User:Mercinus3/Rise of the fallen warrior.
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This story is part of the Malton Chronicles. This story is fan-made, and is not officially part of any background history for Urban Dead. |
Prologue
In a time before the infection
In the middle of downtown Malton, in Ridleybank, there once was a family, not a rich one, but not a poor one itself. A couple has moved into the suburb a couple of weeks ago in a big house there. The Father was called Mercinus, but his wife's name was unknown. They were decorationg the house before they can settle in. They weren't alone, their little toddler, Mercinus3, was in the sand pit, playing with the other children in the neighbourhood. The parents of Mercinus3 was still mourning for the child's brother, Mercinus2, who died when he was born. But this was not the usual case for a child's death, but it was a death of a healthy child, when the doctors thought that Mercinus3 was going to die. Mercinus3 was a sickly baby when he was born, looked like he was going to die the next day, but Mercinus2 died the next day. A rain cloud came in and started to rain. Mercinus' wife called Mercinus3 to come inside, which he obeyed easily.
The Rise of the Infection
Ten years after the Mercinus family came in, the family was sitting down watching TV, while eating dinner. They watched the news of a serious viral infection that was spreading across the city. Mercinus3's father thought it was preposterous, and turned the TV off. After dinner, Mercinus3 and his father were doing the washing up. "Do you believe in what the stories the news are saying?" asked Mercinus3, wondering about the subject. "Son, there are things in life you must believe in, but there are a few things which you shouldn't believe in. I think this story is one of those things covered up by the government." replied his father. After the dishes were done, Mercinus3 went to bed, wondering what those stories the government were covering up.
Later that night, Mercinus3 was awaken by a scream from his mother. He rushed in to see what was the problem. There stood a person with his mother's blood dripping from his mouth. This person did not look ordinary. He was pale with a tint of green, and the eyes were white with the pupil in the centre of the eyes. The eyes were set on him now, and edged forwards. Then he lunged foreward. There was a huge bang next to Mercinus3, making the creature fall backwards. His father stood there, with a shotgun smoking after the shot. He ran towards the limp figure where his wife laid. Mercinus3 never saw his father weep for his mother like that since his brother died. His father rose, now determined than ever. Footsteps start to come up the stairs. Mercinus3 started to look frightened. "Dad, what's happening?" He went, shaking with fear. His father brandished a fire axe and a shotgun. "Son, some bad people are here to take the house" replied his father. He opened the window. "Mercinus3, I want you to leave this house and never return." "What... Dad, I don't understand!" He cried. "Son, remember those cartoons you see in the morning, where the bad guys don't harm the children." "Yes" "These thing are not like the bad guys in the cartoon. They will kill you when they get the chance to see you. I can't afford that to happen to you. I want you to go and never return so I don't want to see you die here." "Ok, dad..." Mercinus3 heads for the window, then a hand grabs his arm. "Remember son, there are things in life you must believe in, and things you shouldn't. I believe in you that you will survive and have your own family. I always believe and trust you." His father embraced him in a hug, knowing that this is the last hug he will have with his own son. "Now go." The door breaks down, and 20 of those things come in towards Mercinus. He fired his shotgun, then ran towards the group with the fire axe. This was the last time Mercinus3 saw his father, before he jumped out of the window, and ran until he couldn't run no more.
End of Prologue
The journey of Mercinus3
Malton was a bustling city in the past. You would not know how many people came in and lived and worked in the city. That was a distant memory of ten years ago. Now it was a desolate wasteground where the menace roamed the streets and fed on the old inhabitance of the civilians.
Zombies, The last think you would want to think about when you came into this city. They can rip limps off people and eat them alive (or until you become a zombie itself). Rumour has it that an underground science team, NecroTech, have created a cure to revive people from this state of illness. But zombies have adapted to this 'cure', and became brain dead so the cure wouldn't work.
A figure was walking past what was the Cembrowicz Cinema in Chancelwood. Mercinus3 was grown up now and alone, after his father forced him out of his home. he is still haunted with what has happened on that faitful night. His Mother... Gone. His Father... Gone. He was the only member of his family who has survived. He now roams around the desolate city, running away from the thousands and thousands of zombies. This was not the life of Mercinus3. He gets a phone call from a friend from a long time ago to join the group he is in, the Warseers. Seeing his chances to strike back at the zombies, he taked the chance. Since then, he has killed over 1 hundred zombies, and helped with the seige of the nearest mall, Caiger Mall. He finally left Warseers for no reason what so ever.
But that was in the past. I can now bring you to the present now where the story takes place.
The Rise of a Fallen Warrior
One day in the dismal suburb, 300 blocks from the now called Tollyton, some zombies were chasing a straggling woman, who was bleeding from the cut marks received from the mob about 5 blocks back. She finally turns the corner away from the mob, but they just kept on coming. She trips over a pothole in the road. She falls and skids 5 meters from where she fell. She turned and saw them coming. Closer and closer. She thought that it was the end...
