The Purge

“Today at the edge of our hope, at the end of our time, we have chosen not only to believe in ourselves, but in each other. Today, there is not a man nor woman here that shall stand alone. Not today, today we face the monsters that are at our door and bring the fight to them! Today, we are cancelling the apocalypse!”

Pacific Rim Movie

Bri

Monsters are humans.

Monsters don’t have claws; they have hands just like yours. Monsters don’t just have two eyes; they have thousands and they watch you wherever you go. Monsters don’t have fangs; they have a tongue that can utter words as sharp as a sword. Monsters have souls and they are either your friend or your foe.

There are monsters inside of us and we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And when we find that we cannot fight them, it is the war in ourselves first that we must do the work before we face the real battle beforehand.

If I had a display, I might be seeing a map leading me towards a set of doors that would bring me to my death. Noah Mori sure knows how to play his cards. But up to what cause? What do they need from us that are so important that the humans would sacrifice us for their lives? What can we be more valuable than we already are?

Questions flooded my head just as much as I wanted some answers.

I watch my team as we prepare to leave. Each pulled out a weapon out of their displays but I only have my gun. I placed it on my belt, feeling its weight on my hands.

“Are you okay?” I felt his arms around my waist. I leaned in to his touch.

“Yeah,” I said as I turned to Con.

“We’ll get out of here.”

I smiled weakly as I fiddled with his ring. I pulled the chain off of me and I looped it around his neck.

“I should return this to you.”

“Why, you think you’re not gonna make it?”

“No, I think you’re gonna make it. That’s why I’m giving it back to you.”

“We are gonna make it.”

He leaned in and kissed me.

“Move away you two. This is not a pecking zoo.” Imogen commented. She was leaning on the door frame with her arms crossed.

“Ready?” I asked her.

She shrugged. “What can I do? Of course!”

Conleth smiled at her. “I am just glad you’re with us, Imogen.”

She flinched as if he’s too bright. “Whoa. I may be on the side of the angels but do not for a split second think that I am one of them. And don’t look at me like that. I might get the wrong impression. Although I always wonder if you’ll come chasing after me.” She batted her eye lashes at him and smirked. “Let me just get things straight. I gave a fuck once. It was horrible.”

She went in the living room to bother others. But I am sure glad as Conleth that somehow she stayed with us. Conleth laced his hands with mine as we stepped inside the living room to join the others.

“We might gonna die today.” I said as I faced my team.

“Bri, you are such an inspiration!” Imogen busted. “Can I give the speech? Conleth wrecked you, obviously. ” They all laughed. And I listened to it as if it was the last sweetest sound I’ll hear before everything ends.

Imogen stood up straight and pushed her chest out. She opened her mouth and swept away the fear and the tension. “You know what; the hardest part about an apocalypse will be pretending that I am not excited about it. Well, this is what we’ve been trained for. Soldiers. Today, we’re gonna finish what we’ve started. We’re gonna close those goddamn Gates for the next bloody fifteen years. ’Cause we’re going home. This world isn’t theirs so we’re gonna take it back!”

“Well if it’s the end of the world, maybe you could try and be more mature about it. Your speech is condescending to us.” Athren snapped without turning his head towards her direction.

“Condescending? Oh my gosh. Do you even know what that means?” she snorted his comments off. “It’s okay Athren. What you think of me is none of my business. So no offense.”

“Good. None taken.” Athren retorted and he turned to me. “Why did you let her come with us anyway? She’s a nuisance.”

“That nuisance can help us survive.” I told him.

“I hope you know what you’re doing.” He deadpanned.

“I can hear you.” Imogen sang in front of us.

“If you are offended of what you hear, then there’s probably something true about it.” I said.

“Though I walk through the valley of darkness I fear no evil for I am the baddest mother effing commander there is.” She winked at me.

“Her halo just broke so she carved them into horns.” Athren complimented.

“Aw that’s sweet of you, Athren. Screw you.” she scowled at him.

“Humans are dangerous because they know they can survive.” Athren said.

