Here we go, one more chapter. I feel sorry for the cliffhanger..... but it won't get any better xD

Anyways, enjoy the chapter ^^

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Instantly cutting of my laugh I turn around toward the voice.

"Hi Karif. That is a question I should be asking you."

This might not be good...

If he tells Lane what he saw things will get dicey. Although he's not an innocent lamb either.

Karif just looks at Viktors corpse then back to me.

"Did you kill him?"

His eyes turn threatening. He is a really nice actor I have to say.

"Pfft. Oh come on Karif you think I don't know why all of this happened? You're really underestimating me."

He takes a step back and looks at me in shock. Then he regains his composure.

"Wh..w..What are you talking about? This happened because of not because of me."

"And I though you where smart. When did I ever say you actually caused this. I never did. I just heard you talking to somebody about SOMEONE named ."

Shaking his head his whole aura changes.

"It's really sad that you found out. Now you need to die, you should have kept silent Alex. Blame yourself in hell. ? Bring sie um. Sie hat warscheinlich deine Schwester getötet, nur als kleiner Anreitz."

"At least talk in English I still have a proposal to ma- Guu?"

Something had went along my throat ripping it wide open.

As my blood gushes out of the cut I collapse on the ground.

My vision gets blurry but I can still see man stepping in front of me out of thin air. He bows down to me. I can make out green eyes with brown hair.

"You killed my little sister? You're too weak for that, I dare say you just ran away."

Not answering I simply concentrate on healing that cut.

I stop moving and fake my death while still regenerating.

"Was war das denn? Das kann nicht alles gewesen sein."

It's the new guy talking to Karif but I can't understand them.

"Das lag nur daran, dass du sie überrascht hast."

Fuckers. You're going to die.

I quickly finish healing but because I worked too quickly a scar will probably remain.

"You shitheads, THAT HURT" Holding my throat I jump up and create a hotspot on the new guys back. Luckily he was close enough.

"Was zum?"

He turns around to me.

"How are you even alive? Fine, come here let me finish you off."

"You guys are so annoying. Your sister, if that was her was the same."

Suddenly he disappears but it was already too late for him.

With that I increase the weight of his body.

He doesn't seem to have any way to avoid it.

With a flicker he reappears next to me.

His face turns pale and his whole body collapses into itself. Bones break and blood vessels burst as he gets squashed by multiple tons of weight. What remains is a puddle of mashed meat.

I turn towards Karif. He looks really confused and annoyed.

"Alex? How are you even alive? Did you participate in some kind of project we don't know of?"

Is he for real?

"Karif? Please drop the nice guy act. I know you're with them and that you caused the destruction of all of this. If you really want to fight me then do it now. But since you don't know the full amount of my power it could end badly for you."

"Come again ALEX?!" his arms get enveloped in shadows.

"Do not compare me with that lv 2 scum you just killed, or with his lv 3 sister. My rating is a lie, just as yours is probably. I am one of Arthus new elites. Do NOT mess with me."

Kuuuu

Che. A fight could end badly for both of us. If Lane found out at any point...

Still holding my throat I shrug.

"Let's agree that we both would not come out unharmed if we fought ok? As such it doesn't make much sense to fight does it?"

His shadows creep further towards me.

"Karif, stop, NOW!"

I really do not want to have to resort to using my cells on him.

"Who are you Alex and what is your goal? If you tell me that much I will consider not killing you."

"Revenge. That's my only answer to you, I do not care about anything you do but if you kill Lane I will personally hunt down every single one of you."

I retreat a few steps back so his shadows don't reach me but my fear was uncalled for.

He had calmed down considerably. The shadows retreated back to him and he looked over me.

"Revenge will not be tolerated in our world. But I agree that we should not fight unnecessarily as of now we will not tell anyone from the Raiders about this. But as soon as we have finished the raiders throughout fully we will destroy you."

Che.

"Fine with me Karif, fine with me."

He motions me to follow him.

"Come, fight with the others against . He shouldn't be strong enough to kill every single one of you."

I follow him through the rubble. Then I hear his voice barely audible saying something.

"Er hat sowieso noch eine Überraschung für euch übrig."

"What was that?" I ask towards him. Not even turning around he simply answers me.

"Nothing, keep walking."

We can see them from afar. Different colors of energy flying around everywhere. After jogging another part of the distance Velvet suddenly appears in front of us in skin tight clothing and a ski mask of the same material.

"KARIF, we need you NOW! This guy is insane, we can't catch him and he's dodging all of Lanes blasts. Mikael can't go on for much longer or he'll take the risk of freezing himself."

Karif just nods and turns into a cloud of darkness and rushes towards the others.

After he's gone Velvet turns around to me.

"Holy shit. Alex? Where did your arm go?"

"Don't worry about it Velvet, it got blasted off by their fire esper. Luckily it burnt everything so I'm not bleeding right now. Though the pain is killing me."

I follow my statement up with a moan to make it more believable. While covering my throat with another hand.

"Yeah, I can imagine. Did you get the other two?"

"We did... But Viktor got killed somehow. He wanted to rush to tell Lane something."

Surprised by the information Velvet takes a step back.

"A crap. The only other veteran in the group got killed in a matter of weeks? Lane is going to be pissed. Anyways. Come we should look for a way to help the others, just go towards the end of the parking lot, they kinda went overboard. I need to jump back to them. If you have any way of helping them do it quickly."

With that he disappears, probably towards where the others were fighting.

Haaaaa.

I sight and jog the rest of the way.

Until this point most of the civilians had either ran away or gotten themselves killed so nobody was there to even consider stopping me.

