On The Ship

THUUUD !!

"OUGH !!"

"OUCH!!"

Merely a second after they were sucked into the machine, Deathstalker and Bruno were like thrown by a giant sling and just dropped down on a super hard floor. The drop was so fast and hard, it was like they fell from tenth floor building, chest first.

Deathstalker slowly woke up al though his chest still felt like crushing. He checked on all of his muscles and bones to make sure they were all still on proper condition.

"Are you okay ?" He asked Bruno who was still lying on top of the huge suitcase. The case was actually so huge it covered the whole upper body of Bruno.

"No..." Bruno groaned in pain, but few seconds later he started to wake up. "Where are we ?" he then asked.

"Somewhere on the ship, I guess," Deathstalker answered with zero confidence. His eyes wandered through the entire space they were in.

It was quite bright al though there were no lamp hung on the ceiling nor windows to let th ray light in. The room was pack with a lot of containers. 

"Is there anyway we can get out of here ?" Bruno asked again.

"Not from where I am now," Deathstalker said. He then stood up and approached a container near him and climbed it up. He then jumped onto another container that had few smaller containers on top of it. He climbed up those containers.

"The ceiling is a door," Deathstalker informed to Bruno. He then jumped off from the container, landed on the floor with a loud 'boom' sound.

"That's about it. I guess, we have to come out of this ship the same way as these containers," Deathstalker said after wiping his sweat and caught his breath.

"Does marriage make you out of shape ? How come you became out of breath just to jump around like that ?" Bruno asked half teasing.

"The gravity here is heavier," Deathstalker defended himself. "Try it your self."

Bruno stood up in slow motion. "Yeah... it is heavier here," He said after experienced it himself. "How come it's heavier here ?"

Deathstalker shrugged. "I guess.. because it is closer to the earth core ?" He then at back on the floor.

The silence embraced the two men. They only made a conversation with their own mind for some minutes. They ignored the tingling they felt on their buttocl from the static vibration, probably caused by thee ship's machine.

"I hope she's fine," Brunomurmured before staring at Deathstalker..

"She is. Viper is clever ad don'forget that she had her power. It might not able to kill creatures here, but I believe it can harm them," Deathstalker tried to comfort him.

"It has been more than three months. Her mission is only to find where the virus is produced. She should be able to accomplis it within a week or two, right ?" Bruno told his thought.

For almost a year, there had been internal rumors that North East chapter was facing cout d'etat. It started with the sudden resignation of Lord Wang, the previous head of North East chapter due to his health condition. The new head of chapter was chosen by acclamtion y the other head of chapters. He was Tian Huang,, the best candidate that had been sword hand of Lord Wang for years. But Wang Ji Shu, the eldest son of Lord Wang didn't accept it. Obviously, being the eldest son of Lord Wand, Wang Ji Shu hoped to be the next head of chapter.

Wang Ji Shu didn't express his objection openly. For over a year he built his power secretly, aligned himself with some parties that were the opposite of the chapter. His movement was under the radar until six months ago suddenly there was a shocking news to the organization about the suspicious death of Wang Lao Mao, Wang Ji shu's father..

It was true that the previous Lord Wang had issues of health. But precisely because of that issue, Lord Wang was intensively being cared in a sterile room. It was known that the cause of Lord Wang's death was a new virus brought by one of the paramedic that was had a little fever at that time. The virus sensor was failed to detect it. The virus was seemed to be lame for common healthy people, but was deadly for old and comorbid ones.

The organization, of course had their suspicion of Lord Wang's death. They tried to investigate and trace back the virus, but it was not quick enough. soon enough, the virus was vastly spread, not only on the East region, but all over the world.

To the world's knowledge the virus was a natural mutation and accidentally spread. In fact, it was engineered and purposedly being spread out through out the world. What worse was that the virus was enginered not anywhere on earth. Wang Ji Shu somehow could align with a party from under the earth. There was where the virus came from.

Initially, the mission was to send Viper to locate the source of the virus and brought proof that Wang Ji Shu was the brain behind it. But after three months had passed and the situation got worse on earth. The virus was being mutated into more dangerous variant. Deathstalker and Bruno then being sent to destroy the source of the virus while Viper should deactivate it.

"How long do you think we will arrive ?" Bruno asked after few minutes they were busy with their own minds.

"King said the trip should take like half an hour," Beathstalker answered, but his eyes were focused on piles of containes far away from him.

"How long ..." Bruno halted his words when Deathstalkere suddenly stood up. He only continued it when Deathstalker signaled him to continue while Deathstalker himself was approaching the containers, "How long have we been here ?"

"I don't know,may be fifteen minutes ?" Deathstalker answered deliberately with louder voice.

Bruno followed Deathstalker, approaching the specific blue container across the room. "What do you think these containers fileed with ?"

"I don't know... maybe food," Deathstalker answered mindlessly. His focus was on tiny noises he heard from within the blue container.

When they both were right in front of the container, the noise was getting more vivid and clear. It was scratching and whimper of a child, "Jie... (Sis...)"

"Shei zai na'r ? (Who's there ?)" Once Deathstalker brought up the question, the noises disappeared.

"Wei...? (Hello... ?)" Once again Deathstalker called. Sti;;, there was no answer.

"You heard it, too, right ?" Deathstalker requested a confirmation toward Bruno. The later nodded to confirm.

"Is it ghost ?" Bruno whispered unto Deathstalker.

"More like a child. Maybe five to six years olf," Deathstalker whispered back.

Deathstalker then made a signal to tell Bruno to not make a move. Acouple of munutes later the noise inside the blue container started again.

"Jie.. women zai na li ? (Sis... where are we ?" the little child asked while trying to muffled whimper.

"Wo ye bu zhi dao (I also don't know). Psst... ni bu yao ku aa.. (don't cry)." another voice, this one seemed olfer than the earler.

"Heey... wo ke yi tingjian ni (I can hear you). Nimen hai hao me ? (Are you okay ?" Deathstalker once again threw a question.

Before he could hear any reply, the ship rocked violently as if it hit something.

"Aaaaaaaaaa!!!" And there were not once, not two, but a lot of voices screamed at the same time caused by the sudden movement.

Before Deathstalker and Bruno could react by the screams, suddenly sound of engine was heard and soon, slowly but steady, the door or maybe big window on the roof was opened.