EVOLUTION [Chapters 20 -30 Soon]

Chapter 14: Danger Arrives

Change in POV: 3rd Person (Probably for the rest of the book)

"James wait! It's the sentient being the police fought in the city, we should just run!" B1-35 told James.
"Shut up and let me deal with it!" James yelled as he replied, throwing more and more leaf shuriken at the beast. It sadly however was not helping at all, due to its regeneration abilities. It let out an insanely loud screech straight at James, causing his ears to begin to bleed. The sentient then dashed forward while he was distracted, then grabbed him with his tentacle.
Flare decided to step in and let out a small fireball right at the arm that had James. It allowed James to form one of his shards into a giant fist and slam the tentacle right to the ground. It let out another loud screech and it stomped on the ground. Summoning enemies.
The enemies (consisting of 2 cannon zombies, a mutant, and 3 regular zombies) ran straight toward Lila and the others, who weren't entirely ready to actually fight. Grace was about to step in as well, but Eli and Erik suddenly began shooting down the zombies one by one, using a little machine on Elis back. Lila ran towards the Sentient, and ducked under a tentacle it was swinging around. She kicked it right in the head at full force, and with the combination of James hitting it with his crystal staff, they dealt some major damage to it. Grace helped out by using a technique called flamethrower, which ignited all the zombies in her way. The sentient picked itself up during this and used its telekinetic powers, grabbing and lifting James, Flare, and Lila at the same time. He then shot them away faster than they could expect, and causing Flare to hurt his arm. He didn't care though, as he immediately got up and ran right back to the sentient, but this time he wasn't normal.
He enclosed his hands with fire and started punching the sentient head on, left and right at a seriously fast pace. He held his hands together and slammed the sentients head straight into the dirt they were on, lifted it up from its legs, then threw it into a tree, injuring it back.
Suddenly, Flare passed out.

Grace ran in and held his head, looking at his bleeding and scratched open arm.
"He was using too much power, it exploded his arm from the inside out and combined with the damage of the broken arm. This is gonna take a while to heal." Lila said, appearing behind them.
"I cant do this without him. Do you think you could speed up the healing? You're a soul, this is your specialty right?"Grace said, slightly tearing up while talking. "I can try but, with the sentient thingy still over there, it will be dangerous." Lila replied very seriously.
Meanwhile, Nelson took the opportunity of the sentient being down to its fullest potential. Before it got up from ramming straight into the tree, Nelson used a new ability called shadow step, which made him extremely quick for 3 seconds. He headed straight for the sentient and kicked its head, completely stunning it for a good few seconds. By that time, it finally decided it had enough.
Without hesitation, it immediately began grabbing the entire team with extendable tentacles, including Flare. They all scurried and tried their hardest to escape the tentacles, but it just seemed like it got a huge power boost after Nelson hit it.
B1-35 had scanned the area and figured out its collecting life force from the trees and other alive beings around the area, including them.
"I f-feel weaker, and drowsy. I can barely lift up my arm..." Lila tried shouting, but instead it came out as a soft voice. B1-35 on the other hand, did not feel weak, because he had an abnormal amount of life force in his body, allowing him to create a fast strategy on how to deal with the sentient on his own, as everyone would already be too tired other than James.
He hopped out of the tentacle using his extendable arm, then charged up a beam in his mouth. He released it and shot it at all the tentacles that were holding his friends, and then released it right at the sentient. It block it using its very durable right arm, then summoned a flying zombie to distract him. B1-35 however, was expecting something like that, so he stopped his beam and went up into the arm, grabbed the flying zombie and threw it right back at the sentient. He then used his extending arms again to grab onto the ground and go straight down. James got up and was ready to accompany B1-35 in battle.

"So, did you scan the area?" James asked.
"I did, it's taking life force away from every living being here, so instead of being strategic, we want to be fast. If we don't kill it soon, it'll end up taking away all the life force in the area, and we wont be able to kill it. Nelson should be fine in a bit, but I don't know about the others. It's risky." B1 replied. "Fuck this shit, let's just hit it head on!" Nelson screamed behind them. He used his shadow step ability again and began combo-ing it with his rage mode combined. He was pushed back, but when he fell onto the ground, a really great plan came to his head.
"James! Let me throw you!" Nelson shouted at him.
"For what?? It's just gonna block me!" He replied. Nelson just decided there was no point for negotiations, so he grabbed James with his rage mode, lifted him up by his legs, then spun twice and threw him. James just went with it, and put all his life force into his right arm. He punched right through the sentients heart, and killed it.
"No way that actually worked." B1 said, shocked.

After the sentient was finally dead, B1 scanned it and realized it was a weaker version of what they fought earlier, mostly because its further away from its main power source, the demon.
"We got lucky, but now it knows one of its strongest minions have died. It will send more monsters after us if we don't leave soon." He said.
"But what about Flare, he's passed out completely!" Grace asked in a very scared tone. "Someone's gonna have to lift him on their back, and it's not gonna be me." James said.
Grace picked him up and began carrying him towards the city, as it was unwise to turn back to the shed. Due to the slight rain, it was very cold, so everyone was shivering. What they didn't realize was, the shivering wasn't from the rain, it was from the extreme life force heading straight to the recently deceased sentient. It appeared that something was taking over its body, and it wasn't anything small or weak. B1-35 could sense it ever so slightly, and because of this, his heart dropped, and maybe even skipped 3 beats.
"We need to run. Like now." B1 said calmly, trying not to scare them. "At this point I'm not even gonna ask, I'm just gonna follow what you say." Nelson exclaimed. They eventually made it to an open space away from all the trees, and could see the city in the distance, but they could also hear a loud slamming sound heading right for them. It got louder and louder, until it ended up right where they were. It was another monster from the demon, but this time it looked stronger, more powerful.
"Greetings, young children. My name is Sentiria, I see you have managed to destroy the sentient by working together." She said. "What a great accomplishment, I hope you're ready for what comes next. Prove your worthiness to me, even if it's futile."
"Awesome, another weird monster we have to deal with!" Nelson said. "And this keeps happening, it's just a constant repeat over and over-" Suddenly, Nelson stopped. He was overcome by the sheer pressure of the monsters life force. B1-35 was tearing up in pure fear and horror.

She was beyond the term "monster." Trying to comprehend her power was like trying to comprehend 4th dimension. You can't.