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Chapter 7 - 7

Slowly but surely his limbs began to grow back. Bones, tissue, muscle, veins, all seemed to be growing back.

"Looks like we got the preferred result. But it looks like they will be slower than the rest" swor said to him as demo slowly sat up with effort while the appendages were regenerating slower than he would like.

Swor looked down at Demo. His eye had finally settled to clear. The pitch black and purple seemed sharper.

Demo gave a sigh of relief. Just then a terrible throbbing pain in his head forced him to almost fall back down.

"Ugh" Demo said excruciatingly. Miri in distraught ran over to his side. "Whats wrong!?!" Miri asked in a worried panic.

Swor became serious and warmed himself up by stretching. "They found us, agents sent from the organization that Demo escaped from" he says to her as he turns around to face the dark forest.

They kept samples of his blood from five years ago and have been creating soldiers with it" he continues 

"He is subject to intense pain when any of them are around thus making him uselss the rest of the time" swor finished as the skin of his palms changes to a metalic gray color.

"Cover your ears" he says to Miri 

She does so just as he claps his hands together and there is a bone rattling bang emitted from them colliding. Smoke oozes from his hands the small explosion that cleared the spell circle away.

"They already know where we are because of Demo but we will have to be on our guard since we won't know where they are coming from" he warns as his arms change color to a dark gray color that shines in the moonlight.

"I can take care of that" she says to him as she closes her eyes and breathes in and out.

She opens her eyes as they glow a sharp yellow as her ability activates.

*spactial detection* she confirms the new ability in her mind as it comes to life.

Her sense of touch and hearing are amplified as she kneels down, placing her hands on the ground. Her ears perked up to pick up even the slightest of sounds. Through her hands she felt even the tiniest of vibrations.

In combination it created an accurate three dimensional map of the forested area within her mind.

She then identified three targets moving at high speeds.

"Three enemies coming from the east' right now estimating 10 minutes to get here" she said to Swor who had been watching her closely.

"Alright" he said as he thrust his blackened hands into the ground and then pulled them back out breaking the earth. He held two large rocks, both the size of a Canandian wolf.

He thrust a hand into both of them for a few moments. Miri could start to feel intense heat emit from the rocks as Swor removed his hands and gripped the rocks.

The backs of his hands turned into an intense dark blue color as he held the rocks. Suddenly strong bright blue flames erupted from the back of his hands.

The muscles of his arms bulged as he drew each arm back and threw the rocks one at a time. His arm strength combined with the force from the flames sent them flying like missiles through the air.

A few seconds go by as they vanish into the darkness. Miri continues to focus on the targets. She sees the projectiles rushing towards them and explode as they land in front of the three.

They explode on contact and she senses the heated rock from within scatter hitting the targets in multiple spots before dust and debris kick up.

"Did it work" he asked as she kept monitoring the area.

Just then her detection senses something close to them. Two anomalies form between them and Demo. She realizes that they are a type of warp gates.

"THEY'RE HERE" she yells to swor turning to Demo

He had also realized this and had turned around just to see two warp gates beginning to open. Two cloaked figures emerged from them. They were pulling something from their cloaks.

Miri panicked as she began to run towards Demo.

There was a sudden explosion as miri glanced over to see swor. He had jumped the talons of his feet had changed to a metalic black color with a flame from each floor. He had propelled himself forward from the explosion of his feet.

The two figures had drawn what seemed to be metal syringes and were getting close enough to Demo to stick them in.

Before they could swor had gotten to them just in time and struck one of them hard across their skull his blackened hand seemed to bust the skull of the first one  and send them in a spiral of blood to a tree. As he then redirected the coloration of his foot to cover the back of his heel and his shin.

A small Jet fire emitted from the back of his foot and which propelled it forward. The enhanced kick landed in the figures gut and sent then through a cluster of trees. 

He landed with a spin almost like if he was in a swivel.

There were sudden sparks as the sound of metal clashing.

A third warp gate had opened right above Demo and a slightly burnt figure had emerged. They were holding what looked like a metal club with small spikes.

Swor had blocked it with his forearm. The point of contact was a bright silver that shined in the red moonlight. The spiked club sparked against it.

The two pushed forward and forced them apart later on, both landing on their feet. The figure brandished their club, swor spread the silver color. Covering the rest of his arms.

"Looks like I finally caught up with the target" the hooded figure said.

"It seems I found the second top priority target as well" they said as they referred to miri.

"How are you… Mother" they said.