章 11: More bloodshed
Absorbing the corpses of the 'ogre' and 'orc', Alan stored their energy for later. Running toward the building he could already see a couple of dead goblins at the side of the building, one of the fire exits. Past the reception, there were dead guards and goblins alike, any goblins that were left alive, he killed, there were no living guards.
Reaching his destination, the cafeteria, Alan didn't see Abagail, just more bodies, following the trail of blood and corpses, Alan continued to kill any remaining goblins, not even bothering to absorb their bodies, while he had gotten to the point where he could fully absorb a corpse in about 5 seconds, there where just to many corpses for him to absorb.
Nearing one of the building's other fire exits, and the end of the trail, he could hear the sounds of gunfire and goblins screeching, turning the corner he saw three guards fighting 14 goblins, the only reason the guards were alive was that only 4 goblins could fit side by side in the hallway, but the guards wouldn't last for long, while there bullets were running out and, the bodies of the goblins were not.
Behind the guards was Abigail helping Husten stand, a large gash on his side, within one refresh of lesser enhancement, Alan had killed all the goblins. Two of the guards had died and the last one was gravely wounded, holding the bleeding stump of what was his right arm, the guard spoke to Alan, "Hey, you. You are the special one, right? The one with, the fancy, magic stuff. The one that the geniuses up top go crazy over? A lot of good their brains did them, they're all dead."
Pausing to catch his breath the guard looked over to Husten and Abagail before speaking again, "The kids pretty hurt, don't know if he'll live. the girl is fine, don't worry, it's kind of, an open secret, you like each other, so the geniuses, made her the number one, for keeping safe. the kid, got hurt, stopping one of those, green fuckers, from getting to her."
Using his intact hand, the guard pulled a metal case out of his coat, opening it there were three needles, one with a neon purple fluid, one with a dull green liquid, and one with a crimson red fluid. "other than keeping them two safe, giving you this was our second highest priority. the purple one is 'the extracted, and refined essence, of the failed subjects', whatever, the fuck that means. The green one, is some kinda, of 'gene-perfecting serum', made for you. And the red one, well, all they said is, 'the blood of a god, and the monument to our sin', again, no clue on that one. Apparently, you're meant to use them, when you get safe. 'his trait, will do the rest of, the work', or something."
Grunting while handing the case to Alan, the guard said, "I'm dyin', sucks, but oh well, just one thing before you leave, the kid wanted to say something to you, it's important he said, go on. I'm safe here, you just killed the last of the fuckers."
Walking over to Abagail he checked to make sure she was ok, once he was done with that he looked over to Husten, now without his blindfold, his eyes were pitch black, with tiny specks of color, like a starry sky, one who's states where going out, Grabbing Alan's arm in a tight grip he spoke,
"A world of red in a white room, the sky bleeds and lightning shatters as gods fall and demons cry, do not let the dark win, it is insidious, it lies and speaks a false truth, when eight armes are grown and the white tree flowers, a wrathful god will be born. do not forget."
After he finished this the light in his eyes died out, like the last thing keeping him alive was telling Alan that message. Closing Husten's eyes Alan stood up and put the needle case into one of the pouches on his belt before grabbing Abagail and leaving out the fire exit.
Currently, he was going to claim the rest of his 'spoils of war', reaching the front of the building he saw the seven hobgoblins being pecked at by a flock of ravens, odd considering he had been gone for at most 5 minutes and the city had no ravins. As Alan approached the crows mostly flew away to wherever they came from, but one seemed to have been knocked down just as it took off, falling back to the ground in an odd way and landing on its wing.
Walking up to the injured bird Abigail gently picked it up, being careful of its wings. "aww, poor thing, it hurt." walking up and absorbing the dead creature's bodies Alan said, "Leave it, now that the lab is destroyed we're going to have to find our own food, we can't afford any more mouths to feed."
Looking at Alan and pouting Abagail said, "Please, it's just a bird so it won't eat much and you could even feed them the monster bodies, plus I've only ever seen you eat one meal a day so you're feeding less then two people already."
Seeing Abagail use what he could only describe as 'puppy dog eyes' and looking down to strangely see the raven doing the same, Alan just sighed and said, "Fine, but if we run out of food I'm eating it."
Giggling Abagail said, "Thanks, hear that birdy, you're coming with us, now I gotta give you a name, how about Luke?" hearing this the bird just looked up at her and gave an expression similar to what a human would look like while saying "are you serious?"
Seeing this Alan was intrigued, he knew that corvids, specifically crows and ravens, were very intelligent for animals, but this ravin' was showing a much higher level of intelligence than normal, so Alan was going to keep an eye on it.
As he was thinking about this Abagail had been testing names the whole time, and eventually decided on one. "how about hella?" for the first time after hearing a name 'Hela' didn't look at Abagail like she was growing a second head, which Abagail gladly took as agreement over the name.
Hearing this Alan said, "As in the Norse goddess?" looking over at him Abagail said, "Well I was gonna try to make a name using 'Hræfn' wish is Norse for Ravin, but the only name I could think of was Henry, and Hela seems to not like male names. so I thought 'Why not just a different Norse name?' at first I tried Hugin and Munin, Odin's ravens, but she didn't like those, then I tried Hela and she seemed to like it, so Hela it is."
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Black_rabbit24x I feel think I forgot to put this in earlier chaps but Alan, or anyone with a bloodstone, learns the name of a monster when they kill it, hence why after killing the ogre and orc i started calling them that.
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