Short Story: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
#3 of Short Story Songs
Some of you might recognize this story from the short series that I never finished a couple years ago. I've decided since I haven't yet gone back to it that I'd write a short little segment of a scene that I've had in my head along with this song that helped piece it together. I'm not entirely sure about the ending but I found that it fitted the song more than the intentions of the story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVA6sgOpws if you're interested in hearing it. It's by Lorde and is called Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Short Story: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Shackles... I was in shackles. My head spun starring down at my knees as my eyes wearily opened. I was sitting in a chair, wrists tied to the chairs by some kind of device. I wasn't able to generate energy like I used to, something in the device was preventing it. My entire body cringed with pain as I strained my neck up to see in front of me. I had a glimpse of the hard tile floor underneath me, black catching the moonlights soft reflection giving it a shimmering blue. Forward was an enormous window looking over New Vegas as the new species had called it since the world's transformation. I could see the headquarters for the President a few tall buildings down, at the opposite end of the strip.
I violently yanked to be freed of my chains but it was no use. They had finally captured me... The so called President, of the new world. The dragon I had met when I first discovered who I really was. He took me into his prison and that was where I first discovered how to use my powers and met the love of my life...
Raife... I thought we were separated and that's what let me to being captured. He was a black bear and wolf combined together, the magical radiation had done that to some of the species. It also gave these new species human qualities, the thumbs and ability to stand and walk just like us. The human mind was still dominant though and that was our only advantage... for most.
I was more than just human now, my body like Raife's had drank in the radiation and though my appearance didn't change, the cells in my body somehow developed a new ability that allowed me to withdraw energy from anything that lived or any kind of friction that I caused. I could use it to heal myself, to generate anything in my head as long as I had enough energy around me to consume and it would form wherever I wanted it too. I had no use for weapons I could forge my own, the ability also gave me a keen and faster reaction rate, I could see things coming several hundred feet away, even a bullet flying from a pistol was easy for me to dodge.
I yanked my wrists up again, trying to break the strange device. Suddenly the door behind me opened and a harsh back hand came to the side of my face. I spit up blood as my head recoiled away from the direction I had been hit and I slumped back into my chair.
"Finally wide awake huh boy?" A familiar gator's voice stepped around in front of me lifting my chin. I spat blood in his face and he screamed flinging his claws across my chest. He came back again with a hard punch against my chest knocking me and the chair off its legs. I hit the ground hard and felt the blood in my throat as I began to choke. "I wouldn't be such a smart ass now that you have these chains around your wrists boy!" The gator growled, stepping on the chair to bring it back up for me to face him. This was the same gator that has been tracking me down from the start, since the prison where he had threatened to take advantage of me only to be stopped by Raife once again.
I panted as a response and he simply grinned standing up and turning around to face the window. With his back turned I tried to enter the device and find any kind of hardware to disable whatever was preventing me from using my powers. Every time I struck it though, a powerful volt discharged from the rings and shocked me.
"Finally!" He punched the air at his success. "Do you know how long it's been since I've wanted this day? The moment you escaped the prison, no," he laughed. "Not just any prison, the prison in which the President himself watched over! I have been so eager to finally get my claws around your neck!" He sighed again. "I'll be the Captain of the entire army." His gator hands folded behind his back this time as he looked out the window in a serious matter. "There's not a single thing you can do about it too... Not a single thing that your pitiful rebellion can do to stop me from taking you to the Boss."
"That's quite a speech coming from you Cron." I say.
He turned to look at me and smiled, letting his hands unfold from his back. "Now that I have you here without anyone else too... I think I can finally do what I've wanted to do." He groped himself and started forward. I went for the device again, only to receive the same zap this time it shocked harder and my body paralyzed briefly. "Oh no, no, no," He smiled. "See Boss's scientists have figured it out this time, your own kind have figured out how to disable your abilities." One claw found my knee and dragged toward the center of my pants tapping. "You're not going to get out of this thing until I let you... and believe me I won't be letting you out for a little while, not while I still have time to have some fun with you."
He shoved the chair back and quickly climbed on top of me, sending out his thick tongue. It felt my neck, moist and rough, lying thickly before sliding up to my jaw. His enormous gator head came down to my ear now and he gave a serpent like growl almost dragon like. "You know I've had my eyes on you since the day you entered that prison... Believe me Raife won't be stopping you anytime soon."
I shivered frightened while he moved himself on top of me his torso between my legs but before we went any further he stopped. "This chairs in the way." He growled, releasing me from the chair, but keeping the bonds still around my wrist. He returned between my legs and continued to lick my neck and I felt so pitiful as it hit my most tender spot.
"Stop!" I begged pulling away, feeling heavy tears as I was being violated. "Get off me!" I yelled screaming hitting his back with my hands. He quickly restrained me though, forcing my shoulders onto the tile as he continued. I squirmed beneath his body, trying desperately to free myself but when I couldn't I started to cry and beg for him to get off me.
"Yes... beg... beg like I good little boy. Beg that you want me to get off of you. Oh how it fuels me!" Cron was sick, a sick bastard, perverted beyond all species. I felt him going beneath my shirt now, my blood stained dress shirt releasing them from the waistband. I could only dread to know what was coming next.
