9. Damage.
The world exploded into a turrets of blades, each clash making the pristine hospital wall bleed.
Haruki moves like a veteran war god, blocking slashing, dancing, his eyes calculated, his movements precise as he ducked under blows, side stepped slashes and threw off impossible countering the fury of attacks
The group moved as though rehearsed, as though theve been through the sequence, each slash deliberate as the entire hospital quaked, the ground destroyed, the walls shattered.
Haruki slashed at the frist girl, the one he'd been fighting, bit she ducked under the slash, allowing her colleague—the kid jumped on her back, a black shadow erupting from his palm at bullet speed.
Haruki narrowly dodge backpedaling as the group did not give him time to rest, immediately they overwhelmed him with their numbers.
The bald shaven woman launched with a whip in her hand, wrapping around the old man's wrist.
Haruki pulled hard pulling the woman in.
He grabbed her face slamming her on the tiles.
Boom.
The entire tenth burst into fragmentsas haruki and the charging group fel onto the next floor.
The group was dazed and haruki took this as a perfect opportunity, dashing in with his tachi.
[Phoenix graze]
A wave of flame blast forward and some of the group member raise their hand to defend it, Haruki appeared behind the kid and with strength, his fist collided the kids ribs, blasting him a couple meters back.
The group gathered once more, stabilizing their harmony.
***
Zach flew the stairs as an ear splitimg sound echoed, the building shook like a bomb blast had just occurred. He lost his footing for a second.
"What was that.?".
Outside the hospital, officers had gathered but they could only watch as the building rattled.
Officer why Can't you go inside, the nurse grabbed one of the officer.
The officer nervously scoffed, holding out a device.
The numbers on it were astronomical "10000..? That can't be right..can it ?" the nurse eyes wide spoke.
The energy reader in the hospital were only able to measure energy up to 100 anything above that would be unknown.
"But 10000 that's insane, what sort of monsters are in that structure...?" She asked terrified.
"That only means one thing.. the people in there are way above our pay grade, we've called national defense and they'll be here in the next hour.."
....
The battled raged on but this time with more furry.
The four robe figures scattered like blades from a loaded crossbow, each darting across he interior of the hospital at terrifying speed, the steel beam behind the walls buckled, the air wraped like heatwaves bending the dessert mirage.
Haruki had moved frist.
He twirled on the air while charging, gathering momentum as he crashed hard into the group.
A deafening rattle shoke the building weakening it's foundation, th walls cracked, the beam supportimg the lower floor gave way, the massive structure tilted sideways.
.....
Zach noticed the shift.
"Just one more.."
Haruki was in the floor above.. of he could just reach him.
*BBOOOOOMMMMMM*
The building was about to collapse. Metal creaking.
Zach had to go back, by now the police would be evacuating everyone around, it was too unsafe.
Zach, with a gritted tired back, now running downstairs. What could he do anyways, he was just at the stage of learning how to use his powers he couldn't battle with people of this level.
Haruki words surfaced in his mind.
*If someone stronger picks on you hub, what will you do then*
Zach had said he'd rather die, but now he was the one running.
He said he'd fight, that he'd stand against he'll stand against oppression but instead he's the one running.
*Zach clenched his fist, that was all he could do, gritted his teeth and bear the punishment the stong oppose upon him.
Zach looked up, then down.
He could either keep going up, and die or he could go down and at least maybe he could get out of here before he gets flattened by the impact of the collapsing building, the thought linger on him.
"Carry that mentality into the real world and you'll be the frist to die, your ideas, your goal, your future potential all wasted because you took a foolish mistake, survive even if it for one more day"
Ahhh..
Zach rushed down the stairs, vaulting over the railings, it wasn't worth it, *he who fights and runs away will leave to fight another day*.
...
Haruki's battle had turned to a blur at this point.
The old man walked out of flames raging, his whole body covered in glowing fiery sigils and his eyes burned like the sun, around, he Held the bald woman by the head, her body completely burned as sizzling escaped from the carcass, the little one laid unconscious.
Haruki's cold orang gaze rested on the duo in front of him.
The battle had peeled the hospital like skin of bone.
A massive hole yawned in the center of the corridor, stretching upward five entire floors, from the fifth one could see the broken rib of the upper levels.
Crumbling concrete, twisted steel, shattered pipes hissing steam like gluttoral exhales.
Sparks rained like fireflies from the exposed wiring above, creating flickers of orange in the smoked chocked air.
Chunks of debris dangled precariously, swaying as the structure groaned with each motion.
The beds young age had been turned to old age, turned to twisted wreakage. Flames engulfed broken tiles medical equipment sparked violently, half melted the rest crushed under the slab of debris.
The red orange flame above flickered down the shaft, illuminating the suspended debris.
Outside the wreaked building, the night sky had turned red because of the pillar of fire and smoke that now shot towards the skies.
A patient hart papers fluttered from the upper levels, driftimg down the shattered five floor hole.
Landing silently besides Haruki's foot.
He didn't notice though, his eyes were liked on the duo before him.
Above the five foot raft, Zain stood looking at the battle from above.
"This is about to get interesting." He smirked.