《Chilledren》 First Wake Picture this. Waking up all alone, something wich surely many know all too well and something wich no harm lays in, in particular. Noone could hurt you but just as much could noone treat you to something well. Now though, picture yourself waking up in a pretty much empty bus of the more modern times, your back sore from having spent rested on one of these way too stiff banks of seats for what must have been atleast serveral hours now, to see it must have also been well past midnight according to the high standing moon wich you could spot floating high above through the window next to you. This, seemed to be what happend to Iep as a wristband on her right said, wich just screamed to be of hospital origins, all white and pure with just a name and bloodgroup stated on it. A girl, average in size for what seemed to be not much older than just a teenager, if not slightly smaller and with muscles of the more sofa-athlete sorts, by no means chubby or such though... Just a very average person of good looks and with curly red hair to strike her shoulders and cheeks when not tied to a short ponytail on her back, wich at the moment it was ofcourse not ... Just a ruffled mess of red locks. So, leaning forwards, till she could feel her feet collide with the ground to produce a soft thudding noise, Iep raised onto her small feet and decided that going to the front would be the smartest course of action to ask the driver herself if maybe he could atleast get to the next city or why the hell he''d not even wake her up when she fell out of the waking world, atleast when the other passengers seemingly all went away after probably one or two stations like most normal lazy people would? No, instead she''d have to probably get home at dawn because of this idiots behaviour but ... Ouh well... nothing the redhead could do about it now she guessed, nothing but to wait and be patient. Iep forced herself to wait on one of the seats, the persistent smell of ciggerate bugging her, for the odour they carried was horrible, disgusting rather with how intense the whole bus was imbued in it, like everyone felt obliged to smoke atleast once between every station, a smell so stupidly strong, ... Iep stood up and stepped outside to get some fresh air, only to very quickly step back inside without her feet ever having touched the outside . Sure, she might''ve been paranoid this late but her eyes were fine ... Atleast they used to be and no doctor came to mind, wich ever told her she''d need glasses... These movements far back into the fields surely must''ve been imaginative, right? The fat outlines of a person quickly turning around but not moving or saying anything to follow up her random approach? Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.The feeling of eyesight pressing into her flesh ... It was sadly all but imagination from the girls side, proven by the sudden snarly voice of a man who seemed to press his lips together tightly with every word spoken, Iep turned around quickly to see a short and definetly overweight figure five feet away from the entrance, outside ofcourse. "Keppt youu waitinngg, cutie?" His ... suggestive words chilled her, the hoarse laugh accompanying it afterwards making her stomach turn in combination with a closer inspection of who must''ve been either the driver or some random passerby. Oily black hair ... A sweaty suit... opened up pants aswell as worn out sandals worn together with socks, making him not only look like the sort that never showered but also quite the unfashionable pervert. Saying he fit the description for every clich¨¦ rapist ever would be an understatement, and Iep, when her bravery got back, pushed some rather hostile words out her slim neck when her gut feeling became bad enough! "B...Back away, creep. I ... I have pepperspray in my pockets... and ... and a knife." She jinxed it ... The way she spoke must''ve given away the facts she did infact not own either of the two mentioned items. Her opponent though, suddenly seemed to hold onto both a phone and one mighty heavy looking muddied branch ... It was indeed quite strange to her ... He didn''t even move and still ... Suddenly he had a weapon ... Surely unfair, especially when ones only way out was blocked ... And even more so, when this branch was suddenly placed directly against her head and the fat guy whose nameplate said "Jim Knopf" and who was definetly out for some shady and most definetly not legal activities had somehow made his way up the short flight of stairs and next to our girl in a blink of her small brown eyes. It all just seemed way too fast atfirst and too slow afterwards... Like time decided to stand still for a moment to punch Iep into her at this moment not so adorable face and watch the thrilling moments of her pain for just a little bit longer. Her consciousness faded, everything darkening by the second, sudden cracks in the windows wich never seemed to be there becoming more evident and a gurgling noise coming from a throat of not her own ... She heard it shatter and crack, felt shards rain down onto her, only to then be greeted by purely gray and a black door up front ... She was sitting on a bench, wearing the same wristband and a white onepiece subject