The Complete Creeping Darkness

by Greyson, Quinn

  And then he saw her, a massive Queen Night Crawler! He could feel her intelligence.

  She looked old and earthen, no longer like a Night Crawler. She’d lost her eyes and mouth a millennia ago, instead she had a tube affixed to her where she was fed. She was the single largest living thing on earth.

  She controlled the Night Crawlers with telepathy. She’d searched for what caused the cave-in and found him. She looked right at Peter, through him, studying him. Peter couldn’t fight this intrusion. He could feel her hate for him and he was glad, because that meant she feared him…

  “You are a foolish man, this will not stop me!”

  “You made a mistake in attacking us.”

  “And why is that?”

  “In the past we were afraid of the dark, now we’re not. We know you exist and we will find you and we will kill you. This isn’t even a matter of revenge, this is about survival now and we humans know how to survive.”

  “Away with you you vile creature.”

  “We will see each other again.”

  ***

  “Hey!” a voice said to Peter. He opened his eyes and only saw darkness.

  “What?” He asked quietly drawn back into his own world.

  “Are you alright?” Lee asked and pulled him out of the wall, “Your idea worked perfectly.”

  Peter’s eyes adjusted to the dark. And then the flashlights turned on. Lee whistled and the rest of his army emerged from the walls.

  “Well?” Lee asked. “Was it as horrifying as you thought?”

  “Hell yeah,” he said, thinking about what he just saw.

  Justin slapped his back.

  “Dude we checked what was left over there, the Night Crawlers tore them up! There was only about twenty of them, but they only killed like a hundred Night Crawlers,” Justin explained.

  “Excellent. We need to hit the surface as soon as possible and take out the victors,” Lee told them.

  Peter nodded weakly. The images were still fresh in his mind. It was bigger than he could have imagined. The Queen was plotting all out war. She wasn’t planning for this to end. Peter was human, made to think and feel. She made warriors, that were designed to procure humans and if necessary kill them. It would be an epic battle.

  “Hiding in the walls,” Alex said. “I was skeptical when I heard it, but it worked!”

  “Of course the plan worked, I came up with it,” Peter said and grabbed Alex by his collar and pushed him to the ground. Peter looked down at him and questioned everything he was ever taught.

  Lee clapped his back and laughed and pulled him away.

  “Don’t worry about the kid man, he doesn’t mean anything by it.

  “He should keep his mouth shut. He has no idea… the scope of things.”

  “What did you see down there?”

  “Man, I don’t know.”

  ***

  Peter’s army headed up and soon found the entrance. They could hear the fighting. It sounded savage. They found their ropes, still surprisingly enough in perfect shape. They pulled themselves up and opened fire like mad dogs.

  They didn’t care what they shot, human or bug, if it moved they fired at it. They didn’t like any of them.

  Bombs from below started going off. They set them every fifty feet or so, just to completely cave in the hole. The last bomb exploded unexpectedly and sent a plume of dust and smoke up and everyone went flying. Peter scrambled to his feet and continued firing.

  It was a total battleground, bodies were everywhere and fires burnt from burnt out husks of Night Crawlers. Lee and Alex shot the last two insects.

  “Hey!” Justin yelled. “Is this him?”

  Peter walked over to Justin. Nothing more was stirring. Almost everything was dead. The faint eerie sounds of crickets chirped, or was he just imagining it again?

  Kaiser was surrounded by his men. Blood dripped off his face and wounds, one of his three goatees was ripped off. He looked up at him when he got closer and grimaced.

  “Look, it’s the sissy boy,” he said weakly.

  Peter pulled out his gun and put it to his head and pulled the trigger... nothing! The gun clicked again, he was out of bullets. He laughed.

  “Must be my lucky day,” Kaiser said and spat out a mouthful of blood.

  “Must be your lucky day! I bet you never thought that the shoe would be on the other foot did you?” Peter asked.

