章節 1: The first day of Marlinian Calendar
17th Oct 2091, Gregorian calendar. 01-01-0000 The Merlinian calendar.
Kolkata, India.
The day was an auspicious one. It was the day of my marriage. The schedule was hectic for both me and my wife, but everything went well other than a strong gust of wind followed by an earthquake in the middle of the marriage ceremony. Late at night, we retired at our flower decorated room. We were in a relationship for more than five years so we were already over the phase where we need to have sex on the first night. But contradictory of our decision, the moment we entered the room she charged at me.
I am part of the local parkour team, it will be hard to sweep me off my foot. But she did it. In a moment she was no me, kissing my nape before I could respond I felt excruciating pain on my shoulder. Even if it was love a painful cry escaped my throat. I pushed her way but her face scared the shit out of me.
The left side of the face had turned into stone, the eyes were milky white, blood was dripping from her mouth. Her hair started to fall off her head as I pushed her away. She was too strong, trying to bite me without rest. My instinct overtook my body as I put both my leg between us and kick her away. She was thrown from the bed and crashed into the wall. It was lucky that the wound wasn't deep.
"Mayuri what are you doing?" I shouted. But it was loud bang outside the house that diverted my attention from Mayuri. Mayuri or whatever it is didn't miss the chance. With a growl, it pounced towards me. I rolled off the bed. But Mayuri's weight was too much and she crashed from the first floor to the ground floor along with the bed.
I looked through the hole only to see an unknown beast on her four, with the body made of stones it was trying to jump up through the hole. If it was not for the torn up white grown I would have never suspected that was the one whom I love.
'Did she turned into a beast?' I don't know it was too much for me or not, but I couldn't understand the situation I was in nor I was feeling any emotion. But it was one of the boons also the curse I have. No matter how dire the situation is I am always calm. What surprised me more that Mayuri or the beast whatever it was, was not sane.
Otherwise, it would have taken the stairs. I looked outside the window only to found the hell that was developing there. Mayuri wasn't the only one nor she was the only type. More than one had caught fire, some even turned liquid and of course, there are some who looked exactly like Mayumi. 'What is happening here?' I screamed in my head.
"Ahhh."Another cry caught my attention. It seemed like the wind was too violent around the man. More wounds appeared on the body of crying one before silence fell.
'Wind, fire, water, and earth. Is this a game? This was like the novels sister read. What about other? Is my family all right?' I took out the phone and called uncle and aunt one by one. They must have reached the home by now, but nobody answered the call. I called my sister, rather cousin next.
"Hello, brother? Are you ok?"
I sighed in relief. 'Thank god she is safe.' "I am fine what about you?"
"I am at the uni. Are you with mother and father? I couldn't get them on phone. Please tell me they are safe." Her voice started to crack. I could understand she was holding herself back.
"Don't worry they are fine." It was a spontaneous lie, "Stay at the uni I will be there soon. Don't leave your room, don't open the door. Hide, I will be there as soon as possible."
"No brother don't come…" Them phone escaped my clutch as Mayuri stone beast lunged at me with full speed, crashed through the window and dropped from the first floor to the street. Lucky for me that the roadside hedges were able to cut my fall.
"Uggh" But that wasn't enough to stop me from coughing up some blood. The beast isn't that dumb. But that wasn't time for me to praise the beast. The beast headbutted me and broke my nose with ease. It was intended to repeat it but my only workable hand was in the way. When I tried to push her away unbelievable thing happened. The rocks on her face started to fall off, her light brown skin started to recover. At the contact of my hand, the left side of her face recovered along with her left eye that recovered its pupil. It wasn't just her face her emotion too. Looking at my bloodied face she broke into tears. All her effort of getting some words out of her throat was in vain.
"Kahss Maae." That was not something understandable but the effort made her bleed from her nose. She closed her eyes on me.
"Even after beating me half dead you are still shy." I kissed her. That was the best kiss of my life. I could feel the energy was spreading throughout my body from her lips. I don't remember how long I had remained like that but when I opened my eyes she turned into stone again. But not the beast but a stone statue. I was preparing myself for the attack but that never came. Her eyes were still close. I don't know whether I was paranoid or something but I felt that she was blushing, was expecting the maiden's first kiss, but she didn't move.
