ON THE MARX

Entry 53

Date Unknown

I snapped out of my reverie when Sara tugged on my shoulder.

I looked around trying to remember again where I was.

I looked up when I heard the screeching of the ships in the air fly around. My eye throbbed from feeling the pressure change of the air associated with sonic booms. I grabbed on to it trying not to scream out loud. I felt Sara tug at me again and I looked at her.

“He’s a very bad thing,” Sara pointed a small finger at the creature called the locust. She barely said anything at all, I could hardly even hear her, even using my enhanced hearing. I looked back at the Locust.

“Locust, we have to find Marxus now!” the falcon said blaring from the communicator that the Locust had in his hand. I heard the arrogant prick’s voice sounding as arrogant and self-assured as ever. Even though I knew he and I had a tussle not too long ago. However, how long ago was that? An hour ago? Two?

There was no way to tell yet.

“What have it, this Marxus is none of my concern,” the Locust said.

“It should be your concern, you insubordinate cockroach!” the Falcon said.

“My, my, my.” The Locust gave a laugh. It sounded more like a bunch of bugs chirping at the same time. “How the mighty Falcon now bequeaths of me assistance, was it not early on you called me a pitiful excuse for a life being?”

“You may think that he is not your concern Locust,” the Falcon said angrily. “But he is dangerous, even more so than finding that damn girl you keep looking for.”

“We will see about that,” the Locust said. “I have more pressing matters to attend to, Lady Bai was brought here, as you know, I have not had a faintest idea of where she was dispatched to, as you know.”

“Lady Bai?” I mouthed.

A flash showed me the memory of that book with those strange animals standing before the shard of glass. I remember there was that white serpent in the tree, or was it Silver? Yes, it was silver. I suddenly realized that that thing was Lady Bai, and somehow, I knew that this Lady Bai whatever the f**k it was, was dangerous.

I tried to remember how but that made my eye hurt like s**t again.

“We can find her soon enough,” the Falcon said. “Marxus has the potential of making all our plans fall apart, Locust and you know it. I have never trusted him since he took over the black knights nor will I ever not like the Marquis or Lord Aries.”

“Ah yes,” the locust said sounding amused, if by amusement for this creature could sound like the chirps it was making when it was talking sounding higher pitched. “The Marquis and Lord Aries would be most intrigued by your sly remark, Falcon I shall think.”

Aries? I thought. A vision of that picture reappeared. This time I remember looking at that silver ape-looking thing. That thing I somehow knew was Aries.

“Think of it what you will, Locust.” The Falcon said.

“Perhaps I shall let it slip that you believe their careful plotting has been folly?” the Locust threatened. The Falcon looked like he was thinking about it.

At least it seemed like he was thinking about it.

After a pause, the falcon looked like he regained his composure.

“Our purpose is one and the same Locust,” the Falcon said. “Awakening the Avatar of Lord Shiva must be done, and it must be executed with the utmost of importance.”

“I agree dear Falcon,” the Locust said.

Somehow, I picked up this sort of smirky sensation from it.

I was suddenly curious why I was not seeing the colors of this space. When I thought that all the sudden everything changed, and those strange lines of colors returned. Around the Locust was black, but it was not the same black as that thing in the chamber was, but black non-the-less. Everything around us was emanating black. The other bugs, the soldiers wearing bug armor everything.

I looked down and saw the belt was still on me. I looked down at Sara who looked up at me with a worried look on her face.

“Let’s get to a better hiding place.” I said and she nodded.

I was about to walk off when I heard Locust suddenly say.

“What of the GABE installation?” The Locust said.

“Who the hell knows where it is,” The Falcon said. “That is why I am saying we need to find Marxus, I have a feeling the fucker and GABE are working together. Hell I even think he might be running GABE.”

Me? Running GABE?

I actually wondered that for a minute.

