"Trader Tales" present:

The promised for the beginning of history

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Chapter 2. Hell horror or schizophrenic

Rowan’s things were not bad. Bad is to fall on the podium in the eyes of sponsors, and on them. God, she had to go to a date with the nephew of one of the sponsors. And the twenty-year behemoth was said that it was only a date, but he still hinted at continue ... aaaall eeeevening.

Her things were not even terrible. Terrible is to arrive at a fashion show in evening dress, but did not specify the harsh winter climatic conditions of the planet. God, she had to buy a sheepskin coat not in tailoring, but in the mall. And then she had to appear in it on a secular party.

And it was not a nightmare. A nightmare act was in her life. Well, at least Marc was helpful.

But what is now happening it was ... was ... FUCKING HELL HORROR. Right during the photo shoot that was finally started, carnivorous worms began to emerge out of the ground. The first soldier was caught. Worms quite exemplary, as in documentaries, bit his heels and fell on the sand. When the victim fell down, more worms leaned out and clutched his neck and face. There was only a small scream of surprise during the first bite, and after that the worms have not given any opportunity to soldier to scream. No, it was not banal - "Detachment did not notice the loss of fighter." Everyone saw all, had a shocked silence and watched the biggest fear of the combined cosmic forces. Following attacks made the brain to click and to start screaming. There were a lot of worms and all of them were hungry. At the same time, jaws of slimy predators dug in Goil and his senior trainee Steven. Maestro was bite of the right foot, and when he tried to mechanically grab by the arm of the place where it hurts, the other worm jumped sharply and swallowed the hand. Needle-like teeth could bite the wrist of the photographer, but the worm did not do that. He held the maestro and started to go into the ground again, knocking the prisoner. Tumble down the victim to the ground - the easiest way to eat it for small animals, but a large enemy appeared before Stephen. The worm did not attack surreptitiously as small ones; it has grown out of the ground right in the face of the intern and bit him in the chest tearing half of the chest with the bodies.

And then screams and running started.

Rowan started to run away, but because of the fear and inexperience in managing the costume, she soon fell on his stomach on the sand. She did not see how the remaining two trainees were ate, but she heard them screaming. They shouted longer than the first victims. Worms surrounding them and realizing that they couldn’t escape ceased to seek to kill the victim before the meal. And when the screams died down, she heard more terrible thing - the creaking of the sand.

Photo session was carried out in a closed suit, but with an open helmet. Twelve seconds for helmet closing. Twelve seconds she lay with open-face six inches from the sand. From the sand, that was creaked loudly from the changing killers inside it. On the fifth second she saw the back of one of them, who moved closer to the surface. On the seventh she heard how the worms overturned light bulbs. On the tenth second, she felt that one of the worms hit the belly mechanical suit. Between the eleventh and twelfth seconds before her face a worm jaw appeared out of the sand. But fortunately only on the thirteenth second the jaw struck the armored glass of the helmet.

-Jeeeesus…

The air could not equally out of her body due to the rapid shaking of the chin and the abdomen. Rowan started to roar, but quiet. She can not scream. She can not move. She could not even pull the arms out of the sleeves to cover her face. Her whole body was shaking inside a mechanoid and tears that flowed to the edges of the lower eyelids dripped on glass that protects her from external horror.

But worms are the most voracious creatures in the universe. They are always hungry ... And yes, most of all they love the flesh, but when there is no flesh they eat everything else - the stones, iron, and of the earth itself. Therefore, a large piece of metal lying on the ground when there is no other diet is also very nutritious. But it is difficult to eat. First, a huge worm crushes metal with its teeth, and beats him to the ground, knocking over. After a few drops smaller parts flies from a single piece, which small worms eat. When the structure of a piece of metal is so broken that it can be bitten, then big worms taken for a meal. Rowan had to die this way. Everything had to end.

But Strag - the engineer of that mechanoid was attentive genius. He is best versed in the habits of worms, so when the suit along with the roaring model was thrown into the air, an emergency program triggered. It is without a pilot who - Strahov was sure - will be in a panic, redistributing the weight inside the suit so that the war machine fell to the feet. According to the plan of Strahov, a soldier who is confident on its feet in full battle garb realizes that he has been just presented.
A chance.
Your enemy immeasurably dangerous and much of the universe has yielded to him. Maybe we lose to him; we probably all die in their jaws. But! Now! Ask yourself!
"DO YOU WANT TO LIVE?!"
Rowan breathed deeply and firmly took hold of the joystick.
She… wants...

Do you know what we mean for the universe? She has presented many sacrifices for her children. Do you know that she loves you? She is so worried about your future. Do you know that the universe will not notice your disappearance? It does not even know you. And that it'll do anything for the sake of your salvation? Even for the suffering.
Universe ... Are you a schizophrenic?
The figure fell to its knees.
- Leave my head!
- She's in danger
A pain and a fear. Among the huge flow of uncontrolled hunger the horror flutters.
- Who? I do not know anybody! Where am I going? Who am I?
- They'll kill her
The horror is only slightly weakened, but it played very differently, now he stirs rage. Rage, sparkling with hope. What a strange cocktail. So interesting. It is so different from hunger. This hunger is primitive, it is not angry and not revenge.
- Where am I from? What are you? What is in me?
- There is no other like she on this planet.
The figure looked forward to the horizon of sand and sky, but he had seen farther the horizon. He has seen how one fought with a hundred.
- Why do I see everything?
- She wants to live.
She is frightened. She is yelling. Swearing and fighting. She is much closer to him than hungry ones. Even dying, the hungry ones are not angry. This is normal for them? It's disgusting. Feel them and feel disgusting. Feel her and filled with the desire to live.
- Me too.
The figure rose from its knees and ran to the horizon.


To be continued.
Chapter 3. A reliable friend or the worst enemy