*BREAKING NEWS*
New records of beasts and monsters going on rampage in the streets of Berlin. More and more new appearances in the city with unknown sources. Over 5836 women and children has been killed, displaced or maimed and the death toll keeps rising. The country is in chaos and the citizens have lost all hope.
Orion made his way out of the laboratory premises. Looking around, he observed his vision had changed. He could see the littlest of details on a material, more like he could see the fibre makeup of any particular material. He blinked, raising his eyes upwards, he observed he could see a man hiding from a beast in between the branches of a tree 300 metres away from his location. He shrugged and faced West. He didn't know where he was going, but he knew there was a reason he was headed there.
Walking 50 meters into the journey, Orion felt his body was constantly hit by gust of cold wind. He looked down on himself and observed he was barefooted, more disturbing, he was naked. He stopped, looked around, and dismissed the instinct to cover up. He continued walking barefooted on the cold asphalt of the street.
Now, not only his body was affected or enhanced, his mind was too. Nothing seemed absurd or dangerous to him anymore. Nothing looked threatening to him, no matter how big or deadly it looked. Not even his own nakedness scared him.
Down into street, after walking into a subway alley, Orion faced head on with a monster just done feasting on a body. He couldn't recognise if the body was a male or female, the clothes was tattered and bloodied, the flesh was torn beyond recognition, the head ripped off and crushed with the brain half eaten.
The body had large chunks of flesh ripped off from various parts. Orion, not minding the bestial banquet in front of him, ignored and tried to walk past the monster. Next thing, He was blocking and deflecting the impact of the first blow the monster had sent to his direction, but the second swipe of the monster long arm had sent him flying, slamming him into a nearby wall. Barely landing on his feet, Orion stood up, not minding what had just happened, He walked back to the corpse and tried to take off the corpse clothes. The beast was furious about Orion's presence and also about the lack of fear he had. Again, the beast swung his 5 meters arm which was quite shorter than the others, it looked like it was a smaller specie or a young one.
Orion had blocked the blow but the impact sent him blown back by some distance, but not as much as the previous attack.
The beast got off the body he had just finished eating, shook its body and faced Orion squarely. It lunged at him at full speed, trying to decapitate him and eat him up.
Orion wasn't interested in having a brawl with the thing in front of him, yet, sensing the beast was resisting him from getting the clothes he wanted to pick, Orion had to eliminate the beast.
Approaching him with a menacing speed, ready to chomp off his head with one bite or with one swipe of his claws. Orion assumed a battle stance, with his eyes calculating on how to eliminate this raging beast in front of him with lesser effort. The beast, with just few meters to Orion's position had leaped into the air to descend on him and simultaneously swiping it claws, but Orion was a second faster, thereby, he had dodged both the claws and the heavy body of the beast with some level of innate finesse. Landing on its four feet, trying to recover from the miss, or the landing impact, the beast didn't notice when Orion became airborne, landing directly on it back and piercing the base of its skull with his left hand.
Orion had pierced and squashed the brain of the beast, leaving the mammoth beast on the floor to die. The beast crashed into the floor and surrounding wall, screeching in high-pitch roar, it swung its sharp claws trying to grab Orion but he was already some distance away from the beast. The beast fell and died. All this battle didn't last more than 10 seconds, as Orion was already on the half torn body, pulled off the remains of the clothes and put it on.
By the time Orion was done and ready to leave, the beast was already dead. Orion continued his journey, looking around, he found out that the once ever busy subway was deserted, with litters on the floor, blood splashes on the walls, thick and clotted blood on the floor.
'It seemed there is a disaster going on, maybe from these beasts' Orion had thought.
But he kept walking until he could see the first ray of light indicating he was almost out of the subway.
Walking out of the subway, the sun was already setting, but the atmosphere was dense with the smell of blood and sulphur. He scanned everywhere and it was deserted. Cars and vehicles were abandoned with their doors opened, some still blaring off their security alarm. Even the buildings were not spared, some blocks were seen with broken walls, some buildings had broken glasses as if some individuals were flung out through the window. Some buildings were seen with thick fumes of smokes oozing out of it roofs. It was like an aftermath of an apocalypse or an armageddon.
Orion continued his walk, facing west when another beast appeared, two this time. They were much bigger, gigantic and faster than the one he had killed in the subway. Drools coming out of their mouth, savoring their potential next meal, the two beasts bumped into each other, as if they were applauding themselves of their easy earned luck.
The first beast had a reptilian-like build, with six legs, a massive tail, a large jaw big enough to fit two adult males, with serrated teeth neatly arranged on it jawline. The second beast had 8 legs, like a gargantuan spider, with multiple compound eyes that don't move, mandible like jaws, and a torso carrying his weight that would have weighed a ton. Slowly, they walked towards Orion, taking their time and enjoying the delayed gratification.
Orion body had gone up in flames, with his eyes suddenly changing colour, he saw things in slow motion and he could feel his metabolism speeding up. He felt a strong urge to lunge at the beasts and rip them apart into shreds but he was caught off guard with the spider like beast ramming towards him on eight propeller-like legs with speed. Orion would have been crushed to a pulp if not for his increased sense of awareness. Dodging the ramming spider with a hair length, Orion faced the spider and swung two hard punches into the abdomen of the spider. He could see his punches making sunken depression into the spider abdomen, but they were not enough to cause any major impact.
Furious and more angered about the punch, the spider had turned back to face Orion, with more ferocity and rammed into him, in that instant, the reptilian behind Orion had swung his powerful tail sending Orion slamming into a nearby truck. Feeling the impact, Orion struggled to get up and spat out the blood in his mouth.
Looking at himself, he saw his body metamorphose, thicker, bigger muscle mass, new feeling of strength washed over him, the fire on his skin blazed brighter and his hair grew darker and longer. He felt like he was possessed.
'This is resurrection' Orion said to himself as he stood still amazed by what is happening.
He raised his one of his hand up and a long katana, with fire blazing it edge slowly formed in his hands.
He laughed, 'now I feel like a warrior'.
The Spider and the reptile with doubled viciousness growled and rushed at him.