#23

“Names, they hold the power of ones true nature,”

Chapter 15: Her Gift 

He stopped abruptly from his way to Kendrick’s. If he were to tell anyone Michaela is still alive, who will believe him? Then again, the gut feeling might be wrong and he would make a fool out of himself.

“We could not find her body, sir.” He heard a voice said through Kendrick’s door.

“Have you covered the sea bed?”

“Yes, sir,”

“She must have been incinerated by the bomb then. What about the Enormph?”

“Gone too, sir,”

Upon hearing this, he then felt a little queasy and placed his arm on the wall, half supporting himself. He walked a few steps away from the door; trying his hardest to actually run away from the truth. Yet, he felt heavy as though he weight 700pounds. His legs could no longer take the weight and it gave way. His body slide down the wall like jelly and he sat heavily on his bum. He hung his head down, his hair fell softly to the front; becoming a soft black veil between his face and the world outside. He hitched up his right leg and rested his right hand on his knee. His head still hung down yet not as down as his heart that left him when he was brought ashore. He felt as though he was the one that left his heart behind; to drown, to sink, to deal with the situation later. Yet later has come far too soon for he felt pain in the hole where his heart once belonged. Slowly, soft, warm tears were form in his eyes and some even escaped even though he tried so hard to hold it in. A teardrop rolled down his face and splashed on his shirt. He has never felt so alone since his mother has left him. Gentle sobs escaped his soft lips and it floated through the empty corridor which slowly then turned into nothing but an echo. He cried silently in the corridor, taking his time to grief over someone he cared so much about; in a sisterly way, of course. 

I looked at Lune and I figured he was telling me a joke. I started giggling; telling him he almost got me, yet Lune’s expression was serious. A warm breeze past right by us, tousling his dark blue hair.

“Estrella, what makes you think I was joking? I take these kinds of things seriously,” his voice was dangerously low. A pair of golden fire flickered in his eyes and I felt the atmosphere immediately changed. The air was chiller and fog started to rise.

“L-Lune?” I chocked.

“You see, Estrella, it’s part of my gift. You have it too; it’s in your genes.” Lune continued with his low voice. His eyes never left mine as mine never left his.

“G-gift?” I stammered. “Lune! Stop it! You’re scaring me!”

Immediately, the air turned warmer and the fog dispersed. Lune fell on his knees and he was breathing hard.

“That... that was tougher than I thought,” he gasped.

“You did that to scare me!?” I yelled; my voice silencing the crickets. “How could you!?”

I felt my blood roaring in my veins, slowly turning into something hot like lava. I saw red spot dancing in my eyes and many million voices started whispering to me; their voices were in different tones yet the same tune.

Incinerate... incinerate... incinerate... incinerate... incinerate....

The voices started slow and it gradually became faster and faster and soon I wasn’t able to catch up on every word they say.

Incinerateincinerateincenerateincenerateincenerate....

I felt hot all over. I wanted to get rid of the heat so bad, I closed my eyes and yelled. My mind was filled with Lune’s frightening eyes and the so called innocent look he gave me when he told me: “That was harder than I thought...”

I held my head tight with both hands due to the voices and Lune. I screamed and my voice was companioned by one last loud voice.

INCINERATE!

I opened my eyes and directed them towards Lune. Immediately, I felt the boiling heat in me seeped through my skin and I saw a flash of silver string heading towards Lune. Time then moved so slow; slow enough for me to see what was going on. The string was red with a hint of gold and yellow yet it moved so fast, it turned into silver. I saw Lune’s eyes went wide; not with fright but with amazement. Time then quicken it’s pace and the silver string hit Lune on his chest, setting his shirt on fire. Lune did not panic like I did, instead, he calmly raised his right hand; fingers gracefully followed with the hand and the arm, like one long snake. I heard a splash and saw water rising from the creek, my eyes went wide with amazed and my jaw literally dropped. The water quickly grouped each other, forming into one large drop of water in the night sky. With a flick of the hand, the water came rushing down on Lune, extinguishing the flames that were caught on him. Steam rise from his body and yet he did not look wet. His shirt was obviously burnt off and I was glad his pants didn’t it’ll be seriously awkward if it did. Apparently, Lune wasn’t wet at all and I was amazed.

