Free Pull (Deep Darkness Book 1) by Stephen Landry

speak
simultaneously. “I am the monitor, I watch with weary eyes as sentient beings
come and go from Errikus, I have watched humans settle upon our soil and
though it may be only a short time,” he paused thinking of what to say next, “
I saw your mother die praying for your safety, I have watched each of you
just as I have watched each and every citizen of this world.” The monitor
stopped again to gasp for air. It wasn’t use to talking in a human voice. It was
almost like every word caused it to suffer a great deal of pain.
    I now knew my mother was gone. Had Aira not forced me to leave her
side then I too would have died. Did it really matter? Wouldn’t the beast be
upon us soon, wouldn’t it destroy all of Errikus?
    “I fear you more then I do the leviathan,” the monitor said… I had heard
that name before but I couldn’t place it. “Yes, your people see their past, their
future, you have been told of monsters that dwell in the darkness, in the
unreal, the monsters even the Skrav fear. Surely your kind has seen them
floating in what you call the immer. Course you dare not move too close less
you wish for death,” “It’s form the immer?” I asked. The monitor did not
answer instead he turned away and starred at his screens. The beast was
moving away from our direction now. What a stupid question I had asked, it
was obvious now the creature, the leviathan was from the immer. I watched
alongside Aira starring at the cameras that showed the leviathan rampage
through the city, a trail of destruction in its wake. It was moving towards a
wall. I remember I heard stories from when I was young. Very few ever saw
the future in the nexus but some that had said that there would be a day of
ruins, chaos, and monsters, even monsters the size of planets that would swim
in and out of stars. They described monsters that didn’t exist in our reality,
that couldn’t exist in our reality but could exist inside the immer.
    The leviathan that we saw now was
fighting the very laws of nature.
“This can’t be real,” I said aloud waiting for answers. The monitor did not
speak again. It had only been thirty minutes since we found shelter, we stood
for another ten before finally Aira asked, “Do you think Hayden is alright?”
“His family was at hoe, they were practicing a ritual today, and thank god
they are miles away from this mess.”
    The monitor began speaking again. This time its voice in some other
language then our own. It sounded like it was talking in tongues. I hadn't
realized until now that Errikus though a world of many different races must
be a colony of theirs. Everyone else was just visiting or setting up an embassy.
Even humans. Different species would come and go but the Eek were about
to lose one of their worlds. We had entered someone’s home and now there
was a murderer inside. Is it more important for them to defend their
houseguest or defeat their intruder? Errikus was a world that like Earth must
have had a long and vast history. Humans abandoned the Earth during a time
of devastation. Unlike Earth though Errikus was still around though given
the chance we would probably abandon this world as well.
    An augmented guardsman came into our room. "We are moving out, the
Leviathan is changing course and heading our way. It will be here in twenty
minutes." I thought he was talking to the monitor the way he didn’t look at us
but then the monitor pushed us with its tentacles. "Hayden is searching for
you," it said. Aira and I panicked. "Why the hell would he leave his home?" I
yelled. "He has sworn a blood oath to protect you and Aira, in memory of
your fallen friend, he searches for you now... you must go to him or there will
be much more death this day." The monitor then handed us two small chips
and motioned with a face and tentacle that we should put them on our ear.
We did as we were told and the monitor spoke, “I will guide you.”
    The earpiece