CHAPTER 5 - Consequences
The sudden weight that enveloped his eyes faded away, and Kael opened his eyes. His eyes scanned around him. "What happened?"
His hands reached for his heart, which by now had already been healed, with the only blood stains being the proof of the incident that had happened. His eyes scanned his body, wariness etched upon his tightened brows.
With the walls of the containers as his support, Kael dragged his heavy and tired body off the ground. "What happened to me? The gun wound is gone, and I'm still strangely alive,"
Kael walked, each step weighed by his confusion and fear of the unknown. Kael kept on walking, hoping to escape from here before the team behind him returned to finish their job.
With the help of the arranged containers, Kael was able to move, albeit at a slow pace. As Kael kept walking, he arrived at a pool of red liquid that stained the floor.
"Blood? Is that mine?" Kael questioned himself, and after another glance at it, he began walking away. As Kael walked deeper, it started to seem strange. Imprints of punches into the sides of the containers, more blood to be his alone and broken grounds.
It felt like something huge and much stronger had just had its way through here. Kael's hands rested on the blood that spilled into the container's body, dyed red. And as Kael looked forward, he saw a horror beyond description.
Human bodies lay scattered on the floor, their blood forming a beet-red pool on the ground as it ran through. The sight was horrific and intimidating at the same time. 'What happened here?! Who did this?!'
Kael couldn't place any proper conclusion to what could have caused the horror laid before his eyes. In one of the containers, there was a dent in the metal, and Kael walked close to it. The metal seemed to mold over a hand.
"A hand? Are you telling me someone did this and also deformed metal with his hands?" Kael thought aloud, and it still did seem so ridiculous to hear.
Kael's hands ran through the dented metal, his hands caressing each trough of it. With mindless curiosity, Kael made his hands into a fist and tried to compare his hands to those of the being who caused this massacre.
Kael placed his hands into the dent, and it fit perfectly. Like a mould formed from his hands. The revelation hit hard. It was he who performed these inhumane acts.
'It's me? No, that can't be! How can I do that? I've never killed anyone…and I don't have the power to punch through metal!' Kael's thoughts became a mess, and he grabbed his head, which started to ache.
"It isn't me. I didn't do it. I don't remember doing anything like that," His words were said more to convince himself than anything else. Kael clenched his fist as he saw the burnt remains of a human, whose bones had been darkened by the intense heat.
With dread for what he had possibly done, Kael decided to leave. Accepting this mission was such a bad decision. Kael grabbed hold of the walls and began to find his way through the maze of containers.
Before Kael could take any more steps, different sounds from the surroundings rushed into his eardrums, overwhelming him. He could perfectly hear the movements of the fish in the ocean, the birds that flew above and down to his beating heart, and the little crickets that moved.
"Arrghh…What's happening to me?!" His hands quickly reached and cupped his ears as he fell back to the ground. He curled up into a ball, his head and brain overwhelmed by the noise and sound of the world.
And as his ears were being bombarded with an intense amount of information, so was his nose. The first smell was the distinct blood smell which has permeated through the entire pier. From the salt in the sea, the metallic smell, and among others, they fought a war through his nostrils.
Although stressful, it was less painful than what happened with his ears, but for Kael, it felt like the end of his world. "I'm sorry, but it isn't me. Please stop!"
He smashed his fists through the cemented ground, a shockwave rattling the boxes and the floor being shattered by the impact. "Silence! Stop!" Kael once again slammed his hands on the floor, breaking the floor into smaller fragments of what it once was.
Kael became overwhelmed by the sheer new information that he had no way to control. His eyes began to glow blue again, and his body began to steam as his body's temperature grew hotter rapidly.
The floor he was standing on began melting, molten rocks flowing into the sea beside the pier. It was at this moment that Kael couldn't deny that it was all him, the image of the blackened skeleton flashing through his mind.
"No…NO!" Kael screamed in rage and desperation before he started to run away while he held his steaming body. His face was clenched in agony and confusion; each step he took was weighed with burdens and pain.
Kael began to run, each step imprinting a footprint on the hard floor, and his intense body heat melting through the containers he came close to. Kael jumped into the sea, hoping to help regulate his body's temperature, but it was futile; the water sizzled and turned to steam before it could even touch his skin.
Kael turned back as he stared at the molte containers and the sheer destruction he caused. "I've gotta get away!" Kael realised that there was no way to defend himself from his actions, whether they were unknowingly done.
Kael came out of the water, his body a bit cooler than before, and he began to run. He just wanted to run as far away from here. His legs took him faster than they ever did, his steps becoming a blur through the pier.
"I'm sorry." Kael closed his eyes in guilt over what he had done. It was at this moment that something incredible happened. Kael's legs took off from the ground, and he was propelled through the air into the sky.
Kael opened his eyes when he didn't feel the texture of the ground, and when he did, he noticed he was flying through the air, the buildings below him being just a speck. "What is wrong with me?!"
Kael, in a blind panic, flailed his arms. The world tilted as the sky spun, while his vision blurred. The air rushed past as he fell towards Earth, propelled by gravity. He plummeted back into the Earth and crashed through a canopy of trees and a forest before he slowed down under friction's influence.
The action made his world feel disoriented as he blacked out.
Some Minutes After
In the control tower of the dock, a female with short black hair that fell freely. Her blue eyes focused on the massacre that was happening through the screen, her eyes filled with dread but carried fascination and curiosity within them, too.
"Whoa…Is he even human? He easily punched through metal, and he stopped that other guy's heart with a…Ouch," Izabel flinched as she saw Kael planting one of the team members' heads into the ground, as it spilled out his brain matter.
"That's some dark stuff. Is this what you wish to accomplish, gem? Well, in that case, I've gotta take a look at this entity. A god, a man, or a monster? Well, that's the fun of science."
She walked out of the control room, leaving behind the guards she had knocked out. Inside her hands was the tape recording of the incident, placed into her zipper's pockets as she hummed away.