Simulation

Simulation

    “Aw! It’s so hot!” Moriah’s complained while fanning using her hands. She really sweats a lot, as in like she’s bathing in her own body fluids.

    “Leviathan, had you tracked any nearby town yet?”

    “No, if only I have a map-”

    “Wait a minute!” She said cutting me in an exciting tune then started to rampaging her bag. It takes for a few minutes before she found what’s in the bag.

    “Found it!” She said while waving a map to me. I gave her a ‘seriously you have this all this time and didn’t bother to tell me’ look before immediately taking and examining it, after 5 seconds my sight became like a computer scanner and memorize the content of it.

    We reach the nearest place I saw on the map, misplaced cars, dead bodies, and ghost-like town were the only thing we saw. Even though I was raised in the lab for my whole life, I still manage to enter everyone else’s mind and to see how the world outside those walls. I run some scanning and felt a presence in one of the house but it is faint so we’re not sure what is it.

    “Lee, where are we going?” She asked.

    I was about to face and answer her but something caught her attention started running towards the place where I got some presence a while ago.

    She entered the house just by knocking off the door. I immediately ran after her before infected human shows up.

    I reached the house with an old eerie atmosphere. It doesn’t have any neighboring houses, only a few trees. The house is already old and the sound of creaking trees makes it older.

    “Moriah?” I called out her name because of the reason that I can’t hear her mind rushing. I look around the house; to my right is the stairs to the second floor and left for the corridor to the kitchen. I saw her standing there without any motion. I went by her side as I waited for her response but gave up and look at the direction she was looking at.

    A playful giggle echoed in that corridor and she jumps and hides behind me.

    “Lee, I’m scared," She said in a shaky tone.

    I really thought she was joking but by the tone, she has perhaps she’s not. I walked towards the sound where it came from which is behind the counter but found nothing. A sound of rolling can appear out of nowhere and another playful laugh echoed again and now it is upstairs. Moriah flinched by the time we heard the sound as if someone is climbing the stairs rapidly with faint thud sounds. I was about to follow where the sound is when she pulled my sleeves and shakes her head. Looks like she is really scared, but that didn’t stop me from going.

    The stairs start creaking as I slowly walk over it. At the fourth step, the wooden floor creaked loudly that echoed throughout the house, it made Moriah weep. I laugh a little by her reaction but nevertheless, continued to trespass the house.

    The second floor has a dark, cold corridor with four doors, two by each side. Moriah gave up and wait for me in the top of stairs enclosing her arms to her.

    I immediately open every door and the gush of cold wind slapped my face and spread across the corridor that made her jolt in shock, her face is literally pale thinking a supernatural something is happening. I was laughing silently when she pointed out something with her horrified face. I look at the direction she was pointing at and saw a shadow.

    I let myself float for the reason to surprise whatever is that thing. I was close to entering the second door to the right when a calm little voice came out of there.

    “Who’s there?” A kid in her scared state was heard. I immediately put myself down and check the shadow. I enter the creaky door revealing the room with nothing but a bed. A kid who may age 7 or 8 were sitting in the side of the bed, she was curling beside of it and looks like much more scared than Moriah. The girl has an ebony short hair with a pair of golden brown eyes; she was holding a raggedy doll and also wearing pajamas. To my surprise, Moriah was able to move and be the first one to approach it.

    “Are you all right kid?” She said in a worried tone and slowly walking towards her.

    The kid only let herself sunk in the side of the bed with a scared expression.

    “Hey, I have a lollipop, do you want it?”

    And without hesitation, the kid smiled brightly while taking it.

    But before the kid was able to take it, a strong gush of wind blew in the window made us squint. Only a few seconds passed and another stronger windblown the whole part of the roof leaving us in an open area.

    “Well, well, well, look who’s here," A guy, with the same age as us, was floating high in the air wearing a mischievous smile.

    “Hello Myalis," He said directly to the kid while smiling like an i***t and ignoring the two of us, he smiled maniacally that made the kid hugged and hides her face on Moriah’s belly.

    Her reaction made him irritated and I felt that he’s gonna blow us with another strong wind. He raised his hands while energy starts to gather in his fists and in a single swing of his hand a strong sharp wind unleashed in his grasp and about to hit us. Moriah hugged the kid and hides her in her forearms. I extended my hand to my side increasing my range as I create a force field as wide as the house to prevent it from collapsing, especially we’re on the second floor.

    Right after I created it, the impact of his tempest vanishes into thin air. We’re lucky I made it just right in time. His strong wind didn’t hurt nor touches the house. With a pissed face, he swung both of his hands and released two strong gushes of winds.

    “Take the kid out of here now!” I commanded Moriah immediately knowing that only a few feet and the attack are about to hit our place. She immediately lifted the kid and squat for a second to jump out of the house, her jump from the rickety floor creates a hole. It was too late before I can even dodge the attack. The explosion scattered the old house. I was luckily blown for a few feet and lodge upside down in one of the trees. I immediately scanned Moriah’s active brain and luckily she was hiding together with the kid.

    I lifted myself and went to the guy. Once he saw me, he spitted saliva and released a rapid-fire of strong wind. Now that I’m composed and have focused enough, I only created a force field that deflects every attack he has.

    He is now noticeably panting hard and sweating a lot. He stopped attacking and catches his breath and that gave me a chance to have revenge.

    “My turn," I said with a smirk.

