Omega Wars Chronicles

Chapter 77:Brutalities

  Within the golden leafed forest as the battle between the humans and hivelings continued, several explosions resonated and nonphysical attacks were flying around as the humans seemed to have turned the tide against the hivelings despite the numbers. 
   "Screw off!" A female Ripar said as she kicked a hiveling in the face while in mid air.
  "Come on!" A male Ripar with a buzz cut said with a wild smile as he punched a hiveling across the cheek.
  "Get out of my way!" A male Graundar said while ramming through several hivelings with his fists.
  In the middle of the battle, a Kenar girl was bawling and bulldozing through numerous hivelings while coated with her aura and holding ice cords that were attached to the ankles of many hivelings and drag them on the ground at high speed. As this was happening, the hivelings were in disbelief with how the tides had changed despite the  advantages they had against their opponents.
  "What… What is the meaning of this?!"
   "How can this be?!"
  "What's wrong with these humans?!"
   "They are monsters!!"
  While some were complaining about the situation, Rizel was sitting and observing the battle from afar on the branch of a large tree.
  "Even with their strength and weaknesses exposed, these hivelings are so weak and incompetent." Rizel said inwardly, "Maybe we underestimated the students and their chances, but it is pretty clear that the main cause of this situation is Izaiya.
    He somehow managed to get his voice heard across the pocket realms and encourage them to fight harder."
   "Well played, Izaiya." Rizel said within herself with a smirk, "Well played, indeed."
   Meanwhile as the humans were still overwhelming the hivelings, Sonia, Kein and the twins were taking down larger portions of the hiveling attackers; as this was going on, the twins charged towards a group of hivelings while leaning forward with their arms outstretched behind them and in an instant, the  twins vanished and the hiveling reacted to invisible attacks that left them out cold.
   The twins suddenly appeared running towards a male hiveling and the hiveling fired an energy blast from his palms, only for the twins to vanish from his sight. Somalia appeared at the left side of the hiveling and strikes with a punch on his cheek and Uil immediately showed at his right side and lands a kick in mid air that sent him staggering back.
   The hiveling steadied himself and swiftly unleashed another energy blast with a blare, only for Somalia to appear at his right and attack with a flying kick across the face; immediately after the kick, Uil appeared in his front, landed an uppercut on his jaw and followed it up with a round house kick and Somalia instantly attacks with a flying knee to his face.
   The hiveling began to react to numerous invisible attacks and as it was happening, Uil performs a leg sweep on the hiveling and Somalia quickly attacks a backflip kick before the hiveling could fall flat on the ground which sent the hiveling high into the air.
   "Now!" Somalia said telepathically to Uil as her irises glowed.
  Somalia and Uil both disappeared from the ground and two streaks of light started attacking the hiveling from different directions and knocking him higher in the air. In the process of the double team attack, Uil lands a high knee to the chin of the hiveling that made him backflip and Somalia immediately grabs hold of his ankles with both hands and twirls her body.
   "Burning hammer!!" Somalia said as a streak of light drew out of her glowing eyes.
   Somalia began to spin violently with intense speed and throws the male hiveling with so much force that not only did it break the ground, but it made the hiveling bounce off a bit, however the moment the hiveling bounced off, Uil descends with a stomp to the back of the head which buried his face into the ground.
  After the defeat of the male hiveling, the twins stared at each other shortly and vanished. While Sonia was taking down multiple hivelings with her fists and feet, a female hiveling swung her fist at Sonia but Sonia parried the punch, strikes the hiveling with a knee to the belly and takes her out with an elbow to the back of the neck.
   A male hiveling swoops in to punch Sonia from her left but Sonia evades, strikes with a quick left handed chop to the throat and brings him down with a face punch. Another male hiveling moves in to kick Sonia from her right but Sonia steps back, grabbed his leg with her right hand and pulled him forward (which made him fall on one knee) and quickly takes him out with her left shin connecting to his face.
   Sonia dashed forward and was knocking down multiple hivelings with her fists and feet and started throwing blue flamed balls (while running) that were creating many blue explosions.
   "Ember frost…" Sonia said as she quickly leaped into the air with a blue outline round her body.
    "Luna Armageddon!" Sonia said as she spun herself swiftly while throwing down a myriad of blue crescent flames on the hivelings, therefore creating numerous blue explosions and killing them in the act.
  A blue beam of flames descends to the ground and creates a flaming blue wave that spread across and killed many hivelings as well; a hiveling managed to escape the blue wave and fall on his face while screaming in pain as mist was oozing out of his back.
   "So cold!!" The hiveling said before dropping dead on his face. 
   "Out of my way! Out of my way!!" Kein said as he was running and taking down his share of hivelings with his fists and feet as well.
