Terrors in Subnautica(Complete)

Part 26: The Final Battle Pt.2

Trigger Warning: Gore, violence, vomit, and character death.

Seán's POV (sorry I know it's his POV a lot right now)

In the midst of N/N's screams and please I find myself staring death in the face, the man's short sword pointed directly at my midsection. Everything around me seems to freeze in place, phasing out of my mind accept for the man his blade and what I can see of N/N crying.

I try my best to give her a reassuring smile, it may be cliché but it's the only thing I could hope to do now. The man grabs my attention with a dark laughter.

"I'm going to make this hurt, for a very very long time." He glances back to N/N," And you're going to watch every second of it."

He suddenly turns and thrusts his sword forward and I squeeze my eyes shut, bracing myself for some kind of pain I've never had to feel before. The kind of pain I've spent my whole life in fear of.

An enormous gust of wind and a heavy flash of light explode seemingly inches in front of me. I realize there's no pain in my body and open my eyes in confusion to see N/N standing just in front of me.

What the fuck just happened?

Her suit is torn to shreds, particularly around the holes from where the seemingly unreal poles had previously been. I glance down to see the sword sticking out of her back, just off center from her spine stopping just in front of where I stand. I can see her left hand gripping the little bit of blade that had yet to enter her body dripping heavily with blood.

She's not shaking, not flinching, not even wincing in pain; just breathing and keeping the blade from pushing forward regardless of the mans struggle to force it to move. She turns her head to the side, looking at me from her right eye and I can feel my hairs stand on end.

Her eyes are glowing and clouded over. Her body seems to vibrate with energy, some kind of sharp black and red energy building up around her arms and hands.

"Are you alright?"

She spoke so softly I almost didn't realize she'd said anything. I nod hesitantly, wondering how she managed to break free from whatever those things holding her down had been or how she'd been able to move so quickly.

She smiled at me, the small special smile she never shared with anyone else accompanied with a small sigh of relief. She reached up and tapped the orange mist causing it to suddenly disperse, everyone was now free. Before she finished reaching back to me I stepped up beside her and hugged her close. I don't know what's about to happen, but I do know there's a reason the man can't seem to move.

I stepped aside, afraid of somehow getting in her way when her face fell back into an unreadable expression. She moved her attention back to the man and took a deep breath before whispering two words.

"Scaoileadh Anam."

The sharp energy that had surrounded her arms suddenly exploded around her, pulling itself back to strike and flash around her entire body. Her irises turned a deep red surrounded by a silver that had taken over the rest of her eyes.

Whatever happened, occurred in an instant. She was in front of me one moment the next she was across the base holding the man by his throat, the energy cutting into him from every direction.

We watched in stunned silence as she attacked again and again. Every time he would get away or strike at her she'd have a hold on him no less than a moment later. He started fighting back as hard as he could, throwing kicks and fire. He somehow had managed to fend her off for short burst of time, fire being the only attacks she intentionally avoided, but he wore himself out quickly. She never seemed to break a sweat.