(Back to the present)
Right before Luca went completely limp and fell down on the floor of the navigation department, he said to himself "It was never being the person I wished to be. It was never about thinking about the next big thing, it was never about being the best out there. It was about enjoying everything I2 did and treasure those moments. It was about being my best in those."
The force users saw Luca in his feral state as he was hyperventilating while staring at them. The skies turned black and a violent thunderstorm began. Luca's eyes started burning a green emerald flame and the ocean was.....moving even more violently. Luca extended his arm towards the ocean and a huge tide seemed to form as it was responding to Luca's gestures.
The tide was moving unnaturally carrying the corpses of the defeated essence users which died due to the torpedoes fired earlier, the tide responded to Luca's strength and heeded his command.
"That'll be soon you, Scum." Luca said with his reverberating voice and dropped the corpses back into the ocean.
The team members could feel Luca's power skyrocket, his power wasn't masked since he was still new to essence. The team members did not know anyone who was this strong only at their awakening. A man from the team, holding a great-sword said to the leader "His growth is....unnatural. Do i take him out?" as he gripped the clothe covering his sword. "Not now. We still have time. I'd like to observe. Gaftz, keep relaying the information to command."
The leader said, look at a man with some sort of antennae coming out of his dark essence covered body, this is the man who is responsible to telekinetically relay information to command, whenever this squadron was sent to take out anyone.
The organization is very strict on monitoring their enemies abilities and right now, the command is getting a live feed of Luca's unnatural awakening. Feeding their understanding of the essence.
Luca, rose even higher into the skies and looked at the dark ether he said
"Oh heavens, listen to my cries and the woes I've made!"
"Oh Earth, heed my command!
And you accursed beings, fall!" as he rose his hands and lightning struck his arms and a fire was summoned around him, taking the shape of multiple rings around him , while being so hot that it was vaporizing the ocean down below. The force users tried to charge at Luca and attempt to end him, but all who tried to charge at him were struck down by lightning and the fire ring around Luca, burnt them simultaneously.
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After Gabriel and thallus both sensed the huge surge in the force pinging their senses, they stopped their banter and acknowledged they both did sense it. Thallus decided to tag along with Gabriel who was going to visit the ancient who taught him, to probe deeper into this issue and investigate what was going on.
Tommy was watching Luca and was smiling as he saw him defeat the people who hurt him moments before. Tommy was cheering for him and applauding for him. Luca let out a short-lived smile and immediately stopped, shaking his head.
The attackers were confused on whether they should take down the new opponent or wait for reinforcements, "What are we waiting for? Let's take these people down and go home already!" a voice declared from the crowd. Another voice said "Yeah! We clearly overwhelm him, let's just take him down." And they turned to Luca, expecting an answer.
Luca just stared into the crowd of attackers, dumb and blank, he didn't say anything and leaned forward, making his arms freely swing. The squad braced for an attack, which didn't come. They looked at Luca and saw his emerald aura thicken.
From the crew, a curious young lady was watching Luca in awe after his awakening, unable to control her smile, she giggled in approval and happiness.
"What is this place? Where even am I? Wasn't I supposed to be in the ocean?" Luca said, as he woke up in a blank, endless white room, an infinitely big expanse of white void. He walked around and to his surprise.....saw Suzie, his wife. Who was staring at him from a distance and ran away when he tried to get closer to her.
"Suzie! Is that you? Wait- Don't go, stop! Suzie!" Luca ran after the image of her wife, not realizing the surroundings were turning eerie and dark. She abruptly stopped and turned back at Luca, as she was being surrounded by a horde of infected which slowly crept towards her.
Luca couldn't move the moment he saw the infected and saw his wife being consumed by the horde, he could only stand their and watch her wife dying, "Why? Why do you only watch Luca? Can you not help me? Why couldn't you come and help me?" Luca dropped down on his knees and clenched his heart, as he felt something twist.
The force users charged at Luca's awakened body, with some manifesting entire bows, guns ,swords. Luca summoned lightning and violently burned the force users while holding off the force users using the water as a shield which would absorb their attacks.
Realizing they weren't doing much by charging him upfront, they decided to form a 6-sided attack with 2 users storming him from each side.
Luca couldn't keep up with them since he wasn't whole, and could only hold his own against 3 sides at most, as they attacked in marvelous symphony and in confusing patterns. He got thrown around and suddenly he wasn't so scary anymore, he was just another target they'd play with. Another target which would be hunted by the pack.
The curious young lady watched Luca getting tossed around. She knew this was to happen, since a newly awakened individual wouldn't be able to keep up with anyone who was experience with using the essence, no less an entire squadron of them.
Luca caught glimpses of Johnathan struggling to stay awake and hold onto tommy and the little kid cowering in fear. The ocean's weird movement stopped and the thunder clouds thinned. The chaos caused by Luca, changed to normal and the force users squad stopped attacking Luca, after seeing this sudden shift. Luca just stared at his friend and the kid he vowed to protect.
A tidal wave, which appeared just like that, washed all the levitating force users, including Luca, away from the ship.