Post by zoat on Sept 27, 2012 9:42:07 GMT
Hello tyranid-lovers,
now I want to show you my first 40k- and tyranid-fanfiction I wrote some time ago (originally in German). It's about an invasion on Terra, but not in a distant future but in the present age. The songs named in the title shall accompany the atmosphere and if you own them I highly recommend you to listen while reading.
Also I apologize right from the beginning for any grammatical and spelling mistakes. Unfortunately I am no native speaker. If you find any mistakes feel free to correct me, please.
Now enjoy!
Tyranid Soundtrack
Listen to: Zoät-Aon - Totem Owl
In the beginning everything was dark. But yet in this darkness you were able to feel something. It was an aura that sent a chill down your back, threatening.
Finally I could see, but my eyes detected nothing but dead grey wastelands.
Heaven was black as night, no ray of light to see.
Then I felt the first movements. Quietly I heard the monotonous noise of thousands of insects bodies, scratching against each other. The ground vibrated.
Undefinable shadows rose in a far distance, in the earth and the sky.
Suddenly the sands crumbled and numberless limbs revealed themselves out of the dust.
Claws and teeth flashed before me. Claws and teeth.
This was the last and only I saw until then. I just heard these screams. They devoured me, bit and ripped me apart like the jaws, tusks and talons.
The wild creatures savaged me and it felt like eternity when my body was slashed by them.
Terror and pain attended me until dawn.
My awakening was a salvation. A short catch for breath in a slow struggle for death.
Listen to: Tetsuya Takahashi (Appleseed Ex Machina OST) - Phobia
Weeks ago before the terrible day I felt the steady unease. In my dreams these scenes chased and terrorized me, and even in my awake condition they wouldn't let me go.
I recognized a certain lassitude in the faces of the people around me, which affected me the same way. All of them seemed nervous. But no one talked about it.
Finally I committed these thoughts to my best friends and they surprisingly told me about the same dreams and feelings.
We all had these pictures of many swarming horrors in front of your eyes. Nobody had experienced something like this before and instantly we brooded about the meaning of all this, for we were fascinated by mysterious things long before.
We knew many stories of that kind and we agreed that they always had been bad omen of terrible catastrophes. How soon they would come, we should have known. The signs were so clear.
It became worse the next days. The dark premonition became more and more public, self-appointed prophets of all religions spoke of the coming apocalypse.
As before I didn't believe them any word, but the international movements pointed out that the belief in the world's end spread like a fire among the haunted souls.
It was when animals and also human beings disappeared without a trace that fear grew stronger than before.
Listen to: Pearl Kyoudai (Welcome to the NHK OST) - Moratorium Ni Youkoso!
Saturday night I were at my friends home once again. We played our usual parlor games, having a good time, ignoring those fears. Time passed by as always and I got in my car to drive home.
Yet on the street I saw it, as the clouds revealed the evil staring crescent. Red fog and lights far away in the sky. Quickly I drove home. There the clouds were entirely gone and before I stepped inside I watched closer to the atmospheric phenomenon. No more stars to see. Out of the universe these shapes shimmered and glowed, bloody and misty, illuminated by the sun beyond the horizon.
It was fascinating, like an crimson aurora. But still it alarmed me deeply. Against all nature, threatening, lurking.
In my room I listened to the news, did research on the web, but nothing could explain to me what exactly was happening out there. With that uneasy feeling of the last few weeks I went to bed to dream of that terrors again.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill OST) - All
The next day I took the train to the city. Still there was no explanation for that red clouds out there on the media. The people around me seemed to share my displeasure about it. Everyone felt it and was in fear. Fear from the unknown. Nobody wanted this day to be his last. But deep inside they knew.
I listened to the noises of the moving train, staring out of the window lost in thought. Up in the sky you still saw the red nebula, moving in the sunlight. I concentrated solely on it.
And then I saw this small dots, dropping from the firmament. Moment by moment more people recognized it. That things came closer. Meteorites, missiles from space, I heard the people say. Panic spread around. Did the world's end finally come?
Those glowing drop-shaped things blasted down on our planet. At a far distance I saw one of them crashing into a wide grain field. Hitting the ground they raised dust. Tremors followed the impacts. Now I could detect that those meteorites seemed neither metallic nor stony but organic.
Suddenly the train braked at full power, dashing his passengers to the front. We stopped.
One of these bundles of meat had fallen directly from the sky on the rail, whirling around a slimy tentacle.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill OST) - Until Death
We didn't have the time to realize what happened. The fleshy walls of the capsule burst and released waves of that swarming creatures we knew from our nightmares. Without break nor the shortest moment of orientation they dived straight to ourselves, powered by an strange hungry instinct. They were alien beings, a mix from reptiles and insects. They had mucous green flesh, blood vessels pulsating from under their skin and dark red-brown armors of chitin, running in several plates from head to tail. They ran the distance at enormous speed with their strong hind legs. One of their pair of limbs was held close to the body, the other one, armed with deadly yellow talons, swung around wildly. Their head was almost build up solely from their mighty jaws full of sharp teeth and their soulless evil eyes.
Petrified by this scene we did nothing but sitting in our wagon, watching them coming closer and closer. And they came from everywhere.
The whole area, road bed and the close-by fields, all was flooded by that terrible creatures, who were up to only one thing: our lifes.
I looked into the faces of the people around me. Horror, fear and bewilderment.
Some of them screamed when the first alien-bodies hurled themselves against the windows. The strong glass resisted ... yet. The monsters from behind crushed their conspecifics against glass and metal without regard.
Clangor and screams of death suddenly sounded somewhere.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill OST) - Ain't Gonna Run
The windows finally had to give in to the massive amount of bodies. The deathbringers conquered the last barrier. I was lucky, they didn't break the window next to me, but cracks formed all over the outside of the train. A few centimeters away from my face the drooling jaws snapped at me. They reached their goal elsewhere.
Teeth and claws drilled into the bodies of the passengers, the long scythes mutilated and decapitated their victims. Blood and flesh splattered all around. They were close to me, just a few meters away, squeezing their way through the narrow windows, helpless people and corpses.
I should have run, but I still wasn't able to move. The doors were shut and impossible to open because of the weight pushing from outside.
A few people nearby ran for their life. I saw everything so very slowly. The creatures assaulted me. Suddenly another window broke and another flood of monsters pushed aside the deadly danger. They crushed each other, snapped at themselves.
Finally I rose from my seat.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill 2 OST) – Ashes and Ghosts
A high chime echoed somewhere deep in my head and the will to survive overwhelmed my senses. I drew back from that mouths snapping for me and observed my surroundings. The narrow train-wagon was a perfect deadly trap. You could only escape by the doors or windows and that ways were simply barricaded by the huge amount of monsters. So there was only one way. While the creatures were in a struggle against each other, trying to unknot their bodies, I ran straight towards them.
Someone called me back but this wasn't the time to hesitate. With my sneakers I stepped on their armor plates and got out of the train in a few jumps. I was lucky as hell, none of those swinging claws harmed me.
I stumbled outside, being in the same danger as before. One of that jaws caught my trouser leg, but it was just the cloth. My jeans tore and I fell backwards into the ditch along the rail. The bizarre bulk of bodies crushed deeper into the train, ignoring me completely.