suit. A bell rang and the lock ticked, the handle was pushed down ... Ieps'' eyes still wide, she awaited even more negativity. Laboratory Succes; The end of the prologue! Iep, standing in this room of gray in a rather hostile manner, had her eyes fixed upon the door to her front side, waiting for the moment it opened to start with a smack and follow up to kick the crap out of whomever might step in ... Her memories of what apparently happened were hazy already, the only thing the lass managed to remember being the smeary ball of a man and his assault upon her. So, was she now trapped in his basement on some farm far into the plains? Judging by her current surroundings, this could have very well been the case but Iep did not have the time to be thinking in this very moment because ... With a sudden flash, seemingly thousands of lights lit themselves without warning, revealing a room which pretty much screamed to be of a psychiatric ward or some sort of laboratory, the only thing breaking a pale grey being a sink and a sofa in the far back of the small cell. Now, Iep turned away from the side the door was on, her eyes still strained by the light which reflected off the walls, though in vain, for her ears took in the heavy sound of a door slammed into a concrete wall and quick determined steps torwards her direction whose owners quickly laid hand upon her arms and legs to restrain the poor girl ... Three pairs .... A whole three pairs dragged her out roughly, tears beginning to form in the corner of each of Ieps'' eyes when the thought of what was to come struck her as sudden as one might be hit by lightning, the redheads'' revelation only adding desperation to the fire that would be her struggle .... In vain. A fourth person must have come from behind as suddenly a rough cotton bag was pulled over her head, taking any way of possibly seeing where she went from her. The definetly ravenous animal wich was Iep, desperate to set herself free, had any freedom stolen from her, the sudden stabbing pain that formed on her arm, the spot where lower and upper arm were joined, stopped as quickly as it arrived, leaving behind the feeling that something was now strapped to her arm, an object wich surely caused her high amounts of discomfort and brought back memories of hospitals and how she hated intravenous infusions ... This must have also been one of these .... Afterall, her eyes suddenly grew heavy and a sluggishness emanated her entire small being, the last thing accompanying it being numbness and in the end, ... Sleep. "Jesus ... How i hate this girl, always fighting like this...," a man wearing the clothes of a physician said whilst his hands dropped off Ieps'' limp, sleeping body to comb the thick fingers through his shiny, greased and black hair in a more than just reliefed manner whilst simply walking along his three quite similiarily clothed companions. "Indeed...The guards can suck a dick, telling us to get her ourselves because of the CHANCE we can spot some stupid change... ," the second would say and toss a now used up syringe to the side like it was some sort of burnt up smoke. Looking at things... In this hallway, the walls made up entirely of somewhat messy looking concrete and the ground neatly tiled, there was a whole bunch of syringes on the floor, most of them stacked on a pile like our beloved researcher here was doing his thing on every possible occurence to be found here ... Ieps'' arm was not littered with little prickmarks for no reason ... None of that mattered though, for the third of him pushed a door in, opening it quite noisily and letting the sound travel through what probably seemed to be the whole building, only to close it very quietly when his band of research buddies entered the room, Describing it briefly would be indeed quite simple! It was ... Clean, it''s walls made out of the same dull concrete with a pint of white paint applied to them and the flooring this tame made of wooden planks, the only furnishing being three desks with quite mighty looking computers and screens on them, the latter probably being something like two meters wide, though could this assumption only be confirmed if one were to bring a long ruler the next visit, this question was a big mystery to the crew afterall! After ... most likely half of the rooms space from the door to the middle, one would be greeted by a ... gigantic sheet of glass with thin metal pillars running through it ... Reinforced by that one could say and by the sheer width of this wall, afterall the space behind it was small, pretty much entirely taken up by some funky looking machinery hooked up to a bed with a seat next to it ... Vents littered the walls in this little sideroom aswell as countless little lightbulbs just like in the room Iep had to stay in, most likely their means of blinding her again, just like it happend earlier too! The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Well, continuing further into the room and taking their seats at their respective desks and starting to hammer their keyboards to type quickly, the door to the more secured room suddenly opened , an alarm following it till the heavy duty blastdoor came to a stop to allow passage to a brawny looking man who carried Iep