I slowly sit up in my bed and looks at my clock.
Ugh, I overslept. It's 9 am.
I think as I slowly get out of bed. I slowly walk downstairs.
I guess mom had to work the morning shift at Night-Tec.
I sit down and grab a poptart from the box.
Last night was weird. I wonder how everyone is doing.
I think while I open the poptart wrapper and slowly eat it. I finish and start walking back to my room. Halfway up the stairs the door knob starts clinking.
Someone's trying to get in.
I quickly run to my room and grab my machete from under my bed. As I run downstairs to the door it stops clinking.
What are they doing out there.
All of a sudden I hear the tv come on in the living room in the next room over.
Did they come in a window?!
I slowly walk to the doorway and see someone with a hoodie on sitting on the couch watching cartoons. I slowly walk up behind them and ready my machete. I quickly pull it back and swing it. Right as its about to hit the person they reach up with their left hand and stop the blade.
Whatha hell!?
The person sighs and turns around
"Kai, didn't you learn last night I can stop blades with my hand. And Zero's blade was far stronger than this weak machete."
Aziria says as she squeezes the blade of the machete and breaks it.
"Oh, h-hey."
I mumble.
"Sorry for swinging my machete at you."
She shakes her head. She quickly reaches toward me and grabs me by the collar of my shirt.
"Swing at me again and I will hurt you."
She says smiling evily.
"U-understood."
I murmur, she pushes me away.
"Why weren't you in the bus this morning?"
She asks.
"I overslept."
I reply, she sighs again. I quickly speak up.
"Wait!? How did you get in here."
She stares at me blankly.
"I teleported inside."
"You can teleport?!"
I yell. She jumps back.
"Yea."
Why does everyone have cool powers?!
She blankly stares at me for a moment.
"Where's your true weapon?"
She asks.
"Huh? True weapon?"
I reply. She rubs the back of her neck.
"You know, the weapon you have that can transform when you channel energy into it. Like how Zero's blade gets bigger the more energy he channels into it."
She reaches into her pocket and pulls out a small knife.
"This is my true weapon."
I blankly stare at the pathetic knife.
"Uh huh. That is scary."
I say in a joking manner. She laughs then closes her eyes.
"Release!"
She yells. Her hair changes from black with red tips to pure red and it grows down to the back of her knees. The puny knife also changes. It changes shape to look like a rigged sword. Thousands of jagged notched spots line the blades edge.
"Holy shit!"
I exclaim, falling back onto my butt. She quickly reaches down and grabs me by the collar of my shirt.
"Time to learn your powers kid."
She drops her sword and I see her pull her fist back to hit me. She swings and my sight go's black for what feels like a few seconds. As I open my eyes I see I'm in a baron wasteland. Completely void of life, stretching for as far as my eyes can see.
"Kai."
Aziria says. I turn around and see her in her first release holding her blade on her shoulder. She again speaks.
"Welcome, to Asale ti iku."
Asale ti iku? Gotta give props to whoever named this place. That's pretty original.
"So what does that mean?"
I ask. She smiles.
"It means, Desert of death."
This place just sounds and looks depressing.
I look around. When I turn back to Aziria I get kicked in the face and sent flying. I hit the ground and quickly roll back to my feet.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?"
I yell at her. She laughs.
"Let me explain this to you so you can understand. The more you fight, the stronger your powers get. So I'm gonna kick your ass around this infinite desert till you can fight back!"
As soon as she's done speaking she teleports right to me and punches me in the gut extremely hard. I barely keep my feet on the ground and barely get a single breathe in before she hits me again, this time to the face. The impact sends me 30 feet away from her and I land hard on the sand.
I can't fight this. She's too fast, too strong, she's better in every way. HOW DO I FIGHT HER!?
As I look up I see her bringing her blade down right on top of me. I quickly jump to the right but my left arm gets a gash down it.
Damnit, I wasn't fast enough.
I look at my arm.
What the hell.
My blood pouring out of my arm is white. I quickly look up and see her right at me again this time she's thrusting her blade to my throat.
Shit.
Once more I move right and get an inch deep cut across the left side of my throat.
I'll keep my eyes on her.
I stare at her. My body suddenly starts getting hotter.
What is this.
I hold my left arm up in front of my face so I don't take my eyes off of Aziria.
Woah.
The gash is healing, it's hot to the touch. I quickly put my right hand on the left side of my throat and notice it's healing too. Aziria laughs.
"Man, your getting stronger faster than I thought you would. And I was just starting to have fun too."
She teleports right to me and swings her blade across, almost trying to cut my head off. Right before she gets to me time slows down a little, giving me enough time to completely avoid her attack. I do a half back flip then as I'm starting to finish I kick upward and kick her blade from her hand. Her face has a look of disbelief.
Woah, what was that. What did I just do.
I land and time returns to regular speed. Aziria holds her hand and rubs it.
"Damn kid, never thought you'd have eyes like that."
I take a step back.
EEyes? What do you mean?"
She looks at me. "Your eyes can predict attacks. To you it seemed as though time slowed down, right?"
I stare at her.
"Yea, how did you know?"
She sighs and starts walking forward to grab her blade from the sand.
"It's a rare trait, also I saw your eyes become slitted. You're a demon. Just like me. But I can't predict movements or attacks. I just have longsight, I can see very far away."
"I'M A DEMON!?"
I ask with a yell.
"Yea."
She replies. She pops her neck.
"Well, looks like I'm gonna have to push you more now!"
She says with a smile.
"What do you mean?"
I ask while backing up.
"Well kid, it's time for you to see the power of a second release."
Red and black energy starts gathering all throughout the air.
The air just got more dense, it's hard to breathe.
She smiles as all the energy from the air gathers around her and spins in what looks like a tornado made of energy. Through the swirling energy I hear her say.
"Get ready kid, my bloodlust gets out of hand when I'm in this form. Ready your eyes, and don't blink."