I could not believe my fortune, sitting in the mud and watching the failures of all the others who tried to do it like me. Then I remembered that I still had to run, I picked myself up and climbed out of the ditch.
The grass was littered with green and red blotches. At the top I briefly turned around. There were only bloody remains and crawling monsters left inside the train.
Suddenly one of the creatures a few meters aside spotted me. It screamed stridently, heading instantly at my direction.
Adrenalin filled me completely and I fled as fast as I could. There was an abandoned industrial-building not far away. The heavy open gate seemed to be the only help, and the windows were placed four meters further at the top. I hoped that hunter wasn't able to jump that high.
I fought through the rubbish in the front court and didn't look back. The fizzling and biting of that terror behind me came closer.
My hand reached forward and grabbed metal. I jumped into the darkness and threw the door in its frame. The haunter crushed against it, screaming. The steel swung up again. Shortly I saw the dazed creature and closed the door again with a kick. The first thing I got in my hands I threw in front of the entrance.
An interlock and a heavy iron-shelf kept the danger outside.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill 2 OST) – The Darkness That Lurks In Our Mind
The claws smashed clefts in the metal and the gate quaked under the aliens attacks, but the hunter gave up quickly and vanished, possibly heading for the next victim.
Breathing heavily I sunk to ground, trembling, realizing how close I evaded death. I wondered if those catastrophes were spread on the whole planet. It was the end, everyone knew it for days. Now face to face with danger everything in my head was spinning around. I could keep no good thought. Was I really safe in here?
It was a big room with metal columns and structures, various machines, old and rusty. Not many light passed the dirty windows. The suppressing darkness spread out of every corner.
There was a hushed noise. Then fear filled my head once again. Something was in here!
My heartbeat echoed in my chest as I sat paralyzed in the middle of the room.
My eyes followed wildly every assumed move in the dark. It became more and more.
Twisted limbs and heads appeared from the black. They were nearly human creatures, their fingers deformed to terrible claws and their faces looked more like the ill-natured monsters out there than what it perhaps once used to be.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill Origins OST) – Raw Power
The creatures from the darkness moved slowly towards me, although I was sure that they could rip me apart in seconds. Maybe they didn't feel threatened by me? Didn't they follow the same killer instinct as the slender monsters out there?
I raised slowly. Right and left those strange humanoid aliens stood still, forming an alley. Confused and frightened as before I did a few steps forward. They pushed me further, doing nothing but staring in my back, closing their lines behind me. My terror became almost unbearable. What did they want from me? My way stopped at a door. I could see light shining through the corridor behind. Under constraint I entered the next room, following the walls of steel behind it. The closer I came to their end the louder became thus disgusting noises. Crunching, ripping, smacking, rumbling.
My heart nearly jumped out of my chest. When I entered that room I lost another piece of my sanity.
One creature like the others stood there, but importantly bigger, stronger and in a frightening way ... more intelligent. It pierced me with its stare, the bizarre face was bloodied.
It stood on a pile of human bones, as clean as a whistle.
My last courage and constancy broke down.
I ran away blindly, upstairs on metallic steps, not knowing what direction.
I heard the roar of that gruesome monster. The others answered. They were behind me.
Out of control I jumped into a light.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill 2 OST) - Terror In The Depths Of The Fog
Short time later I awoke in a pile of cardboard boxes. Because of the pain in all my limbs I could consider that I still was alive. And I was still lucky, for I didn't get any severe wounds.
But even as I gathered my senses, my sight didn't become clearer. Dizzy I lurched around in a yellow-green fog. I quickly recognized its toxic effect. It irritated my eyes and mucosa, every breath led to a fit of coughing. I tried to escape it, but didn't know where to go.
Then I heard a steaming fizzling. I turned around and saw a unshaped figure wafting through the fog, a few dozen meters away. You couldn't detect more than a silhouette. But quickly the horror showed himself. Something blew a stream of flames in the air and I could discover that this fog was emitted by a slender, wiggling monster with many tentacles. Its blown-up back puffed out the toxic gas in the air through long pipes.
Now I knew how to evade that poison: I had to go as far as I could away from this creature.
Stumbling I ran away fast, leaving that tentacled monster behind. My coughing was getting worse and I spit green slime from the deep of my throat. But my efforts were rewarded.
After a short time I could taste fresh oxygen again and saturated my gasping lungs.
Listen to: Apocalyptica - Hall Of The Mountain King
Gasping for breath I remained on my four limbs, trying to regain some power. I left the poisonous fog behind, but I could not see further than maybe hundred meters. I could just detect a road, rotting trees and bushes and the shapes of far distant buildings.
Resigning I stared to the ground. Where should I go? In just a few hours the world I used to know turned into hell, crowded with monsters and terrors. But I didn't want to resist.
Even if it was no sense in it, I wanted to survive as long as it was possible.
A gentle clicking noise reached my ears. I looked up, directly in the face of one of that tooth-armored jaws. Alarmed I jumped back on my feet and realized that this attacker did posses the claws and teeth of that aliens, but had the size of just a rat. Feeling superior I looked down on it and my will to resist woke up.
This grub-like monster wanted to bite my with its jaws, I kicked it hard. It flew away one meter and lied down dizzy. I attacked it, stomping hardly with my foot on its tiny body.
On my first try, the chitin-armor did withstand, but I increased the pressure and heard this satisfying cracking, felt the red bowels evading the shoe sole. What a hopeful realization. You're able to kill them.
My joy about it wasn't for long. Suddenly hundred of this small creatures appeared in front of me.
Not seeking for vengeance but for flesh they stared at me. They produced this many-voiced noise I knew from my dreams. This copious clicking of thousands of claws and teeth.
I fled without hesitation and masses covering the street started to move.
Listen to: Godsmack (Prince of Persia Warrior Within OST) - The Giant
But I ran only twenty meters when the numberless worms were crushed again ... by feet hundred times as heavy as mine. Ground trembled and I fell on my knees stumbling.
I turned on my back fast to locate the danger. A gigantic monster cut off the way for that little croachers. Four meters shoulder height, tons of muscles and armor plates, claws, thorns and teeth everywhere. What a breathtaking view.
My fascination for that creature shortly wiped away my fear. But quickly I recognized that it could squash me as fast as the others.
Not far away from me I saw thick coppice, where I took cover instantly, hoping not to be recognized by that colossus. I doubted there exists anything this monster could not destroy.
The way it was looking around it was certainly searching for something it could crush. A deep grumble rose from its belly, then a shaking scream. This had to be the sound of the dinosaurs long ago. My ears ringed and I sank on the floor beneath the leaves powerless. I remained there a moment, paralyzed. The shaking ground told me the giant was moving away.
I could not stay here for long. Certainly the next moment something would find me, eat me ... or just kill me.
Listen to: Minako Hamano (Super Smash Bros. Brawl OST) - Ridley
Suddenly I woke up again. I had dozed off. But luckily none of that terrible creatures found me lying beneath the bushes. A scream ended my sleep. Painfully I rose. There was no alien to see nearby. Then I heard the swoosh above me. A shadow laid on my resort. Intuitively I ducked myself deeper in my hideout. Above me another monstrous creature with leathern wings passed the sky. Every strong wing beat sent wind gusts down to me. Again it was screaming, a noise piercing through the air. There were many small creatures side by side also endued with spiky wings. The many-voiced flutter of one dark cloud sounded from one horizon to another. Flying beings all over the sky. Where were they going?
