Thirteenth Sin Chapter 6

Written and as told by Sin Halleck

Chapter 6: Enter: Blaster Four

I woke up the next morning with a headache. My pillow wasn’t under me so I must have thrown it in my sleep. Cara and Tatzu were off with their friends like they normally are so I was let alone. I went to the kitchen and poured myself some left over coffee from this morning. I looked in the fridge for half and half but spotted chocolate milk instead. I used that with my coffee. I looked back into my room to see if Angel was still sleeping.

She was sleeping until I called her name to check. After she woke up, she looked at me, rest her head down, and than went back to sleep at the foot of my bed. I smiled and went to look for waffles in the freezer. Success! There were waffles there so I took two and put them in the toaster. I waited at the kitchen table until they popped. I didn’t get a plate. I didn’t need a plate. I ate the waffles on the spot without putting one down once. With a full stomach, I sat down on my couch and stared at a blank TV screen (They were big waffles).

"What a nice, sunny day." I spoke aloud. It was only when I spoke it did it strike me. The sun was shining. Not only was it shining, but the sky was blue and the clouds were a puffy white. It was warm out, too. I stepped outside fully until I felt the sun on my skin. It was the first time I had ever felt the sun. I looked about and saw neighbors coming out of their homes to feel the light, too. I smiled joyfully as I jumped about in the warmth. I went back inside for a quick second to get changed and than came back out.

I wished that it wasn’t a school day and I wasn't suspened so I could see my friends in this climate. As the neighbors went back inside, I remained out, absorbing the warmth as much as I could. I felt a sharp jab on my leg and saw a furry winged creature fly away. I looked at my leg to se a small needle in it. I pricked it out and examined it. It’s saw like edge fascinated me. I felt my skin crawling. I jumped in fear as I saw dozens ants crawling up my legs.

I kicked them off and than noticed large, furry tarantulas and scaly scorpions that looked like they were about to pounce. They were surrounding me and than came a swarm of large, sleek, black and yellow, winged things. "Stop," commanded a voice and the small things came to a halt.

"You’re not familiar with this many insects, are you Zin? Hmph Hmph Hmph. Insects are all over the rest of the world regularly. They pretty much control the world. No matter where you go, you’ll find them. Even here, there are some. Just not as many as other places due to the conditions here. Or that’s at least until Thirteen completes his take over on this planet. Oh, how rude. I for got to introduce myself. I am Blaster four."

My eyes widened at the final two words. I swiftly turned around to face him. He was a slender man. He wore a white lab coat and eye glasses in which glare prevented you from eye contact. He had short, brown hair and was grinning evilly. His left hand was out and a large, orange and black, winged insect perched on his finger. He waved the finger and the thing fluttered off.

"You’re part of The Blasters? You’re part of the organization that ruined my home all these years? YOURE PART OF THE GROUP THAT FUCKING BROUGHT UPON THIS HELL!!!?" I yelled, angrily. I didn’t even hear what he said about the bugs, just the Blaster part. Four simply smiled.

"Yes Zin. And I’m about to end your world forever. You see, you have been destroying OUR raptors without fail and WE have YOU marked as a threat. So if I kill YOU, us Blasters will have a much easier time conquering. And plus, I may be able to convince Thirteen to keep the wondrous insects! Prepare to face the fury of Envy"

I looked at the guy with utter rage and hatred. I wanted deeply to kill this guy and remembered how to turn into the dragon mode. I focused upon my heart with my energy and as soon as the peak level was reached, it skipped a few beats and I was soon unconscious, on the floor, but ready to fight, standing over my body.

I picked up my body and lay it inside my house, which was a few steps away. I was lucky that the creep let me do that for as soon as I was on the street again; he pulled out a pole arm from thin air and charged at me with it. Before I got a chance to block, it was above me and forced my dodge to the left. In mid dodge, I drew out Black Heart and whispered the incantation. I drew out the mercury substance but wasn’t sure of what to transform it into.

Meanwhile, Blaster Four was forcing me to dodge and move with a very high speed. Finally it struck me what I should form. I focused on the image and the mercury turned into a sword with a blade on the bottom and top. I was able to block the attacks with ease now. Four threw a joust at me and I knocked down the blade, forcing the entire weapon out of his hand. An opening. I spun the sword over my head and caused enough wind to lift me into the air. I came down upon Blaster four and when I thought I had him, he blocked with his arm. Surprisingly, it did not slice, bleed or anything. As I jumped back, he tore off that sleeve and revealed a scythe where his forearm was.

"Bwahahahahahaha!!!" He chuckled. "Don’t even think for a second that it will be that easy! Here’s another trick I’ll show you!" He sliced off his other sleeve and what was a human arm for a second there, morphed into an insect like arm with large, blade like fingers and a large, blade-like thumb. He pointed the hand at me as a black orb formed in his hand. It was soon about as large as a beach ball and he chucked at me. He had horrible aim because I didn’t have to move as it missed.

