Chapter 22: Awakened

I quickly run through the civilians who are going by their lives while the group of dickheads are continuously chasing me like hyenas, i turn my head to see how far they are and damn, the guys are coming closer!

Fuck!

I immediately take a sharp turn and go into a narrow way that i know well, doing this gave me some seconds of time since the group got slowed down by the small entrance.

I smiled seeing the familiar fence and with a simple leap i placed my foot on the right wall and pushed my body further upwards, easily jumping over the fence.

The guys seeing me do this move widened their eyes and cursed: "Fuck! She is athletic!" They tried to jump over too but not everyone managed to do it, and the four guys that did, were a notch slower than me.

I laughed while looking at theirs attempts and immediately speeded towards my destination.

So the four guys and me entered into a chase moment like some high school films, what an irony.

I weaved from block to block trying to confuse them but it seems that they aren't that dumb.

"Huff, huff, damn." My breath became more heavy the more time i ran, and after minutes of continuously running i needed to take a break to rest.

So i hided behind a dumpster and took a bottle of water to idrate my throat, these guys are really persistent.

The moment my brain relaxed, my body soon followed, but this proved to be a mistake because while breathing deeply to regain stamina, someone grabbed my hijab and yanked me from the dumpster with force.

"Arghh" i moved furiously my body to try to remove myself from the grip but two guys came and grabbed my hands: "Hehe, bitch, we got you." The guy i kicked before came to me.

"H-how?" I asked him, how did he reach me this fast and he grinned while showing his car keys.

Fuck.

From the usual noise of the city I didn't put much thought into the cars, i forgot that they could have a driving license.

The asshole came towards me with a strange look: "You're kinda beautiful, you know.." but then his eyes widened and he spoke further: "It will be satisfying beating that face of yours."

Suddenly, I see a fist coming towards my face, in panic i instinctively close my eyes, but... After some seconds, that punch doesn't land.

Why do i don't feel pain? What is going on? With caution i say Bismiallah, and open my eyes only to be completely shocked and scared by what i saw.

Everything stopped with while losing color, my body floated upwards against my will while my brown eyes looked everywhere in panic.

Am i dying?

I didn't say the shahada!

I tried to speak but no sound came out of my mouth while the neighborhood i was currently in begun to dissipate untill it disappeared along with the surroundings.

Even through everything was losing color i continued to float upwards, but this was strange because it was not like the films where everything becomes gray, here the color themselves disappeared, it was like seeing only black lines that soon dissipated!

I looked at how the planet below me lost all of it's beautiful color and dissipated too, i couldn't even cry because my body was not even following my orders.

I looked at how the sun, planets, stars, galaxies and even the universe...

Lost color and disappeared.

But then light came and everything returned back to normal while i continued to fall with my speed increasing by the second, untill i opened my eyes and saw the fist coming towards me in slow motion.

H-how?

Did i gain super powers? I'm a protagonist?

Nah, that would be wishful thinking.

But soon after, i could feel a new sensation on my body, and more precisely on my veins, a new form of energy, is it mana? Probably.

I made it flow on my body more actively and try to get up with force, succeeding easily with the guys restraining me floating on the air slowly, i ignored them and set my hijab well.

I glared at the guy who was slowly looking towards me with his face changing from arrogance to fear.

I gritted my teeth and punched him with anger.

Take this!

But i forgot that i just sent three guys flying, by just getting up, so what would happen when i punch someone intentionally with force?

My fist penetrated his chest easily, the bones, blood and organs leaking out, my fist was drenched in blood, with my eyes widening.

Did i... Just kill someone?

With my emotional shock, everything turned back to normal with the guy looking slowly down to my arm and then at my eyes weakly, i saw the light of his eyes fading and then he fell down.

*Bang!* (×3)

I heard three sounds of bodies hitting heavily against surfaces and turning around i see how one guy got his spine snapped in half by the dumpster while the other two were plastered on the walls.

One still alive, looking at me with regret and hate, he then closed his eyes and slided down leaving a trail of blood.

"I- i.." i shuttered with my mind going overdrive, i didn't want to! I was just protecting myself!!

But then i heard foot steps and turning around i saw a woman dressed casually in red with her sun glasses locked into me, she looked at the scene and said: "I felt some essence being violently consumed but i didn't expect a new awakener here."

"I-i didn't want to! They were attacking me!" I shouted in panic while she just struggled: "It doesn't matter, you killed them, and that's it." Her words made me tremble.

She then lowered down her eye glasses showing her blood red eyes: "Don't worry, this is not the first time it happened, when a new awakener gain access to essence it's difficult to control it without causing damage to the surroundings. Only some prodigies managed to have complete control of it at the first time."

She then moved her arms causing all of the blood around along with the corpses to turn into blood red mist, soon absorbing it into a sphere of blood: "And they can be counted with a hand." She continued.

"Come, i will deal with this." She said and turned around walking away without waiting for me.

I looked at the scene that was clean for not the slightly bent dumpster but there was no trace of a murder here...

What is happening...

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Author note:

I wanted to show that not every awakening is safe and easy, this is not a story of flowers and happiness.

People can die if the awakeners don't pay attention.

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