  “No doubt kid, no doubt. You know I know all about you kids,” he said and looked around, “The old world ended, this is the new world. This is the time for new gods. I can help you.”

  Lee walked over to them

  “This is the guy that hit you with the wrench?” Lee asked.

  Peter nodded.

  “Not so tough lying on the ground surrounded by his dead friends is he?”

  “Not so much,” Peter agreed.

  “Only white Gods!” Kaiser yelled. “We have an opportunity to rid ourselves of the genetic impurities.”

  “Like me?” Lee asked. “What would you do with me if you had the chance?”

  “I’d shoot you in the throat and slice off your balls!”

  “Well, sound like having you around would be terrible and not that much fun,” Lee said, “Do you need this guy for anything?”

  “No,” Peter said and shook his head, “He’s told me probably about as much as I’m gonna get out of him.” Peter looked into the sky, “Too much actually.”

  “Good!”

  Lee fired twice into the Kaiser’s bald head.

  “Let’s go home!”

  Chapter 9

  He took a shower and washed away the night’s events. As soon as he got back he asked around for Sophie, but no one knew where she went. But it was rumored that something went down and Sophie and a couple of students had managed to escape. So he waited in his room for Olivia.

  After he got out of the shower he laid down in his bed, his mind drifted off to the Queen. She saw him and they locked minds.

  “Interesting, what you did tonight. But do you really think that a mere boy can stop a God?”

  “Maybe not, but we’ll always fight.”

  “And that’s why you’ll taste so good. You’ll be long gone by the time I am ready for another feast.”

  “You’re already dead. We will not stop hunting for you.”

  “You won’t be able to find me. I exist only in your mind and in humanity’s darkest nightmares.”

  “You showed me where you are. I will find you and you will pay, if it’s the last thing I do.”

  “I am a God!”

  “No, you’re the past and the past always goes away.”

  “The Queen laughed.”

  “The past remains boy…”

  A soft knock at his door woke Peter him from his semi-sleep, he was drenched in sweat. He had just communicated with a being older than most civilizations and the repercussions scared him. Olivia walked in, shut the door and locked it.

  “Are you alright?” She asked looking at his horrified face.

  “Yeah, bad dreams.”

  She walked over to the side of his bed and crawled in beside him. He held her tight and kissed her.

  “I hear you had your own troubles?” He said.

  “You don’t know the half of it,” she said and hugged him.

  “Don’t you think that Lee thinks it’s suspicious that you leave right away as soon as he gets back?” Peter asked.

  “Just relaying a message is all.”

  “He risked his life. He’s a good guy.”

  “I risked my life too. Do you have any clue as to what’s happened here since you’ve been gone?”

  He shook his head. She did look a bit grimy, like she’d been in a fight.

  “I’m having a bath,” she told him and walked into the washroom and started running the water.

  “What’s happened?” He asked and jumped off his bed.

  “Nothing I couldn’t handle, I assure you,” she answered and pulled her shirt ov
er her head.

  He followed her in and watched as she leaned into the tub pouring salts into it.

  “Is everyone okay?”

  “We didn’t suffer casualties if that’s what you mean. I tried to shoot them all. But they got away I’m afraid,” she said and kicked off her pants. She looked back at him and gave him one of her seducing smiles.

  “What happened?”

  “Sophie happened,” she answered.

  “I can’t believe it. The bike leader guy told me that Sophie hired them to kill us. Can you imagine that?”

  She peeled off her panties.

  “I can believe a lot. What about you?”

  Peter walked over to her and kissed her hard pushing her against the wall.

  “Whoa, hello. Horny much?”

  “I just know how precious it all is.”

  He pulled her to his bed and threw her down and climbed on top of her and they started kissing.

  He grabbed at her breasts and squeezed on her nipples. He kissed them gently and licked all around her nipples.

  He rubbed at her pussy, pulling his hands up her stomach and drawing his finger nails across her.

