"Fight me monster!" Elijah spoke aloud during his sleep asone could see a grin on his face but that gtin was soon wiped off because a kick landed on his ass by a feminine leg.
It was none other than Paityn who seemed like the cranky type when she woke up. Elijah jolted up after feeling a sudden attack on his body.
"Bitch! Why did you kick me?" Elijah asked with a furious expression as he rubbed his sore ass.
"Why the fuck were you screaming?" Paityn was still cranky and wanted some answers.
"Do you think I have control over my sleep talking?" He said as he brushed his hand over his head to fix his hair.
"Both of you keep quiet." Olivia's calm voice gave them shivers as they quickly ran out of the room.
Olivia was simply laying down on the bed with her eyes opened. She woke up even before Paityn but was thinking about some things. She lifted her hands upward and looked at the amethyst ring on her finger with a complicated expression.
She closed her eyes and gazed at her core which looked a Little bit lighter than before. The ring seemed to work well but was not anything rule breaking. She opened her eyes again and stepped out of her bed while rubbing her eyes. She let out a cute yawn which would surprise even Elijah that his sister could do anything similar to that.
The room was silent and if one noticed carefully they would see tendrils of green colour throughout the room. It was the lingering mana left in the room after the protection circuit broke after she woke up.
She looked around and saw almost everyone in the bed still sleeping. Olivia looked at her own bed and saw lynda smiling slightly in her sleep.
"So, you can be trusted." She muttered as she walked out the door before closing it behind her.
After leaving she saw Elijah and Paityn drinking while sitting on the couch. She frowned but then she turned her head slightly and saw that the seductive bartender was on the couch too. Yesterday she got drunk too after lynda and Paityn practically begged her to join them and asked multiple embarrassing questions like "Are those natural? What do you do for skin care?" And many questions like that.
"You guys never learn." Olivia said which caused Elijah to almost choke on his drink.
"Boss, the best hangover medicine is alcohol because you can't get a hangover if you are drunk." Paityn said with an awkward expression.
Olivia sighed and sat on the couch and picked the remote which was on the arm rest. She turned on the TV and skimmed through the channels until she found something interesting.
She actually stumbled upon a news channel which had a countdown going on as they were preparing for some breaking news. Olivia leaned back on the couch and waited for the countdown to finish.
13, 14,.....10, 9, 8....3, 2, 1
After the countdown was up an opening scene appeared, like usual giving an introduction to the telecast. It lasted a few seconds and after that a gorgeous woman with black hair and brown eyes appeared in her suit with a serious expression on her face.
"Good morning people of Vegas, I am your daily host for this show, Natasha stilinski." The woman said with a stressed smile which was different from her usual cheerfulness.
"I hope you are having a wonderful morning while enjoying your morning tea but what I am about to reveal might be a bit surprising." She continued.
"Please, it's my humble request that you keep your children away from the TV screen until we are done with this news."
She waved her hand and a few images appeared beside her. She then continued "These images were taken by the airforce surveillance jets that were on usual rounds."
The images were of yesterday's night sky which even Ryan saw but they didn't look dangerous at that time. The clouds were dark and completely devoured the moonlight that fell upon it. Olivia felt immediate danger after looking at those clouds which even confused her why something like that would happen just from looking at storm clouds.
"These clouds are spreading from the exact polar south of our planet as confirmed by the satellite which is orbiting Earth." She took a sip of water and continued.
"According to the estimate released by climatologists these black clouds will take around a week to reach our country." The reporter said and waved her hand again and a video appeared which gave every viewer watching this telecast the creeps of their lives.
The video was of the same black clouds but this time they could see tendrils of red lightning racing down to the surface and eventually destroying a big chunk of it.
"These lightning bolts are really bizarre as you may have already seen because it completely destroys the surface it falls into." The woman started to sweat for some reason.
"You might have already noticed but these lightning bolts return back to the clouds after striking their target." The reporter revealed something that was not anything even close to normal. Red lightning existed even in the world before cataclysm but they were rare and you definitely didn't get storms that spewed lightning while they moved towards the highly civilised countries moving to catch a larger prey.
"Although the origin of black clouds started from the south pole it is not moving uniformly as it dispersed and reached some places faster than others."
"We lost contact with Australia which was struck by this unknown storm and we have no way to contact them until the sky clears out. The satellites that were stationed to monitor their movement were unable to do so because the clouds blocked their view."
"The last message we received from the prime minister of Australia was a video which was provided to us after a lot of discussions as it would have been kept as a secret in normal cases." The woman waved her hand and a video appeared.
In the video, one could see the Australian prime minister fidgeting around in stress as he muttered a few curses. Suddenly he heard a bang on the door. He didn't open it and stumbled on the floor but he managed to avoid falling by holding the corner of the table on his side.
The door kept banging for a few seconds and then a moment later the prime minister heard a scream of a man. The door broke and fell down inside the room.
The minister screamed in horror when he saw his secretary being eaten by another worker which he appointed himself. Low growls could be heard from the worker who was feasting on the dead secretary. He kept eating for a few seconds until he had enough of his taste.
