THE AWAKENING: BIO-GENETICS-Chapter 152: Target

Yukio groaned against the ground, his body in excruciating pain. He forced his body to sit up, his vision blurry. He thanked God his suit was still intact or else it would have been a different case for him.

"Dr. Touka," he said, worried while looking around. She was last near him after the explosion. His vision was clear and then a few distance away from him, he saw Touka.

"Dr. Touka!" he hissed as he rushed towards her groaning in pain but he froze when he saw her state.

"No," he said with shaky eyes.

She was on the ground unconscious, the glass protecting her face was broken, her side cheeks covered in round pox signifying the virus slowly creeping into her body.

Yukio knelt beside her.

"This is bad... at this rate she will be..." His eyes shook vigorously. The truth of her current predicament was horrifying.

He looked around but there was no one in sight. Everywhere was covered in flames and smoke.

He then assesses her face. ’The infection is spreading but at a slow process’ he thought, quickly taking down his bag, there was extra oxygen inside. ’If I could still delay the spread... then maybe, maybe we can avoid the worst’ his eyes shakes.

"You have so much to achieve... you can’t die yet Dr. Touka".

***

"They are here..." Yuki said as her eyes shook vigorously. She could feel it because she knows.

"Yuki, what are you talking about?"

"They are here for him..."

"Who?" Shino demanded.

"Hiro" she said as she rushed to the area the roar was coming from, disappearing into the smoke.

"Hey, Yuki!" Shino shouted but she didn’t listen.

"Go" Raiden said in a struggled breath.

"No, I can’t leave you!" Shino hissed.

"I will be fine... please go, she might need help" Raiden said, forcing his body to sit up despite the pain he was in.

"But what can I do?" Shino said faintly with shaky eyes.

Raiden placed his short gun on his chest. Shino took it with shaky eyes.

"As long as you can pull a trigger" Raiden said sternly.

Shino’s grip tightens on the gun at his words.

"The rest of us have to make it out of here alive... we have to try," he said.

Shino nods as he rises to his feet.

"I will come back," Shino said for certain.

Raiden nodded, as a small smile found on his lips.

"You better," he said, smirking.

"Hang on Raiden," Shino said, rushing out in desperate attempts to reach Yuki.

Raiden’s eyes were sad. Pain shot through his body once again. He slowly lifted the jacket, now drenched in blood, revealing the gruesome wound he had.

"I don’t think I can, Commander Shino," he said with shaky eyes, lying back and staring at the skies covered in smoke and ashes, the smell of blood hanging in the air.

***

Yuki halted her steps, looking around, her features in panic along with a flush of worry.

"Hiro," she said with shaky eyes. ’I can’t let them find him,’ she thought as her hands gripped tightly against the sword handle. Her heart slammed loudly in her chest and sweat broke through her features.

The growl came again but this time near. She looked around alert. She heard dragging sounds. She froze when her eyes landed on the Alpha as the smoke cleared.

"The Alpha" she said with wide eyes.

The Alpha growled, halting his step, turning, a tail held an unconscious Hiro on the ground, its tail wrapped around him.

"It was the Alpha," she said sternly.

"You’re here for him."

The Alpha growled deeply.

"Well, I won’t let you take him" she said as her fist tightened on her twin katana swords.

The Alpha roared dangerously, sensing her aura.

Yuki went in a fighting stance, her violet eyes beaming the brightest color ever, the inside embodied with gold around in circles even to the smallest, her skin creeping with blue veins, from her neck up to her face.

"Give. Him. Back" Yuki said deadly as her brown hair swirled behind her from an unseen energy.

The Alpha growled deeply.

The tail let loose Hiro, but placed him behind.

It then roared, lashing at Yuki. With one foot plunged to the ground it cracked from force as she zapped at the Alpha. Growling in pure rage.

"Yuki!" Shino hissed coming into view. He instantly halts his steps, seeing the scene.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Yuki gave a battle cry as she rotated in the air, slashing her sword on the Alpha’s horn, breaking one of it. The force pushed the Alpha backwards, but it stood its ground as its paws dug into the ground, cracking it. It shakes its head in pain, growling.

"She broke the horn," Shino said, stunned. For a moment he couldn’t see it. That speed she displayed was certainly fast and there was an aura to Yuki that he couldn’t explain.

In rage the Alpha summoned blue energy from its mouth sending it at Yuki.

She quickly placed her twin sword in an X format like a shield as a red symbol came up in a circle format, rotating. The energy slammed into it causing the earth to shake vigorously.

Yuki slides back but she still stands her ground.

"Yuki!" Shino hissed and worried about her safety but he was also in awe at her abilities. He had never seen something like that. Her blood manipulation was on a whole different level right now. Completely chaotic but yet so focused and deadly.

"Shino-San!" She hissed.

Shino-san???? Yuki had never called him that before. What was going on?

"Quick get Hiro, the Alpha is after Hiro!" she hissed trying to block the energy as much as she could.

"What?" Shino said, stunned by the revelation. Why was the Alpha after Hiro?

"NOW!" She shouted.

"Alright!" He hissed running in the direction of Hiro.

The Alpha caught this, in rage it enforced the energy directed at Yuki, the sudden force pushing her away.

Her body slammed the ground hard, her head connected with the ground, as blood slashed.

The Alpha head snaps to where Shino was.

"Come on Hiro, wake up we have to get out of here" Shino said, shocking his body, but he was knocked out cold.

And also, an imprint was on his forehead also. ’Did the Alpha do the same thing to him too?’ He thought with shaky eyes.

The Alpha roared behind him gaining his attention.

Shino turned. He froze when he saw Yuki unconscious on the ground bleeding.

"Yuki!" He hissed.

The Alpha growled.

Shino stood in front of the Alpha pointing his gun. He was shaking because he knew there was nothing he could do at this moment, he couldn’t make use of his blood weapon because of his amputated arm, what was he gonna do? He shut his eyes closed as his teeth clenched hard.

*

"As long as you can pull the trigger"

*

He remembered Raiden’s words. ’As long as I can pull a trigger’ he repeated the words in his head as he flashed his bio-genetics eyes open. That was all he needed to set forth in the fight.

The iris colour is bright crystal blue like a diamond mixed with light and dark shades with a hint of red lines in it, forming a crack moving around, the pupil darkened and extended.

His fist clenched hard on the gun, his blood creeping to it through his veins, fortifying the density of the bullet.

"I will keep fighting!" he hissed.

The Alpha’s roar launched at him in the air.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!" He gave a loud battle cry as he pulled the trigger.

In slow motion the bullet came at the Alpha, but Shino saw it wasn’t gonna be a headshot, he was screwed.

’This is bad’ he thought with shaky eyes, seeing the Alpha still coming in slow motion.

But then he gasps as his eyes go wide, because everything suddenly pauses around him.

’Everything stopped?’ He thought. He was still in the same position, he didn’t pull his hand down, his gun still pointing at the Alpha, he looked around.

The moving flame was in a pause, the moving smoke from the wind halted, everything, even the faintest details was put to a halt.

’Impossible’ his eyes shake as he turns to the Alpha still hanging in the air, its mouth wide open and ready to devour, the bullet he fired still directed at the Alpha, all in a pause.

’Am I doing this?’