Omega Wars Chronicles

Chapter 103: Third Rate

  In the ruined environment of the blueleafed forest, multiple golden portals appeared and Killer bee, Reiv and other humans stepped out of it and took notice of numerous burnt corpses laying on the ground.
  "Holy..." Reiv said.
  "Look!" A masculine voice sounded.
Killer bee raised her head and caught sight of Karma hovering in the air with crossed arms while having a red outline around her body.
   "Karma?" Killer bee called.
    A flashback takes place during the time Mohan was preparing his final attack while Karma was caught by surprise of her levitating and just as Mohan fired the attack towards her, Karma swiftly raised her head and her irises glowed. Mohan's attack was immediately destroyed and it ended up creating a mighty wave that spread across and incinerated countless objects in the process. Minutes later, the other hivelings arrived only to see Mohan from afar on his knees; Kazura gasped in horror as she took notice of Mohan's burnt arms. The left side of Mohan's face and the left side of his chest across were also burnt while Mohan plainly beamed at the ground.
   "Mohan..." Kazura said.
   "Your wounds are not healing. Could it be that the damage was too great for you?" A feminine voice asked.
  Kazura and the other hivelings sighted the person to be Karma who was walking down at Mohan's direction. Karma stood in front of Mohan and stared down at him with her arms crossed.
   "What's wrong? Got nothing to say?" Karma asked.
   Mohan, however didn't respond, neither did he spare her a gaze.
  "When i told you to hit me with your strongest attack, i expected better but you subceeded my expectations." Karma said, "However, seeing you on your knees shows you are almost in your natural position. Almost."
  "I saw it all." Mohan said, leading Karma to look at him with a raised brow, "My life flashing before my eyes. From the moment i was born, adopted till now. All those times i was told to improve and become better... The time i decided to stop improving because i felt there was no need.
    I was so consumed with pride and nonchalance, and this is where it has led me. If i had trained to be better, i guess i wouldn't have been in this position right now. Humph. Turns out Ghiga was right about me surviving."
   "Kazura, I'm sorry." Mohan said at the moment Kazura's eyes were filled with tears.
   "Mohan, no. I-!"
   Before Kazura could make a move, she immediately felt an overwhelming pressure and had an illusion of two dragon eyes staring down at her, leaving her slightly terrified.
   "How touching. But regardless of which path you took, it will still end up the same: you on your knees... Lesser." Karma said.
   Karma stretched forth her hand and began to charge a red sphere of flames on her palm.
   "They placed their faith in you but you let them down. Die with that regret." Karma said.
   "You know... I have been giving it some thoughts. There is a power far greater than anything or anyone in this world." Mohan said while staring down as a smile crept upon his face, "A power that makes even the strong ones look weak. You've felt it, haven't you?"
   "The power of a god, and not just any god but one with kan. And he is among you." Mohan said at the moment Karma scowled at him, "In my final chapters i have seen the error of my ways and i have been humbled. When will you see yours? In death? The same as mine? Heh.
  It is so funny because now i have realized something... That it doesn't matter how strong you are, because in the eyes of that god..."
   "You are below third rate." Mohan said with a smile as he gazed at Karma with glowing eyes.
  In anger, Karma's irises glowed and she fired the beam of red flames on Mohan's face, nearly splitting his entire body in half.
   "Shut up." Karma said.
  The other hivelings were left speechless with the death of Mohan while Kazura stared at Mohan's corpse for a while and exuded her aura in grief. Kazura fell on all fours and wailed heavily.
   Kazura had different memories of  Mohan from the time he was little to the current age and also recalled the time she first met Mohan as she was seating on a chair while Mohan was staring at her with a bland visage.
   "Father said you are my new brother; that he has chosen to adopt you into the family." Little Kazura said.
   Kazura stood up from her chair and walked towards Mohan.
   "From what i gathered, you are a year younger and looking at you, you are quite tiny." Kazura said as she placed her arms on her waist while staring down at Mohan, "I am Kazura of the Ticc clan and since  you are younger, you should refer to me as older sister."
   "Do i have to?" Mohan asked.
  "Huh?" Kazura said with a wtf face.
  "Do i have to call you older sister?" Mohan asked.
  "As a sign of respect, yes." Kazura answered.
   "Why can't you call me older brother?" Mohan asked.