The worker wearing a security uniform looked up with his red eyes which were glowing with ferocity.
"Big brother, I am your family. Please listen to me." The prime minister tried to reason with his brother who he kept on a job after he requested for it but his brother was long gone and in his place only a cannibal remained.
The man didn't listen and pounced on the prime minister and killed him without any regret. The cannibal didn't eat the prime minister and left him after killing. The cannibal proceeded to leave the room but suddenly he looked around and saw the camera. He quickly grabbed it and grinned mysteriously as a chunk of meat fell down on the lens.
The video ended with the morning cheerfulness of every person that was watching it.
"Holy mother of god! Wtf was that?" Elijah screamed in horror as he had never seen anything like that.
Paityn immediately threw up after seeing something so gruesome early morning.
"She's not done. Let's see what more she has to say." Olivia asked them to watch in silence.
Both of them immediately went quiet.
"I am sorry but this was important for you to see. Our main worry is not the upcoming weird storm but something that is hiding inside the banner of a storm." The anchor said in a worried tone as he took a sip of water.
"We would like you to stay aware of the surroundings and always keep something around to protect you." The Anchor was very scared because she lives alone but was also assured because she wouldn't be back stabbed by anyone.
"According to the studies this kind of behaviour in people was caused by the lighting that struck them. Some of the members of our brave special forces were sent to collect data about the situation and after deliberate research they came to the conclusion that the lighting was the cause of it and gave some type of weird and scary contamination to the victims."
"A set of regulations will be released by the government after this telecast. Please watch it because it is really necessary to be safe during this chaotic time." The Anchor concluded.
"Finally we have a picture taken by our helicopter crew that was sent to study and take some pictures of the mysterious island but they saw something which was very interesting." The woman waved her hand for the final time and revealed a surprisingly clear and detailed image of a man flying through the wind with his obsidian black wings.
His face had a charming smile which enchanted the women watching the telecast.
"This is none other than guardian Ryan who during the night went towards the Origin island and hasn't left it. He may be able to pass through the temple gate but that can't be guaranteed because no one has done so before."
"Thanks for watching, Hope you have a safe and trouble free day ahead."
Olivia turned the TV off and looked at Elijah who was smiling mysteriously.
"Why are you smiling?" Olivia asked in confusion.
"That guy dodged a bullet." Elijah said as he took the remote from Olivia and played the recorded news telecast and paused where they showed Ryan's picture.
He zoomed in and showed something that made Paityn laugh uncontrollably.
"He took a leak while flying and he tried his best to cover it but he forgot that the droplets will shine because of moonlight."
"Cameraa have really developed too fast." Paityn said while trying to stop her laughter.
"And you know what's funny? No one, absolutely no one noticed this other than me." Elijah started laughing when he realised that he would need to ask the executive director of the company to delete that picture.
"You can't be so sure." Paityn interjected
"Well it's up to you if you trust me or not." Elijah shrugged.
"And did you notice how the news anchor didn't say anything about his wings?" Elijah asked with a smile.
"Isn't it normal?" Paityn was confused because it's possible for people who awakened to have special traits. Although wings are not something they saw before, it was still possible for someone to awaken them.
"They are not normal ,anyone could tell that but they were just overshadowed by him but that won't stay like that for long."
"Paityn you don't know many things about my friend or else you would have gone crazy from all the shit that happens around him."
"Everything happens around him so quickly that it leaves you confused for days." Elijah scratched his left cheek as he did not know what to say about Ryan.
"Oh, why don't you tell us some of those things that happen around him?" Paityn asked with a curious expression.
"Why don't you ask him yourself. If he thinks he can share them with you then he would do it on his own." Elijah stood up from the couch and went towards the exit of the room.
"Wait, where are you going?" Paityn wanted to know more about Ryan because he seemed like an interesting man.
"To erase that picture from existence." Elijah said before throwing a knife which had fire mana infused in it.
The knife quickly struck the television screen and burned the whole setup completely.
"Elijah! What kind of attitude is this?" Olivia asked in a furious tone.
"Sorry Olivia but I had to destroy it or else this pervert would have taken the picture from here." He said while pointing at Paityn.
"You could have deleted it." Olivia frowned.
"I don't take risks when it comes to my brother." He left the room after replying.
"What's he gonna do now?" Paityn looked at Olivia while taking a sip of whiskey from her glass.
"Probably threaten some people until he gets what he wants." Olivia rubbed her temples in frustration.
"At this point we might just ask them to marry each other." Paityn said as she imagined a really hot scene but was forced out of it immediately.
"Don't ever mention this in front of them. They'll probably do that for laughs and giggles." Olivia's eyes turned wide as she immediately replied.
"Wow, that's crazy." Paityn started to imagine a night between Elijah and Ryan.
But somewhere along the way she replaced Elijah. Her face immediately turned beet red and she quickly slapped her cheeks to get out of her daydream.
Olivia gave her a weird ass look while she wondered what this woman was thinking.