Emma slightly opens up her eyes to the starry skies above. The headache has reduced, and she could barely believe that she made it out alive. “ Emma! You're awake. ” Stephanie called. “ Yeah! ” She responds, getting up and noticing the bandages wrapped around her head. “ What is this? ” She asks. “ And why ugh, why does my mouth taste like I ate an entire card of drugs? ” “ Well, we had to force you to take some paracetamol you know? Two tablets. You were unconscious and there was no water. ” Stephanie replies. “ We're just happy you're okay! ” Bituin says. “ Yeah, we are! ” Nathan concurs both of them including Adrian looked at her like someone that had just resurrected from the dead. “ Uh guys, I don't think that we'd have to wait for water for too long now. I think all those dark clouds I'm seeing are a storm. ” Maya says sitting by the edge of the roof. “ Uh! guys! I think we could take shelter under these solar panels. ” Nathan alerts, as the wind blew harder, and the stor
I'm glad to announce that Black River's first part “ Apocalypse Uprising ” is coming to an end. To all who have reached this part, and have started from the very first chapter of this book, I'm truly grateful and I would love to share my heartfelt appreciation for taking your time and reaching this point of this epic journey.[ Finales mark the end of every mega substory (additional plots or sub-plots with more than five chapters that play a major role in the entire plot development ), or book and they are usually in three parts. ]This also marks the ending of Unknown Origins' first book 'Dark Matter.Bonus chapters are on their way and special chapters will only be released after the book is completed.
The sea waves wooshed on and off the shore, the waters moving against Chesa's arm. Gradually, she opens her eyes and sees a crab moving about the shore. “ I'm I dead? ” her subconscious asks. Lifting a finger, she rubs it against the crab's shell and it retaliates by snapping it with its pincers. “ Ah! Not yet!! ” she exclaims sitting up. “ Dolly?! Dolly wake up! ” she calls shaking her as she was lying beside her. “ Uh... Huh? Chesa?” She says as she got up, rubbing her eyes with the back of her arm. “ Are you alright Chesa? ” She asks. “ Yeah! I'm fine! Are you? ” “ I think so. ” Dolly replied and Chesa helps her get up on her feet. “ Where... Where is that boy? ” Dolly asked as she looked around. “ Over there! ”Chesa replied as she points to khent who lay on his back with a giant crab on his face. The crab which seemed to be surprised at what it was crawling on, picked at his nose with its pincers. “ Ouch! ” he exclaimed and immed
__________ Mira and the others woke up to a very quiet afternoon. “ Arrgh! ” they groaned as they got up from the floor. “ What the heck happened here? ” Bituin asked as she got up. “ No idea. ” Adrain replies. They headed over to the edge of the roof and looked down, but there wasn't anything out of the ordinary. “ What the? ” Nathan exclaims. No shrieking fiends, no dead bodies, nothing at all. “ Did what happened last night really happen or did we all just have the same bad dream? ” Emma asks in confusion. “ I don't know, it's weird. I don't feel tired at all. ” Stephanie adds. They turned as they hear Mira pry the stairs door open. As curious as they were she also wanted to know what was going on as well. “ My head doesn't ache either, but there's still bandages on it, and on Mira's hand so I think it really did happen. ” Emma announced. “ You think? ” Bituin muttered Heading cautiously down the stairs, they were all on t
“ Emma step back! Something's not right. ” Mira cautioned, stopping her. “ What do you mean? ” Emma asks terrified. “ She... ” Mira turns away and bites her lips, “ she's infected. ” she said. There were actual tears of regret in her eyes for the first time in a very long time. “ She can't, that can't be true! ” Emma cries. “ Wait! How can you be sure? She could be just traumatized. ” Bituin says. “ She's right! ” said Stephanie surprisingly when she had returned to her senses. “ I was grabbed by the shoulder when we were on the ledge. ” she continued. “ I didn't say anything because I thought it was nothing. ” “ it is nothing, Stephanie! ” Emma cried. “ You were grabbed not bitten. ” “ Fear, convulsions, there are all signs. I've seen them before. At the class, before it, all began.” Stephanie replied. “ You're not turning. Give me your hand!” Emma said and confidently approached her but Stephanie drags herself up and stepped backward.
Safe and high up a tree, Dolly and Chesa stayed till evening. A few feet beneath them, a ball of green light revolved sucking in whatever got too close to its range. They knew to obey Jane's order to not leave the spots they sat, so as not to get sucked in as well. Chesa hides her anxiety from her friend as they waited and watched Jane kill off the fiends. Her movement was nothing short of elegance and simplicity. Her pink blade would dance around its audience, taking off their heads clean off their necks before returning to her palm and her green lights would make sure that none escape her reach. She would head out to “ clear the area ”, instructing them to not leave the safety of the tree she left them on, coming back severally to make sure that the revolving energy ball does not suck in her dearies as well. “ Are you done yet? ” Dolly asked on one of her comebacks. She was too excited about the hope that she would be reunited with her parents soon that she bec
*** “ Urgh! ” Chesa groans as she wakes to the morning sunlight. She slightly opens her eyes and sees a female figure standing a few meters beside her. “ Jade!? ” she calls. “ Do you have any idea what you have done? ” the figure asks with a tone of anger in her voice. “ Huh? ” Chesa exclaims wide-eyed awake, instinctively pulling Dolly up from sleep. “ W... What? ” She mutters as she wakes. “ Whoa! ” she exclaimed as they staggered back in fright. April stood before them in her true form, her kite-shaped eyes glaring at them. They tried to run but were somehow forced on their knees, gold daggers take form around them rotating in their axis. “ I can barely believe my eyes. this? ” Kira scoffs coming right behind her. “ W... What did we do? ” Dolly stammered. “ She was your protector, your mother! I didn't drag you 1000 kilometers from the sea for you to p
Epilogue “ Alright gang, now that's been taken care of. I have good news to share. ” Intel announced, standing in front of her team. They were all sitting on beach sofas surrounding her, as she addressed them standing. All in human form. “ Once cutie returns we'd finally be able to leave. Right after we take care of whatever the heck is waiting for us. ” She continued. “ Yippee!” Tink exclaimed. “ Just to be clear we're never coming back? ” April asks. “ No. ” Intel replies. “ Guys, I'll NEVER put you in this kind of dangerous situation ever again. I promise! ” she continued emotionally. “ This will be our last few months on this planet. First, get off your butts,” she says, making them all stand. “ We gotta clear this island first. So get ready to kick some butts. ” She cheered with a vicious smile. Tink reloads her gun. Her eyes were silver without the glasses. “ Just to be clear, we're not giving the infected holondias?” she asks. “ No, they're goners. Don't waste it. ” Apr