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Worlds Of War	By : Lasski Category: G through L > Labyrinth Views: 16038 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 10: Something new, Something old, Something borrowed, Something… that glitters??

                The Boss smoothed a finger down silky texture of his whip as he listened to the report on the latest attack against the Resistance Group. They had obviously made a deal with something that had powers similar to that of the Superiors. He was now grateful that he had followed his instincts and sent watchers out to report back to him what happened. Where had those resistors vanished to with the blond man? It was a problem but he was sure it would sort itself out in the end. He didn’t have the solution yet, but it would show itself eventually.

                “I want you to gather a group together and search the sewers,” the Boss ordered.

                “How can we be sure they’ll still be there?” asked the man who had given him the report.

                Smart questions were to be encouraged. “They will be,” he was sure of it, “and you’re not searching for them exactly. You’ll need people with strong internal instincts. They’ll need to be on the lookout for somewhere that feels wrong. A tunnel that seems darker than others. A door they can’t open. Anything that seems off. Do you understand?”

                “Yes.”

                “Good. You are free to leave.”

                Soon after the man had left the Boss headed out of the room to check on Dusk, his new pet. As he approached the cage, he smiled as the snake recognized him; hissing and glaring, daring him to come closer so it could bite and sink venom into him until his veins burst with poison. He loved it already.

                “Yi” he beckoned the teenage servant forward from the shadows, “has Doctor Karakis finished his report?”

                “No, my lord,” she spoke quietly and without inflection, her voice remaining as emotionless as her face. “He has determined the sex as female and that she has the basic structure of any snake. However, scans of the brains have revealed highly developed gyri and sulci for a reptile. He is currently analyzing the venom and hopes to develop anti-venom.”

                The Boss nodded. It would be wise to have an antidote created in case he himself got bitten. The developed folds on the brain scientifically proved the intelligence he saw in the eyes of Dusk. He stroked the leather of his whip.

                “I want you to give Doctor Karakis appropriate encouragement. I want his full report as quickly as possible,” he ordered.

                Yi bowed her head and faded back in the shadows.

                As soon as The Boss felt the absence of the servant in the room, he pulled a small slim plastic box from a concealed pocket. With his other hand he let the whip looped at his waist unravel like a black shiny snake itself. Pressing a button on the remote, the electronic lock on the cage slid open and the door swung open on greased hinges. There was a moment when Dusk flickered out her forked tongue, testing the change.

                Then she struck.

                If adrenaline hadn’t already started burning through his veins he would have been too slow.

                The fangs slicked with saliva flashed towards him. He flicked the whip, letting it curl tightly around the thick neck of the reptile before yanking it and the snake’s head down towards the ground. She resisted, but could not stop her head smacking heavily into the floor. The body twisted and curled towards her head protectively, but the tail whipped towards him.

                The Boss stuck out a hand to catch the end of the snake, but the scales were more slippery than what he assumed and it slid from his grasp, slapping him across the face. He saw stars for a moment but reacted quick enough to wrench his head back before the tiny venomous spikes along the spine scratched him as the tail twisted for a more dangerous strike.

                He felt a tug on his arm holding the whip and knew Duck was seconds from struggling free. The tail came at him again and in order to duck under he had to release the whip’s grip around Dusk’s neck.He shifted the angle of his duck so that he could slide up behind the snake. Snapping the whip, it wrapped viciously around Dusk’s tail before she could flick it again at him.

                Sensing her head free and her tail caught, Dusk twisted her body to look for her prey before striking towards him with her fangs again. She was going to kill him.

                Kill him.

                But he was ready for her. He didn’t flinch in elbowing her right in the eye and then punching and pushing her head down to the ground. Keeping a strong grip on his whip, he swung his legs over her so that he straddled her neck just behind the head of the monstrous snake.

                Keeping his calves tightly clasping behind the head, he quickly threaded the whip and caught tail between his legs and sat back down so now he had both the whip and his own weight keeping the tail from attacking him. For an exhausting time Dusk thrashed beneath him, struggling desperately to get free and kill him. With sweat rolling down his back and face and dripping onto the scales beneath him, he waited her out. Even with intoxicating adrenaline he admired the glittering scales under the lights. Slowly, she struggled less, the thrashing became less powerful and she lay still beneath him.

