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Chapter 3: December 4, 2002 - Power of the Spirit
I don't remember being that scared, only confused, not sure how to proceed. It would seem that I had become dependant upon the Voice, as much of a constant companion as a guide on the unsure path I walked each day. I looked back up, toward the aliens and took in their appearance.
Now that they were so close and were not moving I could get a much better look at them compared to that which I had seen on the TV. They numbered ten, plus one that was a little bigger that seemed to be the leader because the rest looked to be afraid of him, or to respect him. Even disregarding their incredible powers, they were very imposing so close up, like nothing I had ever seen before. They were very tall, at least seven feet or possibly eight and looked to be almost reptilian in appearance, colored reddish with some off-white and grey parts. Along with a pair of sharp-looking bent spikes coming out of their heads and a couple on their wrists and backs, there was a sort of armored skin covering various parts of their bodies. As they turned from side to side, looking at the people around the school, I could also see they had tails as well, thick red tails with some kind of oversized razor blade on the end. Other than that they looked almost human, kind of anyway. I think they had five fingers, maybe six?
One of them also looked to have some kind of device fitting over the left side of his head with some type of glass wrapping around the front of his eye. I watched as he pressed a button on the side repeatedly and seemed to take some type of reading of the people around with it. In the stark silence around us, I could hear a quiet beeping from it. Other than that there was no sort of clothing or ornamentation of any kind on them. Quite frankly that didn't matter as I could discern no secondary, or primary, sex characteristics, though they would have seemed somewhat male. Maybe they were a sterile military force, or maybe they reproduced by fission, how the hell would I know? I hadn't exactly found out what the hell I was going to be fighting. My thoughts were interrupted for the millionth time today as the lead alien spoke in that same bizarre language. No one moved an inch for several tense seconds as the alien repeated what he said and, with no response likely to be coming, he cursed to himself; or maybe at us, I couldn't be sure.
Then, without warning, the alien spoke again, in flawless, unaccented English.
"Who was that?" he said.
Nobody moved or said a word.
"One of you here is more powerful than the rest, and we sensed him before and just now," the alien continued.
"Well?" he went, on sounding angry. "Who is it?!"
I stepped forward, and walked calmly toward them as people parted like the Red Sea in front of me. My tail slipped out into the open, pulling a short gasp from the people in the crowd as it moved about seemingly with a mind of its own. I stopped about ten feet from them, looking as strong as I could.
"You looking for me?" I asked.
All the aliens burst out laughing, and the one took readings of me with the device on his head I could hear the same faint beeping as shapes flashed over the eyepiece.
"What," said the leader, "you are but a child, you expect me to believe that you have those powers we felt? Do you have any proof to back up your claims?"
Something inside me told me I had just what they wanted to see.
"Only this...," I said slowly and I held up my left fist and extended my index finger, revealing the symbol to them as it seemed to shine in the morning sun.
Two of the aliens took a noticeable step back, and as few more I could feel were a little frightened.
"So, a full-breed Kalltorraiya-jin! To WHAT do I owe this honor?" the lead one said, foolishly unafraid of me. "You do realize your species is all but extinct, and I will have no problem finishing the job!"
I didn't move, trying to figure out what the best way to attack them would be, and watched as the alien walked up and stopped right in front of my face, towering at least 2 feet over me.
His feet squeaked when he walked... I noticed, my eyes widening.
He shot a smirk at me and raised a hand. Before anything could be done about it he punched me full in the face and I flew at uncontrollably into a building with a loud crash, sending debris flying.
"Fucking shit that hurt. He's fast!" I said to myself, crawling out of the rubble that used to be a wall, dusting off my clothes and standing back up.
I looked around me, just then realizing that I had just crashed through solid concrete and was practically unhurt. Maybe I was a little tougher than I thought. I picked myself up and walked out of the mess towards the aliens. Everyone around was shocked out of their minds that that didn't kill me, and I was sure the aliens were, too.
"Well, so you want to play. Very well, I can do that," I said with newfound confidence now that I could see how strong I was. "Just a word of advice, don't piss me off, you might regret it!"
The other aliens laughed, and looked superiorly at me, rising into the air, as the leader gave a curt bow, mocking me.
"Don't be so sure of yourself, my young fool," he said to me. "You have no idea what you are up against."
Neither do you, I thought.
I raised my arms, balled my hands into fists and fell into my preferred fighting stance. I thought again about all those children that had died, thought about all those children I had failed, and how mad it made me. I felt my anger rising and I built upon it just like I was taught. The ground trembled, and a few small pieces of concrete hovered in the air and spun about me. My body started to glow white and my hair waved about and pointed skyward. The alien took yet more readings and this time the strange device beeped faster.
A few people now looked even more scared, who could blame them? As if evil aliens blowing up whole cities wasn't bad enough now one of their own seemed to be one of them. But I felt in complete control, and many attacks and techniques I didn't even know seemed suddenly to form into my mind. For just a second, a strange thought popped into my mind, and I jumped on it, building my confidence and hope with just that simple statement in my mind. I rose up into the air, feeling the newfound freedom in my abilities and realizing that I could actually fly.