   During the time Kein was running amok on the hivelings, a male hiveling tries to punch Kein but Kein ducks, engulfs his right fist with his aura along with a streak of light flowing from his glowing right eye.
  "Jomba punch!" Kein said as lands a hardcore punch on the belly that made the shape of his fist appear on the hiveling's back.
  The punch created a crunching sound which made the hiveling cough out blood and spittle and in a split second, many hivelings reacted to an invisible attack on their belly that made them cough out blood and spittle. Rizel who was watching the reaction in a confused manner, felt a strong invisible attack hitting her belly which made her irises glint and caused her to fall off the tree and descend to the ground.
   Rizel stood on her feet and was clutching her belly while slightly grinning with one eye closed.
   "What the hell was that?" Rizel asked inwardly, "Was this new technique Kein formed with his kan ability of resonance, or was it a hidden one? 
   Regardless if it is a new or hidden technique, for him to fight this well, this means one thing…"
  "He has mentally recovered from his fight with Karma." Rizel said with a smile as her irises glowed, "Now, this viper is ready to strike."
   "Rizel." A feminine voice called.
  Rizel glanced back and sees the twins standing with crossed arms.
   "Oh, it's you two." Rizel said with a bored look.
  "We'll send you to your grave, traitor." Somalia said.
    "That is unlikely" Rizel said as her irises glowed.
  In the red leafed forest, plentiful hivelings laid on the ground with ice spikes sticking out of their bodies and in the midst of those bodies, a human pulled down his hood and removed his grim looking beast mask which turned out to be Hyle. 
  "I never thought i would wear it, again." Hyle said within while staring at the mask.
  "They don't have full knowledge concerning us or the things we have hidden." Izaiya's voice replayed in Hyle's head.
   "Of course, they don't." Hyle said inwardly, "Nobody does.
   I remember what transpired last year…. What molded me into this."
   A flashback takes place in an arena of the Kenar territory as Hyle stood face to face with a taller Kenar teen who had an orange spiky hair.
   'It was a combat exam for me to move to the next class. Many were doing well, so it was expected i will do well too.'
  Another flashback takes place as Hyle was laying on the ground with his clothes ripped, his face covered in injuries and his eyes pupilless.
  'But i couldn't live up to it…
   I fell ill on the day of written exams and with my poor performance in the combat exams, i was the only one in my class that had to repeat.'
    'My parents tried what they could in raising my spirit and assuring me that i wasn't a failure, but despite what they were doing, i could tell they were disappointed in me.'
  A recollection takes place as Hyle's parents were smiling at him but as soon they turned their backs, their faces changed into a gloomy one. 
  'I was broken.'
  A remembrance occurs as Hyle was walking down the street with the look of depression.
  'Day after day, week after week, i couldn't stop thinking about how i lost terribly. It's not that i have a problem with defeat, of course not; there are several people stronger than me, it's just that the combat exam was my last hope and i screwed up badly. 
   Everywhere i went, i could see many talking about me and how i lost.'
  A flashback occurs as Hyle sights many people whispering while looking at him in a subtle way.
   'This went on for a very long time, so i made up my mind to challenge my defeater again.'
   Another flashback occurs as Hyle stood face to face with the orange haired Kenar.
  '…And i was defeated again.'
  An image replayed of Hyle laying on the ground, shirtless with a disfigured face and pupilless eyes. 
 Hyle later awakens with his head and several parts of his body wrapped in bandages.
   'I finally woke up and found out i was out cold for two months. My defeater made a clear demonstration of strength and showed he was holding back in the exams.'
  'I came to accept i could never beat him and i was ready to move on, which i would have if things didn't happen.'
   Another memory materialized of Hyle being surrounded by his defeater and a group of teenage male and female Kenars. Hyle tried to move forward but the orange haired Kenar stretched his arm sideways, thereby preventing Hyle from passing through and few minutes later, Hyle was laying on the ground with his eyes pupilless again.
  'Lets say he found himself a new punching sack.'
  'Ever since that day, him and his friends would attack me for the slightest to no reason at all.'
  Another flashback resurfaced of Hyle laying on the ground while panting for air with spittle trickling down his mouth.
   'I tried apologizing to him. Asking to stop picking on me and even tried to be friends with him but nothing worked and i didn't stop trying until he said…'
  "Crawl." The orange haired Kenar male said with a smile, "Get on your knees and crawl under me and my friends and i will consider letting you go and becoming my friend."
  At that moment, Hyle stared at the orange haired Kenar and his friends with an expression filled with disbelief.
   'I wanted it to end but if it means throwing my dignity away for it to happen then forget it.'
   'Since then, it all increased rapidly. If i thought my life was hell before, i got to see hell.'
   "That's enough!" An adult Kenar male said as he stood in front of an injured Hyle (who happened to be sitting on the ground with his back leaning against a tree) and the orange haired Kenar male (who was accompanied with his friends).