“But so can we. We are Addonexus and you know we cannot die.” Conleth said. “It’s for the comet to decide. Too bad they’ll have to wait for about 50 years to kill us.”

Imogen snickered. “What doesn’t kill you will probably try again. Every one of us has a past. But not everyone has a future, honey.”

“What do they want from us?” Halley asked. “I thought they need us?”

“Oh they do.” Athren said. Halley looked at him like she wanted to cry. It was the first time he ever spoke to her again. Athren blinked back the awkwardness as he looked away. “That’s why they’re stacking Addonexus merchandise for whatever cause they have.”

“Don’t you think they just want to bargain with the aliens?” Chivas asked. “Why don’t they just kill us off when we were born? That would have been easier.”

“Excellent point.” I said.

“Well, whatever it is I don’t wanna find out. I wanna live. And as soon as the Gates are closed I’m gonna fly away.” Imogen said.

“Why would you still want to help them?” Halley asked her. “They want to kill you.”

“Not all humans are bad, baby.” She crooned. “You know that. I still care about what happens in this world. Where the hell would I live? If I find another planet in outer space to escape only then I won’t care.”

“So we’re heroes for hired and villains with a cause.” Chivas stretched on the sofa.

“I wanna go back.” Halley said and we all turned to her like she’s out of her mind.

“Halley—” I tried to protest.

“I wanna know what they want from us. Why take us in, shelter us, and then just kill us off? Why? For sport? There must be something. Don’t you want to know?”

“I still want to live, little girl.” Chivas patted her head as he stood up and went towards the door. “I’m sure there is a reason to everything. But chasing after trouble… I don’t think so. It’s hard to participate when you really can’t trust everyone. You’ll never know who the snake under the grass is.”

“Hey!” Imogen exclaimed. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Haven’t you experienced enough?” Athren asked her. “I think you got a death wish.”

“I wanna know why my friends died for that cause. I wanna know why we have to die for it.”

“The best way to behave is not to.” Imogen said sarcastically. “Those who criticize our generation surely forgot who raised it. We are exactly the people our parents warned us about.”

“Guys, it’s almost dawn. We have to move out.” Conleth said.

“We’ll follow the map.” Imogen said. “It will lead us to the advance post. As soon as we close the Gate we can eliminate the rest.”

I stood silently among them. They all turned to me for the command and I can’t even get Noah Mori off my head.

Lead them. Lead them to me.

“Let’s move.”

Conleth

There’s a green light shining at the upper right portion of my vision. I’m beginning to hate it. It showed me a map towards the Northern Gate of Argos. The Gate that we should be closing to stop the Dark Hour.

I got my bearings ready. My glaive is secured on my back, I got my mood ring around my neck, and I got Bri right next to me. The only thing that was missing was my courage. I couldn’t seem to find it after that nightmare of Bri. It still felt so real. I can feel the wall. The helplessness. The pain of losing her. I cannot fall into it. We are almost done. We can make it. Only a matter of time.

Bri headed straight towards the road leading the team. The Frost was slowly disappearing, the Walls are starting to paint our way again and they tower ahead of us like Sentinels. The clouds above us remained grey and lifeless.

“This is what I’m scared of.” Bri said. “The silence. Any weird feeling lurking around, Hal?”

Halley looked up at her and pouted her lips. “No.”

“Do you really know where exactly you’re leading us, Bri? Cause you seem to be like leading us in the wrong direction.” Imogen ranted.

“I am leading you to safety.” She said.

“So this isn’t the right way? What the fu—”

Bri pulled out her gun and pointed it right at her.

Imogen smirked at her. “What? You’re gonna shoot me now?”

“Don’t move.”

Imogen’s eyebrows creased and she has her mouth open in mid-rant when Bri fired. It hit something right behind her in the disappearing fog.

“Oh aren’t you just naïve?” Imogen scowled at her. “You just gave away our position!”

“It seems that we don’t have to.” Athren said as he looked behind her, pulling his sword out. Growls and sharp whispers lurk in the fog.

