Turning Point

I awoke from my sleep, it felt as though someone hit my chest with a sledgehammer. The pain came in waves from intense pressure to feel like I was bathing in a sea of fire from the inside out. I don't know what it was, I couldn't make any noise nor move. Such intense pain and being in a paralyzed was a terrible feeling, I've never known myself to be claustrophobic, however, right now I only wanted to move at this moment.

Slowly the pain lessened from my chest subsiding or I thought, The pain spread to my limbs flowing throughout the entirety.

My conscious went in and out several times every time I came back to reality, I felt a new sensation once felt like I was being frozen in ice, another I was in a scorching desert, even drowning. I screamed with my inner thought, the only thing that I could do, I had to let out the pain somehow. Not that expressing myself caused any of it to recede.

My consciousness faded, happy that it was finally over. When I was almost completely I felt like sleeping was not the thing to do.

Waking up not too long later, I was able to move. Looking around I felt something was off, a premonition of sorts. It hit me, Raelith is the same age as her from my dreams, my parents were the same as well. And adding to the fact that I felt excruciating pain, it all made sense.

The sound was quiet, but with my ears, I could ear it as if the sound was right in front of me. The sound of a blade cutting through flesh. I knew what happened, there was no need to see what happened with my own eyes.

I woke up Lauren and told her to get dressed, then proceeding to throw clothes on. I grabbed my sword from the case That was made for it, the red blade gleaming under the light of the moon.

" What are you doing?" Lauren looked at my rubbing her eyes to try and wake up.

" You'll know in a while. Just do as I say," seeing how I was all serious, and no hint of anything else in my voice she did as I said.

I heard a scream, I told her to go to the training grounds and wait for me there, I opened up the window to my bedroom. I had a roll-up ladder in the closet for fires that could occur, mom, a dad gave it to me in case anything went awry and taught me how to use it. Not that instruction was totally necessary since it was straight forward in use. I handed the ladder to Lauren before taking the sword and heading downstairs.

I hear the screams that I heard before, I pick up my speed to the scene in moments. Mom looks at me and the same eyes that tell me to run. I'll never run, fear won't hold me down. I turn my cold desolate eyes to the man who has the edge of his blade running down mom's face, leaving a line of blood.

" Big sis what's going on," Raelith came right on schedule.

" Found you Mi-Sun Yeong," the man turns around looking into my eyes.

I push Raelith to the side as I Sprint at full speed which is over three times faster than I've ever been before. My reaction speed increases as well. The man was surprised seeing my speed barely failing to react in time. My blade takes a chunk of flesh off of his sword arm causing him to tense up to the pain. Taking my blade, I thrust as I sidestep a hilt-punch from his mysterious-looking sword.

The thrust doesn't succeed, only grazing past his throat leaving a nick, where blood started to spurt. I tried to swing for the finishing blow, sadly the man's surprise was long gone. All of my strikes were parried or countered, leaving bruises on my body. It was obvious he wasn't trying to kill me. My speed is faster than his, the skill which he possessed made what I had looked like amateurish.

I had Raelith behind me, peaking behind the corner, balling in tears. At the present I see no way of winning, he brushed off his injuries relatively easily, and now that I look at his neck his wounds are already healed. His arm was still wounded, but the blood stopped flowing.

Dad wasn't alive anymore, tears went down my face even as I parried and struck blows at him. I thought of leaving, but how could I leave mom, I love her with all my life. I looked at mom, my eyes were telling her to run. She looked at me with a face that said she didn't know what to do. While doing this I received a blow to the neck that almost knocked me unconscious.

" Give up, you're coming back with me," the man looked at me with eyes that were worn with age, " please?"

Abigail hardened her resolve, taking this moment to run where Raelith was. He noticed and tried to stop her from running which was not a good idea for this situation.

Seeing him like this swinging his sword at mom, my mother, she may not be my first mom and doesn't hold the same place as her, however, I would risk my life for her. Accelerating at full speed I intercepted his strike while at the same time taking a swipe at his head. He backpedaled, only narrowly avoiding the blow losing his eye, leaving a long quarter of an inch cut, running from the top of his right eye to below the left side of his mouth.

Taking the lapse in action I pick up my mom like a sack of potatoes who didn't travel very far as well as picking up Raelith. Even though this caused me to lose a third of my speed with mom, my sister, and my sword; the man lost us in the blink of an eye, in this case only one.

...

The man stood there not moving, he knew with the speed that Sera possessed, he would never be able to catch up.