“Wh-wh-what the hell was that!?” I cried and fell on my knees. I stared at my hands like they were a pair of aliens.

I glanced up at Lune with tears running down my cheeks and I saw him smiled with full triumph. He walked towards me, held his hand out and looked at me with a gentle smile on his lips. His body glistered under the moon and I grabbed his hand.

“Nothing to worry about, Estrella, its part of your gift,” he said as he prompt my hand on his shoulder and guided me away from the place.

 He opened his red rimmed eyes and saw a handkerchief in front of his face. He wiped his eyes with the back of his sleeve and pushed his fringed aside. He looked up and saw Kendrick smiling sadly at him; his eyes too, were red.

“There is no need to cry over spilled milk,” Kendrick said as he knelt down in front of him. “Focus on Morgan now, she is in much danger. Sources told me she disappeared into the darkness,”

His ears picked up and he could not believe Kendrick. He took the handkerchief from Kendrick and roughly rubbed his eyes one last time. He swore to himself he would not cry again, not any time soon. He opened his mouth to reply Kendrick but he could not bring himself to speak up; he did not trust himself.

“I need you to keep a watch out on Morgan. I fear her gift maybe surfacing and she might need a lot of help considering her father was never really around,”

He nodded, stood up while ignoring the pins and needles on his legs and walked off with a slow pace, like an old man walking with his bones creaking. Finally, the pins and needles wore off and he ran up the stairs, taking two at a time. He just lost Michaela and he doesn’t want to lose Morgan.

Morgan, hang in there, I’m on my way...

His huffed and puffed towards his bike, jumped on his bike, started his bike and drove off in the dark, inky sky towards Morgan’s house.

Hang in there...

“Cocoa?” Lune said as he passed me a cup. I looked in the cup and saw tiny marshmallows bobbing on the surface.

“I hope you like marshmallows,” Lune said as he sat opposite me. His citrine eyes glowed with excitement. A popped sound was made from the firewood and Lune wore a black tee shirt (thankfully).

There was silence hanging in the heavy air as Lune watched me with those mysterious eyes.

“What is happening to me?” I whispered to Lune, I was looking everywhere but his intense eyes.  His house apparently was made out of wood. It felt cozy and comforting at the same time. I saw a spider descending down from it’s web. 

Incinerate.

I felt a warm tinge in my veins and I directed it out on the spider.

The spider immediately caught on fire and it was reduced to ashes which fell softly on the middle of the table. I gasped and could not hold the excitement in me. Sure it as scary yet it was... comforting too.

“Do you know Lune means moon in French?” Lune said while taking a sip of his hot cocoa. “The Moon has the power to control the tide of a sea, no matter how vast it is, in other words, the Moon has a gravitational influence that produces the ocean tides and the minute lengthening of the day,”

I blinked my eyes due to the scientific words he used.

Impressive.

“Names, they hold the power to ones true nature,” Lune continued, “Example, Eve means Forest; Lys means Light; Terra means Earth; Aeris means Air and Estrella means Star,”

I placed the mug on the table on waited for Lune to continue.

“Star however, is a comet that is called Estel in Catalan. A star begins as a collapsing cloud of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. Once the stellar core is sufficiently dense, some of the hydrogen is steadily converted into helium through the process of nuclear fusion. The remainder of the star's interior carries energy away from the core through a combination of radiative and convective processes. The star's internal pressure prevents it from collapsing further under its own gravity. Once the hydrogen fuel at the core is exhausted, those stars having at least 0.4 times the mass of the Sun expand to become a red giant, in some cases fusing heavier elements at the core or in shells around the core. The star then evolves into a degenerate form, recycling a portion of the matter into the interstellar environment, where it will form a new generation of stars with a higher proportion of heavy elements.”

I blinked; the scientific explanation was too much for just one night.

Apparently, Lune managed to read my facial expression correctly. “A Star is much more powerful than the Sun in such ways. Therefore, Estrella, you’re able to control fire. Morgan means bright. Bright means fire,” he explained much more slowly this time.

Silence hung in the air as I slowly grasped on every word he said. He then gave up and looked me in the eye once more.

“Estrella, do you know who your mother is?”

“Isabella?”

“Yes, our mother’s name is Isabella,”

I felt weird when he said our mother instead of your mother.

