Chapter Five- GREED!

ZUMA

The world had tilted off of it’s axis, there could be no other explanations than that, Able hadn’t said anything ever since but his actions did well enough to imply that he had meant his question earlier. Had I died and reincarnated in some weird afterlife?, if he was meant to drag me out from hell, then why did he appear so brutish, so animalistic, why did his smile give me an intense feeling of dread with an underlying subtlety of anticipation?.

He swaggered along, with my frail body all bent up in his arms shivering from the cold he seemed to emanate, we’d barely made it a few steps before the hospital behind us crumbled with a resounding bang, I shuddered as I thought of the people who could have survived, their chances of that was long gone, it was no doubt his doing and the more I thought about it, the more convinced I was that I had fallen into the hands of a monster.

“You’ve had your time to think” He said abruptly and I fell onto the cold hard ground and the sight of the hospital in ruins loomed behind me, my body shivered even more as I took in the sight of the destruction behind me

“You are not safe here and you are much too weak to survive any means of transport, it’s almost pathetic” he said with so much indifference, his eyes scrutinizing me like I was some piece of trash “I don’t think you have much more time, so I will ask one more time, do you believe in magic?”

His tone made it sound like I an option, but we both knew that if he did not get the answer he expected, I might as well be left for dead, strange, it almost felt as if this was some sort of chore forced upon him. Two options lay in front of me, accept his crazy notion and live, or disagree and die.

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It was funny how life worked, all this years in that dreary bleak world of sleep and nightmares, I had many times steeled myself in the hopes that death would find it’s way to claim my pathetic soul, but being faced with it, a strong desire to love seemed to burn from the pits of my stomach, hell I did not want to die, I wanted fucking life, I had never wanted anything as strongly as I wanted this, I could not be surer.

“Yes” the words tumbled from my lips and a refreshing spring seemed through my veins

His barbaric smile stretched across his face, revealing rows of overly sharp teeth, in the fading sunlight, he had become something of a nightmare only told to kids to force them to return early from playing.

“ Then careful Love” He said with a horrific smile still plastered across his face “ This is going hurt a lot”

To my horror four large arms seemed to sprout out from his sides, a scream died deep in my throat, but I’d lost all strength at his transport and I could only shiver as his long malicious hands reached into me and my whole world turned into white.

Pain.

I was no stranger to it, in fact many would argue that we were something of kin in nature at this point and yet at this very moment, I had never felt anything like the pain that I felt in this moment, every pore and every cell in my body seemed to be lit on fire coupled with the intense stabby feeling that was slowly turning my brain into mush, I could barely form a coherent thought.

Stop!.

Stop!.

Stop!.

The last wave of thought came with a powerful wave and all of a sudden the intensity of the pain abruptly ended and my vision cleared up just quickly enough to see the destruction that the wave of energy that went of me had wrought.

Most of it has been directed at Able and he was move back by merely a few steps, everywhere else the energy passed through was lit up in a crazed blue fire, burning with an intense ferocity until nothing else was left, soon the rubble of the hospital would be reduced into nothingness.

“Finally, a bit of power display, still pathetic basic pyro activity, but it’s a bit of progress” he said in disdain “ perhaps your body can handle it”

“ Handle wh-”

Before the words escaped my lips one of his large hands gripped mine and we were pulled with the wind with nothing but my scream alive in the air.