THE AWAKENING: BIO-GENETICS-Chapter 120: Guilt

"Keep riding Sand and don’t stop!" she said her tone laced with seriousness, her eyes changed to her bio-genetics ones.

Sand froze at her words as he felt her weight off him from behind.

In a panic, he turns in slow motion, his heart slamming loudly in his eardrums and his breath-taking prolonged.

"HANKA!!!" he shouts.

She was up in the air, shooting at the Kaijus with her gunbelt to buy them time.

But then about three jumps up at her at once.

The wire sticking to the Hellhound was pinned off due to the force, and Sand caught it, his cheeks stained with tears, not wanting to let go. Due to how thin the wires were, they cut his hand, but it wasn’t the pain that was his focus. He had to hold on no matter what. What else could he do other than that?

Hanka smiled and she pulled the wire off his grip, knowing very well the Kaiju would catch up to him if he kept holding on, she didn’t know what came over her to do this, but she knew he would have a high chance of surviving, she was always a softie, to begin with, or maybe she chooses death than to live in this hellish world, she could only pray silently in her head to meet her parents in the afterlife. The Kaijus were already devouring her like a hump of meat.

Sand’s body went petrified, watching the gruesome scene play before his eyes and being imprinted in his memory like a mark. The wind carried his sandy hair up revealing his dark brown eyes red with tears.

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"Still replaying it in your head huh?"

"My roommate got eaten... I couldn’t do anything because I was far away if I had the will I would have changed it, but there was nothing I could do, we lost a lot of our friends today... she was my best friend, the first I have ever had,"

"Before Black Storm Day, before this nightmare, I didn’t play well with others... but Hanka, she was different. If only we could have ridden together, then I would have protected her," she adds as the tears fall on their own accord.

"You should have protected her,"

"You should have been the one to attack the Kaiju’s that moment... while she rides"

"She’s only dead because you let her go".

Sand’s eyes quivered, the words drilling deeply into his head, each echo stabbed a pin deeply in his chest. His breath grew unstable. His heart slammed a loud beat at every word. His wide eyes shaking vigorously, he turned facing forward still mortified by her words, his brain shut off all thoughts and actions, and all he could do was replay Hanka’s death scene in his head over and over again, like a movie on the play, that could never be paused.

Her words she said to him loud and clear.

"It’s your fault" she added faintly but he heard her loud and clear.

Raiden was at the window in a corner, his blood weapon which was a sniper gun pointing out on a small space at the window, the body of the gun creep with red lines which were his blood, his bio-genetics eyes evident, his right eyes peeking from the binocular on top, due to the enhancement he was able to view a much far distance, he studied the environment swamping with Kaiju, he also used the opportunity to search for Asano but he couldn’t pinpoint her hiding spot or the rest, they were well hidden just like them.

’Asano, please be okay’ he thought with worried eyes. He was scared and his mind raced just for her sake.

"Raiden!" Haya yelled, turning to him.

He was snapped back to reality. ’Shit! I forgot,’ he thought, quickly turning to Haya.

"The Kaiju are 150 in number here, all scattered," Raiden said.

Haya read his lips before turning to face Ten, still engrossed in analysis.

"150 in total Ten, after hours of checking, they don’t seem to be more than that," Haya said.

Ten’s typing actions stop abruptly, as his eyes widen.

"That’s it!" He hissed but not too loud to attract Kaijus.

His intelligent green eyes land on Haya.

"The Alpha’s pack..." he began gaining the attention of others except for Sand who had a dark expression made, his head bent.

".... are 500 in number!’

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"Hey, Engr Kazuya get this thing working, I need to know if the bio-genetics are okay" Anzai growled, getting irritated with impatience.

General Anzai, Kazuya, Tori, Touka, Kashi, Kenta, Shino, Sumi, Ren, Yua, Kaname, and Usagi, all hid on the second floor, inside a building, well enclosed and out of plain sight.

"Just give me time General Anzai, it’s not my fault the network is jamming, the surface is a ghost town now," Kazuya said typing on a small keyboard on her lap, her eyes on the interface computer in front of her. Sweat beaded her forehead, her eyes moving erratically.

"Connecting the comms back won’t be easy" she adds.

Anzai’s teeth clenched, and Touka watched the action with worried eyes.

"That kid Ten said that roar came from the Alpha... if it’s true then we are in big trouble... a pack of mindless creatures controlled by that wild beast is almost terrifying," Hachiro said adjusting his glasses.

"We need to collect samples," he added as his glasses turned white.

"Yeah... if we are still alive to do that," Kenta said with clenched teeth.

Kashi quivered more in response.

"God help us" he prayed silently in his head. He wasn’t ready to be eaten just yet, he still had many things he wanted to do and achieve. He prayed that all of them survive this.

"What do you see Kaname?" Shino asked.

Kaname was peeking at a small rip-off space.

"They are still clustering around," Kaname said with shaky eyes.

"Just there as if waiting for the faintest movement" he looks away, facing them with horror eyes.

"We’re basically trapped!"