After The Pandemic: Death Cult Cabal (575 hits)
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Submitted by sword (View user info) at 2005-03-14 18:22:38 EST
In the southern part of what used to be the United States of America there was a medium sized town with the name of Tucson Arizona. When it was still a part of the United States over a million different people called this prosperous little village home but of course all of that changed with the coming of the pandemic.
In the weeks and months shortly following this terrible plague while the zombies wandered the city streets murdering and slaughtering at will and the terrible vampires hunted down those who survived the plague unharmed a small band of survivors had grouped together and fled the city to go to the nearby mountains. In the mountains they found their home. With their home they found their purpose and with their purpose they found their power.
If a man were to wander about the mountainside a few hundred feet below the summit he might find something that no leech had ever been able to report. What he might find is a hole in the ground nearly 6 feet in diameter. This wouldn't be just a simple hole though instead it's the maw of a tunnel, a tunnel that leads to one of the few remaining human establishments in the world.
If this man were to enter the tunnel and walk for about 20 paces he would come to a slit in the tunnel's wall. A small indentation about the size of a man and in this indentation there would be a man 24 hours a day armed with an automatic weapon and a crate of ammunition. Not 10 paces from the first slit the exploring man would find a second on the opposite side of the tunnel.
5 paces beyond the second slit the tunnel widens into a roughly circular room that is 10 feet in height. The room has an extensive wooden support system and on the opposite side from the tunnel entrance the man would see two exits, one to the right and the other to left. Along the opposite wall are three crosses standing erect that stretch from floor to ceiling. The living inhabitants of the crosses are constantly screaming in rage and hunger. On the first and third cross are two mindless zombies who had long ago lost any pretense of sanity that they had ever had and gone totally insane. They, like the thing on the second cross, were bound with many thick chains to supplement the steel rods that pierced their wrists.
The thing affixed to the second cross as any shrewd observer might already guess was in fact a creature called a vampire, or sometimes simply a leech. It had been a fixture here for over 4 years and it too had been driven insane by constant torment. Daily some humans came by to feed this strange trio letting the vampire drain the blood from some small animal and the two zombies consume the unfortunate animal's flesh. It wasn't enough sustenance to adequately provide for either species but it did manage to keep them alive and that was all that was required.
The left tunnel leads to another room nearly three times as large as the first. This room is called the laboratory and inside it is the collection of the most potent scientific resources that the height of the twentieth century made available to man. Three of the most gifted scientists to survive the pandemic with their humanity intact make their residence here. These three men heard of the collection established by the people of this mountain over their ham radios and journeyed far and risked much to find this place that they might make use of the laboratory. One man was a molecular biologist the other a medical doctor and the third a virologist. They all strived continuously for one thing and one thing alone. To find a cure that would purge the remnants of the pandemic. Whether these three men would first find a cure or if the leeches would first find them and put an end to their work is a story for another day. This story begins in the room down the right corridor in a place called the altar of blood where sat a group called the Death Cult Cabal.
This was another plain circular room but it was large enough for the 37 people inside it currently to be comfortable. The 12 members of the Cabal sat evenly spaced in a circle in quiet meditation. The other 25 people stood silently in wait.
An old man who was the leader of this human settlement let his cracked and diminutive voice break the silence as he asked "Kyle, are your men ready?"
Kyle, the leader of the cabal, answered without opening his eyes "We are yours to command" and with that simple statement he and his 11 fellows rose to their feet as everyone but the old man fell to their knees.
To begin the ritual the old man intoned "Our enemies steal our blood and they grow stronger. How strong might one be if the blood was freely given?"
Kyle was the first among the cabal to slowly walk over to a young boy on his knees and lean down to the boy's neck. With a careful and practiced gentleness Kyle opened his mouth and bit deep. He sipped the lifeblood from the boy but stopped before he had his fill and released the boy from his bite. Kyle moved to the next kneeling body and by now all the members of the Death Cult were emulating him.
Days earlier this old man had come to visit Kyle and to explain to him a vital task. Informers in the world below had relayed through rapid radio communication that a leech who was high up in their hierarchy was bound to travel through Tucson and beyond on her way to take a leadership position in California. This leech had a record of harsh and effective rule and the old man had decided that the fate of humanity would be better served if she never reached California. Plans were drawn and preparations were made.
