《SkillGap》Chapter 23: Blackout
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Photos were snapped of Rinka and the others and information regarding them and their arrest has been sent by Rimin for the other guardians to see.
It's 12 AM now, the prison is dark and quiet, Minaro and the others are all awake standing around the cell they were put in. Rinka is asleep sitting against a wall, everyone else is standing.
Minaro: You guys can't sleep?
Doa: Yeah, I just can't believe so much happened in one day.
Imma-Ite: I still can't believe we're in jail.
Maya: I still can't believe we lost Ashi.
Everyone looks at Rinka, he's asleep.
Doa: I hope Rinka doesn't feel too bad about everything that's happened.
Minaro: Yeah, I'm worried since he was forced to kill someone.
Imma-Ite: ...We don't just plan to sit here forever right? We have to break out.
Doa: If we break out, we'll be hunted down.
Maya sighs.
Minaro: I have an idea.
Minaro summons a rift and pulls his phone out of it, then turns it on.
He sighs.
Minaro: Damn, I was hoping I would be able to call Sumairu to send Bukkaru over here and bring us back, but there's no service in here.
Imma-Ite: Oh wow.
Doa: There's probably service somewhere in the prison.
Minaro: Probably. Our best bet on escaping this place is getting Bukkaru to teleport us out.
Imma-Ite: Can't we just break out? You know using brute strength?
Minaro: It's better with Bukkaru. The guardians wouldn't be able to find us.
Doa: Tomorrow during break hours we can try to get a gist of the prison and figure out a way to get service.
Minaro: Yeah let's do that. I'm too sleepy right now to do anything anyways.
Imma-Ite: Alright, anyways there's only one bed so where are we gonna sleep?
Minaro: On the floor. Doa and Maya should stay on the bed, while you and I sleep on the floor.
Imma-Ite: Oh, okay.
Everyone goes to sleep. About 2 hours go by, it's 3 AM now.
Rinka stands up and yawns, he looks around. He stares down at Imma-Ite who is snoring. Rinka gently lifts Imma-Ite's head a little, Imma-Ite slowly opens his eyes, Rinka smiles at him.
Rinka quickly snaps Imma-ite's neck and a loud sound is produced, Everyone wakes up.
Minaro: Rinka?
Rinka drops Imma-Ite's lifeless body.
Maya and Doa stare at Imma-Ite, they look traumatized.
Maya: What the hell!
The void forms around Rinka's shoulders and down his arm which wraps around his fist. He slams both of his hands into the floor and a big black shockwave is made which destroys the bars of the cell they're in.
Minaro: Rinka!
Every wall of the cell is destroyed, Minaro, Doa, and Maya are launched away.
Rinka runs out of the cell and deeper into the prison. Maya, Doa, and Minaro stand up, they huddle up.
Maya: What the hell just happened!?
Minaro: I don't know I just woke up!
Doa: Oh my god.
They stare at Imma-Ite's body.
Maya tears up.
Minaro: I'm fucking confused.
…
Rinka enters the prison kitchen, he grabs 2 kitchen knives and the void wraps around them making a sort of fire-like tip on the objects. He holds them with the tip up.
Rinka runs out and starts to go on a killing spree stabbing the other inmates to death, the guards and staff of the prison notice him running around and a loud alarm activates.
…
Minaro, Doa, and Maya hear the alarm.
Maya: What do we do?
Doa: We have to figure out what's happening to Rinka. Why he just did that to us and Imma-Ite.
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Minaro: Let's go in the direction that Rinka went in. But let's make sure not to be seen by anyone.
They head down the prison.
…
Rimin who is still in the city hears the alarm, he gets in his car and drives towards the prison which has several giant lights scanning the area.
Several news reporters head to the prison and people are waking up due to the alarm.
…
Rinka continues to massacre everyone in the prison, the walls and floor are covered in blood. He is getting closer to the back of the prison.
Several inmates use their skills to try and stop him, but he quickly dodges and runs around them, slitting their necks.
...
Minaro and the others are sneaking around, Maya shoots strings on cameras to block their views. They spot all the dead bodies and blood of the inmates on the floor. Maya covers her mouth.
