3 Devastation

The sand burst when Tina made an abrupt stop in front of Olen. Then using her index and middle fingers and with swift movements, she wrote some unknown characters on her right arm beginning from the back of her palm up to her elbow, after which she grabbed tightly her upper arm.

Then something unthinkable happened. Starting from her fingers, her right arm's appearance changed.

"Ahhhhh...!" The transformation caused an excruciating pain as if her hand is being burned. The color of her right arm's fingers became dark and her hand appeared to be that of a demon.

One after another, the characters she wrote on her arm glow, bright red color, as the transformation climbed up to her elbow. Then, she thrust her palm downwards to the ground.

Ancient summoning symbols simultaneously appeared on the sand, and the fire of hell flashed out of the glowing paths she just made in the shoreline.

It's a 4-foot thick wall of dense light or energy field touched with ruby red and more than seven kilometers long, almost covering the entire island, which was around eight kilometers long.

But before the wall of light reached a height equal to that of the tsunami, the latter slammed into it. Large volume of water splashed above as if trying to escape over the translucent wall.

But the wall quickly grew to its maximum height, which was more than twice the height of the tsunami, and prevented the water from spilling over.

CRAAACK...KAAATTOOOMM!

The impact shook the entire island and produced thunderous claps never heard before. The surrounding areas were devastated, killing all forms of life in the extreme sides of the island!

The two kids that were kitefishing were also pushed by the raging water that entered from the side of the wall but, fortunately, they were not seriously injured.

And vast number of people was saved, thanks to the hellfire summoned by Tina from the netherworld, which acted as an energy-shield.

"So, this is the full power of hellfire! It's my first time to see her bring out such incredible power. Even I would be nothing against her." Olen was clearly awestruck and intimidated. It's his first time to see Tina like this and she suddenly appeared a different person to him.

"That time... how foolish had I been for challenging her," Olen told himself as he recalled a past that concerned him and Tina.

It's not clear, however, if there were people who saw the bright wall stopped the wave since everybody has been fleeing miserably away from the shore. And when the water subsided, except for a vivid rainbow that appeared, the hellfire wall wasn't clearly visible because the sun was shining brightly.

"Tina!? Are you ok? Can you hold it a bit longer? More giant waves will follow."

"I'll try!.. ahhh…" Tina can't hide the pain. This was her first time to have as many burns caused by using her power.

Two minutes later, Tina can't keep the force-field any longer and it simply disappeared.

"I guess none is coming anymore," she said this as a way of apologizing. Her right arm was starting to come back to its normal appearance. Her burns were healing.

"This is strange. Tsunamis occur as a series of waves, but this one is different," said Olen anxiously. He was not sure whether he should be happy or not about this fact.

"Given the geographical location of this island, there's zero probability for tsunamis as big as that to occur here!" Olen wanted to entertain and also impress Tina by telling her more details about tsunamis but she appear disinterested.

Meanwhile;

"None of the creatures appeared!" muttered the man who was photographing the tsunami. Using his telescopic camera, he keenly searched the shoreline and the sea but he saw no sign of the creatures.

"They must have withdrawn when they saw the imposing bright wall of light ahead," he thought.

Olen and Tina returned to their cottage to dress. They were just wearing a short and a two-piece respectively when the tsunami occured. As they watched the news on their mobile phones, they were aghast to discover that the tsunami occurred only in Boracay Island.

The volume of water was concentrated at the center portion of the tsunami, which directly faced the White Beach, giving a clear indication that the tsunami was purposely targeting the White Beach.

-

The classified information concerning the mysterious creatures beneath the tsunami was immediately reported to the highest ranks of the military.

At 11:30 in the morning, the Maharlikan President, Sandrigo, called for an emergency meeting in Camp Crame, the central police camp of this country.

The National Defense Secretary, the Armed Forces of Maharlika (AFM) Chief of Staff, the Maharlikan National Police (MNP) Chief, and the Presidential Security Group (PSG) Commander, who was known to be close to the President, were present. The Navy Chief also joined the meeting through video call.

The officials agreed on the strong possibility of the unnatural origin of the tsunami. Another topic discussed was the discovery, four months ago, of a corpse along the shore of Boracay which looked the same with those creatures in the pictures. The cause of the creature's death was unknown but its body has signs of shark bites.

"About an hour before the tsunami, an unusual under-sea quake was felt near the island. Forty minutes ago, the quake occurred again," said the Defense Secretary. "That means a second tsunami will possibly occur anytime from now. Furthermore, the tsunami was initially small but its size grew unusually as it approached the shore," he added.

"There's no doubt then that the tsunami wasn't a natural occurrence," said the Navy chief. The officials looked at each other.

"So that explains why the people stopped instead of fleeing further away from the shore. At first, they saw the tsunami was small," the police chief said. His name was Rocky and he was completely bald.

I've already ordered an evacuation of the civilians," said the President. Everyone turned their heads to the president.

"Gentlemen!" the Defense Secretary called the men's attention. "Four months ago, a dead corpse, which looks the same with those creatures in the picture, was found in the shore of Boracay. Based on initial studies, it's not clear whether the creature is alien or not."

