333 Calm Rage, Calling Forth the Omnious Omen (1/2)

Day 54 - 11:16 AM – National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help (Baclaran Church), Redemptorist Road, Baclaran, Parañaque, Metro Manila

Light entered through the disintegrated roof of the church. The whole church was literally divided in half as the walls and the roof where the beams of light passed through formed holes and lines.

Aimee did not expect that to happen and she did it by instinct due the overflowing emotions she had. When she saw that her tentacles were boring holes everywhere in the church and not only the enemies could be hit, she forced her tentacles to fire the beams in one direction and pointed the tentacles upwards. That was the cause of the divided walls and roof of the church. She only meant to save her child and did not want to destroy the church.

However, what was done was already done.

The only thing she could do next was to search for everyone and her child, wrap them with her tentacles and bolt out church as fast as she could. Fortunately, she found everyone she looked for easily because of her numerous eyes. That was except for the captured Aephelia. She could not find the leader of the enemies either. She wanted to look for Aephelia but there was no time left.

Debris started to fall causing clouds of dust and more destruction. The church would not hold out any longer.

CRUMBLE!

BAM!

With the walls first, the church started to turn into a pile of rubble.

Aimee grabbed everyone even leaving their things inside the church and bolted out of one of the largest holes on the wall of the church. However, her speed was slower than the speed that the church started to crumble. Because Aephelia was gone, the Alpha Infected stood on place without moving. Aimee tried to take the Alpha out but the infected was too heavy. Without any other choice, she had to leave it.

As for the other large guy, Chaflar, it already spread its wings and flew out of the roof after seeing that Aimee already had everyone. Of course, since the church was already crumbling, the smart dragon did not hold back anymore. It blew a huge burst of flames incinerating a lot of the remaining enemies that were also fleeing from the crumbling church.

Aimee managed to get out safely with everyone. She looked at the state of the others with relief on her face. It was fortunate that she did not shot them with those beams by mistake. Among the little girls, Iola and Miracle were fine but Abbygale seemed to have received a bruise on her right cheek and right arm after being blown away by the enemy leader. All the [Blood Children] were like the way they were before the battle. As for Karlene and Edzel, the two were also fine aside from being covered in dust.

They watched the church crumble and became a pile of debris. Even they already escaped the church, they still ran away further in order not to get caught in the cloud of dust that scattered.

Still, there was no sign of Aephelia or the Alpha Werewolf.

At this time, Miracle, Iola and the [Blood Children] looked up to the sky.

””Papa! Mama!””

The two girls called out as they saw two figures flying towards them in a hurry.

***

Mark frowned at the scene of the crumbling church. When he saw that them outside the church, he sighed in relief but his frown did not vanish. It was because he could not detect someone.

Together with Mei, the two landed in front of the group which were immediately greeted by the embrace of the little girls.

”Is everyone alright? Where's Aephelia?”

Mark asked.

At his question, he saw everyone's expression change for the worse.

”We don't know.” Karlene replied. ”We saw her got captured before the church crumbled but we didn't see her afterwards. Even the guy that captured her is gone.”

”Tell me, what happened?”

Hearing his question, Karlene summarized what happened while the behaved girls waited their turn to supplement other things.

While listening to the story, Mark's expression started to turn calmer and calmer. Angry? Yes, he was. He was too angry that he became too calm instead.

He turned to Abbygale whose right cheek and arm was reddish. It was too obvious on her skin that was like of a porcelain doll.

”Did they do this?”

Mark said which the girl nodded. He patted her head as gently as possible and let out a gentle smile.

”Don't worry. I'll punish them for you and take back your Aunt Aephy.”

Mark turned to Aimee and Karlene.

”Find somewhere else to hide. This place is not safe anymore.”

He then turned to Mei.

”Mei'er, you stay here. Treat Gale with this. Karlene know how to use this.”

Mark gave Mei a pouch he had on him which contained plastic medicine bottles containing the [Regeneration Medicine] he got from the military in Quezon Province.

Mei was also mad about what happened especially when she looked at how badly Abbygale was bruised. Aside from Mark, the only ones she cared for the most were the three girls. Seeing that they were injured and were subjected to great danger was making her feel that she could destroy a whole country.

However, Mark was right. She needed to treat Abbygale's injuries first. What the girls needed the most right now was the security a parent could bring them and she was the only one that could give it to the three right now.

Mark watched the group hurriedly leave the area. There were infected that were already drawn to the commotion but with Aimee and Mei around, they should be fine.

He turned to Chaflar was still sweeping across the air searching for any survivor of the enemies to burn alive. However, it could not see anyone else anymore.

”Chaflar!” Mark called out. ”You will come with me. We're going on to save Aephelia. But first…”

Mark's eyes swept the area. It was not like there was no one anymore among the enemies left here. They were just hiding.

”It's useless to hide you bastards.”