“Her name means an asteroid, which means you’ve inherited her gift; the last Star at the moment.”

“What do you want from me?” I whispered, equally soft like the Enormph’s.

“It is not I who want something from you; it is him who needs something from you. Something you have yet discovered. A waste of talent, he told me and I have to agree.”

“What talent do I have?”

“Something magnificent that you have inherited from your own mother, Isabella,"

I froze when the Enormph spoke of my mother’s name.

“What does my mother have to do with all this!?”

I gasped, knowing everything Lune told was the truth. 

He panted heavily as he arrived to Morgan’s house.

Where is she?

He climbed into her room window and could not see her there. He cautiously walked towards the dark bathroom, opened the door but no one was there. There wasn’t any sign showing someone has recently gone into the room. Yet somehow, the radio was on.

Maybe she left the radio on? Yet his comrades told him they saw her in her room, sleeping, a couple of hours ago.

He sat on the roof top, looking at the rainbow that surrounds the pale blue moon. 

“You did well,” he said as his wasabi green eyes twinkled with excitement.

“I’ve might done better if you’ve just let me stay longer with him, win his trust,” she pulled back her red hair to the right of her shoulder.

“I had to do that, you were getting closer and closer to him,” he said care freely.

“After all, I’ll have to eliminate you if you’re too... attached to him and I, as a gentleman, always give women second chances. So use it well, bitch, or the next time,” he placed his finger under his chin, just at his throat and pull towards him.

She clenched her fists tightly and tried to control her anger.

“Yes, sir,”

“You may leave,”

As she was heading towards the door, an Enormph barged in, panting.

“How many times I said to knock?” his wasabi green eyes flashed with anger.

“Sir, her powers have awaken,”

“Good, I’m glad to hear that,” he flashed a small smile to himself and looked at the Enormph. The Enormph then started shrieking as it was consumed with black colored fire. The whole time the Enormph was on fire, he was chanting; incinerateincinerateincinerateincinerateincinerateincinerate...

#22

“ We've once again reunited, sister.”

Chapter 14: Her Vision

I snapped my eyes wide open, trying to clear the image I saw. My voice was rasped due to the fact I’ve been screaming my lungs out. Sweat was breaking onto forehead slowly trickling down my face, leaving a silver trail. I took deep breaths, trying to clear my head. I then covered my eyes with my right hand.

What in the world was that I saw?

Is it even real?

Why do I still feel the pain through my body?

I was on the way to my bed after a long day with Leon at the park. It then hit me hard at the back of my head. It felt as though someone used a wooden plank and wham my head merciless. Speaking of which, my head hurt like hell. I immediately blacked out and when I came to my senses, it wasn’t mine. I was surrounded with a mass of Enormphs; they were all hissing and snarling at me. I was by a beach which is quite far from where I’m staying. I was holding onto a gun, preparing myself for a fight of my life. I should be worrying about myself, not someone named Michaela. I felt someone’s warm back touching mine, wisps of soft red hair blocking part my view.

Red hair, why does it seemed so familiar?

It then hit me once again, Michaela was the woman who’ve saved me and then threatened me. Everything went by like a blur, so many scenes and movements were too fast for me to register on. Before I knew it, I was under water, screaming out Michaela’s name and blacked out due to the fact I’ve no more air to grasp on.

The scene then changed as soon as the darkness settled in. I was dangling in air, my shoulders hurt by the claws of an Enormph. I started to panic when I saw a huge ball of white light reaching towards me.

Bomb.

I was going to die yet I felt strangely calm about it. All I could think about him, I tried summoning a mental image of him but it was replaced by an image of a woman around her 50’s and a man whom looked like a fisherman.

Mom, dad.

Those two words were so painful to me I actually closed me eyes and tears trickled down. I heard the Enormph grunted with panic as it was not as fast to get out of the reach of the bomb.

I love you.

And it once again, hit me. I screamed and screamed due to the pain and the blinding light. 

Then I was awake, lying on the cold hard floor.

Was it real?

Once again the question came to me. I wondered what happened and why were two people surrounded by Enormphs.

I stood up, trying to balance myself on my wobbly legs. I then realized it was dark; the sun has set and stars twinkled cheekily in the dark sky. I turned on my radio and went towards the roof. My thoughts were still a blunder towards me, unsolved questions and answerless wonders.

