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Chapter 4: December 4, 2002 - Transformed At Last
The whole area was filled with dust and dirt kicked up with my massive display of energy control. I watched as my beam, actually almost a discharge as I couldn't have sustained it, shot out into outer space, probably vaporizing a few birds and satellites along the way. I knew it was over, and I let my energy go down, breathing a sigh of relief as I set my feet back on the ground.
I think I sometimes even impress myself, I thought, now all I need to do is wish- I broke off, feeling a dread come over me as I sensed something.
They were alive!
The dust cleared, revealing the aliens standing in air with crossed arms. They looked a bit burnt, but otherwise completely unhurt.
"Im...possible...," I stuttered. "I...I put all my energy into that attack..."
After all that, my best was still not enough, and they closed in on me with a vengeance, ready to finish what they had started.
I had failed.
I powered down, realizing anything more would be futile, letting my aura fade away. I was powerless and had all but run out of energy, and they would quickly dispose of me. I felt close to nothing, not even pain, nothing but apathy as my body was blasted back and forth, through a building and then into a pile of rubble. I just lay there, I knew a few things might have been broken and I was bleeding from my mouth, nose, and eyes and from several deep gashes on the rest of my body. Blood dripped onto the scorched ground as I watched the aliens land around me.
I tried again to move, but I couldn't find the inspiration, and I fell back down to the dirt and broken concrete, paralyzed with pain and fear.
With a small laugh the alien leader gave a simple order to the rest: "Kill them all! Save that boy for last!"
So began the massacre. It was like all the times before, on the TV, only worse, closer and much more personal. The aliens powered up and flew about destroying everything, and everyone. I stood up awkwardly, holding my injured arm and looked on in helpless horror as every one I knew was brutally killed.
I looked to my right and suddenly saw Katharine run past, not toward me she might have at any other time, but away from me, as if to say that I was no longer capable of protecting her; which I couldn't. An alien landed in front of her, and she turned toward me, the look in her eyes conveying helpless terror as a beam of energy from the alien struck her back and exploded out her chest. She fell to her knees, blood streaming from her mouth, and the hole in her chest revealing the bloody ground behind her. She collapsed to the dirt, coughed and just died. I wanted to look away, horrified, and feeling so culpable, but I just couldn't. The screams grew in intensity and I watched as David walked up to her, kneeling down to touch her, in disbelief, before looking accusingly at me. My heart fell to my feet, and I closed my eyes, opening them in time to see a second alien land next to him. I held out a hand, trying to will away the inevitable, as David stared back at the alien, unafraid, and stood strong as his head was cleaved off with a single blow.
I stood, trembling with guilt, as his head bounced on the ground and rolled to only a few feet in front of me, that same accusing look in his eyes, his beautiful, sky-blue eyes, persisting even then. I couldn't believe it, I couldn't stop it, and I swore he blinked once; the severed head of my best friend and so much more, blinked once at me, and would never see anything again for the rest of time.
He was dead, and it was no fault but my own.
I had lost everything, and all the emotions I had kept bottled up inside me since my childhood came out and ravaged my mind and spirit. I fell to my knees and held my head in my hands, screaming, as the tears came out in rivers, soaking the ground beneath me with diluted blood. I couldn't stand it any more, the psychological pain racked my body and I shouted to the sky at all the horrific insanity of it all as the human race would be killed around me and I was powerless.
Something deep inside snapped, all my emotions had released something that I was unaware of and it lifted me to my feet, my energy rising exponentially. I clenched my fists so hard my knuckles were turning white and my fingers dug into my palms, spilling more blood down my wrists. The ground cracked around my feet and pieces of concrete five feet wide lifted up and exploded as my aura grew and surrounded me filling the entire city with its vibrant glow. One of the aliens took an energy reading with the device over his eye and it beeped fast and then exploded. All the aliens stopped dead in their tracks as my energy continued to rise. My body shook and I felt a power of an intensity that I had never felt before come from nowhere. The ground shattered and melted beneath my feet as all the windows in the school exploded and a nearby tree burst into flames. My aura expanded and then fell back, clinging to me as my hair spiked higher upward and began to glow. With a final blast of energy my whole world tipped and spun about me and flashed to green.
