Between times, Jacob felt the burdening emotion which trapped him in the memories of utter brutality he had seen as well as read. Even when he had heard the beast from the other side, inside that barn, he was detached from the actual experience of seeing it face to face and reading its beady eyes.
He could now put a face to the monster. The detachment was gone and all that remained was a sincere plea for the nightmare to end. This was not human and never had been. A simple illusion to evade the attention of the public. These two things called Hochi and Pochi were creatures from some horror. A horror that now associated itself within Jacob's mind. Their blood caked claws and jowls stood out the most. Especially when he knew, his blood was to be next on them.
However, that would not be the case…
Flickers of golden glints fell around them. The shining stars of yellow light descended on the entirety of Corodone rousing the world to a jubilation as HIS aura permeated. They were a hand cusping the chin of an infant basking in the beauty from a mother's birth. A life given unto the world. A life given unto HIM to protect, to save, to nurture.
For not a movement was committed in HIS presence that HE did not permit.
Lighting up the sky and God's green earth with HIS sparkling bulbs, there would not be a mass exodus of death accompanied by destruction.
It rained on them all like a blanket of snow, cozy and bringing with it a tiding of thankfulness. This feeling was not a minute event that could be brushed by one to the other but was unified to and fro, judging the very way they breathed. An oppressive aura that equaled what one must see in Heaven.
Sam did not see anything, but Jacob saw the briefest of blurs pass by the front of his face. This blur sent Hochi to the opposite wall, busting his torso through its concrete surface then into the next. All that remained was a slight afterimage created from the lifted dust.
Pochi fell into a stupor. The next punch from HIM was centered at his heart. This one, in all respects, would kill and it would have if not for Pochi gaining the foresight to leave some concentrated power built up in its legs. This mindfulness gave the Villain enough speed to jump away from the blast fleeing to the night sky as the monster dashed across the rooftops. It made for the wilderness with all it could to retain its remaining seconds of freedom.
Just as it began, it had ended.
What had opposed now was in shambles and left unable to pose a fight to anyone. Meanwhile, their savior went without a word. Well, a word no one but Jacob heard.
The frames before Pochi escaped, Jacob swore he felt a vibration enter then exit his body subsequently to a pattern of words. Those words were spoken in a forthright and respectable manner. A tone that none had ever shown to him with a belief hardened by an everlasting record.
"You all did your best, that resolve will take you to the greatest depths and through the most harrowing days. That's the future, for now… leave the rest to us professionals."
Jacob could only look beyond the apartments at a shimmering trail only a single person could have left behind.
The moon had grown grander, illuminating the battle they had raged for their survival. It was there, standing upright over his two friends, did Jacob break down to the heaviness that had been thrown at him.
But, amidst his instability, a thundering clap of flesh-on-flesh carnage tore into the eardrums of every soul within the congestive walls of Corodone.