  He reached down to her pussy and rubbed at her pussy lips slowly and gently. He parted them and pushed a finger against her clit and then down slowly to her vaginal opening. He could feel how wet she already was.

  Olivia spread her legs open wide and leaned them up slightly, catching her thigh and pulling it up.

  Peter rubbed at her pussy harder as they kissed. Olivia could feel her insides getting hotter, she started writhing around as Peter pushed two fingers into her wet pussy.

  “Oh my god, Peter,” Olivia moaned as Peter finger fucked her harder.

  Peter kissed down her neck, down her perky breasts, down to her rock hard stomach and then down to her hips and licked at her slight pubes until her reached her pussy. His tongue darted into her pussy and started doing laps from her clit to her hole.

  Peter grabbed Olivia’s hands as he had a firm grip on her pussy. His tongue darting around her pussy like a race car driver.

  He settled on a course as he could feel Olivia convulse in pleasure as he rubbed across her clit.

  “Ohhhh,” Olivia moaned as Peter stuck his two fingers back into her pussy.

  “Fuck me!” Olivia cried as she started thrusting her hips against his fingers and tongue.

  Peter put her on her side and pulled off his pants and slid his half erect penis into her eager pussy. He spooned her and thrust into her as she reached down and rubbed herself.

  She moved closer, until she was almost on him. He continued thrusting into her hard.

  Peter pulled her on top of him and he reached down and helped her rub at her pussy.

  “Fuck me!” Olivia said as Peter thrust his hips and cock inside her.

  Olivia pushed Peter’s hand away and rubbed her clit as hard as he could.

  Peter lifted her up and pounded her from below.

  “I’m cumming,” she cried as she writhed around on top of him.

  “Cum!” She told Peter as he fucked her harder.

  “Ohhhhh,” she moaned as Peter pulled his cock out, it sprayed cum on her stomach to her breast. She grabbed it and jerked it off the rest of the way.

  “Well, if that’s how we greet each other after you come back from battle, we’ll have to send you off more often.”

  Olivia stood up and wiped the cum off her stomach and breasts and walked back into the bathroom. She got into the tub and rested comfortably, leaning back, “Ahh, this is so nice. All I have is a bloody shower.”

  It was so weird Peter thought, Sophie could have taken him out any time she wanted to, but instead she built up this personal relationship with him and he actually started liking her, caring for her. It seemed so real, like she was a real person. Maybe that’s what she wanted.

  “So what happened?” Peter asked.

  “One of the guards was on the roof and heard her radioing some guy named King or Kisser…”

  “Kaiser?”

  “Sure, whatever. And she was talking to them about attacking you, so the guard was like, what the hell? She had a short-wave. He called for back-up and I came, because I was worried about you,” she reached over and squeezed his hand, “So she admitted that she was involved in another coup to bring you down. She was upset. She blamed you for Alessandro’s death, and of course Madison’s.”

  Peter’s hear sank and he leaned his head against the cool porcelain of the old fashioned tub.

  “Why?”

  “She said you and Lee could have acted faster, but you were selfish. Oh and me too, blah, blah, blah. But I told her me and Lee tried to get there as fast as possible. She didn’t buy it though and opened fire on us. Suddenly, next thing I know people are trying to rescue her. We exchanged shots, but luckily enough no one was hit.”

  “She really shot at you?” Peter asked looking up at her.

  Olivia started washing.

  “I had to hit the dirt, I scrapped my knee,” she lifted up her scrapped knee, “Can you kiss it better?” she asked.

  He leaned over and gently kissed her knee.

  “She just blahhed on about how you didn’t even try to save Madison and how you killed Rachel because you apparently were in love with her, which I, of course, knew wasn’t true.”

  His mind whirled.

  “She tried to blame you for everything honey. She even said that you viciously and cold bloodedly killed Wendham. She said you were a murderer, always have been and always will be. She said they’d never rest until you were dead!”

  “So she got away?”

