Execution: Escape from Furnace: Update #2

Things have started to cool down in Execution. Alex found a new power after exiting Furnace's flashback dream. He has the ability to control creatures of nectar with his mind. Using this hidden talent, Alex calls in berserkers to free him of Panettierre's prison. On the way, Alex is reunited with his friends, Zee, Simon and Lucy. After finding a fire truck, the quartet drive to the edge of the city.

A strong pain pulls Alex down a road, three sharp turns and straight into the driveway of a house. The flow of evil within Alex seems to die down. A happiness radiates from another life. He found his home.         

Crashing through the house due to his monstrous size, joyful memories flood Alex's mind. He reminisces all the good times he had with his parents how he grew up. The rest of his friends crash there to get some food and sleep.

Alex is very sad once he finds no evidence of his parents. No one living there and not a word from them. He clumsily makes his way up the stairs and finds his room. Taking in all the detail, Alex realizes it was all found the way he left it once shipped off to prison. Over on the dresser, Alex finds a picture of him with his parents, the last summer he had before being accused of murder. Overturning the note reveals a message. Alex, we're sorry. We forgive you, we hope you'll forgive us too. We love you so much. -Mom and Dad

This note strengthens Alex. Memories are like the cure for the nectar. Alex feels as if he is free from the mid controlling powers of Furnace. Hope you enjoyed this week's post. have a great day!

                                               

Execution: Escape from Furnace Update

Over the past two weeks of a blog break, I have gotten knee deep into Execution: Escape from Furnace. I am starting to learn the basic story line of the book as well as the plan the protagonists are devising. It starts off really strange, so bare with me here.

Alex has been contained by the military. He wakes up in a room chained down by shipping wire. A woman, named Panettierre, walks in to the room. She begins to question Alex as to what is going on. Still dazed and confused, he explains that the monsters roaming the city and transforming people to insane killers are all doing of Furnace. Alfred Furnace. All the creatures are driven by nectar, a substance that protects and strengthens the body ten times better than blood. With that, Panettierre swiftly exits the room and Alex passes out into his flashback.

Alex awakes in a rotting apple orchard. He sees a boy being crucified to a tree. A man is reading a scroll of his punishment. The boy is being framed for murder of his brother. They slice his stomach open and leave him for the wolves. The boy is Alfred Furnace. As Alfred begins to teeter on the verge of life and death, a figure more evil than the depths of hell emerges from the shadows. The figure begins to coax Alfred in exchanging lives. He said that his brother died for Alfred's eternal life. Alfred, being only a boy and about to die, says yes. The figure's body opens up, releasing a tar like substance and entering the body of Furnace. The figure is gone within seconds and Alfred stares directly at Alex. I a chilling voice, Alfred mouths, "Now you know how it all began," (Smith 62).

While all of this is going on, Alex and other nectar monsters have been tested upon. The military is trying to understand how the nectar effects people in different ways. They have done this by murdering and bisecting the monsters for days on end. When Panettierre cannot get enough knowledge out of Alex, she proceeds to do the same to him. Alex realizes his life is on the line and what the military is really up to. Once witnessing the power of the nectar, they want to use it for their own armies and create an unstoppable race. They made up lies about finding a cure. Minutes before his death, Alex needs to end Furnace and Panettierre in order to stop all the chaos.

I hope you enjoyed my blog post this week! Have a great day and see you next time!