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 Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 1:38 am
 The end. It'd been as brutal as they predicted. However, the timing. It was all wrong. The world had made it past 2013, and slowly eased into a false sense of security. More generations passed, people continued with their arrogance, until 2099, when the world exploded. It began as a strange, curious, and yet beautiful phenomena. The sun blazed brightly that day. there was no rain, no hurricanes, twisters, no blotting out of the sun with clouds, except for the usual pollution of course. From the sky, orbs of light began to fall, like a rain of fireflies. The people speculated that it was Global Warming, or fast moving particles of rapidly crashing into each other, causing the strange lights that dissipated as soon as it touched an object. Children spoke of faeries, and preachers spoke of angel lights, and Sci-Fi fanatics dreamed of extra-terrestrial. Of each of these...one group was right. For three days the strange lights fell from the sky, giving the world a sense of beauty it had not had since buildings began to rise as high as clouds. Then.. in the middle of the the third night, the world exploded. All over the world, buildings collapsed, and people cried out, and screamed under the weight of endless tons of rubble falling upon them. Some buildings disintegrated completely. The world was rendered with no electricity, plumbing, communication. In one night, the world of 100 billion people turned into a small planet of less then 500 thousand. And for those that survived, they soon would find strange beings of light, wondering the streets. Everything they touched evaporated. In hours, the beings, that were floating orbs of light could make the rubble of what was once the Empire State building, disappear completely, leaving nothing behind. Terrifying, these beings of light became more solid, shifting into shapes, taking on forms, flesh and bone - but only if they devour humans to do gain that shape. It's been three years since The End. And those who are left, arm themselves with what weapons they find that had been left behind. They struggle to survive. Every day in the city of New York, every day there is less and less cover for the few humans that are there, struggling for survival... This is their story. 
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 2:47 am
"Dreams and love are things of the past." "Now the only thing I sleep with is my gun." Ariana "Primrose" Willow Leana  Ariana sat behind a large cement block, her breathing ragged, heavy. Her .22 caliber cocked, loaded. She was running low on ammo. Her general supplies were running low. The wound on her delicate looking thigh was throbbing, blood leaking onto the ground. Under her was dirt, not the side walk that had once been. She closed her purple eyes for a moment.
I am Primrose. I am Primrose. She chanted in her mind. It helped her, calling herself by a name that was not her own in situations like this. The strange ET that no scientists ever had a fighting chance of identifying or naming, she could hear its foot steps coming closer, the strange hissing noise that it made as it brushed against the cement blocks, making them disappear... fade from existance. She took a deep breath and stood up, and began to run, sprinting towards the next block of cover, diving behind a heap of metal. The metal looked to be a support beam of what once was a sky scraper.
The desperate leap did not end well for her. The sun was at it's peak, making the metal hot, that her wounded leg convieniently smashed into. She tumbled, and rolled away, her gun flying from her hand.
"Dammit!" She hissed, in pain and frustration. she pushed her self up on her hands and knees, her pink hair falling in her face as she scrambled towards her gun, the sound of the ET galloping towards her, its strange hoof like feet pounding on the ground. Grabbing the gun, she stood up, and tried to run, but her leg siezed in pain and she stumbled. Shreiking in pain, she flipped onto her back, and took aim, her heart racing. Three years. She'd survived three long years, and now it was going to end, all because she'd gotten careless. Reckless.
She began to fire the weapon in her hand, aiming for its head, but ..
"Why is your kind so hard to ******** kill?" She screamed in rage, shooting until the gun clicked, all to happy to remind her that it was not an endless supply of amo..
"God dammit!" 
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:04 am
The sharp crack of gunfire brought Ulrik Bardin to his feet. Someone needs to be quiet... He slipped a magazine into his rifle and chambered a round. Moving to the window, he peered out and down. Thirty feet below, he spotted one of them. Its twisted maw opened wide, the creature was galloping, more or less, toward what appeared to be a woman lying near an I-beam. The lack of more gunfire informed him that she was either out of ammunition or jammed, neither of which would help her condition.
"God damn it. Just as I sit down to f*cking eat." Having seated himself on the cracked window ledge, he shouldered his rifle and sighted in the beast. Three rounds of 5.56 found their mark, striking the beast in the head and shoulder, bringing it to a crumpling halt.
"Head inside, and mind the wire. I don't know if it will stay down for long!" he yelled to the woman. He placed two more rounds into the beast's skull before moving from the window and downstairs. He chambered a round into his masterkey and hoped that she heard his warning about the wire. If not, he'd be spending the rest of the day resetting the deadfall trap and mopping her up.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:45 am
"Dreams and love are things of the past." "Now the only thing I sleep with is my gun." Ariana "Primrose" Willow Leana Ariana had been struggling to pull the knife strapped to the pink garter belt of her leg, but when gunshots rang out she jumped in surprise. Three shots, incredibly loud shots, echoed through the evaporated city and when the creature fell hard, kicking up cement dusk and rubble she looked around wildly. Thats when his voice reached her ears. To the right. She looked right, and up.
