Chapter 44 : Ablaze
Up in the sky, two lightning kept clashing with each other, each time with loud deafening sound. They soared across the sky, up and down, all over the city.
Gaea's fist crushed Jessica's shoulder and she fell like a speeding comet down. Jessica hit the asphalt hard.
With a soft ground she tried to support herself but she fell down again. Her shoulder blade was broken and coming out from her back.
Jessica gritted her teeth and concentrate on healing it.
"Argh!" she screamed as her broken bones clacking back into places.
Gaea swooped down. She put her feet on Jessica's throat. "I don't want to kill you. We can rule the world," she said.
Jessica struggled, "like hell I would!"
Jessica shot her lightning and hit Gaea on her stomach. She flew across the road and fell rolling at a gas station. Gaea panicked and about to fly away
when Jessica flicked a flame and blew up the whole station into three huge explosions.
Gaea screamed in pain.
Jessica waited as the flame engulfed Gaea. Then the ground below her shook hard. The earth cracked on her feet and not even a second later the
ground sank, bringing two tall buildings to sink with it. The walls crumbled and piled on Jessica.
The flame at the gas station subsided, Gaea was panting, her eyes straight to the ruin she made, hoping that the two buildings were enough to knocked
Jessica but not so hard as to kill her.
Then the debris roused, something was pushing out.
"Damn it!" Gaea cursed and flew above the ruin. "Die! Die!" she screamed as she shot countless lightnings to the collapsed buildings. "I can always split
myself again! Always!" she was desperate.
Jessica pushed strong and flew through the crumbled walls. She charged at Gaea and their fists clashed. Gaea pulled her hand backward, about to give
Jessica a pound on her head, to end it all, then the image of weakness and death struck her mind, Gaea hesitated, her hand moved slower. Jessica used
the opportunity to dodge the hit before she grabbed Gaea's neck and threw her down to railroad where a train was running on it. Gaea fell on her back
above the railway.
The train blew its horn and Gaea was about to fly away when Jessica stomped her head, back on the ground.
"You son of a--," Gaea cursed.
Jessica flew away a second before the train hit Gaea.
Jessica hovered far above the sky and watched the train grind Gaea. Then the train screeched and slowed down before it stopped completely. The
passengers inside screamed as their fell of their seats, bumping at each other.
Jessica's heart stopped when the locomotive of the train disconnected from the the rest and made its way toward Jessica, so fast.
The locomotive hit her hard, she fell on a parking lot along with the locomotive.
Jessica was bleeding all over, her eyes were unfocused but she stood strong. Gaea landed not far in front of Jessica.
Gaea roared and charged at Jessica. She got thrown a few feet back and rolled on the ground. Gaea lifted up a car with her mind and sent it flying
across to Jessica. Jessica concentrated and blew up the car a few metres away from her face. Gaea lifted another car and Jessica blew it up again.
Jessica countered with a lightning but Gaea dodged it and came closer. She slammed Jessica to the ground.
Jessica rolled her body, Gaea tripped and she was lying under Jessica.
"This is for my friend!" Jessica punched Gaea hard.
"You are," Gaea hissed, "mine!"
Gaea swung her hand and sent Jessica flying and rammed a car.
Two lightnings struck the ground near Jessica, Yuri and Eeteuk.
"Jessica!" Yuri said.
Gaea turned her attention at Yuri, "why can't you just die!?"
Gaea was about to attack Yuri when Jessica hit her with lightning. Gaea groaned.
"Yuri-ah," Jessica smiled.
"Sica!" Yuri ran to her.
Jessica raised her palm and pushed Yuri away with her mind.
"Sica!" Yuri tried to get closer but Jessica pushed her away again.
"Hey," she said.
"Stop pushing me back!" Yuri ran towards her.
Jessica pushed her harder that Yuri fell. "Sica!"
"I'm glad I can see you," Jessica smiled.
On the other end of the parking lot, Gaea was writhing in pain.
"I'm glad I met you!" Jessica raised her voice, "I leave Seohyun in your care?" she smiled.
Gaea stood on her trembling feet.
"Jessica!" Yuri ran to Jessica but she got pushed away again.
Eeteuk grabbed Yuri, "enough."
"Let me go!" Yuri struggled, "let me go, damn it! I love her! I can't lose her now! Let me go!"
"Oppa!" Jessica shouted, "can you take care of her for me!?"
Eeteuk nodded.
Gaea roared and the ground cracked. She lifted all the cars and blew it up into flames.
"Yuri-ah!" Jessica took a deep breath.
Gaea screamed like a lunatic. She gathered the flames from the destroyed cars around her and flew to the sky.
"You are the greatest thing I have in life," Jessica smiled.
Yuri cried. "no! I can't let you go! I'm not that strong," Yuri cried and she fell on her knees, "don't go."
Jessica smiled, "goodbye."
"No!" Yuri ran toward Jessica but again, Jessica pushed her back, "you can't go! You can't! I love you!"
A tear escaped Jessica's eye, "I love you too, Kwon Yuri," and followed Geae into the cloudy sky.
Yuri dropped on her knees. The smiling Jessica was the prettiest.
"I love you," she whispered to the sky.
**
Hyoyeon stopped her car in the middle of the road and then she jumped down. Three police patrol cars were behind her, also stopping.
Hyoyeon looked to the sky. The cloud was black and there was a tiny bright red in the middle of it. It was flame.
"What the hell happened?"
The flame got bigger and releasing small fragments of it to the ground. Like small meteorites it hit buildings, the ground and everything on its way.
Hyoyeon's radio beeped, Sunny called her.
"Yeah?"
"What the hell is happening!?" Sunny panicked.