All of sudden it became painful to breathe, it was harder to look at the face of the stone statue, my breaths became ragged. Tears started to fall as I closed my eyes.
"Let it be just a nightmare. Let me wake up again and kiss her, let me see her once more and hold her in my arms…" I didn't remember what I was talking about at that moment neither how long I did that but when my sense returned to me the tears at the side of my face had already dried up. I took a deep breath and caressed her stone cold face once more but it crumbled. Mayuri crumbled on me like a sand castle.
'It's not the time to lie down and lose more of them.' With a resolute mind, I sat back up, out of the sand coffin. I entered the house again went to the second floor to look for the phone. But it might have been crushed under her foot. I searched little more to find Mayuri's phone and dialled for Aria.
"Sister Mayumi, where is my brother? My call got disconnected, Is brother with you? Is he okay." Her voice sounded hoarse, there was multiple missed call on the cell from her. She must be worried.
"I am ok" I didn't know when but even my voice was heavy.
"Sister…"She was quick-witted. A small sign was enough for her to understand the situation. She broke into tears.
"Calm down. It's not the time." I shouted. "Where are you? At the lab or the dorm?"
"Lab." She was trying her best to control her.
"Fourth floor, right wing?"
"Yes."
"I will be there within a few hours. Don't let anybody in."
"Okay."
"I am going to cut the call."
"Brother…" The voice was painful to hear.
"Don't worry, I will be ok. Don't worry about anything just eat something and keep yourself hydrated."
"Huh" Hearing light nod of obedience I cut the call. Time is essence right now. I opened the wardrobe and put on the safety gears. If it was simple parkour I wouldn't have put anything on. But the time is different now. I put on the knee guard, elbow guard and the other that I didn't touch in last 5 or 6 years. I even put on the helmet. Before coming out of the house after putting the snickers.
The distance between her uni and my house was about ten kilometres. I run in the marathon, do trekking, rock climbing along with parkour, but I never did any combat sports. I was not sure about my offence but when it comes to my legs I am more confident to get the job done. On top of that, I don't have any way to combat those nature freaks. All I could do is hide and run.
But God wasn't on my side, to begin with. The moment I put my leg out of the house, disaster stuck. An earthquake occurred. It could surpass the scale of 7 or 8. It continued for a whole two minutes. If I a moment slower I would have been buried under the rubbles of my house.
But what happened next was more devastating. The road cracked right in front of my eyes and one part of it went up almost 8 meters. In the few moments of the earthquake, the whole topography in front of my eyes changed. But it posses little to no obstacle for. Within a few moves, I reached the top of the road. I didn't notice till now but the bite wound at the shoulder, also my broken arm and nose were all fixed up. Before I could be happy about it a bizarre creature charged at me.
It was an ox for sure but now the skull and the curved horn it was burning in green flame. It had a black body with fiery green cracks all over it. I dodged the charge at the last moment and the ox fell on the other side of the road. But the troubles weren't over yet. Sothithing dit my ankle. A scream escaped my throat and that was a wrong move. Before I get myself out of its jaw all the other freaks came running towards me.
The one bitting my leg wasn't that heavy, I jumped off the road again. The freaks came to the edge but couldn't find me anywhere. I was pushing my body along the steps to hide from their view.
It might have been a cat but, now one could say it is a ball of ice. A thin layer of frost appeared on my ankle. My feet is my only weapon and I couldn't lose it. As I hit its head it let my ankle go but its ice fur stood as the spikes. It came again but with a kick, it went flying.
I inspected the wound and found there was none but my ankle was different. Both of my malleoli had turned into brown crystals. I checked my other leg and it was the same.
"Am I turning into a freak too?" That was my extreme fear right now. But there was nothing I could do about it. I had to hurry, I had to rescue her before I lose my sanity.
10 km is not a small distance and on the top of that, I had to move with caution. Several times I had to take long detour even in some cases I have to wait before those freaks moved. The biggest obstacle that was standing in my way right then was a hanging bridge that was over the river Ganga. There were other bridges here and If I had time I would have taken other bridges but time was the thing I was lacking most. And the reason for my hesitation was right in front of me.
