Signs.



Friday December 13th, 2069.
The fellowship of Florence street has agreed to show Samantha Bliss and the other members of team Alpha the back way to get to Cuji’s outpost. They silently make their way down the alleys until they reach Monarch street, it is now sunrise, and Samantha Bliss as well as Derek Conner and all else present begin to get an odd feeling that something is very wrong, and as they all step from the alleyway the smell of fresh spilled blood intoxicates the air around them. There is a layer of mist on the ground and protruding through the top Samantha can clearly see the bodies of several dead Red soldiers, as they draw near them she instructs the members of team Alpha to cover the other existing alleys leading onto Monarch street. Her and Priss and Klinger all move in to inspect the bodies, while the Fellowship stays back.
“I count seven males Samantha.” Priss tells her.
“Two more over here.” Klinger answers.
Closer inspection offers them the grim details of the deed itself, there are nine dead male reds, all horribly mutilated, Samantha eyes Derek Conner suspiciously, he slowly shakes his head no.
“We didn’t do this.” he tells her.
Priss calls out to her teammates and Samantha and Klinger both move to her side, she is bending down to the sidewalk inspecting something outlined in the blood of the dead reds.
“They are some kind of hoof prints I think.” She tells them.
Samantha follows the prints to where she can clearly see them on the street.
“they’re heading towards Cuji’s outpost, five animals from what I can gather. Not horses though, no.. clearly, these are something else, something big.”
She stands slowly, and studies the path of the hoof prints headed down Monarch street.
“Lifeguard?”
“Not picking anything up Samantha. Just Alpha members and the human signatures with you.”
“No Animals of any kind?”
“No, not a thing.”
She returns to inspect one of the bodies. He has been sliced open the entire length of his torso, from his chin to his privates, the rib cage is fully exposed, each cut made with a very sharp metal blade. She rises yet again.
“What now Samantha?”
“Now Priss, we follow the trail.”

A New Breed.



She instructs lifeguard to maintain a constant surveillance along the length of Monarch street in front of them, as they make their way towards Vanover street where they will turn eastward heading towards Cuji’s outpost. They press on for several hours in the morning until the reach the Vanover turn off where Samantha Bliss and Priss make yet another grim discovery, three more bodies laying in the street. These appeared to be running towards them when they were cut down. Samantha inspects the wounds.. The same as before, and the hoof prints heading down Vanover street, tells her that whatever it is its heading strait towards Cuji. Priss moves up behind her.
“What are you thinking Samantha?”
She studies Priss for a second before answering.
“I think that whatever did this isn’t human, isn’t animal and isn’t a red.”
She stares down Vanover street in the distance.
“I think General Cuji could be in some very deep Ca Ca. alright lets move out.”
A mere two hours later they find themselves moving silently through Cuji’s compound with weapons drawn, there are bodies of Cuji’s dead soldiers everywhere. As they begin to search for survivors the male reds Thed sees a former comrade that he recognizes, he approaches him slowly.
“Hey! This one is still alive! Sabo? What has happened here?”
Klinger and Milo Tripper come to Thed’s aid, followed by Samantha Bliss and then Agent Priss. The dying red soldier has been cut open badly, and is slowly but surely dying.
“T.. Thed? It was.. Wrath Riders. From beyond where we come from, beyond what we know as hell, the one called Forge leads them, they.. Took Cuji’s stone. ”
Immediately Samantha Bliss and Priss move into Cuji’s chamber, where they find the body of the red general, horribly mutilated, and as the dying red soldier stated the stone and necklace has been ripped from his neck.
Team Alpha and the fellowship spend the next twenty five minutes searching the remainder of the compound for more survivors,
They resign back to Vanover Street, where Derek Conner has decided that the fellowship would be safer back on Florence street, Samantha Bliss knows that the mystery surrounding Derek Conner and his minions,
Must wait for another time as she stands watching them walk down Vanover street towards Florence. She instructs the members of team Alpha to begin searching for the bodies of the three Threshold agents.
Something or someone waded through an entire reds outpost with seemingly casual ease, and that something or someone now has the stone. Something else now roams the Canns Landing Corridor, something far more dangerous than anything the red army or Threshold themselves could ever dream up.

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