"Head inside, and mind the wire. I don't know if it will stay down for long!" She didn't need to be told twice. She flipped over to her stomach, then used the leg that wasn't wounded for support as she got up. She limped towards the building he was in. Two more loud shots rang out, encouraging her to stop limping and just sprint, not realizing he was just putting two more bullets in the thing for insurance. Blood squirted from her leg, but she minded not. She ripped open the door, and took a leap over the entryway, using her hands to land, tumbling forward so she wouldn't need to use her leg. She landed on her back, breathing heavily her body shaking. She'd dropped her empty gun on the ground, when she dived inside so she could use her hands. She lay there panting, her purple eyes half closed in pain as the wound on her leg kept oozing out hot red blood.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:02 am
As Ulrik headed down the stairs, holding his MasterKey ready, he smelled the faint tang of blood in the air. Damn it. I don't need to be wasting my precious few apothicarian supplies on this random girl.
As he reached the bottom floor, he heard panting. Hugging the wall, he get to the edge overlooking the door. "What do you want?" I ask roughly, "Why are you stirring up trouble in my part of the city?" Steadily holding his MasterKey on her.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 5:35 pm
"Dreams and love are things of the past." "Now the only thing I sleep with is my gun." Ariana "Primrose" Willow Leana Ariana turned her head, and glared> great. Just great. She sat up, ignoring him basically, leaning over and touching her wound with her fingertips she sighed. Great. A supply run gone wrong. ANd she found another human. Who...resided in a building? Was he crazy? Or stupid?
"You live indoors, knowing one day it could be touched and you could fade away with it?" She asked him. "Yah. Not my kinda crazy. There a back door I can use? I am just passing through, trying to get supplies for..." Her voice was gentle, feminine. She trailed off, looking at this man suddenly as if she said to much.
"Just getting supplies." She cut herself off, standing up, using her good leg to support her. She looked down. Damn it. Hurrying was going to be a bit of an issue now. "You gonna be a gentleman and escort me out so I don't run into any traps you may have laying around, or just give me directions?" She asked, crossing her arms There was no point talking to a Hermit. SHe'd tried convincing these types before. They were aggressive towards humans, and anything that moved. She couldn't worry about those types. THere were others she had to care for...
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:02 pm
"F*cking Wonderfull" He thought to himself. Then he saw the Blood on her leg and the trail from the outsid. "Theres the blood I smell." as he reached into a poutch on his the back or his right hip. and threw a role of gause at her. "Deal with that before attract outher mongrels" he said.
"We all Fade away Girl. Its just a matter of time. Be it Earth or metal or stone it all crumbles. Atleast they dont expect anyone up here....Not anymore." His voice is harsh and worn but ends softly as if lost in a memory.
What little you see of his face seems hard. "There are no supplys for you here or withing a 4 block radyus. They have already been taken" He growled out
"When is the last time you ate something worth its weaght?" he asked softly. Rasing his Masterkey to her chest?
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:34 pm
"Dreams and love are things of the past." "Now the only thing I sleep with is my gun." Ariana "Primrose" Willow Leana Ariana caught the gauze, and stared at it, blinking.
"Are they attracted to blood?" she asked him curiously. ". I ate three days ago. I know theres no supplied near here. I usually go deep into the city, I find everything I need." She bent down, her short skirt not needing much to be lifted up, and she rapidly and skillfully wrapped the gauze about her slender thigh, tying the two ends together in a bow. "They may not expect you up here, but that doesn't keep them from touching the building. We might as well try to not fade faster then we have too."
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:00 pm
"I dont know if they do, I was talking about the muts that roam around here. Scavengers that are attracted to the weak." he said. and points to a side room. "If you go into that room theres an MRE on the floor take it, and as for a way out (he points to the door you ran in) theres an exit." as he turns around and starts walking up the stairsand you hear the graiting of metal as he opens his door
"dont set off my traps, Or whats left of you will be resetting it." he barked
*slam*
He walkes up the stairs in silence.
There I go again, giving away things I need to be hording. I only have 2 boxes of MRE's left. he thinks to himself as he sets his rifle on his hover crate. and lays on his hamok. *sigh* "she is cute the *chuckles* it would be a wast to clean that up. he grined
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:21 pm
"Dreams and love are things of the past." "Now the only thing I sleep with is my gun." Ariana "Primrose" Willow Leana Ariana listened to him quietly, nearly rolling her eyes when he barked off his order about the traps, her purple eyes narrowing at the Hermit. She ignored the door he indicated with the MRE's, and turned and limped towards the door. She stepped over various things that were suspicious, and the wire, peeking out the door. The ET was gone. She sighed, and put her head on the glass.
"Let's go, Primrose." She said softly, putting the pistol in her thigh holster, before taking off down the street again. This time she crept in the shadows, scanning the area, then dashed across the street, looking back and up towards the window as she ran.
She should have told him about the camp...but he was a hermit type...right? She sighed. To make up for feeling guilty - shed grab him some food or something from the inner city. She cursed as movement caught the corner of her eye, the ET was shuffling around dazed to the right.
Keep moving...