She then sees a black figure come up from nowhere, must be from the alleyway and stands in front of the mob, with her behind her. "Go now, I'll hold them off..." the stranger told her. She stayed there for a moment. "I TOLD YOU TO MOVE! NOW GO!" She got up and ran away into the suburb.
The figure then turns towards the mobs and smiles. This is for you, father... he gets out his shotgun. The zombies were lurching towards him. 10 meters. 9 meters. he chuckles and cocks the gun. 7 meters. 6 meters. Some of the zombies realize what he is doing, but when they reacted 5 meters, it was too late. he pulls the trigger. The mob's front half had disintegrated. And as quickly as a cowboy does, he cocks it again and fires in less than two seconds. Nearly all of the zombies have been destroyed. he puts the gun into the holster and gets out the axe that was strapped onto his back. He hacks the zombies until they were no more.
5 hours later, The figure enters a safehouse with several other survivors. in the corner of the room was the same lady he had saved earlier. He walks over to her. before he could stand still, she noticed and stared as if she had seen a ghost. "but... but... How did you survive? No one could survive a mob at that size!" "With a little strategy, that was cleared up like the other zombies I have fought..."
Two days later, he arrives to a ruin of a building. "Woodroffe Mall" The sign said as he entered the mall. He reaches the first floor and he sees a battle of over a dozen zombies and under 10 survivors. He gets his radio and changes to the local frequency, 29.00. "Mercinus3 here. I need backup at Woodroffe Mall NOW!" No reply. "We are about to lose the mall without backup!" Still no answer. He throws the radio through a lingerie store window. "Jesus Christ!" he runs towards the battle, unstrapping two of his shotguns. He jumps on a hot dog stand and shouts "Move!" to the other survivors. When Mercinus3 reached the stand, 5 of the survivors have fallen and risen as the menace that Mercinus3 hates. He jumps off the stand, both shotguns pointing towards the zombies. The survivors see this and dodged out of the way. He unloads a round of the two guns at the group, disintegrated 5 of the zombies. The recoil sends him flying onto the floor, head first. The zombies turn around and went towards this new threat. They consume him and start cutting and scratching his leather jacket. Mercinus3 felt something touching his hand. His axe. He grabs it and decapitated one of the zombies instantly. He sees the chance to get his shotguns, but they jam. Cursing, he drops them and gets his pistols. he starts unloading his clips into the mob. One zombie bites him in the neck. He shoots the zombie in the head. He quickly finishes the mob off with his axe.
He gets his guns off the ground and goes to the gun shop to reload them. The remainder of the group of survivors he had saved turns and follows him. He finishes reloading them. He notices the group. "What do you want?" he asked. "We are seeing if you're alright." One of them, who seemed to be the leader, replied "Yeah, should I?" "Yeah, since the zombie bit you in the neck." The leader nods to one of them, who ran over to Mercinus3 with a med kit. She treated the wound and stitched it back up. The leader goes over to the music store and puts on “Runnin With the Devil". He comes back over to Mercinus3 "My name is Johnny Naylz, the medic is Sally bowman and the other gunman is Oblivion" He points to the one armed man who fended off the zombies with a shotgun, similar to the one's Mercinus3 had received his at Caiger Mall. Oblivion manages to find his arm in the midst of the corpses and Sally manages to stitch it back again, saving the neuron system in his arm. "We'll be needing you to come with us." Naylz finally says. The group walks out just in time to see a Hummer H1 barreling down the street and pulls over to the group. "Get in" the driver says. They all get in, with Johnny taking the steering wheel. "So who's this?" the figure says to someone, referring to Mercinus3. "Mercinus3." Mercinus replies. "Well... My name is Sergeant Redfield, Leader of the Phoenix Division; Elite Operations Unit." "What?" Mercinus looks up. "We are a group who defend the south of Tollyton from Zombies." Mercinus laughs. "What do you think is so funny?" Redfield says, sounding annoyed. "You think this is a joke. You think you can create a crappy organization just for the sheer hell of it!" Mercinus replies, upping his tempo like he's about to snap. "i have not made the group for the sheer hell of it!" The sergeant replies, angrily. "Well, the name suggests another thing. I have experienced more stuff than you have. I have been to hell and back at Caiger Mall during the second seige and fought against Pathetic Bill and Gangsta Business, and you think you can defend half of the suburb, then you can think again. I have tried to defend 3 suburbs, 2 of those suburbs successfully." Mercinus snaps. The Hummer went quiet for the rest of the journey.
They arrived at the HQ of the PDEOU, Bawden towers. Mercinus3 walks in and is shown his quaters. "The Sergeant wants you to the debrief room in 10 minutes. Mercinus walks to the bathroom to shave.
