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Chapter 8 - Reanimation

"Y..."

".."

"You....."

"Wha-"

As Ajax slowly regains his consciousness he hears faint whispers that slowly fade away.

"Wha...Kaelen?....KAELEN!" Ajax screams out for Kaelen as he slowly gets up.

"Where am- ARGHH-AHHHHHHHHHHH" Ajax suddenly screams out in pain and begins to start thrashing on the floor while grabbing his chest.

Meanwhile...

" what the hell happened back there?" Dominic asks while removing his parachute.

"This is impossible... there's no way he has that augment" Erik responds while rubbing his temples.

"Care to fill me in?" Dominic asks while assembling his sniper rifle.

" That augment was created through absorption of a solar Flare, only one person used it in recorded history his name was Solaris Ignatius. The problem here is that Solaris was killed and had his body disintegrated to avoid anyone reconstructing the augment."

" Soo what man?" Dominic asks crushing his cigar

"I don't think you understand-

"No my friend it's you that doesn't get it,let's say you're right and our guy here does have this crazy power belonging to some crazy guy, he's just had the second awakening meaning he doesn't know know how to use it, we'll rush him down now let's go we've got no time to spare." Dominic says running ahead.

" he's right I've got to keep a level head my mother's life is at stake here!" Erik thinks to himself running to catch up to Dominic.

Erik and Dominic reach a mountain top and Dominic uses his bionic left eye to find Ajax.

"I have a heat signature 20km ahead send us" Dominic says grabbing hold of Erik's shoulder.

Erik proceeds to attache his blade to a chain on his belt.

"Platinum art: thunder spear"

A large charge of electricity begins to crackle around his blade and he throws it in the air the chain pulling Eric into the air with Dominic fighting to maintain his grip on Erik's shoulder.

As Ajax is seen limping away from them Dominic jumps off of Eric towards the left firing a bullet in Ajaxs left ankle with Eric landing just behind Ajax and sending a small electric shockwave that sends Ajax falling to the ground.

Ajax attempts to get up but a small explosion goes off in Ajaxs ankle blowing off his foot and Ajax falls onto the floor writhing and screaming in more pain.

"Haha pitiful boy" Dominic says walking towards Ajax.

Ajax looks at Erik and Dominic in frustration and tears begin to well up in his eyes the extreme pain coming from both his heart and severed limb is driving him insane. But the pain becomes more bearable as the pure rage he has for these two men attempting to kill him consume his mind.

As Eric raises his blade to cut off Ajaxs head Ajax screams out and suddenly fires out a blast of fire from his eyes and mouth straight at Erik sending him flying through the trees. Eric attempts to regain his footing by deflecting the blast with his blade slightly sending it off course.

As Dominic prepares to fire a bullet at Ajaxs head a grenade falls directly infront of Dominic. Dominic jumps out of the way just in time and takes cover behind a boulder.

"Eric if you are still alive we got a newcomer!" Dominic yells out disassembling and reassembling his sniper rifle into an Assault rifle.

As Dominic quickly peeks over the boulder four more grenades are tossed in his direction causing him to run away barely escaping the explosions going off.

Ajax after firing a blast of flames from his face coughs up blood before collapsing on the floor.

Erik covered in flames runs towards Ajax but stops as a man with a gun for an arm starts to fire rapidly at him causing Erik to go on the backfoot attempting to deflect the bullets with his blades. As the man's magazine runs out Erik attempts to close the distance as fast as he can but the man drops a teleportation crystal on the ground sending him and Ajax away.

"Fuck!" Erik shouts out before stabbing his blades into the ground.

A few hours later...

Ajax wakes up in a bed in a small wooden room. Even though his vision is still fuzzy he can make out dust particles in the room.

"You thirsty son?" A silver haired pale skinned man asks Ajax.

"What the hells goin... Kaelen... I need to go find my uncle" Ajax says attempting to get up.

"Listen son you still gotta-"

"Get off me!" Ajax yells attempting to push off the man.

"Your uncle is dead son!" The man says sternly to Ajax.

"What? No no no." Ajax begins to rub his temples." I don't believe you." Ajax says panickingly.

" he use to tell me how you and your mother would pick on him due to his gained weight" the man says taking a seat.

"Who are you?" Ajax asks confused.

"My names Lennox,your uncle and I have known eachother for about two years now. He recently told me to come by your house for a party in celebration for when you win your fight, I was pretty surprised at how much confidence that man had in you. Every time i met up with the guy he couldn't stop talking about you." Lennox says with a slight smile.

"No but he can't have died he couldn't have left me alone my mother-"

"-just died? I know son I saw both of their bodies but don't worry I buried them both ill take you to seem em when your ready." Lennox says while standing up.

"He couldn't have been beaten that easily Kaelen was my fathers personal bodyguard for a reason." Ajax says still in denial.

"One of those bastards sniped him from a mile away, it would've gotten the best of us son" Lennox says patting Ajax on the shoulder.

"I need some time alone" Ajax says starting at the wall.

"No problem son take your time,I know the feeling" lennox says before leaving the room. Ajax lays back on his bed and attempts to fight off tears by biting down on his tongue. The pain from his awakening still affects him but on a lesser scale just enough for him to fall into deep sleep.