  “Yup and hiding somewhere. I’m sorry. I know you were friends and… “

  She almost jumped out of the tub.

  “Crap!”

  “What?”

  “I’m just worried that…” she looked at him pained. “I’m just worried that Lee might… God, I’m just scared about Lee’s reaction about you and him. I mean she knows. She could tell him. We can’t trust him now and we have to find her. We might have to do something drastic.”

  He held his head in his hands.

  “Personally, I think maybe she had more than just feelings about Madison, if you know what I mean.”

  “Don’t!” He hissed.

  She shrugged.

  “I’m just saying, it would explain a lot. They were always tight, real tight and touchie-feelie too. I know girls can be like that, but…” she smiled at him and he shook his head.

  “God damn it!”

  “What are your so worried about, she was just trash, you can’t be like that, trying to worry about every little person, she was a bitch before, she was a bitch now, and she’ll be a bitch in the future. Well hopefully not too long though, we should take her out.”

  “What about Jack? Is he still around?”

  “Yeah why?”

  “I’m just curious as to who she went AWOL with.”

  “He’d best not leave, I need him.”

  “Why?”

  “Well, us,” she said and smiled. “I’m so glad you’re back! I was so worried.”

  He could hardly stay awake, he was so exhausted.

  “I need sleep,” he said.

  “Are you sure?” she asked. “You don’t want to join me?”

  His head throbbed and his heart hurt, his penis ached form the amazing sex he just had. He just thought Sophie was different. It almost hurt him physically to think she hated him that much.

  “Fine, go to sleep. We’ll go for a walk after.”

  He stood up.

  “Oh but first thing, we need to make a hard decision right now.”

  “What?”

  “I’d have Lee detained for his and our safety. We’ll… be nice about it. But just as a precaution. We really can’t risk it and we can always make up an excuse after.”

  He paused, so this is how it was going to happen? This is how he turn on Lee.

  “Do you really think this is necessary?”


  “Just a temporary thing, until we find her. For his safety and ours.”

  He nodded, she was right. He could explain things later.

  “Do it then,” he said.

  “Right after my bath, I’ll come give you a kiss good-night.”

  She blew him a kiss as he walked out.

  Chapter 10

  “Come!” Olivia’s sweet voice whispered in the dark.

  Peter and Olivia walked through the dead forest.

  He looked up at the sky and at the large dark ball that encased the large ball of gas that once gave our entire world life. He wondered what Venus would be like right now. Maybe as nice as earth?

  “I’m glad we could find time to be free from everything,” Olivia said to him. “Lee was pretty pissed you know. He’s got friends too. We’ll have to watch our backs.”

  “You know you don’t have to work as hard as you do you know. You do too much.”

  “It keeps my mind of bad things and gives me focus.”

  “Oh, I see,” he replied back.

  “I understood the world sucks and you have to occupy your time somehow. You know it’s four thirty right now,” she said and looked down at her watch, “The sun would be high in the sky, well where it is, but it’d be blazing and I would be in my bikini, the one you saw me in, and I’d be sitting by a pool in some third world country paying for a drink that would cover their wages for a week.”

  “Ahh where have the good times gone,” he joked, “Ahh your bikini, that’d be nice to see.”

  “You bet it would be, but you’ve seen me in a lot less,” she said slyly, looking at him with that crazy sly look of her.

  She stopped. They were in the middle of the woods, but far to the right was Maddie’s bench and he could hear the roar of the ocean.

  “We have to be careful, I heard a kid fell down when he was playing around in the dark, fell right over the cliffs,” he warned her.

  “Poor him,” she said blandly.

  She turned and kissed him hard, pushing her perfect body against him.

  “I’ve been waiting for a long time to do this.”

  “What?” He asked.

  With no warning the dark sky became as bright as day. He shielded his eyes and looked up. He saw a hole in the sun’s cocoon, not large, but large enough to spread light over its kingdom.