Apoc
October 28th, 2006, 13:31
The Girl in Black
The news report played again as it had so long ago. The young reporter off camera screaming hysterically as the shaky footage showed thousands of people running through Manhattans streets in panic, “it’s coming!” the reporter could be heard screaming as the camera sharply looked to the grey skies above, as the weapon came thundering down from the heavens. Out of focus it simply seemed like a great dark cloud, momentary brief glimpses of the weapon, descending aflame, high above the city as focus came and went.
Then the infamous footage as the camera, shaking almost beyond visual watchability, its operator terrified, comes to look again over the crowd.
The double take, as it hectically pans over the fleeing citizens of this soon to be doomed city with desperate panic to find something, shakily back and fourth, then the famous cameraman's curse, “what the fuck!?!” narrates the crash zoom as it struggles to find and focus on what its operator has seen, to finally rest on her.
Amidst the fleeing crowd, standing, looking toward the weapon whilst all flee about her...the girl clad in black.
Through the chaos, her head is seen bowing forward slightly as she places the now infamous white expressionless mask upon her face, then in a blink she’s gone from sight, a blur of black shooting upwards, the camera desperately pulls back as shocked gasps, and shouts rise from the crowd, “Look!” many wail and point as the camera struggles to take in the scene.
Many still flee, but more and more are now turning to look up toward the descending weapon and stop at the sight they’re now witness to. The camera banks suddenly up toward the skies.
The news report pauses momentarily at the famous sight its captured, as in this briefest of seconds, the girl no more than a distant black mark can vaguely be seen, hovering motionless before the great flaming dark weapon.
It plays again and in a blink the weapon is exploding in the skies above, the thunderous rumble taking a moment to reach, the following images broken by interference, show everyone falling to the ground covering their ears, windows exploding and then the camera loses sound and picture.
The still image of the girl clad in black, hovering before the great dark weapon fades in again and a woman's voice now speaks over it, “Five years and still we know so little. Who was this girl? Where did the weapon come from? In recent years this event has been blamed for the deaths of over three hundred people, following exposure to the green rain that poured down upon the city, after the weapons destruction. It has also been blamed for what scientists are calling mutations in those who have a rare blood type, a mutation that they claim has altered many patients genetic makeup. Claims have been leaked that the government has a facility where they have quarantined almost sixty people, they apparently have a patient who can walk through walls whom they keep heavily sedated and another who has shown signs that she can read minds. These claims have given birth to what some believe to be the coming of superhumans.” the image changes to the famous shot of the girl in black, placing the mask upon her face, “and though many have rubbished such claims, was this mysterious girl not superhuman? Did they not already exist before the new york incident? Is the girl the press have taken to calling "Rain" still alive?”
The screen goes black.
“So gentlemen. Is she still alive?”
A long pause lingers, “Yes Mr President.”
“And what of this facility, does it exist?”
“It does Mr President.”
The President nervously bites his lip, “Are they a threat? These...superhumans?”
“Not for long...Mr President.”
Character profile-Rain. (http://www.enchantedquill.net/forum/showpost.php?p=50665&postcount=1)
The news report played again as it had so long ago. The young reporter off camera screaming hysterically as the shaky footage showed thousands of people running through Manhattans streets in panic, “it’s coming!” the reporter could be heard screaming as the camera sharply looked to the grey skies above, as the weapon came thundering down from the heavens. Out of focus it simply seemed like a great dark cloud, momentary brief glimpses of the weapon, descending aflame, high above the city as focus came and went.
Then the infamous footage as the camera, shaking almost beyond visual watchability, its operator terrified, comes to look again over the crowd.
The double take, as it hectically pans over the fleeing citizens of this soon to be doomed city with desperate panic to find something, shakily back and fourth, then the famous cameraman's curse, “what the fuck!?!” narrates the crash zoom as it struggles to find and focus on what its operator has seen, to finally rest on her.
Amidst the fleeing crowd, standing, looking toward the weapon whilst all flee about her...the girl clad in black.
Through the chaos, her head is seen bowing forward slightly as she places the now infamous white expressionless mask upon her face, then in a blink she’s gone from sight, a blur of black shooting upwards, the camera desperately pulls back as shocked gasps, and shouts rise from the crowd, “Look!” many wail and point as the camera struggles to take in the scene.
Many still flee, but more and more are now turning to look up toward the descending weapon and stop at the sight they’re now witness to. The camera banks suddenly up toward the skies.
The news report pauses momentarily at the famous sight its captured, as in this briefest of seconds, the girl no more than a distant black mark can vaguely be seen, hovering motionless before the great flaming dark weapon.
It plays again and in a blink the weapon is exploding in the skies above, the thunderous rumble taking a moment to reach, the following images broken by interference, show everyone falling to the ground covering their ears, windows exploding and then the camera loses sound and picture.
The still image of the girl clad in black, hovering before the great dark weapon fades in again and a woman's voice now speaks over it, “Five years and still we know so little. Who was this girl? Where did the weapon come from? In recent years this event has been blamed for the deaths of over three hundred people, following exposure to the green rain that poured down upon the city, after the weapons destruction. It has also been blamed for what scientists are calling mutations in those who have a rare blood type, a mutation that they claim has altered many patients genetic makeup. Claims have been leaked that the government has a facility where they have quarantined almost sixty people, they apparently have a patient who can walk through walls whom they keep heavily sedated and another who has shown signs that she can read minds. These claims have given birth to what some believe to be the coming of superhumans.” the image changes to the famous shot of the girl in black, placing the mask upon her face, “and though many have rubbished such claims, was this mysterious girl not superhuman? Did they not already exist before the new york incident? Is the girl the press have taken to calling "Rain" still alive?”
The screen goes black.
“So gentlemen. Is she still alive?”
A long pause lingers, “Yes Mr President.”
“And what of this facility, does it exist?”
“It does Mr President.”
The President nervously bites his lip, “Are they a threat? These...superhumans?”
“Not for long...Mr President.”
Character profile-Rain. (http://www.enchantedquill.net/forum/showpost.php?p=50665&postcount=1)