Infernal Woods

{[Chapter III]}

Hanzo Lilim laid back in his comfortable sofa, silently reading a book, following his adopted sister's usual patterns. Music loudly blasted into his ears through his white headphones.

Suddenly his eyes opened wide, his heart skipped a beat. The book in his hand dropped and the headphones slid off by themselves as he jumped up in horror.

He could feel it, Rachel was calling. She was in danger.

Hanzo burst through the roof with a mighty leap, charging to where she was.

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Rachel Gibson panted heavily, time seemed to slow as the heavy vehicle approached, her body was too slow to move out of the way. The cold gentle breeze quickly turned violent and the street lights flickered viciously.

The wind blew Rachel back a couple of feet as it became even stronger, the street lights became brighter, and even the stars in the heavens seemed to shine with a blinding light.

She looked up at the boy who saved her, her savior. The pale inhuman boy stood there smiling at her, holding back the full force of the truck with a single hand, even leaving a large dent that surely meant some damage to the inner parts of the vehicle.

"Rachel... You should be more careful..."

He spoke in a soft voice and his joy soon turned to worry, the grin on his face had finally faded after years. Hanzo held out his hand and his dark white hair blew wildly in the storm of wind.

Rachel, at first, was reluctant to touch him, but she allowed him to help her up anyways. He solemnly inspected every inch of her, finding but a couple of small bruises from the fall, which instantly vanished under his touch.

Suddenly, a loud voice boomed over them. 

"When you kids are done being all lovey dovey, then get the frick out of the damn road!" 

Fear filled Rachel as another memory flashed before her eyes, a similar moment.

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"Get out of the road!!"

A large angry man yelled at them, his muscles were huge, yet Hanzo walked straight up to him and glared. Murderous intent laced in his eyes, while Rachel furiously tried to apologize for being in the way.

Hanzo was having none of it, he was mad.

"No one yells at my friends, punk."

His usual smile faded and his glare intensified, the man just cracked his knuckles and laughed.

"What are you going to do about it, huh?"

The lights flickered, and became brighter every time they came back on, Hanzo simply pulled back his fist and punched the man in the stomach. Everyone around would normally laugh at this sad attempt, clearly thinking the man was stronger, but they were wrong.

The man flew back, all the way down the street. If it wasn't for the strong wall to block, the man would have flew back a couple more meters. Hanzo turned back to Rachel and smiled, before grabbing her hand and running off, leaving a bunch of adults with wide open jaws.

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However this time, the young spirit instead... apologized?

"I'm sorry sir. My friend fell by accident. Please forgive us."

Almost the exact same thing Rachel said the last time something like this happened. She looked confused, expecting the man to go flying just like the other one.

It was a slightly muscular attractive man in his late twenties. Light blonde hair, bright blue eyes. He wore a white top that didn't fully reach his pants, covered by an open black jacket, ending at black finger-less gloves and a pair of orange shades on his head, not currently covering his eyes.

"It's fine, just get out of here already."

Hanzo grinned at Rachel and gently pulled her out of the road as the man road away in his truck. A logo on the back of the truck caught Rachel's attention.

Supernatural Sciences Research Lab...

A/N:

Hi again! I decided to make it a "short story" instead of a full book.

Also, shoutout to notCVSpharmacy for going through all the chapters and helping me fix mistakes before publishing.