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Awakened in desolation (Eternal Wanderer x Crystal Smith)

SilentMadness

Master Of Disharmony
Name is Scott Winston, the place of residence is Fairview Hills. He is 19, and was close to enroll in the army. We've chosen him due to his lack of health issues and the potential on the future. After the war is over, he will be one to help rebuilding the human race.





Those were the words he could hear, as he gazed up. He remembered perfectly why he was there, encased in a titanium, coffin like box, with only a small piece of bulletproof window to give him a bit of view on the outside, to gaze at the moving ceiling. Or as he seen it, but the ceiling wasn't moving, his coffin was the one moving. He trailed back to the beggining of it all. The news about incoming chemical warfare war raging on all television channels, warnings, free classes of survival in case of war. Fake alarms every night, as training for the inhabitants of the small community he lived in... and the day in which men in black arrived at his house, and without asking too many questions, took him with them. Just after, they explained him.


You are one of the chosen. We will cryogenise you, to get you past the incoming war. After, you will come out one day, and you will be one of those who have been chosen to recreate and repopulate the Earth. For the new era that shall dawn.





Of course, the idea didn't sound that great for him. No more family, no more friends, who knew what exactly was going to await him upon his awakening. But now it would be too late to turn back, he was inside the capsule and ready to be cryogenised and left in that weird underground laboratory. He saw how the world outside the titanium capsule darkened, as he was pushed into the hole that looked oh so similar to a crematorium drawer. He felt the capsule get colder and colder, and soon everything blacked out. No dreams, no nightmares, only nothingness.


What was going on. Something was running wrong. Slowly, he was coming back into his senses. and felt the capsule shaking and could clearly hear something clawing at its outsides. He felt cold, but it was all dissipating. Should he dare open his eyes? He didn't want to. Moreover, he couldn't remember almost anything. Where was he? Why did it seem he was in a fridge? Something in his innards turned, as he heard a sound. A distorted growl of sorts, echoing against... whatever was containing him. He heard the clawing intensify, and the capsule shaking even rougher. His heart started beating faster, as he felt that his safety was coming to an end, and, terrified of what was going on, he opened his eyes. Opened them to be faced with a horror he couldn't imagine even in his nightmares.


From above the capsule, red shimmering eyes stared at him with hunger. A deformed body covered in slime was standing on the capsule, trying all its best to open it, like a can of food, to extract the fleshy content of it. Saliva dripped off its shredded lips and monstruos fangs, as it continued trying to open the coffin. At that moment, Scott felt his body, embraced only by underwear, shaking heavily, while he felt something hot running down on his legs.The fear made him have no control over his own body. That was it.


With the help of his legs, and of his fear that almost gave him a heart attack, he pushed the capsule open, the horrid mutant falling to the side as the capsule flew open. In a matter of no time, Scott found himself running through a vaguely lit ruined corridor, so ruined that it was about to fall on him. He found a set of stairs and taking them up, he ran as fast as he could, despite of feeling so tired that his legs were about to give up. He ran for his very life, and felt even more horrified as he just saw the endless corridors he was running through, painted with a lot of blood, and full of bones, human bones.


He approached rapidly a sign that pointed out the exit, as he hoped, the exit out of this nightmare. He hoped for anything to wake up, and find himself at home, in his bed. But as soon, he was faced with another dissapointment. The exit door wasn't there. It was all but gone, and as he stopped, breathing his lungs out, he found himself gazing at the street, a desolating sight, a mere ruin of what it should have been. Full of old, wrecked cars, eaten by rust. Grass growing uncontrolled through the concrete and asphalt. He was faced with a terrible reality. The world as he knew it was gone.


Falling to his knees, he stared out in shock at the sights, almost breaking out in screams. All gone. But maybe... maybe he wasn't the only survivor left. That gave him a little ray of hope. Standing, he looked about. He was covered only by underwear. He had to find something to fit. On a broken desk lain a pair of dark, shredded jeans and a white tank top, shredded as well. Probably left from some unlucky man that died there. He found a pair of old, dusty sneakers, almost torn apart, but still good to be worn. He gazed once more about, then took careful steps out, watching for any threat, as he went on, searching for any other survivor than him.
 
Raven had been wandering, she hadn't known how long, but to her that didn't matter. She was scared beyond anything normal. The brain that once held so much intelligence and bravery had suppressed all of this, hiding away most of her memory's. After not being fully conscious for year after year, she'd not known the world for what it is now and that scared her.


She'd been hidden away in the ruins of what was left from an abandoned house. Her mind flashing back to past memories that seemed somewhat relevant, as if she was remembering who she was.


"Name, Raven Hanton. Age, 17..." The memory trailed off and became fussy, the imagery she could remember was being able to see through a small window. She remember that from coming out of the capsule.


