Side Project for WoM

And then... I broke my promise.

I died.

"I'm sorry" and then the bright light came, and I simply became nothing, just a conscious soul floating in the darkness. In that moment in time, I realized there were no holy gates, no heaven, we simply lived out our existence until we were called back to the spiritual plane and recycled anew. I was just waiting until I was called into the spiritual plane. Sometimes there would be those who could recall who they were before, reincarnation they say. I learned that Atalasia was a perfect example of this, able to remember her time as Queen over 100 years ago.
But enough of that history lesson.

My name is Spence, and I'll be your narrator for this bullshit of a tale.

I was born before the second war began, I barely remember the moments with my parents, the times when I wouldn't have to hide in the sewers to avoid being hunted down for genetic mutation experiments in those hellish labs. I blocked most of those memories out, knowing it would do more harm than good, and look at where that got me.

Sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself again.

When the war first broke out, it was mostly just myths and legends in my Elfin hometown, we didn't believe that the border had been breached again, that those who were still in the Mixgen territory were unable to be helped as promised a century ago. The blood lines continued to water down and my neighbors and I ignored it. I suppose it wasn't my fault that I was kept unaware of the situation, my parents believed that if they sheltered me and hid my mind from the truth that I would be better off. Too bad they can't realize how wrong they were, their death took away the "I told you so" confrontation I had wanted to occur.

We can't say we didn't see it coming, some of the villagers had banded together as a mini army against the Gen invaders. It was almost pitiful, our small band of men, armed with hand me down weapons and shoddy armor facing an army of genetically modified soldiers. My parents wouldn't let me fight, I told them I had been training in secret and that I was ready to fight. They told me they didn't want to lose their son to a pointless battle, I didn't care, I left my home of 15 years and fought for my small town against tyranny.

I believe that to be the 2nd worst mistake of my life.

The instant we lined up to defend against them, we were mowed down by a rain of shrapnel. I had been standing behind my childhood friend, he died instantly when his chest was forced open by a huge shred of steel. I was.. terrified, sick, I could barely find the urge to move until I saw another deadly piece of metal flying towards me. I did the most logical thing to me at the time and ducked, the metal flew over me and hit the man sheltered behind me.  

I ended up landing next to my friend, and as I stared into his eyes something clicked in my mind. No, it was ideas of heroic actions to avenge him, it wasn't a brilliant plan to take out an entire army and save the town. No, my only though was;

"I have to get the fuck out of here"

I was a coward, but I was a coward that was still alive as I bolted for cover, by some grace of god I was able to dive behind a house before they threw the next load. I surveyed the damage from my safe haven and all that met my eyes was blood and carnage. Those that had tried to be saviors had ended up ripped to pieces at the claws of the Gen creatures. I admit it, I puked, who wouldn't in that situation? I used to buy groceries from that guy, now he was being slowly devoured by something barely even human.

Moments later, that something ran past me, the Gens had breached our pathetic line and were moving into the town. I ran to a new hiding place, closer to my parents house, I had to warn them. Oh of course they would be pissed at my for fighting, but I'm sure that the severity of the situation would quell any arguments for a few hours. I heard screams all around me as people who used to be a part of my daily life were slaughtered without reason.

I heard screaming closer to my parents house, are you aware of those moments when ultimate fear causes your body to increase the amount of adrenaline by insane amounts? That moment happened to me as I ran blindingly to their house, I think I avoided death twice in that moment as buildings burned and creatures ran around me, but that didn't matter to me, for the first time in my life I wanted to get home so badly that my mind was about to shatter.

I know I died a little inside when I arrived, most anti-heroes with the dead parents things just had them die in a car accident or saw them shot. I must be a special case.  

Mothers guts were currently hanging out of the creatures mouth as he crouched over her disfigured body, his eyes were raging and his bones were jutting out of his body in a way that seemed demonic. For the first and last time in my mother's life, her heart was literally held in someone's hands. If there was any bile left in my body I'm sure it would have surged up at that moment, however, I did nearly faint when I recognized my father's tattooed arm attached to my mothers with a vice grip, I didn't want to know where the rest of the body was.

I'm not sure how long I stood there watching the Gen eat my mother's innards, all I know was that at some point it noticed I was watching, and assumed I wanted to join in on the festivities. The thing moved so fast my mind could hardly comprehend it had pinned me down until my mother's still warm blood dripped on my face, I didn't know blood could taste that bitter. I really did think that I was going to die at this moment, that my short life had been all I was granted and that the tiny experience was supposed to make me happy.

That was until I realized I still had my sword, I felt very blonde at that moment. I discovered that those creatures don't enjoy being stabbed while they are still trying to digest, I plunged the sword deep into its stomach and pushed it off of me. Its blood was a disgusting green color on my sword, and somehow the damn thing was still wanting to fight me, I was about to charge it with the revenge plan that had been mentioned earlier, but that inner peace was taken from me as a gunshot blew through the creatures head.