The Purpose (Closed project)

Chapter 12: Contact

The long parking lot behind the small stadium was empty. Three car wrecks on each side of it. I parked in the middle of it and looked towards a ruined residential building. A white building, mostly destroyed, ruined, lying in ashes, filled with bullet holes. A sight for tears. My home was destroyed. The little hope I had was disappointed. I kept driving around the building to the main road on the other side. I parked the car in the middle of the crossing and walked out of the car. A big piece of concrete and steel bars was lying in the middle of the road. The forest which used to be on the other side of the road was just a desert with remnants of tree trunks like graves of trees. 

'What could have caused this disaster? Everything.... ruined.' I thought through the mist of memories and sorrow.  Leh-nna growled. My left eye lost sight and piercingly hurt me without notice. I moaned and covered my eye with my hand. I dropped to the knees. The pain was excruciating. 

'Aevos! Are you alright?' she jumped towards me. 

'It hurts! I can't...' the pain was too strong. I moaned loudly. 

'Not now!' screamed through my mind. 'Somebody is coming.'  she bit my hand and started pulling me behind the side of the car, leaning me against it. 

'It has begun. It's too soon!' Leh-nna said. 

-What?!- I yelled out. 

'SIlence. Psi-com. Your eye is bleeding.' she was watching with concern. 

Tha pain was slowly tingling now, weakening. I looked at my hand. It was covered in blood and another rare golden liquid. 

'What have you done to me?!' I was worried and angry. 

'Your eye is complete. The transformation is done.'  Leh-nna avoided the question. 

'What are you talking about?!' I was angry. Leh-nna closed her eyes and shook her head. 

'Damn, quiet your mind.' she said. 'That was loud.' 

'Will you tell me what's happening to me?' I kept questioning. The pain vanished but I kept the eye closed. 

'I can't! Xel-Kas forbid me. I'm sorry. He will tell you, soon.' she said. 

-Damn!- I quietly said in frustration and opened my left eye which filled me with even more concern. The sight was not in colour anymore. It was grey, white, black, with a set of flaming red when I looked at my legs. I was stunned. 

'You could call it infrared. It detects heat radiation of life.' Leh-nna said, but when I looked at her I couldn't see her heat. 

'Are you cold blooded?' I was confused. 

'I'm a Sepellion hunter. My scales dissolve the heat, so you can't see me.' she said. 

'So this is a Sepellion trate?' I concluded. 

'I talk too much.' Leh-nna said. 'Let it go. You will know it all, soon. We've got company now.' 

I looked towards the dead forest and noticed a heat radiation closing in, in a slow motion. It looked like a man. 'I found somebody. Someone alive.' I was just about to stand up when Leh-nna pushed me back on the ground. 

'Are you crazy? Keep still. We don't know who he is. He might be a lonely psychotic killer.' she warned me. 

'For all we know, he might be a friend, too.' I was fighting back in despair.