661- One Year Later

Pyro Junior POV: Age - 622
I walk by the farm on the edge far out of the city. I look at the animals from the distance. I want to get closer but is also nice watching the entire place from a distance. I sigh and leaning down in the grass I look at the sky and smile. Is so beautiful here, I'm definitely staying but my life is unsure right now, unstable. I have to think where I'm going but for now, I'm glad I found my family here. I can't believe is been a year already since I started living with them. So much has happened in this year and all for the best. I got as many suitors as my sisters and dad but none of us have any serious relationship. Victoria focuses on her job as a lawyer more than dates but she hangs out with someone from time to time. Phoenix is a professional surfer and there she has her friend with benefits even though to me it feels like they love each other deeply I don't get why they don't make it official. The twins Stephanie and Tiffany have both a competitive love and hate relationship with their respective rivals on their safety sport work. Blanche, like Phoenix, has her friend with benefits on her rockband. Lily, the eldest triplet, has a suitor but she only sees him as a friend and he's shy too so they just share their astronomy work and knowledge. Lola, the second triplet, is too independent, strong willed and free to tie herself to a serious relationship with her suitor. The youngest triplet, Luna, doesn't has any known suitors but I'm sure she must have some somewhere but she wouldn't, she's a shy girl. Winter is too much into her work and family and herself that she doesn't notice her suitors at all or rather, their feelings for her. The twins, Gabriella and Genevieve are too responsible to settle down with their bad suitors. Of all of them, these two have the very worst suitors but they have good taste and also they're not interested in their respective suitors. Olivia, I think she has the most suitors of all but she's mostly just nice to everyone not really looking for a serious relationship. Then, there's me and my suitors. I notice many girls looking at me but I don't think I have any public suitors. These last month I have been receiving gifts and romantic letters and quotes. I like it but I don't know what to do. If I investigate who my secret admirer is or if I man up and talk to the girl I like. Is hard but I have to do something else I might regret it later in life. I sigh and closing my eyes I rub them before I sit up.
-Oh mother, if only you were here then maybe I could have the courage to pursue my love interest. Faster but still, slow is nice sometimes, right?
I look at the sky laughing at the silence that follows. I get up and stretching I start walking back home. Is long but I am fast and there's no rush, I will make it home in time for dinner. I do plan on enjoying the warmth of the sunset, the first cold of the night breeze coming in and the most fantastic view of all the city.

Once in the city I look around enjoying the sight of people on their every day life. There is a mother chasing down two small kids that run each other to see who gets home first. The elderly couple that arrives to eat at the cafeteria as always. They acknowledge me and I smile in return before we keep going our ways. There is a couple arguing slightly before he agrees with her and she bounces happy. A grandson helping her grandma with the shopping. A group of friends shopping and their matching group drinking at the bar in the other side of the street. I smile and stopping I look to my side to see the best view of all the city. I look inside the window of the hair salon to see her cleaning the store, as usual. I liked her since the first time I saw her and she moves as gracefully as a ballerina and as beautiful as a swan. Her brown hair is tied up in a spiky ponytail today and she's so beautiful. I inhale deeply but it comes out as a bloody cough.
Everything happens so quickly that I can barely process and understand what's happening. Thankfully, my body reacts defensively while my mind catches up. I focus my senses and I almost can't believe my eyes. Him who I once called my friend and whom I trusted like a brother. Him who betrayed me and now wants to kill me. I thought he was over me already but it seems like every time I win to him his desire to kill me grows as well as him getting even stronger than before. Is just a matter of time before I lose. I look up and as I do I realize this might actually be the end, my last win if I manage to win, this is the end. I scoff and evading his earth attack I counter it with a blast of wind pushing him backwards before I stand on guard. I can't attack first just yet, act according to his attacks and counter accordingly as well.
Enemy-So you finally fight back, I suppose that means you'll die fighting with DIGNITY!!!!!
He dashes forward with a punch at an incredible speed that matches my own. I'm annoyed at that but I manage to block his attack but I wasn't expecting him to be so strong. As the surprise fades I turn kicking away from as I jump back even further away from him. His laugh as he attacks again is maniacal. I can only dodge his attacks.
Enemy-What's wrong? Is something wrong? Are you afraid? Or did you really thought I wouldn't be able to find you? Well?
I don't know why but my mind goes back to a childhood memory of us that makes me hesitate and lower my guard.