The type of bridge that got most effective in an earthquake is a hanging one. Right now even a bike might not be able to pass through the bridge. Most of it had already fallen in the river Ganga and at the middle, only a few skeletons of the proud bridge remained. The only good thing was if one is steady enough he could pass the bridge easily.
Rather than taking straightway that was infested with freaks and burning cars and other debris I climbed down by the side of the bridge. Thousands of time I had used this bridge and I know that the path was used to maintain the bridge. The good thing was there were no freaks here but the bad thing was I had moved while hanging down from the railing. It took almost an hour to cross the bridge. The uni could be seen from the other side of the bridge. There was not even a kilometre away from it.
"Brother" I felt the wind whispered in my ears. I looked around but found nothing, not even a freak was nearby. "Brother, this way" A chill ran through my spine. I took care of her every need from the age of six, there was no way in hell I could hear it wrong. A fear enveloped my heart.
'Could she be turned into a wind freak?' I looked around and there was still nobody. I moved into the shadow, took out the phone and dialled her number.
"Brother move from there." She screamed through the phone and my body moved on my own. The pain enveloped me. I looked down to find I was bleeding from my belly.
"Listen to the wind."
"Where are you now?"
"Just do it. I am at the dorm." She was shouting, "Just listen to the...JUMP." My body moved on its own. In the middle of the jump, I could see shadow spikes were coming out of my own shadow. I looked at the cell and the call was off.
"Go to the right. Run." With the wind whispering in my ears, I ran like crazy.
"Jump" ."On the left", "duck", "roll to left", "step back" the orders continued for quite a while. Soon I didn't even know where I am. But the wind continued to lead. It was hard but somehow but I was able to escape the chase of the shadow mice. The wind didn't take me through the front gate. I had to around and climb the wall over 10 feet high before entering the uni premises. The situation inside was surprising but it was different from outside.
'It is one of the top institutes of the nation after all.' Rather than hiding in fear they were actually fighting those freaks without hesitation. Their movement was organised, though most of them were not expert, the experienced one was helping others to proceed without problem. I want to talk to them but the wind stopped me. Without anyone noticing I slipped out. Even before I could open the door, it opened and a girl of small stature jumped into my arms.
"Brother I am scared."
"Don't worry there is nothing to afraid of as long as Rex is with you." I took her inside and closed the door.
章節 2: LET THERE BE LIGHT
"So it is just because of one experiment of that Ranald guy?"
"Yes, it was Dr. Ranald Lovov." Aria explained the reason for the sudden changes. "He theorised it more than 15 years. But the Royal Society rejected his thesis. His theory would have shaken the understanding of the science. So…"
Looking at Rex's confused look Aria smiled and explained in simple term, "To begin with there is no way one could produce fire without fuel and oxygen. But that is according to the basic theory of science. Then he said one could do it if one had the particle name, 'Magion.' Not just fire one could create anything at the expanse of Magion."
"There is no way for something like that to happen, right?"
Aria smiled, "Everybody thought that too. But look outside what Dr. Ranald had theorised is true."
"But how can that happen out of nothing?" Rex might not know much about science but he was sure that there was no way that a particle started to exist just because somebody said it.
"It existed from the dawn of life but what we lack was the catalyst that was needed to energise the Magion. Dr. Ranald had said the key to unlocking it, is called Kakiye. Mana in English."
"So this is just magic?"
Aria shook her head, "The experiment went wrong. And from the look of it, there was a chain reaction and the mana contaminated the…"
*Knock Knock Knock.*
Aria stopped talking and put her hand on Rex's mouth to stop him.
"Open up." The voice was quite dominating.
"What do you want?" Aria asked.
"The director had ordered us to look for the survivors. Open up."
Aria tensed up. Looked around the room one last time before opening the room.
The moment she opened it 3 men forced their way in. Aria stumbled back, was surprised by the action but shouted, "What are you doing?"
"She is such a cherry beauty."
"Let just inform them that, there is no one here. She mu…" He wasn't able to finish his words before he was punched in the face. "She is quite sassy. I like her. Give her to me." The height difference between them was too much and punch wasn't very strong either. The big man held on to her hand as he said.
