Chapter two

** Elsewhere:River Euphrates. **

**Description of the chapter: The Rising**

Date : 30th December, 2037.

Time : 1:00 pm.

P.O.V : NARRATOR

**Boom* Something huge hit the ground causing earthquakes in a span of six kilometers dispelling the remaining water in the river into steam through the heat emitting from it leading to a heavy cloud on the ground hiding its image.

As the steam from the water started dispersing, a large gate like structure came into view, black in colour with red linings allover its rigid spikey frame with skulls frozen in screams of desperation and frear along its edges and more glowing red runic inscriptions scattered allover it.

**Ahaaaaa**the skulls let out an argonizing scream intensifying as the runes glowed a darker shed of red than before with the gate enlargening causing cracks from its earliar earthquakes to enlargen until the screams stopped abruptly.

**Boom** After a few seconds, a shockwave was let out as the doors of the gate burst open .

Each door spanning a width and length ranging in kilometers. Dark red fog started pouring out of the gate clouding any visage of the insides till a large scaly dark green lizard like claw hand came out and hit the ground dispersing the fog but exposing a visage straight from hell .

A whole other different world was beyond the gate but it was drapped in a sickening dark red sky with fire falling from it towards the ground further igniting the fire on the disfigured landscape.

An army of monstrosities and demons on the ground marching in unison with more of their kind flying in the air from raven like humanoids to snake like people there was a variety of different demons escalating in millions upon millions of what seemed like soldiers on the ground and air.

But then the fallen flew from the other side of the gate and kneeled in front of seven human like demons if you remove the pairs of dark crow wings ,haunting facial features and pale white unnatural skin who were at the very most front of the battalions of demons.

They sat on seven thrones that were on top of a giant green half human half lizard being which had clawed out its hand out of the gate.

The fallen in unison:"*£##%#@#%^@@# Wenkalesadava shata kompe (may the origins bring upon that which they draw.)" They said in clear excitement.

The newly introduced origins in unison:*#^#£ Wenkalesanolen yeina lo fasa(may the last of the fallen lead our way.) They said in emotionless voices in unison.

With glee the fallen flew off towards the outside again while leaving behind a trail of black in the air. As if on a planned signal the demons who were at first matching at a controlled pace started running with bloodthirsty smiles knocking each other as if on a race to the outside world .

The giant lizard transport for the origins leaped out fully but the moment it leaped out as if on plan the screams resumed but at higher tone than before with an increased ting of fear and desperation from before.

The demons , the origins and the last of the fallen in unison : ";&%% SHATAFO (WARRRRR)." They screamed with malice dripping from their voices .

But then as they were all running there was one peculiar demon who were just walking with a clear gap appearing around him from the others while punching any of the others who dared to knock into him or invade his personal space.

As all the others were already a distance from the gate, the moment he completely stepped out a bloodthirsty grin spread across his face with a hint of nostalgia showing his sharp teeth like all the other demons.

The demon :"So, Earth you thought I wouldn't be back?" He said in English with malice and disgust dripping from his voice .

The full body came out of the gate into the light of the afternoon sun. He had purple armour allover his body with a giant sword on his back, a face that could put fear in anyone, pale white skin with red cracks on the side of the face and black sideburns on the sides of the face, black pupilless eyes, horn-looking eyebrows that were raised, sharp rigid teeth that were shown through his grin and fingers in black fingerless gloves twitching continously for blood .

The demon : "Let's see if humanity still remembers my name .&%SHATAFO (WARRR)." He screamed and blasted off at breakneck speed.

The gate didn't close with more and more demons occasionally pouring out.

**Elsewhere: Los Angeles.**

Date : 1st January, 2038.

Time :5:00 am.

P.O.V: Allen Flydrod.

I was in a rocky landscape with a blood painted sky over the horizon."Shaa."I heard a whisper behind me , I tried looking for the owner but it was to no avail. "&%SHATAFO." I heard a scream right next to my left ear with a hot uncomfortable breath on my neck.

I jolted awake while screaming one word **war** . I gripped my beating chest while taking deep breaths to calm my raging heart then I felt a hand on my shoulder which kinda startled me… who am I kidding I jumped to my feet ready to fight off anything .

But then I heard "Al, take it easy relax!!" I heard Sandra's voice which I had memorised over last month's events.

**deep inhale **deep exhale ** I tried to calm my nerves but then I was assaulted by the various sounds around , the kids , the adults ,the matrons' calming voices and the sound of the flames of the fireplace, it all hurt… painfully at that.

My ears were hurting, and I couldn't hear anything properly, but I had to get the strength to show the young ones who I had woken up abruptly that everything was fine. I put on my best *no worries* smile and waved to them but I could feel a bead of sweat run down my neck from the dream I was from having . My ears kept ringing in the most uncomfortable way possible. Maybe I should be grateful for it not the pain but the gift to finally hear.

In the past month , I was able to adapt to my new sense even though I still wear the plugs everywhere I go, but hey, it takes a lot out of a man to get used to his own voice than actually learning how to understand English without lip reading. It was kinda embarrassing to learn how to hear actual words, but I had to trust the process.

The coldness suddenly stopped increasing, which was a relief, but it did not decrease, leaving us in the same situation as before, I guess there was no improvement in that .Snow was once a pleasant thought but now its more of a negative outlook on everything.