~~~~~~~~~~~Pyro Junior~~~~~~~~~~~~
Age ~ 15
I sigh as I look at the girls from school as they eat their lunch on the garden of the floor below me. Some are cute, some are hot, others are decent and the one I like............I sigh and as I take a bite of my own lunch I almost choke as someone slaps me on the back.
Christian-Stop suffering and ask her out already. She likes you just as much as you like her.
Having finished my bite I speak.
-No she doesn't and besides, I won't have a girlfriend until I find the one for marriage.
C-Hmm. You're already drooling over the girls at school and you still want to wait that long to have a woman.
-I'm not waiting for a woman, I'm waiting for "The woman" and besides, I have had some women before.
C-Women, just one woman you had.
-That you know. Three women I have had. I'd like more but I'll take what I can get.
C-That's my friend! You and I will have so much fun together. Just let me know when you marry. I'll be your best man for that.
-And I'll be yours. I swear that you can count on me, forever.
C-That's deep but I'm the same. I swear it on my life.
We laugh as we join fists and keep eating and looking at the girls down below.
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He takes the opportunity an hits me right on the left side of the lower abdomen, I act quickly and counter his attack holding him in place and I kick him straight on the side of the neck and using brute force I force him to the floor breaking his arm on the process. He screams loudly but keeps fighting me. My speed and senses allow me to avoid his attack but in the outburst we end up on opposite corners of the street.
I get up instantly as he does too. This time he goes all out attacking with his fire powers. I avoid with my own fire aura technique, slightly angry and annoyed that he actually managed to get powers but the worst is that he had the guts to mimick my powers for himself. A moment of anger blinds me making me attack him with a very powerful blast of combination of blue flames, red, orange and lightning. Is not until I hear the screams that I back away and control myself.

Controlling myself has is toll on me and my body. I'm mostly evading his attacks and changing them so he doesn't harm anyone but the way things happen I'm actually getting hurt and wounded. More than anytime before and I'm quite at a disadvantage. Of course, this disadvantage is only while I find the patterns and get used to his fighting style. Again. Once I find that is easy to create my victory but is hard to make it happen, especially when I'm as hurt as I already am right now. I take a raw chance and along with evading the last attack I sweep a blast of fire back at him. That throws him out of balance and in the end I know I'm smiling, can't help myself. I dash forward and focusing on my hands I make fists of ice and punch him hard. After a few punches we are again on equal ground as we counter each other's attacks.
I kick his jaw to lose balance and then I kick him far from me slamming him into a car. He groans struggling quite a bit to get up and standing straight I keep him on my sight as I clean some blood from my face.
-Damn.
ChristianEnemy-You..............are...............dead.
-This is over already. Don't push it.
CE-This is over when I kill you because you don't have the guts to kill me.
I can't help my frown at his smug smirk grows on his face as he stands entirely. He's right but that might change today, I might kill him. The thought gives me shivers and then I hear him laugh as I find myself high up in the air before I'm slammed back down into the street. It doesn't take me long to realize what happened and I act before thinking for the first time in a long time and I unleash a straight hit with all my power on it straight to him. The blast between us reveals that my attack didn't work, he has a quick defense I must admit.
Once the blast is over I hear him screaming in a mix of pain and fury as he comes to attack me body to body but right now is easy to avoid him and getting harder as he recovers his cool. I start to waver but being in this again I can't afford to make the same mistake again and so I flip myself to kick him a safe distance from me so I can grab my knife. Once with the knife I lunch forward to him. Kill is my intent but my mind and eyes betray me. He smiles as he keeps attacking me and I realize his intent too late, once the knife is somehow in his hand, stabbing me on the left of my abs. We look eye to eye and I can tell he missed my heart just as I missed his but this time I won't miss my target.
I grab his wrist and then his neck and I slam him to the side into the side of a mail truck. He coughs and groans while he tries to free himself with his free hand but I don't hesitate and closing my hand on his neck tighter I keep smashing him into the mail truck. The red stain behind his head grows larger and eventually spills into the ground below.
It is not enjoyable his death. His arm has fallen to his side, his nose and mouth covered with blood that runs down to my hand, his empty eyes without any more life in him and the worst is that he, like me, had started crying. Only that I'm still crying and as the adrenaline fades and my strength loosens his body falls to the floor and I too fall to my knees. I feel the scream getting out of me tightening my chest painfully and I crawl myself over holding my head in my arms and my forehead to the floor.

To be continued............................

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