One thousand meters above I believed to see even bigger fliers as those spreading their shadows all around. I had a uneasy feeling, but could not leave my cover. They surely would attack me by hundreds, doom from the sky. So I waited quietly for what came next, astonished. It wasn't for long, then I saw to what extend the war against the alien forces had evolved.
Listen to: The Black Mages - Battle Theme 6
I heard shots. Still yesterday they would have frightened me to death, but now their meaning was only one: Men came and offered resistance!
Head low I left my hideout, then I saw them: Soldiers, guns, tanks. The army deployed everything they had to offer. Another green fog and all that smoke still won't let me see much of my surroundings. But both of it lightened slowly and I saw the armies of two worlds clashing against each other. Horror caught me again when I recognized that the alien creatures from outer space opposed our powers easily. Their soldiers where that little ones I knew from the train-disaster, but they had strange weapons in their claws. Living by their own they spit sticky filaments, thorns, bullet-like things or rotten flesh bursting with grubs and worms.
One single soldier detected me and wanted to help me out, but one of that alien bullets hit him, boring through its flesh. It broke out the chest, a little bug with powerful legs and jaws full of teeth. It died as soon as it left the body, so did its victim.
Shocked I cowered deeper in the coppice.
Not just small but also big aliens stood in the lines of the invaders. Three meters tall, intelligent creatures with claws and talons ripped apart human bodies with ease. They shot chunks of acid, shivering crystals and thorn webs with living guns on underpowered defenders. They were moving artillery, as good as ours or even better.
They even had tanks, those colossal monsters shaking the ground I met before. They carried long canons, whose might destroyed the strongest war machines of mankind. Some giants were wrapped in indestructible armor plates themselves.
Both sides fired from every hole. The human army did not come any further and this fact also attacked their morale. For every unit they shot to ground there came at least two following. But the most terrible happened now.
A monstrous creature appeared, more majestic than everything I had seen before. It held one of that bulky cannons in front of it and carried something like a living, wriggling sword. This dominating creature roared loudly and like commanded everything moved forward no-holds-barred. Above the creatures from the sky passed by and attacked the defense forces.
Mankind used its last reserves. Powerful missiles crossed heaven.
But one order of the tyrant with the sword was enough for hundreds of winged aliens catching the rockets, destroying or deflecting them selflessly losing their lives.
So the assaulting mass could just overran our men. The appearance of one superior intelligence sealed our fate. There was an explosion nearby and I was overwhelmed by dirt and debris.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill 3 OST) – A Stray Child
But death didn't found me, even as a witness of that battle. Eventually I awoke again, half-covered by hard dirt. My clothes hung from my body shredded. Scrapes and small burns all over my skin. Pain was running through my veins. My brawny hands bore my aching skull. Somehow I managed to regain control of my body and stood up. I looked around. As far as the eye could see only destruction. Smoke ascended of wrecked vehicles, everything was drowned in corpses. I counted as many human as alien bodies and it didn't mean anything good. The invaders outnumbered us from the beginning.
I tumbled out of the debris mountain and passed the dead battlefield. Nearly anything wasn't mutilated, charred or destroyed beyond recognition. Just pieces of red and green flesh everywhere. I met so many things that possibly once where human, I couldn't bear anymore in my crippled mind. I searched for something to defend with and found it. I never knew much about weapons but this was called assault rifle, I suggest.
I looked for an exit of this dead area and already the next danger showed itself. That little alien-worms began to consume everything organic, scurrying everywhere. In some distance strange flesh-bubbles floated around. Anytime they touched something they exploded loudly.
I surely wasn't safe here and so I quickly left that terrifying location.
Listen to: Tetsuya Takahashi (Appleseed Ex Machina OST) – Encroacher
I wandered disquieting, avoiding everything moving, through a world different to anything I had known about it. I still was in the suburbs of the city I had planned to visit that morning. But every sense for orientation or time had been wiped away. I wasn't able to say how many hours or even nights had passed since my first encounter with the monsters. Everything changed, even the people. I only met a few survivors but they fled seeing my weapon or wanted to persuade me to join their hideouts. Deadly traps, I thought silently. You surely weren't safe anywhere inside. So I kept eking out a living as a lone warrior. I only discovered a few of that big creatures, luckily soon enough to evade them. Where did the little monsters go? In their amount they were much more dangerous for fugitives like me. I lost in thought to deep and after the next corner I stood in front of a living giant of slime and chitin.
It faced its back to me, so that alien with the size of a bus didn't recognize me. I wanted to quickly sneak along, but that bloated belly of the crawling monster caught my view. It twitched and deformed continuously. Did it swallow something living? The answer came too fast.
The colossus screamed gurgling and out of its abdomen broke countless, slimy little aliens and they carried that strange living guns.
Without hesitation I fired with my assault rifle at the new hatched enemies and tore some of them apart. But it wouldn't stop and when I ran out of ammo the alien-mother was still giving birth.
I threw away my weapon and climbed a fire ladder to the top of the next building. The bug-like bullets drilled in the wall, but once again I escaped unharmed. They couldn't follow me to the flat roof, but I could watch that monstrous creatures everywhere, throwing out a new army to our world. Stunned I slumped down.
Listen to: Kayo Konishi & Yukio Kondo (Elfenlied OST) - Jouzai
On the streets that bulk of monsters crawled until dusk. In the blood-red light of the sunset I saw them butchering helpless people. They reached every corner of any building. And again I was lucky, only that fire ladder led to my safe place, an access not being recognized or used by the creatures. I remained in my new hideout and ate some of the food I collected at daytime. As I laid there and the summer breeze went cooler, suddenly I heard a noise behind me. Terrified I turned around. Was something there? I couldn't detect anything in the darkness. Beside my little camp was nothing but empty boxes and chimneys, and some debris of airplanes possibly still flying yesterday.
Ignoring my heartbeat I listened to the silence. Did something come up here after all? Dead silence, nothing moving ... but still I had great fear for my life. I laid down again, eyes wide open, watching the darkness. I listened attentively. There was a rattling, clicking noise. For sure.
Listen to: ZIZZ (Song of Saya OST) - SCARE SHADOW
The fizzling became slightly louder and one grotesque figure appeared from the darkness. It didn't hide in the junk, it came out of nowhere, as if it had been invisible. Below the armor plates on its back it had strong arms, claws on it hands and a huge pair of talons, like those of a mantis. Most terrifying was its tentacled mouth beneath the soulless eyes. On its hind legs the terrible monster sneaked closer.
Horror paralyzed me. If I just moved a finger it would surely rip me apart in a second.
Then it lifted it talons high in the air and I acted on instinct to survive. I rolled out of reach and the claws crushed in the ground behind me. The predator hissed loudly as it saw me jumping at my feet.
When it pulled its talons out of the cement I ran to the end of the roof. But much to quick the alien came after me. It shot flesh hooks at my body, grazing my arm and pushing me down. I fell hardly, rolling uncontrollable to the edge of the flat roof. When I felt nothing more under me and adrenaline was whooshing in my body, the creature caught me at the last material of my shirt, unintentionally saving me. It wanted to pull me up again, but I fought against it, the shirt burst and I fell in the deep, on a balcony straight below me.
