Just as he wanted to jump forward and start running. His feet weren't able to move ,let alone run. He was in complete desperation, not knowing what to do, knowing that the worst could be happening to Iris,when he looked down at his feet. His jaw dropped as chills veered down his spine as he was slowly sipping into a warp gate that had just formed at a his feet.
What the actual fuck was happening. Why did all this have to happen today. ' What day is it , it must be the most unlucky day in my life' Col thought to himself with the pace he was getting sucked into the warp gate gradually increasing by the bit.
As time faded , so did the light from the outside as Col fully submerged into the warp gate. The light bit by bit became dimmer till it all went dark. Everything was black. This was unlike anything he had seen ,not even in the movies. He was just in a state of flamboyance in someplace with no trace of matter in it ,no light ,no ground , no air , no anything. To be more precise, he was in the middle of nowhere.
He tried looking around but nothing else was visible apart from the contrast black colour. What left him shaking was that it was so silent in there that he could even hear his heartbeat. 'Duuuh! Duuuh! Duuuh!' his heart beat as the sound reverberated in the endless nothingness. "We meet again, Collova. " He heard a familiar voice behind him say. He turned around in slow haste only to see nothing. He started looking around, again disappointed to see nothing in the totally black void as the voice started to be distorted, having a more surrounding effect.
"Your have a nice sister, that I must say. " The voice continued to say with a little laugh in it obviously rendering Collova into panic knowing what he had saw before he came here. "Leave my sister alone."Col threatened with anger in his voice. He felt like punching the person but u can't quite punch something you can't see , can you?
"A person like you should not have attachments with such people..." The voice said as it seemingly started to move around as if the person talking was walking around Col. Col tried to follow the voice to see the speaker but again , he saw nothing. "... your special, you know. Your not like the other and you know it. " The voice suddenly changed as it quickly shifted to a higher deafening sound frequency causing Col to cover his ears.
"Why don't you stop hiding and show yourself. Or are you not brave enough!" Col stuttered.
"To see that mere humans who you are not even blood related can drive you to this extent of desperation. It's truly pathetic." The phantom voice spoke once more as the voice was heard to come closer and closer to Col's face. The pitch blackness Infront of him started to fade as the voice of the speaker became more vivid , then , his face appeared, the face of the speaker.
Col couldn't believe his eyes and was dumbfounded to see who it was. Col suddenly clenched his fist tight enough for all his knuckles to bulge out.
" So you have decided to show yourself, so you aren't much of a coward after all,psh. " Col scoffed as his face full of anger. The face of the person clearly visible started to show more and more of the person as his head started to become visible down the neck and eventually his whole body became visible for the eye to see. The man started to laugh as he tilted his head covering his eyes as he laughed peeping with one eye through a space in between his fingers.
Now that the person is visible ,I might as well tell you who it is, right? 😌
The guy was dressed in black sweatpants and a tacky black shirt. Yes. It's the guy Col met at the staircase.
"Huh, you can't even recognise your own abilities!" The man said as he laughed. Col just looked at the man , silent, confused and even more perplexed than before. What did he mean by ' you can't recognise your own abilities '.
"You must be wondering what I mean, right?" The man asked Col." Well ,to be all out on the truth, only three types of people can see me ,that is: Kamis, priests or a Ginshu, if not the three ,then you must something more than those I have stated. Basically, I didn't make myself visible to you, you ,made yourself see me." The man said as he walked past Col headed to the opposite of Col's direction.
Col was speechless, not knowing what to say. His eyes widened in shock. He didn't know if he should or shouldn't believe him. He looked back with traumatic eyes and said "Hell nah! I know myself better than anyone...so... so noone will come and spit lies to my face and expect me to believe them. I know the real me..." Col said before getting cut short by the man who was obviously pissed. "Real? You don't even know the first thing about real..." The man said as he turned around to Col's direction. "...real recognise real." The man finished his statement. "Oh I do recognise real. I recognise real perfectly. " Col said to the man.
The man not interested in what he had to say, turned back to his initial direction and started walking as he said " If that were true you would have already seen that this is all an illusion." He said as he started laughing menacingly.
What!
What the hell.
Time seemed to come to a stop as Col froze, losing his balance and started floating senselessly. A tear started running down his eye as he knew that it was all a distraction to lead him astray from rescuing Iris. Endless possibilities of how Iris could have been harmed flashed through his mind. He banged his clenched fists onto his forehead severally as punishment for his mistake."Why?Why? Why? Whyyyy!" He screamed as the man he was talking to completely disappeared completely out of sight.
He was drawn back to reality. Back at the sidewalks at the cafe. Where he saw everyone running from the direction of The Enigmatic. Everyone was screaming and running in panic just like it was in the vision.
He started to run quick as fast as his weak body could, his feet totally depleted of strength but he still carried on. As he ran he bumped into a man. He wasn't just any man he turned to see that it was the man from the staircase, the guy from earlier. The man threw one look at him and smiled as he walked away evening disappearing into the crowd. What was he doing in the building. Did he do anything to Iris. Was it too late. He didn't have time to run after the man nor did he have time to start asking himself questions he was not going to answer,he couldn't afford more distractions. His was fixed on his main goal , to save Iris.
He ran and managed to go through the crowd which was running in the opposite direction making him to seem like a fish going against the current.
