Rounding Up The Advocates

By evening the whole building had been engulfed by the foul smell emitting from the rotting tendons. The SSU had become more of a jungle than a maze. The walls were alive with moving tendons like crawling tentacles.

“Where are the others?” I asked Michael as we helped Anita down the stairs. “I’ve only heard from Amir recently, he said Mr. Bundabald had left with him one of the Hellbringers who had been defeated.”

“That means… they’ve both won?” I asked with much relief. Michael nodded his head. “Both Miyokura and Cassy are still in the infirmary and… I haven’t heard from John or Cage.”

We met Amir on the first floor, just outside the emergency door and passed Anita over to him. Next to him was an unfamiliar figure which gave me a shock at first. But it was just Mr. Bundabald borrowing Amir’s metallic alloy to form a skin around himself. “We’ll go look for the rest.” I said to them, “You can take care of them right?”

“Sure.” Amir replied. “Where do we meet?” Mr. Bundabald asked as he carried both Anita and Lisa on to his shoulders. “That would be simple. The white room.” Michael suggested, “It’s the safest place.”

“That would be quite impossible, the building is already going to fall apart we can’t get all the way to the third floor now.” Mr. Bundabald said. I reached into my pocket and passed him the port key which Xelenski had given me. “You can use this. I believe it would work on any door right?”

Mr. Bundabald took it and said, “Smart kid, but without the key you won’t be able to enter as well.”

“We’ll find our own way.” I replied. Just then a large portion on the other side of the building collapse, filling the air with dust and debris. “We don’t have much time left – go look for a door.” Michael said.

Before I could lose sight of Michael I grabbed him by the collar and ran through a wall. It was dusty but at least I had a clear view of where I was going. “I’m not sure where the infirmary is with all this smog.” I told Michael. He thought for a while and then came up with an idea. “Just leave it to me, I need you to make me invisible and throw me in that direction.” He said and pointed to the top corner of the room.

I grabbed his hand and spun our bodies around. Just before passing the corner of the room, we went stealth and flew through the base like phantoms. Using as much knowledge of physics as he could he directed our flight towards the infirmary on the third floor. We reappeared in Cassy’s room and rolled into a wall. “Fuck, I’m never going to do that ever again.” Michael complained as he grabbed the bedside to get up.

“Oh? Where is she?” Michael mumbled. I jumped to my feet and realized she wasn’t in bed. “Where in the world?” My heart began to beat vigorously. Suddenly though we heard Cassy’s voice. “Guys! Come quick!”

We exited the room and found Cassy tending to Cage. “My goodness!” Michael exclaimed. The carpeted floor had been dirtied by blood but Cage had not a single open wound on his body. “He’s bleeding internally.” Cassy said. She had her hand raised above his stomach and blood flowed from his body into a neat little ball.

“I’ll go look for Miyokura.” Michael suggested, “You guys take Cage to the white room.”

“Alright but wait,” I said as I reached into my pocket again, “Take this.” I passed my pistol to him and told him how to use it. After that we went our separate ways.

I carried Cage onto my back and held on to Cassy’s hand. “What’s going on?” Cassy asked. It has been a long time since she had been awake, either that all so much have changed that no one really knew what was going on. “I’ll explain later. I’m just happy you’re still here.” I said, relieved that she wasn’t taken by the enemy as I had feared. “Do you know where is the white room from here?” I asked Cassy. She nodded her head and led the way. Michael on the other hand raced down the third floor hallway and entered the room where he and Anita had left Miyokura after her battle with Sheldon. When he slid open the door he was relieved to see Miyokura was still there.

However when he went into the room to receive her he noticed someone else in the room. He immediately turned around and pointed the pistol at Sheldon who quickly raised his hands to show he was unarmed. Sheldon was standing by an open window, seemingly observing everything that had been going on since his defeat. “I am not looking for trouble.” Sheldon explained, “But I’m here to give to you a parting gift.” His cynical smile gave him away.

“What are you all planning to do?” Michael asked. His breathing hasn’t increased and his gun remained pointed at the space between Sheldon’s eyes. “Who said we were planning to do anything, we simply wanted our revenge.” Sheldon laughed. “But that is an obvious lie right?”

“Stop trying to buy time for your friends or I’ll plant a fucking bullet in that smirked face of yours.” Michael lashed out. “I like your contradicting emotions… you appear in control but deep inside you’re shaking. You have no idea how much this turns me on.”

“You sick bastard!” Michael pulled the trigger and blasted a hole in the wall just beside Sheldon’s head. “You got to be faster than…” Suddenly Sheldon reached his hand to his left ear and realized that it had been shot off. “You fucking piece of shit! Son of a bitch!” Sheldon began yelling at the top of his lungs in pain. Michael pulled the trigger again, this time bringing Sheldon to his knees. “Shut the fuck up you worthless piece of shit. Tell me what you guys are up to!”

“You’re pretty oblivious to the things happening aren’t you.” Sheldon mumbled in pain, “We have been ordered by the devil to open up a gate here just like the one you saw in town. To create such a thing a ridiculously large amount of energy is needed and what better building is there to swallow up other than the enemy’s headquarters?”