Listen to: Hiroki Kikuta (Secret of Mana OST) - The Oracle
Miraculously I survived another time. Half naked I rolled on the carpet of that houses highest balcony and reached the inside of an apartment through a open door made of glass. Quickly I jumped in a small corridor behind the dark living room, hearing the monster breaking the door. It was too big for the narrow rooms of this building, rumbling and scraping told me so.
But then it made some hissing noises and a strange aroma reached my nose, sweet but alien.
I hid myself in the smallest corner of the apartment for a time, the terrible noises of the creature searching for me terrorized my mind steadily.
Then another sound interfered, ringing in my head itself. Scraping, scratching, chattering, hissing. It became louder and louder, giving me enormous headache. It felt like an alien creature was crawling through my brain.
Dizzy I stumbled out of the corridor in a small room, possibly a bathroom. It became worse and I threw up in the tub.
Monotonous buzzing remained in my skull, something flashing outside let my paralyzed self think to have a look out of the window.
There on the street the most grotesque aliens I had seen until now stood and watched. Their bodies and claws were tiny but their head, long and big with a gigantic brain, compensated for it unnaturally. It looked like their skull was about to explode. It were two of them, one with red pulsating organs, the other one with yellow cracking energy floating around its head. I had the bad feeling they found a way into my mind. They would drive me insane.
Suddenly everything became silent and I had a closer look. Thunderbolts circled around the monsters heads.
Hounded I ran out of the apartment, down the stairs and out of the building. I reached the empty streets and fled as fast as I could.
The house behind me was destructed by an enormous explosion.
Listen to: Stemage (Super Metroid Metal) - Boss Medley
I kept running with tears in my eyes. Where on earth should I go? You could not escape this terrible monsters, nowhere. The whole planet was theirs. What did they want? Why did they kill everybody?
Finally my legs stopped and I collapsed, sobbing. If I had noticed, the jeep stopping behind me surely would have surprised me.
"Pull yourself together, boy!", someone was saying and dragged me harshly on the loading space.
Many men in uniform carrying big guns shared room with me. In the dawn they drove together with many other cars, tanks and helicopters against another army of the aliens. Those fools. They ran for a fall. But there was no possibility to survive anyway. Shouting they started fire on the swarming little creatures without number, the bulky monsters between them, the winged terrors in the sky and the supernatural intelligent commanders of that race, the new rulers of the earth. At no time we had a chance to win.
They were far ahead of us, born for war and terror. They were superior to anything on earth we could imagine. We were just their prey. We were the vermin to be crushed under their feet.
To support this thought some huge, titanic horrors appeared, towering above every tree, moving mountains on skinny spider legs. Their weapons destroyed whole areas and nothing could stop them or even stay in their way. Why did this soldiers throw themselves to death in such an eager? Did they become insane, just like me? I only saw swarming aliens until horizon. They killed and devoured everything human, destructing every machine, every house, all our nature. They poisoned the air and left nothing unharmed. So long I watched that nightmare, so long I survived. But I was killed, too. It just took a little longer than for many others.
Listen to: Takeharu Ishimoto (Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core OST) – The Summoned
Rumbling from the depth of the earth and tremors in the ground made the soldiers on the jeep stop for a while. A short moment of silence. They watched each other questioning. Then hell broke loose from below. The vehicle was ripped apart bursting loudly. Every men inside died in the debris or was expelled from the car. I was beneath the second ones and my exhausted body smashed hard on the bloodstained ground. It couldn't care me less, but my broken legs meant certain death now. The dreams of the past few weeks did it, too. There was no difference. I laid there and watched a big snake-like creature towering up to five meters in the air. It shook off some dirt, swinging its digging claws and erected its bone collar. The soldiers, who were still able to move and shout, fired at that monster from the ground in panic. It spread its jaw widely and swallowed one of them completely.
Then all around me many smaller snake-aliens, still three meters tall, dug out of the earth and threw their six sharp claws in any direction. Many men didn't continue to fight but fled terrified. The creatures assaulted them, biting and tearing them apart without mercy. No fugitive could escape. Just me, as I laid there motionless, they ignored completely. Why did they still have to torture me? Couldn't they just give me a quick salvation? Their predator-instincts seemed to command them to attack only moving prey. So they snaked further to the next fighting victim. I kept laying and waited for my last doom.
Listen to: Kenji Yamamoto (Metroid Prime OST) – Parasite Queen
Finally my redeemer came to me. Shortly after everything around me calmed down in the shadow of death another gigantic six-limbed snake appeared out of the ground. Much more elegant than its forerunner it rose from the corpse-field around me, scraping its heavy armor plates against each other and screaming wildly. Its windings emerged in any direction and at once one mighty thunderstorm broke loose from the creatures excrescences.
A god of thunder I thought to myself when one of that torrid white lines jumped at me and cut me into halves. Hot pain pierced my whole body as my organs burned out. I had a sigh. The giant disappeared to complete its work of destruction. In the last moments of my live I saw those little aliens again I escaped from the train. They came out of the hole the big snake left in the earth. This elegant, aesthetic, perfect creatures smashed their teeth into my flesh, devouring every little remain of my body, adding it to the great whole of their race. I became a part of it and was convinced. It was their destination. They traveled through the far universe, feeding everything on their way, assimilating every world and united them in their existence.
This insight overcame me with my death.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill Origins OST) – Insecticide
What a pity just my body left the earth. My soul remained on its home world and had to watch the destruction and absorption of our once blue planet. As a ghost-like existence I saw all of it, everything the horror from space did to our nature. This celestial body was a resource for them from the beginning, ready to be harvested. We simply weren't able to defense ourselves, they overran us with their masses. The warrior creatures from the past days disappeared without a trace. Just that little devouring worms were left, feeding everything organic on their way.
Everywhere huge structures rose from the ground, spiky towers and tall chimneys, blowing that green fog to the atmosphere. Everything rotted and was consumed by the grub aliens. Big monsters, being followed by a cloud of death, melted the biggest trees to black slime. Blown up absorber worms throw themselves in digestion pools like lemmings. Long tubes pumped concentrated biomass far to the sky. Aside stood armored monsters with bulky cannons, nipping every threat in the bud. Helplessly my and billion other restless souls watched every life being wiped away on the world we once called our own.
Listen to: Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy 7 OST) – You Can Hear The Cry Of The Planet
Suddenly every sign of the alien race disappeared at once, as quickly as they had arrived. Not the slightest trace of that horrible creatures was left behind, even that threatening aura we've felt long before their arrival was gone. The only thing you could see on our planet was a endless wasteland, a dead world. Forests, prairies, everything turned into a dreary grey desert. They drank every last drop of water. Where once shimmered the blue of our earth, now craters formed empty seas and rivers. Only stony mountains and canyons left to see, arid cracks until far beyond the horizon. No clouds in the sky, no wind howling through the lands. Not even one glimpse of life.
Surely we could have carried more for our environment, but something like this we could never have done to it.
The robbing race devoured everything with an efficiency far ahead our ways and means.
