Capítulo 27: Moarte
Page, Derek, and Jacob all ready their weapons as they take cover behind a shipping freight. They glance over the side of the freight to see the Terrasave agents getting off the helicopter and onto the boat. Jacob uses his rifle to get a better look as the helicopter starts to take off
"Five men got off," He states. Looking at the two pilots in the helicopter he sees something hit the pilot on the right. It looks to be a needle of some sort which the pilot pulls out and looks at. The pilot suddenly starts to spasm about when a large black tentacle emerges from their mouth, flailing about wildly. It grabs the other pilot and starts to wrap around them. The helicopter comes falling back down to the ground, the agents on the ship see it right before the helicopter comes crashing into them.
"Fucking hell," Jacob mutters. He looks in the direction where the needle came from and sees the women in red on some freights far off to the right. Jacob puts his rifle down and looks to Page and Derek, "One of the pilots got infected with some kind of uroboros," He states, "But I'm sure there's something else in it. Don't even try to run away," He states to Derek, "I'll be keeping an eye on you the whole time," The three of them look back to the boat to see a large mass of black tentacles forming over all the bodies of the agents.
"Fine, but shouldn't we just find some other ship and just run?" Derek asks.
"We can't let uroboros just run freely, especially with all the bodies in the city," Page states, "We have to kill it first before it can get a hold of anymore bodies,"
They suddenly hear the sound of the helicopter engine sputtering back to life. Looking at the boat they see the mass of tentacles has taken a more human shape, now a greenish-black, and is forming on the helicopter, the blades turning once more. The mass on the helicopter tears the blades off and forms into a large long arm made of pulsating tentacles. The main core of the body no longer looks like a mass of tentacles but like green skin, a head opened like a flower at the top where a large glowing yellow eye sits. As its arm moves off the helicopter they can hear the sound of metal tearing apart. Suddenly, six long tentacles erupt from its back, all filled with sharp shards of metal. Small, round, glowing yellow bulges are visible on the limbs.
"At least we know where to shoot," Jacob says as he brings up his rifle. Before he can aim and shoot, Moarte, (the monster), lets out a loud roar, like a human screaming but much deeper, before it suddenly jumps off the boat and lands onto the shipping yard below. It starts to walk toward them, sparks flying as the rotating blades on its arm scrape against the ground. They all start shooting at it, hitting it in the head but to no avail, the eye thing seems too tough.
"What the hell?! Shouldn't we be hurting it?!" Derek exclaims as the thing keeps moving towards them.
"Just keep shooting!" Jacob shouts back. Moarte suddenly starts to charge at them. They all run back behind the freight as it nears them, throwing its bladed arm at them. After running a safe distance they turn back and continue to shoot at it. When Page's clip gets empty she grabs her bag to get more ammo, but sees the magnum. She puts her handgun away and grabs it, five bullets in the barrel.
She takes aim, and fires it, hitting the thing in the eye. No effect.
"Okay, I'm pretty sure we're not even hurting it!" Derek exclaims as they continue to walk backwards. Jacob aims at the eye once more, and notices all Derek's shots to its eyes are making holes in it, but the holes fill in faster than they're being made.
"We are," Jacob says as he lowers his rifle, "But it's healing too fast,"
"Than what the hell do we do?!"
"Do something it can't heal quickly, Derek, grab your rifle we need more fire power," Before Derek can grab his rifle though, Moarte brings back its bladed arm and swings it up into the air. The arm stretches as it comes flying down at them in an arc. They all jump out of the way as the arm comes slamming into the ground, the blades tearing at the concrete around it, sparks flying everywhere.
Page, Derek, and Jacob quickly regroup as Moarte starts dragging its arm back.
"Shoot it in the eye at my queue," Jacob says as Derek grabs his rifle, "Ready, now!" The three of them all shoot at the same time, a loud singular gunshot filling the air as their bullets fly at Moarte's eye. They hit it, a large hole forming in its eye. Moarte lets out a scream of pain as it stumbles back a bit, but within seconds the eye is fully healed.
"Are you fucking kidding me?!" The three of them all shout at the same time. Derek aims at it again, his infrared on notices something. Its body is shown to be mostly green through the scope, but some small circular things inside its body are a bright red.
"Hey, there's some weird things inside its body," Derek states.
"What?"
"My infrared, it's showing some hotspots inside the thing,"
Jacob quickly turns his infrared on and looks at it.
"Las plagas...of fucking course, that would explain the grey zombies back in the city. Page, save your bullets for now, we're not gonna make any progress until we can get rid of those plagas in it,. Derek, focus on shooting those,"
"On it," Derek says as he aims and shoots one. The bullet penetrates Moarte's skin, the hole quickly filling in. However, it has a small reaction as the bullet hits and kills one of the plagas inside Moarte, stopping for a second as it leans forward a bit. Jacob shoots a second on, which enrages it. It flings its bladed arm at them again, making another large indent in the concrete. Derek and Jacob continue to shoot at it. They can't see anymore from the front side.
