The CoDas: Reboot [By Hex]

Chapter 30: Tatuwwar

It had been two months since the incident with the Possession Killer, and for two whole months, I was kept in the dark about everything that had happened while I was training to be a proper CoDa. During those days, Zack had been teaching me more about the world and the CoDas themselves. Lately, we've been sparring and trying out different techniques. I've been getting to know everyone better too since every night, Zack and I would head off to the cafe/apartment to meet up with other CoDas and have conversations.

I was getting more adapted to the new world that was shown before me, and I always tried to keep in mind that the world is just as harsh as reality. Yet I wasn't prepared for what was to come, none of us were.

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The cold air pierced my cheeks like needles: sweeping and slithering through my body, giving chill in every last inch of my soul. The sky was clouded white with snowflakes dancing around the city, I let out cold breaths of the air under the snow.

"Hmm, so Global warming was a fluke after all." A slightly distorted chuckle of Zack was heard through the earpiece.

"That is so old, it makes me cringe." I puffed as I watched from above, waiting for an opportunity.

Then there it was, far away in the distance, standing out upon the white snow, a colorless appeared. Its wings were webbed together and thick quills are erected behind it's back. The creature seemed to have scaled skin the creature lands upon a rooftop of a building 200 meters away from me, yet I could see it from all the way here. It scratches its reptilian skin using the beak as it waits for a human prey to feed upon.

"There she is, as HQ has informed us," Zack whispered through the earpiece, "What do you think, Nathan? Can you handle it?"

It let out a slight screech, then a snarl as it looked down upon the public streets, seeking its prey. I watched it, analyzing its movements, the possibilities of success and failure in battle. But it was only a brief breakdown of my chosen opponent.

Because I don't care to observe my opponent in order to see the difference in power.

I just go for it.

I ran out, up to the edge and leaped for the sky. My heart pumping as rapidly like a machine gun, my leather black coat flapping rampant as air flows through my body. I felt the same spice of charge through my veins as a long strand of chains shot out and attached to a side of the building. It began to retract as I grappled forth and onward towards the beast.

I swung from building to building, 'like Spider-Man,' as Shiro would put it. Flipping sideways and forward to gain more momentum, occasionally running on walls then continuing to swing forth. As I saw the prey in sight, I went down low as I could, charged my arms with electricity so that the retraction of chains accelerated, wing gushing upon my face as I was launched upwards. I was now above the winged beast, it soon took notice of me as well.