Distorted

Chapter twenty eight, Towards The End.

Doomsday, now you've come. You've arrived to erase injustice, to give freedom to those afraid to ask for it. Freedom in life, or, the freedom that lies in death?

Who would make that choice?

I wonder, and I wondered, and I'll always wonder.

The ten-minutes battle.

Merit approached Cain like a leaf, she was trained to always be easy with the wind and flow with it, never tense her muscles or allow her emotions to exist during battle, she was told not only to act like a leaf, but to be the leaf, the leaf that falls but never dies, because it can't be killed.

On the other hand, Cain's aiming was superior, he didn't allow Merit to come closer to him, he'd fire so quick and so close to his target making Merit's energy wasted on evading his bullets.

She had to think of a strategy to take away at least one gun, it was impossible for her to get him with her knives when he's completely guarded like that. Merit quickly thought of disarming him by throwing a sound bomb, a small bomb as the size of a grape fruit that only causes sound, which would distract him for a second thinking he's shot.

Merit threw at his left leg, and as soon as the bomb exploded, he didn't even flinch, and Merit just starred at him, "What the fuck?" she muttered.

"You're good at evading, but as a fighter, you're inexperienced." Cain said, reloading his left gun, Merit took the chance quickly and threw a small knife at his left knee which he, surprisingly, couldn't evade.

"You, you bitch!" He cried, almost tripping but still standing. The airship's timer displayed three minutes till impact, the two exchanged blows for two more minutes but nothing was achieved. The airplane with right behind Merit, meaning that it'd mostly kill her, Cain didn't back down, but he finally ran out of ammo.

"Now we can fight" Breathless Merit said, bursting at him. Her knife skills were superior and he could hardly keep up with her, he resisted her attacks with his knife but she had too, and as the timer displayed fifty seconds till crash, and Titan already appeared in the distance, Merit feared the immediate death the two of them would have as she realized Cain was here to fight to death.

"You're truly stupid to pick a fight with me on the end of the world!" She screamed, mustering all the strength she had and pushing him back and back as he struggled to fight her due to his injured leg, she took his knife away by kicking his right hand and quickly she ran as hard as she can till both of them fell of the building, Merit took shelter by making him her landing pillow.

And her plan worked.

The two fell off the building and Cain took the impact, he was weaker than he displayed himself to be. Something about this man was fragile, but not anymore, because whatever was left of him can't do him any good.

Not even a second later, a huge explosion occurred and a flame rose, the windows busted and the glass shards stabbed Merit in her hand and face, she screamed in pain she got off Cain's body and quickly tried to take off that glass shard in her face, she panicked because upon touching it she could tell it was big, but not fully penetrating her face. She breathed heavily, "Do it, do it.." She cried and quickly took it out, "FUCK!" She screamed, throwing the glass shard away and holding her wound, the other glass shard didn't take her a second to take off as it was very small and didn't hurt her. She had no time to process the shook and decided to run back to Lydia, Andres and Elijah, but in the midst of The Titans noise and the loud screams of those who couldn't take any shelter and the burning rebels who are dying in their ships, she suddenly heard a cry coming from beside her, it was Cain.