Sudden appearance

Loren's hair glowed with a beautiful electric blue as it discharged little electricity zaps. It seemed like it was floating around, standing in the air. Her eyes glowed a hue of purple and blue that captivated Ender, feeling lost inside those perfect colors.

He shook his head and thought, 'What the hell! Why do people need to be so attractive, first Alex and now her.'

Loren turned around as she said, "I hope you have good explanations... and a good lawyer. You just killed a man in midst of a road and with two witnesses... never thought you would go this far..."

The middle-aged man got up and took a look at the woman in front of him, "You... This time, I will make sure I send you to the afterlife."

The man dusted off his shoulders and fixed his jacket.

'I thought he was as mindless as that boy...'

"Looks who it is... I don't really like that fate, I think it suits you better."

When Loren said that, the man gritted his teeth and shoot yet again at the girl. She just moved aside and let the bullet go by, missing Ender by mere centimeters.

'Fuck! I need to be more cautious here.'

Ender thought as he fixated his sight on the man. He heard some doors opening and looked to the side, where he found some people going out of their homes to see what happened. Even people went to watch from their balconies.

They were confused at first but when they saw the dead body...

"He-He killed a man! Call the BB, he's a psycho!!" An old lady shouted.

The man looked at her while slowly saying, "So... I'm a psycho right?"

*BANG!*

The man pointed a finger at the old lady, instantly shooting a wind bullet. When Loren saw the gesture she instantly wrapped herself in electricity, boosting her speed, and ran toward the lady, but it wasn't enough.

Though she wasn't alone.

'Dash.'

Ender dashed toward the old lady, moving her out of the way safely.

[-17HP + Slight Bleeding; 113/130 HP]

Sadly, Ender felt as if something struck him on the shoulder. After putting the woman in a safe spot, he glanced and saw a small hole, bleeding.

He activated Healing, which got rid of the Bleeding and slowly regenerated his body.

'I'm starting to get sick of getting shot.'

"And of course, the little fucking boy has to interve-" Before finishing, Loren struck him in the face, sending him sliding backward.

He activated a surge of wind around him, boosting his speed as well.

They started to violently clash, moving everywhere on the road. Ender had some trouble following them with their sight with Dash deactivated, showing just how fast both of them were.

But he noticed something, Loren was slowly decreasing her speed.

The man noticed this and exploded his surge of wind. Loren used all of her electricity around her to form a wall and displace the wind blades. It was enough to do so, but she was still blasted backward.

Ender quickly moved and caught her before she could hit the ground.

"Are you alright?! Do you even know him?" Ender quickly asked

"Long story... destroyed my old home, along with my father..." Loren said as she stood up

"Sorry ab-"

"Don't be, he wasn't a good person." She quickly cut Ender off as she wrapped herself in electricity again while making another clash against the man.

*Ping! Ping!*

[Emergency Task: Defend your new neighborhood from the psycho!]

Ender quickly read the hologram in front of him, 'I guess that means I need to get rid of him.' He took off his black hoodie, revealing a white tank top.

However, he couldn't just go inside the fight and expect to do something. He would work as a support to Loren and act only when she was in trouble, which didn't take long.

Loren made a bad move, leaving her entire back exposed which the psycho quickly used to his advantage.

He wrapped all of the wind around his fist and Hollow Struck her as hard as he could, smashing her toward the road.

Ender couldn't intervene as it happened faster than he was able to analyze. Yet the moment he saw Loren dropping to the ground he dashed toward the psycho and pushed him against the car, moving the vehicle some meters back.

Loren on the other hand lay unresponsive.

Ender turned her around and watched the massive wound she had on her forehead, which was bleeding profoundly. Ender lifted her and went toward the sidewalk.

He looked to his side and saw a family of four looking at the situation, "Give her something to stop the bleeding, I will take care of that man."

The mother nodded as she carried Loren inside the house.

Ender looked back and ran toward the car, from where the man was emerging. He looked around as if he had lost something, "Where's the girl?"

Ender, not letting the man catch a breath, smashed his head against the car's bodywork, stunning him. He then grabbed the man, activated Dash, and ran as fast as he could away from the neighborhood, toward the forest.

After reaching it in less than five seconds he threw the man against a tree, and leaned against a boulder, trying to catch some air.

'I think... I've never run so fast in my life... I'm close to the speed of sound when running this quick.'

He took deep raspy breaths as he stood up. The psycho got up while coughing and looked toward Ender.

After he calmed his breathing he said, "You got some balls... it's not every day when someone overpowers an ex-BB Official."

The moment Ender heard BB his eyes widen as he stared at the man, who started to laugh.