Eleven minutes later, Mercinus arrives in the debrief room. "Sorry if i'm late. Needed the shower and didn't know where the room was." "Ok, since everyone is here, the meeting can start." Redfield started. "Now as you know, the Mall nearly went into zombie hands. But, with the help of Mercinus3 here, the mall was saved." "I didn't help you. I just didn't like the look of zombies inside the building and attacking survivors, who were about to lose. I have made the sole decision to attack the mob and distract them to get them away. Instead, they stood there like sheep." the room went quiet. "Finished?" Redfield said, breaking the tension in the room. Mercinus nodded. "Good. Now we are about to suggest an invitation to be a member of PDEOU." Mercinus3 looks up from the mahogany table. "before you finish, this wasn't a group I came up myself. Our leader, Requiem, died, but before he went to his grave, the told me and Naylz to get a group, named PDEOU, together and defend the suburb, no matter what the odds were". Mercinus was touched by this. "Alright, I'll join..."
The Rise of the Infection II(linked to 'Apocalypse' by Johnny Naylz)
A couple of months later, he had risen in the ranks to be one of the more trusted officers in PDEOU. He walks into Bawden Towers after finding enough food supplies for another 2 months to some good news. "Caiger mall has been retaken! It is over!" Oblivion yells, over excited about the news. " What should we do now?" he asks everyone in the room. "Well, I say that we open one of those fancy bottles of champagnes in the larder and thank God that it is over." he replies, suprising everyone in the room. " I have found several supplies with the others that should last us about a month." "That's good to hear" Redfield replies.
Later that evening , after the two zombies have been revived, Mercinus started to feel bored and asks to get a group to patrol the area. Redfield agrees to this and suggested to take one of the newly revived recruits, Life Force. He takes them to survey the area. An hour later, they come back. They thought it was an all clear until they have heard a scream. "Over there!" Mercinus yells, pointing over towards where place where the screaming was. They ran over to the alley, guns pointing, but a penguin walks out of it. "What the ****?! It's a bloody penguin!" Mercinus talks to remove that awkward silence. He walks over to the penguin. "Where did you come from?" Mercinus asks the penguin, picking it up. The penguin went and bit his arm. "****!" Mercinus yells, immediately dropping it, "That son of a ***** bit me!" The other was laughing. They stopped when he glowered at them. "I guess the area is clear?" One of the members of the group says. "Shall we go back to HQ?" "No, there is still St Ambrose Church to check." The men groaned with the command, but they knew they deserve it for laughing at him. They reach the church. The place looked sinister. They walked in. "you lot look down here, I’ll look upstairs." Mercinus tells the men. He goes up the stairs. He stops and lets out a low groan. There was shouting from the others. "Go see what that is, Carl" He grunts loudly. He falls to the ground. Just as he hit the ground, his radio, the only radio for the group, recieved a message from Sally. *static* The penguins have started the *static*. Mercinus, *static* go near the penguins, or you will become *static*. I repeat, the penguins are *static*. One of the members was going up the stairs. Mercinus3's body was already up. Carl arrived into the room. "It was nothing, David got bitten by another penguin." Mercinus stands there and lets out his first growl as a zombie. "Are you alright?" Carl asks, pointing the torch at him to check to see what's wrong. Carl realizes what had happened, but it was too late. Mercinus lunges at Carl and bit into his neck. Carl lets out a bloodcurdling scream. The others ran to see what it was, but David started attacking them. Mercinus joined in the frenzy. He sees Life Force. His zombie side wanted to get him, but his human side was stronger and pointed the way out for Life Force. He agreed and started to run away. The zombie side consumes him. He runs out of the church and runs to the direction of Bawden Towers, his human nature wanting to be revived. he reaches the place, but other zombies were already there, trying to break the barricades.
Months pass. The survivors have stopped barricading the towers. Most of the experienced zombies have been killed. The new zombies were left standing. Mercinus3, seeing his chance, breaks the barricade. He enters the towers, but closing the door. He goes up the stairs, and enters the room where the others are, hoping for a revive. Before he entered the room, he manages to hear the plan the others were doing. The plan is suicide! I must help them! the human side of Mercinus3 said, desperately thinking of a plan to help them. No! The harmanz are there to be eaten by their superior beings. Let them fall down to their fate. The zombie side urges the mind to attack them. No! No longer will zombie power control my body! Mercinus finally urged the mind to full human control. Secretly, he comes up with a plan to help them.
When Naylz and his band of men who is used to destract the horde, Mercinus follows them to Ennever Library, where they barricaded the door to keep the zombies out. Mercinus notices the horde coming towards the building. With a simple point of his hand, the lower level zombies understood this and went in the direction he pointed. But with the fresh zombies gone, another mini-horde of zombies came towards the buildings. Once again, he points to where the first horde came. Despite his experience as a zombie, the horde still comes towards the library. Closer...and closer...and closer. he notices that this horde was from a high leveled zombie group. The group reaches the doors and starts smashing at the door. Mercinus tries to kill them in his zombie form, but he realises that he needs his shotguns to clear this horde. He retreats around the building, and enters an open, non-suspicious junkyard.
Sorry folks. This part of the story has come to an end, but... Part II of the story will come soon. If you would like to join, enter your character's name and role of the story on the discussions page under 'Character' heading. Goodbye for now and good hunting for the future. ---Mercinus3 20:42, 27 October 2007 (BST)
