Beginning (II)

Our expedition group consist on 2 grown men and me. The mission assigned for us was to go the next town which we hadn't know anything since the incident, contact the leaders and confirm their current status. After a little instruction and load the necessary stuff we got in a vehicle and started the trip.

As we moved away from the city the countryside that flooded us was suffocating, more than usual. Like it had a strange air that I didn't remembered from this area, it had me a little tense. The other 2 that were with me didn't seem to feel anything out of the ordinary, maybe it's just me.

Halfway we noticed something that draw our attention. In the middle of the road was a destroyed military jeep with stains of blood all over the place.

"What the hell, what happened here?" asked the leader on charge of the operation.

"It's a massacre, what could this mean?" added the copilot.

"..." I was amazed, didn't know what to think.

We got out of the car slowly. They took out their weapons and approached the scene.

"Take this and stay on watch. Use it to contact the city and ask for help if necessary" said passing me a walkie talkie.

Analyzing the site I realized that there were no bodies. In the trees close by there were holes, it seems that they were made by bullets... some wild animal attacked them? That could explain why they had to shoot their weapons, they were trying to defend themselves from that. If there are no bodies left and so many blood... whatever ambushed them ended up eating their corpses, perhaps. It's just an hypothesis, buy maybe I'm not so far from the truth.

Both went a little afar and inspected the surroundings while I watched from a couple of meters away. There were only the 3 of us, I couldn't see anything close.

"Grrrrr"

"Huh? What's that growl?"

"You heard it too?"

I am sure I heard a sound coming from those trees, the others also seem to notice. I focus my sight on that place and before I realize a presence went quickly to their position.

"Watch out!" I tried to warned them when I was able to get a grasp of the thing that pounce on them.

"Ahhhh!" he screamed pointing his gun to that creature and firing, but it just seemed to bounce off it's skin.

Then it bit the leader's torso and split it in half. His blood covered the place. The other scared fired everything he got, though it was useless. The bullets didn't seem to cause any damage. Only one scratch was enough to cut his head off and the lifeless body fell to the floor.

"It can't be..." I could only watched astonished what occurred.

I tried to calm down, take a deep breath and think what was the best course of action. Seeing it in detail I realized that the beast looked like a bear. Dark brown, like 2 meters tall with a piercing evil look. It's body was thinner and aerodynamic... what the hell is that? It isn't like any other animal I know.

I was so nervous that I dropped the walkie talkie, that made it notice my presence.

It looked me right into my eyes. In them I saw a faint red light in the most deep part of its pupils.

"You... do not belong to this world" I said unconsciously.

I'm unsure of where those words came from. Something inside of me began to surge, a new sensation begins to fill my entire being and expand. Fills my consciousness and leave it blank.

The creature comes quickly on my direction letting out a thunderous scream full of anger. I stay calm, my instincts tell me to do it. I have to face it, why? Because it is my duty to keep it from living. Where this thoughts come from?

My left hand moved on its own, inciting me to take the hit. The animal came to bite me, but in that moment a radiance covers my entire fist. With that I was able to stop it easily and repealed him with a light push.

I carefully observed the light that enveloped from my wrist to my fingers. As it faints my consciousness starts to come back and I can see it clearly. A light blue glove materialized, bright and beautiful as the colour of the sky.

What is this? Where it came from? I asked myself surprised, though I didn't have time for that.

The creature was furious and attacked once again. Exalted I tried to stop the attack with my glove like before, it worked.

"Grrrrr!" the beast growled with anger and seemingly in pain.

It appears that this causes a great grief on him, just by touching it created an effect like the repulse generated by bringing closer 2 magnetic poles of the same charge. This is my chance, with this I can beat it. I gathered every strength I had and tried to punch it, but he was faster than me so he just dodged and kicked me. The impact was so severe that it sent me flying off pretty far.