  "What are you, a blockhead?! That's not how it works!" Kazura said out of irritation.
  "I want to be called older brother." Mohan said.
  "I'm not calling you older brother! That's not how it works!" Kazura's voice boomed from their house, "And shouldn't you introduce yourself?!"
   "I'm sleepy." Mohan replied.
  "How can you be sleepy by this time?!!" Kazura's voice sounded.
   After remembering that time, Kazura clutched the dirt on the ground and grits her teeth.
  "I will kill you...!" Kazura said to Karma at the time she was still gaping at the ground.
  Other hivelings stepped back as Kazura was discharging a troublesome aura.
   "I will kill you! I will squeeze out every blood in your body and throw your corpse to the burning lake!" Kazura said in rage as she raised her head with her eyes glowing, "I WILL KILL-!!!"
   "Shut up." Karma cuts in with a deepened voice as the upper parts of her face were overshadowed.
    "You're annoying." Karma said as she raised her head with a cold glare with her irises glowing.
   The horrifying pressure of Karma instantly made Kazura tremble in fear again.
   "Right now i want you all to disappear!" Karma said as she cupped her hands together while emitting a fierce aura.
   A humongous flaming red dragon materialized with a height so great that it's head reached the clouds of the sky, leaving the hivelings stunned.
  "Haha. What kind of joke is this?" A male hiveling frightfully said while struggling to smile.
  "Good Rora..." A female hiveling said.
   Kazura sweated profusely as she was dismayed at the height of the red dragon.
    "The first ones i created were the babies. This is the real thing." Karma said.
  Rocks and debris hovered and skies quickly turned red and the clouds black as the dragon was charging a swirling ball of light in it's mouth.
  "What are you fools doing standing there?! Run for your lives!!!" A male hiveling said as he turned to the hivelings behind him.
   With no time wasted, the hivelings took to their heels, filling the air with their screams. While the hivelings were running, Kazura remained on her knees, staring at the dragon.
  "Burn away." Karma said.
  The dragon fired the powerful beam of flames and destroyed every hiveling at once. Done with remembering what happened earlier, Mohan's voice replayed in current Karma's head.
  "In the eyes of that god, you are below third rate."
   Karma remembered another incident earlier as an angry Ripar male held Killer bee by the shirt.
  "Hey!" Killer bee said.
  "You were friends with him! You were friends with the whitehead! You must have known of this!" The Ripar male said.
  "I didn't know a thing!" Killer bee replied.
  "I don't believe you! I-!"
   "Hands off." A feminine voice cuts in.
   The Ripar male turned and saw the person to be Karma.
  "Your friend here is claiming not to have known what the whitehead is." The Ripar male said to Karma, "She claims to have no idea but i don't believe her lies. I'll get to the bottom of this."
   "I don't like repeating myself." Karma coldly said as her irises glowed.
  The Ripar male stared at Karma for a moment and released his grip from Bee's cloth. The Ripar glanced at both Bee and Karma and walks away.
  "You know you could have beaten him." Karma said to Killer bee.
  "There are a lot of tensed emotions and with the situation we are in, the last thing i would want is for a fight to break out. Besides he is not the first to confront me about this." Killer bee replied.
   "Did you know?" Karma asked.
   "No." Killer bee answered while facing the ground, "I mean i knew he had kan but this... I never thought... I never imagined for it to be something like this. For someone to be that strong... That terrifying to make everyone including the chiefs, the strongest of us kneel, Karma, I..."
    Karma's eyes rolled at Killer bee and quickly took notice of her clenching her fists.
     "We need to move." Karma said as she walked past Bee, "Once this is over, the whitehead owes us an explanation."
    "You are below third rate." Mohan's voice currently replayed in Karma's head.
   Karma remembered the face of Cloud and quickly recalled the face of Kiorra at the time he took control. Karma also remembered how she was made to bow like the others just by Kiorra speaking (chapter 66) and also remembered how she just like everyone else was trembling at the power of Kiorra (chapter 67).
     "You are below. Third. Rate." Mohan's voice replayed in Karma's head again, leading Karma to tightly clench her bicep.
   "Uh... Karma?" Killer bee called in confusion.
  In that moment, Karma's glowing irises rolls back at Killer bee and the others and quickly takes sight of the unconscious Cloud being carried on the back of a Graundar male.