Chapter 268 - Sometimes Life Hits You Like A Truck (Part Two)

The second one didn't quite attack me. I took a step forward and it took a step back. 

It also roared and the rubble from around us started forming around it, making a makeshift barrier. 

At a glance, it almost seemed like Mom's power to control everything around her. But unlike mom, it probably couldn't use that power to attack, not that it mattered now. And this thing's control was fairly weak. 

I sped up significantly and just slightly behind the barrier, slammed a mini plasma ball. Now that I used the plasma ball often, I could form small ones in a mere instant. 

A blast resulted and I was inside its makeshift barrier. 

The black thing didn't have anything on its body. Just a streamlined, black body that absorbed all light around it. Kind of like a black hole. The eyes were like holes inside holes and the mouth looked like their skin tore when it opened it. 

The poor thing couldn't believe it that I was inside the barrier. 

"What, surprised?"

It didn't even have time to make a retaliation, as it stumbled. 

I kicked the damn thing hard and held it beneath my feet.

All the rubble dropped. 

"UARGHGHGH!" It again screamed, struggled, scratched my foot. 

These things were mostly black, almost like the shadow inside me. And these had rather sharp fingers and purple eyes. But- these were good for only one thing. 

Death.

Thrust!

I thrust Gramps's sword straight through its skull. 

It screamed, it screamed way too loud. 

Blood splattered. 

No more movement. 

"I doubt with this kind of movement they gave you trouble?" I said, looking back.

The sun was setting and it was about to get rather dark soon. 

"Actually, they were much faster before." Mom was checking everyone's wounds. "They're significantly slower now. And it wasn't this one."

I looked up, the geezer was still up in the air and he was doing something. 'So that was your doing, geezer.'

Anyway, there was another one remaining. 

And that one wasn't attacking but just looking at me, carefully. Aria had it cornered. But it sure didn't look cornered. 

These things had intelligence. 

And at the very last second, it tried to run. 

'Too bad.'

I formed a baseball-sized plasma ball, threw it, and then run straight for the Kin.

If the ball missed, I'd still reach it in time. 

But the ball didn't miss and an explosion resulted. 

I blocked the flames with my hands. No time for barriers. 

And when the flames cleared, I caught up to the Kin, chopped its head off. It happened in an instant. The geezer above us probably had some sort of binding ability. 

With the three dead- my thoughts slightly calmed down. 

But- "What happened here?"

Mom was still checking everyone's wounds: she was almost done. "There was another one." Mom paused. "That one is headed over to the academy. It did all this," she said, reluctantly. "Everyone lost to that one."

And I had a feeling mom didn't want me to go over there but- "Is everyone okay?"

"They are, apart from your father. He's the most injured but he'll live. I guess- he shouldn't have exerted himself but- Elsa was in danger and-" And mom grit her teeth. "I've failed as a mother." 

"You haven't mom. You were still standing even though you have nine broken bones, you haven't." I breathed hard. "GEEZER, I leave the rest to you." There were more black things around but- "Can you do this?"

The moment I'd come here, I checked everyone with my X-ray vision and I knew, most of them weren't that heavily injured apart from father. Since mom was standing, I didn't look at her with X-ray vision. But- but- I should have known. Mom was injured way beyond what she just made it out to be- and yet- she was standing for our sake. 

I should have known…

I should have known she was my mother- and the woman who sacrificed everything her whole life for my sake. 

I just should have known!

"Sure thing kid. Easy enough."

'Without making this barrier go, outside help won't come…' I took a launching pose, flew up in the sky with blazing speeds, and like a cannonball, flew straight for the academy field.

And I dropped like a cannonball too, creating way too much of a mess. 

There were students on the ground, even teachers. People were running around with first aid kits. With so many injured, it wasn't enough. 

It was almost like everyone was under some form of mass hypnotization. 

Bam!

Boom!

Thud!

There were all sorts of shockwaves in the distance. 

I couldn't see that well but- I ran for that. 

It took me a minute but I'd reached the field right in front of the headmaster's office. 

The sun had set and the artificial lights were lighting things up unevenly. 

There were exactly eighteen black Kins, and one purple one. And standing in front of all them was just one man- The headmaster. 

I'd say he was holding pretty well. He was bleeding too much though. However, he was only dealing with the black ones while the purple one was just standing behind, looking pretty. 

'So that one?'

That one was the only different one and- 

Since they were nice enough to stay in a group and pretend to be a target- I formed a large baseball-sized plasma ball and let them have it. I also erected a barrier in front of the headmaster to protect him from the blast. 

Boom!

There was a large boom and I almost took out half of the place.

Most of the black ones were injured and they were about to drop with maybe one more attack like that. The purple one, however, wasn't affected. 

"That purple one is mine," I said, as I walked past the headmaster.

"You sure, those are the commander types. They're-"

"Come back when you're not bleeding."

He almost chuckled. 

I breathed a deep breath. My body again started to steam and I just moved forward.

It didn't matter if the black things were coming my way- those didn't matter. I just cleaved whatever came my way in two. But without the geezer's help, things were exponentially harder.. But these things were injured, so things balanced out.