"Then what could it be?" Rocky asked sharply. The lights in the room glared off his shiny head.

"Alien or man-made weapon are equally worst scenarios since both could mean war!" the President said in a low and serious voice.

"Let's hope then that these monsters are just products of a freak accident of nature," said the Armed Forces chief.

"Whatever those creatures are, I'm afraid that hope is bleak, Sir!" a voluptuous lady interrupted loud enough to call the attention of the men. She just entered the room a minute ago without being noticed by the men.

"Since the discovery of the corpse, the military was already on alert. As some of us here knew, it was the reason why the President deployed soldiers in Boracay four months ago. Two days after the deployment, Boracay was ordered closed," she added while showing some images of the creature on the large LED screen before them.

The two Chiefs looked at the President, waiting for him to tell them who the attractive lady was.

"She's mine. No... I mean, she's with me," said the not so good-looking and thick-faced President. The acne holes in his nose showed signs of having been abused by his fingers.

"She's Atty. Conrie, the new Deputy Director for Special Investigative Services," he quickly added.

"These pictures show dead rare fishes washed on the shores." Conrie showed them pictures of sea-serpents, giant groupers, and a megamouth shark. They've been seen by locals either dead or dying.

"These fishes," she continued, "looked healthy but died due to deep wounds and bites. The result of Agent Ludi's investigations is that the bites belong to a single but unknown species. After close examination, we now know for certain that they died due to attacks from these man-like creatures. Some of the bite marks match with the teeth pattern of the creature we've recovered in Boracay."

"Did the sharks already took their revenge on those Boracs?" Rocky asked intending to ease a bit the room.

"Boracs?" the President's brows curled? "What Boracs?"

"The Boracay creature," explained Rocky. The President and the others looked at each other.

Conrie stared at the police chief. Their eyes locked and, suddenly, Conrie saw the chief's face shone. But the shiniest in her eyes, which dazzled her most, was his bald head.

She pulled herself back. "Based on our investigations, there's little doubt that the Boracay creature, the Borac, died due to sharks' attack, so, yes, that's correct! But what we have right now is anything but amusing. Here's our greatest concern!" she showed another image to the men, ready to give them a briefing.

"We now have," Conrie continued, "initial identification of the mysterious greyish white globster-like carcass found in the shore of San Antonio, Oriental Mindoro, three weeks after the Boracay creature was found. Due to the unusual incidents that have occurred on shores since last year as well as the shocking discovery of the Borac, all the police in coastline towns were instructed to report immediately to our office any mysterious sightings. Before the news of the hairy globster reached the media, the police already informed us of it and we've sent agent Ludi to promptly go to Mindoro to investigate the object."

She showed another image of the globster.

"Agent Ludi reported to me that his first ocular inspection already showed the undeniable unnatural character of the six-meter long object. Thus, he promptly instructed the local Fishery law enforcer to include in his statement before the media that it's possibly a decomposing whale or a basking shark and that it has been quickly buried by the local Government for sanitary reasons. Not known to most of you, the carcass was brought to the Bureau of Fisheries' central laboratory for examination. DNA analysis show that it doesn't belong to any known species."

The men again looked at each other. Conrie continued, "What is odd is that the Borac DNA has affinity with the DNA of the globsters. But what really shocked us is that the autopsy shows that the hairy blob is a thick amniotic sac containing a fetus of a much bigger creature!"

The men, except the President and the PSG Commander, felt uneasy with her report.

"Wait, Atty. We are talking about two different kinds of creatures here, right?" the Navy chief interjected.

"Yes!" Conrie retorted as she looked at the chief. "The boracs and the globsters. Two entirely different creatures in terms of physical appearance. The affinity in their DNA doesn't mean anything to us yet. We absolutely have no idead what their relation might be."

She turned her head back to the LED screen and continued, "After this alarming discovery, we immediately sent marine scientists in Dinagat Islands to exhume the remains of the similar 6.3 meters long white hairy carcass found on that island. The result of the necropsy showed exactly the same findings – an amniotic sac containing a fetal monster."

Rocky and the army chief leaned forward on the table and looked intently on the monitor waiting to hear more from her.

Emotion prompted her to speak quickly:

"These findings gave the clue to our experts to identify the mysterious ten-meter dead beast found in the coast of Leyte last year. It's a newly hatched or, I suppose, newly born version of the one found in Mindoro and in Dinagat Islands – about three to four months old.

Their morphology show an unbelievably strong physique! We've estimated that a fully adult form of the creature will be not less than 30 meters long."

"Longer than a basketball court, impossible!" the Defense Secretary interrupted sharply. The Navy chief gulped.

"And here's more," she continued, "simulation results show that a modern battle tank's cannon won't even be able to bruise the adult skin tissues of these behemoths."

"WHAT?!" Rocky burst out. "What's happening with the world?!"

The others stared at him. They looked annoyed. He had been eating all the snacks in the table. But to Atty. Conrie, he appeared cute. She continued,

"So far, our explanation for the origin of these mysterious creatures is..."

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