Omni POV:
As the car continued its futile efforts to skidding to a grinding halt, the Interloper appeared to be a moth drawing the flame to it. Out of instinct the teen outstretched her hands in front of her and in a split second when the car came into contact with her palms;
KER-CRASH!
The car was immediately slammed into the ground, causing a crater to erupt with the road, lift upward by standing on its nose with a deafening creak until it tipped backwards and landed on the car behind it that also failed to stop in time to avoid being crushed. Destroying the other vehicle with a sickening crunch.
The driver of the vehicle that was crushed, lifted and fell was okay but looked at the teen with equal shock as Mel had stared in horror and disgust by what she had just done. Slowly bringing her trembling hands to her face her left palm bleed while her right exposed most of her metal prosthetics through the false cover. Looking at her left palm closely a small green light enveloped her hand and healed both the wound and caused the blood that fell to vanish. Subconciously or out of pure survival Mel used cure on herself, which was only the beginning of her fears.
PZZZT!
A spark was heard and suddenly the scars on the Interlopers entire left arm began to shine intensely through even her darkest of hoodies, looking skyward she began to notice dark storm clouds gathering unnaturally as quickly as the sea of curious onlookers and witnesses that whipped out their phones that recorded the previous events and the current one. Only when she heard a snap of a camera did she realize how much people gathered around her. Before she could turn her body away to run a sudden gust of wind appeared, accidentally moving her arms towards the traffic in front of her the wind picked up and created a funnel, catching everything in its path in a swirling vortex. Metal hit metal, objects and people who got caught in the funnel begin to scream in horror and pain, clanging against the objects also snagged in the wind until their cries ceased. The wind funnel stopped and its work of destruction created a large heap of fire and metal adroned in blood down the path of the road towered over the campus.
The sickening lurch of the stomach and her skull began to pound beyond any normal scale, 'did she really do that? Were all of her hallucinations as real as the power she displayed? Or was this all another nightmare haunting her, tormenting her, to give up and end it all?' It was the same old questionable game she played and there was no way to escape it.
Soon enough paramedics, police and fire fighters appeared on the scene, a few cops aimed their guns at the teen as she noticed what was going on. The storm clouds begin to pour bitter tears and drenched everything it could touch. Mel scanned the crowd with her own tears being masked by the rain hoping to not see the person she cared for to have seen her like this. But the world was indeed cruel and Claire had witnessed everything. Her own brown eyes were wide with fear and uncertainty, should she trust the only family she had left? After seeing what she could do? All the words she wanted to say failed to escape her quivering lips, the only words that made it through stung her younger sister deeper than any feeling and pain she experienced before.
"Mel... Why?"
That word, 'why,' was a strange word. We all knew what it meant yet we could never think of something to satisfy that undesirable word! All Mel could do was take a step back and shake her head, 'no, I have no answer for you. Please, help me sis.' Her eyes pleaded but the older brunette turned her head away in pain and ignored her sisters silent plea for help.
BANG!
A gun shot off a warning round that pierced the soaked ground near the teen's heel. She looked at the bullet in the ground near her and saw the officer whose pistol was smoking from pulling the trigger, their face wrote fear and that fear would give them the blind strength to kill any threat that would not only destroy the peace but be a force they couldn't understand. Kill what they could never understand, that was human nature and Mel hated it.
'I can't stay here, what can I do to get out of this?' Mel thought frantically to herself as she looked for some sort of opening. Her fear began to rose but her anger beat it to their goal.
