James Somers - The rise of Lucin
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As Kale entered the establishment, the people inside moved away from the windows where they had been staring at him. Some people ate at tables and others at a countertop. They all watched him cautiously, but no one spoke a word.
Kale sat down at an empty table with his back to the wall. He wanted to be able to see everyone, just in case someone got a little too anxious for their own good. He placed his belongings on the ground under the table. He looked in the direction of the counter where some of the people were eating and raised his hand a little to get the attention of someone serving the others their food.
"I would like to get some food please."
Everyone looked at him like he had two heads.
"I'm not from this area-I really don't mean to disrupt your town. I've just come a great distance and would like to get something to eat and supplies before I move on."
In a moment, the people began to settle down and start eating their food again, but wary looks remained. Kale noticed a particularly nice looking young girl, near his age, peeking out from the kitchen. She gave others in the room a critical look. Then she stepped out and came over to Kale's table. The girl bobbed a bit as she walked and her shoulder length hair was a beautiful auburn, like a dark flame framing her cherubic facial features and emerald eyes. Kale stammered.
"Who are you?" she asked.
She didn't seem nearly as apprehensive of him as the others did. She looked at him waiting for an answer.
"Sorry," he said. "My name is Kale. I'm new to this area."
"Well, I guessed that already, but why are you here?"
"I'm just passing through this area and looking for something to eat and supplies for my journey."
"And where are you going, exactly?"
"What was your name again?" Kale asked in an attempt to change the subject.
"Juli."
"Juli, I'm not familiar with what kind of currency you use here. Is there any way that I might exchange something for your currency or do some work for some food?"
"Don't worry, I'll pick up the tab for you since you're new in town," she said with a sly smile. "But don't be too quick to leave-you owe me."
"Of course."
"I'll fix you up with something good. Be back in a minute."
She smiled at him as she turned to walk away and he couldn't help but return it. He looked around again and found disapproving looks all around the room as the people murmured to one another.
Kale kept his face toward the table for a moment, trying not to incite any further anxiety from the people in the room. He really didn't understand why everyone was so paranoid. He hadn't rolled into town with blood dripping from his hands and all guns blazing. Why did such a thick tension hang over this town?
It didn't take long for an answer to come. Kale heard screams from down the street growing louder as the people outside ran past the window. The armed men in the restaurant made their way to the door with their guns at the ready-they barely paid Kale a passing glance now.
Kale started to stand when one of the men pointed his gun at him.
"Don't interfere, outlander!"
Kale stood still, but did not sit again. The man went on with the others. They fired their weapons into the air and down the street at whatever approached. Black clad figures began to appear as a dark fog swept through the area. They dressed similar to the person he had encountered the night before and moved as swiftly and aggressively as carcarivores on the hunt. These attackers coalesced from the elements of the fog and took form.
The men of the town laid down a steady rain of fire with their projectile weapons, but did not do much damage. Every now and then someone got off a lucky shot, but for the most part the creatures moved too quickly to be hit by the slow moving projectiles.
The beings attacked the townspeople. Kale saw that they were actually vampiric beings. They latched onto their victim's throats, snapped their necks to incapacitate them and then siphoned the life from their limp bodies.
Kale had now had enough of being a bystander. Juli watched him as two weapons flew to his hands from the satchel he had under his table. He shot out the door with them before she could protest his interference.
Kale spotted a woman grabbed by one of the materializing creatures. Kale came upon the creature unnoticed from behind. As the black clad humanoid brought his hands to the cranium of his victim to snap her spinal cord and stop her struggling, Kale struck the man with an ignited kemstick severing his head. The woman screamed as the pale hands fell from her throat, but Kale didn't stop to get a thank you for his timely rescue-others needed help.
Almost as soon as Kale had slain the one creature, the others noticed him and his blade of light and moved in for the kill. One after another, they came at him as he raised his kemsticks for the fight and then laid more enemies down dead next to the first. They swarmed around him and were cut down almost as fast as he could swing his blades. Then they stopped and encircled him. They snarled at him like animals, but dare not to come within his reach.
Kale whirled his kemsticks in circular patterns around his body as a warning to keep their distance-the hunted was now the hunter. For all their ferocity and speed, they appeared quite clumsy to him in their attacks. Of course to a normal human, they appeared to be quite vicious and agile, but his own Barudii skills placed him at a more adept level of fighting than they were utilizing.
Kale commanded all attention. The hunters had stopped feeding and the humans had stopped firing their weapons. The humanoid creatures seemed unsure of which move to make next. Then Kale heard it speaking to him-the symbyte inside his body.
Make them out for the clumsy oafs they are, kill them and win the people to your self.
He heard it, recognized it and for once, agreed with it. Kale extinguished his kemsticks and replaced them on his thigh clips and then stood still in a defensive stance. The creatures hesitated only a second before they pounced on the opportunity afforded to them.
Juli watched through the window; pressed against the glass. As the first humanoid glided into range, Kale altered his position, just enough, and caught his right arm. Then, he spun inside fast bringing his own left elbow up at an angle, under the jaw, smashing into the being's chin hard enough to snap the neck sideways. Kale countered his momentum in the reverse and round kicked the next, precisely in the same place on the head, but the opposite side, snapping his neck with even more force. Kale took no chances-he strengthened every strike and sped up every movement with his Barudii kinesis.
This had become more than defense-he gained pleasure from killing these creatures and it was a feeling motivated by the symbyte organism within. Kale did not fight his surrogate conscience. He felt like he still had control, but there was an uneasy compromise about the situation now. Is the symbyte creature trying to help me protect this body it inhabits, he wondered?
Kale moved through pale faced creatures with a confident ease as he bounced from one to the other in his attacks sending a few down dead and many others to the ground in pain. They appeared very vulnerable in these natural bodies and he was quite enjoying the snapping of bone and the tearing of sinew as his kinesis empowered him to win the fight against these murderers.
The advancing humanoids halted and encircled him again. Kale breathed heavy now as he stood staring down the ghastly wraiths. As he looked around at the ghoulish pale faces of his attackers, he noticed one familiar face among them-the same man he had encountered the night before in the forest. Kale reached out with his mind for the man's thoughts and sensed great concern in him. Kale thought this one might be the leader. He sent the stranger a thought. Back for more?
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