Our dead souls stared silently on a colorless picture for all eternity. No one could have imagined something like this. I returned to the beginning of that dream, trapped in it forever.
now I want to show you my first 40k- and tyranid-fanfiction I wrote some time ago (originally in German). It's about an invasion on Terra, but not in a distant future but in the present age. The songs named in the title shall accompany the atmosphere and if you own them I highly recommend you to listen while reading.
Also I apologize right from the beginning for any grammatical and spelling mistakes. Unfortunately I am no native speaker. If you find any mistakes feel free to correct me, please.
Now enjoy!
Tyranid Soundtrack
Listen to: Zoät-Aon - Totem Owl
In the beginning everything was dark. But yet in this darkness you were able to feel something. It was an aura that sent a chill down your back, threatening.
Finally I could see, but my eyes detected nothing but dead grey wastelands.
Heaven was black as night, no ray of light to see.
Then I felt the first movements. Quietly I heard the monotonous noise of thousands of insects bodies, scratching against each other. The ground vibrated.
Undefinable shadows rose in a far distance, in the earth and the sky.
Suddenly the sands crumbled and numberless limbs revealed themselves out of the dust.
Claws and teeth flashed before me. Claws and teeth.
This was the last and only I saw until then. I just heard these screams. They devoured me, bit and ripped me apart like the jaws, tusks and talons.
The wild creatures savaged me and it felt like eternity when my body was slashed by them.
Terror and pain attended me until dawn.
My awakening was a salvation. A short catch for breath in a slow struggle for death.
Listen to: Tetsuya Takahashi (Appleseed Ex Machina OST) - Phobia
Weeks ago before the terrible day I felt the steady unease. In my dreams these scenes chased and terrorized me, and even in my awake condition they wouldn't let me go.
I recognized a certain lassitude in the faces of the people around me, which affected me the same way. All of them seemed nervous. But no one talked about it.
Finally I committed these thoughts to my best friends and they surprisingly told me about the same dreams and feelings.
We all had these pictures of many swarming horrors in front of your eyes. Nobody had experienced something like this before and instantly we brooded about the meaning of all this, for we were fascinated by mysterious things long before.
We knew many stories of that kind and we agreed that they always had been bad omen of terrible catastrophes. How soon they would come, we should have known. The signs were so clear.
It became worse the next days. The dark premonition became more and more public, self-appointed prophets of all religions spoke of the coming apocalypse.
As before I didn't believe them any word, but the international movements pointed out that the belief in the world's end spread like a fire among the haunted souls.
It was when animals and also human beings disappeared without a trace that fear grew stronger than before.
Listen to: Pearl Kyoudai (Welcome to the NHK OST) - Moratorium Ni Youkoso!
Saturday night I were at my friends home once again. We played our usual parlor games, having a good time, ignoring those fears. Time passed by as always and I got in my car to drive home.
Yet on the street I saw it, as the clouds revealed the evil staring crescent. Red fog and lights far away in the sky. Quickly I drove home. There the clouds were entirely gone and before I stepped inside I watched closer to the atmospheric phenomenon. No more stars to see. Out of the universe these shapes shimmered and glowed, bloody and misty, illuminated by the sun beyond the horizon.
It was fascinating, like an crimson aurora. But still it alarmed me deeply. Against all nature, threatening, lurking.
In my room I listened to the news, did research on the web, but nothing could explain to me what exactly was happening out there. With that uneasy feeling of the last few weeks I went to bed to dream of that terrors again.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill OST) - All
The next day I took the train to the city. Still there was no explanation for that red clouds out there on the media. The people around me seemed to share my displeasure about it. Everyone felt it and was in fear. Fear from the unknown. Nobody wanted this day to be his last. But deep inside they knew.
I listened to the noises of the moving train, staring out of the window lost in thought. Up in the sky you still saw the red nebula, moving in the sunlight. I concentrated solely on it.
And then I saw this small dots, dropping from the firmament. Moment by moment more people recognized it. That things came closer. Meteorites, missiles from space, I heard the people say. Panic spread around. Did the world's end finally come?
Those glowing drop-shaped things blasted down on our planet. At a far distance I saw one of them crashing into a wide grain field. Hitting the ground they raised dust. Tremors followed the impacts. Now I could detect that those meteorites seemed neither metallic nor stony but organic.
Suddenly the train braked at full power, dashing his passengers to the front. We stopped.
One of these bundles of meat had fallen directly from the sky on the rail, whirling around a slimy tentacle.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill OST) - Until Death
We didn't have the time to realize what happened. The fleshy walls of the capsule burst and released waves of that swarming creatures we knew from our nightmares. Without break nor the shortest moment of orientation they dived straight to ourselves, powered by an strange hungry instinct. They were alien beings, a mix from reptiles and insects. They had mucous green flesh, blood vessels pulsating from under their skin and dark red-brown armors of chitin, running in several plates from head to tail. They ran the distance at enormous speed with their strong hind legs. One of their pair of limbs was held close to the body, the other one, armed with deadly yellow talons, swung around wildly. Their head was almost build up solely from their mighty jaws full of sharp teeth and their soulless evil eyes.
Petrified by this scene we did nothing but sitting in our wagon, watching them coming closer and closer. And they came from everywhere.
The whole area, road bed and the close-by fields, all was flooded by that terrible creatures, who were up to only one thing: our lifes.
I looked into the faces of the people around me. Horror, fear and bewilderment.
Some of them screamed when the first alien-bodies hurled themselves against the windows. The strong glass resisted ... yet. The monsters from behind crushed their conspecifics against glass and metal without regard.
Clangor and screams of death suddenly sounded somewhere.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill OST) - Ain't Gonna Run
The windows finally had to give in to the massive amount of bodies. The deathbringers conquered the last barrier. I was lucky, they didn't break the window next to me, but cracks formed all over the outside of the train. A few centimeters away from my face the drooling jaws snapped at me. They reached their goal elsewhere.
Teeth and claws drilled into the bodies of the passengers, the long scythes mutilated and decapitated their victims. Blood and flesh splattered all around. They were close to me, just a few meters away, squeezing their way through the narrow windows, helpless people and corpses.
I should have run, but I still wasn't able to move. The doors were shut and impossible to open because of the weight pushing from outside.
A few people nearby ran for their life. I saw everything so very slowly. The creatures assaulted me. Suddenly another window broke and another flood of monsters pushed aside the deadly danger. They crushed each other, snapped at themselves.
Finally I rose from my seat.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill 2 OST) – Ashes and Ghosts
A high chime echoed somewhere deep in my head and the will to survive overwhelmed my senses. I drew back from that mouths snapping for me and observed my surroundings. The narrow train-wagon was a perfect deadly trap. You could only escape by the doors or windows and that ways were simply barricaded by the huge amount of monsters. So there was only one way. While the creatures were in a struggle against each other, trying to unknot their bodies, I ran straight towards them.
Someone called me back but this wasn't the time to hesitate. With my sneakers I stepped on their armor plates and got out of the train in a few jumps. I was lucky as hell, none of those swinging claws harmed me.
I stumbled outside, being in the same danger as before. One of that jaws caught my trouser leg, but it was just the cloth. My jeans tore and I fell backwards into the ditch along the rail. The bizarre bulk of bodies crushed deeper into the train, ignoring me completely.