and placed her on the bed which was littered with all kinds of weird techs, her face fixated to stare at a screen. "Alright guys... Time to load up the train accident in which noone will help but rather hinder her ...Hopefully we''ll have some results today regarding the goop, eh?" The door closed, screens flashing up brightly in the chamber to broadcast video footage of Iep sitting in a train with quite the happy expression on her face, three girls in her company who all seemed to be in quite the good mood, throwing jokes and silly names around alike! Now ... The scene could not stay positive for too long ... The research they conducted afterall had to do with the black goop and if they could summon it by pushing a child into a sea of negativity and because of that reason, one of the laborants'' pressed a button and the train quickly slid off the tracks and into the nearest car, one that transported gas in rather massive amounts ... Only to have it blow up when the frame of a train managed to pierce the aluminium tank and strike sparks! "I feel sorry for her..." "Aye..." The sparks quickly grew into a more massive ball of flame which quickly traveled to incinerate any living being it crossed paths with, leaving nothing but a trail of ashes behind it to signal that .... someone once stood and laughed in this spot. Ofcourse, this caused hysteria in the simulation, preprogrammed ofcourse and many people alike would not even hestitate to either push or pull Iep out of their way to save themselves, leaving a girl in terror and confusion as to why everyone had to be such an asshole ... It also did not take long until her small frame found itself laying underneath a part of roofing wich lost support and held the little redhead in place... It should have been easy ... Easy to lift the amounts of rubble on her back for strong people, wich ofcourse also ran like rats when confronted with fire, one even going asfar as to step onto her hand and break bone and bruise tissue, a painful expression forming on the Iep in this simulation and the one on that uncomfortable bed alike... It also only took a short while, brief moments for the researchers to observe, that outside the screens, in their shady reality, handprints began to form all across the glass that separated them from the girl, a possible weapon of mass destruction should they one day reach their goal ... Which maybe they did today, afterall all three of them seemed rather thrilled at the reaction, the fourth though ... Well ... He was the unlucky one to be in the chamber and what occured at the moment surely had a displeasing effect on him, the features of his face twisting into that of terror with a pint of pain alike. "HEY. LET ME OUT!" Silence. " I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME!" Just silence from the researchers sides... All they did was press another button to set Iep on fire on the screens, in the simulation ... But suddenly, in the same moment her body struck flames, the before briefly visible handstains would spread further, covering the entire glass in black prints, out of wich small black creatures of humanoid shapes erupted into the chamber and surrounded the fourth brawny man, quickly tearing him to pieces, producing nightmarish screams from his throat in his reaction to the apparently unbearable pain that man lived through at the moment, though ... He quickly went silent again and the only thing to be heard was the smacking sound of many mouths and what sounded like crunching metal.... The cameras revealed Iep standing up, black slime flowing off her hair and hands, her expression blank .... ( Greetings, Flann here to say that this chapter was a bit rushed due to me just wanting to get over the prologue so i can finally start to write in a more personal to characters way rather than to ... let''s say give some insight to the setting... So .... Uhm... See you at the next chapter and Woah, i have a follower!) Chapter One; Vesparide to Bangleton Iep, sighing, opened her eyes to what seemed to be quite the formidable landscape ... Her current spot was ontop of a cliff, a steep and deep drop to her north transitioning into the nothingness that was a drop abruptly and ofcourse the sea began at the feet of this mighty cliff, seemingly whipping against it with her waves of water in an attempt to make this great watcher fall to his knees, in vain ofcourse! The grass around her was rich, tall and in the juiciest of greens it would cover anything smaller than half a meter, this seemingly endless overgrowth at times ofcourse stopped by a rock or two and maybe a tree growing even taller! Had Iep been honest to herself, would it have been quite evident, that she did infact not know how she got to this site, though did the girl desperatly and subconsciously push that away and simply thought about how amnesia or spacing out must be a problem and that everything was fine... It didn''t matter though... At the current time her stomach was filled with relief without ofcourse knowing why exactly that had been the cause ... Was it the beautiful sunny weather that tickled her happyness? Perhaps the sheer sight was enough...? Maybe even the smell of lemongrass. Pondering over such was meaningless though ... Some