The military will probably get here in a matter of seconds. To be honest I am really confused to why they have not arrived yet.

At the end of the parking lot nothing remained how it was supposed to be. Everywhere small craters showed where different forces had impacted into the ground.

Cars had turned brown-red from rust and green clouds where floating around pretty much everywhere.

In the middle where the concentration of gas was the highest I could spot a figure.

Probably the culprit . Wearing a long trench coat he had hid his features but it was clear that he was male.

Lane and Mikael seemed to be waiting just outside of the most dense spots. Though Mikael seemed very stressed, probably because he had been fighting in his fixed state for too long.

Lane looked better. She even looked more frustrated than anything else.

Velvet was nowhere to be seen but there was a dark shadow on the other side of the cloud, probably Karif.

Then spoke.

"It seems another one has joined the fray., leader of the raiders, how about we stop it right here? We both do not wish for the military to catch us. Even we cannot fight their anti-esper squadrons head on. You must surely know that."

Lane shouted back.

"You think we'll just let you go after what you did?!?!?! You think I can just sit around while you killed so many people? Think about the collateral damage you caused with this?"

Is she kidding?

After looking around for a bit I had noticed a lot of people that had been killed by energy blasts.... And I was sure the little fire esper had had nothing to do with that.

's voice cuts through my thoughts.

"Well I do not care really. But you should be careful. My comrades will be here any minute and even though they might not be the highest level out there they will cause trouble to yo-"

Suddenly a laugher interrupts him, interestingly enough it is actually Karif behind him that seems to enjoy something.

After recovering a face forms from the darkness.

", you might not know it but the took care of your friends. They're both dead."

hmmm? Why is he telling him that...

Then a chill runs down my spine. had turned to face me.

"You killed them? A mere GIRL killed two of my comrades?"

He extends an arm towards me.

"You will die for that."

I hate you Karif, I really do. So he wants to get me out of the way...

Before I could even say anything else rushes towards me. That alone would not faze me, the thing that does scare me a little bit is the fact that the green cloud moves as fast as he does.

I jump back but he too seems to be able to enhance his own movement so he catches up due to his forward momentum.

"Whatever you do , DO not breathe it in"

Che, this is going to be annoying. When fighting against unknown people we have to use the nicknames. Though I think it's stupid since these people probably already know our names.

The cloud envelopes me and my entire body instantly starts to tingle.

He mirrors the movement I had made on the small fire girl and extends his hand towards me.

I want to retreat but my body doesn't follow my orders. My actions feel sluggish, I guess he already infected my body.

Although I am slow I still manage to catch his extended arm with my remaining hand.

"Two can play that game." With that I insert my own cells into him.

He seems to have noticed my doings and instantly backs off again.

Then I realize something about him and I start laughing.

"Wow, really? ? Why do you feel the need to fool us like this? Why do you fight us wit-"

Before I can finish an intense pain runs through my stomach.

"Shut up you miserable daughter of mislead people. Just die."

I collapse on the ground once more. It seems he really is controlling bacteria.

I definitely need some time to recover after this.

Moaning on the ground I concentrate on keeping my inner organs healthy. Sadly my own limbs are not very high on my priority list right now.

As such I can feel them slowly dissolving.

But all of that still doesn't keep me from slowly letting out laugher.

only looks at me in pity.

"You will die soon enough, stop annoying us with this stupidity."

IT HUUURTS.

gah

I cough up blood, not being able to stop all the pain is bad.

Suddenly a bright light explodes in between the both of us.

Of course it is Lane.

"Back off. NOW!"

Yea yea, just play the hero. Fighting this doll will not help you.

In between coughing I look up to Lane.

"You idiot, he's an empty shell. He is somehow controlling bacteria to move it. If his skin gets damaged too much these bacteria will spread with the air, contaminating everything."

Taken aback Lane seems to realize something.

"We're retreating. Guys help out of here. I'll take care of him."

Mikael steps towards me and crouches down to help me up.

"Che. Do not bother . This girl messed with our plans. It seems I have to speed the process up."

Multiple cracks appear along his arms.

"It is interesting that you found out about the doll. But there is nothing more. After the hull collapses thousands of different types will be set free. You will die for slaying my comrades."

He faces Lane.

"And you . Flee with your poor excuse of heroes as you wish to be called. The cloud will move quite quickly. If you try to save her I will make it move faster. Run now little hero, run. Run from the true world."

Then his skin evaporates and his clothes fall onto the ground. What remains is a slightly darker version of the green clouds."

Lane instantly jumps back.

"Everyone scram NOW!!!"

Every single member of the raiders backs off.

Velvet appears and turns towards Lane.

"What about Alex? We need to help her!"

"Damn. We need to get out of here."

She steps towards me.

"I'm sorry Alex. We will avenge you. Rest easy."

With that she hurries away and motions the others to follow him.

Velvet looks at me with regret but quickly jumps away.

I hate you. I really really hate you guys. The cloud envelopes me and my limbs and skin starts to dissolve at an even quicker pace. The burns I had received where nothing against this pain. As such I'm only able to keep my most important organs functional.

It burns. I try to fight the bacteria itself but fail miserably. There are simply too many different types in the air.

My entire body feels like it is doused in acid. My eyes turn blind and darkness envelopes me.

A loop of destruction and reconstruction begins inside of my body.

But I won't give up. Lane has not suffered enough.

I will get out of here.

Pain takes over while I keep repeating the same procedure.

Regenerate, cleanse reproduce.

Regenerate, cleanse reproduce.

Regenerate, cleanse reprodu-.