Chapter 1: CHAPTER I: ALL IT TAKES IS A SINGLE SPARK OF FLAME
In the second month of the year 2022… a middle-aged, 172.72 centimeters tall, brown-skinned woman embroidered in glowing yellow tattoo, with long braided black hair, wearing a black tank top and a khaki cargo pants, and apparently possesses enhanced physical abilities is in a skirmish with a handful of extraterrestrials who somehow managed to breach the arcane barrier protecting the Southeast Asian border district in the city of Vogelstadt.
The woman is, somehow, slaughtering the intruding extraterrestrials one by one. Her skills in hand-to-hand combat combined with her raw physical prowess, inhumane strength and furious attacks effortlessly annihilated five of the extraterrestrials. She thought it was already done, until a space rift came out of nowhere and two homing sickles towards her came out of it.
She caught both the sickles by the handle, preventing its fatal hit onto her, then throws it back to the space rift where it came from. But right after she throws the sickles back, it's not even far from her when another extraterrestrial dashes out of the rift, grabbing the sickles mid-air, then swinging it towards her in just a split second. The woman felt goosebumps by the extraterrestrial's speed and agility; fortunately, her reflexes were faster as she immediately jumps back to evade the ripping sickles.
"You're one fast asshole. I guess you're the last but the biggest one." The woman said. The extraterrestrial appears as having a pale and muscular body, at least nine-foot-tall, wearing a skull of a goat as its helm and a pitch-black cloak. It has a lower body similar to a hoofed animal, wielding two scythe-like sickles, and a claymore that she thinks belonged to someone she knows. Considering its show of speed and agility earlier as well as its appearance, the woman is a bit overwhelmed and has a bad feeling on how their fight will go.
Even so, the woman charges towards the extraterrestrial as soon as it charges towards her as well, fighting each other for real this time. The Southeast Asian woman appeared to be Dolores, who at that time happened to have taken the responsibility of being Banoy's adoptive mother ever since she evacuated him in the city in the year of 2015. Whereas also she fulfilled his wish ever since then to enhance and train him with the same martial art she practises… until that day.
Banoy, already in his juvenile age, focuses on helping the people evacuate around the area of the destructive skirmish. In his normal, physically fit, adolescent human body; he managed to make the other extraterrestrials knocked away so they wouldn't get in the way of evacuation. His seven years of training with Dolores seemingly paid off.
Meanwhile, Dolores is still in a heavy skirmish with the extraterrestrial and as the fight goes on… she's starting to think that their capabilities are not even on par and the longer it goes… the more she's getting bested. Nevertheless, it doesn't seem to matter to her as long as she buys enough time for the citizens of the Southeast Asian district to evacuate to the neighbouring district.
Wounded and bruised all over, she is ready to give everything she's got at that moment and also sacrificing herself at the same time. Concentrating all her power in her right fist for a final but devastating attack, the extraterrestrial charges towards her then striking her fist as soon as the range got close to it. Unfortunately, the attack of hers knocked it away but it only stood up right after, as if the impact didn't have an effect on it.
That's when she realises that subduing the extraterrestrial is beyond her capabilities so she decided on sacrificing herself by making herself explode. Apparently, Dolores is one of those the world calls "human anomalies" whose existence was exposed when the invasion happened ten years ago. Wherein those kinds of people, including her that hold insane physical power and arcane abilities, were forced to come out of the shadows in order to save humanity from an unexpected catastrophe.
Dolores' special ability is that she can absorb heat directly from the sun and from radioactive elements. The absorbed heat can be then converted as her own life energy and once activated, it enhances her physical abilities to the point that she immensely transcends the physical abilities of a normal human. Her abilities not only can make her sixteen times stronger, faster and more durable than any ordinary human being; but also gives her the power of channeling destructive and incinerating attacks directly from the sun's heat and radiation.
She calls her abilities in the language of Tagalog; the "pusong-araw" or in English; the "heart-sun", considering that she controls the circulation of the absorbed heat into her body through her blood stream, pumped by her heart. Using the batok traditional tattoo, which serves as a medium or spell of controlling her abilities; which embroidered her chest, arms, back, neck, thighs and knees the day she suddenly obtained her abilities. Hence, the tattoo serves as an inhibitor that suppresses the destructive and self-destructive capabilities of her power which any holder, including her, their human bodies could not fully withstand without any form of inhibitor.
Nevertheless, as soon as she realised that she can no longer fight the intruding extraterrestrial, considering that the extraterrestrial can withstand the force of her abilities, she decided to make herself explode by focusing all of her absorbed heat to her heart. Thus, it will cause a cardiac arrest but a powerful one, the absorbed heat will burst out of her body releasing a solar wave incinerating her body and everything around her within a certain radius.