"That's right, you are fucked. Well, I only wanted to get the attention of that girl. If it wasn't for her I'd still be in the BB." The man started laughing like a maniac.

"You are out of your mind..."

"Huh?! What if I am? I just wanted to teach her a lesson, but since you decided to intervene I guess I need to teach you one as well."

Suddenly, he activated that surge of wind and dashed toward Ender, who activated Dash once again.

They started clashing, but the difference in experience was abysmal. Even if Ender tried to punch him or kick him the ex-officer would read him like an open book.

He counter-attacked every single strike he tried to give, showing how many steps ahead of him he was.

This was the true power of the BB.

After toying for some minutes with him, he grabbed Ender by the neck and pushed him against a boulder.

He started punching Ender everywhere on his chest with such amount of force he thought he was about to pass out. He activated Healing after the first punch but it wasn't enough to nullify the HP lost, even if he recovered a third of his HP every five seconds.

Then, he threw Ender to the ground.

...

[-27HP; 33/130 HP]

Ender was bleeding from his mouth as he tried to catch some air. His tank top was torn off showing multiple bruises and wounds. He stood up with difficulties while cleaning the blood out of his mouth.

He tried activating Healing but...

[Healing cannot be activated, maximum uses (5) per fifteen minutes reached. Any other activation will result in a severe backlash toward the host.]

'You gotta be shitting me. You never told me about it you fucker!' Ender shouted in his mind

"I must say, you are quite resilient, but not enough. I might as well get back there and finish the other girl as well."

"Don't you fucking dare..." Ender slowly said as he straightened his back. He knew he couldn't win against him, but he could buy some time.

"Whatever, I might just finish you already and get back later." The man dashed toward Ender, faster than his eye could analyze, and smashed him against a boulder.

[-12HP; 21/130 HP]

He then pushed his head back at the boulder, which almost knocked him out.

[-8HP; 13/130 HP

Warning! If health drops under 10HP host will faint due to internal damage!]

Ender dropped to the ground with his mouth kissing the dirt.

It was bleeding along with his body in general. He tried taking a breath but he could only cough blood as result.

The psycho took him by the hair, making Ender face him. For once in the entire fight, he could see the madness inside his eyes, and Ender realized how truly broken he was.

With that last spark of life, Ender said.

"I know those eyes... you went through some serious shit." He chuckled as he said that.

"And I know yours, neglected by society. Don't worry, I will grant you eternal peace now!" The man said as he laughed maniacally. He summoned a small dagger, made out of his wind.

'I see, a weapon mold... Guess I've bitten off more than I can chew. That's what happens when I think too much of myself.'

The man lifted the dagger while continuously looking at Ender, and without an ounce of doubt, he slashed it against Ender...

'I'll miss them...'

Suddenly, Ender's right arm got covered by black vines and purple, withered flowers. His right eye turned black, and...

*Screech!*

... a big purple and black flowered appeared and screeched at the man. His big, one-pupil eye shined as it looked at the man, who was standing paralyzed.

He dropped Ender and started walking backward, unable to break eye contact with the flower.

On the other hand, Ender felt as if his entire mind was breaking. The pain that assaulted him was so big he couldn't help but give a heart-breaking scream.

Not only that, but one of his strands of red hair turned into a deep purple which glowed intensely.

The next moment, the flower disappeared along with the vines, freeing Ender from that hellish pain, but still feeling the remnants.

He blinked multiple times as he stared at the man, who was looking at him with a scared look.

Ender got up while using the boulder as support and muttered, in midst of all the remaining pain, with a shaky voice, "Dash."

He dashed toward him, stripped him from his dagger, and cut his throat clean.

"Gahg?!"

The man clutched his neck, not knowing what happened, and fell to the ground while watching Ender welding his dagger. He quickly retrieved it, making it disappear.

After some seconds of drowning in his own blood, the man gave up on life, wondering how a mere kid won against him.

Ender stared at the dead man, lying on the ground with open eyes.

[Warning! Energy is very low (15/200 AEP), it's advisable to regain some as soon as possible.]

He looked at the hologram before making it disappear and looked at his arm and wondered, why.

Why did the ability appear out of nowhere? Why did he have to go through that amount of pain just because of one of his abilities?

Why did he have to gain this ability? It was a curse, not a blessing.

He sighed as he took the man by the hair. He had no energy remaining to run, so he decided to walk toward the neighborhood.

It'd take him at least fifteen minutes because of his very slow pace and the man's weight.

But he didn't care, he wanted to get back home as soon as possible.

With his entire body covered in bruises, his mouth bleeding, and no way to heal himself, Ender kept walking.