TF Chapter 83 Radiation

Though, what i had just envisioned didn't happen as the plasma spheres harmlessly passed through the image, which I had already known because of the fact that spiritual powers were practically godly senses that worked at...maybe the speed of light? Anyway, I turned to my side, where I caught the alien standing, regarding the reddish orange balls that were leaving colored traces while moving within the confines of my intent domain. There was fear and terror within those eyes, a great expression to me.

Actually, I had already put a plan in motion. The two attacks that had managed to connect had already helped me secure my win, it was just that it would probably take moments before the alien noticed how deadly they had been, not that it mattered anyway. I had already won!

I just had to keep it occupied until it finally noticed that fact and it sank in. I resisted the urge to smile as that might give me away and cause it to take extreme measures...like targeting Danny and Bora.

I lunged once again, even as my body was screaming at me, every muscle telling me no, we want to relax! I swung my thin plasma sword towards the alien, even with the knowledge that I was probably too slow...easily allowing it to sidestep the blow entirely while also making sure to stay out of my spiritual domain's range. It had finally decided to behave like its brethren on the planet, where its spiritual powers pressed into mine such that it would always know how it was fluctuating.

As I pursued, it slipped, a very unlikely thing to happen which now happened as if by coincidence, allowing me to sever the other palm from its hand causing another guttural scream of pain.

"What is happening? Why am I...no, why is my body slowing down? And my wounds! Why are they bleeding out without closing?"

It had finally noticed. Of course there was no way it wasn't going to notice with that orange liquid that wasn't stopping at all, only increasing instead.

"What? What is happening to me?" It crawled away from me, looking at itself with an expression that was vividly showing horror at its current circumstances.

"Do you know about radiation?"

"Radiation? What's that?" It asked in bewilderment. It looks like even with it managing to gain some information from the humans it had captured over the years, it still hadn't pieced together the entire knowledge of the human race...a thing that caused me to smile. 

Feeling the tiredness and the screaming of my body, I decided to do what any MC did when they felt they were winning, dragging out the end with conversation. So I squatted before it, though, not disabling my defence of spinning plasma balls in case it decided to try for one last attack before biting the dust. 

"Even with all your methods, collecting the entire accumulated knowledge of our species...that which we have taken countless years compounding didn't happen, why, because you have no internet, man!" My grin became wider at that jab which the alien failed to understand, yet I faintly heard Bora's amused laugh. Could it have been my imagination?

"This, the battle, was great...but now, we have reached the e-"

"What is radiation? What is happening to me? Your monologues aren't important!" The alien shouted with increasing terror, and even spittle flew out of its mouth only to be incinerated by my intent domain.

"Explaining it to you would be very difficult as I even have...only some superficial understanding... Just know that the star that is giving this planet of yours light also releases dangerous radiation that a barrier protects you from...and that radiation is afflicting your body." 

After those words, I saw skin starting to peel with the origin being the wound.

"Bora! Danny! Don't come any closer!" I shouted when I felt them approaching.

"What does it all mean? I don't understand anything!" 

"Just know that your body is going to break apart piece by piece, then degrade into just a puddle of liquid, with every cell unravelling from its peers as if ripped away!" I tried to be vivid with my description.

I watched as liquid bubbled out of its mouth, with its head lolling to the side, where vomit came out in the form of a waterfall. The sound of gas coming out of its rear also entered my ears at this point before I felt some particles trying to enter my spiritual domain that were incinerated upon contact. Diarrhea had set in, even as its skin continued sagging and tearing away from its body. 

The disgusting way it happened caused me to stand up and move away. This was an opponent I had defeated. Before, I hadn't been taking my intent seriously, but now, seeing this, I was scared for Bora and Danny. What if one day I lost control?

Fear gripped my heart and squeezed with such force I almost passed out. There was no way I would wish this on any of them and also, this place had just become a taboo location, a place where no one was supposed to come by again. As I imagined someone stumbling upon it in the near future, becoming contaminated and the dying...I simply failed to stomach such a scenario.

I turned around as the alien heaved its last breaths, which came out strained and whistly. I had decided that I wasn't going to gaze upon it ever again, so with an effort of my feet, I moved away from it, splattering the mud. Our battle had managed to drag us back into the gloomy, almost lifeless part of the forest. 

Apart from its constructs, there had really been other critters within the part that had semi-dried soil.

At the very edge of my vision, two figures started blurring towards me, their faces failing to register for me as my consciousness started to fade around me. Was I tired? Could it be that I was so heavily injured I didn't know? 

I had all those questions within me, which bubbled into nothing as I felt my cheek contact something wet and cold.

               ***Bora***

Two hours had already passed since that battle and we didn't dare to go to that site. 

Radiation!

That one word was enough to scare the hell out of us. After the tragedy of Japan, Earth had never been inundated by nuclear bombs, but our generation knew well enough what could happen due to the many accidents that happened in space when a person was exposed to the sun's radiation sometimes. Such stories made the news very often, with the large companies being taken to court every now and then.

If this was Earth, the area would have been quarantined, yet here, only the three of us had any knowledge of this place.

Anyway, my trail of thought was going somewhere weird, so I decided to gaze at that which was in my lap...Nathaniel's sleeping face that was...grudgingly handsome. The man had been cool during the last moments of the battle, something that this hovering fly and idiot that was Danny, could never pull off.

For some reason his face, his short hair, his peaceful face, his fluttering eyelids and that smile that said, "I am having a good dream." Everything about him was vivid, vibrant...in a way I had never noticed before!

"Hey! Don't hog him!"

"Danny!!!" His interruption actually caused a flash of rage to color my thoughts. For a moment, I contemplated clawing the skin off the man's face. I swear, one of these days I will kill him!

"Don't tell me that you suddenly gained the expertise needed to take care of him. Did you?" 

I loved it when he looked away, squirming because of the fact that my words had hit a metaphorical nail on his head. He was the one who had practically dumped the task of me nursing Nathaniel back to health on me a while ago.

I moved my gaze away from him as the sun was proving to be too bright for my eyes. We had moved into the tree tops, having found a secluded corner devoid of any sort of life that would require battling.

I was aware of a certain fact, something that had been the reason that I had just snapped at Danny. A heat was rising from my thighs, the area where Nathaniel's head was resting, invading my entire body with a passion that threatened to undo my intellectual persona. For some reason, my thoughts were on his handsome face, his large hands, his cool fit body, and the various ways we could fit together. 

I lowered my head, causing my hair to cover my face as I knew that I was most definitely blushing furiously. Me and relationships hadn't had any times together, so this was the first time my body and mind were betraying me, pining for a guy, and not just any guy, but one almost twice my age!

Like a startled faun, my heart leaped to my throat the moment his eyelids fluttered open. Those brown eyes threatened to draw me into their deepest dark depths, and the sheer passionate heat that coursed through my veins made my breath come out warm. There was this impulse that almost took control of me, to lean down and kiss him, but I shook myself out of it.