“What happened? Why am I seeing all these?” I asked quietly to the bright moon.

“At night when the stars
light up my room
I sit by myself”

Bruno mars sang with full passion. Well, Bruno Mars, you’re not the only one talking to the moon at the moment, I thought.

“Talking to the Moon
trying to get to you
in hopes you're on
the other side.
Talking to me too
or am I a fool
who sits alone
talking to the moon”

I started to cry, consuming myself with fear and despair. Am I a freak for being able to see those? I hugged my legs, trying to warm myself while I was shaking with fear. The back of my head began to hurt once again and I felt myself being pulled towards darkness once again. This time, it wasn’t as painful as the one before. I felt my eyes fluttering and my body falling on the cold roof top. It must be seizure, I thought to myself as my head hit the roof and I could no longer feel my body as darkness consumed my sight.

“Talking to the Moon, folks, by Bruno Mars…”

Darkness then was spotted with small balls of colored lights. Soft green, baby blue, light violet, warm pinkish glow was all around me. I stood up and I was filled with curiosity about those lights. I then heard a murmur as a pink light float by me. I strained my ears and followed the pink light.

“Lost… Family’s dead… Am I dead too?”

The light then stopped abrupt. I too, stopped and peer into the light for it no longer made any sounds or noise. I saw something moved in the light and I leaned closer to the light. I then saw a girl at the age of 6 years old, wondering around in her house. She has a shoulder-length black hair with straight bangs and she wore a white night gown that reaches to her ankle. She was holding onto the railing as she descended down long stairs. Suddenly, the girl looked at me, with a pair of baby blues.

“Where’s my mommy?” she said, her voice was filled with sadness and despair that no child at her age could ever experienced. My heart felt broken and I reached out; wanting very much to wipe the tears off her cheeks.  As soon as my fingers come in contact with the pink sphere, the scene around me changed.

I was on the way down the stairs, wondering what the scream I heard from my bedroom was. I was frightened and curious at the same time; my heart was racing faster and faster every second. The storm outside was not helping me either; thunder boomed and lightning crashes together, illuminating my house. Not only that, the nightmare I had before still scares me. Finally, I reached the bottom of the stairs and I saw a female body in a pool of blood. Her eyes were closed and her mouth was open as though she was still screaming a blood curling scream.

I felt my eyes went wide with fright and I rushed to find my daddy. I then went to the kitchen for the kitchen was my daddy’s most favorite place in the whole house. I then found my daddy behind the kitchen counter.

“Daddy? Daddy? Mommy’s gone,” I cried as I shook him. Finally, with much strength, my daddy’s body fell and he hit his head on the cold marble floor. I wiped my tears and I saw two black sockets. I miffed my scream as I rushed out from the kitchen. Upon running, I tripped on a ball and I hit my head hardly on the wall. I felt pain burst through my head as I got up and I saw a couple of eye balls by the door. I wailed with despair and cried, hoping this was all but a terrible nightmare. I heard thunder boomed and saw lightning flashed. I then had an angry feeling; a wishing to avenge both my parents. Suddenly, I saw a man by the pillar.

I realized it was none other than my loving brother, with that I ran to him with open arms. My heart pounded but I felt a little better. I asked my brother if he has seen both our parents. He nodded his head and said yes. I then saw a knife which he took out skillfully.

“Goodbye dear Emily,” he whispered and down the knife came upon me.

I remembered screaming until the very last second.

“Morgan! Morgan! ” I heard someone said while shaking my body.

“Snap out of it, Morgan!”

I blinked my eyes.

Once.

Twice.

And I saw a guy standing over me, shaking my body to and fro.

“Morgan,” he sighed and smiled.

Kendrick voice rang through the darkness and it disturbed his sleep.

“The boy will get over it,”

“But sir…”
“Don’t you ‘sir’ me, Adam; I have absolute no mood for this! Explain again to me why Michaela didn’t report to me as soon as dawn breaks in!? She should have known better than that!”

Michaela didn’t report to Kendrick?

“Sir, I spotted her looking devastated on her bike to some where,”

“And why didn’t you go after her?” Kendrick’s voice was dripped with poison kindness.

“I… I was taken surprised by an Enormph,” Adam stuttered.