"Dude you are bleeding." Blood trickled down his nose. But the last one wasn't interested in that. He said with a lusty smile, "I want her too. But you can go first." The big one who was holding on her hand pushed her into the room. Her struggling had little to no effect on him. The other two came in behind and closed the door from inside.
"Honey you have to depend on someone strong as me, otherwise it will hard for you to survive. I am mer…" Another punch stopped him in the middle of the sentence. But it wasn't Aria, but Rex.
He was hiding outside the window, holding on to his temper. The moment they closed the door he moved. The punch wasn't soft. Not just his nose twisted, even his front row teeth were broken. The big guy was angry, was looking for the offender but Rex had already moved from his position. There was one thing that no one could compete with him that was his movement. The moment he landed the punch on the big guy he moved, twisting and dodging the one in the middle and give a hook on the jaw of the last one. His punch wasn't strong but a hit at the weak spot along with the essence of surprise, it was effective.
The last one fall on the floor with his eyes turned white and was foaming from the mouth. The middle one was the first to react but it was already too late. Rex kicked at the back of his knee. He crushed on knees just to receive next kick at the neck. Something that no one had expected happened. The neck snapped, his body slumped on the floor. Never in the dream, Rex had expected something like this to happen. But Rex didn't notice that at the moment he charged towards the big guy who was still in shock from the punch. Next punch was right at his solar plex. No matter how resilient one be it will be hard to stand up after receiving such a punch.
At the end of the day, Rex's punch wasn't that strong and he was staring at Rex with fear.
"This is my sister and you are trying to touch my sister? Who do you think you are?" He kicked at rib of the guy who was already had fallen on the floor. Rex had already lost his sanity, continued kicking him until, Aria cried out, "Stop it brother, please stop."
Only then Rex came back to his senses. The sense in front of him even frightened him. He didn't dare to ask about it.
"Brother!" She called, Rex turned to see that she was looking at his foot. His foot didn't have a single amount of flesh from the knee down. Even if one ignored the blood spot on those it was not something natural. His legs had turned into crystal, brown crystals up to his knee.
Blood had been drained from his brain, he was feeling light-headed. 'Could it be I am turning in those freaks too?' The fear enveloped him. But it was not alone, with fear came determination. 'I can't show it to her.' Rex gave a big smile and said, "Don't worry, I am okay. I can control it. I am still sane you know." He didn't know whether she believed it or not but she nodded her head.
'I have to take her to the home.' Rex sighed, "We have to move now. If others come, it would be a big problem. There is still an hour before the sun rises, we have to move out before that."
She didn't say anything grabbed her sack with a nod and moved. Rex grabbed the doorknob and asked before opening it, "You can do that thing with the wind right?"
She nodded.
"Then use it as a guide" Rex was curious about that thing but this is not the time to ask. "Keep 10 to 20-meters distance between us." seeing her nod he opened the door looked at both sides and moved towards the stairs.
"Go up." The wind whispered. Rex was surprised by the command but did it nonetheless. The moment he climbed it two people walked up. But lucky for them, they went another way. Rex moved down the stairs and continued to follow the command.
"Yelp!" Rex was surprised by the whisper. "Are you ok?" Nobody answered him. Rex turned back without hesitation. But, "I am ok. Go left."
"Are you sure?"
"Left." Rex nodded and moved. The building was too big, it took some time to come down. "Come here quick," Rex said as he reached the wall.
"No, go. I will take a different route."
"I am not leaving without you." Rex was fixated.
"Don't worry she is here." The voice was not too much away from Rex. With the voice, fire lit up around him. There were 8 people. Two fireballs were burning on the hand of one. It was magic. Though there was fire he wasn't like those freaks, the boy was controlling it. Some of them had a weapon, some were bare handed. The one who was talking wasn't as the young one around him, he was actually quite old. But he had some authority.
"Come with us if you want to live. Otherwise, that girl won't…" Similar to the previous situation Rex didn't wait for him to end his sentence. With the crystal leg, his burst of speed was enough to crack the concrete under his feet.