" But, how? How can she be so fast and strong, we were sure that only I would be enough. She should only be a Support Class, even if she is high ranked. She should only feel like a normal person, not aware of her ability," He sighed the took a look at his body, he was in a wreck. I would have been dead if I let my guard down for a second. I may look like an expert, but that was me pushing myself to the absolute limit.

" I should make a call," he pulled out his phone and went to call his superior, Sera's grandpa, or Mi-Sun however you want to look at it. As he went to make the call, his phone was shot by a red energy beam with black lightning around it.

He turned around seeing three people, the person who shot the beam, when it got a look, she was an archer who uses her ability to fire shots from her Life Essence. Life Essence is the energy that all beings have, the energy can be used to power their ability. You won't die from using up all of your Life Essence, but you'll be in a coma until your energy can regain to a certain thresh hold. When the individual awakens from a coma, there will be a chance the person's ability will never work again or take time to recover.

People who use their Life Essence outside of the body like the archer, use more than what I use, however, there are many drawbacks to both. Outside the body they have stronger, or more destructive, powers, anyhow I use my to strengthen my own body which makes the body, which makes me my body hardier. Many abilities to different things, some are useful while others can't be used in combat.

Time to stop letting my mind wander, these people are bad news, they are all at the B+ Rank while I'm currently at the point of breaking into the A-Rank from A-. The archer his a man with white hair with a small kiddish body. Another man stands in from of him with a silver sword, he's guarding the archer and a mage, I presume, who is standing beside the archer, the mage, the swordsman had crimson hair with high cheekbones. The mage was a tall girl with big breast and raven hair, for the most part, she seemed the most normal out of the bunch.

The swordsman walked closer calm, still, you should not be fooled, the pressure he exuded was like a wild animal ready to bite and said, " You won't interfere, Michael."

" I forsook that name long ago, now I'm nameless. I am nothing but a blade," The man, Michael, said while Burning through most of his Life Essence, he did not have the time to use much of it in the battle with Sera due to being almost overrun by her.

...

I ran as fast as I could to the training grounds where Lauren would be waiting. Mom and Raelith fell unconscious from the speed we were traveling. When we ran through the wilderness we arrived at the spot. Lauren was sitting on a log with an elegant man beside her, they were not saying anything, not a peep. I put my mom and sister down and then started approaching the man, pissed off and ready to spill his blood. I just want to be left alone, being bothered like this and so much. The bruises never went away, I'm aching and sore, I just want to sleep. The pain from before was still left a dull pain in my chest, and the pain was still fresh in my mind as well.

Seeing me like this Lauren jumped up and stopped me. This left me bewildered, " What are you doing?"

" He told me about the Yeong family who's after you," I gave him a piercing glare which he responded with a wry smile.

" Yes, let me introduce myself, my name is Lumin. I and my people are the enemies of the Yeong clan, we want to help you," he gave me a delicate smile, " You can trust me, my friends are taking care of Michael, the man who was sent to bring you back to the Yeong."

I found myself at an impasse on whether to believe this man or not. I've never seen this guy before, I would know because his aura is that of a king, majestic, prideful, and most of all he's powerful.

" I can tell you more about your parents too, your original parents."

A lightning strike went through my body, my parents, my parents... I kept thinking this thought over and over. Lauren walked over to me and said, " Don't worry about me choose what you think is best."

Her thinking was flawed because I still had to think of my parents and sister, but I knew what she was getting at.

" What do you say?" he looked cocky and I wanted to hit him, I'll take this risk if its the wrong choice then I'll show the world what hate, and anger is.

" I'll accept, but if your lying I will put my life on the line to kill you." I said looking straight into his eyes, our auras on the same level of intensity, " But I have Two conditions?"

"Yes?" he looked at me without any changes in his face.

" You'll bring all these people with us and take care of them as well. I'll help you with whatever you need unless you overstep your bounds."

" Obviously. And the second condition?" he said with a smile formed on his lips.

I Punched him with all my force, right into his cocky little nose. He backed away a step shocked that I hit him. A small trail of blood came out of his nose, " Guess I deserve that, don't I. Try to act like a leader in front of a rookie and this what I get. But haha."

I Saw an explosion that reached two hundred meters off the ground, coming from the direction of the house.

" Well, time to go," Lumin picked up Abigail and Raelith, one in each arm. Then he started walking in the direction of my obstacle course, and hideout.

I held onto Lauren's hand as we walked behind Lumin, not knowing where this decision of mine would lead us.