Chereads / Retaliator / Chapter 22 - Desperate Situation

Chapter 22 - Desperate Situation

Rein was engaging the beast while Nord was on his knees behind him.

Nord couldn't savor the sight of himself being saved again first by penguin and then by Rein, he gathered all of what was the remaining strength he had left and stood again on his feet. He staggered falling victim to extreme exhaustion from his previous fight but was able to keep his footing taking support from his arms which had fallen to his knees.

"I'll help you to take him down", Nord said to Rein.

Exerting a sudden force Rein pushed his sword against the beast's hammer throwing the beast off balance, he then held his sword in his left hand and slipped towards the right punching the anomality in the jaw blasting him to a distance.

"Don't bother I'll take care of him now," replied Rein.

To Nord Rein's words felt heavy but he knew he had already tried all he could and there was nothing else that he could do which would be helpful in the combat against the anomality. But refusing to be ordered around and as a desperate attempt Nord said," Why didn't you finish him earlier."

Rein gave Nord his side eye as if being annoyed and said in his same calm voice, "I was waiting for him to gain consciousness.".

"Gain consciousness? What do you mean?

"No more questions!" said Rein in an asserting voice, "At least fifty meters, run away, clearing at least fifty meters."

"Why?" asked Nord.

"Because you'll fucking die if you get caught up in it," replied Rein in his same calm voice.

"Stronger than before huh, or maybe stronger than your master," said the anomality as he threw the hammer aside and called for his axe which came flying in his claws. The atmosphere started to change dark clouds disrupted the moonlight throwing dark shadow over the village. Every villager could witness the dark towering cumulonimbus clouds sparking with thunder making blasting sounds as if splitting the sky. 

[On the other side of the village where the remaining elder have taken refuge]

"What is this Steve," asked Haldem gazing at the sky.

"More than nine hundred million volts of current flowing through those clouds," replied Steve in a disarray, "enough to kill a million people in fraction of seconds" he added.

[Steve: Ability->Weather Analysis. Helps him analyze any kind of natural phenomenon]

"Even Nord wouldn't stand a chance against that let alone anyone else," said Fluke with his eyes widened.

"Is this our doomsday?" commented Adil.

Everyone else took a look at Adil's face who was staring the cloud filled sky and clenched their fists for their superiority in knowledge was powerless in the face of this catastrophe.

[The evacuation site]

"What is that?" said one of the women pointing upward towards the sky.

The crowd became agitated as they looked up at the clouds which were darker than night, completely spreading darkness. 

"What the hell," murmured luna to herself.

As if the night that had grew even darker wasn't enough lightning bolts started to fall embracing the land destroying everything that came in contact. The crowd went into a frenzy, pushing and toppling over each other. The people embarked the broken bridge, thinking they would get away from the raining death, but it was to no avail for the people who had mounted the bridge experience the worst adversity. A lightning bolt fell directly over the bridge burning it instantly and the people on it roasted to lump of coal, dying in an instant, but some of them who only tore a limb or two crawled over the ground whining in pain while some fell directly into the abyss, after the bridge was blown to smithereens. 

Losing their path to evacuation and the sight of the half dead made the remaining people fell into despair. Some fell on their knees embracing their loved ones as if accepting their faith while some just cried not knowing what else to do.

There was silence amidst the havoc to Luna it felt like everything had been slowed for her to witness every individual's misery. "I can't feel my legs," she thought to herself as she swayed back and fell flat on her back.

*A faint voice "Wake up luna! Wake up!", yelled Dash shaking luna vigorously, for she had met similar fate like the half dead, with half of her body burnt she laid frozen, hearing faint voices from a far.

*Amy crying "No luna! No", shouted Amy with her voice breaking.

Amidst all the yelling Luna whispered something inaudible. Dash took his ear close to Luna's lips trying to make out something of her last words. "Save her" he heard under her dying breath.

"I will," said Dash grabbing of what was remaining of her hand, as tears rolled down his eyes. 

"Everyone lookout for any lesser beast who would come attracted to the noise," Dash ordered his remaining regiment as he stood up and started walking towards the crowd, leaving the corpse behind with grave expressions. 

"SHUT UP!!" he yelled at the top of his lungs.

"The only thing that your yelling is going to do is attract the lesser beasts who are going to kill the rest of us! because we soldiers are far less in number to protect you all and you idiots can't fucking fight," yelled Dash.

"How can you talk to us like that!!" yelled an elderly woman who was grieving for her husband, " *in a breaking voice I just lost my husband". 

"Well congrats! cause the age you're at you're gonna see him soon," replied Dash as if he had lost his sanity.

The reply shook the crowd, there was silence for some seconds. The crowd just stared at Dash, flabbergasted at his attitude.

"The dawn is going to break anytime now, all you have to do is stay quiet, after the sun hits the sky you can cry as much as you want before that if I hear a single noise, I am going to slaughter you with my own sword," said Dash establishing peace for the specified time.

"What will you do about lightning, you can't prevent it from falling" said one of the men from the crowd.

"If lightning falls on you take it like a good boy!" replied Dash walking towards his specified checkpoint, to look out for any lesser beasts.

The man was rendered speechless and the silence was established.

[Back to the scene]

"Run", said Rein to make Nord leave.

"I won't," replied Nord. 

Nord's reply annoyed Rein to such extremities that his expressions started to change, his eyebrows curled and his jaw gritted.

"He's loose in the head," said penguin as waddled close to Rein. 

Rein *sighs

"We'll kill him in the sky", suggested penguin.

Rein Nods his head in disagreement.