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Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) 3 – The New Student
“ Dolly!” “Dolly!!” “ Wake up! Sleepyhead.” Chesa called, shaking her vigorously, but she wouldn't budge. “Beshy!! Wake the heck up.” “ Chesa! What is it?” Dolly finally replied, rolling to her side and looking at her sleepily. “ It's time to go. You're causing me a lot of suspense, and it's choking me.” “Wha_what?” She exclaimed and picked up her phone. “ It's only 5'. Chesa! Go back to sleep and wake me up by 8:00.” “ Our flight leaves by 6, we will miss it if you don't get the heck up!” Chesa moaned and kept shaking her. “ But I only just started sleeping.” “ You can sleep all you want on the plane.” “ Okay! OKAY! Stop shaking me, or else I'll puke.” Dolly said, and dragged herself up, still on her phone. “ Gimme that,” Chesa said, suddenly snatching it. “ CHESA!! Give it back! I'll break your head if anything happens to my phone.” …. “Mr. Mayor! The police chief requests to see you.” The Mayor's secretary said respectfully. “ Let him in.” He replied. A muscular man
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) 4 – The Blind Girl
A few minutes later, the best friends were on the unrestricted side of the river, splashing water on themselves, swimming about, and playing around the river. Later that afternoon, having exhausted their energy, the girls sat by the stairs at the riverbank, basking in the quiet serenity. “ Uh! Chesa, I almost forgot about your family, where are they?” Dolly asked. She had thought that they were traveling with her parents, but didn’t care to ask about their whereabouts till then. “Huh, you’re asking that right now?” Chesa asked, the smile suddenly disappearing from her face. “ Yeah! It skipped my mind.” “ Umm… Well…” Chesa stammered, “that was what I wanted to tell you in the taxi” “Chesa?!” Dolly exclaimed with a sinking feeling in her stomach. What incredibly stupid thing did Chesa do this time? “ It’s just us. They are not aware that we’re here.” Chesa said, flicking an imaginary speck of her arm as she stared out into the river. “ WHAT!!!!!!!” Dolly exclaimed, not wanting to
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) 5 – Stay Alive
Halfway to the hotel, Dolly asked. “Oh my God, Chesa! I did give you my luggage, right? “Relax, I’ve got it.” Chesa answered, hands cupped under her chin seemingly deep in thought. " Thank God!" Dolly replied Onwards, the boat rode the gentle waves of the river, eventually exiting it through a tributary and beaching on the shore of an islet. By then the weather had gotten rather gloomy, as the skies became overcast and the waves broke on the riverbank. " What did that old man tell you?" Dolly asked as they got out of the boat with their luggage. " It's nothing," Chesa shrugged. They hurried through the concrete path surrounded by a lush garden to the main hotel complex. Approaching the receptionist, they were asked to show their booking confirmations. " We bought it online. But I'm not with my phone here." Chesa explained. " That's not a problem," the receptionist replied, with a smile. " Could you tell me the e-mail account you used?" She continued, typing something on th
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) 6 – Daily Ritual
**“ It’s all your fault! ”** Tala’s voice whispered, her reproach echoed around Althea’s head**“ I’m DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU! ”** the voice suddenly screamed, making Althea forcefully jerk up from her sweat-drenched bed.Althea hugged her knees to her chest and bent her throbbing head. Her heart pounded as if it wanted to explode out of her chest.“ Hi, good morning cuz,” Kent greeted, standing by the doorpost with a kind smile on his face.Althea gingerly lifted her head and stared at him quizzically.“ Wha….what are you doing here? ” Her weak voice asked shakily.“ Well, I just wanted to give my favorite cousin her breakfast in bed. It’s your favorite,” he said and sat beside her, showing her the beautifully made dish lying on a glass plate, her favorite, beef tapa.Not quite the answer she expected, Althea thought. But she was too drained to try and probe further. Sitting up, she hugged a pillow to her chest, and docilely allowed Kent to feed her.“ Aw… You should see how cute your fac
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) 7 – Hope And Fear
The Mayor puffed heavily as he ran frantically into his home. Inside, the house was a complete mess showing all the tell-tale signs of a struggle. Around the living room, utensils from the kitchen was scattered. A knife with fresh blood that seemed to drip from its evil blade lay ominously in the center of one table.“ Maria!! Maria!!!” he called his wife in a great panic as he climbed the stairs, racing towards her room.Everywhere he looked, all he could see was blood and death. What looked like arterial spray covered the walls like a psychotic Jackson Pollack painting. Puddles of sticky red blood pooled around the bodies of his maids whose necks had been slashed indiscriminately.His cold, clammy hands shook as he gingerly walked towards the room’s door, blood splashing on his trousers.“ Ma…ria?” he called again, struggling to keep his glasses on his shivering sweaty face as he turned the door’s handle and slowly pushed it open. He hurriedly locks it while turning slowly fearing th