“The problem with you blardy newbie is that you guys think after being taken in you’re so ‘awesome’,” he sneered, “When you clearly needed more training!”

Silence.

“Taken surprised by an Enormph! Bull shit! First time I’ve heard it,” Kendrick’s voice rang through the room.

He then heard the door slammed and footsteps begun to fade away. He heard Adam sighed and a soft thumped somewhere off to his right.

“What did the Enormph took shape as?” he asked, his voice was raspy. He turned towards his right and saw Adam flushing. His cheeks were red and he was looking at his shoes.

“One smoking hot chick,” he said, still blushing.

He then chuckled and looked at the ceiling, watching the fan spinning round and round again.

“I was at some alley, done my part on drinking some booze. It was somewhere after dawn, I guess. I was kinda drunk, I guess when I saw Michaela,” Adam continued. “This chick then came out of no where and pin me on the wall, she was one strong woman. I thought she was going to plant a kiss on me and all but when she smiled, her mouth was freaking filled with teeth,”

“All women’s mouth is filled with teeth. If not, how are they going to chew?”

Michaela’s still alive, a teeny tiny voice whispered to him as Adam talked.

“I meant needle-like teeth, bro,” Adam stood up. He ran his fingers through his short curly blonds. His bright blue eyes darted from left to right as though he was expecting something to happen. “She then bit me on the neck, but I saw the golden eye just in time. Freaking biatch gave me one heck of a scar.” Adam pulled his shirt collar to his left side to show him. He turned and saw the mark.

Interesting.

A small ring of holes pierced on Adam’s skin and it looked wicked.

You can feel it, she’s still alive. Report to Kendrick. Hold a search party for her. Do anything you can to save her… while she lives…

“I managed to take out my gun and shot her on the gut. She was pissed at me but she let go of her bite on me though, she then rammed my head on the pavement and I shot her in the bloody golden eye.” Adam said, filled with satisfaction.

He then got up from the bed and placed his head in both his open hands, thinking about Michaela and how he lost her. He raised his head and clam both his fist hard. He stood up, walked towards the door and walked out of the room, leaving Adam hanging in his sentence.

Noisy bastard, he thought. He was in no mood for someone as irritating as Adam. He needed to talk to Kendrick about Michaela for he had this gut feeling Michaela was still alive; badly hurt but alive.

“Morgan,” he greeted me with a smile.

I shuddered for I could not shake the feeling of the poor girl. Her whole family was butchered by her own brother; her own maniac brother. I focused my eyes on the guy in front of me.

“Can you stand?” he asked as he got up and held out a hand for me.

I nodded and I took his hand, pulling myself off the floor. It then hit me.

Who is he? I wondered. How does he know my name!?

“Who are you?” I asked as I wrapped my arms around me to keep myself warm.

“You’re cold,” he said much with surprised as though the place was supposed to be warm.

“What was that?” I murmured; my head felt as though someone has brained me.

“That was Lil Emily,” he said and looked at the pink sphere that floated above us.

“Her brother killed her whole family and her too. She’s a lost soul here,”

“Lost soul?”

“You’ve just experienced her memory. Her very last memory,”

“Memory?”

“The voices you’ve heard, the scenes you see moving in the sphere, they are all past memories of the unsettled lost souls. Once touch, we’re able to experience their very last second, after all, that is part of our gift.”

“Part of our gift?”

“I’ll explain more when we’ve reached our destination. But, you are warned, the more you touch the spheres willingly, the harder it gets to come out. With or without help that is,”

“What if the spheres touch me?”

“Notice how they stay their distance from us? And as I said, willingly,”

“How do you know so much?”

“I just... know,”

The guy in front of me wore a black sleeveless shirt with jeans and a pair of blue converse shoes. He smiled at me as though I made a joke only he knows.

“Are you real?” I whispered for I was afraid of the silence and the weird lights.

“Are you real?” he whispered to me.

I reached up and touched my face and I nodded.

“Then I must be real too,” he said with satisfaction and slightly tilted his head to right.

I shivered and bite back a yelp when one of the lights came close to me.

“No need to be afraid, I’m here,”

“Where is here, exactly?”