   "Leave." The adult Kenar said with a darkened voice as his irises glowed.
   The teens turned their back and left and the adult glanced at the injured Hyle with an apathetic look.
   "Pity." The adult said.
   The Kenar adult walked away and left Hyle to sit alone.
   'Yeah… Hell.'
  'I wanted it to end but i couldn't do anything about it. My confidence was shattered and i didn't have the courage to look him or his friends in the eye anymore.'
   A recollection replays of Hyle walking down the marketplace and at the time he was walking, Hyle came across a mask selling shop and sights the grim mask.
   'At that moment, the thought of confronting them one more time kicked in, but how could i? They will know it is me; from my kan ability to how i fight. On top of it, i have lost the confidence to even look at them.'
   At the time Hyle was seated in his room and staring at the mask, Hyle raised his head with his irises glowing.
   "F*ck it." Hyle said inwardly.
  During nighttime, as the orange haired Kenar male was discussing and laughing with his friends in a seemingly quiet street, the orange haired Kenar male turned his back to walk away.
   "Alright, i will be seeing you all tomo…"
  The Kenar male paused and stared in confusion as he sights Hyle dressed in a hooded black jacket, black shirt and black trousers while wearing the mask and facing the ground.
  "Uh… Can i help you?" The orange haired Kenar male asked.
   Hyle's hands shook as he lacked the courage to even raise his head and gaze at the orange haired Kenar.
   'I was so afraid and all i thought of was running away.'
   'Hey, i'm asking you a question: can i help you with something?" The orange haired Kenar male asked.
  'The thought of running filled my head so much that it was the next thing i was about to do… Until i remembered all the times him and his friends brutalized and humiliated me; all the pain i had to go through and from that moment, i stopped feeling fear.'
   'No, all i felt was rage… Hate.'
  As the orange haired Kenar and his friends were staring at Hyle in puzzlement, Hyle was discharging a troublesome aura.
  'In that moment, i felt a strong rush in me.'
  "Hey… What is the odd feeling?" A female Kenar teen asked among the group.
  'Break, maul, destroy. That's all that mattered.'
   Hyle raised his head with his irises glowing which made the orange haired Kenar jolt back. Minutes later Hyle stood in the midst of unconscious bodies and was staring at his palm.
   'Power levels increases with extremely deep emotions and the rage and hate i had for them was that deep.'
   The orange haired Kenar male (whose face was bruised brutally) gained consciousness and coughed out twice and Hyle takes notice of him and walks towards the Kenar.
  "Who-who are you?" The orange haired Kenar weakly asked.
   Hyle stared at the orange haired Kenar and squats to look him at him face to face.
  "Retribution." Hyle answered with a deepened voice and glowing eyes.
    'Word spread like wildfire among my peers about the incident in the night and from that day, i was regaining my confidence.'
   'Anytime i felt wronged, i would wear that mask and beat down the person… Brutally.' 
   An image replays of Hyle standing in front of an unconscious teenage Kenar male with black hair.
  'The more i kept doing this, the more vicious and brutal i was becoming, until i was labeled as The author of brutalities.'
  Another image replayed as Hyle was standing in the midst of unconscious teenage Kenar bodies.
   'I kept dishing the beatings to those that had problems with me… Until i took it too far.'
  A quick remembrance takes place as Hyle (whose fists were covered in blood) was gazing down at a bloodied teenage female  Kenar, who happened to be convulsing with foam rushing out of her mouth.
   "SISTER! SISTER, HANG ON!!" A battered teenage Kenar male said in panic as he was checking up on her.
   The Kenar male placed his ears on her chest and his eyes widened with tears flowing out.
   "Her heart… It has stopped beating."
   The revelation of this made Hyle's eyes widened in horror of what he had done.
  'But is this what i truly wanted? All i wanted was to have my revenge on those assholes and stop getting picked on.'
   'Since that night, i stopped wearing that mask.'
   A flashback occurs in a forest as Hyle was sitting on the ground with his back leaning against a tree while carrying the look of guilt on his face. At the moment, he was doing this, Yulin suddenly showed up at his back with her head beside his.
   "Hello, author of brutalities." Yulin said with a mischievous smile.
   Hyle's irises glowed in fear and shock which made him to quickly jump away from Yulin.
  "What in the…! How did you know?! I never told anyone tha-"
   "You just told me." Yulin cuts in while still smiling, "I had my suspicions because of how guilty you were looking today and your reaction just proved it."
   "Wh-what do you want?" Hyle asked.
  "Nothing, really. Just wanted to find out if you were him." Yulin answered.
  "What… What are you going to do with your answer?" Hyle asked reluctantly.
   "Not sure." Yulin answered while placing her finger on her chin, "Your victim from last night survived and the chief of our tribe has decided to look into the matter. Hmmm, i wonder what will happen when they find out who Retribution truly is."
