Darklaw Legacy

[The Endless]

Chapter 2 – Unknown

Darkness all around...

There is a feeling... of emptiness, that surrounds my soul...
My consciousness comes back to me...
"AHHHHH!"
I scream suddenly, then notice i didn't emit a sound... like a scream inside my head...
What... Where am I?...
I talk but there's nothing around me, just a black void... Somehow I start to breathe heavily...
"I'm dead?!"
No response, not even my own echo, it's so dark I can't see my arms and legs, yet I feel they are there. The complete and absolute silence torture my senses...
I start to hyperventilate...
"*gasps* Ahhh... Ahhh... What... The... *gasps*"
I feel like I'm moving extremely fast, I cannot describe exactly how but the black void around me seems to blur, in panic I close my eyes and wish I'm somewhere else...
Suddenly, I stop...
I feel heat around me, and I feel cold metal on my hands, I open my eyes and see that I'm on my knees, and everything around me is on fire...
I look forward and I see something... or someone... a human silhouette, on the end of what looks like a corridor of fire,
I hear it say something with a deep voice that sounds distorced... "You... Must.. Remember..."
Trying to get a grip of myself I get up on my feet to get a better look at this man, when I'm about to call out a enormous light surges from above, in a brief second I look at the source and see it... it's an enormous battleship... and the light is a mortar coming straight here, I realize I'm standing on top of another large spaceship that's burning up from inside, I'm in space yet breathing without a helmet... Scared like I've never been before... the mortar is about to hit where the talking figure is, and I'm launched into a black void again...
"What the hell is this? Enough!"
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Silence...
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But then I hear a faint sound in the distance, It's like a whisper... A young woman voice...
"Hello?!"
I try hard to make out what she's saying but I can't, it's like the same voice but saying lots of things at once...
I feel myself launched again...
And I see various scenes just for a second each.
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A empty room with lone chair in the middle...
An enormous unidentified Battleship...
A space station in a blue gas cloud...
A metal corridor, screams in the background...
A junkyard...
A big miner ship in a dark asteroid field...
A blasted moon...
The inside of a escape pod...
A Bomber crashing in the side of a capital ship...
Weird blue ships in the darkness...
A Large Transport somewhere...
A ship... with a partial name engraved in the side *N*L*SS...
A large Carrier-like ship exploding from within...
Then the images flash faster and are incomprehensible...
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Feel Pain...
I close my eyes...
My mind seems to be slipping off me... I don't know what is happening... i feel dizzy then i see... The silhouette of a woman in front of me, everything is dark, I can't even see her face, she whispers...
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"Come back to me"
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And she disappears...
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I hear...
beeps...
My eyes feels like they are burning... my head hurts... there is a mask on my face and I can breathe... I open my eyes just a little bit... and I see myself on a bed... someone is beside me... I'm too weak to actually move... So I ask “Where… Where am I?”
The man answers “You my good sir, are on the medical bay area, inside the ‘Mithral’ Advanced Mining Transport in service of the Independent Miners Guild... Welcome aboard”.
As my eyes adjust to the light I see the man that is talking, he's old, got a beard, and a blue uniform with the letters IMG on it...
I try to stand up but he holds me down. "Easy now lad... you suffered quite a hit in the head when you feel down... you need to rest... we'll talk soon enough, i bet you have lots of questions"
"Questions... I... Don't remember..."
"Hey... easy now... rest and we'll talk" he starts to leave the room, as he reaches the door he looks back with a troubled look... the recomposes himself and smiles "If you need anything, theres a communicator on your left... I'm Captain Falkner by the way..." he leaves.
"'Falkner... and... who am I?"

End of Chapter 2