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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9--( The Abyss : Futility )

'' Let us run, time and time again

You've been told that there will be nothing to gain

I feel the souls that hover in the air.

They said this way something comes near.

They howl for they have been wronged and promise to me that I shall meet their fate.

There will be a beast of thing and it would not be late.

They said this way something comes near.

Man's bones will heap and heap and heap and heap and heap and heap and heap and heap and heap till they block the sun.

Man will freeze and there will indeed be nowhere to run

Yes, this way comes a boy. He who dances to the cosmic tunes that no man can hear. Humanity will not escape his reach. Those who refuse worship will be massacred.

There will be no hiding place.

They said this way something comes near.

He stands before you and you should not make the mistake of stare for you will be turned to a bleeding ape.

Here he is. He will lead us all to the Waste Land. To the endless void that it emerged from.

They said this way something comes near

He will inflict upon you a Stygian dementia.

Men and women will scream in hysteria and rip first their hairs and then their own skins, till they are indeed stripped to the bone.

While children will murder each other in a madness never seen before.

They said this way something comes near. ''

" Fire ", Ghazul said telepathically to Orange 5.

He was reluctant. Not quite understanding what he was looking at. It was something man should never try to challenge. Indeed nothing was to be gained to stare at the abyss.

" Well what's the fucking hold up Orange 5. You've been given orders to engage ". Roared another one of the pilots from the telecom who was already flying to the area as back up.

" Copy ".

He looked down so his eyes wouldn't bleed out then he pulled the trigger and fired the machine gun.

The dome heard the first attack. A jet machine gun. Rippling throughout the day just when the civilians were starting to get comfortable.

Daisy screamed and held on to her father.

Meanwhile Tess was anxiously hiding her fear.

" It's okay Daisy. The heroes will keep us safe and if they don't Daddy will protect you ".

A light panic ensued inside the dome.

The machine gun rattled against the Abyss. It had no effect. Bouncing off his fragile looking skin like small pebbles. There's nothing fragile about that thing. Even its white gown was not torn

But he wasn't dancing anymore.

The second pilot has just reached the destination before firing numerous flare missiles.

The smoky explosion caused the ground to tremble.

" Direct hit. I repeat the target is hit ".

The smoke cleared, the land where he stood was now a depression of ash and yet he was unharmed.

The abyss Fiends stopped walking and turned towards Orange 5

It leaped the ground, the sheer force destroying the concrete ground on which it stood sending a shock wave mile around that shattered windows and fell buildings.

Before Sam knew it he saw a small yet ominous hand reaching for him. It went through the bubble canopy ( the glass that pilots see through ) causing shards of broken glass to stab the pilot and it grabbed the him by his neck.

Then and there the pilot Sam. He saw death : White eyes that reflected nothing but an infinite and endless need to cause despair.

The hand on his neck squeezed hard, killing him instantly then he was flung with full force bouncing off the canopy of the second jet cracking the hard glass and leaving a stain of blood.

" Jesus Christ ", The second pilot said trying to stop his plane from crashing into the top of another building.

He succeeded and the only thing on his mind from then on was to run.

It was foggy and the rain had no intention of letting up.

So of course the second pilot couldn't see Sam's Jet being flung at him.

He died instantly. Both planes were destroyed, colliding and crashing causing a massive fire mushroom that brightened the dark.

The Abyss fiend stood on air. Its silhouette owning the dark sky. Waiting for the other jets to come to him. It flew as if the sky itself was its dominion.

A child with bright yellow hair, he had no iris or sclera and indeed he had a face more beautiful than angels. A face no human boy would ever be born with.

He stood alone looking up at the cloud. Well aware of what was coming.

Three more jets heading towards him from behind in a triangle formation..

" Fire ".

The large missiles hit the target and left a large ball of dust where he was flying.

It was a direct hit, one that was all too futile.

His back was still turned to them. As if they weren't that much of a threat.

In a few seconds those men would be dead.

The Abyss head twisted, the back being were the front should be. Twisting even more than an owl for it's head twisted twice.

They saw the face of bloodshed.

Its neck, covered in the wrinkles that came with the grotesque head turn.

It's mouth gaped open long and wide that it's chin rested on his ribs. Teeth black in all their unholiness.

Then a bright yellow light blocked all sight.

That was the last thing they saw.

It released a beam from its mouth that destroyed all it was directed at.

The beam cut through the sky itself, dividing the thunder clouds. The sun shined for the first time on the bodies of the massacred.

The light coming from the sky was indeed beautiful.

It was as if Fate was trying to hide the events that would happen here.

If not why try to isolate the rest of the world from the destruction that ensued. Something it did rather well with this sickening rain.

But that's all the Sentinels needed. He's expelled enough Archaic energy that they can pinpoint him. The real battle was about to begin.

