We dashed through the streets, adrenaline coursing through my veins.
My thoughts were all over the place.
How the hell did she get caught?
She'd always been so careful before.
God please let us make it out of this.
I swear if we make it out of this I'm going to rip her a new one.
We made a sharp left turn into an alley, hoping to cut her off.
"Do you know where you're going?" Shaun asked me, panting heavily.
I ignored him and continued to sprint down the alley way, praying we'd get there before they did.
We quickly turned out into the streets from the alley way. And I saw her sprinting towards me.
I looked at Shaun, "You don't have to stay. You can go, go find others. I'll get us out of here I swear."
He looked at me determined with a malicious smile etched into his features, "What the fuck dude? Do I look like some pansy bitch? I've been wanting to try out my abilities for the longest time."
Adria ran up to me and grabbed my arm, "Come on, we have to get out of here!" She screamed.
But there was no way in hell we'd outrun them, more than likely they already had reinforcements on the way. Our only option was to fight.
I smiled at her, "No time Ri, we're gonna have to fight this one out."
I looked towards the men who were running at us so gracefully, they looked to be floating. Arms flying lazily behind their backs, dark trench coats tailing them. The blades in their holsters glistened in the early morning's sunlight.
It was easy to tell these weren't regular men, these were professionally trained government Hunters. Normally they just let civilians handle the rag tag Kinetics.
What the fuck did she do?
I looked at Shaun, "Don't hurt them, just stall them long enough to get away."
I looked towards the sky and raised my palm, concentrating as hard as I could.
My eyes glossed over as a spiral of dark grey storm clouds began to form. Rain began to pour slowly at first, but, as I began closing my fist, the rain began pound the earth down, with no sign of weakening.
I heard the screams of the civilians who had joined the Hunt as Shaun began shooting small balls of white blazes towards them.
I would've backed off with the rain, had Shaun's ability been regular Pyrokinesis, however, he controlled Holy fire, a bit tougher to be extinguished.
There was absolutely no reason for me to back off.
I raised my other arm and summoned winds strong enough to blow over an oak tree. I felt Adria's small arms wrap around my waist with a death grip and Shaun's muscular hand grasp my other arm as he continued to throw his Holy Fire balls and the wind picked up speed.
I then tried something that was quite rare for me.
I summoned a lightning bolt.
I instantly regretted it as my aim was off by a bit and struck fairly close to us, which disrupted my concentration, causing the storm to get pretty wild. I then registered Shaun's panicked screams.
"- getting closer we have to go!" he shouted over the wind. I looked at the damage we'd caused.
White blazes were covering a, now dead, hunter, multiple people who'd decided to join the chase were laid unconscious across the road from the brute force of the storm.
At least I hoped unconscious.
I took all of this in as the howling wind nearly deafened me.
There was no way in hell these men would be letting us go after this.
I looked up at a group of reinforcements, now running at us in the same graceful manner as their partners had before they were taken out.
"Adria, I need you to stop them so that we can get away!" I yelled over the raging storm that only seemed to be getting angrier.
She looked at me, fear in her eyes, "I can't" she yelled. "I can't hurt them, please don't make me." She seemed torn, and as much as I hated watching her be torn between her morals and our lives, I have my priorities.
I can fix her broken spirits. But I can't fix two beheaded friends.
I grasped her forearm, "It's us or them." I yelled over the screech of the storm overhead.
She looked at me with redrimmed hazel eyes, her tears undecipherable from the raindrops assaulting her face, and nodded.
She then looked at the group of, now seven, hunters fighting against the storm to get towards us.
And then one screamed. An agonizing, blood curdling scream that would make a grown man piss his pants.
I looked over at Adria to see her irises a a deep red. The colour of blood.
Her eyes then pulsed as the others began falling to the floor, convulsing and screaming. One began to bleed from his eyes.
I gripped her shoulder, "Adria that's good, let's go."
But she didn't stop.
She only tilted her head with an expression that held all of the pain that our kind had endured, that held the last cries of those the Hunters unjustly and brutally murdered, with no remorse.
It was then that I realized why she tried to avoid her ability. Why she was too embarrassed to even speak of it.
Because she couldn't control it.
It's easy to start a kinetic, but turning it off is a completely different story. Especially when you have only used it a handful of times, let alone not at all.
I covered her eyes with my hand, hoping to disrupt her concentration, and felt an intense burn travel up my forearm. "Fuck!" I shouted, yanking my arm away as quickly as possible.
"Give me your shirt!" I yelled at Shaun, trying to get shake the pain out of my arm. "Use your own damn shi-"
"Give me your fucking shirt!" I said, venom lacing my words.
He quickly took off his shirt, mouthing words that I couldn't quite decipher.
I looked towards the sky. There was no way we'd get away in this storm.
I looked towards Shaun just as he threw his shirt to me. Tying it around her eyes, I watched as the men stopped convulsing and only lay there, breathing heavily.
I looked towards the sky, hoping to have enough energy to calm the storm. My eyes glossed over yet again and I watched as the grey clouds slowly began to dissipate back into it's array of morning colours.
However I didn't stop there, we needed to make sure the Hunters wouldn't follow us. So, with my eyes still looking upwards, I summoned a fog.
I grasped Adria, who had still yet to come through and was now fighting against the cloth in an animalistic way, and Shaun as the fog continued to thicken and sprinted in the opposite direction of the Hunters.
If we weren't fucked back when they had us in the middle of the street, fighting for our lives, we sure as hell were now.
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