by C. O. Amal
“Ahh ... I want to see my mom.” One kid screamed.
Emma is completely frozen. She don’t know what to do. Her best friend is dead and he is lying in front of her, drenched in his blood.
“Hey, lady, move.”
Emma slowly moved outside. She didn’t take away her eyes from David as she moved out. The men quickly forced everyone to move and everyone got outside the nursery. Like Emma, the kids don’t know what is happening. The men quickly led them through the streets. A few minutes later they began to see dead bodies everywhere. The streets are filled with dead bodies and puddles of blood formed here and there.
Suddenly Emma puked.
“Move ...” Someone shouted from behind her. Some kids began to run away, but the men fired a warning shot and they forced everyone to move forward.
A moment later they passed Zorin’s place and they moved towards the ship yard. There are bodies everywhere. Then five other black armed men joined them. With the new armed men came a dozens of women. It’s like they shot down every men. Tears of fear uncontrollably oozed down from Emma’s eyes. The other women are also crying. Before long they all reached the ship yard.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Some armed black men are standing near a flying saucer and they are firing at the top of the wall.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Some men, probably the soldiers, fired back from top of the wall. The entire atmosphere is filled with gun shots and loud scream of people. Suddenly a woman broke into a run, away from the ship yard.
Pop!
An armed man shot down that woman. Emma covered her mouth using her right hand in horror.
“Move.” A goon pushed Emma. Emma reluctantly moved to where the man is leading her. The men led all of them to a big nearby building. As soon as Emma, the kids and the women entered inside the building, two goons entered inside the building and they closed the door behind them. Other goons joined with those who are standing near the flying saucer.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
“Ahh ...”
Gun shots and scream echoed through the city. The goons forced Emma and others to sit down on the floor and they obeyed with fear. Everybody is in complete shock and nobody moved their lips. Outside sun began to set and darkness slowly invaded the city.
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Chapter 22
Dojai
The flying saucer landed in one corner of the ship yard and Ruben and team exited the flying saucer. The sun hasn’t went down fully. Then they saw the dead bodies.
“Be careful. They may be still here.” Finn said.
Ruben and Eric tightened their grip on their rifles.
Ruben and team slowly, cautiously, moved forward. Dead bodies are everywhere. No nearby houses are lighted, and it seems that nobody is inside the houses. But, a faint light is coming from nearby. A moment later they saw one lighted building. Ruben and team crouched down and examined everything.
“Ron, go and look inside the office and go to the wall and set up a gun there, we need it.” Ruben whispered.
Ron nodded. He and the four soldiers quickly ran towards the office. Ruben, Eric and Finn examined the situation. A few moments later sun fully set in the horizon and everywhere plunged into thick darkness, but the lighted building and its surroundings are clearly visible.
There are people inside the lighted building but nothing is visible from this distance. Ruben stood up and he slowly moved forward. A few moments later an armed man came outside the building and he examined the surroundings. He didn’t saw Ruben and team. Then the armed men lighted a cigarette and he started smoking. Then Ruben saw people, who are sitting on the floor, through the opened door.
“There could be more goons inside.” Eric whispered.
Ruben nodded. Suddenly the goon looked at Ruben’s direction. The goon may have heard Eric. The goon threw away the butt of the cigarette and he moved towards Ruben. It’s certain that the goon hasn’t seen Ruben or Eric or Finn, yet. Then the goon trained his gun at Ruben’s direction. Ruben slowly moved away from the goon. The goon stepped into the darkness. Ruben slowly rounded the goon and he came at the goon from behind him. Before the goon realized his mistake, Ruben twisted the goon’s head. A light crack sound came from the goon’s neck. The spine must have broken.
Ruben slowly set down the goon’s limp body on the ground. A few moments later two goons came out of the building.
“Logan, where are you?” One of the goons yelled.
The goons looked everywhere. Then two more goons came outside. The goons are discussing something. Then they all looked at Ruben’s direction. Then, they all trained their gun and pulled the trigger.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Bullets sprayed at Ruben and team. Ruben and team crouched down. But in the faint light of the gun shots, the goons saw Ruben and team.
“There.” One goon shouted.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Goons pulled the trigger and bullets rushed at Ruben’s direction.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Ruben also pulled the trigger.
“Ahh ...” One goon fell down. The goons are all in the light and Ruben and team could clearly see them, but the goons cannot see Ruben and team.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Eric and Finn ran to a corner, pulling the trigger on the way.
“Ahh ...” Another goon went down.
