Siege flipped the switch on, illuminating the dark house he found after he chased after Anzai.
He heard a canned beer open as he entered the house. There was her sister wearing the gym clothes she was using in school. She's lifting a dumbbell as she drinks all of the beer.
Her hands are dripping with blood because of the wounds she got from punching a cement with a rough surface over and over without gloves.
Siege passed by to his sister. She heads towards a cabinet where he took the first aid kit.
"I stopped chasing Anzai by your command. If you regret I'll gladly go to his house and drag him here." Siege said.
Ms. Hera took another can. He pressed it until it opened and drank all the beer again.
Her face is already reddening. She tossed the can into the trash can which is already filled with the other cans she had been drinking.
She smiled.
"Are you actually worried about me?"
She continued on folding her shoulder with fifty kilograms on her hand as if nothing.
Siege ignored her. He damped the bandage on water that has some algae on it. He headed towards her sister.
Siege lifted his right arm. His nerves are popping up on his hand then he chopped one of the weights of the dumbbell. The impact blew the cans and the trashcan and shake the cabinet.
No matter how strong that is, the dumbbell stayed on Ms. Hera's hand.
Siege do it once again, even though the dumbbell stayed on her hand the weights had been cut off. It buried itself to the ground.
Ms. Hera smiled she let go of the dumbbell and offer her hand to Siege. Siege took it.
He wrapped it with bandages.
As she watched him. Ms. Hera messed his hair.
"Hey!" He cried.
But Ms. Hera didn't stop.
"Your not a wimp anymore. How sad."
Siege scowled at her.
"I don't remember being a wimp in the first place."
Ms. Hera just smiles. "Sure. Sure."
Siege continued on bandaging her sister's hand.
Ever since he was a kid, he always adores his sister. He always followed her and bragged about her to anyone.
He did anything to show how he love her sister. Even though people always ridiculed him for being frail and sickly. For him, his sister is a hero. That goes the same even now that he has gained skills and improved his strength.
"Go rest in your room. I'll cook."
Ms. Hera stares at him. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
She stayed silent for a second. She put down her dumbbell and wipe the sweat on her face with a towel.
Then she climbs up the stairs.
Siege began preparing the ingredients.
......
The pot overflowed with hot water as it reached its boiling point. Siege took the cover and lessen the fire on the stove.
She took the ladle and tasted the chicken soup.
As he put down the ladle the telephone rang. He hurried to get it. Ms. Hera also came out of her room.
"Hello?"
[Hello, this is Regional Police Director Piere Bautista. Can I speak to Ms. Hera Guerrero?]
"Oh. It's you."
Siege looked at her sister.
"You can't. Just tell me what do you want to say."
Ms. Hera sighed. She goes down the stairs.
[Sorry but I can't. This is something outsiders are not allowed to hear. May I speak with Mr. Finn Alinac instead.]
"Hold it right there buddy! What do you mean by outsider?!" siege yelled.
Ms. Hera snatched the telephone and give him a little chop[ in the head.
"Go and watch what your cooking."
Siege turn his back and walked back to the kitchen.
"Hello, this is Hera. What is it?"
Ms. Hera talked with the RPD for a couple of minutes.
Siege mixed the soup rigidly that some are slipping out of the pot. When the call was over the food is too.
Ms. Hera goes to the kitchen.
"Siege was going to Anzai's house. We were being summoned to the Malacanang, we will leave tomorrow morning but I can't contact Finn."
Siege put off the fire and took his spear and shield. Ms. Hera goes to her room to take her sword. She wrapped it around her waist.
Siege used the door while Hera jumped off the window.
They started sprinting in a different direction. They used their speed and the shadows to hide from the people.
Even though she's running, Ms. Hera is trying to reach out to Finn using her phone. But just like earlier, he wouldn't answer. She did it over and over.
She changed the number to Siege.
[Hello sis.]
"Once you stepped outside throw your spear in the direction of Anzai's house."
[Wha— Are you sure about that?! It will destroy the buildings on its way.]"
"Just do it. Something's happening in their house. It might be too late once we get there."
Siege paused.
[Got it.]
The phone call ended.
Siege, on the other end, runs faster. The air slips on his body were making the trees move and the dust rise.
His spear started glowing, it shines so brightly that it's illuminating in the dark streets.
He gripped tightly in the spear. He raised his one leg then he finally threw the spear.
He continued sprinting while checking out the spear.
His eyes widened when the light disappeared and not a single one of the houses in that direction had been destroyed.
He turned around and his blinded by the brilliant light. Even so, he didn't let it bother him. He readied his shield, grasped it with both of his hands.
CLANG!
The spear he threw impacted his shield. He buried his feet to the ground but the spear kept on pushing him back.
The power coming from the spear gradually lessens. His eyes strayed at the roof of a house. He grabbed the body of the spear, which burned his hand.
He looks back at the image he saw earlier. But it disappears.
A flow of smoke passed in his eyes. He immediately docks, the giant fist heading to him, missed.
It was the kapre, the one they saw earlier in the mountains.
They used his other hand to throw a punch. Siege used his shield.
The clash blows wind in the surrounding.