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) 8 – We Will All Die
Chesa's eyes were filled with terror...Her lungs bursting and heart pounding beneath her chest, she ran blindly along the tree lined path, her wobbly knees boosted only by fear and adrenaline.Creepy things were chasing her, and she didn’t dare look back as she ran deeper into the forest. In and out, her breathing got heavier and more labored.As the greenery denser, Chesa could feel her eyes strain to see the path, yet step by frantic step, she pushed onward, the screams of the attacked and dying seeming to come closer and closer. On and on she ran, her knees buckling in exhaustion, causing her to trip several times over the thick vegetation covering the forest floor. Before her the twisting path started to narrow as it drew nearer to the cliff at the borders of the forest reserve. Blindly she pressed on. She could almost feel the hot breath of whatever that thing was that was chasing after her at her neck.Her terrified brain driven by the single thought of seeing Dolly again.It
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) 9 – Fallen Souls
Khent and Althea after spending the entire morning shopping, returned to the road to board a taxi back home. The road was quite busy, with people roving about, and residential buildings on each side.Althea held a cup of strawberry ice cream in her hand, smiling innocently, and waiting for the perfect opportunity to run from him. They were just a few meters away from the place she and her sister branched to the Hinatuan river.On seeing a taxi cab approaching from a considerable distance, Khent flings his hand in an attempt to stop it. But instead of it slowing down, the car suddenly speeds up forcing Khent and Althea to dive out of the way.The car crashes on an electric pole, nearly colliding with people that attempted to flee the way.The driver opens the door and falls out of the car, twitching and shaking uncontrollably. As people gathered, the man begins to shriek in agony from the overwhelming pain enveloping his body.Khent gets up from the ground and helped his cousin up to h
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) 10 – Vicious Uncertainties
The sun settles on the horizon, slowly giving way to the unsettling darkness of the night. Chesa still hasn't told Dolly a thing. She couldn't bring herself to tell her friend about the dangers they were in no matter how much she begged. After all, she was the one that brought her here in the first place. Khent found himself a tree branch to rest on. His heart was heavy and he kept thinking about his cousin. There was no way that he could return home to her already grieving father without telling him the whereabouts of his daughter. He held his face in his hands and wept bitterly regretting getting panicked and abandoning her there. He would have carried her on his back as he ran. Overwhelmed with grief, surely there shouldn't be a reason for me to be alive: he thinks looking up to the evening sky as he lets out outbursts of tears uncontrollably. ______ “ So dude, tell us what the hell is going on out there!” Adrian asks the boy. “ Exactly what you're seeing man! Everyone has bec
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Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) Episode 59
" Liam! What the heck is that? " Linda asks as she and the others; May and Stacry, run towards him in the middle of the field. “ A warning. ” Liam replies solemnly as he gazes at it, which happens to be the only cloud in the sky. It soon caught a lot of attention from the students as some point at it, others running out of their lodges to catch a glimpse of the mysterious symbol very slowly swirling in the distance. “ What's the possibility that that is just a natural rare cloud formation phenomenon and nothing for us to worry about? ” Stacey asks nervously. “ I really hope so. ” Liam replies. ** Or probably less than 24 hours. ** The thought crossed his mind. “ And if it's not? ” May asks. “ Then we would have about three days to one week to escape. It all depends on Jason. ” Liam says, supporting himself on the soft grasses on the ground. “ We always knew that we did not have a lot of time left. But that, if it's what we think it is, is just a clear r
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) Episode 58
**" “ Hey, Liam! ” little Mike calls as he ran towards his friend in the enormous playground they were in. “ Hi! Did the plan work? ” Liam asks nonchalantly. "Absolutely," replied Mike with a mischievous grin. “ You're a genius! Almost everyone is coming. ”Mike chuckled, appreciating the outcome of their plan. "Great job, Mike! Now we can have an amazing time with all our friends here." Liam smiles. “ But Liam... ” Mike pauses, wearing a worried look on his face. “ Yeah? ” “ Do you sometimes feel that the plan is going too well?” “ Huh? ”Liam pales, his brow furrowing deeper. “ Like when what you worked so hard for is finally paying off, but then you feel a tight knot in your stomach that something is about to go terribly wrong? ” “ What? ” Liam eyes grew wide open. "** “ STOP THAT DAMNED BUS! ” The yelling permeated his consciousness. He turns his head along with other students and sees the principal rushing towards the buses.