Jacob shoots it in the eye, but its eye heals back.
"Damnit, there's more somewhere else in its body," He states, "You two distract it, I'm gonna try to locate the other plagas in it," And he runs off to the side behind some freights. Page and Derek grab their handguns and continue to shoot at the thing as it heads towards them. Derek and Page soon find their backs against a freight.
"Shit!" Derek states as they continue to shoot at it. There's a thin gap between some freights to their left, "Page, over here!" Derek exclaims as he hurries over to the gap. Page quickly joins him and they see that Moarte is starting to charge at them. Derek sees it'll be there soon, "Go!" He shoves Page in front of him, and into the gap. She quickly slides through the gap, Derek hurring in after her as soon as there's room. Just as Derek slides his whole body between the freights, Moarte's bladed arm comes crashing into the freight they were in front of.
The two quickly make their way to the other side of the freights, backing away from the gap as Moarte tries to stick its other arm into the gap. It lets out a roar of anger before it the freights suddenly start to move. The freights go flying into the air towards Page and Derek. They jump to the side, both barely avoiding being flattened as the freights go scraping along the ground and hitting some other freights. Moarte comes walking out from behind some freights and towards them. The sound of a gunshot goes off as Moarte stumbles forward. A couple more gunshots go off and the creature falls to its knees.
"Shoot it in the eye, now!" Jacob exclaims through the radio. Page grabs her magnum and fires at it, hitting its eye dead center. It stands back up, screaming in pain once more as it stumbles back. Before Page can shoot it again, it kneels down, its head closing around the eye and bringing up its arms. Its non-bladed arm starts to flatten, becoming a shield around the front of its body as the limbs on its back suddenly plunge into the ground. Page and Derek can see several sudden cracks in the concrete moving towards them. Four jagged lines move towards them, two moving towards Jacob.
As the cracks near Page and Derek, four limbs emerge from the ground like giant plant stalks. They start gently waving around before they suddenly lunge at them. Page and Derek jump out of the way, barely avoiding getting torn to shreds by all the metal shards in the limbs. Page shoots at the closest limb, just barely missing the large yellow mass on it. She shoots again and hits it, the yellow mass breaking apart and the top of the limb falling to the ground below as a greenish-red liquid spurts out from the part of the limb that's still intact. The rest of the limb submerges back into the ground as the other limbs also submerge, but move in towards them.
Page and Derek run away just in time to avoid the limbs stabbing through them as they erupt from the ground. They mange to shoot the other yellow masses on the three limbs, and they all submerge and go away. The bleeding tips of the limbs appear out of the ground near Moarte. The limbs start to grow green skin on the ends of them, which start to fill up with the creatures blood. As they fill up with blood, the limbs suddenly chuck the bags at Page and Derek. The two run to the right behind some freights. The bags land where they were, exploding and blood flying everywhere as every drop ignites, leaving several burn marks everywhere.
"Let's see how you like fire!" Derek shouts as they jump out from behind the freight and move in towards Moarte. They see more blood bags filling up on the limbs. Derek brings up his rifle, aims, and fires. He hits one in the middle, which explodes and sends flaming blood all over Moarte, and causes the other blood bags to explode. Moarte falls to the ground as flames engulf its body, its head opening up to reveal its giant yellow eye once more. Page brings up her magnum, and shoots. The bullet goes flying straight into the eye, and the creature falls gives out as the flames eat away at it.
Jacob reunites with them as Page and Derek walk up to Moarte. Page unloads the last two bullets into its head.
"Gotta make sure it doesn't come back," She says as Derek gives her a confused look.
"I've taught you well," Jacob says with a smirk, "Come on, let's see if we can't-" Jacob gets interrupted when bombs on the boats suddenly go off one by one, filling the air with bright explosions and smoke as the boats catch fire. They all start sinking into the ocean, crashing into each other with loud metallic bangs, "Are you...Fucking-!"
He's once more cutoff by a sudden banging coming from the shipping yard entrance. The banging continues until they hear the gate give way and hear it scraping along the floor, soon followed by the roaring of a bull.
"Come on!" Jacob exclaims as he quickly stuffs his rifle into the duffel bag and grabs the shotgun. The three all look around for some place high up they can go to.
"Over there!" Page yells as she spots a ladder a few yards behind them leading up onto some freights The three take off for the ladder as the sound of hooves hitting concrete starts to echo in the distance. They hear the bull roar again. They all glance back to see the bull has seen them and has started its charge.
Jacob reaches the ladder first, some distance between him and the other two. He turns around, seeing the bully is going to reach them very quickly. He gets down on one knee and cupping his hands together.
"Page, boost jump!"