He rushed upto the lobby where he found Izumi evacuating the last of the remaining tenants as the building was losing its footing and could collapse anytime from then. As he almost went past him,Izumi grabbed him by the arm and told him " Col I can't let you go up there. " Col struggled to break free from Izumi's grip but Izumi's barrel thick arms thought otherwise.
"Col , stop trying to resist ,it's for the best if you just listen to me." Izumi said to Col, all this while Col trying to break loose from his grip. "Col! Listen..." Izumi shouted at Col before Col interrupted shouting back at him"How can I listen when Iris is trapped in there. You want me to let her die? Well do you? Huh? I thought so too. " Col told Izumi who toned down loosening his grip ,letting Col to go on the loose. Immediately he was free, he ran up the stairs hurriedly to Iris' room. 'Come on now, hurry up Col ' an inner voice said.
The minute he was in the floor to Iris' apartment only few seconds later he was at Iris' door. Bang ! Col kicked the door as it flung open. The moment he opened the door ,what he saw was more scary.
A creature which had a long slender body and small miniature feet was lurking in on Iris, it's face seemed distorted in a way since you couldn't tell if It had an exact face cause it was always shifting. Iris didn't seem to see it because she kept looking around in confusion as if she were looking for it but she couldn't, maybe not everybody can see it just as the man from earlier said . Col jumped into the air
drawing his fist back to gain momentum to land a hit and 'Boom!'. He landed his hit. The creature had a crazy hard skin , maybe because of the scales it had. After the hit he landed ,he seemed confused. Nothing much came out of it, it did nothing more than nudge the creature. It was expected though, because how does someone powerless expect to defeat a mythic creature of such caliber.
The creature looked at Col as if to say 'who the hell are you touching, peeps quick ' and in a flash of a second,he was floating in the air as a result of the gruesome kick from its hind leg. He went flying across the room before he landed on the opposite wall with a loud thud as he lay helpless on the cold floor.
Col tried to help himself up but felt a sharp pain pierce him from his lower abdomen. As he glared down, a glass protruding from his lower torso welcome his eyes to see more below his torn blue t shirt. Surprised by this , he felt as if he was washed away by a strong wave of pain his hands all red , covered in blood.
Col groaned and sobbed as the pain momentarily hit him like an earthquake with the injured area being the centre of it all. The pain spread to his whole body the minute he breathed since his contracting muscles were pressing against the glass. He must have been injured when he was slammed against the wall by that thing. Maybe the glass was from one of the glassed photo frames hanging from the wall.
He was bleeding profusely like a barrel tap dispensing wine. He was losing a lot of blood and rapidly. He tried to stand but stumbled to the ground landing on his arm as he lay on a pool of blood. Everything was following the vision. The blood, the chaos outside, the people trying to harm Iris.
He wished all things could reverse and undo the vision so that even if whatever was in the vision happened, he wouldn't hold himself accountable for it happening and not being able to do anything to prevent it. His body weight was pillared by his arm which he used to prevent further damage to himself from the impact of hitting the ground.Dirt from the collapsed wall patched up his clothes with brown patches.
The creature continued to wind its way to Iris ,and then, Iris felt something touching her foot. She could feel the warm breath of the thing cushioning her skin surface. She closed her eyes as every time she felt the touch she would twitch out of fear. The things started swallowing Iris legs,and the more it swallowed the more Iris would scream to Col begging him to wake up and save her. It wanted to swallow her whole.
The extent of seriousness on the issues was that, the area which had already been swallowed by the thing was gradually becoming invisible as if it was fading. Col could hear the despair in her screams as she kept calling out to Col while tears of anguish rushed down her plushy cheeks. The tears undid her eye lining leaving a dark shade of black just below her eyes as if someone who was awake all night. She couldn't feel her legs anymore and her legs were faded from the waist down. What was happening, she didn't know.
She had sat down but now fell to the flow due to imbalance. She tried to touch her thighs only to touch the cold marble floor since they had all faded away. She was lying on her back facing upwards as her tears drooped into her ears. The fading continued to go further up. Col looked at her wanting his best to stand up and defend her but he was powerless.' Is this how it was going to end.' Col thought to himself.
Col suddenly was infuriated with all this shenanigans screaming like a mad person while his palm constantly slamming against the floor making a sound similar to clapping. The balancing tears in his eyes broke free , all this while hanging around his eyelid but now free when he realised he was going to watch his sister die right infront of his eyes while he did nothing.
Everything made him angry. All these meaningless visions that he didn't know how to explain, all this things trying to take the only family he had left. He had had enough. He clenched his fist and banged it to the ground with black sparks sparking out of nowhere immediately he punched the ground. The punch caused the minor tremor causing the dust to rise.
The fading of Iris body seemed to stopped since the phantom thingy was drawn to the sudden tremor. The mood in the air changed. Chill were everywhere all around him. His previous state of inability to stand due to drain strength seemingly nullified since Col help himself to his knees then stood up perfectly with no difficulty.
Col started walking slowly towards the thing with weirdly strange calmness all this while,his face still looking downwards.
He walked up to the thing then said,
"I guess ... today's the day I turn your death to an occasion." He said raising his head,with a smirk on his face and his eyes fully black in colour.
.....END OF CHAPTER THREE.......
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