                They sat like that for long minutes. He let himself bond to her. Eventually, he unraveled the whip from the tail. When it gave even the slightest flicker of rebellion he squeezed his knees into the neck in warning. It was longer still when he let the tail slip and slither from between his legs and back onto the floor.

                By the time he was satisfied, he lead her back to the cage with a guiding hand behind her head. He knew tomorrow she would fight him again. Today was but one battle.

                ***

                “So Tessa, what’s the report?” Mac asked hours later. Tessa was the local mad scientist, slightly eccentric but completely brilliant. A real life genius. Her once glorious red hair had now dulled and white was starting to show, but her personality still shone as bright as ever.

                “It’s definitely not glitter,” she explained to the Resistant Group leaders, “Each piece is a single celled organism.” Her mind was in a wonder of the substance that the fey had left behind in his wake. All of the resistance leaders had gathered for this report when Tessa had sent the word that she had incredible news to share.

                “It’s alive?!” Johnny asked in awe.

                “Everything points that way, yet I’m not convinced it actually is. Stranger still, it changes its composition everytime it’s put into a new environment, not really evolving… more like a chameleon only instead of changing colour, it changes molecular structure.

                “My god…” Many of the leaders sat down heavily. Tessa, still caught up in her excitement, barely noticed. What she wouldn’t give to have some of the fey’s DNA to look at. Some skin or hair. Blood would be better.

                “Remember the stem cell research that was being done a few years back before the Superiors blew up the labs?”

                Linda’s forehead creased while remembering, “Yeah, cells in the body that could become any specific cell once it had the right genetic sequence.”

                “That’s right, well this stuff is exactly like that except it’s dealing with molecules, well that’s my theory, and it isn’t only limited to living things but inanimate objects as well. That’s what tells me its not exactly alive, and it does it in seconds. Whatever this stuff is, it’s not like anything else we’ve ever come across. It doesn’t even come under any categories - how do you classify something that isn’t alive or dead, neither mineral nor water or anything else, yet seems to be all those things as once?

                “That’s magic for you I guess. Is there anyway you can manipulate it?”

                “I’ll see what I can do, but I’m going totally from scratch here,” she gave all leaders a look, “besides you’ve only just given me an hour so far. It’s a wonder that I’ve gotten this much. I can tell you nothing on earth resembles it, there’s nothing I can use to point me in a direction. It’s going to take days before I can tell you something definite.”

                “Do your best.”

                “I always do.” Tessa appeared a little miffed at the implication, but she quickly had her mind on other things. “Did you know that wonderful king guy transported all my equipment when we moved. Isn’t he wonderful?!” Tessa rushed off back to her lab.

                The leaders shook their head at the sudden subject change and quick departure.

                “Wonderful is one word for him,” Johnny muttered.

                “Johnny, have you organized the rest of the transportation from the old lair?” Michael asked to redirect the Spade leader’s thoughts away from the fey.

                “I have. Ideally it’s going to take a couple of days, but with the attack we have to be on the lookout for the Force Groups in the tunnels. It’s probably going to take a week or two. That’s also on the proviso that the Force Groups don’t confiscate any of our equipment. I’ve got teams working as fast and as safely as possible.”

                “Good. Mac?”

                “We’ve sent out scouts to check out the rest of our new lair,” Mac said, nodding at Melinda to include her, “it’s a lot larger than we first thought. The section we first entered into is only a small entry cavern. From there it’s a labyrinth of tunnels, some leading to smaller rooms we can use as storage and private rooms, up to much larger caverns we can use for training. We’ve got a couple people working on mapping out the whole joint.”

                “There’s clean, drinkable water and we’re seeing if any of the limited vegetation is edible,” Melinda said, “There’s just two things that concern me. Those damn biting fairies and the fact that the entry cavern is the only entry into the sanctuary. Jareth might say that this area is protected by him, but how can we be sure? What happens if that protection fails or is breeched? We need another alternative.

