Anguished Soul

Chapter Two

CRACK! I hated lightning; it always made the creatures go mental.

My sister was running in front of me, my brother to my left and his girlfriend behind us.

“COME ON ELLIE! WE CAN’T STOP HERE!” my brother shouted to her, “Bro we got some more in front” shouted my sister from ahead, “Right everyone, check ammo and weapons” this was followed by many clicks of ammo and ammo belts being checked.

“Umm....Tom, I’m out of ammo, you got any to spare?” asked Ellie.

“What wep you need it for?” he asked her, “my SMG, but only if you c“she was cut off as I chucked two clips at her “Oh....thanks Cam, but don’t you need them” I looked away and pulled out the revolver I had “Nope”

My brother had become our un-official leader and my sister our scout, I had become the “engineer” of sorts, why, because I was thinking all the time.

“Cam, you can’t be serious” my brother still saw me as a thirteen year old, it annoyed me, “Yes I am serious, and anyways I have something up my sleeve” he looked at me like I was mad.

“Cam I don’t care you are not going out there with that” my sister said back to me, “Don’t argue with me, I am not in the mood to be fucked around with” I said to her without emotion, she paused for a moment “Cam we all have lost friends an” I cut her off “I know, and I’m not throwing away my life, I just know how to fight” they all stopped and looked at me “What?”

“Well, if you say so Cam” said my brother, “I’ve noticed something, they seem to work with a hive mind mentality, if one of them see’s us they all see us” I said to them “Soooo, we should try and stay out of their sight for as long as possible?” asked Tom “Yes, but, if they see you forget it and run” I replied “Ok let’s do this”

POV: Twilight

“Uugh...this thing smells so bad” said Rainbow, “I agree, this thing does smell rather bad, and look at its clothes...they are atrocious!” said Rarity with an indignant humph.

“Rarity we don’t know what this thing is, maybe it’s meant to smell like this” I said, “Oh my, that would be horrid!” I sighed at this; sometimes her ‘fashion’ sense gets on my nerves, then again my.....behaviours would get on hers.

“Well....um....it looks...hurt, maybe we should help it?” Fluttershy said, “Yes I agree, that may be the best course of action” Celestia replied.

“Well should be scan its body for injuries?” I asked my mentor, “Yes, roll it over and we will scan it” I rolled the body over, boy was it heavy, and why can’t I use magic on it?

“Princess, I can’t use magic on it” she looked at me and towards the creature, her horn started to glow but nothing happened “Hmmm, how interesting, nor can I” she replied.

“Sister what sort of creature cannot be affected by magic? All I know are Ursa Major’s, but that is because they are simply too big” said Luna, “Yes this creature seems to be highly resistant to magic....Applejack would you be able to carry him to the medical wing?” Celestia asked.

“Uuuuhhh....ok, ah can try” Applejack said a she put the creature on her back, “Umm...do you need any help?” asked Fluttershy. “uuughbro.....ru....ho..mmmuuughh” the creature was having a nightmare, it was easy to tell by the pained look on its face.

POV: Cameron

“FUCK, RUN!” screamed my brother; the bullets started flying in all directions and bodies started to hit the floor, thankfully none of ours.

“Sis, shoot to the left! Em, to the right!” my brother screamed again; he was military trained, which helped us survive these past two years.

“Cam, just, stay behind us” he turned to me and looked sad, “I know you loved her, yes you are only young...but I saw it, and I don’t think she would want you to throw your life away” I just looked at him and smirked “I won’t, but, I will get a bit of revenge” he looked at me, scared.

We we’re so close to the telepad, we reached it, finally “Sis step up here and shoot from above, aim for the head” I started to strip the pad of its various parts looking for the stabilizers and the wireless link that would get us to wherever it was that this thing led, then I saw it, a case marked 115.

“What is in here?” I asked myself while smashing the crate lid open, “Glowing stones....just what I was after”, I tapped a chunk of the stone to a grenade “EVERYONE GET ON THE PAD!” I shouted, everyone reacted by jumping back or turning and running for the pad.

“Cam, what the fuck is that?” my sis asked me, “Vengeance” I chucked the grenade, “EVERYONE HOLD ON!” the grenade went off and released the 115 energy, above us the coils started to glow and vibrate, then they lit up and zapped us.

After a few second we all ‘landed’ in another pad, but the difference was that rather than mid day, it was midnight, and it was completely silent.

“Everyone alright” I asked to the people around me, my brother was first to reply then Ellie, then....”Megan?” I asked. The reply I got was that of a moan, “Fuck me, it’s like a mega hangover” we all laughed.

“So.....how long do you think we have before we are attacked?” my brother asked, “Honeslty......I haven’t got a fucking clue, but by the silence I believe they aren’t here...........and if they were they are looong gone” I replied.

My sister then stood up, although slowly, and said “Well, we should go looking for supplies, Yes or No?” me and my brother looked at each other and he said “Well we should go in groups of two. Cam Meg, you two go and look for clues as to where we are, me and Ellie will go looking for food and ammo, and whatever you do....don’t die. Deal?” I gave him a mock salute and said “Yerp”, he gave me a blank stare, “God, please look after my bro” he said before walking off.

POV: Twilight.

“Hoo boy, that thang sure is heavy” said Applejack as she put the creature down on one of the beds in the medical wing.

