Armageddeon: Day Three
And the Clock reaches three.
As before, it chimes softly, but it chimes everywhere.
Ting. Ting. Ting.Then... there ( Read more... )
As before, it chimes softly, but it chimes everywhere.
Ting. Ting. Ting.Then... there ( Read more... )
She is the process of turning the water off so that she can listen more closely when the tremor begins.
"What in the world was that?" she says out loud.
It only lasts a few seconds, but it's enough to spook her. She remembers hearing two chimes yesterday, and Snowball saying that he's felt a vibration in the ground just after.
She dries herself quickly and rushes out to look for Cain. This can't be a good thing.
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"Oh, Oh damn."
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She sees him over by the clock with an angry and concerned look on his face, and sudden she knows.
She walks up to him, shoving the long sleeves of his shirt up her arms impatiently.
"It's the clock that did that, isn't it?"
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"It's got to be a doomsday weapon..."
His voice is grim.
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"I haven't seen this before, but... a doomsday weapon can take any form. It is something designed to destroy everything. Usually it is a construct of magic or science, somehow put together to be impossible to stop."
He points at the clokc.
"If this is a doomsday weapon and it follows the pattern it has established already, each day a worse quake, each day a darker day. Whoever put this here is trying to destroy Milliways... completely."
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Right now she is just confused, and not a little scared. Anger will follow soon enough. But for now, she grips Cain's hand and stares at the clock.
"There has to be some way to stop it."
She would gladly open a gateway under the thing right now, but that would only send the thing to destroy another world.
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"I dont know why, and I could still be wrong...."
His expression clearly tells her that he doesnt think he is.
"There is... but I dont know it."
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"I'm scared. You said we need to fight anyone that threatened our home. But this..."
She looks to him, knowing he doesn't have the answers any more than he does.
"How long do you think it will give us?"
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He looks at the face of it and it dawns on him that there are 12 numbers, and it is already on three.
He pales even further.
"Twelve days from when it arrived... maybe... if that face is right..."
He swears, in several languages and steps closer, looking at the clock, looking for anything, anything at all.
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"Nine days. Should we... should we start thinking of an evacuation plan? Just in case? There are people here who are bound, but a gateway might give them some temporary refuge someplace else."
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"Maybe so... I dont know. We need to talk to others, that is for sure... something like this? We need to be sure, ebfore we panic people..."
He chuckles darkly.
"I could be very wrong, easily, knowing this place."
But, again, he doesnt believe it.
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She sighs heavily, and shoves the sleeve of his shirt up absently.
"So we wait until...when? How do we find out for sure what it is?"
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He nods.
"Maybe you can talk to your friend, Magius..."
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She rests her head against his arm.
"I love you."
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"I love you too, dear. Come on. We should go and see if we cant find him and make out own plans..."
He takes her hand and starts away, knowing this is only going to get worse.
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