“Come out in the light, bitches.” One goon yelled.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
The goons fired in all directions. Ruben quickly hid behind a cart. Then the shooting stopped. Ruben peeked at the scene, but he saw no goons. They must have entered inside the building. Then a goon came outside dragging a woman.
Ruben carefully watched. Then the goon pointed his gun at the woman’s head and he pulled the trigger.
Pop!
The woman’s limp body hit the ground. Eric and Finn quickly came near Ruben.
“What would we do?” Eric asked.
“I don’t know.” Ruben said. Then the goon went inside the building.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Suddenly gun shots erupted from the north side of the city, possibly from near the wall. Ron and team must be fighting against the goons and there would be more goons inside.
A moment later a few goons came outside the building with a rocket launcher. Then they trained the rocket launcher at Ruben’s direction. And he pulled the trigger.
“Shit, run.” Ruben said and they ran towards a nearby building.
Boom!
The rocket exploded from behind Ruben and team and the cart crumbled into pieces.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Ruben and Eric quickly trained their gun and pulled the trigger.
“Ahh ... Ahh ...” Two goons went down. Others quickly got inside the building.
Ruben quickly ran towards the soldiers’ office. He got inside the office building and searched for something in the pitch darkness. Then he found it. It was a loud speaker. He quickly ran outside. Now the ship yard is faintly visible by the fire set up by the rocket explosion.
“Zang Zom is dead. Surrender now or die.” Ruben yelled through the speaker. “I repeat, Zang Zom is dead, and now Zeekom is nothing but a handful of ash. Surrender now, or die.” Ruben’s message echoed through the city.
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Chapter 23
Dojai
Sunlight seeped in through the windows.
“Call base. We need to know the truth.” A tall black man said while peering out through the window.
One of the black men quickly placed his assault rifle on top of a table and he took a black rectangular device from his pants pocket. He pressed a switch and suddenly the device glowed.
“Bane, do you copy?” The black man said to the device.
Instead of human voice, static came out of the device and that static filled the very air inside the small building.
“Bane, do you copy?”
“Switch the channel, try the automatic receiving channel.” The tall black man said.
The black man saying things to the device nodded. He pressed a switch on the side of the device. Now the device began to glow in green colour. Then moans and screeches came out of the device.
“What the? Are you thinking what I am thinking?” The black man asked the tall black man. “That’s the sound of infected, right?”
“Yeah. How did they got inside?” The tall man asked.
“I don’t know, man. But, I do think that Zang Zom is down for good.” Worry grew in the black man’s face. Other black men in the room listened to the moans and screeches coming out of the handheld device, with worry.
“I never, liked that bitch. He killed my entire family. If he is gone, I am stopping this.” A black man put down his gun and he walked towards the door.
Pop!
“Ahh ...”
The tall man shot the leaving man.
Suddenly people sitting inside the room began to scream.
“Oh, shut up, everyone, or you will be the next one to go down.”
Pop!
“Ahh ...” The tall man fell down with a bullet hole in his stomach.
A short black man came from the far corner pointing his assault rifle.
“You ... Bitch ... You ... Shot ... Me?” The tall man asked from the floor. Blood steadily oozed down from his stomach.
“If Zang Zom is dead, I am quitting this job.” The short man who shot the tall man placed his gun on top of the table and he exited the building. He raised both of his hands and he walked towards the ship yard.
Then all the other black men followed the short man. They all put down their weapons and they exited the building.
People inside the room watched how things got turned up with wonder and curiousness. Then all the people stood up and they slowly began to exit the building. All of them are woman and tears oozed down from most of them, probably remembering the things happened yesterday.
As soon as everyone exited the building, the women ran in different directions, probably looking for their loved ones. Then some woman stopped in the middle of the streets and they crouched down and wrapped their arms across the dead bodies lying on the streets. The entire atmosphere got filled with screams.
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Chapter 24
Dojai
Zang Zom’s goons stood in a line, raising their arms. It hasn’t been long since the sun rose in the horizon, and in this morning hour, all of Dojai got drenched in tears. Throughout the city, women and children are crying. A few fortunate men, who were hiding inside their homes and fields came to the scene. Surviving men quickly started the burial procedure in order.
Morning hour is usually free of infected, and before long, people started digging a big grave for all the dead people, just outside the city. Emma is in shock by the unexpected departure of her lifelong friend, David. Eric had to try hard to wake Emma to the reality that she is safe.
Ruben and Ron with two other soldiers stood in front of the goons who have done the massacre.
“We were waiting for this day for a very long time.” One of the goons said. “That Zang Zom killed my whole family.”
“We all are happy to join you guys. We know how to grow crops. We know how to make clothes. And we know a lot of other things.” Another goon said.
