6 Desperation and Disaster
The situation was desperate. The soldiers' death were brutal. Reinforcement had not yet come. It was a disaster.
Tina was now crying. She was simply an ordinary girl without yet regaining her ability. When she transforms everytime she uses her power, her personality and emotions change. And this allows her to do those daring attacks she previously did.
Police Officer 1, Jope Tria, was at the back of a palm tree was sitting on the sand. His boby was shaking. He seemed to have already lost grip of his sanity. He and his two batchmates were newly graduates.
And this was their first time to be engaged in a war. A first and fierce battle that they've never imagined would happen in their whole lives. Their first battle, which to his two batchmates was also their last and, perhaps, to Jope too!
He had seen how the other soldiers were brutally mangled. He had seen the faces of his two batchmates – his friends – eaten.
At this point, there was still intermittent gun fire. There were still few soldiers holding their defense. But human screams were louder and more frequent.
Since minutes ago, the beasts have dominated the battle. No creature was falling anymore, only humans.
But suddenly, a Borac fell to the ground. All the soldiers who saw it were surprised. From their distance, they looked intently at the creature. But there's no doubt about it, it's dying.
Then not long enough, another two creatures fell. This time they heard two gun shots. Thus, they realize that the first one was also shot but they didn't noticed the gun fire, perhaps, because they were in state of shock and overcame with fear.
Four Boracs noticed what's happening. Their fellow beasts near them fell. They quickly recognized the source of the fatal shots. They saw a woman!
They looked intently at her, they wanted to threaten her with their roar. But before they can open their mouth, four successive shots were heard and the Boracs each fell on their knees.
The woman who did all of these was Major Valery Tejada. She just arrived at the scene and armed with two special edition .50 caliber Desert Eagle pistols. The most powerful handgun in the world.
These DE pistols were more powerful than regular DE pistols since they were specially customized for Maj. Valery. They're even powerful than the Magnum pistol.
The soldiers became elated after seeing her. She was well known by them. In fact, she's a super star because of her skills. Her abilities were a cut from the rest. In less than a minute, she killed seven boracs. All of them were hit in the neck!
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Olen was fighting with all his might to protect Tina but some of the creatures were able to come nearer to her. One of the nine creatures reached Olen and swiftly whacked him with its claws.
It's the only one that came to Olen's location. The other eight were in the soldiers' area.
He was hit at the abdomen and the force was strong enough to throw him meters away from Tina. The creature wanted to separate him from Tina further.
But none of the creatures, not even the bigger ones, can hurt Olen. His jacket, jeans, and inner suit were all made from a special nano material that he can't be injured even by a direct hit of an anti-tank warhead of the RPG-7.
Sensing that something bad will soon happen to Tina, he made a distress call by throwing a marble-size camera on the ground. The marble's light was blinking, indicating that they're calling for reinforcement.
Olen quickly got up while the fierce brute jumped towards him. But he caught it at the neck, surprising the creature at the strength of Olen's grip! The creature was like a helpless prey at the eagle's powerful claws.
Seventy percent of the power of Olen's suit was dedicated to his grip. This allowed him to flick a marble at a maximum range of 4,200 meters. In contrast, the M4 rifle's maximum range is 3,600 meters.
While holding the bigger creature at the neck, he was shooting marbles with spikes that automatically protrude upon release from his fingers to some creatures closing in to Tina. Never was there a time that Olen's focus and accuracy been tested.
While Olen was fighting, the sentinel who photographed the creatures during the tsunami managed to shoot a tracking device into Olen's jeans.
Tina's situation, however, was worsening. The remaining brutes have come closer to her. This time, the best strategy for Olen was hand to hand combat. He shove the creature after crushing its neck and shouted to Tina to distance herself from them.
Olen's hand combat skill and strength proved effective against these kind of enemies. One or two punches are enough to neutralize or disable a borac.
