Chapter 26: Brightflash

Raziel left the Vice-Admiral's room without the file on Maca Zahir. He saw Betty at the door to his room carrying a travelling bag with her.

Betty passed the bag to Raziel, "Pack the clothes in your wardrobe into this. No one is going to buy you clothes in the capital."

Raziel collected the bag from her and walked into the room. He threw bag onto the floor and laid his back on the bed with his feet dangling at the edge of the bed. He looked around the room and felt reluctant to stand up and do anything. This room held many unpleasant memories for him.

It was also this room he made a resolution to get stronger so he can look for his sister. He thought back to when he tried to commit suicide. He remembered how he used an energy that was not his to create cosmic fire to save himself. Then he realised it must be the Mojo in the air he used.

He tried to use the Mojo again but this time he failed. Attempting to use the Mojo made him tired and he wanted to sleep it off but he thought of his sister waiting somewhere for him to save her.

He stood up from the bed and walked into the bathroom. He sat inside the bath tub. If he made a mistake with his cosmic fire at least the water would reduce the mess he might make.

He opened the tap in the bath tub and let water fill it to the brim. He closed his eyes and tried to get into the same feeling he felt when he realised he didn't want to die.

The water in the bath tub calmed his nerves and he felt Mojo all over his body even in the strands of his hair. He tried to turn all the Mojo surrounding his body into cosmic fire but it was futile. His body was too weak to handle it. The last time was a fluke.

After failing a couple of times, he thought if he couldn't handle that much Mojo perhaps he could handle a little. He concentrated around the Mojo surrounding his hands and turned it into cosmic fire. He succeeded at once.

He was very happy. Golden fire surrounded his hands without burning him. Not even the water in the bath tub could quench it. It was burning brightly. He stood up naked from the bath tub with the golden fire still burning around his hands.

He then tried to turn the Mojo around his feet into cosmic fire too but was hit with a splitting headache which made the cosmic fire on his hands unstable. It detonated with a silent pop sound.

He got out of the bath tub and tried to make it to his bed without crashing on the floor. It looks like he can't use Brightflash on both his hands and feet at the same time. He should be able to use them separately.

He decided to name this new attack method Brightflash. He doesn't have the imagination to think of a cool name.

He thought if he could transform this Mojo in the air into cosmic fire may be he could transform it into lightning too. He should try that when his headache has subsided.

He got onto his bed and rolled around on it. He couldn't even sleep because the headache was threatening to split his head.

He got off the bed and went to Betty's room to ask if she had medicine he could use. He knocked her door and then he realised it was dark already. He didn't realise so much time had passed when he was training. Betty opened her door, she was in her night gown.

Betty went back to her bed after opening the door, "Come inside."

Raziel came in. The moonlight shone through the window and laid gently on Betty. She appeared so beautiful Raziel temporarily forgot what he came in for.

Betty pushed some strands of hair behind her ears, "So why are you knocking my door in the middle of the night?"

Raziel was already undressing her in his mind and imagining several scenarios. He swallowed hard, "I have headache, do you have any medicine?"

Betty nodded and walked to a cabinet that was directly opposite Raziel. She bent down to look through it.

Raziel could see her amazing curves through her night gown. He wondered how he had never noticed it before. When she bent down, he almost lost his mind.

He tried hard to keep his eyes away. It was very difficult for him not to walk up to her and grab her.

Betty stood up straight holding a tablet in her hand and flung her hair backwards. She walked up to him and stuck the tablet in his mouth with her fingers. She let her fingers linger in his mouth for a few seconds.

Raziel was almost overcome by irrationality but turned around at the last second and left her room.

Betty picked up a towel and wiped her hands. She chucked silently, "He has a very strong willpower. That's surprising considering what he has gone through in the last few days."