I could not believe my fortune, sitting in the mud and watching the failures of all the others who tried to do it like me. Then I remembered that I still had to run, I picked myself up and climbed out of the ditch.
The grass was littered with green and red blotches. At the top I briefly turned around. There were only bloody remains and crawling monsters left inside the train.
Suddenly one of the creatures a few meters aside spotted me. It screamed stridently, heading instantly at my direction.
Adrenalin filled me completely and I fled as fast as I could. There was an abandoned industrial-building not far away. The heavy open gate seemed to be the only help, and the windows were placed four meters further at the top. I hoped that hunter wasn't able to jump that high.
I fought through the rubbish in the front court and didn't look back. The fizzling and biting of that terror behind me came closer.
My hand reached forward and grabbed metal. I jumped into the darkness and threw the door in its frame. The haunter crushed against it, screaming. The steel swung up again. Shortly I saw the dazed creature and closed the door again with a kick. The first thing I got in my hands I threw in front of the entrance.
An interlock and a heavy iron-shelf kept the danger outside.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill 2 OST) – The Darkness That Lurks In Our Mind
The claws smashed clefts in the metal and the gate quaked under the aliens attacks, but the hunter gave up quickly and vanished, possibly heading for the next victim.
Breathing heavily I sunk to ground, trembling, realizing how close I evaded death. I wondered if those catastrophes were spread on the whole planet. It was the end, everyone knew it for days. Now face to face with danger everything in my head was spinning around. I could keep no good thought. Was I really safe in here?
It was a big room with metal columns and structures, various machines, old and rusty. Not many light passed the dirty windows. The suppressing darkness spread out of every corner.
There was a hushed noise. Then fear filled my head once again. Something was in here!
My heartbeat echoed in my chest as I sat paralyzed in the middle of the room.
My eyes followed wildly every assumed move in the dark. It became more and more.
Twisted limbs and heads appeared from the black. They were nearly human creatures, their fingers deformed to terrible claws and their faces looked more like the ill-natured monsters out there than what it perhaps once used to be.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill Origins OST) – Raw Power
The creatures from the darkness moved slowly towards me, although I was sure that they could rip me apart in seconds. Maybe they didn't feel threatened by me? Didn't they follow the same killer instinct as the slender monsters out there?
I raised slowly. Right and left those strange humanoid aliens stood still, forming an alley. Confused and frightened as before I did a few steps forward. They pushed me further, doing nothing but staring in my back, closing their lines behind me. My terror became almost unbearable. What did they want from me? My way stopped at a door. I could see light shining through the corridor behind. Under constraint I entered the next room, following the walls of steel behind it. The closer I came to their end the louder became thus disgusting noises. Crunching, ripping, smacking, rumbling.
My heart nearly jumped out of my chest. When I entered that room I lost another piece of my sanity.
One creature like the others stood there, but importantly bigger, stronger and in a frightening way ... more intelligent. It pierced me with its stare, the bizarre face was bloodied.
It stood on a pile of human bones, as clean as a whistle.
My last courage and constancy broke down.
I ran away blindly, upstairs on metallic steps, not knowing what direction.
I heard the roar of that gruesome monster. The others answered. They were behind me.
Out of control I jumped into a light.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill 2 OST) - Terror In The Depths Of The Fog
Short time later I awoke in a pile of cardboard boxes. Because of the pain in all my limbs I could consider that I still was alive. And I was still lucky, for I didn't get any severe wounds.
But even as I gathered my senses, my sight didn't become clearer. Dizzy I lurched around in a yellow-green fog. I quickly recognized its toxic effect. It irritated my eyes and mucosa, every breath led to a fit of coughing. I tried to escape it, but didn't know where to go.
Then I heard a steaming fizzling. I turned around and saw a unshaped figure wafting through the fog, a few dozen meters away. You couldn't detect more than a silhouette. But quickly the horror showed himself. Something blew a stream of flames in the air and I could discover that this fog was emitted by a slender, wiggling monster with many tentacles. Its blown-up back puffed out the toxic gas in the air through long pipes.
Now I knew how to evade that poison: I had to go as far as I could away from this creature.
Stumbling I ran away fast, leaving that tentacled monster behind. My coughing was getting worse and I spit green slime from the deep of my throat. But my efforts were rewarded.
After a short time I could taste fresh oxygen again and saturated my gasping lungs.
Listen to: Apocalyptica - Hall Of The Mountain King
Gasping for breath I remained on my four limbs, trying to regain some power. I left the poisonous fog behind, but I could not see further than maybe hundred meters. I could just detect a road, rotting trees and bushes and the shapes of far distant buildings.
Resigning I stared to the ground. Where should I go? In just a few hours the world I used to know turned into hell, crowded with monsters and terrors. But I didn't want to resist.
Even if it was no sense in it, I wanted to survive as long as it was possible.
A gentle clicking noise reached my ears. I looked up, directly in the face of one of that tooth-armored jaws. Alarmed I jumped back on my feet and realized that this attacker did posses the claws and teeth of that aliens, but had the size of just a rat. Feeling superior I looked down on it and my will to resist woke up.
This grub-like monster wanted to bite my with its jaws, I kicked it hard. It flew away one meter and lied down dizzy. I attacked it, stomping hardly with my foot on its tiny body.
On my first try, the chitin-armor did withstand, but I increased the pressure and heard this satisfying cracking, felt the red bowels evading the shoe sole. What a hopeful realization. You're able to kill them.
My joy about it wasn't for long. Suddenly hundred of this small creatures appeared in front of me.
Not seeking for vengeance but for flesh they stared at me. They produced this many-voiced noise I knew from my dreams. This copious clicking of thousands of claws and teeth.
I fled without hesitation and masses covering the street started to move.
Listen to: Godsmack (Prince of Persia Warrior Within OST) - The Giant
But I ran only twenty meters when the numberless worms were crushed again ... by feet hundred times as heavy as mine. Ground trembled and I fell on my knees stumbling.
I turned on my back fast to locate the danger. A gigantic monster cut off the way for that little croachers. Four meters shoulder height, tons of muscles and armor plates, claws, thorns and teeth everywhere. What a breathtaking view.
My fascination for that creature shortly wiped away my fear. But quickly I recognized that it could squash me as fast as the others.
Not far away from me I saw thick coppice, where I took cover instantly, hoping not to be recognized by that colossus. I doubted there exists anything this monster could not destroy.
The way it was looking around it was certainly searching for something it could crush. A deep grumble rose from its belly, then a shaking scream. This had to be the sound of the dinosaurs long ago. My ears ringed and I sank on the floor beneath the leaves powerless. I remained there a moment, paralyzed. The shaking ground told me the giant was moving away.
I could not stay here for long. Certainly the next moment something would find me, eat me ... or just kill me.
Listen to: Minako Hamano (Super Smash Bros. Brawl OST) - Ridley
Suddenly I woke up again. I had dozed off. But luckily none of that terrible creatures found me lying beneath the bushes. A scream ended my sleep. Painfully I rose. There was no alien to see nearby. Then I heard the swoosh above me. A shadow laid on my resort. Intuitively I ducked myself deeper in my hideout. Above me another monstrous creature with leathern wings passed the sky. Every strong wing beat sent wind gusts down to me. Again it was screaming, a noise piercing through the air. There were many small creatures side by side also endued with spiky wings. The many-voiced flutter of one dark cloud sounded from one horizon to another. Flying beings all over the sky. Where were they going?