Ron smiled. Then he raised his gun at the surrendered goons. Then he smiled again and then he pulled the trigger.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Ron moved his gun in a straight line and before long all the fifteen goons went down for never to rise again.
“Ron, we could have used them for good. They would have been good workers.” Ruben said in shock.
“Stand down, Ruben. These bastards killed innocent people, for fun.” Ron said. “Do you think this is amusing you? Because of these bastards, so many widows have born. Children were orphaned. We lost a lot of good people today. Finding replacements for these lost friends is not that easy.”
“But ...” Ruben was cut short.
“No buts. Take a day off. I need to put these dead bodies outside for the hungry infected. These bastards deserve no mercy, even in their death.” Ron said.
Ruben forced a nod. Then he walked away from the scene.
Later that day, all the goons’ bodies were given to the infected outside. And in the hurriedly dug grave, soldiers placed all the dead citizens. People plucked flowers and sprinkled them on top of the grave of their loved ones. People of Dojai are one and they united even in their death.
Coming days would be a difficult time for the people Dojai, since a part of the city is dead. People have to cope with this or they can all perish.
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Chapter 25
Cattledong
The flying saucer stopped in the middle of a street. And Ruben, Eric and two other soldiers exited the flying saucer. They are in the middle of a city and in a nearby sign board the city’s name is neatly written. It reads ‘Cattledong’.
Mega story buildings are all around them and Ruben and team walked through the maze of buildings, in the north direction. Suddenly with a moan ten infected rushed at them from behind a nearby building. Ruben and team quickly put aside the rifles and they drew out long swords in their hands.
“Remember, don’t shoot, unless you have to.” Ruben instructed.
Everyone nodded. The next moment the creatures are on them. Ruben and team swung their swords, and with a swoosh, the metal blades cut down the first line of creatures. Ruben masterfully swung again and again until the last of the infected went down. It was earlier this month they started realizing the power and usefulness of swords. It would kill the infected quickly and silently without calling other infected in the nearby areas. And Ruben and team have killed quite a large number of infected using this technique.
After all the ten infected went down, Ruben and team relaxed and they took a deep breath. Then they moved forward. There aren’t much infected in this city and before long a huge building came into view. Then they saw it. On the glass panel of one of the floors, there is a message written and it reads ‘Save our souls’.
“Ron’s right. There are survivors.” Eric said in excitement. Then they saw a few faces staring at them through the glass windows.
Ruben and team approached the building with excitement that cannot be hidden. In the front door Ruben and team were welcomed by two women. Then ten survivors came from the upper levels. All survivors are very young. Eric and Ruben quickly got in conversation with the new survivors. These survivors were living on canned goods, and they were about to run out of the supply of canned goods when Ruben and team found them today.
Before long Ruben and team departed from that building with fifteen survivors. On the way to the flying saucer they encountered a few infected who quickly went down under the might of the long swords. Before long they started their journey to Dojai.
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Epilogue
Dojai
Life in Dojai once again prospered. Later that month a few more survivors joined the people Dojai. There are reports of mass migrations from other parts of the planet to Dojai. Eric and Ruben travelled to far away cities and they rescued all the survivors they saw.
At noon they would begin their shooting mission. They would kill any infected seen in the noon time from a watch tower. After a few days of noon shootout missions, the number of infected around Dojai considerably reduced.
Farmers now feel very secure in their fields with the addition of a few more layers of barbed wires on the fence. They even built two more fields nearby. With the increase in population, the need to produce vegetables and other food products increased. And more farmers joined the old Dojai farmers.
Emma taught young kids in the morning hours and in the afternoon hours she increased her knowledge from various people. People of diverse culture are on Dojai and each people have knowledge in a particular area. Emma is too enthusiastic to know just about anything. Tom and Sammy found jobs in flying saucers, and the air hostess from Earth found jobs
in a restaurant.
Only a few people of Earth survived the alien plague, and they found their lives worth living for on planet Nibiru.
No doubt that planet Earth and planet Mars are dead. But, their legacy will live on through the tales of these few survivors of planet Nibiru.
Human kinds are not designed to die out all of a sudden. They are designed for a higher purpose, and the survival of them indicate that, for some unknown reasons human kind are needed in this universe. Humans had survived worse in the last few thousands of years and they will survive again, whatever the danger that is coming at them.
This is the legacy of the three worlds and this legacy will live on through the people of Dojai.
The End…
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About the Author
C.O. Amal is a crazy writer, who likes to read and write anything that has to do with science fiction. He lives in Kerala with his lovely cows.
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