“We are in a limbo at the moment. If you’ll follow me, you’ll somehow understand where you are at,”

He started to pull me towards a soft yellow light. Yet I stood my ground, afraid to move, scared of the things happening around me.

“Morgan? It’s okay, I’m here,” he once again smiled and urged me to walk with him.  I finally gathered my courage and walked with him; falling a step behind him. The strange floating lights started to follow us; lighting our every path not to mention I caught fragments of voices; some were pleading, some were crying, some were screaming, some were questioning. I was freaked out yet I have to bit back my fears and follow him. After all, the way he talked is as though he knows the way out and I want to get out of this freaky place.

The light in front of us began to grow brighter and brighter and soon, I was blinded by it yet we continued walking. I then heard crickets playing a melody and somewhere far off, I heard water splashing as though there’s a creek nearby. I opened my eyes and my sight finally adjusted towards the dark night. Yet it wasn’t really that dark, a bright moon illuminated the place; throwing every dark corners a soft shade of bluish white. 

I gasped for I’ve never seen such a beautiful place in my life. I looked up at the sky and a halo circled around the moon like the planet called Saturn. The stars gently dotted on the dark blue sky, causing a gentle atmosphere to the place.

“It’s called a nimbus,” the guy said as he stood by my side.

“Nimbus,” I repeated his word, softly.

“By the way, funny how you’ll follow a guy to a mysterious place,” he said and looked at me.

I tore my eyes off from the nimbus and looked at him.

“You seemed different,” I said without hesitation, “The kind that saves rather than harm females. You looked familiar though, I… I just can’t tell,”

“Lune,” he said and extended his hand and I shook his hand.

“Morgan, nice to meet you,” I said, still looking at his eyes. Funny how I was unable to notice his face until now; his eyes was the color of citrine; a yellowish goldish color. He has a nose shaped like a Greek nose and a lip that was used to smiling.

“Oh, I know you.” He said as he walked around me, “I’m not sure if you know me though, after all, it’s been a long time since we’ve met.”

“We’ve met?”

“Aye, we’ve met,” he said, mimicking a pirate ascent.

“Mind telling me when?”

“You’ll find out soon, Estrella,”

“Who’s Estrella?” I asked, feeling more and more confused by every word he said.

“You,” Lune said, his eyes were serious and I felt a dark aura surrounded him.

“We’ve once again, reunited, sister.”

Lil Emily's story

And it still continues,
Lil Emily: Her Great Loss

Here too,
Lil Emily: Her Dark Days 

#21

Someone, please, help me.

Chapter 13: His Defeat

He took out his gun as Michaela turned around. Both of them are facing the woods with their arms outstretched, pointing their guns at the dark trees. They stayed at their position for quite awhile, ready for the attack. The wind died down yet the leaves of the trees are still moving by an unnatural breeze. He then saw fast movements in the through the trees; moving from left to right and right to left.

Get ready, he told himself as he narrowed his eyes at a particular black shadow which was growing larger and larger any minute. He readied his finger at the trigger and wait for the attacker.

With a burst of a wind, an Enormph appeared. Its wings were beating fast, improving its speed every second. With its claws outstretched, it went head on to him. He saw the Enormph smiled with triumph as it was 5 feet away from its victim. Obviously it was downed with excitement it didn’t see the gun he was holding.

He aimed his gun at the Enormph’s golden eye before firing. The grin of the Enormph was immediately wiped off by some invisible hand and was replaced by a frown, the excitement in the Enormph’s eyes was replaced by fear and the golden eye widen with shock. The last thing Enormph saw was a silver bullet, moving against the still air as it started decreasing the space between them.

The Enormph fell flat on its face just in front of him. His gun gave off a smoky smell yet he did not leave his eyes from the trees. On his right, he heard Michaela breathing heavily when she was done with her Enormph. He saw a golden furred lion laying just a couple feet away from her, it slowly shifted back to its original shape; an Enormph with a face of a lion and cat like paws instead of hands. Michaela turned towards his attention and smiled, thinking it was just mere fight but fights like these aren’t usually easy, especially now. Without another beat of the heart, more Enormphs appeared from the dark trees; some were flying, some where scurrying on all fours yet one particular one was standing behind the whole army of Enormphs, watching the scene that was going to lie out at a safe distance.

