Winds Of The Apocalypse (41 page)

“T
oby!” Colin screamed in horror.

“Is he alive?!” Casey yelled, making Utopia gloat at their reaction with her shirking laugh. "For now," She growled and h
er voice made them all cry out.

"But you won't be as lucky.” She promised. She twisted her filler into the machine again, only this time the beam shot at
her instead of the other teens.

The light changed its color from white green to purple and Utopias body began to glow remarkably, brighter and brighter accompanied by her evil
mind splitting shrieking laugh.

"OH MY GOD!"
Casey yelled, involuntarily reaching out to hold on to Morgan.

They all watched in horror as Utopia shed her old skin to the ground, her body twisting
and pounding, growing in size.

"OH MY GOD, MORGAN!"
Casey's screams echoed throughout the cellar as Utopia got bigger and bigger, her disfigured body cracking the swelling, sending rocks and debris onto the frightened teenagers as it reached the cellar’s low ceiling and cracked it right through.

Casey looked at her brother.

They could now hear people screaming, running out of the school building, fleeing from what they thought was an earth quake only to come face to face with the true horror, a giant insect growing practically out of nowhere right before their terrified eyes.

"Casey!!" Morgan pulled her aside right before a huge chunk of the ceiling came crashing down at the pla
ce where she was just standing.

They both fell, Morgan shielding his sister from the dust and crumbling concrete, screaming for the others to be
careful as another piece fell.

"Toby!
Wake up!" Colin screamed as he shook his friend.

He was finally able to reach him amongst the cellars ruins as the others scattered to g
et away from the growing beast.

"
Ohh…" Toby moaned his head pounding and his body sore.

”What…" He blinked.
"What the hell is going on here?!" Toby yelled once his eyes were fully opened and he could see the monster increasing its size.

"She's getting stronger!" Jon yelled back, attempting to overcome the strong winds that came from the pyramid like machine, surrounding them in dark green suffocating mist and making it almost impossible to see anything but
Utopias still developing body.

"We have to stop her!" May howled, getting to the twins with the others and kneeling at their side behind the b
arrels they had fallen next to.

"I never thought that I would die from being
squished by a giant cockroach."

Din bitterly laughed his vo
ice a little higher than usual.

“What a way to go.”

Casey gave out a squeak of fear and Morgan shot a warning glare at Din, pushing him slightly.

"So not the time
Din! And you are not going to die! Now be useful! Any ideas on how are we going to stop this?!" He pointed at the giant cockroach.

"Look out!” Toby suddenly yelled as Utopias body moved in their direction, one of her huge clawed feelers almost reaching them but luckily for the teens the beast was still in the middle of her monstrous transformation so she didn't go too far. The purple rays that still transformed her bound her to the machi
ne, working in the teens favor.

"The power source!"
May breathed. "Inside the beam! There is a lever right in the middle of it! Look! Maybe that can stop her!" Her voice was high and filled with fear, it was clear that the thought of going up to the creature terrified her.

Jon glanced at her frightene
d face, his expression frowned.

"What aren't you tellin
g us?" He asked and May gulped.

"You saw what it did to Colin by the mere touch of it…Anything Utopia touches is lethal to humans, who
ever does it may not survive."

Morgan huffed at her words and, leaving Casey scrambled up from the floor.

"I will do it, distract her." He ordered determined but before he could move anywhere Casey had caught him, pulling him back down.

“Are you fucking deaf?!" She bellowed. "Didn'
t you just hear what May said?!

"It's Lethal to h
umans! I won't lose you again!"

"Then I'll go!” Jon stated, ready to get up as w
ell. “I’m already dead anyway."

"No!" Casey caught the edge of his shirt, desperate to p
rotect both of her brothers.

“You’re considered human too. It will destroy you.” May sho
ok her head, turning to Morgan.

"Do you forgive me?”
Morgan looked at her, confused.

“What?"

"Do you forgive me?!" May repeated more firmly. "For almost killing you, for all of this!" She declared, pointing at the glowing machine.

Morgan looked astonished.

"We don’t have time for this! We will talk about this later."

"There may not be a 'later' for anyone of us!" May snapped and Morgan starred at her blankly for a
moment.

Then, his gaze softened as he underst
ood what she was saying to him.

This was her goodbye.

He sigh, his throat choked and then he gave her a quick nod.

"Yeah…Yes. I forgive you." He said lowly an
d he knew that he had meant it.

”Good.
Thank you." May whispered in relieve. In another time she would have been happy to know that after this Morgan would have given her another chance to be more then war alias but somewhere not too deep inside of her she knew that she was not getting her second chance now, not in this life time, not with the one that she wanted to destroy the world with.

"Here" She removed a silver medallion from he
r neck and handed it to Morgan.

"What is that?" Morgan looked at the amulet; there was an engraving on it, an angel without a fa
ce riding on a huge cat’s back.

"The apocalypses gave it to me for protection,” May explained
, taking quick shallow breaths.

“But I think you will find more use to it than I ever did." Morgan looked at the
amulet and then back up at her.

"What are you planning?" He mu
rmured and May smiled bitterly.

"I started it, now I'm going to end it." She whispered
, leaning forward to plant a chaste kiss on Morgan’s slightly parted lips.

