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The Last Illiad Chp.6
By NeonBlade
All that Tony felt was incredable, it felt unbeleivable to be accepted by others of the same age.
Munroe led Claire and Tony both down some dark stairs lit by lanterns on the wall, their erie shadows were cast onto the the darkend passage.
" That thing was a searchbot." Munroe said calmly picking up a lit package of paper. " They track us down- and well- take care of us." Tony had heard something about robots that searched the big remains of the cities looking for survivors to kill.
"so it was going to-" Munroe cut off Tony in mid sentence.
" It's this way." Munroe pointed the buring papers down what looked like another passage down deeper into the ground.
" Tony! Have you heard about the perfects across the world who still live in peace?" Tony couldn't amagnie what what Munroe was talking about. Munore had yet agin opened another door onto a world that was much bigger than Burnout Valley.
" Huh, um no?" Tony wanted to know about them, they people hey called perfect.
" They're clean for one thing-" All three continued down the tunnel, Claire didn't say a thing. " They still have buildings, and blue skys." The very thought of this eutopian society made shivers go down Tony's back. " They- well they are special and they control us who are- well not perfect. We're dirty and our skies are orange with atomic waste and our ruins cover in dirt." Munroe stopped abruptly infront of a large steel door. He stook his hand down into his pocket.Tony could hear the sound of many object clinking and clanking.Munroe then let out a sign of relief as he reveiled a large card with numbers and pictures on it.
"It's a passcard." Munroe could tell that Tony had never seen one before. " It is the kind of keys that they used around the blast to get into places." Munroe swiped the card through a silver box. The light on the box switched from red to green and made "clank" sound and ajared its self from the wall.
Munroe opened the door wider and let Tony and Claire through. Claire took her right hand and moved it up Tony's shirt.
" Hey!" Tony pushed CLaire's hand away. " It's all right I just have to check your bandages. Tony understood and let Claire check. He didn't want to amit it, but... he liked her soft hands. Tony had never known any other girl and Tony was getting older, he was an adult now...Wasn't he?
After Munroe had slid the door back into the wall, Tony took alook at the room. It was huge and looked wonderful and warm. There were shelves and shelves of cans and boxes which Tony could tell were food suplies.
"Hungry?" Munroe smirked and walked towards another door in the back. Tony sat down on a large sofa that was located in the center of the room. The room was lit bymany candles and lamps hanging over head. The room was orange from light and the smell of insense burned into Tony's senses. Tony pictured himself in a room on the other side of the world with Claire and his Mom and sister and even Munroe standing in a blue carpeted room with a large window looking out onto a huge city. A shriek cought tony and sent him flying back to reality.
" The hell?" Tony feel back onto the ground. A small boy with a rope around his neck was screaming on the floor. His hair was long and he looked deathly skinny, dirt covering his entire face.
" Oh don't worry Tony it's just a test." Tony looked puzzled toward Munroe than to Claire who had remained sitting. What kind of test could he be talking about?
"What are you talking about Munroe, who is this boy?" Tony figured that he had just passed his first test of how easy he could be frightend.
" He is a test to you, that is all." Munroe threw down a blade at Tony's feet and threw one to the boy.Tony just starred until he realized the terror of the objective... He had to kill the boy. Tony turned around to head for the door.
" No point in trying to escape Tony." Monroe smirked. " The door is locked and I have the key." He patted his pocket to make the clinking sound again. " Pass your first test and you can leave." Munroe threw down the card infron of his own feet behind the other boy.
" Com'on Munroe can we do this another way-" Claire had finnaly stepped in to Tony's relief.
" You know the drill Claire"
"We have to see if he is one of us yet." Tony could have screamed. All of the crap about the peace and order, it was a lie.
" But he seems different though." Claire rebuttled.
" I don't care he has to take the test like all of the rest." Munroe backed away from the keycard and walked over to a chair to watch the upcoming fight.
" This is mad." Tony advanced toward the boy to pick up the key. a slash came from nowhere just barelly clipping Tony, but was enough to draw blood. The boy had grabbed his blade when Tony had watched Claire and Munroe argue.
Without thinking twice Tony grabbed his blae and stabbed it foward just barely missing the boy!The skinny boy took another stab at Tony's leg but missed that left his entire back open! Tony rushed foward and stabbed his blade right into the back of the boy instantly killing him! The boy fell to the ground with a thump and Tony grabbed the Keycard. Not even noticing the expressions on Claire's or Munroe's face, Tony turned and headed for the door.
But as if something had just put up and wall and put a rope around his waste, Tony stopped and began to mumble.
" Why did you make me do that?" Tony felt it was Munroe who had caused it.
" ME!" Munroe smirked. " I believe I just saw you stab your knife into that boys back." Munroe had a point. Toy was more angry at Munroe than he was upset at his own oings, but he could understand why he was mad at Munroe and not Claire. Tony turned to look back at Munroe. He then walked back to the sofa and sat down over looking the body of the dead boy.
" You have to see Tony-" Munroe began. " You had your instinct and it drove you to kill him. You and him are different." "Different people, different skills, different species." And with that Tony once again lost consciousness and fell back onto the ground.
9/19/2002 4:35:57 PM
(Updated: 9/19/2002 9:24:39 PM)
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