“It’s too late.” Halley said. “They’ve found us.”

Athren held his hand out set some small hurricanes to clear off the fog. We all moved into a circular formation with our backs facing each. When the fog disappeared, no beasts stood behind there waiting. Then out of nowhere, one appeared out of the horizon in a blink of an eye. It lunged at Imogen but she was fast enough to set a shard of ice to pierce it right through its heart. It was a different kind of Predator. A hybrid between a wolf and a lion. It went down with a whimper. And just like that, the others appeared in a flash of light. Imogen created massive ice thorns to pierce them before appearing. Athren pulled out both of his swords and dove right into battle. Chivas balled his hand into a fist and he punched the earth making it quake and break open, sending a few of the beasts from down below.

But these Predators learn just like Sanguinarians. They stood in both feet and materialized weapons out of thin air. I set my glaive on fire and I let it fly towards our enemies slicing them into half. Bri leaped from Chivas’ damage and shoot as many beasts as she could. Taking turns with her gun as she blow them up with her powers into oblivion.

Thunder roared from above us and lightning struck. The first raindrop fall from the sky and watered the dead earth. Halley placed her hand of the ground and the impact shook the earth like a raging quake as she incapacitates the beasts lurking around her. White smoke came out from each of them as she absorbed their energy. Bri flew in just in time behind her to slay the Predator who’s going to lunge at her. She hit its head and its pieces shattered into the ground.

Athren set out a hurricane and I yielded my fire to consume it. My fire glowed inside his hurricane as it moved towards our adversaries taking every inch of them. They exploded one by one inside the hurricane until it blasted out of our sight as it was struck by lightning.

We followed the source to find Sigourney Croff standing at the Gate which was now visible beyond the fog.

“Holy shit.” I found myself swearing.

“This can’t be happening.” Athren said. Disbelief coated his words.

She smiled wickedly and my eyes flew directly to Athren who was trying to find himself in the process. He moved towards her but Bri outstretched her arm to block him.

“She’s not one of us.”

Sigourney smirked at her and she let out a string to lightning towards Athren. Halley moved right in front of him and raised a shield. Sigourney’s lightning exploded upon contact with Halley’s force field.

Halley

A friend should be more than just the extension of yourself. A friend is someone who won’t turn their back on you when all else fails. But in this world, chaos made it impossible to find one.

As I struggle to hold the force field to protect a friend I was holding it against the other. As I look at Sigourney now, she was no longer that sweet innocent girl who would make everything to make you smile or make you feel better. I look at her now and I see the mirror of what this world had made her.

She was not compelled. It was her true form.

She’s not one of us.

Bri was right. It is hard to trust anyone in this world but yourself. Trust someone and you lose your life. Love someone and you will break. Let people break your walls and you will get hurt.

“Sig!” Athren called out to her but she did not answer. She continued her assault on us.

I knew I could not hold much longer and as the shield slowly breaks Athren leaped in front of me and created a massive hurricane making smoke rise above the earth. Sigourney moves in with her sword and Athren blocked it with his. Sigourney used her electricity to flow down her sword right at Athren . He moved away as the sting hits him. Sigourney saw her opportunity and lunged at Athren. This is where Imogen comes in with her brandished glass-like sword. Sigourney channeled her electricity on her sword again, as it collided with Imogen’s her electricity disappeared in a flash.

“Basic rocket science, b*t*h. Don’t ever use electricity around water.” She winked at her. “It can be dangerous.”

In a heartbeat, Imogen directed Sigourney’s electricity right back at her and she fall back in shock.

“Water can dissolve any material. And in case you didn’t know, you’re body contains 90% of water.” She prowled on her like a ravenous panther. Sigourney crawled away from her. Imogen wielded her stigma and redirected it towards Sigourney and she fall flat on her back struggling from the pain that Imogen was causing her body.

“I’m sorry.” Sigourney cried. “I… I didn’t mean to. I just have…to.”

Athren pointed the tip of his sword right at Imogen. “Stop it.”

Imogen smirked back at him. “No.”

