170 Taking a stance, once and for all

Chapter 170: Taking a stance, once and for all

I HATE YOU!" Shouted Sansoul one last time to his mother's face before letting go of his mother's wrist before almost falling down while breathing heavily since he had shouted his entire rent without breathing once.

Nicole stood in place, head down, not moving an inch as if completely frozen and lost in her own thought, but after a few more seconds of silent she raised her head back up, looked down at Sansoul and in a perfectly neutral tone asked:

-And?

Sansoul looked up at her with a slightly confused expression, he wasn't sure what she meant by that and decided to clarify his demands: "I don't want you to be around me anymore, I don't want to see you ever again actually, I want to you to get out of my life and never come back!"

-And?" She repeated, almost nagging him

-And what?!" he lashed out again

-You said I didn't care about other people's opinion so, why should I care about yours?" She took a step forward, lined over him and said: "I don't give a shit that you hate me, or nor, I don't care if you lose your leg or get traumatized for the rest of your miserable life, I don't care about any of this. If I have to smash your sister's head against a wall over, and over again to achieve my goal, I'll do it. If have to torture you every day for th' next 10 years to get what I want, I'll do it. If I have to cut th' throat of every kid, grandparent and pet in the world to accomplish my objective, I'll manually open, every single door, every single drawer, every single closet of every single house until I'm done. You cannot stop me, because you are nothing, just a speck of dust made to obey my commands." She lined even closer, completely covering the sun and feeling every inch of his vision. "You either do what I say or get replaced, that's all you are allowed to do."

Sansoul, who wasn't intimidated in the slightest, looked up at her, with an unwavering determination and said:" I won't do any of that, I refuse to follow your orders, I'm free."

She laughed slightly at his answer and in a playful tone asked: "You want to fight?"

-I'll fight.

Nicole smirked and, in the following tenth of a second sent Sansoul flying off with a kick below his rib on his liver, the boy crashed on a metal container, breaking the metal wall in a deafening crake.

-You want to fight!?" Shouted the red-haired woman in an over excited tone.that showed just how drunk on power she was. "Then come at me!"

As she yelled her provocation sparks of electricity started circulating around her, flicking at random and burning everything in her surrounding, before accumulating around her hands, who started expanding, becoming bigger and bigger until forming into two grotesquely over exaggerated bear paws with burning red fur and absurdly long and sharp black claws.

At that same time her legs twisted and turned into the one's of a cheetah, as the rest of her body was being covered by a flaming cape that looked like bat's wings that touched the ground and melted the concrete floor.

Nicole lowered herself until she was only a few centimeters above the ground, like a predator about to fall on its prey. Suddenly jumping 10 meters up as she laughed like a mad man, hiding the sun and replacing it with her twisted red figure. Her hair turning pure white and amalgamating together into some kind of long malleable tube of almost organic matter that started bulging and twisting as a scale-like pattern started appearing on its surface covering the entire amalgamation of hair.

Then, once the pattern had finished spreading itself, the tip of the woman's hairs formed into an elongated sphere with two shining red crystals on each side, forming what appeared to be the head of a white snake that started hissing at its surroundings.

The creature opened its mouth displaying its long bright red tongue and its pair of jet black teeth. It then rose up and started swinging around in all directions like a fish underwater, as if it both wasn't affected by gravity and had a mind of its own.

The chimera-like woman then landed with her two palms first, obliterating the container Sansoul had landed in. Slowly lowering her head, which was covered by a large bloodthirsty smile, to look inside the remains of the metallic box, she found no trace of the boy.

Enraged by her son's escape, Nicole smashed the container again, forming a 10 meter wide impact on the ground that shattered it in two, creating a 5 meter deep crevice spending tens of meters long as she melted the box until nothing remained.

Shouting an unbelievably loud yell, which was a mix between a maddening laugh and a bestial roar Nicole then lowered herself again and dashed at the other nearby containers throwing, smacking, crushing them however she pleased as if they were toys to her as she hunted her son down, running after every trace left behind.

-Come to mama! Don't you want a big hug!?" She howled as she continued to atomize everything in her way like a real monster, legs kicking the boxes tens of meters in the air, her hand flattening them like pancakes and her hairs moving like a snake, biting walls with their sharpened teeth creating long gashed on their surface letting the woman see inside.

Landing in a loud impact, the woman's face was twisted in anger and frustration from looking for Sansoul as decided to change plans. Suddenly bursting into a series of bestial jumps around the port and its seemingly endless sea of abandoned containers, she reached the one of the huge metallic crane and started climbing it like a cat would climb a tree. Once on top she kept going along the arm while glaring down below before locking her her target and immediately jumping off while shouting: "FOUND YOU!"

Rolling to the side to evade the impact, the boy was still thrown back by the shock wave which flipped him upside down. Extending his 2 hands to touch the ground and use them to jump while going a half front-flip and landing on his feet.

Catching a glance of a shining object Sansoul side stepped, narrowly avoiding a piece of metal his mother had torn off a wall and thrown at him. Turning to face her, Sansoul didn't recognize his mother, from her psychopathic smile, her impossibly disproportion arm and leg that made it look like she was wearing an exoskeleton and the giant snake that had replaced her hair and was hissing at him, she didn't look human to him, she had become a monster much worse than any he had seen in his previous world. For a fraction of a second he wondered how she came to be that way, how she turned into such an abomination, such a monstrous parody of herself, but the answer showed itself almost immediately as he realized that she had always been like that.

-You can't run away anymore." She threatened detaching every syllable from the other, like one would with a young child while slowly closing the gap between the two of them.

Sansoul, who knew that his mother could end his life at any moment, took a stand, facing her head on as his mouth formed into a large, excited and overconfident smile

-It was never my intention." He retorted in a smirk.

Nicole's overly distorted smile grew even larger as she rose back up on her two legs and was now standing at almost 4 meters, completely overshadowing Sansoul.

-Do you really think you can win against me in a fight?" she asked, mocking him, before bursting out laughing.

-No." He smirked. "Not in a fair fight at least." Sansoul then brought his hand to his ear, where his communication device was, pressed against it and shouted: "Now!"

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