"I don't know!"
Two lightning struck the ground near her. Yuri and Eeteuk.
"Yuri?" she said.
"Who?" Sunny asked from the radio.
Yuri wiped her tears. "Hyoyeon, we need to evacuate the city."
"Evacuate the city!?"
"We'll help too? let's go!" Eeteuk clapped his hands.
Hyoyeon nodded, "Sunny, evacuate the city! I repeat! Evacuate the city!"
"Evacuate the city!? Are you kidding!? Seoul is huge!"
"We won't make it just with us! Get the whole nation's troops to help! The army, firefighters, police! Anyone!"
"And what would we tell them!?"
"Tell them to look at the sky."
**
Gaea was out of her mind. She was no longer care for anything. The world had made her angry. When she was small, her parents sent her to a shrink
because she was different. The shrink led her into the hands of the organization who conducted painful experiments on her. She just wanted to live. But
the world was not her place to live.
"Might as well destroy it," she mumbled.
She made the fire larger and larger and surrounded herself with it. She sent small fragments of fires to the ground and destroyed everything it came in
contact with. The sky was burning.
"Let it burn!"
**
Sooyoung and Sunny were busy evacuating the civilians from the city.
"Get the children first and then women!" Sunny led the scared people into the organization's truck.
"This is not even a quarter of the city!" Sooyoung said.
"We won't make it," Sunny muttered, "we won't make it!"
Meanwhile, not far from where Sooyoung and Sunny were, members of the Thirteen were also evacuating and saving as many people as they can.
"Yesung! Use that school bus!" said Eeteuk.
Yesung ran to the bus but a fire ball fell from the sky and destroyed it.
"Damn it!" he cursed.
Yoona helped the firefighters to load women to their trucks. She was praying inside. Let the fire stay out from the city border, let Seohyun safe.
Yuri looked to the sky. The white clouds turned red by fire. A figure came closed to core, Jessica.
"Sica," she whispered, "I'm counting on you."
**
Jessica hovered in mid air, looking at the burning sky. It was a fortress for Gaea. She was shooting the city with small fires.
Jessica focused and she made the fire fortress trembled.
"Face me!" Jessica screamed.
Gaea exposed herself from the fire and looked fiercely at Jessica.
"What do you think you're doing?" Gaea asked. "You can't win against me. I made you."
"I know one thing that can make you human, Gaea. And I have it in me."
"You're willing to die for these people!? These corrupted men!?"
"Yes."
Gaea scoffed, "don't you understand human? They're obsessed, spoiled, gluttonous not to mention lust! What good you can make of them? Give each of
them a gun and they kill each other! We are better than them. We can make the world better. We can rule the world!"
"No."
"It's no use!" Gaea raised her voice, she was scared her voice start to tremble, "you can't kill me! I'll kill you! Along with everything and I can make a
thousand more of you!"
"I'll make sure you won't."
"Why would you die for these human!?" Gaea was desperate.
"Because I love them," Jessica flew closer.
"You can't kill me, I am a God!" she roared.
Jessica's eyes turn bright blue, "you're wrong. You can't kill me," Jessica moved forward and then she charged at the flame.
Jessica wrapped her arms around Gaea.
"No!" Gaea struggled, roaring in fear.
Jessica's body turned bright red. Her heart beat so fast. Jessica looked up to the far sky, looking at the pale winter sun.
The orphanage was there, the old oak trees, the small classroom with children inside it. Seohyun was on the piano and Mother, was standing next to
her, smiling like always.
Then she remembered her room at the house. The small desk beside her bed where new clothes will be ready each morning that Yuri gave her. The
living room filled with pillows. Tiffany was sitting on one of them. Eeteuk and Siwon were playing the chess. Behind the kitchen, at the gazebo, Taeyeon
was sitting on the fence, swinging her feet around like a kid and she smiled.
Jessica closed her eyes and she found Yuri, smiling. The smile that Jessica wanted to protect with everything she had and now she was ready, for real,
she was ready to die.
Jessica snapped her eyes open. Her body trembled and then her body turned into flame.
**
The huge fire hanging in the sky was getting larger and larger. The organization's agents started to panic, the Thirteen were no different.
"We won't make it!" Sunny screamed, "tell everyone to lie down on the ground! Now!"
An agent sounded a huge alarm on top of a tower and screamed out everyone to get on the ground.
Hyoyeon screamed at the top of her lungs, "duck! Everybody get on the ground!"
The scared citizen screamed in horror and pressed their body to the ground, hands on their heads.
"Sunny!" Sooyoung called her, "take cover!"
Yoona saw a boy on the ground, lost her parents. She made her way through the chaotic crowd.
Eeteuk saw Yuri, she was still standing, her eyes locked to the sky.
"Yuri! Get down!" he shouted.
"She'll make it," she said.
"Yuri!"
"She'll make it!"
And then no sound could be heard, wind seemed to have stopped blowing. The fire sucked in to its core before it suddenly exploded and filled the sky
with flames. It shook the ground and blew a huge wind with a loud exploding sound. The building walls cracked and cars flattened down. The impact
threw Yuri off her balance.
Yoona got to the boy in time and sheltered him with her body.
Sunny was lying on the ground, so low, her nose almost touched the asphalt. Sooyoung and Hyoyeon hid behind a police car.
The sky was blazing red, people screamed and some prayed hard.
The red sky cleared bit by bit. The flames vaporized and slowly showed the blue sky. The sunshine peeked in and gave the city a ray of gold color.
A snow fell on Yuri's brow.
"Yuri-ah," Eeteuk called her.
Yuri turned around and smiled. "She made it, Oppa," and then she cried.
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