That Enormph and him lock gazes and he immediately knew that Enormph was the one that kidnapped Morgan and attacked him when he saved her. The Enormph smiled, showing off his needle-like teeth; smiling like he was going to win.

I’m not going down without a goddamn fight! He thought as he grinded his teeth.

“Back to back!” he yelled a command to Michaela.

He immediately felt the warmth of Michaela’s back against him. With a blink of an eye, Enormphs surround them like ants swarm over a cube of sugar. Gun shots were fired yet weirdly enough, the Enormphs were fast. Michaela and his movements were too, fast, their movements were like liquid, like a dance being coordinated out; shifting the gun from one hand to another, shooting at great distance and kicking at near distance. Their movements were so fast; you could see a blur of red and black, constantly changing their standing style. 

His gun suddenly clicked; he ran out of precious bullets. He then heard a Michaela muttered shit. Her gun too, ran out of bullets. The Enormphs took cautious step back, their eyes looking at the empty guns. A sea of needle like teeth gleamed under the dim sun when they found out both humans is weaponless. Michaela and he stood back to back, breathing heavily as sweat trickled down their brow which is then mixed with blood stains on their faces. Even though greatly outnumbered, they will not give up, no. He then curled his fists into tight balls, positioned himself into a boxing stance. Michaela however, produced two wicked looking knives from both sides of her boots. The Enormphs then no longer smiling for the knives looked extremely sharp. They then looked uncertain for the two of them have killed a rather huge amount of them.

He heard Michaela breathing rapidly; he was worried if this was her limit. One of the Enormphs than hissed through it’s teeth, like cats hissing at their enemies. Soon, many Enormphs joined together, the hissing begun to grow louder and louder and they attacked. Their claws outstretched, teeth gleamed with saliva. Not a hint of hesitation nor a doubt of fear.

He punched and kicked as hard as he could, lashing out his own personal fury and anger towards the raging Enormphs. Yet killing an Enormph was hard for they have eyes in front of them let alone the back of their neck. Not only that, huge mass of animals with heavy weight constantly pin him down, scratched him, biting chunks of his flesh yet he won’t give up. No matter how badly he is hurt. Through the hissing sounds, he heard slashing and screams of dying Enormphs. Michaela was able to hold herself, not needing any of his help because she has a pair of weapons. He needs to get a weapon to defend himself and fast. Knocking Enormphs down are not enough, they need to be eliminated. He then spotted Michaela’s bag from a distance. He then kicked the lion off him and sprayed contents of the Liquid to the rest of the Enormphs, causing them to burn in pain. It maybe temporary but he needs that short amount of distraction. He then run, run as fast as he can, running towards Michaela’s bag and rooted through her things, finding anything he could get his hands on to defend himself. He then score out a pair of guns and a small devices.

Yes!

He then tinkled with the device, setting the right time and everything. He was to preoccupied by both the device until to the point he didn’t notice a flying Enormph was behind him. With a snarl, the Enormph grabbed him from behind and sunk its teeth in his exposed neck area, causing him to drop the small device. He grunted in pain and anguish as he reached behind, he then held on to the Enormph’s head and with all his might, he pull the Enormph forward; causing the Enormph to let go of with along with a chunk of meat. While falling with his head facing down, he aimed and shot the Enormph that was nearing towards him. With wide eyes, the last thing the Enormph saw was a silver bullet on its way to the golden eyes.

He then hit the ocean with a splash. Though it was a hard fall, he quickly recovered and began his search for the devices. It’s important for it’s the only way out and the only way to survive. He finally found the device and chucked it safely in his pocket. He then waded towards shore and run towards Michaela.

“Michaela!” he yelled as he threw the device towards Michaela as soon as he caught her attention. As soon as she caught the device, she saw it was a round black box with a red button to press on; her blades were no longer sharp and long for the Enormphs broke it, this was her ticket out. She saw him running towards her through the bodies of angry Enormphs and she understood.

She pressed the button.

A blinding white light exploded from the black box and Michaela was forced to close her eyes. She felt someone pulling her away from the flash, far far away. It was a time bomb; he altered the bomb to explode after 15 seconds which was enough time for the both of them to get to safety.

“Quickly!” he said as they swim further from the angry blind Enormphs. Halfway from swimming, he looked at the distance behind him and saw an Enormph that stood on both feet wasn’t there. He then realized that the particular Enormph wasn’t involved in the fight too.

