Abomination Contract Loving The Enemy

POV: Asher

"The situation is beyond dire, is catastrophic."

What a way to start a report, I think as my eyes keep tracing the words out, but I guess the "Magnanimous Scientist" always had a taste for the dramatic.

"To begin with, there was scarce information about the ghouls from the start, but now they have come to evolve and change far faster than any creature on earth that came before them."

"Beyond the many samples and strange behaviors displayed in the past few days, however, none explains the new ghouls popping up left and right, but beyond the new hive behavior and the new queen ghoul, which has being addressed as Szodiss, there seems to be another type of ghouls surging, and this one is the worst of them all; because apparently they can withstand the sunlight."

"The is no samples from those creatures yet, but I'm up to believe they have some connection with our snake queen friend, for they are acting as a group and in just a few moments have surrounded the city, shoulder to shoulder in a huge ring that covers almost the entirety of our walls, but enough so that none can leave from any of the gates, and worse of all is that they are on the exact distance away needed so our weapons do not reach them, and are  fast enough to catch up with a fleeing vehicle we saw outside; perhaps motorcycles work better."

"Basically all seems to be an intricate strategy to keep us locked in, and there is where the trouble is truly at, but that is not my field of expertise so I won't diddle in that."

"However one thing to take note in is that most ghouls until now had very humanoid characteristics, usually eyes, nose, ears on the head, bipedal, four limbs, only with small changes from wings to teeth, but these ones do not share such thing, just like the snake queen, they somehow resemble other animals beyond the humans."

"For their strange resemble to some specific animal, we are calling them Stallion Ghouls. They walk on four strong legs and-" A knock on the door takes me away from the report.

"Come in." I say, my eyes drifting slightly to Seiji on the side, sitting beside the window, a profound gaze glancing at the city night, before going back to the screen on my computer.

"strong legs and big bodies like that of horses, but that's mostly where any resemble ends for, instead of a head the thick neck is cut short and, like a gaping mouth upwards, have many tentacles with bared thorns and spikes moving out, and big claws sprouting from their hooves. Not only that but at the front of their chest there are two smaller legs in the air that use a single big talon coming from the hooves to cut anyone standing in their way." 

"Captain Murray!" Even with my reading speed I could not finish the document before the soldier comes in and salutes me, demanding attention.

"What is it? Be brief."

"Of course sir.!" At that he reports the news from outside, but of course even if I wished for good news, none of them were. "We have yet to discover what is causing the people to turn in sick, but for now we had to close the infectedl up in the city part that was attacked last time in case some of them end up turning." Another way of completely quarantine and isolating the infected, those who were not lucky enough to have a room on this side where thrown into the city we just cleaned up to wait for some miracle to happen.

Things are only getting worse and worse.

Worst of all is that, beyond trying to fight back or sooth the nerves of the population, is that fact that we still have to find out what is causing the infection to prevent it from spreading further, otherwise there won't be any healthy humans left alive to defend at the end of the day.

Thinking about how the golden circle has not being affected makes me frown, but I still cannot grasp the reason why, and that has been added to the things bothering me today. 

"And how are things outside?"

"Bad, the family of the sick are at the gates causing trouble, and others are rioting at the center demanding more medicine for the infected and answers. I'm afraid panic has settled among the citizens, and if we do nothing we won't have to wait for the ghouls to come and destroy  us."

Just as I feared and expected. The queen snake has done her homework, this type of strategy is commonly used against castles and cities with walls, closing in so no supplies or food can be received, and let the ones inside kill each other in despair and hunger.

Plus she managed to somehow infect people from inside… which only adds to the overall madness.

If only I knew the answer to their questions, then I could calm their hearts by preventing the contamination and stopping the disease from spreading… but how?

"You may leave." I say to the soldier before pondering deep into the subject. I stand,  leaving the table, feeling a headache form from all this stress, and sit back down on the sofa while covering my forehead with my hand, thinking.

"...What are you thinking about?" I hear Seiji ask, walking away from the window and sitting beside me on the sofa.

"About the infected. How did they turn out his way? Inside of the city…"

"Uhm…" He says, not very interested, putting his feet up and resting his head on my lap, but any reaction I could have to such unique behavior is withheld by my worries and thoughts, still focused on the problems at hand.

Is there any connection with the attack? Even if there are different areas affected, perhaps the virus thrown brought by the Moth Ghouls with the Explosive Ghouls got attached to the environment and, like a flue, was passed by contact in some way.

It seems plausible… if not too easy.

If they were so highly plague-ridden like this wouldn't the ghouls have infected us already beforehand? It would have been easy to get a human to carry the virus in their clothes and enter the city… Or maybe even carried by air? So why just now? Perhaps some kind of new mutation… but there wouldn't be a need for an attack like last time… and how there were no outbreaks before?

That does not match up, even more that, if our knowledge about it has been wrong all along, then we would have had an infected inside the city far earlier, but that has never happened before.

No, there is something about it that I'm unable to grasp, and the fact that the Golden Circle has not being affected… what reason could have been to such differences?

Unless…

Out of nowhere the laying monster on my lap is jolt awake, and half sitting on the sofa he looks back at me, eyes glimmering, and with a smile says:

"...I know! I know what is causing the infection!"

And that manages to take me away from my trance as I look down at him, waiting for his answer to come and surprised when it did.

Because, of course, that was it! How had I not thought of it before!

I look at him with a new light, and have to stop the urge to pet him and even praise for there were a lot of things that demanded my attention now, plus I don't think I need to feed his ego even more than it is, it may swell his head more.