04 Others
The veil of night spreads across the horizon, like a frustrated 3year old pulling up his blanket. As I walked home I recalled the conversation I had with Mi this morning, and now it made me paranoid as f***. But the thing was, I felt like it's probably better to be paranoid and alert, rather than just completely chill and relaxed and not know what killed me. After I got off the sky train and began walking back to my apartment, I looked behind myself every now and then, and would snap my head around immediately at practically anything.
5 blocks. I told myself.
4 now...
3 almost there...
2 so close now...
Just as I was about to make a turn for a sharp corner, something whizzed right past the front of my face, and struck the wall couple inches before me. I almost fell backwards. After my head cleared up a bit, I saw for the projectile that almost busted my ass. It was an icicle, no joke. The icicle is about ten inches long and half of it was stuck in the wall. Just the sight of it sent a chill down my spine.
I heard people talking. "Did you get him?" a feminine voice spoke up.
"It appears I was slightly off," another feminine voice replied.
I turned towards the two figures. At first sight I could tell they were twin sisters. They looked no older than 16. The one who asked if I got nailed in the head had a pair of long fiery red ponytails with a cute fancy red dress that seemed to blaze with fire. The other twin had long silky bluish-white hair that flowed freely. She wore an equally cute and fancy dress of a blue fabric that made me think of snow and winter for some reason.
"My dearest sister Aurora, this is why you should let me take the first shot," said the first voice, red hair girl. She was talking to the blue haired girl, her sister I guessed.
"My dearest sister Aine, your attacks cause too much havoc, you couldn't have done the deed any better than I," the blue haired girl replied. I think her name was Aurora which would make the red haired one Aine. That is if logic makes any sense to these two.
"Um, hello? Who are you people?" I said in fear.
"Ha! See even now the target talking to us. This is all your fault Aurora!" Aine turned to her sister, completely ignoring my existence.
"Sister you are too loud, you will attract unwanted attention." Aurora said calmly, without sparing her sister a glance.
"What kind of response is that? Fine! I will show you how it's done!" done fussing at her sister, Aine turned towards me and said, "Since you are about to die, let me ask you, do you even know who we are?"
"...Uhh...I honestly don't know..." I gulped. I got no expression from Aurora and all Aine did was sneer.
"Listen carefully then!" Aine cleared her throat then continued, "I am Aine, and this is my dearest twin sister Aurora, together we are known as the Ragnarök sisters!" she boasted, and not even looking at me this time.
At this point I was kind of panicking, so under my breath I silently muttered my avatar's name. The thing is, In order to use my special powers, I first must be able to summon my avatar and that would drain my mental energy a whole lot. And in order to summon my avatar I must be able to at least say the name of my avatar physically, no matter how loud or soft. This time like always, she responded.
Incoming flame thrower at 12'o clock with range of 5 meters...WTF? My mind reading was accurate and I did see the image, and what I saw was a cone of fire spreading towards me, and burning me to a crisp on spot. As hard as I found that to believe, I believed. After seeing what her sister could do, I was pretty sure she defiantly had some sort of supernatural powers too. And if her ability functions the way I think it does, then I am a hell lot of a trouble. Not wanting to try my luck against a thousand degree human flamethrower and a girl who can summon icicles out of thin air, I am just out of the place. So before they turned their attention back to me again, I was already around the corner at full sprint.
"My dearest sister, he's getting away." I am pretty sure that was Aurora voice in the background, then her sister screamed something else I didn't quite catch.
When I looked around, I manage to catch a quick glimpse of what the two sisters were thinking again:
Ice lance 12' o clock.
I ducked and saw the ice projectile stuck dead on the ground couple inches beside me. I then made a split decision and took a detour away from my house. I wasn't even trying to get to home at this point; I was just simply running for my life.
Fire ball 3' o clock.
I stopped in my tracks at once, as the intense heat of the fire ball seared across my face, the actual projectile only missing inches across my face. Trying to do the best to calm myself I looked around for alternative solutions to solve my short term life endangerment. I didn't have to defeat either of the freaky twin sister that had the power to summon ice and fire at will, all I had to do is get away...
Think, I told myself. Think.
Nothing came up.
F**k.
Plan B, I am going to kite them and juke their skill shots as long as possible until I come up with a permanent solution.
"I found him." came Aurora voice from behind.
"I see him too! " Aine said, making an appearance around the corner. "Just stay still and die already!"
Great now I was sandwiched, with both of them being only about ten meters away from me.
"Die!" they said at the same time.
I assume it's my survival instincts that kicked in or something, I dash towards the nearest wall and I was literally climbing on all fours, and somehow I managed to flip over the three meter wall just in time. But I didn't stop there, without looking back, I continued to run like there wasn't going to be a tomorrow. I didn't even look as I ran across several red lights, came across at least 2 highways. Holy shit, I must have ran a mile by then. And hell was I tired. Looking back again, expecting to see the freakish twins long out of sight...there they are again, just several hundred meters away from me and were both on some sort of motor bike. They were gaining on me fast. I looked around for a quick solution and there was only one. The risk I am about to take will probably make being blasted by a fire tall and penetrated by an icicle seem like a much nicer death. Fifty meters ahead of me was a set of train tracks that ran across the highway, the bars has been lifted down.
Ice lance and Fire ball 6' clock.
If I had ducked just one second late either project would have got me. I watched in horror as the train bars were blown off by the two projectiles meant for me. F*** it. I ran b-line towards the like its touchdown for the nationals or something. As I ran a projectiles flew towards at a rapid non-stop 24/7 rate each of them barely missing me by an inch. When I was only about ten meters away from the train tracks, the train blew its horn so loud, it swear it almost shattered the ear drums of ears. So I closed my eyes and covered my ears and dashed a couple steps forward and leaped. It was the ultimate leap of faith; it was the jump of life and death. A moment later I felt my body touch the ground, but I couldn't feel the lower half of my body...I opened my eyes in shock and looked down at my torso and the rest of my body just to make sure I came by in one piece. It seemed that I did. The train was pretty long so I didn't have to worry about them catching up to me any time soon. But neither did it look like I will be getting back home anytime soon. With a strained effort I helped myself up and continued walking. I read the road sign and apparently if I continued to go down this road I would end up around the borders of Area 6.
Area 6 turned out to be some sort of forest. Not having much of a choice, I wandered a little deeper into the forest, not too deep to the point I couldn't see stuff, but just enough to hide from the weary eyes on the road. A few steps into the forest I found this nice soft dirt ditch I could sleep in. Well I couldn't really ask for more, and I was extremely tired and wore out by then. I would rather die than walk a few more steps, so lying down in the ditch I closed my eyes and fell into the most comfortable sleep in my life.
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