Where is he?

 “It’s the bomb right?” she asked, spitting out the salty sea water from her mouth when she spoke.

8.

He nodded, eyes still finding that Enormph. He then gave up, for it was too far to search for that Enormph. He then held her hand and told her to take a huge breath and he dived in the water, pulling Michaela with him.

6.

They dive deeper and deeper until Michaela let out a bubbly gasp. He turned and saw an Enormph swimming towards him, he then realized this Enormph has evolved. The Enormph had a fish-like tail and it is using the muscles in the tail to swim towards them, gaining up with their speed. Six limbs appeared; four hands and two legs. The Enormph disarmed him as soon as it saw the gun; it then kicked him hard on the stomach and used all four of its hands to punch him, hard on the chest and stomach. He let out a few bubbles of air and his eyes were closed; he was defeated. Water was never his element and he felt soft lips upon his s air was passed through his mouth. He opened his onyx eyes and saw Michaela smiling but her smile was soon vanished and her eyes were widen with surprised as a pair of hands grabbed on the stomach and she was pulled away from him.

4.

He swam as fast as he could; the Enormph had taken Michaela and was soon airborne. But before the Enormph reached the surface, it turned around and stared at him and he realized it was the Enormph that stood on both feet; the Enormph that attacked Morgan the other day.

“Boy, you will never be able to kill something far older than anyone else in this planet,” it hissed and burst out from the ocean.

2.

He was too late yet he didn’t want to give up. Somehow the strength in him started to fade away as he reached towards the surface.

“MICHAELA!” he screamed in the water, bubbles floated above his head.

“MICHAELA!”

1.

“MICHAELA!”

A blinding white light covered the dark sky above him and the impact was great. It pushed him back, deeper into the dark ocean. He felt hurt all over but his mind has never left Michaela; her smile, her laughter, the young girl he first saw when he saved her from an Enormph. His strength finally left him and he sank into darkness as the underwater current pushed him down, down to the sea bed.

“MICHAELA! MICHAELA!” she heard through the whirling of the Enormph’s dragonfly wings, through the grunts and deep breathing of the Enormph, through the blinded Enormphs that were still screaming with pain.

She closed her eyes and a tear escaped; she then smile. Maybe it’s her time to go, who knows? She faced up towards the dark sky and she opened her eyes. She saw a golden sun trying hard to shine through the dark clouds. She closed her eyes again, trying to fill her mind with happy thoughts.

Her father, her mother, most of all him.

She could still taste him on her cold, trembling lips when she gave him air to survive. The Enormph was flying higher and higher as fast as it could, to avoid the bomb that was placed.

1.

It wasn’t quick enough.

“MICHAELA!” the last she heard was his voice, crying out to her.

“I love you,” she whispered him even though she knew he couldn’t hear her.

A blinding white light suddenly appeared, and she felt pain all over. She heard the Enormph too, crying out with pain.

“Goodbye,”

She smiled.

“Boy!” he heard a gruff voice called out towards him. He doesn’t want to move or to open his eyes.  He felt something shook him and he finally opened his eyes with much annoyance. A pair of baby blues was staring down at him, with much concern too.

“Kendrick?” he tried to said but started to cough up sea water. He felt Kendrick pat his back to help him get rid of all the water.

He was finally finished and he looked at Kendrick.

“Where am I?” he asked.

Kendrick looked away, as though seeing this boy would hurt him. It all suddenly came to him; the fight, the Enormphs, Michaela.

Her image flashed into his mind and he gripped hold of Kendrick’s hand.

“Michaela!? Where is Michaela!?” he asked and shook Kendrick hard. “Is she okay?”

“Boy, we both know she did not survive the bomb. You were lucky for the water was like a shield. Let her go, boy. She was much to a daughter to me like she was your sister.”

He failed. He failed to save his mother and he failed to save Michaela. He once again felt defeated and sank back on the soft sand. Darkness greeted him with open arms.

What is going on? What is happening to me? Why am I able to see those? Someone help me, someone please give me the answer to my questions, letting me to be able to understand. Someone, please, help me…

To tell you the truth, it was living hell for me to write out a fighting scene. hope ya'll like it though.