Merciful, beautiful green.
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I wasn't quite sure what had happened at first; my hair and tail were now an un-earthly greenish and my hair was spikier than even. My Ki aura had gone from white to an ethereal greenish-blue glow surrounding me and flaming about my body. My energy levels must have increased ten-fold and every injury I had sustained, every little bit of pain was as good as gone. I felt brand new, like I had just woken up from a long and restful sleep. And I was becoming sure that it was just that, something inside of me had been sleeping and I had woken it up, somehow, with my extreme emotional state and it had come out to make me what I stood there to be.
I held my hands in front of me, staring in disbelief. I was awesomely powerful, it was so unreal, I felt like I could tear the entire planet in two, and I knew then that I had reached my potential and become everything I could become. It was like a weird upgrade of sorts, like I wasn't a normal Kalltorraiya-jin anymore, but a Super-Kalltorraiya-jin.
I was transformed.
The aliens were dumbstruck, one of them yelled out a string of frantic phrases and I got the main part of it from his head. Something about 'the green' and that they were all doomed to a horrible death, one I would be pleased to give them.
"Relax," said the leader. "You are blowing this way out of proportion!"
I stood tall and flared out my Ki, my aura expanding and growing in intensity, feeling like a god as the grass burnt away around my feet as I took each step, leaving blackened footprints.
"Nice light show, but it won't do you any good," he said to me as I walked right up to them and watched the others cower in fear.
I didn't need to speak; I just raised an arm and pointed my outstretched hand behind me, at the virtually untouched auditorium, letting my actions do the talking. They looked at me, thinking that I couldn't do it.
They thought I was still like a human, they thought I couldn't kill and that it made me weak, unlike them. My mind wasn't affected by the transformation, but if those dammed humans got in my way now, so help me, let them die.
I smirked and charged a tiny, green blast and just let it shoot out to the exposed building, putting in about as much effort as I would in crushing an ant. Several screams came out of what was left of the school and I easily ignored them as it hit with a massive explosion. The entire area was blinded with the glow of the explosion as it filled the area with smoke and debris flew through the air and bounced off the ground. The light faded and the smoke partially cleared revealing the auditorium that had a huge hole in it and was otherwise blown apart and a massive mushroom cloud rose from the distant mountains, probably destroying a few houses on the way in an effective demonstration of my newfound power.
"I don't think you know what I have become," I said to them.
I'm sure more than a few people had died, but I wasn't too concerned with it at the moment. The aliens looked like they had just seen their impending doom and were extremely frightened now, visibly shaking. All except the leader, who didn't seem to care; he stood with his arms crossed and looked on.
Why does he never fight? I can't figure what he's hiding, I thought. I'll show them, him last!
With a flash that blew apart the ground under me, I shot up into the sky and confronted the aliens face-to-face. They stood in front of me and a few of the ten looked like they would be wetting themselves if they could. The leader decided enough was enough and, with a single command, sent the first two of his minions after me. I steeled myself, dropped back into my stance, and prepared to fight. I watched as the aliens flew towards me and tried to form an attack.
No, it can't be an illusion. They seem to be moving slower, what is this?
Alien number one dove down and tried to punch me and I easily dodged his attempt. He seemed mad and continued to throw blows and I dodged them all with remarkable ease, his fists and feet missing my body. He tried again and I blocked his fist with a single finger, then he tried a kick to my head and I again found myself effortlessly blocking his blow with my arm by pure reaction alone. I looked next to me and the second one then punched me as hard as he could in the jaw; I didn't even feel it. I smiled for the first time in a while and he backed away. He tried again to attack, this time with his friend and I vanished from right in front of them, only to appear behind.
"Let me show you how it's done!" I yelled throwing a fist into both of their backs, flinging them to the ground.