Then all choose broke loose in the neighborhood when the power became scarce with the occasional **open up* at the doors at night. To protect the livelihood of our family we separated ourselves into teams ,a team of the more offence able guys to protect the orphanage from any stray trouble at night and during the day and one to go gather resources

Me, a few other older orphans and two of the old matrons who had a total of four matrons in the whole orphanage, namely Susan, aka Susie, the funny one, Anabella aka Bella, everyone's favourite, Jennifer aka Jenny, the strict one and lastly Geneva, the most caring and cautious.

We were the team to gather resources but we faced more horrors caused by man than we could count from stray bodies on the streets to people fighting over energy drives. I remember puking the first time we found a dead butchered body and trust me it wasn't a pretty site to witness.

Sandra -Al, freshen up we have to go early .- she signalled to me .

Allen- OK, give me a few minutes .- I replied knowing how valuable time is at this point. We had decided to all sleep in the large living space to keep track of everybody so trying to move while abstaining from stepping on a sleeping kid was harder than thought .

I finally got out of the maze of scattered kids , took a three minute shower in a hurry considering that time was of the essence, picked my black ear pods from my bag and picked a pack of breakfast Matron Susie had made for those going out ,quickly putting it in my cross bag I went to the entrance to regroup with the team.

"Good morning, everyone ." I greeted and got a few grants and nodes of affirmation.

"Your late again ." Smith our supposed leader said in a pissed voice. "Take it easy on him these days are more tiresome than thought . I personally had to get pulled out of my sleep by Matron Jenny." Matron Bella tried to defend me but I could see the gazes of dissatisfaction from everybody's face .

- Sorry, I had a .- I tried to explain but I was interrupted by Smith's snot which caused me to just keep my mouth shut to avoid any trouble.

We had put Smith a tall thirty year old guard at the orphanage as the leader since he had the most experience in such situations since he was once in the military training program but left due to a lack of funds .

He pulled out a map of the neighborhood with multiple black slashes on some locations and he started recounting the plan for today's crusade . For this moment, I removed my ear pads to try getting everything in a better light to avoid forgetting anything.

"We are going to hit the south side from here but since there are hostiles in the next town we will have to take a few detours. Any questions?" He saided in a voice full of authority.

"What about the middle school a few blocks before the market ? Am very sure there has to be something." Frank , a tall buffed eighteen year old proposed.

"Problem is , we found a few unruly people at the market a few weeks back so there is a chance that there in the school too but no pain no gain let's first check it out." I proposed but I winced from speaking a little too loud for my own liking .

A thoughtful look made its way onto Smith's face till he made a decision . "We are going to first try, we can't live any possiblely good opportunity bare ." He said determined and I put back my ear muffs instinctively.

With that we wore black masks and walked out with the cold air hitting us but negated by the jackets and jumpers we wore . We went through a few dark alleys to avoid grabbing any attention but then we came across a young woman laying on the ground presumably dead if the blood coming from her stomach was any testament.

Madam Jenny tried to go check on her but Frank held her back remaining her of our goal . As we passed the body, a faint disgusting smell hit our noses through our masks. I could see Jonny a short seventeen year old more on the chubby side restricting himself from puking .

After a few more turns in some very unhealthy alleys ,we finally reached the school. Which had the sign of ** Father glory junior high **

As we kept moving we saw a girl around my age walking towards us. She had what looked like bullet wholes on her stomach oozing out fresh blood all over her yellow sun dress .

She was staggering towards us and just as she was one metre in front of us she fell to the ground onto a pond of dirty water splashing allover her pretty face ,Rion ( one of the elder orphans ) ran and picked her up hissing due to how cold her shin felt through the uncovered parts of his fingerless gloves.

Rion: " She is so cold that if she doesn't get any help she might die at any point and we need to stop this blood loss." He said while removing and covering her with his jacket ."

Rion : " Did any of you guys bring along a medkit ." He asked hurriedly . We all faced the matrons because we surely knew that if somebody had a meditation it would be them.

Matron Jenny hurriedly approached the woman in Rions arms Freddy tried holding her back but to no luck .

She knelt down to give her a pain killer injection to reduce on her pain and bandage the huge wound on her stomach to make it a little bit more possible to take her back to the orphanage but just as the needle was about to enter the young lady's skin , she firmly held matron Jenny's hand and started applying alot of force on it.

Madam Jenny: " Darling , let go am trying to save you ." She said while tried to remove her hand which was surprisingly infutile considering how muscular Freddy was since it was the main reason of bringing him along .

Unknown lady: "Run. ru.un.Do .do ..n't... go there... only death awaits , please run ." She said while tears fell from her blood shot eyes . The moment she finished her body started crumbling till she faded away like ash.

Slowly I saw the light of life leave her eyes before she crumbled away . Looking in the direction she came from we saw a large muscular man or something along those lines at least 190 cm in height in ragged purple and red armour and animalistic body features such as claws , fangs and black eyes looking at us . Or in my opinion at me .He was walking towards us super slowly while dragging a massive sword on the ground making a lot of noise indicating his presence and dominance as if he was on a hunt.

It did not take an immensely intelligent brain to figure that he was the cause of her death .