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) Episode 57
Miss Claire lies head bent sleeping on her desk, but suddenly, black specks of dust of dark matter gradually sip out of her onto the desk. It escalates until the entire table is covered in waves of dark matter. Then at a point two hands rose from the sand and forcefully grabs her by the hair, jerking her awake. She screams out of fear but soon realizes it was just a dream. But how much of it was? Touching her face softly, She could vividly remember the cold feeling of the palm on her face, and that very day that sand seemed to sip out of her body onto the desk. The memory still haunts her, and she wishes she had spoken up, but who really would believe such nonsense? So she tried her best to swallow it up, convincing herself that it was just a nightmare. But the suit. **Clothes don't just disappear after a few days of removing it does it?** she asks herself, grasping the chair's arm as she allows those memories back into her mind. Right after she returns to her
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) Episode 56
“ How's May doing? ” he help her out finally by asking. That gave her the boost she needed. She was doing this for her best friend. Her one and only friend that this moron hurt so deeply. “ She's furious with you! ” she snapped. Her eyes locked on to his renewed boldness it lacked before. The cool-headed Liam was stunned at the sudden change of emotion. Those green eyes of hers were fixed on his, with no single sign of shyness he had ever seen in any girl's gaze before. “ She is, is she? ” he asks, forced to look away. “ You lunatic! You didn't think anyone would find out. She literally dated her rapist for years, don't you have any dignity left? ” She charged at him in anger. “ I'm sorry Stacey. But I'm still mourning his death, please let's do this sometime later. ” He replied calmly, wiping off droplets of tears from his eyes with the back of his hand. Stacey jolted with pity. She didn't think that he was burying all that hurt and regret in his hea
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) Episode 55
May wakes up the following day in her warm bed. She sat and rubbed her eyes while the sunlight bathed the room. After freshening up, she leaves. “ So you're saying that dark matter is an actual creature, that wants to destroy the whole world or something? ” Stacey asks when May concluded her story as they head to the dining. “ I dunno what is it it wants, but it just fills you with hate and revenge. Making you feel like that's the only thing in the world that you need. ” “ That's creepy!” she shivered. “ And he can control you too? ” She asks. At this point, Stacey was willing to believe her even if she mentions seeing walking-dead people. “ Yeah. But you still have a measure of control, it is your body. But, it would be very difficult. Imagine, we've given Jason so much reason to hate and want to get revenge on us that I doubt we have a week to plan our escape. ” May says they got to their table, their breakfast being served simultaneously. “ Geez, we sh
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) Episode 54
** “ Stop! Stop moving damn it! ”** ** “ What the heck is going on? I can't control my body. ”** ** “ My sight turned on and off as my feet mechanically moved back to the camp.I've literally been fighting with every part of me. My body, my mind, my heart.I keep trying to find reasons not to get revenge but that was all I was filled with.I was bombarded with only the pain, the regret I felt. Rage overwhelmed me, and I had all the power to exert it.But the mayhem, the agony, I cannot bring them here too. ”**May fought, as flashbacks of all the horrors that happened in the Philippines bombarded her. The scarred faces, the screams, and the death that was spread, and in the middle of it stood the cause. A twelve-year-old girl with dead soulless eyes.“I can't! ” she muttered, tears streaming down the dark empty voids that replaced her eyes. This was the most scared she had ever been throughout her life.Dark Matter popped up her veins, making it as dark as hell a
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) Episode 53
Jason returns to the newly found buried treasure ( the library ) immediately after the announcement not to leave the campgrounds made by Miss Claire. As he dives into one of the books there, he quickly realized how much he missed the gentle pounding of his heart due to excitement, and the growing suspense inside him in expectation of what he was about to dive into. But perhaps being possessed by a cold soulless creature isn't that bad after all. The thought came across his mind. It has its perks. He didn't feel sey or afraid, he had inhuman strength and he was almost indestructible. Wasn't he just shot in the head? But yet he was still alive. Even still, he didn't like losing almost all his emotions and killing innocent people. Damn! What happened to Mike? And what will happen if they find out about the people he killed? All these thoughts interrupted him from his reading as he looked forward absent-minded. _____ “ Wha... What do you mean you
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) Episode 52
Another special morning for Jason as he opens his eyes for another Dark Matter free day. He takes a refreshing warm bath and made his way outside.The serenity and the cool breeze felt so wonderful. Then his stomach growled. He felt like there was a battle going on. A smile drew across his face as he salivates in expectation since it has been a long since he tasted anything.Quickly, he headed over to the dining and positioned himself at the quietest table there. As usual, his food was served. An incredibly beautiful fried chicken begged him to eat it, along with rice. Of course, he couldn't reject its wish, so he ate it all a little bit too fast, not minding the souls around him. He kept on eating plate after plate even though his stomach begged him to stop. After almost finishing an elephant's share, he collapsed on his chair and had to rest there for an hour for his body to proceed with what the heck just happened.After that, he stood up and walked out of the dining hall. The
Dark Matter (Unknown Origins Book 1) Black River - Manilla (Intro)
Epilogue “ Alright gang, now that's been taken care of. I have good news to share. ” Intel announced, standing in front of her team. They were all sitting on beach sofas surrounding her, as she addressed them standing. All in human form. “ Once cutie returns we'd finally be able to leave. Right after we take care of whatever the heck is waiting for us. ” She continued. “ Yippee!” Tink exclaimed. “ Just to be clear we're never coming back? ” April asks. “ No. ” Intel replies. “ Guys, I'll NEVER put you in this kind of dangerous situation ever again. I promise! ” she continued emotionally. “ This will be our last few months on this planet. First, get off your butts,” she says, making them all stand. “ We gotta clear this island first. So get ready to kick some butts. ” She cheered with a vicious smile. Tink reloads her gun. Her eyes were silver without the glasses. “ Just to be clear, we're not giving the infected holondias?” she asks. “ No, they're goners. Don't waste it. ” Apr