"Wow" looks like your aim and trajectory determination sucks ass. Here; I’ll let you live if you promise to go get some aiming practice and than come back."

Four frowned at the insult but quickly made up for it by speeding to his weapon, picking it up and trying to jump- stab me. I dodged the attack by an inch and dodged out of the way when he sliced upwards after landing. I took a few jumps backwards and made my blade turn into a plain, regular sword. As I focused on the sword for a split second, the guy was already in front of me with his blade in a swinging position.

With a swing of the arm, I was thrown up in mid air with a gash on the right side of my body. The blood seemed to levitate around me but I still had much bearing. I saw him under me as I was about to land and was at least able to flip right side up and come down upon him with a swing. He dodged it. I knew he would. I merely did that to get him away from me as I landed. I dropped to one knee after that and heard him charging at me again.

This time, I blocked with my sword and got up, using the force holding the sword against his pole arm as a banister. I was able to regain my bearings and while I was pushing the sword, I swabbed at his legs with my foot. He tripped and I came down upon him with a slash. He rolled out of the way and got up. As soon as he was up, though, I slashed relentlessly at him, making him dodge and block with no room to attack. With one of his blocks, I was able to knock the pole arm to the side just enough for another opening. He was off guard, no scythe arms could save him now, and I sliced down upon his stomach. Blood trickled onto the ground and the bug maniac stepped back a few feet with a demonic grin.

"You’re pretty good, Zin. My kudos to you. However" once again, you aren’t going to kill me that easily. I still have plenty of fight left in me. Plus, there is this too."

He drew out a vial from a pocket and drank the shining blue liquid inside. His grin grew wider as all his wounds and fatigue began to disappear. "Four’s" body radiated with a blue aura and he lunged at me again with the pole arm pointed at me like a spear. He missed and it took him a few seconds to turn around due to the weight he had while lunging like that. He did it again, this time faster. It took a little less than a second more for him to turn back around. He kept doing this for a good five times until I realized when to do the damage.

On his sixth charge, I waited until he was directly in front of me to make my move. He slashed at me and I jumped up and behind him, avoiding it. He took a second to stop himself and begin to turn around. He was half way around when I landed, ran behind him and sliced multiple times at his back. My last slice sent him flying forward and when he hit the ground, he got up on his hands and knees, like an insect after have just being lightly stepped on. I brought down my sword to hiss back but he quickly blocked with his left arm, which had turned into a scythe.

As I was stuck there, He swung at me with the pole arm in his right but was too slow in doing so. I was able to jump back five feet and he got up. He charged at me and unleashed an array of stabs and thrusts with the weapon that drove me a few feet back in dodges and blocks. As soon as I realized the alarming pace at which I was moving, I had to take a chance. I jumped up at the perfect time and landed on the blade of his weapon.

"Four" had this surprised and fearful look on his face as I began to run up the shaft. I got to the end and kicked his head. As he began to fall back, I kicked the bottom of his chin, sending the body upwards and some teeth out. I continued to kick him while he continued to fly up and as we were about a meter off the ground, I kicked his head down, slamming him deep into the pavement. The asphalt around his head had a pool of blood yet he got up again and drank another vial of the blue potion.

"DO YOU EVER DIE!? JEEZ! YOU’RE JUST LIKE A ROACH!"

"Heh, heh, heh!" Blaster four was amused somehow. "Envy" The sin of wanting what others have" I control that sin" With it, I can copy one outstanding attribute of my foe. Your most outstanding and prominent attribute is your stamina and ability to take hits. I copied that. So that plus my regular stamina is what is keeping me so persistent. Oh and these vials of potion made from certain bug blood. So" good luck killing me ‘cause it isn’t happening."

I looked at him with disgust. "So you get your energy from the enemy? How cowardly." I sheathed the Black Heart. I drew out White Rose and Black Lotus. I felt this eerie feeling as I did. I knew I could use flame shift but I didn’t want to. I wanted to use something that I could use to my advantage here. Damn, fighting and thinking at the same time isn’t the best idea. Oh well I’ll try what I now have in mind.

"White Rose and Black lotus blade evolution: Shift modes. Earth Shift!"

It worked. My scales turned sand colored and the spines became bone like my horns. My clothing turned from black to desert cameo. It all looked pretty good on me. I put my attention on Blaster Four, who had backed up a bit when I turned into this mode. I rose up my arm and the ground under him began to shoot upward. As it started, he jumped off and another one came to catch him. He tried to jump off of that and I raised another column of earth to catch him. He stopped trying, realizing the pointlessness of it. A column lifted me up and I was level with "Four" now.

I took a step off of my column and immediately, another came up to catch my foot. As I walked over to him, the ground in front of me rose and the ground I left fell back to its previous spot. I was finally a foot away from him, but on a separate pillar. I levitated some pebbles behind me and was about to shoot them like bullets when what seemed like liquid began to take over my view.

