ROXY'S POV
Fear...it's not a sin as far as I remember. Each of their eyes shone with this emotion, and I couldn't help but smirk. That's right. Be afraid of me. There is no one to help you besides me. You all are under my rule, humans.
"What...year is this?" I ask, my voice as smooth as silk. Even though I was just summoned and awoken from my curse from the creators, The Entities, I retain my human form as quickly as possible. Judging by the demeanour of the humans in front of me, they seem to be at war.
At war...with this creature that I've found not so human. I lift my head, watching as each of the five men shudder and quiver with fear.
That's nice. I feel powerful. But I need answers, and more fear in their system isn't going to give me my answers. I haven't calibrated myself to read their minds either. It's something that will take skill and time for practice.
"Nine— 1967..." One of them answers. He had a magical artefact in his mouth which blew out smoke. I'm curious. What is it called? Have humans devised it? They've created it? Is it found on Earth?
"How do you breathe?" I ask, taking one step forward. The men shake on their knees as one of them falls to the ground. I stare at him. How weak have humans grown? Thousands of years later, humans have lost the courage to face new creatures like me.
"Wi- with our noses, sometimes our mouths when we are scared, mage." I raise my eyebrow.
"What is...a mage?" One of them whimpers and falls to the ground as well. I furrow my eyebrows.
"You. You are a mage. You are from the underworld. We have summoned you to protect us from the Creatures." The one standing in the middle, a youngster, speaks with valour. I lift my head again, my chin as high as a kite with pride.
"Protect you?" I ask them, playing with them. Suddenly, the most courageous one on the right loses his composure and breaks into a cold sweat. I couldn't help but slip out a peal of demonic laughter.
"I've come to protect no one." My words are assertive. I lift my hand to admire the strength I've honed and gained.
"B-But we have made a pact! We summoned you for that reas—" At once, I whip my head to look into his eyes. The one in the middle who spoke is taken aback and stumbles against the wall.
"Dare talk to me like that, human..." The warning comes right off the bat, scaring the hell out of them!
"You want me to protect humans? Look what you've done to my world..." I seethe in boiling anger. All this while, I have been spreading my energy across the planet and gaining bits of information by observation.
I am far from being happy about it.
"Population...1.3 billion. Half of them slaughtered by an external force." I say out loud, looking at the glowing scarlet flames emerging from my hand.
"Is this the threat you're facing?" I say, growing angry with each piece of information coming back to my memory.
The sight of how humans turn into these Creatures...is haunting me. My humans...
"I know. I know it all." I say to myself. "This is just the beginning, isn't it?"
Through all this chaos, emerges a system, something called...The Regime. It is good. It functions well. It is mildly interesting; it caught my attention.
"I'm not fighting for humans." Making one thing clear to these hunters, I turn my back against them. I grow scarlet skin and dust my back as my gigantic demonic wings grow. Starting from my back as a growling red hue, it fades into darkness towards the end of each feather.
I scoff, taking off from the building.
That's when I realised...that these Creatures called the Shifter...aren't humans anymore. They plant their blood and reproduce in a human; they take the human as a host and feed on them rapidly to transform into this ghastly creature.
All of my anger unleashes suddenly. Soaring up into the sky, I burst!
"UAHHHGHHH!" The ungodly scream comes straight from my heart. I spread my wings wide, opening my fists to unleash the ultimate spell, a targeted spell.
A shockwave so intense birthed from my anger spreads transversely in the air. Strings of red, powered flames emerge from me and flow with the shockwave. The spell affects everyone around me. It is a huge area. The moment I calm down, I feel my powers returning to me.
This blast...is enough to keep everyone in the vicinity safe.
"Ugh...this simple spell is making me tired. I should go to the headquarters first." Speaking to myself, I land on the rooftop of a house and shake my wings back into my body. My skin retains originality. I shift into my human form.
All that unveils after this makes me smirk.
As I walk past a metallic device in the house of a commoner, I hear the box speaking,
[THIS...THIS IS STRANGE! AMERICA HAS SEEN A WIDESPREAD MAGIC SPELL THAT DEFEATED ALL SHIFTERS IN ONE FELL SWOOP! A GREATER, MUCH MORE ATROCIOUS FORCE HAS BEEN SUMMONED. IT IS A WITCH, FOR SURE! NATIONAL AGENCIES ACROSS THE GLOBE ARE REQUESTED TO GO ON A MASSIVE GLOBAL HUNT FOR THIS WITCH. WE MUST DO WHATEVER IT TAKES. THE SHOCKWAVE...IT REMINDS US OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. BUT NONE OF THE HUMANS ARE AFFECTED...?
WE WILL GET TO THE ROOT OF IT. STRANGE, BUT WE SHALL STICK TOGETHER IN TIMES OF CRISIS. UNTIL THEN, STAY TUNED]
So this is called a broadcast. This piece of metal and other elements is called a transmitter. I scoff and smirk to myself. Humans have advanced into doom, haven't they?
Well, I have nothing to do with humans. They are on their own.
I've come back to earth...to avenge against the Entities who've kept me caged for centuries. Unforgivable...
I will take my revenge on them.
I will.