Cthulhu's Rise: The Fall of Earth

[Umber]

He walked throughout the ancient and decrepit city. Eyes stared out from partially boarded-up windows. In the center of this abyssal civilization-if you could call it that-he spotted the counter. It read 0999. The horrid sound of stone grinding against stone rang in his ears as the numbers changed. The zero became a one, and the nines became zeros. It now read 1000, and he cringed as the screech of the beast filled the city. The ground broke, and out came the Dark Lord.

"Gaah!" Howwy yelled as he jumped up from his bed, panting and covered in sweat. "The twentieth time..." he muttered. He'd had that dream twenty times now. He hopped out of bed, threw on some clothes, grabbed a small black box, and ran out the door.

He headed to the abandoned bomb shelter that Old Man Jenkins had built back during the war. Howwy pulled a wrench from his pocket and began unscrewing the two large bolts that held the huge, circular above-ground door tightly shut.

He turned the big wheel in the center until it screeched to a hault. He pulled it up and climbed down the ladder leading to the lab he'd built in there, closing the door behind him.

"Now to wait on Eddy and Rupe," he said aloud, sitting down in the ebony leather chair in front of a computer. Content on the outside but incredibly shaken on the inside, he began typing away.

[Aviculor]

Rupert whimpered softly as he crept amidst the abandonned buildings. he had not slept that night, his mind having been riddled with memories of pain and horrors that mortals should never contemplate. Instead, he had wandered around the town looking. Looking for something, or possibly nothing at all. There was little way to tell. having reached the edge of a building, he peeked out from behind its wall and began mumbling almost incoherently to himself.

"Hmmmah...nnn. It..it should be around here. Somewhere, i think. or maybe it's not. Maybe it's not here. Am I here?"

He darted his head around in a panicked frenzy and yelping. His eyes widened and he grabbed his mouth shut, calming down and running forward. He came upon the entrance to the bomb shelter. he began banging on it with his knuckles. he got on his hands and knees and began biting the wheel, trying to force it open.

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[Umber]

"Whoop, I forgot..." he said. He punched in some letters around the keyboard, messaging to Eddy to come to Old Leeroy's bomb shelter.

Howwy raised his head from his work and listened to the banging for a split second.

"Rupert, the door's open!" he yelled. He didn't wait for Rupe, though. Howwy pushed an old, dirty matress under the ladder, climbed up the ladder, and pushed up the heavy door.

[Jake]

Eddy was drifting along in the city, looking around at the buildings, trying to distinguish the hideaway. He gazed about, and thought aloud...

"How am I ever gonna find it?"

He felt a wave of depression hit him. He was so useless, he couldn't even find the damned bomb shelter...

He heard some yelping, and jogged towards the source. He spotted Rupert, trodded towards him and tripped over a pipe. Cursing himself, he greeted his friend.

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[Aviculor]

Rupe looked behind him.

"Oh, hi, Eddy! I was just wai-"

Just as he stood up and before he could finish his sentence, the door open from beneath his feet and he stumbled back, falling, but catching himself with his hands and feet. Quickly regaining composure, he got up and stepped forward, staring at the opened door from behind.

[Umber]

Howwy typed a few more things into the computer after backing away from the door. He pressed the enter key, and a timer appeared on the screen. '999,' he thought. 'Just like my dream.'

He walked over to a shelf and pulled from it the box he had brought with him earlier. He rested it upon the table in the center of the room and opened it. From it, he pulled three rectangular objects, leaving the remaining in the box. Each of them were mainly white, with a cross pattern on each one. on the crosses were circles. He took one and buckled it to the front of his pants. Its pattern was green, while the others were black and purple respectively. "Eddy, Rupe, come on in, guys!" he yelled.

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[Aviculor]

Rupert climbed down the ladder and looked around the bomb shelter. He gazed at the screen and stared blankly.

9..9...9. Is that a timer? A timer..until what? Death? I-is..that...how much time does this world really have left? Is this place expected to protect us from that being? That- does thinking about it make it happen sooner? OH NO!

He snapped back to reality at that second and saw Howie pull objects out of a box, securing on to his pants.

"Hey, Howwy, what are these? belt buckles?"

To hold our pants up...or is there more? are they some kinds of weapons? I'm not sure if we can fight this. Who are we?.....

This post has been edited by Aviculor on Feb 4 2008, 01:57 AM

[Umber]

"Not quite..." he muttered. He picked up the rectangle with the black pattern and handed it to Rupert. "They're nanobot containers. And they're the only thing that'll be protecting us when that timer hits 1000. He tossed the remaining one over to Eddy. In case neither of you know why you're here, that timer's counting down to the Apocalypse. Under our city is another ancient city. Sealed in that city is a horrid beast, with rugged wings, claws, and a tentacled head. I can't speak his name, only write it," he said. He pulled a scrap of paper from his pocket and scrapped down the letters one at a time. C-T-H-U-L-H-U. "Each time that name is spoken, that counter turns. When it reaches 1000, the ancient city will rise over ours and the Dark Lord will come from the ground."

[Jake]

Eddy looked at Howie peculiarly.

He pulled a heavy locket from underneath his shirt, and opened it. Several dials were shown, and pieces were spinning. Eddy nodded, returning it to his place.

"So it's true..."

He looked at the timer, ideas forming in his head.

"What is... Cthu--"

He stopped, realizing what a mistake he made while the others gasped.

"Uhm... what will he do after he appears?"

[Aviculor]

Rupert began hyperventilating as Eddy nearly slipped up. a tiny, soul-writhing moan gurgled in the bavk of his throat. in an instant, he began yelling frantically.

"The end of the world! 'He' will bring about the end of the universe as we know it! I knew it would happen! And that timer, 'he' will come if anyone -anyone at all- says his name but once!?"

He assumed a fetal position and his pupils shrank.

I knew it...I saw...in my mind...visions...I KNEW THEY WERE NO FABRICATION! but- but what happens after? what Happens when our entire dimension collapses? no- no, i can't think like that. i can't think about- NO! WHAT IF THINKING HIS NAME WORKS AS WELL? no, that's impossible. Howwy though of his name as he wrote it down.

Rupert calmed down slightly.

"I ask now, pray-tell, what are we doing? What are we going to do? What can we do to stop 'him'"

This post has been edited by Aviculor on Feb 6 2008, 02:06 AM

[Umber]

(I gave the ones I was sure about. Jake, if you want a different one I'll change it.)

"We can fight."
He carefully watched the counter.
"Remember, don't say the name. It's not like you can say, 'Oops, I take it back!' Slip-ups are an impossibilty. The nanobots in these containers are released by pressing the button in the center. When this is done, they will envelope you, forming into Bio-Suits. Now, with your Bio-Suits come Bio-Weapons. Mine is the Gator Saw. Eddy, yours is the Wing Blade. Rupe, yours is the Web Cannon."