It was soon all over and I felt like I had been knocked unconscious. On the outside of me, however, my dragonesque form began to diminish. The head began to cave in with liquid qualities and turned human. The clothing turned into what I was regularly wearing. However, my skin didn’t turn white. Shadows began to race over and envelop my skin until it was all pitch black. My eyes got larger and became a pupil less, radiant, yellow. My mouth seemed to be non- existent in the blackness of my face.

My hair was black and very spiky with no length at all in the back. Just long, black spikes. As the full transformation came to an end, I shook sort of like a wet dog and began to stare at Blaster Four, who seemed frightened at my change. Without warning, I threw my palm up into his face and he flew off the pillar and towards the ground. I squinted for a second and with speed that seemed like teleportation, I met the Blaster in mid air and gave him a powerful kick that sent him flying high into the troposphere.

Once again, I appeared beside him in his flight and than unleashed a fury of speeding punches. Each one grew more powerful after the last and after about at least a thousand of them within a minute, I elbowed down on his chest and he plummeted down to the earth below. From the air, I could see a crater appear down below. I thrust my body forward and soon arrived at the street. There was a decent sized crater with Blaster four in the middle. I watched him struggle to get up for a good five minutes and he took out a bigger vial and drank it. At the point he was at now, it did next to shit.

However, he was able to rematerialize his pole arm and thrust a blow at me. With no effort, I had grabbed the blade with my bear hand. I threw my arm back, taking not just the pole arm, but also both of Blaster Four’s entire arms with it. I wiggled the pole until the limbs fell off and Blaster Four poured out blood from his open sockets. He could only watch in horror as I took the weapon and stabbed right through one hole so it came out the other. His body immediately fell. The blood continued to pour out and the ground itself looked like red liquid that shone in the sun, gleaming upon it. I turned back to my human self and limped to my house, where I fell asleep on the couch.

I found myself back at the ruins. The wolf was there and behind it stood the shadow me. The wolf walked to me. "So" you got him out, did ya? Well we have to learn how to control this lil’ anti form here, don’t we? Even though he DID win your battle for you."

"I don’t even know what happened. One minute, I’m going earth shift, the next, I have something stabbed with its own armament. Is he the one that filled that gap?" I looked over at the anti- me and it nodded. "You said I could control it. How? How can I stop this from spontaneously happening?"

"Well", started the wolf. "You would need to learn the sin of Wrath. You aren’t ready for that. You aren’t even ready for envy yet. You won’t be able to learn the control until you learn wrath and that’s a long ways off, buddy." I frowned at the animal. "Isn’t there a way around or some way faster?"

The wolf shook his head. "Nope" Listen Zin. I called you here to tell you to start on your destined path. Take Isis, Angel, and Mike. You will see that they are all quite helpful. You aren’t the only one going through these weird changes. And If Naxx wants to join, let him. I will give your body a full heal before sending you back to your world Zin."

"Wait", I said strongly. "You will answer my questions. First off: Why me? Why are the Blasters after me? Why am I chosen and why the fuck do I have to go away from home!?" "Au revior""

"NO!" The Wolf backed off in surprise to my tone.

"YOU WILL ANSWER MY QUESTIONS AND YOU WILL ANSWER THEM NOW! NO FUCKING BACKING AWAY! NO FUCKING "AU REVIOR"! I WANT MY FUCKING QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!" My eyes turned red, as my mood grew more intense. A scythe appeared next to me and I grabbed it. "You tell me or you die, beast!" The wolf smiled devilishly as it faded away. Not a minute later appeared an eight-foot tall creature with deep green skin and large Emerald Eyes.

It looked like a raptor almost in the way its abdomen and upper body was. It wore a metal bag on its back and had a robe on. Its head was kitsune like in appearance and had blue markings on it. It produced the same scythe.

"You wanna go, bitch?" It was the wolf’s voice from the creature’s mouth.

"I’ll fucking own you in an instant" I didn’t finish; Instead, I fell to the ground and my scythe burst into small squares that vanished. I had a large wound across my entire body. It was deep. The creature morphed back into a wolf.

"Next time" Think"" said the wolf before healing me and sending me back to the couch. I sat on the couch, contemplating what just went on in my own mind for a few minutes before deciding to go and get Mike and Isis. I brought about Five Hundred bucks with me to get what we need before we left. They agreed with no second thought and I knew where to go, the mirrors. It would be a long journey and we were all prepared with our abilities. I don’t know what Angel, Mike and Isis can do and I left a note to Tatzu and Cara.

It was as simple as, "Dear Bro and Sis, I am off to the desert with my friends to save this planet. I took what I need and you won’t be seeing me for a long time. I love you both and I don’t have a will" So yeah, au revior." I left, knowing that I wouldn’t be seeing home for a long, long time.