                Michael nodded, “Alright, I want Club division working on security. Work with the Diamond division to find another way out of here. Dig up, dig down, and dig across. I don’t care. Let’s see if we can safeguard those tunnels that lead into the entry cavern, and set up an early warning system. Those fairies aren’t my most immediate concern; though I’ll have Tessa put a few people on it. We should keep the children away from them. They’re a nuisance at the moment, but I wouldn’t want to see them attack in a pack”

                “Perhaps we can see if we can eat them,” Linda said a little too seriously. “This brings us to our main problem. Whether we can eat the vegetation here or not, there’s simply not enough food to last us for much longer. At best we can last for about three weeks. Also medical supplies are almost non-existent. We need to plan an attack on a Superior storage facility.”

                Melinda shook her head, “Their storages are too well defended. They know that if we can’t get to their food and meds it’s one more way to kill us off.”

                Linda linked her hands together, “I know, but our spies report that there is a shipment of supplies arriving in two weeks – food, meds, especially penicillin and antibiotics, as well as blankets and some weapons. If we can intercept that I believe it will last us for months, maybe even a year. Two weeks time is cutting our supplies almost to none, but I believe the payoff would be worth it.”

                “The Superiors’ powers always have been poorer around near the oceans,” Johnny mused, “I’ve only ever seen fledging Force Groups on guard at the piers. Security will be less trained, but they may have greater numbers to accommodate for the fact.”

                “Hopefully we’ll be getting more intel soon. We’ll start planning in detail tomorrow.” Michael concluded their meeting.

                “Johnny,” Mac called to him as the other left. Johnny spun back around towards him, waiting until the others were gone.

                Mac sighed and leaned back against the wall. He was so tired and he was still filthy from the battle, dust and grit in his eyes. Johnny didn’t look much better. “You may have to take a new partner.”

                Johnny blinked. “What?”

                “When Sarah closes the deal, we can’t be sure that she’ll return here. Even if she does, we can’t rely on her to always be available to complete her duties. Jareth doesn’t strike me as the type to leave her alone for long. You need to think about who you want as another partner. Someone who can lead the Spades Division.”

                “This is bullshit, Mac. I-”

                “Dammit Johnny, this is not up for discussion.”

                “You can’t be pulling rank on me!”

                “I am. You will find someone to replace her or I will replace you.”

                “You son of a bitch!” Johnny took a swing at Mac, but it was fueled out of rage. Mac quickly side-stepped his fist, grabbed his wrist and twisted it up behind Johnny’s back as he shoved the Spade leader face first into the wall.

                “Listen!” Mac hissed in his ear, using his greater weight to hold the other man in place. “Listen! We’ve been dying down here in the sewers. The Superiors were going to win. Whoever, whatever Jareth is, he’s given us hope. He’s given me hope. For the first time I can believe that one day we might get back the freedom we used to have.

                Johnny continued to struggle.

                Mac shoved him harder against the wall to try and knock some sense into him, “Don’t let Sarah’s sacrifice become worthless. We all need you to lead. We need to get back into the light and it’s going to take all of us to do it. Sarah paid her part of the price, we have to pay ours.”

                “It’s so fucking unfair!” Johnny’s voice cracked as he swore. His whole body shuddered with frustration and grief. His breath caught on a sob, and all his strength left him. Mac immediately felt the change and went from restraining Johnny to holding him up.

                No tears fell but Johnny couldn’t stop himself from shaking.

                “You loved her,” Mac said quietly.

                Johnny shook his head.

                “I love her.”

                ***

                There was a rumble in the distance that sounded like thunder. Linda frowned, “I didn’t think there was a storm coming.”

                “There’s not meant to be,” Michael replied.

                Ludo, who had been sleeping in a corner up till now recovering from his wounds, suddenly lifted his head and let out a call similar to what he had to call the rocks. The leaders stiffened. Were the force groups coming back? Had Jareth lied to them about the safety of this place?

                The far off thunder continued and then a haunting sound traveled up though the sewers. It was almost like Ludo’s call echoing back at him, but this one was much deeper.

                Michael took a step towards the Ludo who was by now very awake. “Ludo? What’s going on?”

                Ludo grinned that very frightening grin. “Ludo’s friends. Ludo’s family.

                “Oh crap,” Linda whispered.

                “Is this a good thing?” Michael asked to no one in particular.

                ***

                Jareth appeared in Sarah’s room in all his glory, well over an hour late. What had the bastard been up to?

                “Well?” he asked, arching an eyebrow.

                Sarah gritted her teeth. “I accept.”

                He held out his gloved hand.

                “Come here.”
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