“I’m sorry.” She whispered and with that she pushed herself up to her feet and ran str
aight for the glowing triangle.

"May!"
Morgan screamed. "We have to help her!" He yelled and the others nodded in unison.

 
They all got up on their feet and began running in the other direction from the one that May took, luring Utopias attention away from the blond girl as she attempted to fix the wrongs she had caused in her sorrow.

Utopia shrieked and twisted in the purple light, desperate to get to the fleeing teens while May had managed to reach the machine, falling to her knees bes
ide it.

The power radiated from the beam almost knocked her senseless, driving out incredible vibes of pure force, amplified by all the apocalypses Utopia had sacrificed to
make the transformation happen.

May breathed out and forced her hand under the opening of the triangle, pulling at the lever that was located there, careful not to touch the beam of power that was located just inches from it.

There was a horrible howl and then black flames surrounded Utopia and with an angry cry she began to shrink back to her normal apocalypse size.

May let go of the lever, alm
ost collapsing from the effort.

Half lying next to the pyramid she watched with the others as Utopia got smaller and smaller, finally disappearing from sigh in the terrible green smock screen th
at had descended upon the room.

There was a moment of silence in which no one moved and then Colin dared to carefully step closer, waving the smoke away and looking down at the floor where Utopia just stood. "Dude…" He muttered as the others gathered ar
ound him.

”You have got to be kidding me…" Din breathed at the sigh tha
t was now revealed to them all.

"All this time…We were actually fighting….a cockroach?!" He laughed, pointing at the white angry looking bug that glared up at them, wiggling its angry
feelers at the laughing boy.

Casey smirked.

"Imagine that, all of this trouble because of a little tick." She laughed and Morgan grinned mischievously.

"Want to touch it?" Morgan asked, crouching to see the weird insect from a closer distance.
"Eewwww!!! Nnooo!" Casey backed away.

Morgan laughed again, getting up from the crouching position and taking a few steps back as if readying
himself for something. Casey looked back at him.

"Where are you going?" she
asked confused. Morgan smirked.

"I'm not going anywhere…." He looked at the fo
rmer queen bee. ”But she will!"

There was a horrible crunching sound as Morgan's sneaker met Ut
opias unsuspecting insect body.

"
Eewww!!! Morgan! That’s so grouse!!!" Casey chuckled, shaking her head and looking down at what had remained on the ground when Morgan removed his formally clean sneaker.

What was ones the ruler of the apocalypse gruesome race was now spare parts and a green blood smudge ov
er the bottom of Morgan’s sole.

"Suits her right."
He groaned, wiping his dirty shoe against the equally dirty floor.

"It's over." Casey smiled, looking at May who had finally found the st
rength to get up and join them.

"Thank you." Casey hugged May and the surprised girl smiled shyl
y, too overwhelmed to hug back.

“My fault for starting this…” She blushed. “Now let's get out of here." Sh
e asked them, shaking her head.

“This place gives me the creeps.” She said, wrapping her arms around herself. She couldn't believe that she
was going to get out of there.

The other teens nodded, agreeing with May's request. They turned from the mess that Utopia had left in the winter cellar and were just about to walk through the entrance of the half crumbled stone structure when a weird hissing sound coming from behind them made them all s
top and turn back.

Chapter nineteen: Our final revenge 

"Oh, my god!” Casey breathed, taking a step back, almost collapsing from fright against Morgan. Everyone turned behind her, gasping in shock at the disturbing sigh that emerged from Utopias crashed corpse.

Green smock was now coming from the smashed insect that was once Utopia, wrapping itself around the eggs in the walls, making them move and beat again after they stopped the hatching process when the ga
ng first destroyed their queen.

Now there were new apocalypses waiting to be reb
orn, stronger by Utopias power.

Some of the eggs were already cracking, revealing the horror lurking inside of them, more gruesome
and uglier then Utopia herself.

"Morgan!” Casey screamed, seeing the smoke sliding
towards them.

Casey jumped on her brother; getting him out of the way to the floor but making him
drop the cat amulet in the process.

"No!" May ducked for the amulet and, grabbing it off the floor threw it at the fallen siblings, relived to see that Morgan had managed to catch it just before th
e green smoke caught up to her.

May’s eyes widened in fear as the green smoke wrapped around her instead of Morgan, glowing for a second and then fading away as a misty claw hand reached into May's body, making sure that Morgan was th
e last thing that she ever saw.

May's body became numb, devout of all life and humanity; it collapsed to the floor
, empty, dead by Utopias hands.

"May!"
Morgan yelled, attempting to get up from the floor and run towards her, he couldn't let it end like this.

“She’s dead, Morgan!" Jon ran to him, stopping his twin fro
m risking his life for nothing.

"Utopia has her soul Morgan! She's dead!" He grabbed his arm
s as Morgan fought against him.

“No!”

"Utopia is trying to revive the eggs!" Colin screamed, bringing the siblings back to their senses, momentarily stopping their turmoil.

"We have to stop her! Grab the scythes!" Din pointed at the opposite wall where the weaponry o
f Utopias guard laid abandoned.

"Destroy them! Penetrate them through before they hatch!" He yelled, running for the divided sections where the eggs lay, weapon drawn
and body craving for vengeance.