Theus's father loved to ski, especially down mountains. Even his name ,Theus, was taken from an ancient commune in the French Alps. The whole family was quite accomplished at the sport . Theus secretly hated skiing.
One day his father announced that they would be taking a family outing to a new, untouched,run. "I think its a triple black diamond with some ruff patches.Should be fun!".His father said. When they landed Theus noted that it did not look fun at all. There was no chairlift, the whole lodge had a cold military feel to it, there was a constant "boom" sound in the distance and strange bits of odd metal everywhere.Even the hot chocolate sucked. He decided to take a walk. The surrounding forest looked like crap. Every third tree was down,snapped at the base. No storm did that! as he looked around he felt like he was being watched. He quickly returned to the lodge.
The next morning he woke to his fathers voice. "Lets do this guys, get your butts down here". Remembering the previous days exploration, a bad feeling started to overcome Theus. As they approached the course he noticed strange tracks.No snow groomer does that! He stopped walking and looked around feeling watched again. His brother and sister ran past him. "hurry up {Richard Cameron}!" said his brother "yeah this is going to be fun" said his sister. Theus looked past them to the top of the first slope. There was a strange object , a structure , at the top. As They neared the plateau he got a better view. It looked like a heavily fortified turret. "that looks like a good place to put our skis on" His mother said. His brother and sister bolted towards it. His mother and father turned and smiled at each other clasping hands and trotted after them. Theus froze. "Coomon Theus" said his dad in the distance."No,Dad , I think thats a heavily fortified turret!": What?!" His father yelled. as the other kids neared the turret it activated changing its angle and targeting his brother first The next two minutes were a blur. The turret fired four laser volleys leaving his family as smoldering ashes, each next to a set of skis. Three seconds later the skis exploded in a hail of missiles. another turret! "You killed my whole family!"Tears in his eyes, he dropped his skis and ran towards the closest turret. As it turned to greet him he heard a sound. Just as the turret fired, a huge metal hulk landed infront of him, shrugging the laser hits off with a little dance. Theus liked dancing. The giant in front of him returned fire. Theus covered his ears as the noise was stupendous. when the noise stopped he looked up. The turrets were smoldering. A giant mechanized war machine looked down at him. in an amplified but very human voice it said "aye,boy,What in Odin's beard are you doing?
"Skiing" Theus replied.The background noise subsided and the mechs shoulders slumped. A cockpit opened to reveal the pilot inside. "turrets killed my family!" said Theus.The pilot looked down at him with cold hollow eyes and nodded. "aye boy they did" then paused , disappeared for a second, returning with a rolled up ladder. Dropping it down he said "come with me if you want to live".
Edited by Dead Eyes, 22 December 2015 - 09:44 PM.