Sig bled from her eyes, to her nose, and to her mouth. When Imogen was done with her, she held the hilt of her sword to Athren. He looked at her like he has given her something horrible.

“You’re crazy. She’s compelled!”

“No she’s not. She’s doing it on her own will.”

Athren turned to me with pleading eyes. But all I see in Sigourney was the truth of what Imogen was saying. She was not under control.

“Tell her, Halley!”

I bit my lower lip and shook my head in despair. In the middle of our conversation, Sigourney stood up and ran. But she did not get that far. Before she could even be captured, the back of her head exploded and her blood rained down the earth just right in front of us.

We stood frozen in shock except for Bri. She moved towards Sig’s body, and bent before it. Athren followed with his courage melting into thin air. He opted to turn her body around so that the gruesome explosion that ruined half of her head wouldn’t show but Bri held his arm and shook her head. She placed her index finger right into her lips in a silent sign and then she pointed right into the remains of Sig’s brain. And there right below her head where her cerebellum lies was the chip. Zenith’s chip. The one they implanted in our head on our first day at Battle Camp. The very thing that introduced us our display and the very thing that controlled Sigourney.

“So it wasn’t Phyllis?” Chivas asked all of us. When no one answered he turned his back and brushed a hand on his hair in irritation.

The chip was in battered pieces but it was enough to know that it was the cause of explosion on Sig’s head.

“What do they want?” Athren asked as his hands balled on the earth.

Imogen rolled her eyes at him, forced Bri’s hand away from Sigourney so that she can turn her body, and plunged her sword directly at Sig’s heart. Sigourney who probably might have been half her way out of the human world, opened her eyes, took one last gasp before letting go of her last breath.

Addonexus don’t die.

Something glowed inside her chest. And just like Mei’s heart it pumped in its own light. Bri took it with her own hand.

She turned to us. “Get up.” She said. “This is what they want from us.” She was holding Sig’s heart, her blood dripped in her hand. She gripped it tightly until it stopped beating, it turned hard like glass and then it shattered into ashes and smoke.

“We cannot loose now.” She changed the magazine of her gun and turned towards the Gate.

She was still facing the Northern Gate and I wanted so bad to slap her face and tell her that we are gonna die out there. But I kept my mouth shut.

“This Gate is our only way out of here.” She said and she turned to me knowingly. An invisible big question mark appeared on top of my head.

“What? Are you insane?” Imogen busted.

“If you want to die in here then be my guest.” Bri snapped.

“Do you know what’s out there?” Imogen scowled at her. “You are leading us to danger territory! You fuck up b*t*h!”

Bri ignored her and she turned to me. “Listen to me. I don’t have a plan. But this is the only way I know that can save us all. So if you trust me, you will step in those Gates.”

I nodded. “I trust you.” everyone followed afterwards even Imogen who still wanted to debate on it.

“Best embrace the suck.” She turned to Bri, her eyes narrowing into slits. “This better work, commander.”

She smiled at me. “Hal, there’s just one more thing I need you to do.”

I have often wondered what’s up in the skies. I wondered if someone out there was wondering what it’s like down here. But then as I grow up, I began to see the Barriers and the Gates. The chaos that they bring. Pucker factor. It turns out; I was looking at the wrong enemy.

Bri made me destroy the chips, while she tries to distract the controllers. I don’t know how she did it but it bought me enough time to destroy all our displays. All this time, it is through our eyes they see, it is through our ears that they hear. And if we let them, they will use us and we will be puppets to their will.

“They’re gonna find us. Just a matter of time. We gotta get moving.” Conleth told Bri.

“So if we get out what happens next?” Imogen asked her.

“We find the others.” Bri said. “We’ll find help.”

“Help?” she laughed at her mockingly. “Who would you ask for help? The aliens? We’ll be running our whole lives.”

“Imogen, stop.” Conleth grab hold of her wrist. But she dodged his hand away from her.

“Why? You think if we stay here we can face them all. May be I can. But I won’t risk everyone’s lives.”