One thousand meters above I believed to see even bigger fliers as those spreading their shadows all around. I had a uneasy feeling, but could not leave my cover. They surely would attack me by hundreds, doom from the sky. So I waited quietly for what came next, astonished. It wasn't for long, then I saw to what extend the war against the alien forces had evolved.
Listen to: The Black Mages - Battle Theme 6
I heard shots. Still yesterday they would have frightened me to death, but now their meaning was only one: Men came and offered resistance!
Head low I left my hideout, then I saw them: Soldiers, guns, tanks. The army deployed everything they had to offer. Another green fog and all that smoke still won't let me see much of my surroundings. But both of it lightened slowly and I saw the armies of two worlds clashing against each other. Horror caught me again when I recognized that the alien creatures from outer space opposed our powers easily. Their soldiers where that little ones I knew from the train-disaster, but they had strange weapons in their claws. Living by their own they spit sticky filaments, thorns, bullet-like things or rotten flesh bursting with grubs and worms.
One single soldier detected me and wanted to help me out, but one of that alien bullets hit him, boring through its flesh. It broke out the chest, a little bug with powerful legs and jaws full of teeth. It died as soon as it left the body, so did its victim.
Shocked I cowered deeper in the coppice.
Not just small but also big aliens stood in the lines of the invaders. Three meters tall, intelligent creatures with claws and talons ripped apart human bodies with ease. They shot chunks of acid, shivering crystals and thorn webs with living guns on underpowered defenders. They were moving artillery, as good as ours or even better.
They even had tanks, those colossal monsters shaking the ground I met before. They carried long canons, whose might destroyed the strongest war machines of mankind. Some giants were wrapped in indestructible armor plates themselves.
Both sides fired from every hole. The human army did not come any further and this fact also attacked their morale. For every unit they shot to ground there came at least two following. But the most terrible happened now.
A monstrous creature appeared, more majestic than everything I had seen before. It held one of that bulky cannons in front of it and carried something like a living, wriggling sword. This dominating creature roared loudly and like commanded everything moved forward no-holds-barred. Above the creatures from the sky passed by and attacked the defense forces.
Mankind used its last reserves. Powerful missiles crossed heaven.
But one order of the tyrant with the sword was enough for hundreds of winged aliens catching the rockets, destroying or deflecting them selflessly losing their lives.
So the assaulting mass could just overran our men. The appearance of one superior intelligence sealed our fate. There was an explosion nearby and I was overwhelmed by dirt and debris.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill 3 OST) – A Stray Child
But death didn't found me, even as a witness of that battle. Eventually I awoke again, half-covered by hard dirt. My clothes hung from my body shredded. Scrapes and small burns all over my skin. Pain was running through my veins. My brawny hands bore my aching skull. Somehow I managed to regain control of my body and stood up. I looked around. As far as the eye could see only destruction. Smoke ascended of wrecked vehicles, everything was drowned in corpses. I counted as many human as alien bodies and it didn't mean anything good. The invaders outnumbered us from the beginning.
I tumbled out of the debris mountain and passed the dead battlefield. Nearly anything wasn't mutilated, charred or destroyed beyond recognition. Just pieces of red and green flesh everywhere. I met so many things that possibly once where human, I couldn't bear anymore in my crippled mind. I searched for something to defend with and found it. I never knew much about weapons but this was called assault rifle, I suggest.
I looked for an exit of this dead area and already the next danger showed itself. That little alien-worms began to consume everything organic, scurrying everywhere. In some distance strange flesh-bubbles floated around. Anytime they touched something they exploded loudly.
I surely wasn't safe here and so I quickly left that terrifying location.
Listen to: Tetsuya Takahashi (Appleseed Ex Machina OST) – Encroacher
I wandered disquieting, avoiding everything moving, through a world different to anything I had known about it. I still was in the suburbs of the city I had planned to visit that morning. But every sense for orientation or time had been wiped away. I wasn't able to say how many hours or even nights had passed since my first encounter with the monsters. Everything changed, even the people. I only met a few survivors but they fled seeing my weapon or wanted to persuade me to join their hideouts. Deadly traps, I thought silently. You surely weren't safe anywhere inside. So I kept eking out a living as a lone warrior. I only discovered a few of that big creatures, luckily soon enough to evade them. Where did the little monsters go? In their amount they were much more dangerous for fugitives like me. I lost in thought to deep and after the next corner I stood in front of a living giant of slime and chitin.
It faced its back to me, so that alien with the size of a bus didn't recognize me. I wanted to quickly sneak along, but that bloated belly of the crawling monster caught my view. It twitched and deformed continuously. Did it swallow something living? The answer came too fast.
The colossus screamed gurgling and out of its abdomen broke countless, slimy little aliens and they carried that strange living guns.
Without hesitation I fired with my assault rifle at the new hatched enemies and tore some of them apart. But it wouldn't stop and when I ran out of ammo the alien-mother was still giving birth.
I threw away my weapon and climbed a fire ladder to the top of the next building. The bug-like bullets drilled in the wall, but once again I escaped unharmed. They couldn't follow me to the flat roof, but I could watch that monstrous creatures everywhere, throwing out a new army to our world. Stunned I slumped down.
Listen to: Kayo Konishi & Yukio Kondo (Elfenlied OST) - Jouzai
On the streets that bulk of monsters crawled until dusk. In the blood-red light of the sunset I saw them butchering helpless people. They reached every corner of any building. And again I was lucky, only that fire ladder led to my safe place, an access not being recognized or used by the creatures. I remained in my new hideout and ate some of the food I collected at daytime. As I laid there and the summer breeze went cooler, suddenly I heard a noise behind me. Terrified I turned around. Was something there? I couldn't detect anything in the darkness. Beside my little camp was nothing but empty boxes and chimneys, and some debris of airplanes possibly still flying yesterday.
Ignoring my heartbeat I listened to the silence. Did something come up here after all? Dead silence, nothing moving ... but still I had great fear for my life. I laid down again, eyes wide open, watching the darkness. I listened attentively. There was a rattling, clicking noise. For sure.
Listen to: ZIZZ (Song of Saya OST) - SCARE SHADOW
The fizzling became slightly louder and one grotesque figure appeared from the darkness. It didn't hide in the junk, it came out of nowhere, as if it had been invisible. Below the armor plates on its back it had strong arms, claws on it hands and a huge pair of talons, like those of a mantis. Most terrifying was its tentacled mouth beneath the soulless eyes. On its hind legs the terrible monster sneaked closer.
Horror paralyzed me. If I just moved a finger it would surely rip me apart in a second.
Then it lifted it talons high in the air and I acted on instinct to survive. I rolled out of reach and the claws crushed in the ground behind me. The predator hissed loudly as it saw me jumping at my feet.
When it pulled its talons out of the cement I ran to the end of the roof. But much to quick the alien came after me. It shot flesh hooks at my body, grazing my arm and pushing me down. I fell hardly, rolling uncontrollable to the edge of the flat roof. When I felt nothing more under me and adrenaline was whooshing in my body, the creature caught me at the last material of my shirt, unintentionally saving me. It wanted to pull me up again, but I fought against it, the shirt burst and I fell in the deep, on a balcony straight below me.
