Light And Death.

Chapter Six: Him

If you haven’t seen my father fight, you had probably never been thoroughly scared in your life, and something was strange about him, he was moving fast, too fast, almost like Elizabeth but no, it seemed like he was much faster than her, I wondered how that was possible, super speed was not one of the powers I had, another thing I wondered was how I was able to keep up with his speed, he didn’t seem fast to my senses but the electricity he was generating and throwing was amazing, I wondered how on earth the electricity was not affecting him, he was using his weakness in battle, what he was supposed to be pulverized by was giving him edge over us. He had commanded the members of the death squad to stand down, informing them he was going to take care of us, at that moment, I was happy because I thought I could take him, I wasn’t so sure now. I was exchanging punches with him but his speed was far greater than mine and although I was keeping up with him, he could break me at any point, I had to defend while he attacked. He was amazingly strong but our fight seemed pointless, he couldn’t harm me and I couldn’t harm him because we both had durability that made somewhat invincible, he could put me down at any time but I wouldn’t stay down for long. I had to tell Elizabeth to stay out of our fight because unlike me, she was not invincible and Jordan couldn’t help me because his powers were useless against my father, I was the only one who had the might to fight him………..or so I thought.

He fought me in a style I had never seen before, I had studied a lot of martial arts but his fighting style was somewhat unique, not that it was a style anyways, he didn’t follow a regular pattern. He was attacking me like his enemy and not his son, he gave me a gut wrenching kick and that sent me a few feet up in the air while also pushing me a few centimetres to the left. I landed with an heavy thud and heard the marble floors breaking, I wasn’t hurt in the least but what I saw next made me almost die from shock. My waist down to my legs were wet, I looked down and saw blood, I was in a pool of blood but it wasn’t my blood, it was someone else’s, a woman, she had been cut in half and the gory sight in front of me made my face go green, I could not hold it back anymore, I puked on the floor and as I was struggling to get up, I saw the woman’s face, there was a hole in her chest, it kind of reminded me of my mother’s dead body but it was her face that caught my attention, this was obviously not my mom. This looked exactly like Elizabeth, but no, she looked older, less beautiful, longer and much tired, she had deep brown eyes as well, very unlike Elizabeth and that was when it dawned on me, this was her mother, Elizabeth’s mother. I screamed after making my realization, everything made sense to me, my dad must have found a way to take her powers, his statement of serving the light by working in the dad all made sense, he had probably taken her power and killed her right before we got there, then, he had given a speech to justify his murderous action, he was justifying killing his right hand person just before we got there. I never thought powers could be taken, how was it possible, I started to shiver in fear, my dad could kill me for my powers but almost like he was reading my mind, he said to me, “Fear not coward, I need not kill any of you, I already have your powers and that of your team mates, ah, that reminds me…………..”, he failed to complete his sentence but went straight down to the man he had killed earlier, the man who was putting the members of the death squad to sleep, he stuck his hand in the man’s chest and brought out his heart, or at least, something of the sort, the heart was still beating, a complete shock when compared to how long the man was dead, the heart was also purplish in colour and released red blood, I wondered how that was possible but before I could even react, my father did something shocking, he ate the purplish heart and then, I began to understand everything, he had killed my mom when I was a child, then, he was not immune to electricity, but I was, he had killed my mom, taken out her heart, probably, my guess was my mom had immunity to electricity, she must have passed it down to me and my father wanted that, that must have been why he killed her, he wanted Elizabeth’s power too and he took her mom out for it, the man he had probably killed now was Jordan’s father, I didn’t know why but all the fear in me died, I was so angry at him, I suddenly remembered I had to avenge my mom, I turned and looked straight at him, I charged at him but he also came at me with the same force but greater speed, you ever hear of an immovable object being hit by an unstoppable force, well, I wasn’t immovable after all, the force of the hit put me through five walls of solid concrete and for the first time in my life, I felt pain, trust me, it wasn’t anything like pleasant, it felt like a thousand sharp objects hit me and while I still had the will to fight, I was too dazed to even stand. I crawled back to the area of Elizabeth’s mother’s body and in the blink of an eye, Elizabeth ran to my side, she tried to help me but when she saw her mom, she burst into tears, I wondered why, seeing my dad dead would give me satisfaction and joy, Elizabeth was so sad, she looked so pitiful, I wanted to console her but I didn’t have the strength, I knew I was about to die and then, I said to Elizabeth, “No matter what happens, whether we die or not, know that I love and will always love you”. She told me something like I love you too but her voice was being affected by her tears, she hugged me and as I was closing me eyes, about to fall asleep or die, to my greatest surprise, I saw him and like that wasn’t enough, I saw HIM………………