Even though he blocked it, he still go fling to the back. It was much stronger than the spear, also because he already used too much strength into blocking it earlier.
He didn't even land yet when the kapre launches another punch.
Siege hit the fist with his spear. He kept on hitting it for another five punches.
He stepped back, he turned to the houses. Using the cramped space of the houses to conceal his body. But it wasn't long before the kapre leaped into the air, the cinder of the tobacco lit up. He took the tobacco out of his mouth and blows it towards the houses below him.
The smoke immediately scattered as it landed on the ground. This smoke gives nightmares or produces an illusion to anyone inside it. Knowing this, Siege jumped into the roof of the houses.
He runs through the roof of the houses, but it only took one jump for the kapre to reach him.
It use its feet and since he couldn't dodge it, Siege blocked it with the shield.
He got tossed into the hill at the back of the houses. He hit his back so had he's struggling to get up. His hands also got numb from the vibration made by the impact of the kapre's leg and his shield.
There are grumbles coming from the houses because of the smoke.
He placed the shield at his back. His mouth opened wide.
"AAAAAHHH!!!" Siege yelled.
His body glows bright gold, every part even his nails and hair. The kapre's eyes widened so as the grin he's wearing.
"COME!" The kapre said.
'I can't beat them even if I use all of my strength. But I can at least use this to survive this.'
Siege turned his back and run in the other direction.
Due to the additional strength granted to his body, he can run faster than he was before.
'The barrier is not too far from here. These enemies are too much for me. But If I get myself to recover, I can take a different route to help rescue them.'
At the rate of his speed, there's no way anyone else could match him.
Siege checked for the kapre. But when he twisted his head to the side, he realized that he was not that fast.
The one who matches him swings his sword. He lost his balance dodging it, he rolled to the ground but immediately push himself up.
It was the creature earlier with a horse leg and wielding a katana.
It attacked again at the same speed. Siege dodged it again.
The tikbalang launched more attacks, now he repelled it with his spear. Their weapons are sparking as they clashed with each other.
When both of them are blocking their weapons with each other, the tikbalang stepped back.
Siege chased after him but... someone punches him in the back. That blow slammed him flat to the ground.
He tried to push himself up but the tikbalang kicked him back to the soil using his feet.
He kept on doing it until Siege couldn't move.
The kapre kicked him three times to check, but he doesn't respond. Then the kapre averted his eyes.
"I know you would miss me. Thanks." The kapre said.
The tikbalang glared at him. "Creep." The tikbalang looked away. "I didn't crossways with the woman so I get back instead. And I'm glad, I did."
"That's a shame. I found that woman troublesome."
"Never mind that. Just finish him off."
The kapre smiled.
The light Siege was emitting is getting brighter. Until he finally put the kapre out of balance.
Siege grabbed his hand.
"Fine then." Speak Siege. "If you won't let me go then I'll make sure to kill one of you."
He lifted the kapre and slammed it to the ground.
He lifted the kapre once again and slang him on a tree.
The tree fell towards the kapre.
Siege took his spear and turn to the tikbalang. His body is all bright but his pupil was as dark as a moonless night.
But the trunk of the tree moved, which caught his attention.
"You poor tree." The Kapre said. He lifted it then he stood up completely unharmed.
Siege turned back to him.
"Still alive I see! Good, then I'll take my time beating you to a pulp."
He walked towards him.
Instead of helping, the tikbalang turn his back and started walking.
Meanwhile, the kapre, sneered.
"Fine then." He kept his eyes locked with Siege. "I wonder how your sister would react."
As he hear that Finn stopped walking.
The kapre smirks that distort his face.
"I'm sure it'll be priceless!"
Upon hearing that, Siege started sulking.
What he hated the most is to see his sister out of herself. Just like what happened to her last time.
Before he could get back to his senses he got hit right in the face by the humongous fist.
He flew in the air, he knocked himself in a tree a few meters away from where he stood earlier and fall.
'What am I thinking? Die? Me?! But my sister? If I let myself get killed my sister might get insane this time! I'm the only one she got, no one would take care of her."
His body finally touches the land. He stared as the kapre walked towards him. Except for this time his body started trembling and the grim was marked all over his face.
"No," he muttered.
His hand grabbed the trunk of the tree and used the spear on the other hand as his aid to walk.
Every step he took is getting heavier.
The kapre finally catches. He punched the shield on his back. The impact made his backache worse and vibrate all over his body.
The kapre looked at his face.
"Where did all the courage you have go?"
Siege didn't answer he, took all the pain in his body and walked again.
The kapre hit the shield again. Then his knees fall. But instead of taking a rest he gripped on his spear and pull himself up.
The kapre smiled. "I love it."
He clenched his fist once again his nerve popped up. Another one of his punches hit him. The shield sounded like a gong that resonated in the entire forest.
Siege's body falls. His body couldn't move any of his muscles, instead of his bleeding arms. He extended it forward making his blood drip.
"A... te." He said.
But he didn't see Hera, instead, a twinkling light flashed in the dark woods.
Which he thought so beautiful.
Meanwhile at the dark alley. A woman is running. Biting her lips and while a tear runs through her face.