Chapter 25 - Abnormal Surge

#Warning! - This chapter has scenes of violence. Read at your own discretion.

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The wind swept through as Jemi smirked at Sharaina and Emelinia. Sharaina pulled Emelinia behind her in order to shield her. She looked at Jemi and then at Boo who had her hand on her hip as she smoked. Judging by their appearance, Sharaina knew that they were robbers.

Jemi walked boldly to Sharaina and Emelinia. The arrogant look on his face disgusted Sharaina to the core of her being. Sharaina glared at him drawing closer with no fear in her eyes. Emelinia on the other hand was petrified. She couldn't understand how they were able to track her down. When Jemi came close and eye balled Sharaina, Emelinia wanted to scream but her throat was dry.

"Look, princess, just back away and let me take the seer." he icily threatened Sharaina.

"I have another idea, why don't you turn around and go home?" Sharaina boldly asked him back.

Jemi burst out laughing. "Can you believe this crazy girl?" he asked Boo and she shrugged her shoulders.

Jemi turned back to Sharaina with a powerful scowl. "I won't ask you again."

Sharaina slapped him hard with the back of her hand and it sent him smashing through a tree. Boo was astonished by that and she looked at Sharaina with her mouth agape. Jemi got back to his feet and furiously pointed at Sharaina.

"How the fuck did you do that?" he asked her through his teeth.

Sharaina lazily shrugged her shoulders. "My powers activated early."

Jemi cracked his neck and balled up his hand into a fist. "Regardless, you can't defeat me princess. Just hand the seer over to us. You don't want me to use force." he spat blood out of his mouth.

"Emelinia, stay behind me." Sharaina said to Emelinia without taking her eyes off Jemi.

Seeing that Sharaina wasn't going to step aside, Jemi lashed out on her. The two exchanged blows while Emelinia watched them in horror. Jemi was clearly faster than Sharaina and it hurt Emelinia so much to see her getting hurt. She thought about going to look for help but Boo pointed her gun at her.

"I wouldn't go anywhere if I were you bitch." Boo darkly said to Emelinia.

In the midst of her brawl, Sharaina saw Boo pointing her gun at Emelinia. She grabbed hold of Jemi's leg when he attempted to kick her and threw him hard through some trees. She then proceeded to kick a fallen log at Boo. She dodged it in the nick of time and retreated up a tree. Boo looked down at Sharaina puzzled. She saw Jemi appear out of nowhere and grab Sharaina by her hair. He angrily smashed her face into the ground.

Boo saw Emelinia running away and she followed her. She pulled her back by her hair and slapped her hard to the ground. She then dragged her back by her hair as she screamed. Sharaina heard her and was enraged to see Boo throw her to a tree. She tried to go to Emelinia but Jemi kicked her hard in her rib cage.

Sharaina felt the air get knocked out of her lungs by the impact and she fell to the ground. She faced the sky as she struggled to breath. The blood pouring down from a head wound blinded one of her eyes. Jemi snickered at her condition.

"You should have just backed off. You are the dumbest girl I have ever come across in my life. Now you are going to hibernate and all for what? A fucking seer? Pitiful."

He looked down at Sharaina but was sent flying when Sharaina abruptly kicked him in the face. Jemi landed with a thud away from her. He spit out three back teeth. His eyes were wide with shock. He looked at her stagger back to her feet with one hand on her ribs and the other on her knee.

'How is she still standing after all the blows I gave her?' Jemi felt frustrated.

"What is with this girl?" he growled.

"There's something strange about her. Be careful." Boo answered in a serious tone.

Jemi's lips curled into a cocky smile and he scoffed arrogantly. "You must be joking right? She is just lucky so far because I have been going easy on her. I think it's time I ended this."

Emelinia felt devastated with Jemi's words. "Please just let them take me Sharaina. I will be alright. Your mother is waiting for you at home." she cried.

"She is waiting for both of us." Sharaina answered back.

Jemi was about to charge at Sharaina again when she was suddenly enclosed in a revolving crystal cube. Emelinia dropped to her knees and her tears fell to the ground. She just knelt there with a plain look on her face. If it wasn't for the tears that kept pouring out of her eyes, no one would have been able to read that she was shattered.

Jemi scowled at Boo who was sitting on the ground with her legs and hands folded. She had just trapped Sharaina in between two dimensions. This was an ancient technique that gamarax manipulators used to defend themselves against enemies.

Unfortunately, whoever who got trapped in the crystal cube was stuck in there for all eternity unless the same gamarax manipulator released them. In some cases, it took extreme force to break it from the outside and this often led the trapped darkas god to get badly injured and fall into hibernation. It was also close to impossible to break it from the inside.

"What the hell was that Boo? I had it under control!" Jemi angrily yelled at Boo.