The extraterrestrial, on the other hand, is gathering lightning using his halberd. "Astonishing… How admirable! You're already the second of your species that gave me a hard time killing. I wonder how much you have been through to be that strong, you must've suffered a lot, let me make that easy for you." Dolores chuckled and said, "Yeah go fuck yourself in wherever you're fucking from, alien."
"Very well, then. I presume you don't know who I am, it's a huge disadvantage not knowing anything about your opponent." The extraterrestrial replied. "Not that I really care, but who the hell are you?" Dolores said as she scoffs.
The extraterrestrial, while channelling lightning using his sickles, replied, "My name is Baphomet, I am an annihilator for the Xyazarian Empire and I was brought here to kill you and every human related to you, or simply just in a close proximity to you. Their blood is in your hands, for they will haunt you even in the afterlife for failing to protect them." Dolores smirked and said, "Nice line, bonehead. You must've spent a lot of time thinking about that."
Unexpectedly, Banoy arrived in the middle of the skirmish. Meanwhile Dolores, dismayed to see him, scoldingly said; "What the hell are you doing here boy?! I told you to evacuate with the others?!"
"I thought I might be of help..." Banoy said. Now Baphomet, as the cunning opportunist and sadist he is, directed his lightning-coated sickles towards Banoy in order to enrage Dolores. Banoy is frozen in place as he is terrifyingly overwhelmed when the grotesque extraterrestrial dashed towards him while its sickles pointed at him. He closed his eyes, accepting his fate. However, he's still alive enough to open his eyes, but the next thing he sees is Dolores near in front of him.
Dolores, coughing blood while kneeling on her left knee, smirked and said to him; "You really are an adamant motherfucker, aren't you? Well… *she pats Banoy's head* That's what I like about you, boy." She firmly touches Banoy's left shoulder with her right hand and said, "This shithole of a city might need adamant motherfuckers like you. So don't stop, kid… resist everything!"
Banoy then realised that the sickles that are meant to impale him, impaled Dolores instead, thus, she sacrificed herself to save his life. Immensely devastated by what he just witnessed, he agonisingly went insane, seeing the closest thing to a mother he's got—get killed in front of him.
Baphomet pulls out the sickles after impaling Dolores' back across to her chest. Then proceeds to kill Banoy next, "Why don't you go follow her so you won't suffer the trauma of mourning her death for the rest of your miserable life?" Banoy, brimming with despair, replied; "You know what? You're right. This world can fuck itself right up to its core for all I fucking care!"
However, as Baphomet is about to impale him, his surroundings, that is the Southeast Asian district covered in flames and crumbling concrete, suddenly turned into a serene seashore in front of a beautiful sunrise. Greatly confused, he thought he's already in the afterlife… until he saw a 213-centimetres tall, muscular, body embroidered in tattoo, brown-skinned man with long black hair, no top clothing, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, red pants and wooden sandals while carrying a net full of fish and a harpoon with a huge fish impaled in it.
The mysterious fisherman puts down his fishing net and harpoon as soon as he saw Banoy and approached him. The man patted his head, sympathising as he seemingly knew what he just went through his whole life. "It must've been very difficult for you, to the point that you don't even know that you've been desiring it. No one can blame you for your desperation. Now, lend me your palm." The mysterious fisherman said.
Banoy opens his right palm, the mysterious fisherman then pulls out a dagger and put a small cut on his palm. The mysterious fisherman cut his palm as well and said, "By this blood pact, the power of the Minokawa is yours, which means that you're now the scion of Apo Laki and of those who came before you."
Back in reality, he sees the whole Southeast Asian district completely decimated. All of the establishments, mostly the residential ones, are burning and crumbling down. Turning it into a wasteland. He watches everything burn while the cold body of Dolores is lying beside him and the incapacitated and unconscious body of Baphomet in front of him.
He hasn't noticed because of the excruciating wrath he feels; but his eyes are glowing bright orange, the same tattoo that Dolores had is seared around his body, a menacing but at the same time melancholic aura is emitting from his body and wondering why his throat is aching, then realising that he is deafened by his own agonising scream—an agonising scream to the extent that he would retch out his own lungs. Due to this devastation, it cost him his sanity…
…then all of a sudden, he woke up on a couch in an apartment unit he is unfamiliar with. He wondered for a second, thinking that he might have had a hard buzz. But he hadn't drank anything, even water, all day until it came to him that he slept mid-work. It ascertained him when he saw the middle-aged bald guy, with his hands tied up with a rope, his mouth gagged with his own wet underwear and body filled with bruises in front of him.
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