Power is not fairness....
Zach's lungs burned....
Agonizing screams echoed as the crackling of burning fuel and explosions rang out, Zach tried to access the situation.
His ribs screamed at him and his vision a bit hazy, his eardrums felt like they had burst open.
Shortly after his vision slowly cleared.
And then he saw it.
A silhouette jolting, moving unnaturally within the flames. Rising like an antique stitched from the fabrics of countless nightmares, at first it looked like a twisted spire, jagged and writhing, piercing through the black cloud above.
Jagged skin, serpentine, grotesque, it's head was a skull filled with multiple milky white eyes.
it's serpentine body towered over the truck wrapping it's body around it crushing it instantly, multiple abominations rushed out from a rift.
A crack even.
"Damm it, how can a fissure occur in this civilized location?" Zach Wondered as he clutch his rib, blood dripping from his for head.
A fissure is an abnormality in space where the earth and the broken realm comes together and links for a moment. Causing monster from the other side to march to this side of existence.
Zach had only seen these occurrences on the news and local tv stations but to actually think it was happening right now, in front of him was truly breathtakingly terrifying.
Screams filled the scene, Fathers, children and even mothers were getting slaughtered by these beasts.
"Is that what flipped our car..?" Zach Wondered.
The monster's shape was long, bloated with strength, adorned by a blade like ridges jutting from it's spine like a crown of obsidian thorns, it upper body was like that of a man and it lower body slithered, like that of a serpent.
It's two claws arms, unnaturally long and claws long like dagger writhed and wiggled with anticipation as it held the passerby, ripping him in half in one smooth motion.
Some of the monsters moved fast tearing as many people as they could get their eyes on, while some were slow enjoying the thrill of the hunt, the flames all around lit up the city as Zach watched, back at the wall of a the glass shop at the end of the room his car—a 2016 model von burned, but that was the last thing on his mind right now.
One of the monsters slammed into a city bus it's body bursting into flames as everyone was incinerated before they could scream.
Another slammed into the traffic light, it's unusually sickening claws tearing into fleeing civilians, tearing them apart mid run.
But just then hope came..
Zach could hear police sirens wailing in the distance.
He had never been so happy in his life to hear that the police were coming, he gritted his teeth as he struggled to stand.
And then he felt a hand touch his shoulder.
Zach flinched and turned—it was Haruki, the old man stood straight, no bruises, no scratches, no wounds, not even a rumble on his summer dress shirt.
Zach eyes widened...
At that moment he could have sworn that one of those monsters grabbed the old man, but here he was uninjured.
"Don't move" he said.
"You're injured".
"The broken ones listen more than they see, remember that" his words were heavy not taking his gaze off the monsters ravaging.
"Mommy help!!" Zachs eyes widened as he looked to the side, just beside the shop, a little girl knelt on the ground, blood spew all over her, she cried while pointing upward to a street lamp, on it a man's head hung, blood dripping.
Zach could instantly tell that that was her father's head hanging in front of her daughter because of the resemblance, Zach mind instantly drifted.
The situation was all too familiar to him, it was almost similar to how he lost his mother, he was six years old back then do his memory was still kind vague.
But the situation..
The girls cries seemed to attract unwanted attention.
One of the huge abominations wiggled, writhed as it's skull like head fixed with multiple eyes locked on the girl.
Without hesitation it blasted towards her.
And so did Zach.
" ZACH!! "
The old man voice echoed behind him but Zach was kept l going, his ribs burned as his internal organ felt like it was being ruptured, the bones in his leg screamed at him as he added pressure on them, his couldn't breathe easily, but somehow he pushed Forward.
He wasn't going to sit and watch as the monster tear this kid up, he wasn't going to bend for the ruled because the monster was stronger than him. If he could save one....
Just one person, then his live would have been worth something at least.
He jacked the girl off the street walk as the giant half man half snake, jammed it's spear like jaws into the brick wall in front, due to the acceleration Zach hit his back if a street lamp as he plopped, his strength totally giving in by now, as he coughed up broken organs and possibly a few micro scopic part of his ribs.
"Run.." Zach spoke as the girl looked at him with wide eyes.
"Run you idiot..!, find a place and hide until the police gets here" The girl snapping back to reality, nodded quietly and jolted to the most further route away from here.
The monster wiggled and could finally get itself free, it's body, molten pulsed with heat as a bit of lava dripped from it mouth.
It lunged at Zach, opening it gapping maw wide, Zach could see the rows of fangs, not teeth, but fangs.
Bang*
The moment the beasts fangs were about to make contact with Zach it's body suddenly split in half in a flaming burst..
Zach's eyes widened...
Haruki, the frail old man, held some sort of flaming katana standing behind the grotesque almagamation with a cold stare.
[Soul Weapon: Kamamowdo]
Haruki hands pulsed with light as firey engraving were written in a language Zach couldn't understand, were etched into his skin, his eyes, from the normal brown had changed colour to a glowing orange.
At that moment Zach realized....
An Awakened...?.