"Shut up. We aren't here to waste any time. This was supposed to be a quick mission!" Boo reminded him. "Moreover that girl isn't normal. Despite not being of age, she was able to keep up with you. I am also pretty sure that she has never fed before so why are her gamarax levels high?" Boo asked him.

"Whatever, let's just get out of here." Jemi gave up arguing with Boo.

Boo roughly yanked Emelinia off the ground and she screamed so loud that she scared birds out of their nests. Boo was pulling Emelinia away when she felt a sharp pain in her chest. She stopped and looked back with great shock in her eyes.

Sharaina had punched a hole in the crystal cube.

Her bloody and scratched hand was sticking out of the cracked cube. Electric waves were seen around the cube and smoke was coming out of the hole Sharaina created.

"Impossible." Boo muttered.

"What is with this girl?" Jemi asked, again in frustration.

Jemi activated his spears and threw one with all his might at the weakened cube. It shattered with an explosion and Emelinia screamed again. When the smoke cleared, Boo and Jemi were shocked to see Sharaina standing there with her hair up and red beaming eyes.

Her fangs were sticking out of her mouth. Jemi's spear was still lunged into her bleeding shoulder but she didn't quiver at the pain. There was a dense level of gamarax emanating from her. Emelinia couldn't recognize Sharaina anymore.

Jemi's spear disappeared from Sharaina's shoulder and reappeared in his hand. He twirled them around and lunged at Sharaina but she grabbed him by his neck and choke slammed him hard to the ground. Jemi crashed into the ground with a bang and it startled the villagers gathering fruit not so far away.

Jemi held Sharaina's hand and gazed into her beaming eyes. She picked him up and tossed him into the air. Sharaina jumped after him and side kicked him miles away. Sensing defeat, Boo grabbed Emelinia and opened a portal. Unfortunately for her, Sharaina appeared in front of her and pulled Emelinia away. She then smacked Boo's chest with the back of her hand and she crushed into a tree. Boo coughed up blood and looked at Sharaina dazed.

'How does she have all this gamarax?' Boo asked herself as she fearfully stared at Sharaina.

Boo covered her mouth and more blood poured out of her mouth. It sipped through the spaces in between her fingers and stained the ground. She sensed military troops approaching them fast. The last explosion had caught their attention. Boo started to weakly draw on the ground with her bloody finger.

Jemi suddenly appeared from the trees and screamed in anger as he went for Sharaina. She dodged his spear attack and forced her knee into his stomach. Blood poured out of Jemi's mouth. Sharaina snatched his spear and stabbed him in the back. His blood splashed on her face but she was unfazed.

She felt some of it pour to her feet and she cracked her neck. Sharaina slapped the back of his head down to the ground. Jemi laid there with his spear sticking out of him. He deactivated it and groaned in pain. Sharaina threw down a punch but Jemi rolled away to safety. He looked astonished at the mighty hole her punch left on the ground.

He went after her again and thrust his spear at her. Sharaina caught it and clenched her other fist. It beamed red as she growled at Jemi. She was just about to land her fatal punch when Jemi suddenly disappeared. Boo was also nowhere to be seen either. At that point, the troops landed. When they saw Sharaina, they were astonished.

"Damn it, isn't this the same girl who defeated a kremis?" one of the warriors asked.

"Stay away from her. She won't hesitate to attack anyone in the state that she's in." the leader ordered. "Get ready, I will summon my dragon. He will be able to knock her out of this state."

Emelinia slowly walked to Sharaina. "Sharaina, can you hear me?" she asked with so much pain in her voice.

Sharaina didn't answer her or look in her direction.

"Stay back, girl!" the leader of the troop commanded Emelinia.

Emelinia didn't listen to him. She drew closer to Sharaina and when she was close enough, she looked deeply into her horrific eyes. She felt a hot wave hit her face and blow her hair back. She squinted her eyes as the heat increased.

Emelinia reached out for Sharaina and felt herself getting paralyzed. She took another step and her knees became weak. She took one last step and felt like she was going to pass out. Emelina wrapped her hands around Sharaina to the horror of the warriors. At that point, the leader's dragon appeared and spread its wings.

"Come back, Sharaina. This isn't you." Emelinia cried. "Remember that mama is waiting for us at home." she begged as more tears poured. "I know you are in there Sharaina. Come back to me."

Sharaina partially closed her eyes and they returned to normal. Her hair went down and her fangs disappeared. She slowly dropped to the ground and fell unconscious in Emelinia's arms. The warriors looked at them amused.

"Lieutenant, this girl is not normal." a warrior voiced out and swallowed hard.

The rest chose to remain silent as they kept their wide eyes on Emelinia holding Sharaina like her life depended on it.