After the service in the altar of blood Kyle and the Cabal departed their tunnel system and then the mountain moving by foot across rugged and treacherous terrain and running for a little over an hour until they reached the base of the mountain and a broad road that cut a swath through the natural landscape.
Within the next hour there came a rumbling. The unusual noise of gasoline powered vehicles moving down this road. It was a sound that Kyle and his fellows didn't often hear. Since the pandemic gasoline was all but impossible for the immunes to acquire and anything that had gasoline was a good thing to stay far away from. Soon two vehicles came speeding into view. They were both hummers and moving at close to fifty miles an hour. The Death Cult Cabal had situated themselves in positions along the road so that they would remain unseen but when the two hummers drew close enough one member of the Cabal abandoned his hiding place. Rapidly he leapt into the middle of the road just in time to be struck by the speeding car. His body was flung backward by the impact and flipped and tumbled through the air but the man managed to impossibly land on his feet and lower his shoulder in time for the hummer to collide with him again.
This time the member of the Cabal was crushed underneath the hummer his body folded with the force of the impact but as the vehicle rolled over him he managed to push his body up against the wheel which smashed him against the bottom of the car but also jammed the wheel causing the hummer to jerk and slow. Maybe it was out of curiosity or maybe a desire for a more pleasant ride but the hummer that had run over the Cult member came to a stop and its companion car did likewise.
This was the cue for the rest of the Death Cult who came charging from their hiding places to attack. They carried no guns and held no weapons save knives that remained sheathed and carried on their legs and thick steel rods, sharpened on one end and almost two feet in length, that they held in their hands.
The sun roof of one hummer opened and out popped a leech with an assault rifle set to fully automatic. This wretched plague creature aimed and let loose a spray of gunfire that caused three charging members of the Cabal to tumble to the Earth. The other members of the Death Cult though were running faster then she could have expected and one of the ones behind her closed the distance to the car she was mounted on and leapt atop it. She spun fast to bring the barrel of her rifle to bear but the member of the Death Cult was faster. With the forearm of his left hand he battered the gun back and with his right hand punched the steel rod deep into the female leech impaling her and sending almost all two feet of steel through her body and through her heart. With casual violence he grabbed her by the face and flung her dying body aside.
All around the battle began in earnest, the doors of the two cars were flung open and their vampire passengers disembarked. Unfortunately for them they were not expecting resistance on their travels and only one other vampire had a visible fire arm which was a small Uzi with which the vampire was directing a torrent of ammunition at the attacking Death Cult. Within a few seconds though a Death Cult member came close enough to tear the gun from the hands of the leech and engage it in hand to hand combat.
The remaining vampires were 8 in number and with 5 members of the Death Cult still on the ground and riddled with bullets they outnumbered their attackers slightly. The vampires were however unused to equal physical combat, they relied on their physical superiority or the power of the firearms they were soon outmatched and murdered one by one by the Death Cult Cabal.
Kyle found the leech that they were after as she tried to flee down the road. He came behind her and yelled. She turned back to look at him and screeched in a voice filled with indignation "You pathetic worm" She cried "You dare violence against us? We are the epitome of humanity, we are perfection! We exist on levels that you worthless cretins can't even dream of!" And with these words she moved with a speed that no human could ever attain. She was like a viper striking, her hand blurred with motion as she drew a pistol from a holster at her hip, leveled it at Kyle and fired a single round which flew unerringly through the air and hit him in the heart.
With two fingers and a contemptuous grin he touched the wound and put his fingers to his mouth to taste his own blood. "Your words are like your bullets" he sneered "They mean nothing to me" Kyle sprinted at the leech with a speed an Olympic sprinter could only envy.
Screaming the vampire fired round after round, every shot finding its target hitting Kyle's body penetrating his flesh shattering his bones and damaging his heart. But Kyle was unlike ordinary mortals, he was like the other members of the Death Cult Cabal. He too had been changed by the pandemic to become what was termed a vampire, but unlike the leech before him he had chosen to serve humanity. The bullets couldn't do enough damage to kill Kyle and they didn't have the force to counter his momentum. The gun couldn't save the female leech now.
