Their Elemental Curse: Book 1

Chapter 36

*Shimizu Hada's POV:

Six hours of hiking has passed. It was around three-o-clock now.

In those five hours, we've ran into five killing-machines. The good news is that we didn't break a sweat eliminating them.

Mohammed almost got bit by a snake, bird poop landed on Katie's shoulder, we got chased by a swamp of bees, and mosquitoes had a field day on us.

All that walking we were doing was hurting my feet, and my right shoulder ached from me carrying a cloth bag with a heavy bomb inside.

We weren't allowed to take a damn break. I was so hungry; we haven't eaten since yesterday morning. God, I wanted to scream. This was making me lose my mind.

Most of us were quiet, except for Gaia and Robin chatting to pass time.

It was hard looking at Robin's scar, even if it was covered. It was hard seeing her in pain. That scar stretched from her eyebrow to her cheekbone, but it still didn't take away from her beauty. In a way, it made her look more fierce.

"Can we please take a break?! We've been walking for hours! I'm so hungry" Kimberly asked with a groan.

"We will take a break once we get to the lake. It should be about an hour away by now. The cave is near the lake, we'll catch some fish while we're there."

"What kind of fish do they have?" Gaia asked him, walking up next to him.

"I'm pretty sure all kinds" Danny responded. "We'll make a fire in the cave and eat there. We can't eat outside, the killing-machines will see us."

"So, we have to sleep on hard rock?!" Mohammed asked, not very happy about it.

"Would you rather sleep outside, exposed to those machines?" Danny asked him with a cocked eyebrow.

"Well...no."

"I thought so."

Seconds Danny responded, he suddenly stopped.

"What is it? Another killing-machine?" I asked, ready to fight.

"No. I had another vision from the future."

Danny looked terrified. His expression showed he was lost in thought.

"Well, are you gonna tell us what it is?" Kimberly asked.

"The extermination of experi-babies will only last for a short amount of time because the headquarters will be destroyed."

"Yes! So W.E.A will be destroyed after all! Whoo-hoo!" Mohammed cheered.

"No, it's not that. Months after it shuts down, they will let out a powerful man-made virus that will kill off a good portion of the world.

"What?!" I yelled in confusing and shock. "Why let out a virus if half of the world's population are already experi-babies? They wanted to get rid of half of the population correct? Then it wouldn't be any problem, not to sound like I'm on their side or anything but-"

"No, they were wrong, I was wrong. The population of experi-babies globally isn't three or four billion, it's actually 800 million. Only 800 million people in the world are experi-babies. But recently, that number has been increasing from the fact that more people are being experimented on. There are only two million experi-babies in the U.S."

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I sunk in what he just said. We were rarer than we thought.

"So you lied?!" Kimberly shouted at him with clenched fist.

"No, I did not. I believed in their statistic, I believed there were more of us than it really was. They said 3-4 billion of us were experi-babies, if that were truly so, our world would've really been chaotic. How could I have been so stupid?! It's obvious, the government lied and made it as though their were more experi-babies out here causing trouble than it really was. They purposely placed us all in a bad light in order for other's, or should I say "Regular-Humans" to hate us. Even though there are those of us experi-babies who use their powers for mischief, a good portion of us used them for humanitarian purposes. But of course, the government wanted to make it seem as thought there were too many of us, and majority of us were evil people, just so they can have a reason to get rid of part of the population, and this deadly virus will be most of the work, wiping out four billion people."