Anxiety hit my body as I watched Page look at me with vengeful eyes. Her brother had gone from a famous hero to dust in a matter of seconds, there was nothing she or anyone could do. There was not even enough left to bury him.

At first, I just wanted to die, but I remember something if I just gave up now the world would end and the helplessness Page felt would be felt by billions.

“We need to go cutie,” said Alexandria, trying to sound confident, but I could sense haste from her tone.

Did she really think I would go with her?

She was part of one of the most dangerous and wanted gangs in the whole city. If I followed her now my name would be known around the country or even the world by tomorrow morning.

“leave me,” I said with sadness in my voice, I wasn’t going to run away, whatever the consequences.

But she didn’t take no for an answer, she would take me with her even it if meant killing me first. She wanted to claim the death of a protector for her gang and was going to do everything to achieve that.

Gangs were like terrorist groups who would always claim everything even if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

Angry, Alexandria threw two cards towards me with her highest speed. From the stands she took, I knew one thing, she was not going to get near me while I was conscious.

The speed was too high for me to dodge, I tried to remember the feeling of freezing time like last time. The feeling came naturally to me which surprised me as I touched the car hoping it would work.

The time I could hold appeared like last time and this time it was ten seconds. It didn’t take long for the second car to hit the first one and a big explosion accrued.

I didn’t need that long to move out of the way and let the car continue. Now I had seven seconds left before I ran out of energy.

When the first car unfroze I saw that the car was not damaged by the collision which surprised me. The car continued with high speed until it hit the walls of the academy and it exploded.

I knew I could stop her only one or two more times before I ran out of energy. The only way I could win was to stall, it wouldn’t take long before Jacks reinforce arrives right?

Alexandria clearly angry kept throwing cars and rocks at me with high speed, her fight with Jacks had drained her energy but she was still a lot stronger than me.

I kept dodging the once I could and it didn’t take long before I had only one second left. I could dodge one car if I was lucky, after that she would crush me like a bug.

When the next car arrived I was not able to stop. The car broke my right leg and I couldn’t move.

“You should have listened, now die,” Said Alexandria, two cars were flying towards me with high speed.

Was this the end of me?

Here I was given the chance to change everything and I would die on the first day, how useless.

The car hit me and I felt my bones break for the second time today, how unlucky. One of the cars was lying on me and I felt dizzy. I was losing too much blood and there was no way I could get the car off me.

“I hate you…. I despise you.” I heard Page say faintly as her eyes turned purple, she was transforming! I looked up and everything around me was turning into sand, she was using her ultimate ability without even knowing it.

Alexandria was screaming as her body started to tear apart and turn into sand. Everything around me was being destroyed, the school had already been destroyed and all I could hope for was for her to kill me quickly and stop this.

From the anger, she felt and her power I could easily see her killing hundreds of thousands without even knowing what she was doing.

“Kill me already and let this madness be over with,” I said with a smile on my face, how useless I am. All I wanted to do was help people and now I had caused the biggest incident in New York City’s history.

I stood there laughing as my body was torn apart, at least it was fast and painless.

Maybe it was my fate to die, maybe I’m not meant to be a hero. Maybe my father was right, I’m not good enough.

I opened my eyes and I looked around trying to find out where I was. There was nothing, only white light.

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It didn’t take long before a white flame appeared that was bigger than a skyscraper, it didn’t give off any heat but emotions, I felt love and happiness.

I can’t explain how that was possible but it was like the best drug ever putting me to a state of euphoria. The flame noticing my reaction to it pulled back his presence, and it didn’t take long for me to return back to feeling pain and incompetent, and immediately I wanted that feeling back, how addictive.

“Who are you?” I said knowing the answer, he was one of the protectors that had left us a long time ago, his existent was so ancient that even first generation protectors would not dare to cross them.

He was the god of life!

Why had he come, and why am I why did I feel like I was a part of him?

Why did he stand by and let the god of death kill us all, were we not important enough?

Is the story that the god of death is really one of us, true?

So many questions and no answers, and I had a feeling he wasn’t going to answer them.

“I created you. You are my answer!” He said, not really helping me to understand.

“Answer to what, why did you just stand by and let him kill everyone?” What was he talking about, how could I an insignificant fool, and the God of life who was created at the beginning of time be the same?

