Godfire: The Split Soul-Chapter 162: Do something! Do something!! Do something!!!
With trembling hands, Jinx pulled out her S22 from her bag, dialed Lena’s number, and placed the phone on her left ear.
"Ohh! Why is she not picking up?!" She grew angrier and more anxious as the call rang and rang without an answer.
She tried again, placing the call on the loudspeaker. "Pick up the phone. Pick up. Pick up!"
"Yes," she sighed when the call connected.
She moved and wrapped her right arm around a metal pillar, bracing her stance. "Hello, Lena." She whispered, her tone draining with every impact of the building’s quake.
Just as the one on the other end mentioned Jinx’s name, the network jammed. "Oh shit!" she cursed low, then moved slowly, holding onto tables and pushing herself forward.
"Why didn’t anyone inform me?"
"What am I even saying? Who knew this would even happen? And what is even happening that everyone has evacuated from this floor?"
After a few minutes, she maneuvered her way into the 7th floor. There, she felt a bit at peace when she saw others walking hastily, their bags held to their chests as they all moved toward one direction—the elevator.
"Cassy, Cassy. Why is she not responding?" Jinx felt bad when her only friend in the workplace walked past her without even turning after she called out her name loudly.
Her voice was so loud that even those leading the lady turned and looked at Jinx with surprised expressions.
Meanwhile, outside the building Jinx was in, cars drove hastily, horns turning into seams of thunder. On the street, which used to be as silent as a cemetery, was now a havoc of the dead.
Blood streaked across the pathway like a red river, giving the air a metallic taste. Screams cut across as people moved, stampeding themselves, fleeing from the huge creature that moved like a sentinel.
The seventy-meter obsidian-skinned creature—the Titanaboa—whipped its long and jagged tail onto the storey buildings, crashing them in perfect two.
Shards of glass and metal fell on the street like rain, piercing through those frozen, those hiding in their vehicles, and the little ones that had been left behind by their parents.
After an hour, dozens of people dressed in official outfits exited from the New Industry. From behind them, Jinx slowed her steps when she saw the creature at a far distance, smashing humans under its weight.
Her face turned pale, her mouth widening with shock. "What is that?" she stared at the creature as if she could hear its heartbeat.
As she moved forward, one step at a time, her boss—a man everyone knew to be a veteran—shouldered her and moved toward the creature’s direction, screaming.
The creature, which was staring at the tiny humans in the collapsing building it stood beside, whipped its head toward the screaming man.
"Hey!" the man slammed the two swords together. "Come over here." He repeated the action over and over until the creature tilted its complete attention toward him.
While those fleeing thought they had a saviour, one that had the courage to face the creature, the worst happened.
The creature’s tail whipped the air with a sharp whoosh, smashing onto the man’s direction.
The man gritted his teeth, crossed the swords together, then closed his eyes at the last second when the tail hovered over his head.
Pop.
He blasted, his skin bloating into countless pieces as his blood sprayed onto the ground he stood on and the vehicles discarded by their owners.
ROAR!!!
A loud scream escaped the creature as it lunged toward the New Industry’s direction, where dozens of humans had fled to.
Fifty percent of them stood there, frozen, the man’s last-minute stance looping deep within their heads.
"Move! Move!! Move!!!" Jinx screamed, pushing them one after another when she noticed every single one closer to her locked in their own heads.
After a while, the stampede began as they moved, pushing each other aside. Mothers left the hands of their children, while fathers grabbed theirs and pressed them to their chests.
Smoke burst out from the vehicles as soon as the creature scrolled over them, crashing them beyond recognition.
Its tail whipped those that couldn’t escape from the building’s entrance. Inside the building, others tried fleeing toward directed exit points but were smashed by the falling ceiling of the building itself.
There, watching the humans die like ants, Jinx’s mind reeled with the faces of Lieutenant Gray, Mike, and other people she still held deep within her heart.
"Do something! Do something!! Do something!!!" she screamed, shifting her gaze toward the swords crossing each other in the pool of blood.
Without hesitating, Jinx dashed forward.
"Lady... you will die. Don’t!!!" whispers flew toward her, but her mind was nowhere to listen.
Hands stretched toward her. Insults and prayers swelled toward her as those that had fled under her guidance turned saddened expressions in her direction.
Meeting face to face with the gigantic head of the Titanaboa, Jinx ducked and scraped her knees on the ground, sliding under the creature.
Everyone marvelled when they saw the swift movement the lady had portrayed.
Jolting up and reaching the side of the swords, Jinx grabbed them. She jumped the moment the creature’s body tried to lock her in and pressed the tip of the sword, gripped tightly in her left arm, into the skin of the creature.
Meanwhile, in the nurses’ estate, Kai stood at the front of the main entrance of Lena’s estate, smiling at the dark clouds forming in the sky.
"Who is this kid?" Pablo whispered, peeking his head up and staring at the boy spreading his arms as if receiving a blessing.
Kai closed his eyes, then slowed his breathing as the stormy air flashed around him.
In the darkness beneath his eyelids, the bright smile of his mother’s dying face, Lieutenant Gray’s kneeling form, and the screams of the Western Temple reeled in his mind like a movie.
As the sky completely turned black, heavy rain began falling, flooding the gutters and forming pools on the street.
Different varieties of vibrations drew toward Kai as the faces and the screams in his mind began to merge together.
Wing-flapping sounds streaked past his ears. The smile on his face widened, his blue and red eyes blazing as he stared at the huge flying creatures filling the sky in numbers as countless as the rain.