But there were still more than forty of them. Olen was preoccupied. Suddenly, all of them attacked him leaving Tina alone. Olen felt something was wrong.
Alas! Another one from the nine creatures reached Tina. From the location of the soldiers it swiftly and discretely sprinted towards Tina without Olen noticing it.
The huge borac grabbed Tina on her face and elevated her from the ground. She felt excruciating pain.
"Olleeennn!" Tina struggled to shout.
Olen panicked; his heart pounding. He quickly reacted and shot the creature with a marble. Spikes jut out of the marble an instant after he flicked it.
But he missed! Instead of hitting the neck, he hit its back, near its right shoulder.
The livid Borac only ignored its wound. Olen was horrified at the thought of losing Tina. It was the first time he felt such shocking fear. He felt a strong electric current flowed from his legs up to his head.
Tina shrieked. Blood flowed from her face as the creature's claws embedded on her cheeks. There's no doubt its intention was to crush Tina's face! It wanted to eat her face!!
But suddenly, something fleeting miraculously made the creature stop! A coconut fell and hit its head. There were few palm and coconut trees that still stood after the third tsunami.
The creature can't accept that a mere coconut would ruin its great moment of finishing their formidable enemy who just wiped out more than half of them. Thus, it looked up and angrily roared at a bundle of coconuts.
The coconuts seemed frightened by the roar as they can be seen to shook a little. However, they soon retaliated as another coconut fell and hit the head of the borac.
The creature looked up again and let go of Tina to make a fiercer roar. But it's roar was abruptly interrupted when something sharp hit its neck! The bleeding wound, though not fatal, put the creature in distress.
A fourteen year-old boy appeared near Tina and was holding two wooden sticks. His name was Ato. The stick in his right hand, which has Baybayin (ancient characters) inscriptions on it, was twenty-eight inches long and less than an inch in diameter.
The one in his left was only six-inch long but with the same thickness. It doesn't have Baybayin inscription but in both its ends, the Greek alpha and omega symbols were inscribed respectively. The sticks were like arnis sticks except that the second stick was short.
"Ato, help!" uttered Tina with a shivering voice.
Ato was shocked at what he saw around. The smell of scattered fresh carcasses combined with gun powder was repulsive. He noticed Tina's face bleeding profusely.
The creature saw Ato and furiously charged at him, thinking that he's the one who wounded its neck. It swung its left hand to slash Ato with its claws in the face. The creature's claws left red straight marks on the boy's face.
Ato felt anger as he realized something.
"You seem to love hitting people in the face," said Ato vindictively to the creature.
The inscriptions in the longer stick shone as Ato tightened his grip on the stick; and, with a backward smash, hit the beast in the face, crushing its jaws. The big borac fell on its knees lifeless. It was the second of the nine creatures to die.
He then swiftly thrust his left hand forward to release the shorter stick, and it flew in the horizontal direction like a bullet. Four creatures were successively hit by it and they fell to the ground. The stick pierced through their chests like they are but papers.
Clearly, this boy can control the trajectory of the shorter stick or make it fly away and back to him through his mere will. And while the shorter stick was still airborne, Ato moved swiftly from one creature to another, giving them each a single lethal blow using the longer stick.
Olen, on the other hand, ran towards Tina to protect and help her. Tina moaned as she felt the pain on her cheek intensified.
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Meanwhile, thirty-eight soldier and police reinforcements have arrived. Their M4 rifles have fitted grenade launchers and twenty of them were bringing a revolver-type grenade launcher.
The two hundred units of Milkor MGL (Multi Grenade Launcher), is among the latest addition to the Maharlikan armed forces arsenal. It looked like a revolver gun except that it's big and its six bullets were grenades.
The President ordered these twenty grenade revolvers to be brought to Boracay four months ago precisely to prepare against a threat that was happening right now. There were few who criticized this expensive move by the Government but the overwhelming majority welcomed it as progress.
