Jack Strong: Dark Matter by Heys Wolfenden

Author:Heys Wolfenden [Wolfenden, Heys]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-04T22:00:00+00:00

Grunt got to his feet. He was blind, eyes watering.

He blundered into something large and heavy. It groaned audibly, snorted with pain. Some kind of fluid sprayed over his face. His skin sizzled, burned. He staggered on, legs getting weaker.

He tried to open his eyes. Nothing but a bright white light. It felt like his temples were going to implode.

He tottered on, rubbing at his eyes, a loud hissing sound flooding down his ears. He shuffled towards it, bumping into objects as he went, the din getting louder and louder, like waves crashing against a harsh and barren shore. What was that sound? It sounded familiar somehow.

The light was dimmer now, though no less hot. He looked around, blinking rapidly, the chisels still hammering away at his temples.

He wiped his eyes. Above him rose a giant steel structure that shot-up towards the sky like a mountain. It looked stern and forbidding, even the sun hid behind it. It had to be a mile high at least. He couldn’t see any windows anywhere, what might have been flags fluttered along the top. What is this thing? He thought, following the contours of metal as they sloped off towards the dusty horizon. How come I didn’t see it earlier?

He reached out a hand and touched the metal. For half a second, he felt the hard, cold surface, then his palm tingled with electricity, followed by another bright flash of light.

When he opened his eyes again he was in a dark, oval-shaped room, at the other end of which was a tall rectangle of light. He walked towards it, the hissing sound from before getting louder and louder.

He stepped out onto a long, wide balcony half a mile above a patch of desert, black sands twirling in the hot, harsh winds. Either side of him were several figures, their huge heads hidden by even huger helmets. He was engulfed by their shadow. He froze, expecting to be noticed at any second. Then he remembered his invisibility suit. He’d switched it on shortly before passing through the energy barrier. He looked at the giants again. Judging by the way it hugged their bodies, they were dressed in some kind of flexible armour, huge black capes buffeting on the wind. Their gaze was directed at the patch of desert below, two dim figures cavorting on the sand like seagulls trapped in an oil slick. There was another roar from the crowd. What was going on down there?

He walked towards a stone staircase a few feet to his left. From there he could see the whole blood-red crowd. There were thousands and thousands of them, all cheering, chanting, roaring. All of them Xenti.

What are they doing here? He thought, anger rising in his chest.

He looked around him. The arena was as big as a city, if not bigger; it stretched miles into the distance before curving back round again in a kind of elongated oval.

The crowd roared again. The figures were moving slower now, their steps less pronounced.

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