Chapter 309 - It Awakens (2/2)
Laz pinched himself several times to make sure he hadn't accidently fallen asleep.
'Seriously... What the hell is this now?' Laz asked himself, not having anyone else to ask.
In a moment of desperation, Laz decided to just try whatever.
”Hey. Golden glob in my head... What am I looking at here?” Laz asked the sealed drop of blood that was hanging out inside of him, floating around his foundational base like a tiny sun.
Laz didn't expect anything, which made it that much stranger when he got a response.
What came to him wasn't words or a direct answer, but more like a string of pictures in a slideshow that took place in his head.
After more than a minute of darkness with one picture after another flashing in front of him, Laz got the gist of what it was saying.
Knowing this, Laz decided to sit back down on the slightly smashed carcass of the bug and close his eyes. The beaming of the pictures to his brain wasn't a pleasant experience. But what he learned hurt so much worse.
...
”My goddess!”
:Is everything ready?: came the gentle reply.
”It is. Everyone is already on their way to retrieve the bodies and attempt to capture a few of the invaders alive.”
:Excellent my girl.:
”I'm surprised that these bodies could be of such use to you, my goddess. Had Helen known, she would have had our people bring some back from the gate,” Freya said with a frown. Although the things they brought back were pretty good, none of them were powerful enough the help their goddess awaken sooner. But the blood of these creatures was a good tonic she didn't want to miss out on after she had heard about the situation.
Just as they were both thinking about their next steps, Freya got a call from one of her teams.
”Mistress. We've located one of the bodies and checked it, but it seems like there is no blood left in it.”
”That's odd. Most of the kills Laz was doing didn't involve the things bleeding. Move on to the next one.” Freya commanded before hanging up the phone.
Her goddess had heard everything that was said, but neither of them minded too much. After all, things had a tendency to bleed out when being killed, although to have no blood left in the body at all was a bit unusual.
The strange part came when Helen's team and another team reported similar circumstances which left both Freya and her goddess confused.
”Is there anything strange around the bodies?” Freya relayed the message while talking with Helen.
”There's this burned out circle that looks really weird. It's like someone scorched a circle around the bodies.”
Freya then relayed what was said.
:GET EVERYONE BACK HERE NOW!:
Freya was shocked at first, never having heard her goddess raise her voice. In that moment though, Freya felt like the lowliest of ants crawling on the ground in front of a heavenly queen who's very voice could alter the fabric of reality.
It took her several minutes to wake herself out of that delusion.
:Now... Hurry!:
The goddess seemed to have realized that she had let a part of her power out unintentionally and tried to calm down Freya who then told Helen to return to the restaurant as soon as possible. Freya then sent the same message to the other teams and told them to cancel the mission and return.
”What's wrong my goddess?” Freya asked, still shaken.
:It's too soon. Way too soon. But the creatures coming in must have resonated with the buried one. This is a huge problem. And once this one awakens, more will come even sooner than expected. They will sense each other and make a move.. this....:
The sleeping beauty in the coffin was communicating to Freya while trying to sort out her thoughts, causing everything to become garbled and leaving Freya confused.
Just when Freya was going to ask again, a rumbling could be heard, coming deep from the ground.
...
Laz stood up and spread his sense as deep as it could go, but even then he was able to sense nothing.
”Is it just an earthquake?” Laz mumbled to himself, but the bad feeling wasn't going away.
He knew what the circle meant. In terms of the golden drop of blood, something this crude was bȧrėly even worth it knowing about, but it had many instances of memories of tiny worlds that suffered from this before.
Laz really, really wanted to believe it was just an earthquake.
...
The rumbling happened all over and could be felt by everyone. As it got stronger and stronger, people started to panic thinking that there was a full fledged earthquake going on. But soon enough, the rumbling stopped and the city was quiet again.
No one knew that in the basement of the St Louis Cathedral, the floor began to buckle and bend upwards as something eerie started to rise up from the ground.