I just might be able to do this, I thought.
With a shout I took off into the air and shot toward the aliens at full power, my Ki blazing around me. One of the aliens attempted to blast me and I deflected it right back toward him. Now they were genuinely scared, and I flew right into the group and took advantage of the confusion to punch one of them right in the chest; it felt like punching lead but the alien flew backwards nonetheless. The leader got out of the way and almost seemed to want to let his minions have all the fun, so I ignored him and went after the rest. Two aliens tried to make an attack and I dodged out of the way, landed on the ground, and threw a sloppy ball of energy to one of them. It just splashed off his head and he vanished in a flash of light. Trying to sense where he was, I miscalculated and found out soon enough where he was as a foot came crashing into the back of my head and I hit face-first on the ground. The alien took off into the sky, a thousand feet up, and I followed, launching energy blasts as I went, getting truly angry. I fought him briefly hand-to-hand, our fists and feet landing blows and blocking. We almost seemed to be evenly matched, and I was enjoying it. That was, until another one showed up and hit me into another building.
I could have easily managed one of them, but not ten. As if to respond to that fact, a third alien appeared in front of me and with a flash of light destroyed the entire structure around me as I tried to keep a shield of Ki around me to protect myself. There was another large explosion near me, and despite the flying chunks of concrete, our private audience of humans didn't move, amazed at the display. I blocked a blow from yet another enemy; dodged another one that was trying to grab my tail, and struck back, sending him into the air before forming a huge Ki bomb and launching it at him. The alien tried to deflect it and it exploded. Perfect. He seemed a bit off balance and, as the smoke cleared, I saw the opening and raised my arm to the sky.
I hope this works, I thought, getting desperate. I charged some energy into my hand and formed it into a flat disk that I started spinning at top speed above me like a whitish three-foot-wide saw blade.
"Die, you freak!" I shouted, throwing the disk.
It flew at him and he couldn't get out of the way in time and the disk of Ki swept past, slicing off his arm.
There was a moment of silence, and I could sense the feeling in the crowd below enlighten along with the sound of a few cheers, one probably from David.
"There, I believe you underestimated me!" I called out, addressing the remaining aliens as I stared down the one I had irrevocably maimed.
"Don't worry about that little cut, child," said the alien as he raised his bleeding stump and threw me a cocky smirk.
There is no way...
The wound suddenly glowed, swelled, and then, to my utter amazement, a new arm came splattering out with a sickening sound.
Several sounds of disgust rose from a few people and I watched in horror while the alien flexed his newly grown fingers, wet with a sort of slime, and clenched a fist, throwing me a cocky smirk.
A confident voice from behind said: "There, are you impressed?"
I was visibly shaking, unsure of how to proceed, regarding my foes in a whole new light.
How am I supposed to beat them if they can regenerate after every attack?!
The alien took off toward me and I fell back into my stance, but my confidence was a bit worn and it showed. My fighting skill was suffering and I was getting pounded. I tried to stop an attack from five of them this time but with a large blow I was sent flying into the side of another classroom wall, my body making an indentation a foot deep. Now I was getting really mad, no, royally pissed was more like it. I raised my Ki again and watched as the aliens assembled in a loose group in front of me. The wall around me disintegrated from the force of my energy and I flew out towards them. I had had enough, it was now or never. I was going to kill them all.
I threw out my arms straight and spread my legs into a wide, upside-down 'V', charging what little Ki I had left through my body. I started to yell, knowing it might help, and a flash of energy spread around me giving me a huge white aura. As I continued to charge up for an ultimate attack the ground began to shake again, the windows rattled and the ground heaved and cracked twenty feet below my feet.
This will finish them.
Several rocks flew up from the ground into the air and one of the damaged buildings collapsed under me. My energy was enormous; I might very well have been shaking the entire planet. I thrust my arms forward and formed my hands into a sideways open clam shape forming all my energy I had into my hands. A glow emerged and a ball began to glow and then fade, glow and the fade. The ball grew larger and large bolts of electricity crackled in all directions around me, striking the ground and digging trenches in the concrete. It grew into a super condensed foot wide ball, filling my hands with light, more green now than white. The aliens looked at me with forced confidence, for they knew this would kill them.
"YOUR TIME ON THIS PLANET IS THROUGH!" I screamed at them. Quickly choosing a name for my new energy attack I screamed out: "FINAL FLASH!" and pushed out the energy with everything I had.
It was almost more than I could have dreamed of. A massive one-hundred mile wide beam shot out at near the speed of light and streaked towards the aliens with a roaring sound. The pure, vibrant energy hit them and there was no way they could have gotten out of the way. The blinding light consumed them and the world shook in the display as the aliens were swallowed up by the energy and probably blown to atoms.
I knew that I was doing it, that I was destroying them, ending their reign of destruction, and it made me feel good. I knew one thing for sure at that time: it would all be over soon.
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Looks like those aliens are dust, what now? Stay turned to find out, and expect the unexpected in the next chapter. Please review, thanks!