Listen to: Hiroki Kikuta (Secret of Mana OST) - The Oracle
Miraculously I survived another time. Half naked I rolled on the carpet of that houses highest balcony and reached the inside of an apartment through a open door made of glass. Quickly I jumped in a small corridor behind the dark living room, hearing the monster breaking the door. It was too big for the narrow rooms of this building, rumbling and scraping told me so.
But then it made some hissing noises and a strange aroma reached my nose, sweet but alien.
I hid myself in the smallest corner of the apartment for a time, the terrible noises of the creature searching for me terrorized my mind steadily.
Then another sound interfered, ringing in my head itself. Scraping, scratching, chattering, hissing. It became louder and louder, giving me enormous headache. It felt like an alien creature was crawling through my brain.
Dizzy I stumbled out of the corridor in a small room, possibly a bathroom. It became worse and I threw up in the tub.
Monotonous buzzing remained in my skull, something flashing outside let my paralyzed self think to have a look out of the window.
There on the street the most grotesque aliens I had seen until now stood and watched. Their bodies and claws were tiny but their head, long and big with a gigantic brain, compensated for it unnaturally. It looked like their skull was about to explode. It were two of them, one with red pulsating organs, the other one with yellow cracking energy floating around its head. I had the bad feeling they found a way into my mind. They would drive me insane.
Suddenly everything became silent and I had a closer look. Thunderbolts circled around the monsters heads.
Hounded I ran out of the apartment, down the stairs and out of the building. I reached the empty streets and fled as fast as I could.
The house behind me was destructed by an enormous explosion.
Listen to: Stemage (Super Metroid Metal) - Boss Medley
I kept running with tears in my eyes. Where on earth should I go? You could not escape this terrible monsters, nowhere. The whole planet was theirs. What did they want? Why did they kill everybody?
Finally my legs stopped and I collapsed, sobbing. If I had noticed, the jeep stopping behind me surely would have surprised me.
"Pull yourself together, boy!", someone was saying and dragged me harshly on the loading space.
Many men in uniform carrying big guns shared room with me. In the dawn they drove together with many other cars, tanks and helicopters against another army of the aliens. Those fools. They ran for a fall. But there was no possibility to survive anyway. Shouting they started fire on the swarming little creatures without number, the bulky monsters between them, the winged terrors in the sky and the supernatural intelligent commanders of that race, the new rulers of the earth. At no time we had a chance to win.
They were far ahead of us, born for war and terror. They were superior to anything on earth we could imagine. We were just their prey. We were the vermin to be crushed under their feet.
To support this thought some huge, titanic horrors appeared, towering above every tree, moving mountains on skinny spider legs. Their weapons destroyed whole areas and nothing could stop them or even stay in their way. Why did this soldiers throw themselves to death in such an eager? Did they become insane, just like me? I only saw swarming aliens until horizon. They killed and devoured everything human, destructing every machine, every house, all our nature. They poisoned the air and left nothing unharmed. So long I watched that nightmare, so long I survived. But I was killed, too. It just took a little longer than for many others.
Listen to: Takeharu Ishimoto (Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core OST) – The Summoned
Rumbling from the depth of the earth and tremors in the ground made the soldiers on the jeep stop for a while. A short moment of silence. They watched each other questioning. Then hell broke loose from below. The vehicle was ripped apart bursting loudly. Every men inside died in the debris or was expelled from the car. I was beneath the second ones and my exhausted body smashed hard on the bloodstained ground. It couldn't care me less, but my broken legs meant certain death now. The dreams of the past few weeks did it, too. There was no difference. I laid there and watched a big snake-like creature towering up to five meters in the air. It shook off some dirt, swinging its digging claws and erected its bone collar. The soldiers, who were still able to move and shout, fired at that monster from the ground in panic. It spread its jaw widely and swallowed one of them completely.
Then all around me many smaller snake-aliens, still three meters tall, dug out of the earth and threw their six sharp claws in any direction. Many men didn't continue to fight but fled terrified. The creatures assaulted them, biting and tearing them apart without mercy. No fugitive could escape. Just me, as I laid there motionless, they ignored completely. Why did they still have to torture me? Couldn't they just give me a quick salvation? Their predator-instincts seemed to command them to attack only moving prey. So they snaked further to the next fighting victim. I kept laying and waited for my last doom.
Listen to: Kenji Yamamoto (Metroid Prime OST) – Parasite Queen
Finally my redeemer came to me. Shortly after everything around me calmed down in the shadow of death another gigantic six-limbed snake appeared out of the ground. Much more elegant than its forerunner it rose from the corpse-field around me, scraping its heavy armor plates against each other and screaming wildly. Its windings emerged in any direction and at once one mighty thunderstorm broke loose from the creatures excrescences.
A god of thunder I thought to myself when one of that torrid white lines jumped at me and cut me into halves. Hot pain pierced my whole body as my organs burned out. I had a sigh. The giant disappeared to complete its work of destruction. In the last moments of my live I saw those little aliens again I escaped from the train. They came out of the hole the big snake left in the earth. This elegant, aesthetic, perfect creatures smashed their teeth into my flesh, devouring every little remain of my body, adding it to the great whole of their race. I became a part of it and was convinced. It was their destination. They traveled through the far universe, feeding everything on their way, assimilating every world and united them in their existence.
This insight overcame me with my death.
Listen to: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill Origins OST) – Insecticide
What a pity just my body left the earth. My soul remained on its home world and had to watch the destruction and absorption of our once blue planet. As a ghost-like existence I saw all of it, everything the horror from space did to our nature. This celestial body was a resource for them from the beginning, ready to be harvested. We simply weren't able to defense ourselves, they overran us with their masses. The warrior creatures from the past days disappeared without a trace. Just that little devouring worms were left, feeding everything organic on their way.
Everywhere huge structures rose from the ground, spiky towers and tall chimneys, blowing that green fog to the atmosphere. Everything rotted and was consumed by the grub aliens. Big monsters, being followed by a cloud of death, melted the biggest trees to black slime. Blown up absorber worms throw themselves in digestion pools like lemmings. Long tubes pumped concentrated biomass far to the sky. Aside stood armored monsters with bulky cannons, nipping every threat in the bud. Helplessly my and billion other restless souls watched every life being wiped away on the world we once called our own.
Listen to: Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy 7 OST) – You Can Hear The Cry Of The Planet
Suddenly every sign of the alien race disappeared at once, as quickly as they had arrived. Not the slightest trace of that horrible creatures was left behind, even that threatening aura we've felt long before their arrival was gone. The only thing you could see on our planet was a endless wasteland, a dead world. Forests, prairies, everything turned into a dreary grey desert. They drank every last drop of water. Where once shimmered the blue of our earth, now craters formed empty seas and rivers. Only stony mountains and canyons left to see, arid cracks until far beyond the horizon. No clouds in the sky, no wind howling through the lands. Not even one glimpse of life.
Surely we could have carried more for our environment, but something like this we could never have done to it.
The robbing race devoured everything with an efficiency far ahead our ways and means.
Our dead souls stared silently on a colorless picture for all eternity. No one could have imagined something like this. I returned to the beginning of that dream, trapped in it forever.
