'Use your powers, Aries...' That same voice who warned me before, to turn around and not to go inside the club spoke.
'I don't have any powers?' I argued the thought back in my head, assuming a reply to the female voice.
'Shoot him!' The voice became big.
I froze.
'Shoot him? With what?' I asked.
Ken tore my shirt and leaned on me.
'ARISE, NOW!!' The woman's voice screamed in my head, and I placed both my hands on KEN'S chest and put more pressure using my strength. My heart was beating vigorously, and my breathing was picking up speed. My body was heating up as if I was burning with a high fever. I clenched my hands into fists as the electricity zinged through my veins and sparked the energy, the heat filling me completely.
I wasn't myself right now. I felt like I was rejuvenating, my vitals becoming energetic and active with power. I was turning into something else. I could feel it in my veins, my blood, every cell of my body, and with the least amount of my remaining strength that I could produce from my body, I exert force on him.
"AAAaaahhhh...!!!!! I growled spitefully and shoved him away as hard as possible. Ken's body was tossed in the air away from me.
My energy level vastly deflated, and I passed out.
~*~
My eyelids feel heavy, when I tried to open them, I felt like I was coming out of a deep slumber. My body ached as I tried to get up. The smell of smoke and burned wood was thick in the air. Then I heard the screaming of people, and my eyes shot wide open. I was lying on my stomach.
I tried to get up, but couldn't move. I wanted to see if Ken was okay since I heard him crashed somewhere, with the loud, piercing cry. I went to prop myself up on my hands, but it failed to support me. I slumped back on the floor from the weakness. I sighed with exhaustion.
"Uncle Ken, are you okay?" I called out and rolled on my side.
I had to force myself to a half-sitting position. My vision was already weak. I squinted my eyes to look around through the smoke—debris was scattered everywhere.
"No." My eyes went wide. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was lying in the crater, surrounded by burning pieces of wood.
There was no club left, as if it never even existed, the whole place, with people, burned to ashes, and what was left was me with a massive hole in the ground.
Everything seemed crazy to me, merely unreal.
The strangest thing was—nothing affected me. I was fine and breathing, but my body was completely exhausted. Every bone in my body felt crushed, and I couldn't move a muscle. The blaring sirens were approaching closer.
People were screaming and running, but no one came to help me, they were all busy saving their own life.
"Aries!!" Someone called my name, and I looked up to see who. I stared at the blurred image of a man. I started crying as soon as I saw him and raised both my arms for him to take hold of me.
"Leo." My throat was dry and scratchy from the dust and smoke.
Running towards me, he clasped me lovingly in his arms. I wrapped my arms around him tightly, holding him for dear life.
"Aries, are you okay?" Leo asked, leaning back. He saw the condition of my shirt, my bra exposed, his eyes turned red, something I recognized as rage. He looked dangerous. His breathing got heavy, and his nostrils flared, his teeth extended.
"Did he...?" Leo sneered, his voice changed. It was scary.
My muscles tensed, and my mouth ran dry. I remained quiet, with my fallen gaze, as my tears spoke for itself.
"I did a terrible thing, Leo, I burned the whole place." I cried in his arms, gripped on his clothes. The cold-hearted memories came to my mind.
He pushed me back slowly to look at me. "You...H-How?" His tone of voice, his eyes, his face, showing surprise.
I nodded.
He blinked, once, twice.
"I killed him. I killed everybody."
"Hey, shhh..." He held me and tried to soothe me.
The sirens started to sound louder. The flashing red lights made us aware that the fire trucks, the ambulance, the police were all have arrived.
"We need to get out of here... and now." He said, holding my face in his hands.
I nodded in agreement. Leo removed his jacket and gave it to me. He picked me up from the ground and carried me and rushed out of there in a flash, and in no time we were in the woods.
~xXx~
CHAPTER 16
For several hours, I cried and cried.
"I'm a bloody murderer. I killed people, Leo." I started to rock back and forth. "I-I K-killed my uncle, my aunt," I said with words trembling from my frightened lips.
"Aries, that bastard deserved that," Leo replied coldly.
"No, Leo, your brother wanted to kill you, and you still spared his life. I killed innocent people..." I trailed off, in realizing and clasped my mouth with my hand. "Oh my god, Skye. Oh, God! What did I do? I took away her father and her mother. Skye lost her parents because of me. She will never forgive me. I'll never forgive myself." I cried even harder. Leo rushed to me and nestled me into his arm.
"I'm a horrible person. I don't deserve to live..."
"Aries!" Leo shook me by my shoulders, grabbed my face, and forced me to look up at him. There was no kindness in his eyes; they seemed to have darkened.
"WHAT YOU DID WAS IN SELF DEFENSE, YOU DID NOTHING WRONG. HE WAS TRYING TO RAPE YOU FOR GOD SAKE, AND YOUR AUNT WAS GOING TO USE YOU FOR PROSTITUTION."My heart wrenched with his words. I listened. He was right on that part—but still.
"I took away lives, many LIVES, Leo. Taking life out of a living person was wrong. Ken should have been punished but not killed." I told him.
"Good comes to good people and bad