'If I really can use magic I can escape! I know I ain't going to die ignorant to my nightmares. I know I'm sane, I just need to prove my brain to accept it, I no longer am able to live my old life anymore that much is certain. And no matter how much it hurts but...' Mel looked one last time at her sister, clenched the locket her older sister gave her and held it tightly to her chest. Tears streamed down her eyes as she called her sisters name,
"Claire." The older brunette hesitantly looked at her sister in the eyes and held the gaze between them. Not wanting to lose her only chance Mel spoke in a regretful voice,
"I love you, sis. I'm so so sorry." Once those words left her lips Claire was about to respond but Mel knew if she stayed longer she would die. A third tier fire spell erupted from the teens palms and then she slammed her hands onto the wet street causing heavy steam, thickening to warm fog, to cover the whole area. Taking this as a chance to run Mel ran blindly through the steam as she tried her best to hide her glowing arm in the smokescreen to avoid detection. Guns fired wildly through the steam, no one caring who they hit unless it was their target, began hitting their own forces, civilians, and objects for the sake of hitting the teen. Mel managed to escape the steam but a stray bullet had tore through her clothes and hit her in the side, blood oozed from the wound as the pain eruptd through her whole system but pusehd forward, her need to escape was much more important than her wound and vanished off into the rain.
Mel's POV:
I managed to find refuge from the rain in an abandoned building far from the campus grounds, hidden in the back alleys of the city from the law, and overall away from Claire. The bullet passed through my side and the bleeding had slowed as I continued to put pressure on both sides of the wound. My tears kept falling and I couldn't stop them, after everything that happened I'm surprised that bullet didn't kill me as I tried to run.
"I hope they don't hurt you, sis. I just ratted you out as family now they'll assume you knew about my 'abilities.'" I choked bitterly on my words as they rain continued to fall outside. I looked outside the broken window and heard thunder roar and saw lightning flash in the sky far from my location. My mind wandered back from when I was a junior in high school playing 'Final Fantasy 13' for the fifth time and a storm just like this happened. Being the stupid kid I was I decided to go outside and investigate the storm. I looked to my left arm full of scars from the shoulder all the way to my fingertips, I had to tear off both of my jackets sleeves to cover the bullet hole because I used too much energy from that fire spell. I examined my scars, the storm and the ceiling.
"And that is how I got you." I said aloud to myself referring to my scars just because it was true. I felt tired from everything that happened today and decided to close my eyes for a bit.
"Looks like College can wait one more year." And then silence came and took me.
I woke up and felt something, something terrible draw closer. I opened my eyes and saw the storm closing in on this building. Lightning flashed a second after each flash more violent than before and moved toward my location, I panicked and shot up but quickly fell back down.
"SHIT!" I cried as the pain from my wound got worse, forcing myself up I ran as fast as my legs could carry me toward the door.
KRASH!
Lightning struck again but hit the roof, the cieling above started falling in front of me I didn't have time to reach the exit so I jumped backwards to avoid being crushed.
BOOM!
The debris fell with a hard thud dust and smaller debris floated around in the air. Fire caught and smoke slowly begin to fill the room despite the rain trying to put it out from where lightning had struck to create that gap. The eye of the storm was above me, I was trapped again with my back against the wall. Light shone from my left and saw it was my arm reacting to the storm outside.
"Wait a minute!... Why is my arm reacting again? Is this storm normal?! Of course its not normal, Mel. You know what it is... stop trying to dilude yourself, its real and its happening right above you. You know what it is, I know what it is." I scolded myself as the storm remained above the building. I felt the pain in my left arm shoot through my whole body as lightning produced from my arm, it pointed to the sky and shot lightning of its own the second the storm shot its own energy. Once the two forces collided the whole world flashed bright and I felt like I was falling, that is until I heard the music playing again:
'Child bearing the mark of lightning, burden of all the worlds. Time had corrupted you, you sought remedy from your pain now is your chance. Return to Cocoon, take up the responsibility of Interloper, fix the twisted world from its corruption and you will be set free from this pain at last.'
The voice spoke to me. My srm remained in its raised position and I shouted in return to the voice,
" If your offering me salvation then you better be willing to keep your end of the deal. As long as I can fix my head I don't really care who I'm making this deal to." Soon everything turned dark and the voice whispered softly,
'The deed has been answered. Forge your path through fate and restore all that was taken from you.'
Elsewhere:
The sea near the house crashed softly against the sand, the wind gently blew against the foliage neatly lined around the settlement. Ever since Cocoon fell from its seat in the heavens the inhabitants managed to make their lives much easier in an open area on Gran Pulse. Life was peaceful, all until that night.