With the powerful grenade launchers, the reinforcements managed to repel the enemies and greatly reduced their numbers. Together with the surviving soldiers, they were able to take cover inside a restaurant and defended their position.
Unfortunately, they've now depleted their ammunitions. In order to conserve their grenade ammunitions, they only occasionally fire at a Borac that attempt to move closer their location.
Maj. Valery was also severely injured. When she arrived at the scene, her Desert Eagle pistols were fully loaded. They have seven rounds each. She also had four reserved fully loaded magazines. All in all, she had 42 rounds or bullets.
Ater two minutes, she killed a total of 39 creatures. Did she missed three times? Far from it! She killed 38 creatures with one bullet each in the neck. But she also killed two of the bigger creatures and she had to put two bullets each on their neck. That's a total of 41 bullets.
She missed only in her last shot. She hit the shoulder of a creature instead of its neck when another creature jumped at her and injured her. She could have been killed had not the reinforcements came on time. Now, she can't fight because of her injury.
Also, the reinforcements have killed another two of the bigger creatures. There were still three remaining bigger Boracs. Two of them were visible with the rest of the beasts – there now remained more than seventy of them. But the third, the female one, cannot be seen. Since it appeared, this female creature hasn't attacked anyone yet.
The creatures briefly paused from attacking. They hesitated to rush towards the new enemies because of their powerful guns, not knowing that the military have nearly emptied already their grenade ammunitions.
"If they all attack, it will be the end of all of us!" uttered by one of the soldiers.
Then one of the bigger creatures saw a soldier that was separated. The borac's frustration was already high because they cannot attack the soldiers inside the restaurant. The grenade revolvers were stopping them.
Thus, when it saw the soldier, it felt relief and was in hyped to kill the poor man. It fiercely rushed towards him and jumped. The soldier was, again, Jope Tria.
He saw the creature advancing fast towards him. Though, he's shaking and in shocked, his body moved, as it were, by itself and he managed to evade a bit the creature's slash which was supposedly directed to his chest.
But blood showered from his arm since it was the one that was hit and was cut by the creature's razor sharp talons. Jope's arm was severed just above the elbow! The poor soldier howled. The blistering pain brought him back to his full self-awareness.
The creature quickly turned back and grab Jope at his upper left arm – the one that was cut – and raised him. Jope was elevated from the ground and the blood from his arm showered in his face. He's screaming due to extreme pain!
The creature extended back its right arm to thrust its claws at Jope's heart.
"GOD, HELP ME!" Jope wailed a prayer. He was weeping. It's the only thing he can do.
But nothing was stopping the creature. It growled at Jope's face and swiftly thrust its strong talons! Jope can't do anything but closed his eyes.
The next instant, Jope felt the sudden pressure in his chest. But it stopped, and nothing further has happened. He opened his eyes and glanced down at his chest. He saw the creature's hand was still.
The creture's claws pierced through his clothes but something prevented them from reaching his flesh. Then Jope noticed the top side of his Bible jutting out a bit from his pocket. He remembered that he had always been carrying a Bible in the pocket in his chest.
Did the book saved him? No, it was not the book. Jope surveyed the Borac's hand and saw another hand holding the creature's wrist. The attacker' grip on the borac's wrist was powerful so that it was twisted a bit. The male borac howled due to the pain.
When Jope looked at the owner of the hand, he was shocked to see the female creature! He's confused and frightened too. Whatever he may think, there's no doubt the female Borac saved him.
The female creature's face was firm, showing that it acted with clear intention. And its powerful grip showed a strength that dominated the rest of the beasts.
The male borac let go of Jope and the female one shove it to the side. Then the female creature grabbed Jope at his upper right arm and stared at his bleeding arm.
It extended out its tongue and licked his wound, wetting it with its saliva! Jope felt a burning sensation. The creature's saliva was quite acidic. But moments after, his arm stopped bleeding and the wound dried.
