The Gift - Volume #1

A Gift Named Blight

The beam of light struck Wave! At first, he flinched but slowly realized that the beam of light wasn't actually hurting him. Blight chuckled softly and snapped his fingers with his other hand. The beam of light started to turn brighter and began to slowly turn white. Heat was emitting from the light causing Raito's chest to feel like it was being set on fire. "I'm the Gift of Light and along with controlling light I can also control the heat that comes from it!" Blight explained.

"Knock it off!" Wave roared. The light was starting to get to him. The heat from the light was causing his chest to burn and feel as if a giant brick was lying on top of his chest.

He attempted to stop Blight's attack by throwing out his right arm to do another sound blast attack. The attack made contact and forced Blight to lower his arm, but something was wrong.

"That...that should have knocked you down," Wave questioned.

In a cocky attitude Blight responded with, "You mean that pathetic attack of yours was supposed to hurt? You lack any real power in your attacks. It might be strong enough to work on humans. But I am no human. I am a Gift!" Blight took his time walking over to Wave before continuing his speech. "If you want to hurt me. Every attack should have passion! The passion to kill!"

"K-Kill?" Wave repeated.

Blight threw a right hook into Wave's face the moment he was in striking distance. The heat resonating from Blight's glowing fist ended up leaving a burnt mark on Wave's face.

Wave was in a state of shock and fell onto his back. He didn't know what to do and was paralyzed with fear. He tried to get up but couldn't stop focusing on the pain from the initial punch. He kept trying and trying to get up but for some reason he couldn't. That's when he realized that his fight or flight response had kicked in. He was so petrified that he didn't realize that he was throwing his sound blast attack over and over again. His body had chosen to fight despite the fear that was consuming him. But it wasn't enough. With each attack they began to get weaker and weaker to the point where Blight wasn't even feeling the hits anymore.

"Getaway getaway getaway!" Wave cried out. At this point, he wasn't even aiming for his sound blast attacks. They were now just a blinding barrage of attacks.

"You started this and I'm going to end it!" Blight screamed. Blight quickly grabbed Wave by the neck and pulled him in closer. A beam of light came out of the eye shield, striking Wave in the face.

Just like his chest earlier. The light from Blight started off as harmless. But quickly evolved into a burning rampage of heat. Wave's face felt like it was being cooked inside an oven. If Wave hadn't closed his eyes when he did. He would have gone blind from the blast of light.

"Stop! Please stop!" Wave pleaded.

Things only got worse. Blight struck Wave in the stomach with his knee several times before throwing him across the room. Wave gasped for air since Blight was no longer squeezing his neck. But Blight had only just begun.

"Oh, we are waaaaaay past me letting you go. You ruined my deal so now I will ruin you!" Blight shouted as he snapped his fingers.

Just then, the lights in the garage turned on. But somehow only the lights that were directly over Wave did. "I think it's only appropriate for you to understand how you're going to die by my Gift," Blight said with a finger snap. The lights turned into the harmless orange light that only made Wave feel warm. "The color of light and the color of fire practically follow the same set of rules. Red is the weakest, orange is next, and then there is white."

Wave's body became heavy and it started to get difficult for him to concentrate. He was dripping sweat throughout his whole body. Whenever he tried to move out of the light, Blight would just kick him in the gut. Making sure he stayed on the ground with nowhere to go.