feelings were too beautiful for Iep to find a reason for them, too precious would just a small tint of what makes her happy be to this girl as to challenge it and in the end maybe ruin the effect it had? Like listening to the lyrics of an upbeat song and realizing a person like Kouki composed them and actually made the song tell the tale of a girl and how her father would eat her inners from her perspective... Surely, the song would lose the happy parts of it once analyzed. Now though? Iep stood up and let her eyes begin to grope her surroundings for any little feature to be found in the sea of endless green, until she did actually catch a sight wich would prove itself to be useful for what Iep planned to actually do ... "A road! ...... It''ll probably take ages to walk back to the next city though..." The girl let out a soft and girlishly voiced sigh before beginning to journey torwards the asphalt saviour of hers, afterall she''D have had no idea where to go at all if not for this conveniently placed road she had here. Sadly ofcourse, there were no cars driving down to be spotted in this entire hour that she made her way down the path, wich ofcourse was stupidly unkempt, cracks and sometimes even little holes in the way making the walking even less comfortable than it could''ve been ...Her way of thinking probably was something along the lines of ... "I have to walk ... No one''s gonna pick me up out of nowhere and drive me all the way to tow-" Suddenly she could hear the whirring engine of what must''ve been either a really loud car or, on the more normal side, a motocycle, afterall these always proved to be deafening to one''s ears and once Iep got as far as to turn around and look into the direction of whom was to come, a little yellow Vesper type motorcycle, if one could even go as far as to call it one stopped right infront of her or ... keeping atleast a meter of distance to not seem like the driver was drunk and tried to drive her over perhaps? The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. "Yo, in need of a drive here aren''t we?" The voice was of male nature, it also bore a somewhat young tone to it, Ieps'' assumption of the drivers gender, one wich was quickly confirmed when he took his helmet off to reveal a guy, one definetly older than our beloved Iep, with short unkept brown hair and an athletic build, his eyes of a color reminiscent of steel and with a goatee so silly looking on his chin, that it would have alone been proof enough that he would be the kind who drank warm beer in the evening and worked parttime in a grocery shop ... Well ... That was probably a weird thought to have crossed her brain but Iep''s head was not completly empty, things she could remember would be books and movies for one, aswell as education, nothing too advanced though ... Or so she thought, for all of it was blurry ... Heck ... Knowing what she did now, the world could have ended without even noticing! "So ... You need a ride ...?" "Ouh uhm... Y...Yes that would be nice... Since i don''t know how much further it would be ... " "What...? How''d you get here without knowing where the city''s ?" "Don''t ask." "Fine.... The name''s Ronn by the way. Nice to meet cha..... uh?" "Iep..." "Ie-?" "Don''t ask." Ronn looked stumped ... Never had je ever met a person named in a weird manner like Iep, so the first thing to think? Ever the girl lied or she was a foreign newcomer to this place. Well ... It didn''t matter and so he handed her the way too big helmet and sighed, wich ofcourse the girl clumsily held in her hands for a brief moment, after wich she put the red neoprene headwear on and followed onto the Vesper .... A very unrespectable bike. "So .. Havin'' newcomers in Bangleton''s a rare thing you know...? How comes i didn''t hear someone new would move in?" "Ah uhm... Well... eh... I don''t really recall how i got here in the first place." "I see... If you want you can use the phone at my mum''s house ... Should take us like ten minutes when i speed to get there!" And with these words, the boys hands turned on the stereo, starting some sort of instrumental rock heavy on guitars and bass before suddenly pressing his feet down hard on the acceleration to leave Iep terrorised by how fast this vesper of all things managed to be ... 150 KM/h !? Surely, this one was not an ordinary vesper,though Iep was happy that when it would take ten minutes at this speed, she wouldn''t have to walk ... "Thank you ... Mis-....uhm... Ronn" An elbow hit her when she tried to say Mister... All he did was give a thumbs up with made her stomach turn ... Takng a hand off the controls at these speeds ... Did he plan on killing them both here ?! Chapter Two; Sister in Race? Iep was genuinly suprised. First of all things ... Ronn managed to not crash his bike and with it the both of them the entire ride to this village called Bangleton, an action wich surely resembled some sort of miracle, for there could have simply been no way to survive the ride without what seemed to be divine intervention ... The unkempt asphalt road was too bumpy and littered in holes for their speed to succeed afterall but did it not matter now ... Ronn could''ve or probably must''ve been a pretty good biker afterall. Secondly? She