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Chapter 11 - Chapter 11: Follow Your Fate

Leon was in the facility right near the exit. The walls were covered in blood and guts. Black masses of veins were growing out of them like a deadly fungus. I am not sure what the hell is going on but I need to end it or too many innocent people will get hurt.

I see the exit that is blocked by debris and metal crumbled in the way. I crawled my way through, I took some vests and tactical knives. I know bullets won't work on them so knives might not either but I will try using them for other uses if they don't work.

I found my way out of that place eventually and headed towards a dirt path. There were some jeeps and cars on fire with bodies inside. Some of the people were decapitated and burned to death, it just ran out of oxygen from the fumes. I looked inside one of the cars and tried to find information. I saw what seemed to be Dr. Lamy. She was burnt badly and looked like she was still alive. I didn't care about her but decided to walk her up. I pulled her out of the car and yelled to wake her up. Her eyes started to twitch and then opened. She looked up and saw my face trying to run away. I grab her arm.

I push her beside the car. "Where are the files?"

She shakes her head. "I-I don't know where they are, they might have burned in the fire."

I know she is lying to me so I raise the knife to her face. "Don't play that game with me, because if you weren't to play games you're not winning regardless."

She pulls out a gun fast until I throw it out before she can aim at me. "Don't you even try. My whole life has been a fuc*ing lie, and I deserve to know why."

She looks down cowering. "In the trunk, in my bag if it has not burned yet."

I toss her aside and break open the back with a long-range gun from a dead person on the floor. The glass shatters and the gun reaches inside the trunk. I pull out a black bag and find I file with the labels, Leon, Callum, and Callith. There was ash on the cover and the edges were burnt a bit. I take it and get my hand out. I see Dr. Lamy ran fast, not looking back. I just let her go since I had other plans, which were to get out of this area. I follow the dirt path ahead.

After a long walk, I made it to a small town area. There were apartment buildings and ahead was a city. In the sky above me, 12 helicopters were heading ahead in a straight line. I followed them as fast as I could. I try to stay hidden from people by running by the side of the woods next to me or under trees on the sidewalks. I saw a police car beside me, I put a hand over the pocket that had a knife inside it and kept running by. I knew that whatever those helicopters were heading, it may have had to do with Callith or Callum.

I head past a police station on the other side of the road walking slowly so I don't draw any unwanted attention. I noticed I black car behind me that I think I saw I bit earlier, it might be a possibility that I was being followed. The windows were tinted and the car looked like an undercover cop car. It didn't look like it was from the place I was kept in, no this was just a regular average day cop car. I kept walking slowly but the car started to slowly drive next to me and I kept my place the same, not looking to my side. The car stops and rolls the windows down and a man with a vest turns to me at the wheel. "Hey, you lost pal, Is everything ok."

I stop to respond still with my hand covering my pocket. "Yes everything is ok I'm just walking around."

He looks down at my hand knowing I was hiding something. "Hands are supposed to be in pockets, not over them. Are you hiding something we should know?"

I walked forward ignoring what he just said and kept walking. He drives forward and halts at me to stop what I am doing or I will be in trouble. I run and go into an alley to get away from them, don't they know that there are bigger troubles to be had? As I went into the alley the cops got out of the car chasing after me, they pulled out their guns. I pull out the knife I had and hide behind a dumpster waiting for them to pass me. I know they will see me so I plan to hold one in place with the knife to his throat. The officers ran by the dumpster, and I jumped from behind it and held one with the knife to his neck. He drops his gun and breath heavily and so does the other.

He puts his hands up. "Listen, man, don't do some we don't want to live with for the rest of our lives."

The other one also does. "Just drop the knife, and we will get through this."

I knock this one out with my fist and grab the other before he gets to his gun. "I don't need you telling me what to do." I knock him asleep and run away losing the helicopters in the sky. I hear a long line of squad cars drive around the corner. I followed the sound and then saw an old church in the distance. I head closer to it after seeing the group of cars stopping nearby. They kick down the door and start firing inside. One of the swat members flies out the doorway and into the street. I see Callith jumping out the second-floor window and onto the ground cleaving through people who lean cuts.

I sneaked in through the back through the tall grass and opened the back door. I saw another guy who looked like Callith quite a bit, but I knew he was Callum. He was dragging bodies into the room. "Callum, stop it."

He turns around throwing the scythe into the wall next to me. "Who the hell is this, another sacrifice, don't mind if I take you with them."

He changes at me taking his weapon out of the wall. I jump onto him, pull out the knife and the blade comes out with force. It was a gravity knife yet his skin could withstand the pressure. The knife blade snapped in my hand and fell to the floor. He grabbed me by the throat, lifting me. "You're Leon, my other brother. Oh, how I have heard about you, you killed your family, you ended up in prison and you're the odd one out in this family."

Callith comes in and notices the situation. He drops his weapons. "Leon what the hell, how did you get here? You were supposed to die back at the prison."

I gasp air calmy trying to save oxygen. Callum tosses me to him on the ground. I land on shards of glass cutting my legs. Callith brings me to the altar.

I hear a voice in the air around me, inside my head. "Closer to the void Leon. Ahh there you are, Callum or Callith didn't even need to bring you here, lucky me."

Callum raises the scythe above my head. But the voice stops him. "Not yet, I need all my power back I gave him, it will help me escape faster."

Dark matter retreated from my body, my soul was disappearing. I was being feasted on, absorbed. I felt so weak, I thought my body was falling apart like the skin was peeling off all on its own.

I was too weak to move and was dragged over the altar. I saw the blade swing down. Callith stopped the blade. And talks to the altar. "Wait, maybe we could use him for something else like bait or we could give him another chance. He could join us."

The voice with anger pounds the portal with force. "No, I need him as a sacrifice to kill him now, off with his head right now, I need that soul. One more and I am sure I will be free."

I get lost and run to the stairs going to the top and grabbing a shard of glass. I threw the glass at Callum with force and he ran at me. The glass cuts his throat. He choked on blood and was overwhelmed by the pain giving me time to think. I didn't know how I hurt him, but I wondered why bullets couldn't but a piece of glass could.

I climb to the top of the roof and get higher above a Cross. I stand on the roof waiting for him to come up. Callum and Callith climb up at speed as if they have no gravity. I try to jump down to the ground, until Callum grabs my shirt.

He tries to drag me back down to the ground. "You're not going anywhere."

I gasp. "Stop Callum, you're going to unleash a massive threat."

He laughs at me and stops walking for a second. "You think I don't know that? For fu*k sake, Leon, I plan to let him into this world."

I try to break free. "If you let him in, I bet he will kill you too. He will take the power he gave you back into him."

Callum doesn't listen to me. I punch him in the face to get free but he doesn't seem phased at all. Callith looks down as if he was thinking about what I said. I get free of Callum's grip and pin him down a bit, he struggles to get up. Callum throws me off the roof onto a fence. I felt a sharp pain in my back, I looked down at my stomach, there was peace of the gate spear through me. I was sure I was dead, I couldn't talk, I was impaled badly in my chest. My blood seemed to be black and started to evaporate. I closed my eyes as my life seemed to fade. The last thing I felt was a spear through my right eye.

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