“If you’re going to raise hell, make sure that your shenanigans has your back.” Imogen said as she placed her sword in its scabbard and headed straight towards the Gate.

Bri let out an exhausted breath.

“Without our displays, how do we know what to do?” Conleth asked.

“We do it our way; the way it was before.” Bri answered. We followed Imogen towards the Gate when I looked back, I found Athren kneeling before Sigourney.

“Athren,” I called out to him. He turned his sad eyes towards me. “Are you coming?”

He nodded absentmindedly, placed one last kiss on Sig’s forehead, stood up and followed us.

“Who’s gonna help us once we get out of here?” I found myself asking Chivas as I walk beside him.

I got a smirk back from him. “Imogen’s sarcasm was somehow right.”

I gave a look that say he and Imogen are of the same crazy. “No. They wouldn’t help us.”

Chivas leaned in closer than he ever did and I felt my heart skip a beat. My face flamed.

“Who knows? We are of their kind. We are stronger with them. Humans should have had the smarts to know that before they turned the world against us.”

I sighed. “Great. Heroes for hire and villains with a cause.” I mimicked him.

“And we’re definitely going to hell but at least we’ll have all the best stories to tell.” Chivas said.

“As long as we don’t die,” I sighed. “this is gonna be one hell of a story.”

The earth shook once more and we braised ourselves. The Gates started to close and right at the middle was a boy with hair as white as snow and skin as pale as death. He raised his hand up in the air and energy surged into his veins. He threw it right at us and Bri coated us in a shield.

“Move out. This fight is mine.” She said through gritted teeth.

Bri

Noah Mori stood in front of us like the god of fury.

This is my fight. I know it has always been.

Back while we were moving towards the Gate he was trying to get into my head, telling me to turn around and lead the team to the right way. His way. But I am done being his puppet. When I refused to do his bidding, he sent his hounds to hunt us down. And the last time he tried to negotiate and I refused; he killed Sigourney right in front of us.

It was a warning. I warning I did not hid.

As I stood before him now, I remembered everything I have been through. Everything that brought me to this point. Every death of the people I love, every blood I spilled with my own hands, every memory passed through me like the northern lights I will never see.

There’s a reason I survived. Because I knew that I have to save others.

And I know it has to start now.

“You.” Noah growled at me with his bloodshot eyes. “You are not gonna get away with this!”

“It’s always a pleasure to disappoint you.”

He balled his fist and the ground shook once more.

“You think you can fight me off?” He looked at my squad and smiled. “Bri Tyranica. When will you ever learn that caring means the scarcity of your own life? Nevertheless I believe I will enjoy this one. A person can only be as strong as their weapon when they seek to protect someone. I’ll expect a good fight,” he threw a strong force of energy right at me and I blocked it with my own energy. It sent me off a few steps backward but my shield held off and I threw his energy right back at him. The Gates hold and he fell on the ground. I forced his muscles to be in my command as I threw him up and away from the exit.

I turned back to Halley. “Move!”

My team ran towards the Gate when an explosion forced them to halt once more. I turned behind me to find Noah back on his feet. He wielded the Gates to his command and it started closing once again.

I threw a ball of energy right back at him to distract him. He received it in his hands, consumed it until it exploded into thin air.

“Losers never win.” He smirked at me.

I was about to throw another attack at him when shards of ice trailed directly at him. Noah leaped away from it. Breaking them apart and throwing them directly at my team’s direction. I reached out to my stigma and sent the force field right back at them.

“Leave them alone. You’re fight is with me.” I said through gritted teeth.

He grinned. “Okay.” He disappeared from his post and in a blink of an eye he appeared right in front of me. He grabbed hold of my neck and he squeezed in the air out of me. “I’m a good listener.”

I hear an explosion behind me and I fell off the ground, catching the air back to fill my lungs.

“Don’t touch my girl, you son of a b*t*h!”

Noah was in flames. He consumed it in one flick of his hand and he returned it back to Conleth. I touched the ground and released a stronger force field. Noah’s fire struck back to him sending him down the earth.

Giving my team time to escape.