I would rather die! I would rather die! I screamed both in my head and out of my mouth.
"No one can hear you." He laughed, cutting the shirt from my chest and proceeding to lick my chest. The tips of his claws dragged down my abdomens and then tucked into my belt and released it. I cried out again, violently throwing my body.
I would rather die! I bellowed again, I dug into the device again. My body jolted as the energy passed through and Cron, realizing what I had done immediately stopped and looked at me. As I did it again he backed off and stood pulling me up by my wrists.
He stared me deep in the eyes angered. "... You would rather die than go through with something so simple?" He growled. "I can never seem to have my way with you can I?" He threw me to the floor. "Fine!" He roared, kicking me in the stomach. Then a fist came to my head.
I blacked out for a second, the white whistle piercing my ears and for a second it was the only thing I could hear. I felt pain again and again, kick after kick fist after fist on my body when suddenly there was a bright flash and everything stopped.
Cron's body flopped in front of me. He didn't move and I was so confused at that very moment, but then something grabbed me; I couldn't feel it, not yet.
A voice was coming in... the whistle was still pounding in my head, my ears felt like they were bleeding. I was turned onto my back and now I saw what had me, two great black furred arms held me and then a kiss, ever so gently on my cheek. I knew the softness of the kiss and smiled, watching the paws break the devices around my wrists with his bare hands. Suddenly other guards like Cron entered the room and ripped the arms off me and I fell back again, starring up at the ceiling. I saw his face this time, my beloved, my Raife being restrained by the President's agents.
Then I also felt something else, the power in the building, the energy leaving the lights and the computerized material all around us it was already soaking into my body. Two more soldiers came to pick me up when as they touched me everything slowed down. My body released a pulse to their grip and they went crashing down paralyzed from the shock, at the same time I rolled backward and conjured my semi automatic pistol--the only weapon I had perfected-- and fired into the chest of one who went toppling down in a seizure. Up to my feet I had my weapons drawn and bullets firing, taking out the two restraining Raife and before I could hit the third, my bear was already on him.
The six guards were dead and Cron was on his way. I understood why he went down now, Raife had shot him, plain and simple right through the side of his skull but when did Raife get here? We looked at each other and met with a hug I crying into his shoulder and he holding me so tight. I loved being back in his embrace.
"Are you okay?" He quickly asked kissing my forehead and then my lips not letting me speak. His paw touched my bare chest and he pulled away looking down to my torn shirt and pants that had almost been exposed. He then looked to Cron. "That sick bastard... did he--
"No!" I quickly shouted. "No I didn't let him, I would have rather died!" I didn't want to let go of him, never again. I didn't know how petrified I was until now, I was finally able to take a moment and look around.
"I love you so much Zarg!" He hugged again. "But we have to get out of here! More of Boss's men are on their way and you're so weak."
"We're not going to make it down the tower, we're thirty stories up and Boss has hundreds of men moving to our location." I looked around for anything that could help us escape and that's when it touched me. The familiar and gentle increase in power, from a thunder storm in the distance. The first time I had ever used it I brought a lightning strike down on me and killed twenty of Boss's people and that was before I ever knew I had this power. Now I could destroy entire buildings with a single thunder shock if the storm was powerful enough and at the rate of energy fluxing from the distance it still had to blow in there was enough to burn this entire building to ash.
Raife was pulling me down flights of stairs when suddenly I tugged for him to stop. "Do you trust me Raife?"
"Of course what the hell of a question is that right now?" He growled through his snout.
"Boss's men are only three stories below us, we're only on the twenty fifth floor Raife, we're not going to make it."
"Then what do you propose?" He says.
I pointed ahead. "See that window." He nods. "We jump through it."
"What?"
"Do you trust me?" The shouting from Boss's men comes from two stories below.
He looks to the window again and the sound of a door beneath us is kicked in. "I trust you."
Grabbing his hand I squeeze then pull him to a sprint just as we pass the door to the stairs, it's kicked open and Boss's men are hot on our trail, I pull the lights out on the floor and continue running. I blow the glass with my pistol and together holding hands we jump. Just as we free ourselves from the building, I pull a bolt of lightning from the sky and force it into the building. It explodes through the other end and immediately the entire building catches flame.
With Boss's men having their hands full I return to the two of us as we free fall down to earth. Raife's face of horror watches the ground closing in on us and I quickly start forging our escape. I start with him first, seeing the green of energy form a parachute on his back and I spring it, sending him into the air safe pulling the parachute open myself as the distance of the fall wouldn't give him enough time on his own. I finish off the route ten stories up and seeing that even if I created the parachute opened still wouldn't have enough slow to land safely call for desperation.
A chord of lightning strikes from the clouds and taking it full force I ride the bolt down to earth, crashing hard into the dirt, but nothing more than minor scratches and the torture I had received earlier. I gather myself quickly and watch for Raife to descend from the sky and follow his direction. Together we meet safely on the street and without losing a beat we disappear into the streets and hide ourselves within the city knowing a new challenge of escaping the city now is at hand.