   "You can't tell them! You can't tell anyone!" Hyle responded in fear.
   "Never said i was going to. But first, i want to know: why the mask? And second: Seriously? Nighttime?" Yulin asked with a raised eyebrow, "Attacking people at night with a mask on? That's something a coward would do."
   "I… Didn't mean to go that far." Hyle said.
  "Hm?" Yulin said in confusion.
  "When i became Retribution, it was just to get revenge on the people disturbing me." Hyle said.
  "And?" Yulin asked.
  "I don't know…" Hyle said as as he sat on the ground with a sad demeanor, "I went overboard with it. All i wanted was to get my revenge and confidence back but all i did was become a monster.
   Each time i wear it, i feel different. I feel rage, hate and the need to break people in half."
   "Each time... Even when nothing is done to me." Hyle said as he faced the ground.
   "Do you know why you feel like that?" Yulin asked, "It's because you continually poured all your hate and rage into that mask and gave yourself a new identity... A split personality. I've heard of situations like this and yours is no different."
  For a moment, Yulin stared at Hyle and sighed.
  "I won't tell anyone you are Retribution but in return, you have to do something for me." Yulin said.
   "Huh? What is it?" Hyle asked as he raised his head to gaze at Yulin, but was instantly caught off guard as Yulin's finger was pointed close to his face.
  "I need you to go back to being Hyle and not that masked coward." Yulin said with a sly smile while squatting with her irises glowing, "Do that and i promise to carry this secret to my grave. Do we have an agreement?"
  "Yeah. I even made up my mind to stop being Retribution before you came." Hyle responded.
 "Good." Yulin said as she stood, "Hyle was quite strong and caring. Hiding behind a mask to attack people brutality soils everything you are."
  Yulin turns her back to walk away and Hyle being filled with shame,  averts his eyes from her.
  "Y-you know, many people call you the troll of the Kenar tribe but the truth is you are not even a bad person." Hyle said.
   Hearing what he said, Yulin paused.
   "Thank you." Hyle said as he glanced at her.
    "No need for that, and besides, the only reason you haven't gotten wrecked by anyone while wearing that mask is because you haven't fought anyone way stronger." Yulin said as she glanced back at Hyle with closed eyes, "If you had continued, you'll eventually meet someone that will break you, like me."
  "Remember your promise, Hyle; keep to it." Yulin said as she resumes walking away.
   After recalling everything, Hyle stared at the mask and grits his teeth.
  "I went back on my word." Hyle said inwardly, "Even when i wore it today, that old feeling reawakened.
  Why did i bring it with me? Was there a side of me that still wants it? With this mask, i'm no different from Van, Karma, Onak and the other brutes in academy.
    Yulin... I'm sorry; i couldn't keep my promise."
   "Whatever the consequences are, i will take it." Hyle said inwardly as he placed back his hood and wore his mask, "But right now, these hivelings must receive..."
   "Retribution." Hyle said inwardly with his irises glowing.
  Among the hiveling corpses, a male hiveling with yellow hair was crawling and groaning in pain as his ankles were cut off. The hiveling turns and sees Hyle (Retribution) gazing down at him.
  "You freak! What in Rora's name are you?!" The hiveling asked.
  In an instant, four large ice shards pierced deep into the hivelings palms and biceps, leaving the hiveling to scream out in agony.
  "What am i?" Hyle asked, "I am the wails of revenge. The cries of vengeance. The author of brutalities. I am Retribution."
   "Spread." Hyle said as he stretched forth his glowing hand.
  Two mist-like hands grabs the hiveling's legs to raise and spread wide open.
  "Wh-what are you doing...?" The hiveling asked fearfully.
   Hyle creates an ice sphere with one hand and allows it to levitate in the air while increasing in size, leaving the hiveling dismayed.
   "W-wait! You are not thinking...!" The hiveling said, "Have you lost your mind?!"
   "For all the pain you have brought upon us, this is but a small price to pay." Hyle replied.
   "Small price?! You call this a small price?!!" The hiveling asked.
  Hyle ignores the hiveling and the hiveling observes the size of the ice sphere while moving higher into the air, thus increasing his fear.
   "Going for the groin is a dishonorable way of fighting for a warrior." The hiveling said with a fearful smile, "You humans know that!"
  "This is a battle of life and death. In such a battle, there is nothing like honor." Hyle responded.
   "PLEASE! ANYTHING BUT THIS!! PLEASE!!!" The hiveling pleaded with tears flowing out of his eyes.
  "This... Is my brutality." Hyle said as his irises glowed.
  Hyle snapped his finger and the sphere came down at an abnormal speed and creates a powerful wind pressure spread across many parts in the forests and the screams of the hiveling could be heard from afar.