Halley

Pucker factor.

I can hear their whispers everywhere as if they are waiting. My heartbeat was electrifying and my hands and feet were trembling.

The Gate was closing again leaving us that sight of hope beyond the wall.

“Why are we running away?” Conleth shouted at us. “This is our fight! We can’t just leave Bri out there!”

Imogen groaned. “I’m gonna regret this.” She turned away from us and sent a trail of ice towards our adversary. But he just broke it and threw it right back at us just as Con’s flames. Bri had made a wall of force field to protect us from the boy’s wrath.

“Damn. Where did he come from?” Imogen placed her hands on her waist.

“No.” Conleth looked at Bri’s force field like he was stunned by death. He ran towards Bri but the glass-like force filled blocked him from her. He set his fist in flames and he started punching the wall.

“Set it down! Damn it! Bri, set it down!” he shouted.

From behind the wall, Bri shook her head sadly. She placed her hand on the wall to meet Con’s bleeding hand on the other side.

“You. Can’t. Fight. Him. Alone!” he punched the wall again. When Bri did not hid to his plea, he gave up and slid to the ground. “We’re a team. Don’t do this to me.”

Bri says something on the other side and Con shook his head. He started punching the wall again. In his rage he turned to us, “Help me! Get this shield down!”

When we didn’t make a move he goes mad and started to punch some more. But it was no use; Bri’s shield was just too strong.

And then we hear an explosion on the other side and it hits Bri. Con shouts back at her. On our end, we can see the boy making a thread like energy to reel Bri towards him.

“No. No. No. NO! Bri!!!” Con shouted. He turned to us in desperation. “Come on you guys! Help me!” tears fall from his face.

I turned to Bri just as her eyes met mine. She gave me a nod. It was only then I felt my tears falling down my face.

And I understood. I understood what she meant.

I understood what she wants me to do.

At that point, I remembered what she told me. It clicked in my head like the missing piece of the puzzle.

“Listen to me, Halley. This won’t take long. But I need you to remember this: We are trapped in this maze and they are out there to kill us.”

“Who?” my heart drummed inside my chest with the intensity of her words.

“They. Them. The humans. Noah Mori. They are not who we seem, Hal.”

“Then… who are we really up against? I don’t understand, why?”

“They want something from us. And whatever that is, it’s inside our bodies. And they won’t stop until they take it from us. This is not a game, Halley. This is not a war. We are fighting for our own survival.”

“Why are you telling me this now?”

“Because I need you. No matter what it takes, I want you to lead this team out of this maze. I need you to save them.”

“Where will I take them? I don’t know where else to go from here!” I cried.

“There’s a place out here behind these Barriers. I’ve seen it once in Colonel Black’s office. There are others. I need you to find them. They can help us.”

“But why me?”

“Because there’s no one else I would entrust my squad than you.”

I looked down at my hands.

“Stop being normal.” Bri said. “You won’t see how truly amazing you are. Deep inside I see there is a soldier. There is a hunter. There is you going against everything that you thought wasn’t possible. In you, I see an Addonexus.” She hugged me. “You’re going to be okay, Halley.”

I hugged her tighter. “You think I can do this?”

She nodded. “You are a natural born leader.”

“Who will follow me?”

“I will.” She stood up and saluted. I stood up straight to take her salute. “Now, forget what I said and remember in the right time. Remember who the enemy is. I am counting on you, Halley. Get them out of here.”

Save them.

I felt more tears fall as I summoned my courage and nod back at my commander. She smiled back at me before turning away to fight.

“Move out!” I shouted at my team. They all turned to me in shock.

“Bri’s still out there!” Athren snapped.

“Well another reason why we should leave.” I prompted. “I will not let her sacrifice be put to waste. A command is still a command. We have to move.”

I turned away from them and I faced the Gate. I don’t know what’s out there but I can feel them. I can feel them like the blood and stigma running in my veins. My only fear now if my team would follow. To my surprise, Chivas moved towards the Gate first.

“See you on the other side, love.” He winked at me and then he disappeared into the light.