Even as the final bullet in the magazine of the leech's gun was expended Kyle's fist connected with her skull. With a bone shattering crunch the leech's head snapped back and her body was thrown sideways to the ground. Kyle continued his attack with a savage kick to the ribs which lifted her off the ground sent her flying backwards. With inhuman grace she managed to land on her feet and regain her balance but Kyle followed her and struck at her again. She managed to get her arm up in time to block his ferocious blow but the sheer strength of the hit snapped the bone in the leech's arm.
Kyle relentlessly pummeled her with his fists and feet. The leech struggle to block his blows, she accepted the hits she couldn't block and even dealt out a few of her own but she couldn't overcome the feral assault of the leader of the Death Cult Cabal. She was knocked back again and again until with one smooth motion Kyle drew his long combat knife and pushed it past her guard and deep into her chest. He tore the knife sideways through her body before extracting it and then using his fist like a hammer he struck her sternum rapidly three times pulverizing her collar bone and rib cage and then he shoved his hand inside the wound his knife made and grabbed the still beating heart of the leech. He smiled at her sudden expression of dismay. An expression that would be burned on her face until the passage of time melted her body to dust. Kyle tore the heart out of the leech and flung it to the ground.
He turned to look behind him to survey the battle. The entirety of the Death Cult Cabal was back on their feet and all but two of the wild vampires had been gruesomely dispatched. The remaining two were held securely by members of the Death Cult.
Calmly Kyle walked over to see the two prisoners who were both young male vampires. He gave a hand gesture and two members of the Cabal hoisted the first leech up and slammed him against the side of one of the hummers. Kyle looked over him and said "Your kind murdered my sister. They destroyed my city and ruined my country. You leeches have slaughtered countless millions. I find you deserving of death." With the closing remark the leech gave a defiant scoff and spat in Kyle's face.
Kyle wore a sardonic grin and with one hand tore first the pants from the leech and then the creature's undergarment. He cruelly grabbed the thing's scrotum and then tore the organ from the leech's body. With his bare hands Kyle castrated the thing and while it screamed in agony Kyle drew his knife and pressed it against the creature's mangled groin. He slashed and hacked at it hewing into flesh with boundless energy. Kyle kept at it until the legs of the tortured vampire fell separated from its torso and he was satisfied that it would die of blood loss. They threw the legless but still living torso to the ground and picked up the remaining leech and set him against the hummer.
Tears poured down the thing's face as it futilely begged for mercy "Let me join you please" It cried but Kyle just shook his head. The leech grew more passionate as it felt its end drawing near "You think your better then me" It shrieked "You aren't! We are the same! There are no differences between you and me!"
Kyle grinned and said "There is one difference; I am alive"
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Submitted by notyou (user info) at 2005-07-12 18:23:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by nrduncan (user info) at 2005-05-12 17:53:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have just got done reading these all and I have enjoyed them all. Great work everyone, +2's for all!
Submitted by sword (user info) at 2005-03-24 01:31:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
fuck you scholngy, does it make you feel like a big man to insult people over the internet?
Take pride in knowing that when I gave you a minus 2 I was one of many yet when you immaturely gave me one in retribution you were all alone.
For your information you stupid cunt I have been here a hell of a lot longer then you have. I have been on Uber since the Most Recently Viewed list.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-23 19:26:04 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
You haven't been around this room long enough to insult me, dicklick.
Here's a much better story:http://www.ubersite.com/m/62581
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-03-23 12:20:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2005-03-23 11:53:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Bastard! I'd been thinking about doing some kind of good vampire (blade) type thing guess I'll have to rethink.
Good job though
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2005-03-16 14:40:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The opening of the third paragraph from the end made me fucking cringe.
For that, a +2!
Submitted by whiskey_jack (user info) at 2005-03-14 21:24:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Huzzah! This was kickass.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-03-14 20:46:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I was a little confused on the first read. But the action kicked enough ass to warrant a second read.
Submitted by Professional_Peon (user info) at 2005-03-14 19:53:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Wooooo!!!! Go Death Cult!
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-03-14 18:31:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Me likey