*Recording starts. Loud repetitious buzzing in the background like an alarm. Voice of Tomas Night.*
Definately didn't figure it would happen like this. Rather disappointing. I can just imagine the look of the bayou witch doctors face when he hears about it. *Sigh* can't even have a last cig.
*Long pause. two rifle shots. The faint sound of rockets in the background traveling away.*
Got to hand it to Brody's demon, I never expected the change after Ryan. I suppose I'll recount as long as the radio is in range. Maybe someone can figure something out. Though it seems unlikely.
I figured it was a bad news gig when the frilly pointy eared fruit showed up, but I never thought he would be the one to be my end. The prize was to be a new gun clip, one that was adaptable to the weapons I already used, plus the chance to hunt some bigger alien things he has sent me after before.
There was a ship of some kind that neared the earth extremely rarely… he gave numbers, but I didn't really care at the time. Something in the realm of thousands of years. It comes in, loops around earth, then shoots back out into space. It's only here for a day. We were to get on a rocket, meet up with this thing near the moon, get to the control center, and turn it on to discover how we win.
It was Brutus, I think, that altered my normal routine and ultimately stranded me here. Burtus was an oddity much to my liking. A lot like ol' Chuck, he was a tough feral creature, but with more mysticism about him. I'm not sure if Ryan has been flirting with him as a lure for pray, or if she has a real interest in him, not that it matters as I had called the hunt on him when I discovered the rules of the game.
The ship was said to once have been an arch of sorts, housing DNA and archives from all over the universe. It had been attacked by the undead alien things I was told about, and the owners were seeking it's remains. Activating the ship had set it to go home, but had also released the aliens. We had to escape. We were almost immediately separated, which is when I made the wrong call. The set up was Fun, and not very surprising out of this particular harbinger… that is until Ryan and I fought our way to the ship only to find it destroyed and covered in those things.
Byte, some hacker mage I had never met, had already discovered this through the ship's computer and had discovered 4 escape pods on the alien ship that were active and aimed for earth. Had I been trying to rejoin the others instead of establish a good hunt for Brutus, I would have found out sooner…. and would have discovered something else fairly critical that ultimately doomed me.
There were 2 pods on each side of the ship, so Ryan went with Byte, and I went with Brutus. It was then that Brutus' instincts caught my intent, and he took off for the pod before I could act, not that I would have yet. It was an amazing hunt. Not just Brutus, who used his magic to block my senses, generate armor, the aliens ambushed and stalked us both along each corridor. One had scored a lucky hit on Brutus, and paid quickly for it, though the act had provided me with blood. Using my own arts, I tracked Brutus easily to the escape room. He was trapped, but stood in front of the display window, thinking I wouldn't risk shooting out the window. Naturally, I used a soul bullet.
Now that little tidbit of information I missed… this was a ghost ship. My shot went through Brutus, then shattered the glass. My speed was the only thing that kept me from being sucked into space, and I barely managed to pull myself into the next room to seal the breach. But the escape pods were gone. That noise you heard was Ryan and Byte heading back to earth. In a couple minutes, this bucket will be launched back out to space… then the ghost enchanent will be lost… as I assume I will be. My only hope is to get back to our ship and hope the life support still works…. or the emergency kits have space suits or. ………………
*Recording cuts off as the ship leaves range*