But unlike last time his hand was stopped an inch away from his face. The man staggered back but it was Rex's hand which was bleeding.
"To left." The moment he moved according to the instruction an arrow plunged into the ground. A smile appeared on the face of the old man, seeing the failed attempt he was about to say something but before he could say it Rex had already left his vision. A moment later the whole area plunged into darkness.
The old man realised what just happened but it was too late. He put up his defences again. Every moment a kick or a punch fall on the barrier he can feel it too. But that wasn't all, he could hear Rex was fighting others at the same time. He could hear the wind blew around him also felt that the wind was becoming moist, but he couldn't see a single thing.
On the other side, Rex was in a similar situation but the wind started to whisper the position of other, Rex was attacking one by one while kicking the barrier around the old man. For the first few punches, it hurt but more he did it less pain he had felt. Before long he could feel cool energy was spreading through his body. His speed started to increase with each use and the strength too. There was only one left other than the old man and the girl who was holding Aria.
All of a sudden the wind almost shouted "RUN".
Tough surprised he did it. A huge amount of arrows rained down from the sky went straight through the concrete like butter. The tail of the arrows was burning in blue fire.
Rex looked around in surprise. There was more 20 people were present, now encircling the whole area.
"Even now you couldn't follow the simple command." The voice sounded with authority from the side of the old man. Rex looked into surprised that this was a person he actually knew about. He is one of the top scientists of the nation and also the director of the institute. He was already awarded the highest civilian honour. He never expected him to be here, on top of that in such a getup. He was wearing a hooded rode with a unique design. What was more surprising was that he was holding an orb that was shining in the same blue colour as the tail of the arrows.
"Wow, you are a new type. How did you able to become like that?" The director looked at Rex when he asked. Even Rex didn't notice till now but his body was shining with the blue fire. He could see the reflection of the fire on his own body. His right hand, half of his chest and the bottom half was already turned into crystal. Though he couldn't see the colour under blue fire, it felt brown.
'I don't have much time left. I have to get her out of here before…' His resolution got stronger. He didn't notice but his body was glowing in brown hue as he moved. He moved towards the Aria. But just before he could reach her she vanished.
"Aria, where are you?" He screamed top of his lungs but neither Aria nor the wind answered. He could understand who was behind this. Without hesitation, he moved towards the director but the old man moved to stop the attack. First punch fell on him, the result was same but the old man was surprised.
'Even with Director's aid, he is able to push me back? How strong he actually is?' He put all of his mana to energise the barrier of the front. Rex second punch was even stronger, on the third, the old man coughed up some blood. With the final one, the barrier cracked like glass and the old man was sent flying.
Rex didn't spare a single thought to the old man and moved towards the director. He punched. But there was a bright smile on the director's face.
The punch stopped an inch away again, but there was no barrier. Rex felt the pull was from behind and turned. The blue fire was wrapping his body like a sticky rope. He felt he was chained to the ground.
"You are strong, not something we have seen before. It would have been a shame to put you down now. They would have loved to put you on the table. Alas only if you had chosen your side with more care."
Rex couldn't understand what the man in front of him was talking about. His strength was leaving the body. It was becoming harder for to breath.
'Mayuri was first now Aria too, I failed to save both of them. Forgive your weak brother, Aria.' That was what he wanted to speak out but his lips had already turned into the crystal so did his left eyes. He closed his right eye. Was it regret or in sadness nobody knew but a teardrop tickled down on his crystal face. He turned into a crystal statue.
"Brother."A loud cry broke the silence. The Director looked in surprised to see that he was unable to control the Magion around the area even with a high-grade control orb. The mirage that he had created to hide the girl shattered right in front of his very eyes. The girl was shining in bright white light. Her hairs, her skin, even the veins underneath it was shining in bright white light. It was morning even before the sun rose as a light pillar shot up into the sky.
"How that can even be possible? An Omega!? An omega has appeared on the very first day. I have to inform…" He was murmuring when the pillar of light broke what appeared out of came an angle, with six pairs of wings, hovering in the middle of the air, bathing in the pure white. Even the sun that just appeared behind, was paled in comparison.
"LET THERE BE LIGHT."
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