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:02 pm
"hmmm interesting." he wispered to himself. "If she goes that way she will run into more of the ET's. Damn it" As he runs grabbing all of his wargear. "This is the first human that hasnt tryed to kill me in years. " I must see wheres she comes from." Putting all of his gear on and grabbing food for 2 day he slips out the back and starts to trail her
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:19 pm
"Dreams and love are things of the past." "Now the only thing I sleep with is my gun." Ariana "Primrose" Willow Leana Ariana limped further, keeping to the shadows, and walls. She had no idea of the tail following her. Going deeper into the city was very tricky, she cut corners, slipped through allways. Once she almost ran into a pack of C ranked ET's but she was near a building with a fire escape. she jumped onto the ladder, leading up, and used the fire escapes to tranverse until she was safely away. Her leg leaked blood the whole while. It took a few hours, but she made it to the city. The first place she ran was an old CVSshop. She broke in through the window, and went for the home decor. She grabbed a sewing kit, and opened it, and unwrapped her leg, and began to slowly and painfully stitch up her wound, gasping in pain and wincing all the while.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:28 pm
Following the trail of blood was easy. and Ulrik was able to keep a steady pace behind her. Well if she keeps going she is going to start losing enuff blood to get a bit off her feet.... he thought to himself . . It was a little tricky when the C class ET's walked past but luckly he knew they where coming and able to hide insde a partaly desolved Building. throwing his Camoline cloak over himself he looked just like a large rock. After they passed he pressed on to find er stiching her leg slowly. That looks painfull and posibly infected....Well I cant find out inforation if shes dead.. as he pulled out 2 pain killers and some meds and tossed them over her head into the wall and drew his cloak around himself in the shadows.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:55 pm
"Dreams and love are things of the past." "Now the only thing I sleep with is my gun." Ariana "Primrose" Willow Leana Jumped when the pills hit the wall, and stood, letting the needle and thread hang from her leg, drawing out the blade that was strapped to the pink garter on her thigh. She looked around, breathing a bit heavily, her purple eyes narrowed. After a few moments, she grew impatient, and backed away, to the wall, where she knelt and picked the pills up. She glared at them, tossing them back down to the shot. Extending her leg, and bending down she bit the thread with the needle and tucked the needle back into the sewing kit. She looked around. This was an old general store. They had quite a few things that she would need. She was in the inner city, where shops were close together and she knew her way around here well. She limped to the far wall of the shop and grabbed a huge canvas bag and went aisle that held antibiotic creams, cold medicines, anti allergins, and other misc stuff that stores like this would use. She pulled down lots of things, from childs aspirin, regular cold medicines, anti-biotic creams, vitamins, gauze, bandages, band aids. She stuffed all of this into the bag, stopping only to put some antibiotic cream on her leg, glaring at the stuff that had mysteriously fallen to the ground over in the sewing aisle. She ran to the pharmacy, and jumped over the counter, doing the similar thing, grabbing pamphlets on everything she took. Running around the store she went to the womens aisle, grabbing feminine products, the baby aisle, grabbing stuff that young infants and toddlers would need. She also visited the misc section and grabbed some mens razors, bars of soap, shampoo, conditioner, various kinds of deoderants. When her bag was full, she ran back to the wall of bags, and grabbed another, stopped in front of the batteries grabbing handfuls of packages of them. Then hurried out of the store, her next stop was a few blocks down she hit a grocery store, grabbing can openers, and various types of canned foods. When that bag was full, she grit her teeth. her leg was throbbing, she still needed to hit the ammo store. She looked at the heavy bags, then sighed. Setting them down, she grabbed a small plastic bag from the front of the store, and hobbled three blocks down, carefully. She was sweating now, in pain, exhausted, but she had to keep moving. In the ammo store, she reloaded her pistol, and sighed with relief, then continued grabbing ammo for various weapons. She was bout to run out when she stopped, her purple eyes going to a display case of an AK-47. She raised her eyebrows and contemplated the display case. After several minutes, she grinned.
"break in case of emergency." she said happily before taking her pistol and hitting the glass with the butt of the gun. She reached in, but soon her small smile turned into a scowl.
"Fake." She said, throwing the false gun down on the ground. She sighed, unhappily. She grabbed the small bag of ammo, and walked out, going back to the grocery store where her bags where. She sat down on the ground next to them, and sighed, looking up, tired, exhausted, and she lifted her leg up and set it on one of the bags, wincing.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:20 am
as she wanders around pilfering items Ulrik retreaves his meds. interesting girl, Shes so stuborn. But for some reason, This intruiges me. he thinks to himself when she slips inside the store He climbs high in one of the Bldgs and starts over watching the areas. Studying the ET's. All low class, Lucky for me. if shes to loud I can quickly deal with them. The sound of Glass shatering draws my eyes to the girl. Shut up D*mn it, do you want them to know your there he screams in his hea. looking back ulrick sees one of the runty looking ET's turn its head twards the sound. Good f*cking going girl. but lets see how she handles this he calmy thinks. as he draws his rifle over the runtling and watches quietly.
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