Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Adventure

A torch suddenly came aflame next to me. Grabbing it, I walked slowly down a narrow but long, damp hall, hearing a constant dripping sound from the ceiling. Strange, it sounded somehow... heavier, denser than water.  Reaching the end, I came across a small, dim lit cavern, roughly spherical in shape. Holding my torch up, I saw writing along the ceiling and walls, in a dark red, almost maroon color. It read things such as:

The threat is real!

The starfish exist!

The end is near!

The cake is a lie!

They will all kill us!

Die, Die DIE!

The end!

The fish come!!!

They speak the truth!

Truth

Truth!

Lie!

Lies, lies, lies!

It's all a lie!

Things like that. Out of no where, Picard dude appears from the shadows.

"You saw through it. Good job. The marine biologists have known for years, but no one listened. Except a few, that is. We called ourselves the survivors. We tracked their movements from the start. We fought them before they were strong. All the aquatic species died do to a massive relocation of their prey. To an area not far from here, actually. So we set up camp here. This was large base here until it all collapsed. There were never very much of us to begin with. As you can see," he said, indicating the room around him," most went insane. We all came to a large event, shutting down their main reactor core, sabotage from the inside. Those of us who made it to the room all gathered around. We closed the blast doors, keeping them out. We infected the core, almost ruining the stars forever. But something went wrong. As they pounded to get in, the core glowed yellow, then blue, then green, then red. We had to make a decision, fight those on the outside or risk staying here. Suddenly it exploded, releasing a toxic gas. Those of us who survived escaped through the air vents, just as the door broke down."

"Soon after we learned that was hardly the main base, it was one of many located around here, only third from highest tier. In the weeks that followed, the seven of us that remained were locked up in this cave. But the gas had effected us. One by one, we each either got powers, or went mad. Only two of us got powers. I was one. The other five went insane. The only other sane one here died in the cave collapse, caused by the other's crazy rants. I almost went crazy too, surrounded by them. Slowly, one by one, they died, and I was left alone. Only then did I find a way out of here. Soon I was living on the streets, roaming from one restaurant to another. Not a month later I found you. During the time in between I realized that along with accelerated speed comes accelerated age. So do an old man a favor, and don't let them win."

Then, as quickly as he had arrived, he vanished, leaving only a doorway of bright light behind him.

Slowly, but surely, I made my way, and stepped in.