37 Lingering trace (I)

Alex was caught in surprise when Malina's body suddenly surged forwards like been force from behind by somebody. Luckily Alex responds in time, he flexibly managed to grab her body from falling flat face down. He looks around to search the culprit, but there is no one around nearby them. Where is everybody?

But Alex didn't focus on it too much because he is more worried about Malina's condition. He supports Malina's body that has half laying half sitting by holding Malina's shoulders. At the same time, he tried a few times to wake her up by patting her cheeks and calling for her name.

Due to his anxiousness, he didn't control his strength well and that petting on the cheeks already become slapping on the cheeks. In the future, Alex keeps feelings he so blessed that Malina's remain unaware of this act.

The exact time Malina lost consciousness, that strange phenomena also affected a young single man that waiting at the roadside not far from the entrance where Alex still slapping..cough..."petting" Malina's cheeks.

The young man who's was standing all alone suddenly bent forward and dropped his bag pack. His body sweating all over and quickly drenched his sleeveless black shirt. He was panicked but cannot utter even a single sound to ask for help.

His upper area shoulder starts feeling warm at first before intensify into burning. The heat of intense burning sensation now changing into pain, making him losing strength to stand properly. And a few seconds later, he already standing on his knees. This young man now instead of feeling relieved that he's pained gone as quickly as it comes now totally freaked out because he no longer has the ability to control his body. Except for his mind, he totally loses feeling all of it!

No matter how hard he tries to moves his body, it doesn't listen to his intention at all and every effort become futile. Suddenly his body stands up awkwardly, like a puppet that has been controlled by invisible strings from amateur puppetmaster.

His body crouched a bit before running in superhuman speeds towards Malina. In a blink of eyes, he already eats up 20 metres distance between them. Without haste, he pulled out a black butterfly that currently probes into Malina's skins that have been exposing at her back clothes from small slit space with its proboscis.

That young man put his mouth close at the back head of Malina that still be held in Alex embrace. He heard his own voice chanting foreign words that he himself never heard it before. Even Alex that stay so close didn't hear what he said to Malina. But that one particular sentence seems to resonate within Malina's body.

But the new stranger didn't notice it either since he already moved away from Malina. He looks up watching the black butterflies that flying on the air. An ominous aura spread over surrounding those insects that moving so fast in abnormally way.

The size of each wing almost the same size of two palm male adult size side together. Since their wings, that way bigger than their body makes it's easier to manoeuvre and make an erratic fluttering pattern. Trying hard to be unpredictable to detect which way they will fly.

A green and blue light colour swirling together that shooting from all five fingers on his right hands. Those lights start to merge each other before gathered together around his palm before changing its shape and transform into three long cyan needles.

That stranger's body leaps into the air and then rotates two times while airborne and shooting two cyan light longs needles consecutively towards the two blacks butterflies. And the last remaining needles he shot on the earliest black butterfly that attached itself on Malina's body that still struggling to fly after been thrown down before.