Charlie VS Genesis Finale

Troy and Yonoa were two people who taught me two things. One of which I already knew.

One was to never give up.

And two... was to never let your enemy deceive you.

As Genesis held up his hand toward the mountain, I still struggled to get up.

Then, it hit.

Nausea poured in again, causing my head to rattle more than ever before. I held my vomit down, but Genesis wasn't so lucky. He lowered his arm for a mere second, and it was enough.

With the broken blade cutting the palm of my hand up, I squeezed one last time, flipped my body around, and punctured Genesis's throat with the broken blade, which stuck in his windpipe with the white strands wrapped around it.

When I attacked with strikes covered in White Strands, Genesis couldn't heal them.

And so, the rest of the blade came in with a large swing toward the back of his neck. I lodged it straight into his brain stem, and strands exploded out of his body.

The piece of the sword shot straight through my stomach, leaving a gaping hole right in the center of my intestines, and I was thrown to the ground yet again.

Strands left his mouth as if a spirit was leaking out, and after five seconds, his body dropped dead to the floor, as cold as his heart.

Hikari spawned on the floor with her chest beating so fast it looked like she was having a heart attack. I didn't have the strength to finish her off...

"Genesis? HEY! GENESIS!" She screamed out. Tears filled her eyes and she laid her perfect golden hair onto his chest, getting blood all over it.

"Genesis... deserved it..." I told her, trying to walk toward the mountainside.

If I can get to Shike, he can heal me, right?

"You're... right..." Hikari mumbled.

I turned around with a surprised look. I knew I was right... but to think she knew I was right?

"Genesis deserved it..." She said. Her hair was no longer a perfect golden blonde color and showed some deviation of blue and black within the strands. Her eyes, glistening through the tears, turned dark and cold.

"I didn't think Genesis could be killed by somebody that wasn't Sky... but you did it... are you my new master?" Hikari asked me.

"Get lost, I'm not interested..." I told her, limping away.

"Don't leave me... please... I've never been alone... I don't want to be alone... please..." She cried.

"Your master was really good at deception, you think I'm stupid? I don't care, you might deserve to be alone," I mentioned, walking toward the mountainside.

"I was the girl in the pond. I looked at all of you, on the beach. Dani said she saw a girl in the pond... that was me... I've been watching over you since you first woke up... I want what you have. I want family... I don't want to be alone Charlie... don't leave me alone..." Hikari begged me now, grabbing onto my weak body.

If she got here so fast and I wasn't dead...

Was she being genuine?

"Prove your allegiance to me. Cut your left eye out," I said, handing her the broken piece of the blade on the floor.

Without hesitation, Hikari took a wide angle and tried to cut her eye out, but I caught her arm before she could.

"Don't leave me alone... please..." She asked me again. She put her hand on my chest and healed my wounds with strands, causing my double vision to fix, my fatigue to replenish itself, and my strength to return.

The prosthetic even fell off and my real leg regenerated.

"Then, where should we go? I have to get back to Charlotte... but you might be a useful ally to Sky, wouldn't you?" I asked her.

"It doesn't matter. I will follow you," She told me.

I instantly turned toward the mountainside with Shike and the others in it.

"Who put this hole in the mountain?" I asked her.

"Sky," She told me in a nonchalant tone.

"Sky can put holes in mountains? I knew he was powerful... but damn..." I mumbled.

"Sky Asterio is one of the most powerful entities on Earth, besides Umbra, and the World Leaders," Hikari told me.

"The World Leaders aren't my concern right now. Quake is. Can you tell me who is alive? Does your pattern recognition do that?" I asked her, helping her up into the hallway.

"I'm predicting that thirty percent of the inhabitants of Zealous are dead. Sixty percent are injured or critically wounded, and nine percent are helping who they can in this bunker," Hikari said.

She walked with a steady pace toward Shike, who was starting to pant in exhaustion from healing people.

"Hikari?! Hey, what is she doing here?!" Shike shouted out.

Hikari ignored him and placed her hand on the person Shike was trying to heal, perfectly restoring their body and injuries.

"We got a notification in our eyes that an Asterio had been killed... who was it? Do you know?" Boo asked me.

"Genesis is dead..." I told them.

"How did... you killed Genesis?" Shike asked me in confusion.

"Yeah... it was close, and that nausea was the only reason why I did. I was about to lose my life... Hikari is our friend now," I told everybody.

"I'm getting... a feeling... something in my core is shaking," Hikari told me.

"What does that mean? Are you feeling nausea?" I asked her, but she shook her head.

"Something is awakening... I'm feeling the pressure, familiar with something I felt a little while ago while observing you... it's something dark... what is that?" Hikari started to stare at the wall, peering deep into what I thought were the cracks.

All of the bodies in the bunker, including the able-bodied ones, lifted up with golden strands carrying them toward the exit.

"We need to leave," Hikari bluntly said, walking with the bodies as they organized themselves on floating platforms that were leaving the bunker.

"Why? What's going on?" Shike asked. He picked up Hiyochi, who was still unresponsive.

"Sky Asterio is reawakening,"