Meonektons and thier smaller counterparts began to invade the little area of New Bohdum. Guns were fired at rapid rates in exchange of the enemies ear piercing screech and strong ruin spells. One figure stood watching the war as monster and fellow humans fell in defeat. Blood, smoke, bullets and scorched areas of sand littered the battle zone. Her cerulean blue eyes widened in horror as one by one her friends fell to a Meonektons attack, blood staining the very place they all once walked upon. Tears fell dangerously fast as her knees hit the sand and gently scraped the surface of her skin.
'T-this is wrong! Why are all of these monsters here?! They never made this far past our defenses, how did they get in?" The girl wondered as she continued to watch more people fall to the ground and others take their place. The girl's strawberry pink hair fluttered a bit in the gentle wind that clashed with the scene before her. She was not aware of being targeted by a Meonekton, once she snapped out of her daze the metallic bug like creature charged towards her with haste. The few things the girl could do was back up against the stairs of the home she exited, bring her body together in a ball, raise her arms up and scream,
"LIGHTNING!"
The Meonekton was about to attack until someone shouted and fired multiple bullets into the creature and watch it die. Looking to who saved her the girl saw it was one of her friends, a woman with dark hair in a strange bun, her outfit revealed more than it should though gave her more mobility to fight, her dark eyes that used to be so bright were now dark with seriousness. The other woman grabbed the pinknette by the wrist, pulled her to her feet and shook her by the shoulders.
"Lightnings dead, Serah. When are you ever going to accept that!? Shes never coming back."
The pinknette, Serah, looked at her friend shocked and continued to let her tears fall.
"But, Lebreau..."
"But nothing! You know shes up in that crystal. I know she was your only family but please, let her go!" Just as Lebreau finished scolding Serah another Meonekton appeared behind the darker haired woman, said woman turned around in time but was not quick enough to draw her gun. The creature raised both of its appendages and crashed into the woman full force she hit against the stairs and collapsed through the wood, her legs caught against the remains while her upper body was convulsing in pain against the sand underneathe.
"Lebreau, no!" Serah shouted as she watched her friend get attacked. The monster turned its head to look at the pinknette and she shook in fear again, unable to move. Drawing closer to its prey the beast would have used the same attack on a different opponent but something stopped it. A strange looking blade pierced through its skull and electricity sparked from where it was hit. When the sparks stopped the monster creeked and fell into the sand with a heavy thud. Serah inspected the blade and looked behind her when she heard someone shout,
"Your going to have to get through me if you want to hurt her!" The figure was a male and he leapt off one of the high equipment and landed in a kneeling position beside the fallen enemy. The male pulled out the sword and turned to Serah with a smile.
"Are you Serah?" He asked. The pinknette nodded unable to respond. The brunette male brought out a uniquely made bow with a blade wedged safely within the handle and held it out to her.
"Know how to fight? This is your birthday present from Lightning. Said to give it to you when I saw ya. I'm Noel by the way." The brunette, Noel, explained as he waited for Serah to answer him and take the bow.
"You know my sister !?" Serah spoke, her face and voice contorted in confusion and shock. Before Noel could answer the pair was surrounded by monsters, Noel put the bow that switched into a unique sword into Serah's hands and he stood in his battle stance with two strange looking swords in his hands.
"I would love to tell you everything but we got company!" Looking at the sword in her hands Serah looked at the surrounding enemies and raised her sword in front of her and got ready to fight for her life with a stranger she just met, and possibly her only hope of seeing her sister again.
A/N: Another chapter done, man my writing gears are more rusty than I thought. ),:
Well, it was alright to type. Trying so hard not to fall back into my bad habits and jump the story all over the place, but doing things like an episode to a show is worth the effort towards better habits. Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed the chapter and the story so far. Let me know how it is or if there is anything that needs to be clarified you can PM me or put it in the review section. The chapters will be shorter compared to my others stories for now, it will get more 'into it' but this is just those chapters you want to build up into a better story that gets that intense. Which will be later on. Anyways, hope you all are having a good day, and until next time. Ciao!