The Lost Chronicles Of Pangea: Apocalypse

Lilith woke up to the sound of metal banging on metal, but the sound resounding so softly you would think someone was making that noise without the intention of arousing attention. She woke up in an unfamiliar environment, but it was not a cause for panic, Lilith was better than that. She was trained, mad even though she has not had to put that training into effect for a few years all of her instincts were still sharp and active.

She heard snoring the likes which she has not been privy too since the months she spent sharing barracks with men, when they had to put down a well organized riot that went on for months. It was the boy....David. Of course she was not that much older than him, so she was not exactly in a position to call him boy like he was some sort of child. But Lilith saw the world from a very different angle, most people were generic, single minded, selfish and just so…..so.....human and average. She saw people like that as children and very much beneath her. And the fact stands that these kind of people made up ninety percent of Pangea's population, which meant she looked down on a lot of people, and until such a time that David proves otherwise he would remain a boy to her.

His pets were all asleep, and all three of them hung out haphazardly from the bag he put them in. They were sounded like pieces of metal which vibrated with each breath they took. It seemed this tortoises had an affinity with metals, with proper nurturing these three would be fearsome battle beasts. But it was not their strange ability for making metal vibrate that was making the banging sound, it was coming from the hover bike that was hanging half way into the tent to serve as some barricade. It was a good idea, but didn't the fool know that anybody worth his salt would have gone beneath or climbed over the hover bike. And to make matters worse the engine was still running, he was lucky that nobody noticed and decided to relieve him of his ownership.

Lilith shaking got to her feet as she made her way to the hover bike, she had every intention of finding out who was making such a racked as she desperately wanted to get back to sleeping. It was the only way she could deal with her depression given the extremely lack of alcohol

She moved to the side of the hover bike and noticed the soft banging sound was coming from the compartment where the power cells were kept. She pulled it open and then had to quickly move her head to the left while rapidly dodging a blast of pure energy.

"Hisssss"

"um….what… what I'm up, I'm up."

The sound of the blast was enough to wake her companion up, or that could mainly be because the energy blast had burnt quite a hole on the stupidly set up tent and a blast of sunlight cascaded down to his face. Lilith moved her eyes back to the creature with the audacity to shoot at her face. It looked like a worm and was wrapped around the three power cells, it had yellow veins all over its black body which were glowing and seemed to be constantly absorbing energy from the power cells.

Every time this creature which at this moment Lilith was sure was a parasite drew energy from the power cells its body seemed to vibrate in euphoria as rings of yellow energy showed up on its skin and flowed from one end of its body to another. The creature let out another hiss as it made it's annoyance known to Lilith.

David had scrambled to his feet and picked up one of his shot gun while sleepily dragging his feet to her side. He rubbed his eyes and ran his hand across his bushy hair and asked her.

"What's going on, why did you put on the light."

Lilith was sure this boy was not completely awake, she just inclined her head in the parasite's direction for David to take a look for himself.

"Jesus Christ! What the hell is that." Lilith frowned, first of all she had no idea who Jesus Christ was, and her opinion of David dropped even lower, was he so startled and frightened that he would forget how to speak to common tongue properly. It was just a parasite.

"What the hell is that?" apart from the fact that he asked this question the first time with a complete terror in his voice, David now seemed to be completely awake. He quickly had his gun pointed at the parasite. She would give him props for reacting quickly, but that was a shot gun and he was not just pointing it at a parasite, he was pointing it at a trio of power cells that if tampered with would leave a two hundred meter crater and a huge doze of radiation. He had the senses and instincts of a good soldier, but he lacks the awareness and intelligence a good warrior.

"It's just a parasite, now put your gun down before you kill us both"

David looked surprised, it was as if he did not expect her to even say a single word to him. Lilith shook her head and raised her left hand, slowly and at a rate visible to the eye, her left hand became encased in diamonds, or she should say her hands molecular structure changed until it was completely diamond like in nature and appearance. She grabbed the parasite with such speed that there was a little puff in the air, all David or the parasite itself could see was a blur before the meter long parasite was hanging and wrapped around Lilith's arm. David had a dumbstruck and awe filled look on his face. Lilith had seem such looks before, this kid was a freaking fan boy.

The parasite writhe and turned while trying to use its little mouth filled with tiny fangs to pierce a hole in her arm. But there was no effect, there was no scratch to even show she had been attacked by anything. She was about to squeeze the life out of this sleep interrupting parasite before David asked her to stop.

David had her move her hands so that the left eye of the parasite was in view, in fact that was the only eye the parasite had. But the green reptilian pupils and yellow scales around the eyes was enough to let her know something was amiss.

"No, how is this possible. The wave…..the wave should have taken care of it. How is it still alive." David was muttering to himself as he turned and looked at Lilith with a complicated look on his face. Lilith had seem eyes like this before, and quite recently too. She turned and looked at David with a gaze that would send better men than him running for the hills and said.

"Explain."

David was sweating for sure, this was a rather unwelcome development and he was quite scared. Not just because of the threat that lizard embodied, but because of the threat this woman was to him. But with a look that intense, David did not dare hide anything. He told her everything, from the moment he met Ahmed, his death, his confrontation with the lizard, the sinking island, being chased by a giant bat and all the way till the shark took a bite out of her arm and taking her son as free lunch. He had every intention of not telling her about the lizard especially when he thought it was dead due to the wave. If the lizard was already dead Lilith would kill him without a doubt, but with the lizard still alive David had two people who wanted his life, but how the hell was it still alive.

"So you are telling me that a lizard with mind control power has a Vendetta against you because you killed a man under its control."

David nodded in affirmation.

"So you're telling me my son died, because you practically took an animals toy away."

David did not dare nod for fear of loosing his head. But his silence was more than enough to answer that question. Though David had no idea how that lizard made it through the pulse gate, but the danger it imposed could cause quite a lot of damage and loss of lives. Lilith flexed her hands and her diamond fist glowed red as it was super heated to intense temperatures. The parasite was roasted and in seconds it was nothing but ash that fell from her hands.

"Do you have any idea where that lizard could be hiding. If you do, it would be better for us to take it out now to prevent any unforeseen tragedies in the future."

"No I don't, but even with that said, I'm not sure either of us can afford hanging around Barigga for much longer. If those soldiers we met at the pulse gate are still alive, then it would be a miracle of we're still alive when they catch up to us. We need to keep moving."

David was right, the twelve and soldiers never really liked it when someone undermined their authority and orders. And with Lilith and by association David's actions at the pulse gate, they would most probably be bumped to the top of the wanted list. David needed to keep moving if he wanted to keep his a.s.s out of jail and alive, the military had no qualms with executing him without a trial.

"You need to fix the hover bike then. And you should do it fast, those soldiers are probably already here." Lilith said to him.

David nodded his head as he set to work, he brought down the tent, and brought out some food for Lilith and the tortoises to eat. After a rather bland breakfast David set to work, thankfully non of the circuits were fried and its flight mode command chip only went offline. Fixing it did not take David anymore than ten minutes, the only problem he had was there fact that he left the engine running through the night, and all of the power cells were empty, courtesy of Mr. Energy s.u.c.k.i.n.g parasite. After a good charge, there should be ready to go, but a commotion from the town drew their attention.

David made his way to the town entrance and made his way back with an even faster speed. The soldiers, well what was left of them anyway were ransacking the town. David did not need an announcement to know that this guys were looking for him and Lilith. He thought he had more time, but he did not. They had to leave now.