6 Chapter 6: Fear and Impotence

Derrick appeared unkempt especially his face which was soiled.Dried stains of saliva could be seen covering his mouth area, he had a runny nose while his eyes were read and watery as if he had woken up from a bad dream. But his appearance didn't stop his current actions, the cynical lady overlooked him and his actions, he had no choice but to proceed with the given tests. Derricks hand already picked the second card almost turning its face over to him to have the effect cast on him, his action weren't smooth there seemed to be a slight hesitation hindering his movements. Of course, he was actually scared because of what he had previously experienced, Derrick before having a look at the image on the card he took a last glance at the demon lady she was still there sitting motionless. He felt that he might die any moment with the following experience,so he took his chances while he actually could and bore his eyes into her chest-the ginormous melons suppressed by a layer of gi only revealing the exceptional cleavage. Derrick was enjoying the view with constant gulps,after a while as if showing some sort of impatience, he noticed a twitch in her eyebrows and knowing what she was capable of, without a hint of hesitation left in him took his focus back to the card. He escaped a disaster to face another, oblivious of what was in store for him he was ready to face it.

In a moment his surrounding had started to change, Derrick looked around and recognised that he was currently in his bedroom sitting on his bed. As soon as he arrived in this situation he heard his watch ring, it was his aunt. It seemed like a deja vu,but Derrick knew that this was only an illusion created by the cards. Still he decided to follow the story and acted in a way he would normally do in reality. He saw a holographic image of Tristy appear in front of him.

"Why aren't you dressed yet? Aren't you late? Isn't today your first day in Lifeguard academy? Get down here before you make me come up there and drag you down dressed or....buzz buzz" Before she could finish her words the connection turned unstable ,her holographic figure deformed before the watch completely lost connection with the image which made her figure disappear.

For some reason the scenario wasn't the same, something was definitely wrong and at the same time the Tristy's image disappeared Derrick felt a tremor effecting him and the company building he was in. Derricks hurriedly turned his attention on the view that he saw through glass wall from his penthouse. The scenery appeared gloomy and fiery, the sky had turned dark red the city was filled with smoke and fire. No place escaped destruction it was as if the apocalypse had arrived. Derrick was still calm and composed he tried analysing the situation as he walked towards the glass wall and took a closer look and there were red flaming meteors creating craters on the ground and then he saw numerous flaming meteors still emerging from the clouds falling at great speed before creating explosions and destroying structures of great magnitudes worsening the state of the city as time passed. That was not all, along with these meteors came organisms of unknown origin, Derrick couldn't see clearly so he labeled them as an unknown entity.

Derrick snapped out of his trance, remembering that Tristy was still down there facing this calamity. He had rushed down the building and arrived at the ground floor, the building was suffering damages. The barrier had already collapsed. Super mega company had the financial capabilities to protect their properties with barrier which didn't allow any foreign identity to breach without identification , they had the ability to withstand impact but the apparent scale of impact was beyond its capabilities. Derrick saw her aunt kneeling at the entrance , her eyes lacked vigour. Tristy was staring at the current catastrophe hopelessly, there was know saving it. Derrick was only able to see the superficial destruction from the top but he couldn't observe them in great detail, but now that he was sharing the same scene as Tristy he could experience both the despair and helplessness. His indifferent expression had already transformed into a horrified one, his breath became rash and incoherent. People were being crushed by meteors and huge debris broken away from man made structures as if they were some insignificant powerless insects, the scene was an absolute carnage, the bodies exploded in ways inconceivable to a ordinary person. The ground was painted red by blood, on it remained squashed bodies with cracked heads which leaked red gooey fluids, intestines displaced from their own bodies, their face smashed into a unrecognisable pulp while some bodies had suffered so huge an impact they were splattered on the ground , the mushy red substance made pools of blood anywhere it could.

Derrick was speechless seeing this horrifying sight which he had never thought in reality or even dreamt of such extreme incident, occuring in his home planet in this city in front of him. Now that he was facing an illusion which is neither a dream nor reality he was in a dilemma in search for a solution to end this disturbing experience ,it was complicated. Dreams was essentially not reality, even if he did have a bad dream the body's natural instinct would surface waking him up preventing the mind or the body from suffering any further, but this situation was different he knew it was an illusion. Derrick was suffering from something similar to a nightmare and there was nothing helping him eject out of this horrible illusion, his body couldn't help him and no one besides his own effort could get out of this situation. Derrick stood there aghast without moving an inch , he was stunned into madness his mind did not respond to his needs, if anyone looking at his expression now would only define him as someone dysfunctional and senile. Derrick wet his pants, the crotch area became dark colored from the wetness until it reached the bottom which further leaked out of his pants wetting the floor. He was helpless to the core.

He was watching his own aunt suffer in despair, her face was all wet. Witnessing her stone cold aunt cry in despair seem to hurt him so much. He wanted to comfort her but no words escaped his mouth, it was as if all the manly or draconic strength he had left his body in this dire situations.

This catastrophe had made Derricks knowledge on fear became much more vivid but reality was still cruel it wasn't considerate of anyones feelings. As if the massacre that had just transpired had not been enough,Derrick was shown the most maddening scene he could observe in his life. Her aunt had noticed that Derrick was standing at a distance behind her, she hurriedly made herself appear okay while she turned around smiling at him.

Derrick could see her aunt turning around, but his attention wasn't on Tristy. Without warning something had torn a hole from her back , a sharp object had poked out emerging from her breast it was the claws of an unknown entity. Derrick saw her aunt hung up impaled by the arm of an abomination. The abomination stood still for quite a while, before plucking Tristy's head off.