Before they hit I shot down, almost to the ground, and kicked one into a building, sending a blast after him, blowing him and everything else in the immediate area into atoms. The other alien tried to escape but I cut him off and never gave him a chance, I formed a ball of energy in the palm of my hand and swept it to the side, letting the Ki form a green sword. Bringing it up and then down I sliced the alien in half and watched in satisfaction as he slid slowly into two pieces. The alien's blood flew into all directions as I sliced him into small chunks smiling at the remarkable ease.
The remaining aliens stood transfixed as I destroyed what was left with a beam of energy, retracted the Ki sword and waited for a response. Wasting no time, the leader sent three more of them toward me and I watched carefully as they tried to do something, but never reached me as I efficiently blasted the two to my sides into dust and waited as the fifth alien looked at me with sheer terror in his eyes. I prepared to break him apart but didn't have that chance as two more grabbed my arms and held them behind my back. I couldn't move. The alien in front looked happier now that he had regained control and he flew up punching me in the stomach as hard as he could. Blow after blow rained down onto my exposed middle and I just smiled at him, one thing I had learned was that Ki is used best when projected from the hand, but I knew how to blast someone from anywhere. He stopped and looked at me just in time to see a shine from my obsidian pupils as I blasted him away with twin beams shot from my eyes.
The aliens behind tried to hold me but I forced my arms up and grabbed theirs, tearing them off! The aliens, thoroughly terrified, tried to escape but I batted one aside and phased out of sight appearing back in front of him. I sent an energy ball his way and he dodged it, only to hear the scream of his comrade behind him, dying. He turned to try and run, but didn't get far as my foot exploded through his back and out his chest, blood flying from his mouth. With a small kick I sent him into the air and easily destroyed him.
The only three minor aliens left flew up high into the sky in formation and the one in the middle put his hands to his right side, one on top of the other. The other two aliens mimicked his actions and they said something.
"Ka.........me.........he..........me..........," they chanted in unison.
A blue ball of energy began to concentrate in between each of their hands and then the one in the middle put them in front of him as the other two put their hands next to his to add their energy together. There was a flash and the blue colored beam shot toward me as they yelled out: "HA!"
The ground started to shake as the beam headed down to where it would surely destroy the entire planet. I decided to give the technique a try and charged the very same thing.
"Ka......me......ha......me...................HA!" I yelled, replicating their actions and shooting up my beam to meat theirs.
The two columns of energy collided in midair and began to push together, forming a massive ball of pure energy as neither side would let up the sustained force. I pushed some more energy into my end and it was far too much for the aliens to handle and the beam shot through theirs, out into space and they were disintegrated up in the atmosphere, but not before one of them managed to escape. This one seemed to be a bit stronger than the rest and he hit me from behind, I recovered quickly and struck back, deflecting a few of his blows and then punched my fist into his chest. I lifted the helpless creature into the air and charged some Ki into my hand, blowing him to bits from the inside.
The alien's head landed at the feet of his leader, and he just stood, staring uncaring at it as his subordinate spoke in a choked whisper.
"Please...help me..."
I alighted easily on the ground, my Ki aura flaming in green about me and the concrete cracked where I landed. What was left of the alien again asked for help from the leader and I walked up, the shadow from my foot covering his head before I brought it down, crushing it with a splattering of blood.
The entire exchange had taken less than a minute, and I had barely broken a sweat. It was true then, there could be no limit to my power and I regarded the only remaining alien as the last obstacle to saving the whole world. I wasn't going to lose now, I was all-powerful and I was triumphant in destroying all of them; all of them but a single one, and I stared him down, trying to uncover his secret confidence.
I was just too strong, and I realized that what I had could never again be matched by anyone, or anything. I clenched my fists, flashed my Ki, and narrowed my eyes.
Soon, I thought. Soon you will be gone as well. Your death will avenge all those you have killed. I won't stop until you are destroyed.
He didn't move, truly unafraid, and we stared each other down in classic stance amid the debris, our energy shaking the burnt and bloody ground upon which we stood.
It was going to be a real fight from then on.
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See? He told them not to piss him off; they did and look what happened! Well, this is the last chapter that I had written before I started rewriting the whole thing, so that means I have to start writing from scratch now, and I dunno how that will affect my writing speed. Still, keep me inspired and keep those reviews coming! Thanks for reading.