Lonely Tides

~Chapter Six~

The canibal freak of a man crouches over me and I try and scuttle away on my back. Chadwick was suddenly running at top speed forwards like a hurricane. Unbelievably fast, like lighting hits umbrella. You don't realise till the shock is over or atleast, it goes back fast.

"GET AWAY FROM MY GIRLFRIEND BASTARD!" Chad bellowed and I was now screaming my heart out with rivers of tears flowing freely down my now pale face. I was too scared to comment on his fowl language.

Chadwick charges at his component, the canibal as we'll stay. His top speed a blur of my vision, my eyes going crazy as I try to follow him, like trying to look at the weird vapour of steam when you boil a kettle, that makes objects behind wobble. Illusion. I was still crawling away, just very slowly. 

It started by multiple slaps round the face. Over and over like a blur of stray tan...only it wasn't. Chadwick grabbed the canibal man's gun before he'd realised he'd even been slapped! Wacks to his face by the barrel of his own rifle as Chadwick tortured him. Theone perfect shot to his head and the man flew backwards. His eyes rolled to the back of his head, limbs splayed out and blood spirting from his head. A pool of red sticky liquid forming around the now-dead mans head. His beard was matted with the liquid, it made me want to throw up. That wasn't the worst bit.

As if I was flashing in time the bones started to show, his flesh disapearing as if being eaten by bacteria so fast in front of our eyes. Hair disapeared, rib bones appeared. Soon his pelvix was easily viewed as grey-white bones. Soon he was perfectly eaten away. Even the clothes that once clung to his legs and chest. This time I really was going to throw up. I was still on my back though, so scarred I couldn't move. The vomit came up my throught. Like acid in a test tube. I couldn't hold back and my guts practically spilt out of my mouth.

"Lean to the side! Lean to the side! You'll choke to death if you don't!" Chadwick shouted and rushed towards me; turning me over.

Finally it was over. Too many near death experiences. I cough again and shuffle away from the mess I'd caused. Lying on my back with a hand over my head. Chad scooped me up in a bridal lift.

"It's ok now, Honey Bun..." He smiled down at me sweetly in his muscular arms. His hair flopped over his face like one of those romantic movies and all the girls swoon. I manage a half smile as I rest my head against his shoulder.

"So... how...how did you get...get that fast?" I ask, kind of struggling to speak; my throught burned and eyes stung. My butt also hurt from the fall, as well as my hands that had scraped across the gravel floor of the winding road. I had to keep my strength though, to find Ares... My brothers middle name was Eddie, that's why I'd used that name- because he hated his real name. But now he seemed like a God of War because he'd escaped against the odds. Still out there and fighting for life.

"I was captured by that underground commity. The S.O.U.L. Basically- Sociaty of underground legions. In other words its an underground base of  1000 workers and top scientists that perform illegal experiments on traumatised survivors. They call them self legions anyway even though they don't exactly fight. I guess they want to sound tough." He flicks his chesnut hair out of his face.

"Umm...and this caused your unvelievable speed how?" I ask again, wandering what the heck he meant.

"They perform experiments? They took the speed gene of some crazy animal or something and added it to human tissues so it could be injected to people. I was their subject. Anyhoo, I have no idea how they did it for real but thats the picture I got and now I'm super speedy." He grins his strangly totally-hot grin of his, as if everything made perfect sense. I consider it for a second but I figured my puney brain couldn't get round it so I just shrug and we continue on our journey.