WORLD END HEROES

-three-the lives we once touched-

Blake and I kept traversing the new, dead world.

Together, at least.

Someone to talk to made me feel so much better, and he had a lot of interesting stories to tell. We shared our life stories, talked about our favourite foods, TV shows, everything.

And our new life stories so far. After we both finally got some sleep, and hit the road again, at this point we've spent roughly 22 hours in the new world.

Blake was a lot like me. He woke up among the ruins of his home to find his family dead, and everything crushed to pieces. He couldn't get out of his house until a robot tore a wall away. He attacked it and fled, but they chased after him, relentlessly. He ran for hours, as hard as he can, until his stamina and will gave in.

But he didn't want to die. He decided it. He declared right there, out loud. And his powers awakened.

Just like me.

So our new life stories weren't very interesting to each other, having been basically the same thing.

At least we could draw some conclusions from this – the powers awaken when someone decides to stand up and fight back. Assuming there were more survivors of the meteor crash, their might be others fighting like us.

And on the other hand, not every survivor might still be alive, if they didn't want to be a part of it.

So that seemed to be some mysteries solved for us.

There were others out there, and the powers come for those who stand.

We entered back into the normal routine of walking, searching, eating, fighting, and now thankfully added to the list, resting.

With no real goal still in sight, we returned to our search of the world.

My old life, huh.

My old hometown was called Bastation. I was a student at Metro High, 10th Grade. It was a fairly normal life. Classes, friends, shopping, home life, homework. Never had a job, though. Dunno why, didn't feel like it, I guess. I never really needed money, Mum gave me stuff for jobs around the house and since I didn't spend much, I never needed much.

My best friend, Kaitlin, was a big thing in my life. She changed the way I look at a lot of things. Before I met her, I wasn't very social and such. But.. well, you know. She changed me.

Blake said his old life was fairly basic too. Video games, screwing around, that sort of thing. Had a lot of friends, but wasn't much of an outside person, so they didn't do much.

He lived in a big city called Mahora, a few hours away from Bastation. So he was never with a lack of things to do. He just didn't do them, is all.

I loved going to Mahora. I went there all the time with Kaitlin.

…Wonder if we passed each other at some point.

We were approaching another big set of ruins, so we'd probably reached another town. Wonder what it used to be.

Blake suddenly stopped and grabbed my arm to stop me too.

"What?"

He looked up to an overhead building, and I followed his view.

And there were others.

Not machines.

Not corpses.

But others.

Other people.

They stood and looked down on us.

There were three of them.

Blake raised his hand and clenched his fist, letting his bright orange flame show.

We waited, watching the three above us. Hoping for a response of some kind.

…and one of the three raised their hand, and in reply, revealed a long, beautiful silver flame.

"More like us" Blake said. I nodded in response.

We weren't alone. There were more like us. I thought there might be after meeting Blake, but it's good to know I was right.

The three of them talked for a little bit, and then two of them left while the one with the silver flame came down to greet us. It was a girl, around 20 or so years old by the look of her.

"Hello there" she said when she got to us.

"Hey.." I replied.

She looked at me for a bit, before asking "Do you have a flame too?"

"Uh.. yeah." Reluctantly, I let my blue flame take form on my left eye again.

The girl, nodding in approval, asked for our names. After getting them, she told us she was part of a rebel group of people like us that were fighting back against the invasion.

"My name is Angel Wing Arrow. Just Angel for short."

"That's um… an interesting name."

"It's a New World name. Was one of our ideas when we started our group. I'm sure the boss will give you two ones when yo- er, if you join."

"Hmm…"

"We might as well" said Blake. "It's probably better than just continuing our wandering."

"Mm… I guess so."

"Then you two will join?" Angel looked rather excited at us.

"Right. We'll join."

"Okay! I think the boss will want you to do some… orientation or something like that. But it'll be fine."

"We can handle it."

"Good stuff. Then follow me!"

Angel started to walk off into the city ruins, and we began to follow.

"Oh, right." Angel spun around to look at us.

"We're called the World End Heroes. Our group, I mean."

With that, she span back and continued walking.

"Heroes of the New World huh?"

"Seems to be it. You can take it, Anna?"

"If I couldn't, I would never have gotten this power. Same with you Blake."

"Heh, right."

And so, we began our journey with a new purpose. To join the World End Heroes.

And so here, the story really began.