Michael went to the window and kicked Sheldon aside. He looked out the window and realized that what Sheldon said was true. The entire base was being swallowed up by the skin. “Fuck you!” Michael spat at Sheldon. Shot him twice in the face and kicked him to the corner of the room. He pulled Miyokura over his shoulder and left the room.

Minutes later, all of us gathered in the white room. Conscious and unconscious. Without much time left until the computer servers get knocked out by the enemy, we had to decide where to go to next. “We’re really short on manpower now… Anita was suppose to be our tactician but she’s knocked out right now.” Cassy said worriedly.

“I know where to go.” I said. Without much thinking I took the port key from Amir and inserted it into the White room’s door. I closed my eyes and twisted the key and a blue light shone through. A familiar voice came from behind the door. “Are you guys coming?” I turned to them and asked.

I pushed the door open and a rush of warm air filled the white room. “Welcome to my home.” I said to them as we entered the house with our unconscious friends on our backs.

What's New!

I've been wanting to put up these pictures up for quite long now but I haven't had the time to do so till now. In this edition of the sketchbook, you'll see how I came up with the concept for the fight scenes. It may also help you better understand what I'm writing about (My vocabulary isn't that great so - like my DNT teacher would say; use pictures with annotation, haha). In this edition you may also see some of the things that would be in later chapters so I recommend you not to take a look at the pictures before reading up! Just a sneak-peek is okay ;P




The above are group photos that I did using Adobe Photoshop. The original was done in school when I was bored. With a little guessing you'll be able to tell who's who. I'll put up a named version of it some other time. Yup, even though security in Singapore is more strict now, education still persists...




Above is one of the fighting scenes between Amir and Kevyn. They are just rough sketches so that I could properly plan out the coreography of the fight. The picture beneath the fight scene is a rough sketch of Amir induced with the power of "rage".


This one is the first concept of Lisa, one of the enemies. She really does look angelic and its a shame I couldn't pen her any nicer... but as I've written in the journal - she really does have a foul mouth.






I was a little hesitant to put these up at first, since they were a little gory and I'm not sure if you guys would understand what's really going on. I did them just today, took up most of my day but it was worth it. These pictures are of Salem's ability. Hope this is exciting enough for you, hehe~


To end it all off, another collage for you guys to use as wallpaper. These photos will be uploaded onto facebook too. Enjoy!

Monster From Hell

“That’s not true!” John shouted in hysteria. He quickly got off Salem’s disfigured body and ran to a wall behind him. A fear he hasn’t felt for a long time returned to him, one which irked him as he saw Salem’s bones, muscles and tendons shifted back to their original places. His arms began to regenerate and his face began to heal.

John was trembling… “What in the world are you.”

Salem’s arms did not grow back normally, instead, his arms began splitting up again into ropes made out of skin. They dangled off his shoulders and gave of a foul smell that was stomach churning. Salem lifted his legs and jumped up into a standing position. He looked up towards John with the face of a maniac which reminded John very much of Legio. Suddenly the rope-like tendons crashed through the floor below under all its weight. John was startled for a second and then realized that the wall behind him was beginning to tear apart. He tried to jump away but millions of tendons quickly wrapped around him.

The ropes began to molt and join together, forming sack of skin which trapped John inside. John tried to struggle through but neither his punches or kicks were strong enough to tear through the sack. Soon he began to lose conscious and his body laid still within the sack.

Salem grinned, “You’re weak but I cannot have you running around while my main objective is still on the loose.” He brought the sack closer to him and mounted it onto his back. Gathering all his energy he suddenly choked as muscles within his body started to rumbled. He spat blood onto the floor but right after that the same ropes of skin poured out from his mouth and began spreading all over the hallway. Within minutes the ropes spread all over the base like vines enveloping it with the same foul smell that irked John.

“What the hell is going on?” Michael asked Anita as the two began searching for a safe place to hide. “I can’t tell, but it is definitely one of the enemies’ ability.” Anita replied. She looked out of the shattered window and realized that they could never return the base to the state it was before.

The entire building had been destroyed. She watched as the tendons spread all over the base, breaking down walls and crawling through windows as if in search for something. It was then that something hit her. “What is it?” Michael said as Anita suddenly fell to the ground.

“The enemy is looking for James.” Anita stared into blank space as if she had seen a ghost. Michael immediately realized that Anita’s ability was taking effect. “Come on now’s not the time to be sitting around.” Michael said as he lifted her up and dragged her towards the emergency stairwell.

Suddenly though the tendons burst open the door and sent chunks of metal all over the place. “Fuck here too?!” Michael yelled. But just then, a beam of black light tore through the wall of tendons from the inside.

That was when our paths finally crossed again. “Long time no see.” I said as I tried to catch my breath, “I thought I would never see you again, since – you don’t have any powers.”

“Don’t shit with me, I’m not that weak.” Michael grinned. “We have to get everyone to a safe place. This stuff that’s growing like wildfire is going to bring the whole building down any minute.”