“Who would have thought…” Imogen smirked at me. “You’re only as innocent as the horns holding up your halo, little girl.” And then she followed Chivas.

Athren stood in front of me. “You think he’ll be okay?” we both turned to Con who still has his hand on the wall as if Bri would somehow materialize beyond the smog the boy has created to keep their fight. But I can still see the lights behind them. And the spark of hope grows in me. I know she’ll make it out of there.

I tapped Athren’s shoulder. “You go ahead, we’ll be right behind you.”

“Hal—I…”

“If we live through this, I’ll hear your words later.” I smiled at him and he smiled back before disappearing out of the Gate.

I ran towards Con and I held his arm. He tried weakly to shove me off of him.

“We need to go, Con.”

“I need to save her.” he said.

“She saved you. Don’t let that be put to waste.”

He shook his head as his tears fall down his face. He stood up and then the force field broke sending us backward. The explosion behind it was deafening. We both hit the ground.

I looked up to see the place burning and my vision was turning.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and then I disappeared from the chaos.

Bri

I knew I would be the one lying.

I love you and I’m sorry.

I wanted him to know that before everything else disappear. I turned to Halley and was relieved to know that she remembered the memory I stole from her.

Noah Mori got his strings back on me and he reeled me towards him.

“You stupid girl! Do you really think you can save your friends? No.”

“What did we ever do to you? We are of the same comet. You are us!”

“Me, you?” he laughed. “Spare me the drama, Bri. You never did anything wrong. They were the ones who have wronged me. I should have been chosen.” He pulled the string faster and I hit the ground roughly.

My eyebrows furrowed.

“You should have known that. But as we all know, Addonexus move from one body to another just as the celestial comet pass. More likely you have forgotten already the root of this all. A few more souls to go until it is complete.” he got a hold of me and he grasped my collar. “Once I get rid of the Addonexus the Comet will be done for.”

“Why are you doing this?”

“I wanna be the most powerful person in the entire cosmos. Is it too much to ask?” he grinned at me wickedly. “First I will destroy you and then I will follow the Gala Children. And once all of you are dead, I am free to do whatever I want. I will forge a new empire. I will build a new world!”

I spit on his face. He wipes it off and slapped me back.

“Addonexus will never learn. Such a waste on your powers. You never know how powerful you can be if you embrace it. Too bad, you’re gonna die—”

I smack him hard with my powers and he flew off of me. “Addonexus don’t die.”

“We’ll see about that!” he retaliated with an energy blast and blocked his with mine. The force ended up in an explosion. He came back with another wave of his energy and I fight off blocking his attacks.

“YIELD! You know you won’t win.”

He covered the area in smog so that I wouldn’t be able to see him from where he will attack. So I alerted my senses. It was a chase between a cat and a mouse. One is trying to make a hiding area and the other is hunting him down. But I won’t be the mouse in this game this time.

He attacked first by sending a lightning bolt towards my direction. I easily blocked it with a force field. His throw cleared the pathway towards our battlefield.

“Did you forget?” I asked him. “I am Bri Tyranica. I never lose.”

I fought off by sending my energy blast towards him. He accepted it with his hands and fused it with his own and threw it right back at me. I strengthen my shield and it hit mine with an intense explosion.

“Once I’m done with you, this world will plunged into chaos. This world. Will. Be. Mine.”

He came rushing towards me, with an electrified balled fist. I charged towards him as well with my energy blast. This time, I will not back down. This time I will win.

“I will not. Allow. You. To. Lead. This. Planet!” I sent him my energy blast with a fit punch and he plunged unto the ground, making the earth shook. He grabbed hold of me and he sent electric waves into my body. I grabbed hold of his stigma. The gift of the comet. I place my hand to my chest and I buried it deep until I pulled mine as well. It glowed brightly in my as it beat with life.

I yielded my energy towards it and Noah’s eyes widened in horror. It takes a monster to destroy a monster.

“And this, this is for you. Alpha. Mike. Foxtrot.”

And then I let it explode.