Small tears had been running down her face for a long time now. She saw no point in wiping them away, for only more of the salty substance would run from her eyes again.


"...She is in perfect shape and health, this is why she was chose, sir. When it is time, her and the others will be able to rebuild the human race..." The memory faded again and she stands abruptly.


She leaves the wreckage and wipes her face, taking a deep breath and closing her eyes. She felt unsafe on her own and wanted nothing more than to find company.
 
He walked the empty streets, gazing about at the ruins. For how long exactly has he been sleeping? Many years, that was for sure, but who knows? So, the war has demolished the whole world as he knew it. Ravaged it beyond reconstruction. Was there anyone alive? Probably not. Or maybe just others, that had awakened from capsules, just like him. If they haven't been eaten by the despicable mutants, just like the one that attacked him back then.


He wandered the streets, all by himself, wondering when would be the next living being he would meet, if there would be any. One thing he knew for sure, he didn't want to see any bloody being again. He descended from what was a big city into a wrecked suburb. Ruins of houses, more wrecked cars, a ravaged, almost blocked street and a... helicopter? He widened his eyes as he saw it, a destroyed helicopter. Leftover from the war, more than sure. He continued gazing upon the apocalyptic scene, and to the red sky above. No sun, nothing, only a red sky.


All of a sudden, his hearing caught something. Were those steps? He gazed about once more, excited to see what exactly was it, hoping it wouldn't be one of the mutants again. But it wasn't! There, just some tens of feet away from him, was a human being. A female. With a heavily beating heart, he approached her, unsure of what exactly to say, he almost wanted to hug her. He contained his emotions for the moment.


"Um... Hello? Miss?"
 
Raven had gasped at the sight of the male, she hadn't anticipated what it would be like when coming across another human never mind a male. She blinks away the tears, "Hello." She murmurs, coming to a halt a few metres away. Biting her lip, she looks at the floor.


Raven brings a hand through her golden hair, looking back up at the man, "You're human, right?" She murmurs, showing a small smile.
 
"At the last check, i was" He shrugged, still surprised somewhat that another human being was there, in that chaos as he saw it. He gazed about, still uncertain of how safe they were for the moment being.


"What's your name?"
 
Raven hesitates for a minute, wiping her face, "Raven, Sir. What's your name?" She murmurs quietly, coughing slightly. She licks her lip, realising she was thirsty and hungry. She looks at him and smiles weakly, stepping forward slowly.
 
"Good question. I remember them calling me Scott, when they were putting me in the... fridge" He scratched his head as he watched the female step closer. "So, they put you in there too?" He questioned her as he turned around, and looked at what options of roads they had. It was all the same, ruins absolutely everywhere. He looked to the bunch of wrecked cars. Could there be anything left in them? Who knows, maybe.


"Come on, let's go search the cars. Maybe there are things that we could use left in there. Do you have any idea how the Earth has become such a waste? For how long have you been awake?"
 
Raven shrugs slightly, "Well then Scott. I'm just as clueless as you.." She murmurs, she leans casually placing all her weight on one foot and shifting into the other randomly, she stares at him and smiles, nodding slowly, "I was locked in the 'fridge things' but that is all I really remember.. Something about a war." She murmurs the last bit, her brain forming the fuzzy memories causing her eyes to water again.


She shivers slightly, "Are we safe out here," she murmurs worriedly, a small tear trailing down her face slowly. She wipes it away and sighs slowly, waiting for a reply.
 
"I don't really believe so, i was close to be eaten by a... thing. I don't know what it was, but it wanted to peel the flesh off my damned bones."


He sighed, while moving towards the nearest wreck of a car. He looked into it curious, wondering what would be hidden behind the pieces of crushed metal and rust. Nothing but dried blood and wreck.


"Ah, forget it, let's move out" He spoke to her as he took the lead, taking steps down the street with much care, gazing about for any sign of incoming threat, while fear clutched at his heart. If something was to attack them, he didn't think he would be good enough to defend.
 
"Go where though, there is nothing here.. Everything is wrecked and ruined and we have no chance of surviving, Scott." She lets out, following after him slowly, she'd given up hope and she'd only just found company. To her, knowing that there were creatures, monsters crawling the earth, there was no hope.


She bites her lip and blinks away more tears that were forming, evidently from her shaking body, she was scared. She brings a hand through her long golden hair, taking a deep breath in order to calm herself. The deep breath didn't help, in fact they made it worse. Her heartbeat had already been racing, the breaths weren't helping. She'd thought that things were okay, she'd thought, things like this don't happen. This is reality, these things just don't happen. She wanted to pinch herself so hard that she'd wake up and it'd all be a dream.
 

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