With a grunt of frustration, Lucy raises her hand in the direction of the horizon. After a few seconds, a faint, distant screaming gradually grew louder as Abhijar appeared from the sky and crashes into the rocks, closely followed by Monk, who landed on top of him.
"Idiots!" She snarls. "Open your eyes and look at how well you've completed your mission!"
"I told you we shouldn't have left!" Abhijar complained to Monk under his breath.
"Do you think we would've got them if we stayed anyways?" He quietly hisses back.
"I'm going to take care of Shelly," Lucy announced.
When Ralph realized that something was wrong and looked around, it was too late. He felt nothing but a breeze of wind passing beside him before the deafening bang of a bright explosion detonated out of nowhere. He and the others had to bend their knees to stop themselves from being blown away by the blow. The shock wave washed through the island, shattering stones into smithereens, and blowing out a giant crater right beside where they stood.
When the dust settled, they rushed to the site of the explosion, freezing dead in their paths by the scene ahead.
Lucy was standing at the crater's midst, her palm caught by Jerron's metal fist, just in front of Kanitha's face.
"Wedrag..." She threatens quietly. "Why did you stop me? I just want to... Crush Harusin's skull!" Growling, her other hand zooming towards Kanitha in a speed that Ralph fails to track, blocked again by Jerron.
Grabbing this brief second, Kanitha liquefied into a puddle of water and disappeared.
Narrowing his eyes, he swept his leg into her, sending her flying towards the sky and he followed closely after. Wheezing beneath her breath, she opens her palm, sending out a shockwave down towards him. Jerron threw out a small, blue globe that Ralph had last seen in Ling's development lab. It absorbs Lucy's attack and reversed it back out right back towards her. Lucy blasted it away with her hand, blowing up an enormous force that blew both of them off their feet. Flipping away from each other to pull out the distance, they landed on the cliffs sides with Ralph and the others standing between them.
"When I come back, I want them dead!" Lucy commanded Monk and Abhijar at the same time Jerron lunged at her, yelling 'Don't die!' before the two of them disappeared behind a cliff.
Monk reacted first. He immediately jumped off Abhijar, then dashed into the rocks after Lucy and Jerron, ignoring Abhijar's complaints and curses.
"I'll take care of him," Kanitha says, solidifying up again beside Ralph. "You guys move on."
"I'll stay with you!" Eve volunteered.
Ralph nodded, giving Kanitha a quick hug, he left to chase after Monk with the others. Kanitha and Eve watch them disappear over and behind the rocks that separated the beach from the inner island, which Kanitha, for one, is extremely worried about, especially with Shelly inside.
Although she knows she shouldn't be. Taking her back from the Scars was one thing, deep in the sea, when her power ran out, he saved them by cutting through an opening in the sea with his sword. All of these prove that he is no longer the kid who needs to rely on others to numb his guilt. For the first time, she sees him taking actual responsibility. She doesn't know what was that changed him, but she's grateful for it.
As for this battle, she didn't even need Ralph explaining to her what was happening to figure it out. In the base of the Scars, she's heard about the hunt of Shelly and Jerron's proposal of war. In her opinion, there's one and only one outcome of this war. The world's going to be changed in some ways. There's no saying of good or bad, it's either that it benefits the powered or the poor. One side would be in the low, and soon enough, the roles would flip, and the wheel of the history would be repeated all over again.
If Ralph believes he can change the world, it's the essence of those unspoken rules upon humanity that he'll have to shake.
"Careful," Eve called behind her. "Dodge left, roll down, take three steps to the right, and attack!"
Kanitha hesitated for half a second, wondering what was that about until Abhijar attacked her right, sent rocks flying over her head, slipped over towards the left, and took in her attack face-first.
Gasping, she turned back to see Eve's left eye flashing blue.
"Who are-"
"Eve Alameke," she smiles, holding out her hand. Kanitha stared for a second. Not just because of the fact that she didn't know who Eve really is before, but was distracted by her voice.
Was that... Guilt?
The moment she held out her hand, she knew this is going wrong. Because the moment their hands made contact, she felt a single, sharp pierce on her fingertip.
The next thing she knew was Eve muttering an apology, and her own head thudding onto the rocks beneath.
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Alasla: The New Age
Fantasy"What killed him isn't me. It's the world." Ralph had never asked for much. Not even his own identity. But when his best and only friend got murdered by the man he calls father, he was forced to set off on an expedition to unravel the truth of this...
