Entropy
Twin Faces
Chapter 5
Trees swaying in the wind, blowing softly in the breeze, far detached from the scene surrounding them.
A gun shot echoes through the sky, fading quietly to the rumble on the trees.
The light tap of a smoldering spent cartridge as it hits the soft damp floor.
Ben inside his mind: “Here I am again. This curse, this hell that began only a few months ago, yet it feels like a life time. A life time that I would not place upon any other unfortunate soul, yet in some way I wish it had not been thrown upon me.”
A second shot, somewhat distant from the first.
“A strange feeling washing over me”
Female voice: “You understand us.....”
Ben inside his mind: “So warm, my.....my hands.....rose red but I .............have I been shot. But by who....”
A third shot, a cold then warm sensation running through Ben's chest...........
Female voice: “Remember who you are.....
3 days earlier........
Ben: Cough cough, “Where....where am I”
Mans voice: “Ben your awake. Its me Ralf your friend remember”
Ben: “ Ill have the report ready soon.....err what?”
Ralf: giggles “Ben don't you remember what happened, you were tied up in a lab. Your at my place, you were out for days”
Ben: “Oh....OH.... But how did you get involved I ..... I don't remember being brought here .... and why you. Your my editor and my friend but how did I get here?”
Ben struggles to get up but collapses back down unconscious.
Female voice: “We found you......... you will slowly understand....... beware the moon and fire ......Beware”
Ben wakes again a day later.
Slowly opening his eyes he notices Ralf talking on the phone.
Ralf whispering: “Yes......Yes I know he is safe......WHAT?........He knows. Hmmmmm let me deal with it”
Ben closes his eyes just as Ralf puts the phone down.
Ralf: “Ben .... Ben I know you heard me”
Ben: “What did you mean by, He knows.”
Ralf: “You know that lab you were in?” “you know already that it was owned by the order, but what you don't know is that they planned to use you to reactive something very old, something that could destroy mankind”
Ben: “You.... Your one of them, your a purifier?”
Ralf: “I always knew your were bright Ben. But yes I am a purifier, I joined them when I found out they could locate you, that is why you are here. After they drugged you and pulled you from the lab I took you to my place, but now both groups are after us, the purifiers and the order.”
Ben: “Then.....Then we cant stay here we much go somewhere..... anywhere”
Ralf: “Your right Ben.... first let me explain something about why they are after you.”
Ben: “I know its about my genes. But what does it all mean? Why am I so important?”
Ralf: “Well from what I was told by the purifiers, that place you went to, Lapis rock, Is not an ordinary rock. Its over 5 million years old but it carbon dates as being only a thousand years old”
Ben: “That's impossible, how can it be older than the material its made from?”
Ralf: “That's because it is alive.... A crystalline life form, but when sampled it exhibits propertied like DNA. To be precise your DNA.”
Ben: “.............”
Ralf: “Ben?”
Ben: “I ..... I knew you were going to say that. I don't know know how but.... the rock we have to go to the rock”
Ralf: “Ben?.... whoa....its true you hear them don't you? Ok we can go but we must hurry, they will surly be following us close behind”
“Here wear this.... ill drive us there”
Ralf passes Ben a dark blue jacket with a logo on the front, a crescent with a burning dagger, the symbol of the magazine company Ben works for. So long ago it feels to Ben, back when he wanted a real story and the only care was whether he had fresh milk in the morning......
Ben thinking to himself: “The silent journey says it all, no more words, no more explanations. I am being drawn to the sight that changed my life, but something feels familiar about this journey, hmm. All I know is I must get to the rock........”
Female voice: “Yes. Come to us”
Ben: “I'm almost there”
Ralf: “Ben did you say something......?”
Ben: “Nothing.........”
The car pulls up, the cold wind blowing Ben's jacket in and out, there in the distance Ben's focus is drawn.
Ben quietly approaches, trees all around him softly blowing in the dark moonlit evening.
Pausing for a moment Ben reaches out for the smooth blue rock before him.
Suddenly a black car races towards Ben and Ralf's location.
The door flies open as a figure races towards them, Ben squints into the dark trying to see who left the car.
Ben: “Who is ........Its you......Julia”
Julia stands before Ben, the scene focused on what laid in Julia's hand, a gun pointing at Ralf.
Julia: “Ben...... you look like you've seen a ghost.”
Ben: “I thought you died in the lab.
Julia: “Quickly come to me. He is a purifier”
Ben steps into the path between Julia and Ralf.
Ben: “Whoa wait, wait, Ralf told me he joined the purifiers to rescue me.....from you and them”
Julia: “Ben you don't understand he didn't just join the purifiers.....He IS the purifiers”
Just then Ben flashed back to what the Female voice old him......
Female voice: “beware the moon and fire ......Beware”
Ben: “Moon and fire......” Ben looks at the jacket Ralf gave him “ The symbol, the crescent with the burning dagger...... They were warning me......what”
Just then Ben turns round realizing his closest friend was the betrayer he was warned about.
Female voice: “You know what is to come.....”
The trees sway in the wind, blowing softly in the breeze, far detached from the scene surrounding them.
A gun shot echoes through the sky, fading so slowly to the rumble on the trees.
The light tap of a smoldering spent cartridge as it hits the soft damp floor.
Ben inside his mind: “Here I am again. This curse, this hell that began only a few months ago, yet it feels like a life time. A life time that I would not place upon any other unfortunate soul, yet in some way I wish it had not been thrown upon me.”
A second shot, somewhat distant from the first.
“A strange feeling washing over me”
Female voice: “You understand now.....”
Ben inside his mind: “So warm, my.....my hands.....rose red but I .............have I been shot. But by who....”
A third shot, a cold then warm sensation running through Ben's chest...........
Ben inside his mind: “I understand now, I was too slow to realize the betrayal of my friend, each bullet a full stop in the novel that is my life up to this point. Is this it? Am I to die?”
As the world goes dark the female voice begins to take on the form of a young girl, She reaches out and holds Ben.
Female voice: “Don't worry, you will be one with us.”
As Ben's body lay on the ground, his blood gently flowed out onto the rock face.
The rock suddenly moved and groaned as if under a rebirth of new life, like a waking giant the ground began to shake and split.
Beams of light piercing the sky, night becoming day under a vale of color and sound.