"Okay!" Page exclaims as she sprints towards Jacob, Derek heading for the ladder. Reaching Jacob, Page steps onto his hands with her right foot. As she jumps, he lifts his hands up, the force pushing Page up. As she rises into the air she grabs onto the top of the freight and pushes it. She flies above the freight a bit and lands on her two feet, Derek just reaching the top of the ladder. Jacob quickly dives to the side right before the bull comes crashing into the freight, Page and Derek stumbling a bit but managing to keep their balance.
As the bull tears its horns out from the freight the ladder gets pulled off too. Page and Derek grab their pistols and start to shoot at it, merely angering it. Before the bull can backup to charge at the freight again, its attention is grabbed by Jacob as he shoots it in the side of the face. The bull shakes its head before turning to Jacob and letting out a furious snort. It starts scraping one of its front hooves along the ground as it readies to charge. Jacob shoots the bull in the leg its not moving, causing it to fall forward a bit.
Jacob walks closer to the creature as it tries to get up, shooting it in the head once more. Before Jacob can shoot it again the bull jumps up towards him. He moves out of the way and the bull gets back up onto its feet. It scrapes one of its front legs much more aggressively this time and when Jacob goes to shoot it again, its unfazed. Jacob lowers his shotgun as he turns and starts to run, the bull chasing after.
"Jacob!" Page exclaims. She goes to jump off the freight but Derek stops her.
"He'll be fine it's best if-"
"Will you two shoot the damn bull!?" They hear Jacob's voice shout from behind some freights. Jacob appears from behind some freights, running towards them, the bull following close behind. Page brings up her gun but than things of something.
"Do you have any more flash bangs?" She asks Derek.
"Yeah,"
"Lemme see one,"
Derek quickly hands her one. She pulls the pin off and chucks it towards Jacob and the bull. Jacob sees it, jumping to the side just as it goes off. The bright flash blinds the bull, and it keeps charging forward, charging past Jacob. It runs head on into some freights next to the one Page and Derek are on. Some freights on top start to shake a bit, and than come toppling down on top of the bull.
"It's about time, all this, bullshit, came to an end," Jacob says as he catches his breath. As he straightens up the freights suddenly start to shake. Jacob lets out a sigh of annoyance as he brings up his shotgun. There's some banging as the side of the freight becomes dented. The bull comes bursting out from the side, several large pieces of skin and fur missing, revealing bloody muscles. As it walks out from the freight they see that one of its back legs has been slightly torn off, nothing but several strings of muscles dragging it along.
They're all at a loss for words as they see its skin regenerating, the muscles on its torn back leg growing back and slowly reattaching itself to the bulls body.
"There's no way, it can't be-" Derek mutters to himself as he puts his pistol away and grabs his rifle. Looking at the bull as its limp starts to become a trot, Derek sees that its filled with several plagas like the uroboros monster. The bull shakes all the blood off itself before it snorts. There's a little spark of light far off in the distance as the sound of a rocket fills the air. The three of them barely have anytime to react as the rocket comes flying towards the bull. Derek dives towards Page, the two of them falling down onto the top of the freight, and Jacob dives away from the bull as the rocket hits. Sparks fly everywhere and chunks of concrete fly around as smoke fills the air.
As the dust settles Page sees Derek staring at her. She pushes him off to the side and dusts herself off as she stands up. Derek quickly gets up as well, dusting himself off too. The two look down to see a large hole in the side of the bull as it lays on its side, dead. The hole shows severely burnt muscle and organs.
"You guys alright?" Jacob asks as he walks up to the freight they're on. Page glances at Derek than jumps off the freight onto the ground below.
"We're fine," She says as she walks up to Jacob, Derek jumping down off the freight, "How are we gong to get off the island now?" She asks as she looks at the last sinking parts of the ships.
"The prison on the east end of the island seems to be our last hope," Jacob answers as he glances at the ships too, "This place gets a lot of dangerous criminals from the mainlands, so it has some helicopters and planes on its property. With the bull gone we should be able to get a vehicle from the parking garage you two were in and leave the city for good, though we best hurry before the prison blows up too,"
With that the group heads for the parking garage, a scarlet silhouette watching from some freights far away. As they leave the shipping yard the figure takes off and follows, neither party aware of the bull's corpse starting to mutate.
PENSAMENTOS DOS CRIADORES 
TIWHimitsu
TIWHimitsu Wow, that bull is something else. Will they finally find a way off the island in the prison? Who is that women in red??? Well, you'll find the answer to the last one in the next couple of chapters which are going to be Derek's side of the city, and is going to be the last Derek segment since it seems like he's going to be stuck with Page and Jacob from now on. BUT, that doesn't mean there won't be more segments showing you the perspective of someone else, someone in, scarlet, perhaps...
BTW the name of the uroboros monster made from the Terrasave agents is Moarte, Romanian for "Death". I used that name to refer to it since I got tired of just saying "creature" and "monster", let me know if you like it, or if it made the whole thing confusing or any other thoughts in the comments. :)
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