Urban Fantasy Prologue for NaNoWriMo 2012
Posted: 2012-10-22 12:21am
For every planting, a reaping.
For every power, a seed.
For every soul, a price.
For every spell, a corruption.
- The Pact Grimoire
"All scientific personnel, this is an emergency evacuation order. Containment breached in R-3. I repeat, alien entity has breached quarantine. Evacuate immediately."
Stupid mechanical voice. Hungry.
I felt blood splatter against my flesh as I bit into my prey. The pink skinned creature in some sort of white second-skin-thing screamed in agony as I bit into its tender flesh. Its paltry, soft white claws scratched against my carapace as I tore into my meal.
I tore into the soft flesh beneath its screaming mouth and the screams stopped, becoming a near-soundless gurgle before the creature became silent. I pouted slightly at that. It tasted good but the screaming? The screaming was truly divine music to my ears.
I should tell the others. I had finally found a new source of food for the Hive.
An announcement played as I released the scent that meant Food and frowned as I scanned the room for the rest of the food.
Did the food run off? Oh well. Food will learn. Food does not run from a Gnarn. I will teach the next Food not to run!
I heard a sound and turned towards one of the strange walls that always showed a reflection of me. Food is weird and creepy. Why would Food want to look at itself?
I watched the creepy wall shatter and then there was pain. I screamed until it stopped.
Bad Food!
I roared at the two Food and used my meal to rebuild my carapace.
Hungry.
The Food started to make weird metallic noises. I charged the stupid Food and tore into one quickly, ripping out the same flesh bit between its head and torso. It went down in a spray of wonderful, tasty blood. I licked my lips.
More pain. I turned towards the stupid, mean Food and roared at it. It started doing its weird metallic noisy thing and I slammed it into part of the unbroken creepy reflective wall. I smiled at the sweet music it made.
Now to see if I could teach the Food not to run away...
Thoughts? Moar or something else plz?
For every power, a seed.
For every soul, a price.
For every spell, a corruption.
- The Pact Grimoire
"All scientific personnel, this is an emergency evacuation order. Containment breached in R-3. I repeat, alien entity has breached quarantine. Evacuate immediately."
Stupid mechanical voice. Hungry.
I felt blood splatter against my flesh as I bit into my prey. The pink skinned creature in some sort of white second-skin-thing screamed in agony as I bit into its tender flesh. Its paltry, soft white claws scratched against my carapace as I tore into my meal.
I tore into the soft flesh beneath its screaming mouth and the screams stopped, becoming a near-soundless gurgle before the creature became silent. I pouted slightly at that. It tasted good but the screaming? The screaming was truly divine music to my ears.
I should tell the others. I had finally found a new source of food for the Hive.
An announcement played as I released the scent that meant Food and frowned as I scanned the room for the rest of the food.
Did the food run off? Oh well. Food will learn. Food does not run from a Gnarn. I will teach the next Food not to run!
I heard a sound and turned towards one of the strange walls that always showed a reflection of me. Food is weird and creepy. Why would Food want to look at itself?
I watched the creepy wall shatter and then there was pain. I screamed until it stopped.
Bad Food!
I roared at the two Food and used my meal to rebuild my carapace.
Hungry.
The Food started to make weird metallic noises. I charged the stupid Food and tore into one quickly, ripping out the same flesh bit between its head and torso. It went down in a spray of wonderful, tasty blood. I licked my lips.
More pain. I turned towards the stupid, mean Food and roared at it. It started doing its weird metallic noisy thing and I slammed it into part of the unbroken creepy reflective wall. I smiled at the sweet music it made.
Now to see if I could teach the Food not to run away...
Thoughts? Moar or something else plz?