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A Deceased Cat: A Short Story

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"The great unknown, when one sits upon its edge, there the curious is most prone, to it 's hidden knowledge." - A Deceased Cat. INT.FLIGHT DECK A pulled back, silver handled leaver sits alone with the sound of FOOTSTEPS walking towards it. They gradually grow louder until an indistinguishable persons shadow looms over it; their paces coming to a halt as it does. A moment passes before their hand slowly reaches out and pushes forward on the shiny leaver. Their is a small gold ring on their ring finger. CUT TO EXT.SPACE A bright and colourful nebula at a painstakingly slow pace moves and twists with faint twinkling stars shining through it. One star resting at its centre appears as no more than that …show more content…

IO NO.1 Why? Why 'd you do it then? IO NO.2 (Condescendingly) Please! Io No.2 steps forward one more before launching towards his counterpart with the knife in hand, which he manages to dodge. Blood spatter, falls to the concrete floor below to the sound flesh being STABBED. Io No.1 sits panting over Io No.2 lifeless body. He grabs his knife, gets up and begins to walk away, a bloody pencil in his other hand.Looking back at his lifeless self he pauses for a moment, he then begins to drag his dead self off the bridge. Quite some time passes before he manages to reach the floor below. He begins to open one of the freezing units. Icey cold fog pours out as the door cracks open. Io takes a step back as he stares shocked at the freezers contents Snapping out of his trance he continues to drag his dead self inside before emerging again, shuts the blast and walks off. CUT TO INT.MESS HALL The knife holster now has all the knifes present in it. Io walking away from it throws the grabs the piece of paper from the table folds it and puts it into his chest pocket. He turns to exit, as he does he throws his bloodied pencil into the bin. It lands on numourous pencil the exact same as it. CUT TO black An scretching alarm goes

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