Sara took me out of my pondering by tugging on my hand. I looked down at her. Her beautiful black eyes looked up at me, her hair looked almost a dark brownish-red when the dim light hit her head. How the hell did they do it? I could clearly see who this girl was made from but how did they do it?

 She motioned me to come closer. I did so.

“I think I know where they are hiding,” she whispered in my ear.

“Oh?” I said she only nodded.

I looked back at the Locust and his cronies.

I did not know what else the Falcon and the Locust spoke of in that moment.  I looked back and saw the closest black armored soldier bow. A green light enveloped the gold one, the Locust and he disappeared. The black one started clicking and hissing at the other ones and they all split up. I actually did not know what the heck she had just witnessed.

Was that gold one an actual insect or was it something that was pretending to be an insect? Its exoskeleton looked like it was metallic it could be that it was a metallic bug? Maybe it was a construct, a machine that was pretending to be a bug? Kind of like the other soldiers? I had this idea that this is what it was, some sort of person who was in this weird bug armor?

Sara looked like she did not have time to think about it she had to find whatever she had seen earlier and go towards it. We finally decided to leave the bushes after several moments passed. She began walking around carefully and started to explain things to me.

 Those black ones were called elites by the gold one at some point, and they were looking for something. For some reason, Sara thought that maybe it was her. I told her they might be looking for me also.

“Maybe,” was all she said.

Sara really said she had no way of knowing if they were looking for her. However, right now it seemed that it was the best theory she had. The Gold one was looking for her for some reason. At least that is what I could see from his talk with the Falcon.

Could it be because of the weird ability she had to change parts of her body?

“Could it be that they wanted to turn me into a hybrid like they did with that other girl but I had escaped before they had the chance?” she asked. Looking at her made me want to strangle the Falcon and punch the stupid bug in the face until I broke through that helmet just to see who the f**k was insane enough to wear it.

“All these were possible things.” I said simply. I did not really know what else to say.

Sara walked barefoot. She looked like she was annoyed by this and seconds later I heard clicking of heels. She looked down at her feet and they had become in the shape of black heels. She looked like she was confused by how the hell that had happened. So did I for that matter.

We, however had no time to stop and ponder about this she had to find some help, and we needed to find them fast. Sara looked around and tried to think of where it could be that she had seen whatever she had seen. I looked around myself and I saw that moon float around off in the distance. Sara jumped and saw ships attacking it and it easily destroying the ships.

I heard clicking and ducked and grabbed Sara again. I looked up and watched some black ones zoom on by past us. Sara poked her head out after a while and saw those black ones fly off and away. Sara looked around and didn’t see anything. She motioned me to get up.

“The black ones were called the elites by the gold one so they must be the best warriors the race must have. The brown ones were like the soldiers, the white ones were the larvae the mutant ones were the questionable ones.” Sara said. And I looked at her questioningly.

“Mutant ones?” I asked.

She nodded.

“Those were that screaming ones that I had encountered earlier, and then there was that girl, she was half turned into an insect. I do not really understand how that had happened.” Sara started to tear up I knew that the thought of the girl brought tears to Sara’s eyes again. She had to get that idea out of her mind and so she shook it vigorously.

Sara stopped but before she managed to do so she fell forward, I tried to grab her but she fell anyways and landed on this gold goo. Her clothes started to hiss, and she pulled off her jacket as she got up. She had gotten the goo on her but it wasn’t burning her but it sure did like eating away at the tatters she had on again.

We were so focused about the goo eating away at her clothes we had not realized that we were surrounded by these horrifying creatures. She froze when she saw them.

“They looked like the screaming ones.” Sara said in a shrill.

I looked at them they were mostly like Golordians, but they had insect qualities to them. These things seemed to be in various states of transformation, some had big bulbous eyes, some had mandibles, some had mandibles that came out of their regular mouth. Some had the extra limbs coming out of their body. The creatures looked at her and made a growl at us.

“H….A…..L…..P….” one of them screamed.

“Aw fudge,” I said biting the swear word I would have said back.