“Ok nurse please see if you can scan it’s body” I asked the nurse with us, “I will try, but as you said it seems to be highly resistant to magic....but.....I am getting a minor image.......oh dear, most of its bones are fractured or cracked, and its left lung is being crushed by a rib” she said, everypony was shocked.

“I do not know what sort of creature it is but whatever it went through to continue standing it had to be desperate” said the nurse, Celestia spoke up “Is there anything we can do to help it” the nurse looked sad “I’m afraid not, because I do not know its anatomy....we could end up hurting it more than helping it” somepony cleared there throat and we all looked to who did it, it was Fluttershy “Umm...could we please stop referring to him as an ‘It’, and he said his name was Cameron.....please”

“Yes I agree, the least we can do for him is acknowledge his name” said Rarity.

Luna walked into the room at this point, seemingly out of nowhere, and said “I have mastered looking into dreams maybe I should enter its mind and see if I can discern whether or not it’s hostile?” said Luna.

“Luna, remember what happened last time you looked into somepony else’s nightmare?” said Celestia as Luna grew a sheepish smile “Well that was an accident I know I won’t fail this time, I figured what went wrong and I know what to do now” she replied with a confident smile.

“Well, if you say you’ve understood your mistake......Ok do it” said Celestia, Luna smiled with glee “YAY, Ok don’t move me or the cr....Cameron, that could cause our minds to.....well I’m not going to say”, she stood next to ‘Cameron’ and placed her horn on his head.

POV: Cameron

“I have a pretty good idea that we are in Germany” I said to Megan, “Wanna keep it down Cam” she hissed at me” I started to laugh, and loudly “Sis, they aren’t here, they would of moved on to a fresh food source, and anyways if they were here the teleportation would of alerted them to our presence” I said with a smug grin, “Oh yes, I know my stuff” she laughed, and smiled.

It was a nice smile; it reminded me of when everything was good, and safe.

“Hey sis” I turned to her, “Yes Cam?” I smiled “When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom....Let it be” she proceeded to sing the next part of the song. By the end of it my brother had joined in from the basement, we could hear him from across the building, Ellie didn’t know the song but we could see she was smiling as they exited the basement.

“HAHAHHAHHAHA, man we should do that so much more often” Ellie said, we all were laughing and smiling, my brother started to sing another song “You say you wanna revolution, weeellll you know.....We all wanna change the world”, We sing the next song while sitting on the telepad and eating what little we had left.

I stopped and looked around, hmmm something seems out of place.....we’ve got the telepad, lack of zombies, The Beatles.......fields, sunrise.....smoke, meaning a farm, and maybe some leftover food, a purple horse, some tree’s an- WOAH WAIT UP PURPLE HORSE!? I looked back towards where I saw it.......hmmm; Ok maybe I am finally losing my mind.

“Cam anyone there?” my sister said to me while poking me in the arm, “Hmmm, oh yeah sorry....I was thinking” she laugh, “Cam.....you need to stop thinking for once, just relax, you said yourself that the ‘zombies’ aren’t here” I sighed, and sat down “Right o then.......keep calm and carry on” I said and smirked.

Ellie started to cry, we all looked at her “Hey what’s wrong?” my brother asked, she looked at him and tried to smile, “It’s just that I miss my family” we all stopped and started to think about our families, I thought for a bit before realising, She isn’t actually related to us, she feels left out. I facepalmed hard enough to make everyone stop and look at me, “What, I had an epiphany” I stood up and looked through the bag I had brought with me.

“Cam, what are you Ok?” my sister asked me, both Ellie and Tom had concerned looks on their faces, where is it....AHA! I turned around and showed them a gold ring I had found, I put it in my brothers hand and pointed towards Ellie “Tom, do you have anything you want to say to her?” he looked at me and then at Ellie “Ellie w” a scream cut him off, it was Megan’s scream.

There is that damn horse again, what is with that thing?

Megan had a hand around her left leg, and it was slowly coming out of the ground.....the body joining it, soon after another hand, and another, and another “OH FUCK THEY WERE DORMANT!” I said as I grabbed my brothers combat knife and sliced at the hand around my sisters feet, she got free and I grabbed my revolver before pulling her up and dragging her along behind me as I went for the main hall of the building.

This building was probably used during WWII; it was an old castle looking thing, with a central court yard, where the TPP was, and four turrets on each corner of the building. A central main hall and a massive basement, where all the food was stored, and on the fourth floor of the turrets was where the 115 was stored.

My sister cried out in pain “Cam please stop, I think it crushed my ankle a bit” I stopped and slung her over my shoulder, being huge is bloody handy, I passed her my revolver “Shoot anything that gets to close behind. TOM, ELLIE! COME ON HURRY UP!” they we’re trapped in between us and the rising zombies, they couldn’t get to us.

“CAM JUST FUCKING RUN, WE WILL DISTRACTED THEM AS LONG AS POSSIBLE” he started to load his rifle, “AND FOR FUCK SAKE DONT GIVE UP!” I turned and ran, Megan on my back screaming at me to turn around, my own mind telling me to turn around, my legs telling me, run, run far and fast.

There is that fucking purple horse again,  it looks familiar.....oh yeah, that dinner.....wait, that hasn’t happened yet.....wait........I grabbed the revolver from my sisters shaking hands and pointed it at the horse and fired, then at my own head.