filled the hallway.
The wolf simply kept walking until a bunch of guards with tazers barred our way. A German shepard that apeared to be in charge "yelled out drop your weapons!"
The wolf simply smiled again and threw open his coat produceing two nasty looking micro uzis and firing both at the crowd. Many furs cried out in pain and surprise as the wall of lead hit them.
When all was silent the wolf put the uzis back in his coat and walked through the mess he had just created. i tried not to look at the mangled bodys that had once been furs and followed the wolf out the front door.
Outside there was a sleak black car waiting for us. the wolf said"get in the back" and he climbed into the drivers seat. I obeyed.
We were driving along me flinching every time the car made a noise when we heard sirens.
A police car was tailing us. The wolf looked back at the car looking slightly annoyed and shifted to the fourth gear and stepped on the accelerator. this however did not seem to faze the cop at all.
A voice over a megaphone said" pull over to the side of the road!"
the wolf had other ideas however he suddenly pulled into a spin that made it so we were facing the cop car. He floored it again and started firing his uzi with deadly accuracy at the drivers side of the cop car. Suddenly the cop car changed course and drove into a parked minivan causing both veihicles to explode in a deadly inferno setting nearby trees, shrubbery and furs on fire.
suddenly the image of the furs on fire I had seen over two months ago came into my head. The image looked just like that.My heart began to beat faster and my head stared to spin and finally I balcked out....
I had nightmares as usual. This time it was my parents screaming again....
Suddenly I awoke to find myself in a dimly lit room on an old bead with a pile of cloes at the foot of it. I got up and rubbed my head. suddenly the smell of bacon flooded my nose. My stomach growled and I realised I hadn't eaten in three days. I chose a jacket and some ripped jeans from the pile of cloes and looked around the room. It looked like I was in some old mansion like the one I used to live in.
Suddenly the screaming filled my ears and I clamped my paws over them once again. After about five minutes the screaming stopped. I looked up. There in the doorway was a very beautiful fox staring at him.
She suddenly spoke" you are needed down stairs" and with a flick of her tail she was gone.
I got up and walked slowly to the door. the fox was nowhere to be seen. So I began walking along the dusty corridor. I found some stairs and walked down to what was probably the 2nd floor. I walked through a doorway into what appeared to be the den and was surprised to see the wolf from the night before staring at me.
He suddenly asked" do you wan't to know what happened to your parents or would you rather live your life cowering in that asylum?"
I said" I need to know the truth.."
"Well someone finally grew some balls."
I turned to see a young grey fox sitting in a corner. for some reason I did not like this fox. something about how he spoke....
"It was many years ago" the wolf began.
"your parents were both very rich normal people the only thing is they had very strong ties with our group."
"Wait a minute! Just who the hell are you?" I said.
"That I cannot tell you."
"But I can tell you that anover group TheShadowClaw did not like your parents helping us."
"So your saying this ShadowClaw group. Killed my parents?"
"Yes" said the wolf.
"How do I know I can trust you?"
"Would I have broken you out otherwise?"
Jack thought about this for a moment. Suddenly his parents screams filled his ears. But this time he did not feel fear. He felt something else. Deep searing anger.
For a moment he had no idea what was going on.Tthen he came to reality again. these people had killed his parents and probably countless others. They would pay......
TO BE CONTINUED.......