Restore: The World's End

【When the Rain Started Falling】

Taking another peek, a blue light had shined pass her, scratching her cheek, tainting her white face as it started to drip out some blood.

“Found you.” The men said simultaneously as they took their steps closer to the girl. “Hide and seek is over.”

Rion came out of hiding, straightened her arms as she pointed the guns on the mad men. ‘No choice left, huh.’ She thought, biting her lower lip as she pulled the triggers rhythmically. Smaller red bullets came out of their barrels, injuring the men in their arms and legs making them scream in pain as their blood splattered on the ground mixing up with the dust and sand. Stray bullets hit the stone angels and saints as the church became a messed up place for nightmares as Rion put out a rotten face in disgust.

Rion kept shooting and in the corner of her eye, blue-like electricity currents had appeared from the sky, making her freeze her actions, making the men run to her, staggering. It was far from her, where the lights had appeared but it was noticeable. All worry had started to swallow her up. An image forming in her head filled with familiar faces---her comrades.

“It can’t be…” The Japanese-Korean whispered to herself. “Lightning…?”

It was an unusual sight. In the current world, lightning strikes or thunder don’t appear in mid-air. There was only one explanation for that and what could it be other than an irregular?

It was then; the red-head noticed a small moving thing in a rectangular shape, coming from the place of lightning. She pasted a smirk on her face as she hid both guns and put all force on her legs as she started running to the church’s leaning bell tower.

“Verdammt!” The raven haired man screamed as he chased Rion’s tail, hitting his English comrade on the head, harshly telling him to go after her with him as he started blabbering stuff in German.

“What the--- When will they give up?” Rion said upon taking a peek behind to see the Europeans chase her.

The red-head slipped her hand on the first gun she had used and prayed that it has finished charging as she started climbing the dusty steps of the snake-like stairs, swirling around the leaning pillar until she reached the rusty bell on top. Rion, trying to catch her breath, hid behind the discolored formed copper carefully to avoid falling. Her ears started ringing, her heart pumped adrenaline as footsteps on the concrete stairs became louder and louder, later mixed with heavy breathing by the men.

“急いで、急いで、リオン、急いで… [Hurry, hurry, Rion hurry…]” She mumbled under her breath as her fingers shook in panic, trying to reload the gun once more with chromedite and began charging it. A beeping noise was emitted from the gun as she let it go louder and louder.

Blue bullets had begun to pass through the rusty bell, emitting a disturbing noise in Rion’s ears as the blue projectiles grazed her shoulders. “もう少しだけ...ただもう少し.... [Just a little more…Just a little more…]” The red-head mumbled under her breath, ignoring the scratches as the sound from her weapon began to hurt her ears. She looked once more to the scenery to see it move closer and closer; that black vehicle.

“今! [Now!]” Rion’s eyes shot open. She stepped out of her spot and quickly stood at the edge of the tower, leaving a smirk for the men. Leaning backwards, she let gravity do its work as she fell, smiling, pointing her gun to middle of the bell tower. All sound, all noise began to mute in Rion’s ears, her heart felt like stopping as she saw her shoulder-length red hair curving out on the ends, being flown upward, her skirt fluttering in the same direction revealing black gym shorts beneath. “The End.” She whispered and pulled the trigger. A blast of red light came from the gun barrel and shot through the stone structure and crumbled. The leaning piece of stone began to shake and the cracks began to spread as both men’s screams were heard before they got covered in rocks.