In Bakaara Market in the city of Mogadishu in Somalia an eerie silence prevails. No sounds of shop keepers arguing with their customers. No guns being shot of by gun dealers testing their weapons.
At that moment a flash of light and smoke suddenly appears. The Kryptos look around them and take in the surroundings.
'This does not feel right' says The Destructor.
'Yeh I agree. Reaper, Mantis scout the premises. I hope we are not too late.' says The Librarian.
'Switch on your comexes' she adds [Comexes are communication devices that the scientist has created. They are invisible to the naked eye. The mic is a skin patch on the throat. The hearing device is on the teeth. Vibrations on the tooth are transmitted to the inner ear drum as sound. The Comexes are many years ahead of the technology.]
The Reaper and The Mantis take off in different directions to do a surveillance of the area.
'Oh for the love of humanity' squacks the comexes with the voice of The Reaper.
'Oh no. You got to come see this' says The Mantis.
The Kryptos rush to where Reaper and Mantis are and they all gasp at the same time.
'I think we are a little late' says The Scientist.
'What the hell happened here?' says The Healer.
'Looks like a damn hurricane ripped through here' adds The Destructor.
The Kryptos look around them. There are dead bodies all over. Blood spewing from the bodies telling the Kryptos the deaths were recent. There are limbs hanging from doorways. Entrails strewn across the streets.
'The entire village. Veyrona has really done it' grimaces The Librarian.
Just then...swoosh booooom... A building in front of the Kryptos explodes. They immediately split up and turn towards the source of the rocket.
The Reaper is the first to spot the figure crouched near some rubble. He whispers into his comex.
'Nobody move.' He slips out his FX Lazer that was designed by The Scientist.
[The FX Lazer gun which is a modified AK47 fitted with a powerful Lazer emitter. It can blow up a building from a range of over 2 miles and is electronically controlled with the help of an LCD screen. It has several operating modes.]
The Reaper adjusts the sight through the LCD screen until he gets a clear image.
'Uhmm. That's a human. I repeat target is a human. What do I do?' whispers Reaper into the comex.
'Are you sure?' replies The Librarian.
'Affirmative. All heat signals on my FX show him to be human' responds Reaper.
'Then stun him. We need to know what happened here.'
'Ok Librarian.'
Reaper adjusts a setting on his FX and targets the human and fires. The FX sends out a signal that hits the human and stuns him momentarily. The Healer at this moment rushes to the human to see if he is alright.
'His vitals are fine. Nice shooting Reaper.'
'Thanks Doc.'
The Healer takes out an injection and jabs into the neck of the human. The human suddenly let's out a huge breath and sits up looking at the Kryptos around him.
'You are humans' he says stunned.
'Yes we are' says The Reaper sarcastically.
'Zombies. Weird creatures. All over. Dressed like human.' Says the man rather disoriented.
'What is your name?' The Librarian asks the man.
The man grins. 'Valkyrie'
Suddenly the man transforms himself into a werewolf and leaps at the Librarian. As he is about to land on the Librarian he yelps and is thrown sideways. He lands on the side of the Librarian. He groans and moves his hand to his gut. He then looks at his hand and sees his blue blood.
The Reaper steps forward and puts a foot on Valkyrie pinning him to the ground at the same time pulling out a hunting knife lodged in the werewolf's gut. The Reaper twists the knife as he pulls it out making Valkyrie scream. He then looks at Valkyrie and asks 'Where is Lucius? What the hell really happened here?'
Valkyrie just grins at him. The Reaper twists the knife, pulls it out and jabs it back in extremely fast causing the werewolf extreme pain. The Reaper is about to do it again when Valkyrie shouts 'Lucius is in pursuit of the zombies. They got here before any of us and killed every last one of the humans. Lucius says they have the girl.' With that the Reaper removes the knife from Valkyrie and in the same instant pulls out a gun from under his robe and shoots Valkyrie and says 'Eat Silver Nitrate arsehole'The Kryptos turn and go around the streets. The Librarian turns to the Scientist 'Find out where Lucius or the zombies are and quick. The rest of you comb the streets for survivors.'
Suddenly Lady Mantis silences everybody. They all stay still. Then they hear what Lady Mantis had heard. The 6 of them try to locate the sound. The Scientist quickly pulls out a triangle shaped device and taps the screen. A grey blue image of the terrain ahead pops up on the screen. He clicks the screen a few more times and the device starts vibrating. Within a second he points in a direction.
'There under the pile of rocks near that tree.'
They gasp at the sight before them. 'Born in blood she shall be. The second as the first death dealers shall be' The Librarian recites the verse from The Book of Nebulon that predicts the birth of the second girl. She walks up to the baby and picks her up.
She turns to the others. 'It is her. They've got the wrong girl.'
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