didn''t think of Bangleton as a village nearly as pretty as it actually came to be when seen. As a brief explanation, one could say it had a really old feel to it, located in the countryside and again next to a steep drop into the ocean, the first thing one wold see were pointy roofs wich seemingly managed to tickle the sky as there was a seemingly perfectly round circle of cloudless sky above it .... Bangleton''s buildings were mostly two stories high and build on a stone fundament with seemingly carefully crafted wooden walls, support structures built into them in a way that they managed to not look bad and probably still managed to take a beating before giving in to gravity ... The streets? These were made of probably individually placed small stone slabs of grey colour and the only things wich one could hate about this village as it stood out now? Either the really olden times feel it gave off or the fact that lanterns were sparsely placed approximatly every 100 meters apart from each other, rendering nighttime visibillity most likely impossible to accomplish without the aid of a good working probably industrial grade flashlight. Now though, this didn''t matter for Iep and Ronn left the Vespa behind after putting the stereo off and strolled off torwards the end of this street, the dude of the two pointing at the house to the far back. It... looked entirely the same to the others except for maybe the garage next to it and ... the massive washed out crayon drawing in the frontyard ... Looking at things... The rocks were still wet, a sign of rain ? "That''s me and mums place ... We also got Pan staying over at the moment, you''d probs like her, she''s nice." "Okay...?" "Ah yeah.. Nearly forgot you actually only need to make a call .... And then probably whirr off" "Yeah uhm... I still don''t know where or whom to call...to be honest." Ronn shrugged and pushed a hand down his pants'' left pocket, an odd looking way of taking something out of there for sure, especially when all that intially laid in his palm were rest pieces of cloth, later ofcourse his key from wich dangled a fuzzy felt die .... It was quite dirty though... Covered in strings all around. "Back home, Mum, Pan!" Ronn dashed off quickly around the next corner and into the room wich probably laid there... A kitchen perhaps because he later returned with two glasses of water, one of which he handed to Iep whilst clumisly chugging down his own. Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings. "Some water, i bet you''re thirsty." Iep though...? She only took a short sip before coughing and putting it aside, onto the oaken table to her right to be exact! "T...This is not water.... If it is, then it''s straight out of the sewers.... "Uhm... No? What''s wrong with it?" "It tastes nothing like water should!" And indeed, from Ieps'' perspective it tasted not like it should ... More acidic and nausiating, heck it even began to smell bad when set still for a while, something ... rotten mixed with booze and dirt alike. After her remark she began to get dizzy too, setting one arm onto the table as a means of support, the other hand driving through the red front of hair to get it off her forehead and out her vision to give a clear image of Ronn ... Something gave her the feeling it was him who might''ve poisoned it ... Why though? She couldn''t remember what had happened to her earlier, just that .... suddenly everything seemed so hostile, like even plants were out to get her in this very moment! "Uhm... Iep ...? You might want to lay down for a moment... You don''t look too good right now." "S-...eh...Totally ... Are you sure you didn''t put anything into this ...? Maybe... some pills slipped in...?" Iep smirked profoundly when suddenly, another third voice broke their raising voices, preventing an argument. "I''ll take her upstairs to rest, Ronn. Also, nope he did not put anything into your water.... It ... uh ... Most be the air, surely." Coming downstairs and locking hers and Ieps'' arms together came who must have been Pan as Ronn called her earlier. She wore a white dress shirt smeared over with paints of various hues and a skirt, the end of leggings showing at the edge of it''s seam. She was also a bit taller than Iep, with blonde longer hair and ... green eyes ? This hue of green really did not seem natural but ... There probably were things like rare eyecolours Iep had not heard of whilst getting dragged upstairs and hearing a door smashed into the wall and back to close. "Rule One. Don''t drink anything stinky." "Rule Two. Don''t eat anything stinky." "Three, --- Trust me about some more special issues ... If you have them yet... and not anyone else. You''ll live with me in this room now." "Hold on... What... I want to go home..." "Too Bad." Pan seemed happy when eyeing Iep ... Perhaps she knew about her amnesiac tendencies with mentioning problems? Afterall, she did also seem to know about the problem with that water. "Chilledren." "You''re my sister in race." "...... ?" Note Flann here, apologizing for not uploading chapters for a while now ... I kind of got discouraged by the fact that no one ever said anything positive or negative, no criticism! 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