Slowly Hilston started to walk over to the group, he was a large man bulked with muscles on top of muscles. With each step he took into the sand, his feet would sink in, and there wasn’t a bit of fear on his face.
The kids, and the chained, stood there behind Vorden, who was actually currently Sil. He had given them all hope, led them this far and was waiting for him to act. To get over this last hurdle. The only problem was, if this was a hurdle, then it was one that reached the clouds. Something impossible for any person to jump over.
Suddenly, Sil switched, and the seat was left empty, for a second the body was about to give in and fall over, but at the last second Raten took control.
"What are you doing?" Vorden asked Sil as he stormed off and had headed back to his corner with his head between his knees.
"You wanted to save these kids right, we brought them here, and now is our chance. If it’s me or Raten, we don’t stand a chance, but maybe with you we can do something." Vorden pleaded.
But Sil ignored him completely and continued to dig his head into his knees.
"It’s useless," Raten said. "We’re on our own with this one. I imagine he still hasn’t gotten over what happened before, but Sil, this is where me and you are different. You see, if I was you, I wouldn’t be sitting down sulking, instead, I would be filled with rage at this bastard who did all of this to us!" Raten said, charging in.
The kids didn’t follow, but the three or so chained from before did, although as they got closer, this wave of energy that sent shivers down their spine had hit them. It made them slow down their pace, eventually causing some of them to stop midway in the sand.
Raten had felt it too, and perhaps he would have done the same. The intimidating aura would have stopped him in his tracks, but he had felt a power similar to this once before. One in the vampire king, and the other, in a man named Arthur.
Because of these two experiences, he wasn’t as affected by it as much as the others.
In the end, only Raten and another were able to make it to where Hilston was standing.
"Oh, you still move, impressive, but it’s a shame that even now he refuses to come out in a situation like this," Hilston said and all of a sudden he was behind the Chained who was positioned behind Raten. When he turned around, the man who came out and charged in with him, was on the floor dead.
Raten hadn’t even seen what happened.
’An ability, instant teleportation, it will be a tough one to deal with.’ Thinking this, he activated the invisibility.
Taking just a single step, Hilston already hit him right in the gut. It was a strong, powerful blow that sent him up in the air.
"The sand is the worst place for that ability, I can see your every move," Hilston said, looking up.
Raten’s hands started to glow green on the way down, then the energy moved to his fingertips, firing five lasers out. Thinking he would avoid a single large blow, Raten went to at least hurt him by making more.
Moving his head slightly to avoid the lasers hitting his eyes, he allowed them to hit his forehead and arms, but nothing but a small little black mark was made.
’It did nothing, an enhancement ability?’
While thinking this, another punch landed mid-air, rolling him across the sand.
"Damn it!" Raten shouted and coughed out blood onto the sand. "Can I really do nothing?"
With his eyes barely open, Raten could see a small figure off in the distance, and it looked to be running his way. With his last bit of strength, he lifted his hand and fired out lasers.
Hilston knew they weren’t going to hit him, so he just continued to walk forward, allowing them to miss. But the lasers were never meant for him, they were meant for the small object in the distance.
"Brother, do you not want my help!" Borden thought as he was ready to charge in and take on the man at the risk of his life, but every time he took a step forward, a green laser would be fired at him.
Borden was a bit hot-headed, but then the words of his brother rang through his head.
His family would never kill him, it was clear this man had the ability to, yet chose not to.
Listing to his brother’s words, Borden made the hard decision to leave Vorden and run back into the jungle. The plan and mission was a failure.
Now Hilston stood over Raten.
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