107 My aunt wants to kill me (1/2)
Part 1
Ellie found herself in the middle of the city.
She looked around and saw that the whole place was absolutely destroyed. The streets were completely empty with not a single person in sight.
The buildings had fallen on each other like a pack of dominos and debris was spread all over the ground. The sky was drenched in red and a tornado of darkness could be seen on the horizon.
She was completely alone and shaking her whole body trying to make sense of the situation. The last thing she remembered was being stuck on a building that was catching fire and being surrounded by some kind of silver blur while her aunt was passing out on the floor.
That was when she realized something.
”Aunt Evie!!!”
She remembered that her aunt had been completely trashed by a little girl with ponytails and weird eyes and was probably gravely injured right now. She started to panic and began to run around the city screaming trying to find out what happened with her.
”Aunt Evie!!! Aunt Evie, where are you!!!??”
She kept running and screaming until her body couldn't stand any longer and decided to take a small break to catch her breath.
She then decided to take another look at the city.
”What happened here??”
She couldn't understand how the situation became like that. The city was completely fine when she entered the restaurant, but now it seemed like a meteor had crashed into the town.
”Who...?”
She then heard a voice coming from behind her. She turned around and saw a weird figure covered in a dark red cloak. The face was covered with a hoodie but something about this figure sounded familiar.
Ellie tried to speak to it.
”W- Who are you...??”
”...”
The figure came closer and stared at Ellie for a few seconds then moved its hands to remove the hoodie and show its face.
”Are you lost, little girl...?”
”Aaahhh!!”
Ellie was in shock. The person in the dark cloak was her aunt Evlin.
”Aunt Evie!!! I was so worried!!!”
”Aunt Evie...?”
Ellie hugged her aunt with all her strength, almost making both of them trip and fall on the floor.
”What happened to you? Why are you wearing a blanket? Why is the city like this?? Why- Agh!!!”
”...”
Ellie wanted to keep asking questions but she saw something that terrified her and almost made her faint. She had seen her aunt almost every day so she knew exactly what she looked like, but something was really wrong with the way she looked right now.
”Why... Is one of your eyes glowing...???”
”...”
Evlin then moved Ellie away from her and took another look at the girl. Ellie realized that Evlin's usual green eyes looked very strange right now. One was glowing with a very unnatural tone of green, very different from her aunt's usual color, while the other was brown for some reason.
”Ahh... That's right... You're stick-girl's niece... Sorry, my bad... Been a while since I last saw a living human...”
”W- What...? What are you saying, Aunt Evie??”
”Sorry kid, there is no ”Evie” anymore... Right now, I'm a whole new being.”
”What??”
Her aunt started to frown her face, looking really annoyed.
”Ah... This is such a pain... Humans are such a pain to deal with... Every time... All of them...”
”Aunt Evie, why are you talking like this?? What's going on? What happened to the city??”
”Oh, that? I was redecorating... Did you like it?”
”Wha... What? You did this??”
”Yeap! Look!”
Evlin then showed both her arms and some kind of energy started to surround them.
Ellie observed as small grains of sand started to gather around her aunt's hands and begun to join together to make some kind of object. Before she noticed, the sand had finished gathering and Evlin was now carrying a pair of swords on each hand made of stone.
”Alchemy!”
The cloaked woman then said this word out loud and the stone swords began to change their composition. Evlin's swords were now made of red diamonds.
”Aunt... What are you...”
”Just watch kid!”
The energy surrounding Evlin's arm started to swirl around her swords as if they were being ignited. Ellie tried to look at the energy and realized that it had three different colors. Silver, green, and dark red.
Both swords looked like they were on fire charged with that energy and she proceeded to swing them on the street. A massive wave of power was then unleashed, slicing the ground in half.
The wave continued to move until it reached a building and created a huge explosion on contact.
Evlin rested one sword on her shoulder and looked at Ellie.
”Pretty cool right?”
”...”
Ellie fell on her knees as she saw her aunt completely destroying the city and realizing that she was in fact the one who caused all this.
She looked at her aunt one more time and noticed that her eyes were constantly changing color from silver, to green, to red. The same colors as the wave of energy she just released and the fire surrounding her swords.
”Who... Are you?”
Evlin grinned and answered her question.
”I'm Myriad... Myriad, the living weapon! There is nothing in this world that my hands cannot destroy. Nice to meet you!”
”What did you do to my aunt?? What did you do to aunt Evlin??”
”Evlin? She and I played a small game... A little gamble to see who could come out on top. And sadly for her, she ended up losing... So now I'm enjoying my prize!”
”Your prize?”
”Yeap! I got the one thing no one ever managed to obtain no matter how much they tried...”
Myriad started to spin around and unleashed several more slashes of her sword over the whole city, and any building that was still standing began to fall as well.
She finally stopped spinning and released a wide grin towards Ellie while flashing her terrifying eyes.
”I got her power for myself!!!”
As she said that, Ellie started to notice several creatures rising from the ground. Beasts that resembled different animals and humans merged together as if they were put inside of a blender.
”Aaaahhh!!!”
Ellie began to scream in terror and started to run away, trying to escape from this reality.
”Boys! Time for lunch!”
Myriad gave her command and all the creatures started to chase after Ellie.
Part 2