This was one of the ancient protectors, to them we were just children playing hero, even my father would cower in front of them.

“I do not understand that question.” He said, confused, it was a little stupid of me, I had come back in time and to them, it had not happened yet. Maybe even he, my creator didn’t know that I had an ability like that.

“There is a man that is going to kill everything on earth, and I need your help to stop him. He is like nothing I have ever seen before, he kills without any goal or reason.” I said, trying to convince him to help me, it was typical of me. I never liked responsibility and always liked to pass it to the next guy, and who better than the god of life. To him the man we called the god of death was just a plaything, I can even imagine him being offended by sharing the same title.

“Do not falter and do what you were made to do, do you not remember your mission?” He said with the same tone as before, it made me a little angry seeing him ignore my words and brush them aside like that, it reminded me of my father. It almost made me forget about the part where he told me he had created me for a reason, all my life I was looking for a reason to live and it looks like I always had one that was not known to me.

“What mission?” I asked impatiently, I wanted to know why I was here and a part of me felt relieved. It was always easier to follow than to lead, and leading was alien to me.

The voice hesitated for the first time and it took a couple of seconds before he reacted, “to kill all the protectors on earth.”

What..

Me killing all the protectors, how was that possible?

This was the first time I doubted that he was the god of life, he wanted me to end their lives?

“Even if I wanted to I couldn’t, you say you made me so you know that I’m weak. Besides, even if I could I wouldn’t kill all those people without a reason.” I said trying to sound confident, thousands of scenarios went through my head thinking of what it meant to deny an ancient, this was the last thing I expected.

“Do not try to teach me, boy! You have created this habit of feeling inferior and self-pity that is stopping you from reaching your real potential, to be free from your mind, only then can you really live. Always, being able to contact me means that you have activated your powers, so the only way to stay alive is by absorbing the flame of life and extending your existence. Don’t, and your life will end after your fire dims until it is extinguished, do what I told you and you will build a flame so strong that it can rival any being in the universe.” He said with a calm tone like he didn’t care which one I chose to do, it felt to me that he had created more of us to reach his goals, was the man we called the god of death one of them?

The next thing I remember was me standing in the middle of the street that looked like a desert. My body had been brought back into existence like rewinding time, every inch of my body was being fused back together just like it had been destroyed.

It was because I had absorbed Jacks energy, by stealing his existence I could prolong mine, was this the flame that the god of death was talking about?

I used my highest speed to get out of there without being seen. Everyone thought I was dead and that was fine with me.

Lucky for me my clothes had also returned with in my back pocket my Bitcoin wallet, it was a simple way for me to pay without leaving a trace.

As I moved to the bad side of town I saw a video playing with Page going on a rampage, it was the video of us fighting. It annoyed me how the media was faster at the scene than the protectors.

“We have news that the girl formally known as Page has been taken into custody by the New York hero Association (NYHA), Captain Shepherd told us that they were doing their best to investigate.” Said Cristina Kim from the Daily Constant, she was one of the new upcoming journalists, but her eagerness would kill her in the long run.

“Breaking news ladies and gentleman, the NYHA has reported that the death count is estimated around five hundred people because there are no bodies left to identify the captain has asked everyone to call the NYHA if you have any information. The only two causalities that have been confirmed are the hero Jacks and the villain Alexandria. In other news, the state prosecutor Melisa Grey told us that the state was going to prosecute Page as an adult for what she has done.” Cristina said ending the segment.

I hesitated what to do next, was there a chance I could go home and lie? I was a bad student anyways, I could lie that I had skipped class and went to the arcade. Or I could try to find a place to stay for the time being and keep a low profile.

Knowing my mother she would have called the NWHA a long time ago and they would know I was missing, so I had to make a decision quickly.

A part of me knew that this was not my biggest problem, going back home or not didn’t really matter to me. I hated my mother and didn’t mind if I never saw her again. It was what I was going to do next that irritated me, was this the end of my journey or was I going to do what he had asked of me so I can stop the god of death and if I did what was there a chance that I could really do it?

I kept thinking about the situation until I was outside of the danger zone. Making decisions is not really one of my strong suits, so I got tired of changing my mind and made my way back home. I knew my mother and she would cover for me, she was a bitch, but at least she was a loyal one.