The first to act was of course was Otis Draven.

He ran fast. Towards the direction he sensed, cars bouncing off his body, his feet causing deep marks on the ground as he ran faster than any man made object causing a trail of debris where he stepped. He leaped once covering half a mile then another that caused the whole ground to rumble.

He leaped far and saw the Abyss class Fiend. It was in the form of a young blonde boy wearing a white gown.

When he landed on the ground, Otis made sure to announce himself

" Here lies your defeat Fiend!"

He immediately appeared behind it and punched the abyss Fiend mid air sending it crashing through many buildings in a line of smoke.

With each loud bang and earth shake, the people in the dome embraced their loved ones harder.

Otis landed on the burnt ground with a feeling of triumph.

He looked to the Fiend. It sat up and stared at him as if waiting for him to realise what had happened. He saw on its mouth was a hand, his hand. He looked to his left and indeed his fist of justice was gone.

Torn by it's black teeth.

Yet he hid his pain and fear. He tried to regenerate the hand but it was pointless. All he could do was stop the bleeding by closing the wound. It's attacks neutralised regeneration?

How frightening.

The Fiend sat up and swallowed his hand whole. His blood staining it's fair face.

Most high ranking sentinels can see weeks into the future at will. The 5 who were posted here all knew of their fate. None of them saw anything in two weeks.

They wouldn't survive this.

The future a hero sees is not always accurate but that didn't matter. They weren't looking for hope to survive, they were looking for resolve to fight till death.

He still had one hand. He clenched his right fist as hard as he could. He was ready, he was ready. No fear. A hero does not fear. Otis does not fear.

" Aghhhrrrrr ", Otis screamed.

The Abyss rose up inhumanely, skipping the part where it helped itself up. One second it was laying on the floor the next it was erect.

" Come oooon!",

Otis charged fast at the Abyss, punching wildly with his one fist and pounding with the other. .A flurry of anger and resolve, knowing it was all pointless but trying anyway because that's what it means to be a hero. Punches strong enough to split the grounds bounced off the child like body of the abyss.

They were like pebbles.

The fiend was unbothered by the flurry of punches. It raised its hand to the skies, its palm open and its fingers bent.

Then it descended its hand with the force of a meteor.

When it hit the ground it caused a large shock wave that reverted throughout the city instantly turning large buildings to dust.

Otis was luckily saved from certain erasure by his comrade Jai Leven, rank 13 but it was at the cost of Levens Leg.

His leg was erased from existence. Just erased.

Like Otis he tried to regenerate but could only stop the bleeding. They looked to themselves.

" I've lost a hand ", said Otis in a smile.

" A hand? I've lost a leg "., replied Jai. Then the two of them burst into laughter.

After that they knew what they must do, when you've fought so many battles together you don't need to speak to each other during wars. They knew their death was imminent but they would fight till the end.

Leven the blood user conjured a long narrow sword he gripped with all his might.

He raised it to the sky and swung it down creating a slash powerful enough to divide an island.

The Abyss met it with a palm strike. It used an open hand to meet the strike and it erased It away. As if the cut just vanished.

It was in the manner you swat at a fly.

Otis ran to the side of the creature hoping to find a blind spot. He punched the side of the Abyss small body yet it didn't even budge.

It grabbed his neck with its little hands.

Its grip was so strong," Kghh". Otis was gasping for breathe.

He struggled with all his might to escape is grip but was futile.

Just as Otis neck was about to be broken, Jai Laven conjured massive blood spikes from the ground that pierced the creature and took it almost a hundred metres into the sky.

But it still held on to Otis and staring at Leven with those plain white eyes and it broke his neck anyway, the twisting so violent it almost ripped his head off along with his spine.

Otis was dead.

" Nooo!".

Jun Seo Rank 12 was the third to arrive. He moved as fast as he could and blasted the creature with a light beam of concentrated Archaic energy.

Hoping to decapitate it.

The Abyss lazily used its palms to deflect the beam which was redirected to slice a skyscraper in half.

The Abyss has the power to erase and deflect things with its hands.

It let Otis body drop to the floor and broke off the spike from its stomach. There was no damage.

It disappeared and before Leven could react it was already behind him, its hands inches from his face before a large metal bar landed on hit. Any second latter and he wouldn't have a head.

The bar was tall, reaching above the clouds.

Gregor Vale had arrived along with Helena Vallis.

Now the full on battle began.

Ghazul meanwhile watched on, knowing full well none of these heroes wanted him to interfere.

Silence in the face of death is forever short lived.

The metal cracked. The Abyss was emerging.

Four of them remained, ready to die if it meant killing the Unholy creature before them.

This was their calling. This was their final calling.

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