Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26027963-20150428125106

"In Hinduism, Kali is the reigning lord of Kali Yuga, and archenemy of Kalki, the 10th and final avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Kali Yuga, there is one quarter virtue and three quarter sin. The average human lifespan will be one-hundred years. It is the final stage of the Yuga cycle that the world goes through."

-Wikipedia

I snuffed out the cigarette, and quickly lit another one. Fifth one today. I giggled to myself, thinking how I was going to have cancer, and how it didn't matter. Why would it? It was almost the end of "Kali Yuga". The last cycle. If you haven't heard that, then you were already dead. Most the people I was hired to protect are dead, and I was here in a bomb shelter, smoking my fifth cigarette.

"My men, what the hell are we going to do?"

The room, once silent with thought, quickly erupted with sound. The sound of chaos, uncertainty, and insanity. It sounded like a bomb erupted in the bomb shelter. Huh. Irony is there even when the world's ending. I looked down, and saw my name tag. "General Hughes". Then I'll be a general.

"Shut up!" I roared. The room died down "Let's think. Kali is coming, and if we sit here chattering, he is going to come kill us all."

The room erupted into sound once more. Were they ever going to stop? We need to get something done! What that something is, I don't exactly know. We still need to do something.

"Hey!" I shouted even louder. The room died down once again. "What in the world are we going to do?"

"Fight!" A strong voice shouted.

The room yelled in agreement. I guess some of that 'army instinct' was still there. I smiled gently. Wondering what thirty-seven men would do to a demon in the height of its power.

The room was soon filled with the clatter of people tearing down beds, breaking open survival crates, searching for weapons when there was none. Some took up metal rods, torn from the frames of beds, others found fire hydrants and pocket knives. As if that could do anything.

"Men!" They couldn't hear me.

"Men!" They still couldn't hear me.

"Men!". They stopped, and listened. "What are you thinking! We are facing a demon! Not a deer. What do you think those will do to it? Give it a scratch? We need to stay."

"No!" The lieutenant stepped forward. "We will fight."

"Fine! Carry out your own death wish."

If they wanted to die, that was there problem.

"Here!" I ripped off the small 'General' tag. "Take this too."

He picked it up, and left. I snuffed out my current cigarette, and got started on my sixth. I listened to the sound of around ten men climbing up a latter. I started waiting for them to come down.

Clatter,clack, bang.

That's the sound of people coming down a latter. Anyone who stayed in the bunker rushed to the ladder. I slowly walked to the ladder, ready to welcome them back. I heard their feet hit the concrete floor.

I saw only two come down. They ran from the ladder, then I heard a roar.

The roar shook anything on the ground. The two people that came down were making some kind of noise, which sounded like a mix of screaming, crying, and psychotic mumbling.

Something was definitely trying to come down to the shelter.

"You two, stay with them." I pointed to two of the people that stayed. "You!" Switching my attention to a different solider. "You and I are going to see what happened."

We quickly started to the ladder, knowing we had no weapons. We just wanted to look. I felt each cold steel rung on my hands. I watched as the light became closer and closer. I peaked my head through the top.

There was blood everywhere. Mutilated corpses of innocents, colleagues, and even friends. Some were chopped into pieces, others decapitated, some just torn up.

How can this happen?

I looked at the culprit.

A green skinned, heavily muscled demon. Only wearing red shorts, but having a sword fit for the giant it was. It was rampaging around, looking for it's next victim.

I think I've gone mad.

I screamed, got out of the hole, and ran full force at the demon. Kali turned to face me, roaring the same roar we heard earlier. It raised it sword...

And cut me in half.

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