    I took some of the cars lying on the ground and throw it immediately to him and to my surprise, he was still being able to shove it using tempest. I took every piece of wood and metals and fusillade him with it. I was able to hit him in the right temple, left ear, and right leg with the debris created himself by trying to defend my attacks. He was bleeding continuously but that didn’t stop him from blocking the rest of my attacks.

    After defending and blocking everything, I manage to concentrate enough for me to see the situation in a different perspective, I can see that he was too busy defending and I took that advantage by sneakily wrapping his whole body with heavy metal, his limp body falls with a loud thud and I’m really sure every infected will be coming after him. He eagerly tried to escape by releasing enormous and powerful winds but metal is much solid than the wind that it wouldn’t budge.

    He groaned and shouted as the pain travels into his entire body. I was about to go near him when a loud enfilade resonates with the town and before I could know it, a bullet is already planted into my right shoulder.

    The pain knocks me down and my nerves send millions of messages to my brain, the only thing it said is pain, turning my pain receptors on and even leaving my defenses open to any attacks. I immediately read another mind a few feet away to my right. I was shocked to read her mind, there’s nothing I could see but blood and death, it’s quite devastating to see one, then her memories appear using the ability she possesses, she wields bullet guns using her hands and it was designed to hold an infinite number of bullets. I gulped at that moment thinking I could be chopped by her bullets.

    I was about to stand from lying when Moriah shouted at the top of her lungs, I look at her direction by rolling only to see her holding an uprooted street lamp. She leaps faster than the reaction of the girl with a handgun, making her backbone meet the hard metal. Her pained body rolled and flew a few meters away before her face became the mop of the ground.

    Moriah immediately runs towards me holding the kid and help me stand.

     Click!

    A bright flash of light made us blind for a few seconds after our eyes adjusted, a guy, in his 20’s, showed up wearing an amazing look and holding a Polaroid with the picture hanging on it.

    “Well, that was AWESOME!” He said with amusement while jumping like an i***t.

    “Who’re you?” I asked making him float off the ground.

    “Woah! Woah! Woah! I’m not an enemy!” He said frantically while waving his hands in the air. I tried entering his mind but it was disrupted when a gush of windblown us.

    I opened my eyes and hissed at the pain coming from my shoulder but I tried not to give in. I stand up and look for the enemies, but looks like they are both hiding.

    “Ouch, my butt!” The guy with a camera complained while rubbing it.

    “Are you okay?” Moriah asks even though her nose is already bleeding and her outfit is a total mess. The kid only nodded and smiled brightly.

    “Everybody, hide," I commanded them.

    “Moriah beware of the infected,"

    “Roger!”

    And without hesitation, I put my left-hand palm in the air. The pain coming from my shoulder is quite a bother slowing me from concentrating, 10 seconds later I released an enormous shockwave that shook everything. Some of the trees were EVEN about to be uprooted, the cement I was standing starts to have cracks, and the cement in front of me is about to be peeled off and when I just about to release another one, 2 shadows from a big tree few feet away to my left fell with a loud thud.

     Gotcha! I said loudly in my head.

    I directly pointed out my hand in their direction to release another shockwave when fireworks-like objects started to shoot towards us. The thing flew a few more feet away from the ground before it started to travel toward us.

    “Duck!” I shouted as I realize that missiles are about to hit us. I ran towards were they hiding and created force field was just about the missiles hit us. It created a loud bang causing the area we’re standing to shake. The explosion causes a crate in our surroundings.

    “Leviathan!” Moriah’s shout echoed in my ears as I fall on my knees with nose bleeding. For a few seconds, her voice becomes blurry, as if someone blocking my sense of hearing, as her voice faints all I could hear is a loud ‘ting’ getting louder and louder. I squint my eyes and tried to go back to my senses, I was about to exhale when Moriah slap me in the face, very hard.

    Looks like both the attack and slap was too powerful. I get up and I wipe my nose with the back of my hand as another set of five missiles was release high to the air.

    Moriah stands in front of me and looks like about to block the missiles.

    “That hurts!” I complained caressing my face.

    “Shut up, I only tap you with my palm,"

    I gave her a ‘whut!’ look but she ignores me and run to pick up the uprooted street lamp and with all of her strength she threw it to the direction of missiles. A loud explosion happened in mid of the air, realizing that she only stopped two of them, not the three. Those three missiles immediately travel toward us.

    I tried to create another force field but the searing pain coming from the gunshot and the impact of the explosion went to me preventing my ability to work, I went down to my knees, the kid came over and help me. I was too exhausted now, Moriah had no way to stop the missiles.

    The missile is fifteen feet away from us and it travels too fast, its blasting sound created a lump in my throat that I swallowed. The guy with camera came to my vision, walking and stood towards Moriah.

    “You showed enough guys, it’s my turn," He said as he set his hand's palm facing in the direction of the missiles. Moriah didn’t move in her position and stay on guard. It travels more quickly that I didn’t notice it. The camera guy closes his eyes for a few seconds and opening it as if ready to stop a deadly weapon that could kill thousands of people. Only a few meters remain and the missile is gonna hit us, I closed my eyes, wish we could still be alive after this. I saw Moriah duck, so do I together with the kid.

    Few seconds passed and I’m sure I should hit us right now, I was expecting a loud explosion to happen but only the gush of wind is the only thing I felt.

    “Wow, that’s easier," He said while shaking off his hands. I squint my eyes until the dust subsided, I look at what happened only to see that the missiles became white sand.

    We didn’t expect that.

      A metahuman! I said with amusement.

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