Black Mirrors
Black Mirrors
Once
again man has opened the box but just not any box. We foolishly reopened Pandora’s Box. But this time we did not close it and it may
be impossible to undo. In our race for
progress we may or may not have ignored certain warning signs along the
way. Sure having the world at your fingertips,
really who could resist that? AS the
next generation of wireless technology was announced the world had become
inundated with the previous generations.
Black mirrors had made it worldwide.
Most everyone had at least one: TV, Cellphone, Tablet or Computer. No one ever gave it a second thought as they
turned off their device and gazed into the blackened reflection of their own personal
black mirror. More and more wireless
technology was being released daily it had gotten to the point where entire
homes could be controlled wirelessly.
Have
you ever looked at your: TV, Phone, Tablet or Computer and felt eyes staring
back at you? Many adults would say no
too distracted by the things around them to notice. The same goes for teenagers who cannot be
away from their phones for more than a minute at a time. The small children might argue with you about
why they broke the screen to your favorite toy.
The most anyone ever gets from them though is “Monsters gone!” Like Atlantis and many other civilizations
before us our world ended and we were left to fight it out amongst ourselves
and amongst the entities summoned here by the power of those black mirrors!
“An
ethereal shift is eminent” Coralline yelled as she studied her Electromagnetic
Field Detector (EMF). “The reading is
off the scale.” “Okay people here they
come ready your weapons.” Jeff continued
to yell more orders but I was far too nervous to hear most of them. I had been surviving alone for months before
they found me. I relied on my strength
and senses to see me through not to mention a few cool tricks I had picked up
in my previous life before it all ended.
I am what you would call a spiritualist medium I can see the unseen so
until I met these people I did a pretty good job of avoiding those things. Unfortunately for me Jeff saw me blast away a
group of them with nothing more than words he has not let me out of his sight
since. These people are nuts picking a
fight with something you cannot see it’s completely insane. I will admit finding out you can hurt these
things with your bare hands was fun. The
only catch is your will must not waver or it will not work. The sound of scraping metal echoed through
the air resounding through the moon lit night as they all drew their
swords. Jeff yelled “you must believe
you can cut them and will yourself to attack.
Try not to make eye contact or your courage will slip away.”
Coralline
looked again at her EMF “they’re manifesting steel yourselves here they come. Sh#! it is one of those hat wearing shadow man mother f#&kers and he is not alone in
total I count thirteen including him.”
As shots rang out Jeff could be heard screaming God D&@mit stop shooting
it’s a waste of ammunition. One of the
other newbies had cracked under the pressure.
As I looked at the scene before us I could not blame him. Those things with their burning red eyes and
horribly sharp teeth I mean this is the sh#! nightmares runaway from and we’re
going to fight it?! In total there were
thirteen entities the hat wearing bastard was clearly the leader the other
twelve four foot tall red eyed ones were just minions nothing more than
wraiths.
“Collins why have you not drawn
your weapon?” Jeff reached to grab his
shirt before he could the young man he was yelling at slapped his hand away and
punched him in the face. Jeff hit the
ground and sat up dazed. The young man
had charged straight into the middle of them yelling “I remember the days when
you bastards just popped out of closets and doorways just staring draining our
resolve. You haunted old houses and
buildings as well as places where power naturally gathered. You were the stuff of our nightmares the
boogiemen of our myths and legends. The
things that made us uneasy about going in our attics and basements the crap we
watched on paranormal TV programs. Just
die you scary ass bastards.” His sword
slashed through them like scissor through paper. What made it worth watching
was his sword was not made of metal like the others he was still in training so
he was wielding a sword made of a high grade polymer material. He had slashed down all of the red eyed
shadows all that was left was the hat man His eyes were more like red
fire. As he swung the sword the hat man
caught it and yanked it out of his hands.
Soon the beast had its hands around his throat pining him to the ground
crushing his chest. The young man felt
his life draining he could not move. His
arms were free but he felt paralyzed.
Suddenly he remembered dreams he had as a child or at least he had
thought they were dreams. Enraged his
hands rose off the ground and as he clapped them together he began to mutter
the thing screamed like it was burning from the inside out. It let go with one arm and pummeled the young
man who did not stop muttering. It let
go with the other hand and clasped its head as Jeff came swooping in taking it’s
head off with his sword. The thing blew
away like black smoke in the wind.
“Are
you okay Collins, can you stand?”
Coralline was wafting her EMF all around “there is too much interference
I won’t be able to use this to find it sir.”
“Fan out in groups of three and find that black mirror if we don’t break
it they will respawn and they will be pissed.
Collins you’re with me and Coralline I knew there was a fighter in you,
now take that fire and your special gift and find that mirror.”
As the
reality of what I had don set in. it dawned on me he really had not been
bullying me. He had been trying to
activate my fighting spirit. So I did my
thing I sat down and closed my eyes.
Visualize show me where it is? It
came in flashes but I saw the top floor of a nearby building. As I stood up “it’s up there” as I pointed
Jeff handed me my sword back.
“Everyone
form up on me, Collins here believes the mirror to be on the top floor of that
building. We’ll use the fire escape to
gain entry and make our way up. That
place could be crawling with the taken.
You newbies may not know why we carry side arms the reason we do is to
defend ourselves against the taken.
These are demonically possessed people under those things control you
see one shoot to kill. Put your EMF
Googles on if you see a person and it flashed red shoot them if it flashes
green help them to escape. How does it
look to your eyes Collins?” “The
building looks clean I see no eyes staring back at me through the walls but
that does not mean it is safe that place could be crawling with taken.”
The
ascent had begun hand over hand and one at a time they climbed to the top floor
a faint light could be seen flashing.
Coralline spoke “we found the mirror sir. But it is surrounded by taken I see there are
thirteen just like the number that attacked us outside.” She had been too loud they had heard her and
were bounding toward her none of them even moved like humans. Their bodies were nothing more than
shells. All of the newbies froze in
terror as I stepped forward drawing my gun for the first time I fired until the
room fell silent. All of the growls and
snarls had gone quiet there was blood everywhere. Jeff was calmly and methodically checking everybody
for more black mirrors and as he found ones who still had a little life he
ended them. Cocking the hammer back on his Smith and Wesson 686 plus 357mg
click, click boom seven times later he emptied the spent cartridges from his
cylinder and reloaded. I drew my sword
and smashed the TV to bits of smoking metal and glass. As I stood there I realized what must have
been the true fates of all those mysterious civilizations that had vanished
leaving barely a trace of once mighty cultures.
They too had reached this point and accidently or purposly summoned
these things and were destroyed by them.
Time passed and it all faded into legend.
“That
will be all Collins thank you for your report!”
As the door slammed shut from another room entered Jeff “are you done
debriefing Collins?”
He asked, already knowing the answer. “You found yourself a livewire there Jeff
talents like his are few and far between train him well.”
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