"NOOOOO!" I yelled as I tried to stop him, but I just wasn't fast enough.
The man also tried to stop him, but he wasn't strong enough to hold Anatoly's arm back, and Anatoly had already cut half of his throat.
His final words before dying were, "I'm sorry sister-"
A tear rolled down his face as Anatoly had killed him. I stopped in my tracks as it was too late to save him… but now I put myself in more danger as we were really close now.
His arm slowly transformed back, with blood dripping off his arm onto the floor.
Drip, drip, drip.
"Now you…" He slowly looked at me.
I just stared at him without moving a muscle as he slowly walked toward me. My heartbeat was beating like crazy and I could feel a slight chill go down my spine.
As he stood in front of me looking down, a million thoughts rushed through my head. Why does this keep happening to me? Can I escape this? No, it's too late. Maybe I could say something? No. I can't. My mouth won't open. I was shaking.
Though, there was one thought that was most prevalent.
I don't want to die again. I don't want to die again. I don't want to die again. I don't want to die again. I don't want to die again. I don't want to die again. I don't want to die again. I don't want to die again.
The pain, fear, and feeling of despair when dying is nothing like anything that's happened to me so far.
He suddenly grabbed my face and lifted my gaze toward his.
"Why do you look like this?" He sounded confused.
"Mwaht-" I mumbled as he was squishing my cheeks.
He quickly let go in surprise.
"Are you also a ■■■■■■ ■■■■■?" My head stung as he said this.
"What?" I stepped back a bit giving him a perplexed look.
"Can you see?" He tilted his head.
"What are you talking about?" I took another step back. It doesn't look like he's reacting to me moving back.
"You squinted your eyes…"
"I did? Well, I can see just fine." I took another small step back.
"Oh… your face looks weird, but I feel like I've seen this before."
"Well that's rude!" I exclaimed.
"No no! Not like that I mean your face is all fuzzy, or blurry…" He flailed his arms around.
"My face is what-" I paused. Wait a second, he sees my face just like how I see his.
"Your face is also blurry to me…" I stopped stepping back as I was now intrigued.
"It is? Wait, were you ▶✦‽☐▨●?" As he said this my head felt a much sharper pain as I dropped to my knees covering my ears.
"ARGH!" I screamed.
"WHAT'S WRONG!?" He shouted as he didn't know what to do.
A couples tears rolled down my face as the stinging pain slowly faded.
I moved my hands and said, "I don't know… Whatever you just said really hurt."
I looked up at him as his hand fell, it looked like he was reaching out to help but decided against it.
"Do you not know about the ■■■■ ■■■■■■ then?"
"The what now?" I said with an annoyed tone as I felt the sting again. He wouldn't stop saying things that hurt me.
"The- maybe I shouldn't say it then."
"No-" I covered my mouth and averted eye contact as I almost swore.
"Maybe you could understand this then…"
I looked up at him again to hear what he had to say.
"Were you killed and then… umm… revived or something?"
My eyes lightened up as he said this and I jumped up grabbing his arms.
"YES!" I shouted in excitement.
I couldn't fully see his face, but I could tell that he got startled by my enthusiasm. After realizing my face became red and I jumped back.
"Sorry!" I folded my arms and looked down.
"No, no… it's fine!" He reassured me.
I looked back up and stated, "Also I didn't get revived. I was reborn."
"Oh! Okay then you've gone through a few then."
"How much do you know?"
"Sorry what? I don't really know much besides Lunar Labs owning, like, everything…" I responded.
"That- that's it?"
"Yeah?" My head tilted.
He covered his face and let out a loud sigh.
"Well…" He paused and started clicking his tong as he thought.
Click, click, click.
The rhythm reminded me of a clock in a way. The tick, tick, tick noise you can hear while the seconds go by.
"By the way, why did you switch up so quickly?" I asked as he wanted to kill me just a few minutes ago.
"Huh? Oh yeah. At first I thought you were here to run more tests, but after your brother started trying to kill you I realized your face was all messed up- sorry!"
"Anyway, I was just hoping you'd be more useful, but looks like you don't know much either."
"Excuse me!?" I was shocked at him basically calling me useless.
"Sorry!" He put his hands up and I could tell he rolled his eyes.
A spot on his head started glowing red, and before I knew it, his eyes widened. He lunged toward me and knocked us over while landing on top of me.
I was about to say something but was interrupted by two loud gun shots. He jumped back up and pulled me with him as we both looked toward the exit. Two guards were standing in the doorway with snipers.
"Are you kidding me!?!" One of them shouted.
I recognized his voice… it was the guard who brought me out of my apartment. The other guard with him was the female who also showed up at my home.
"Well, we can't use these anymore since you missed." He said.
They both placed their snipers on their backs and reached for rifles attached to their belts.
"You missed as well you dolt." She responded.
"RUN!!" Anatoly screamed as he bolted off.
They started shooting at us as we ran to the back of the pod. I had transformed my arm but the bullet still went through right around my left elbow.
"Arg…" I grabbed my arm in pain as the blood covered my arm and hand.
"You okay?" Anatoly asked.
"Yeah I think-" I started saying as a bullet grazed past his head.
He ducked lower and shoved my head down.
"Dang it!" He exclaimed.
As I was squeezing my arm, I realized… he could easily make it out. He was only staying because of me. I was dragging him down.
My mind started racing as I tried to figure something out. How can I be useful for once? I had to hurry up, they were slowly approaching us.
My mind started slowing as I watched the bullets slowly graze past the pod. Then a light bulb went off in my head.
"Go when I give the signal." I whispered.
"What?"
"You have to trust me."
Any moment now…
Click.
Click.
"NOW!!" I screamed on the top of my lungs as I bolted out and Anatoly followed shortly.
Their guns ran out of ammo… this was our chance to get out-
Splat.
I slowly turned my head as I was running to see blood splattering out of Anatoly's head.
He had been shot.