Escape the Train
Aria ripped up some of the dead homeless man's bloody shirt and wrapped her blown-off bleeding fingers with it.
"Oww... Shit..." She looked down at her destroyed smartphone, "I've lost connection with Olezka. Shit... Damon's somewhere on the run and now I'm stuck on this train with crazy homeless men."
She got up from her seat and looked at the small windows between the cars. She looked at the people in the other cars, their blank faces, their purple eyes. She watched as they slowly walked closer to her. As they pressed their faces up against the glass, like mindless zombies.
They spoke up in unison, "Aria, the Gravity Witch. Tell us where the Immortal Necronomicon is... Or die!"
Aria looked over at the silver briefcase sitting on her seat.
"Shit... Shit-shit-shit..."
She looked at the train, its blazing speed, as it barreled faster and faster down the track.
She then turned to the pressed up strangers, their purple eyes. She then put two and two together. The purple eyes. The mindless zombies. The message and their crazed actions.
"I'm being attacked by a Mind Witch... And the train. They're speeding it up. At this rate I'll get to my next stop in ten minutes, but will I have enough time...?" She looked ahead, "if it keeps going at this speed I'll miss my stop, and I can't just jump out... I'll have to get to the front of the train and stop it."
She looked at all the zombie like people in the train cars ahead, their staring faces through the glass as each one paces back and forth staring. She then looked at what they were carrying. Weapons. Each one was packed with a military grade weapon.
"Why do they have weapons...? Unless..."
She stepped closer to the glass, and looked in on the people inside. She looked at a military army man, who had a large duffle bag around his shoulder. She watched as he slowly moved from one cart to the next. Tossing weapons to the random civilian people inside.
"How strong is this Witch? Able to control actions specifically... Who is doing this?"
Crash!
Aria turned around as five mind-controlled zombies broke through the glass leading to her cart.
She looked down at her bleeding hand. Her fingernails.
"I don't know how to heal myself yet with my gift powers, so sacrificing myself is out of the question. I guess now I'm stuck with sacrificing others."
She walked over to the silver briefcase carrying the Immortal Necronomicon. She picked it up and hung it over her head. A purple-eyed woman climbed through the glass, her body scratching and slicing through the broken window pane as she reached halfway through.
Aria lifted the briefcase high in the air her bleeding arms buckling under its thick weight.
The purple-eyed woman looked up with a blank face, "Aria, the Gravity Witch. Tell us where the Immortal Necronomicon is or-"
Smash!
Aria smashed her briefcase on the women's head, knocking her to the ground.
Thump...
The woman's head was smashed apart, with her body bleeding against the glass.
Aria knelt down and lifted the woman up, gripping her by the hair.
She extended her hand out toward the four other mind-controlled innocents trying to get through the small window.
X Spell: [Sacrifice]
The purple-eyed woman disintegrated to dust.
Gravity Spell: [Weighted Pressure x500]
Pop!
Pop!
Pop!
Three out of the four zombies were instantly turned to mush purely under the instant force of Aria's gravity wave. But she left one civilian alive.
"Time to go again."
She walked over to the door and looked down at the bloody mess of human flesh and guts. She then looked at the single remaining person on the other side, their eyes a bright purple. She looked at the lock on the door between them. She raised her briefcase high and-
Chink!
She swung down on the lock and snapped it in two.
Swing...
She opened up the door and walked through to pick up the purple-eyed man with her left hand.
"You're coming with me."
She dragged him across the dirty train car floor as the man mindlessly tried his best to claw at her. She dragged him back the the other side of her car, to the window facing in on the armored civilians.
She looked at their blank faces. Their purple eyes. She watched as they waited for her to move forward, to break into the next car, to fight. They each pointed out their guns, each a foot apart from the other.
A pregnant mother. An elderly man. A homeless man. A sixteen-year-old kid. And a old fat man. They all held out guns, all pointed at Aria. They waited. They waited as Aria held up her hand through the shattered window. They waited as she turned her bleeding fingerless hand into a gun.
She pointed out either her only remaining finger.
X Spell: [Sacrifice]
The man in her hand turned to dust as the civilians on the other side pulled the trigger.
Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang!
The five innocent civilians all shot their guns in unison.
Aria closed her eyes. She focused on a single beam. A single attack. A single wave of gravity. A black hole. But not like the one she used against Miss Eiko. This had to be something more precise, something more focused.
The five bullets reached through the window, each one inches apart from the other. Each one moments away from killing Aria.
She opened her mouth and said, "bang!"
Gravity Spell: [Black Gun]
A void of nothingness. It moved in a singular motion. Across an empty space between air and reality. No sound. No movement. Almost instantaneous.
It sucked up everything in its path. The bullets, the air, the window frame. It moved through the car in an instant. Through the five innocent mind-controlled civilians. It moved through them. Making them disappear, sending half of their bodies into another reality, crushed under the weight of the black hole.
But the black gun didn't stop there. It kept moving. It kept moving. It kept moving. It went to the next car, and the next, and the next. Each car, each person, one after the other, all in an instant. Families, loved ones, lost ones. It traveled down the train. One by one. Faster than the speed of light. Killing all until it reached the end of the train. All until it disappeared, vanishing, fizzling out into the soft air.
But in its wake, it left trails of bodies, chewed up, crushed, spun in spirals, turned into nothingness. All dead. All gone. All innocent.
And Aria smiled.
"Easy."