December 25th 2023..
South Africa..
3 individuals stood atop a large cliff at dawn ,gazing at the city below.....
If any human were to notice them, they would have been deeply shocked,as these individuals radiated the aura of S ranked awakened...
A man bearing an intimidating build with a scar tracing across the right area of his right cheek stood before the team, his eyes overflowing with profound coldness,his trench coat, fluttering in the wind...
To his left, Xala, a woman with a buzz cut clad in a summer dress with slippers , and to his right,Mancer , a man with waist length crimson hair clad in an office coat and shiny office shoes.....
Arkon remained silent, distant memories of pain shrouding his eyes... He took in a deep breath, his subordinates observing him with reverence ....
" Mancer, Xala, it's time ... All those years of planning, all those years of patiently waiting that almost drove us mad... Today, we strike .....we launch an unexpected attack.... Today, we send a message... " Arkon Xandros, heavy voice resounded...carrying a weight of unspeakable malice ..
Xala, the female responded with malevolent glee " To make the world a better place...."
Mancer responded, maddened and fanatic zeal painted in his pitch black eyes " To make the world a better place..."..
"To make the world a better place, to rid the world of the cancer that is humanity... The next time we attack the world again, it will be with our full forces... Today, we are just sending a message to the world..."....
With that..the three individuals launched forward, anticipating to weave a tapestry of catastrophy....
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Arkon stood before the familiar city that used to be his home... This was where it had all happened .. This was where he had been ostracised and cast aside ...
" I've come a long way..." Arkon muttered, then dashed towards a sky scraper in the distance with uncanny speed.....
He stood before the towering building, glittering with neon lights and advertisements ...
Cars patrolled the streets ,as people went about their ormal business....
" Let's begin..." Arkon muttered, then touched the exterior of the building ....
Faint spider web cracks begun to spread across the exterior of the building.. The spider web cracks became more prominent, spreading towards every part of the building with uncanny speed...
The foundations of the skyscaper shook, causing the building to lose its footing.... The skyscraper started to shake, then from the highest floor, the building begun to turn into ashes....
Screams reverberated thoughout the building, as individuals alongside any thing that existed in the building simply aged,died and disappeared...
The building did not even fall, it simply disappeared, alongside all residents in the building...
Arkon however ,did not have the luxury of witnessing the masterpiece he had weaved.. He proceeded to one building after another..., causing the same scene to repeat itself, overtones of mayhem ensuing ...
The sounds of people's screams brought melody to his ears, and peace to his agonizing heart...
" Yes, feel despair.... the same despair I was made to feel"... Arkon stood , elated amidst the chaos he had architected and the screams of people running helter skelter due to mayhem that had enveloped Johannisburge .....
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Xala moved with uncanny speed, her hands transforming into sharp knives that brought deaths to every one she passed...
Wherever she passed, a cacophony of screams ensued, followed by a trail of dead bodies and blood...
" Ah, how ravishing... " Xala remembered how the awakened society had restricted her from satisfying her desires that were true to her... They claimed she was a sociopath who enjoyed killing, branding her as a freak and a maniac everyone avoided....
A couple in their wedding custumes stared at the approaching Grimm reaper in horror ,the woman,bellowing in fear and sadness " Why are you doing this to us?... Why are you killing so many people... You're a monster!!!.. "
" Humans are hypocrites... Who has the right to label me as right or wrong...just because they claimed I was a misfit whose actions did not agree with the norm, I was brandished a monster and ostracised .... Well, not anymore... See you in hell Romeo and Juliet "... Xala scoffed the couple as she passed by them, their heads skyrocketing into the sky before tumbling down, a wave of blood gushing out of their headless necks....
She turned around ,relishing in the mayhem she has wrought....
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Mancer stood atop a high building ...He looked below with glee... His heart pumped blood in excitement...
He relished in the fireworks, conjuring bombs from thin air then directing them towards the canvas below....
Boom boom boom... A cacophony of shrieks and explosions overlapped in maddened synchrony, buildings being ravaged in addition ..
People perished like ants, and were squashed like tiny centipedes being cowered by elephants ...
" Ah... How splenderous... "....
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" Enough... It's time to return ..".. Arkon voiced, Xala and Mancer receiving signals in their communicators .
The duo disappeared from their current locations with speed , appearing at a secluded forest where Arkon awaited them minutes later .
All these attacks had been wrought in just 30 minutes ... This was how terrifying the Xeros hand was ..
" To think you'd both get carried away " Arkon sighed " Our intension this time was to send a message to humanity, to let them know how weak they are ... "...
" That was... fun ..." Xala beamed with a smile...
" I was like ... Boom ...boom...boom.." Mancer performed some incredulous hand gestures, causing Arkon to shake his head...
He took out his phone and made a call... " Prepare the S rankers of the organisation..."...
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Johannesburg lay in ruins, it's once beautiful architecture now a mockery of it's former self...
Individuals lay sprawled ,lifeless on the ground... Rivers of blood flowed throughout the city ,a testament of the massacre that had ensued...
A few who had been fortunate to survive the assault limped around, helping the extremely injured ...
It was not that there were no awakened who could defend the city against the fuckers that had attacked , it was just that they were too powerless against the enemies....
As quickly as the attackers has arrived, they had quickly left...
This was... terrifying....
The worst part of the situation was that the communication channels had been jammed...
Anyone who had tried contacting the awakened centres around the world for reinforcements had been unable to do so ...until the attackers left .
This meant that the world was unaware of the mayhem that had ensued....
After the attack ended however, individuals had been able to communicate with the rest of the world, soliciting aid ...