Minaro: Jesus christ, Rinka wouldn't do this.
Doa: I don't think he would either.
Minaro: Maybe that guardian hypnotized him?
Doa: That seems like the most likely thing.
Minaro: That bitch!
…
The void wraps around Rinka's shoulder and fist again, he slams them into the floor, an enormous black shockwave is made, ripping that part of the prison apart.
The news helicopters notice the wave and fly over to it, Rinka starts running into a forest behind the prison, Rimin suddenly runs towards him and swings his katana, Rinka dodges it.
Rinka tries to impale Rimin with his two knives, his hands are pushed back by Rimin's telekinesis. They stand a couple of feet away from each other.
Rimin: I didn't think you were actually this evil.
Rinka smiles.
Rimin shoots strings at Rinka while running towards him, Rinka runs ahead and slices the strings. Rimin tries to push Rinka back with telekinesis, Rinka stabs a knife into the floor and holds onto it to resist the push of telekinesis, then he jumps into the air leaving one of the knives in the floor and lands behind Rimin.
Rinka swings his remaining knife, Rimin quickly turns around and blocks with his katana, Rinka attempts to kick Rimin, Rimin grabs his leg. Rinka lifts his vacant hand and a big string of the void comes out from it and wraps around the knife he left in the floor. It's pulled towards Rimin. Rimin reacts and dodges it, but the knife cuts a little of his nose.
Rinka recatches the knife and holds it with the tip pointing down. He attempts to quickly stab Rimin in the heart, Rimin uses telekinesis to push his arm away. As Rinka is pushed back, he uses his other knife to stab Rimin in the side of his stomach.
Rimin uses his telekinesis, even more, to launch Rinka away from him. The void string pulls Rinka's knife back to him. Blood leaks from Rimin's side, he holds it and stares at Rinka, who grins at him.
"His grin looks familiar." Nunda thinks.
...
Rimin remembers the day of Nunda's execution, Rimin watched as Nunda got a lethal injection, his last words were, " I'll be back one day. The darkness of this world will always exist!" he said those words with a grin on his face.
...
Rimin's eyes widen, Rinka runs towards him.
Rimin: You remind me of someone I hate, So I'm going to make sure I kill you!
They run towards each other, Rimin uses telekinesis to knock Rinka down, Rinka fails to stab the floor this time, he's knocked down. Rimin lifts his katana up and tries to impale Rinka, he raises both of his legs and kicks Rimin. Rinka quickly stands up and tries to stab Rimin, Rimin grabs his hand and throws him. They stare at each other.
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Rinka stretches and yawns.
Rinka: I have somewhere to be so I'm done playing around, I'm gonna have to kill you now.
Rimin: I'm also done playing arou-
Rinka appears right in front of Rimin and slices his neck open.
Rinka runs past him and turns around, Rimin grabs his neck with one of his hands, blood seeps all over it.
Rinka runs towards him, Rimin and Rinka swing their weapons at each other repeatedly, they manage to block each other's attacks. But as Rimin swings more, he gets more and more tired, Rinka seems to only get faster and faster. Rimin is overwhelmed by Rinka's attack and Rinka manages to stab Rimin in the chest and stomach.
Rimin trips and hits the ground, Rinka looms over him. Rinka slices Rimin over and over again just to make his death more agonizing. Suddenly Rinka is launched back by an enormous telekinesis wave.
Rimin stands up.
"Ultimate Skill, Hyper Fixation Guard" He thinks.
All of Rimin's wounds close, his eyes widen. He runs towards Rinka.
Rimin's ultimate skill utilizes his telekinesis to its maximum. Allowing him to heal and use excessive force.
Several waves pulse out of Rimin that push trees and Rinka around.
Rinka stabs the floor and holds onto his knife, he blocks with his vacant hand when Rimin tries to cut him.
Rinka is launched back, several strings shootout out of Rimin's katana. Rinka does a spin mid-air and slices all of them, then he runs towards Rimin.
Rinka stabs the floor and a void shockwave is summoned that pushes Rimin back and blinds him, Rinka jumps out of the void shockwave and stabs Rimin in the throat and pins him to the floor.
Rimin tries his best to stand up, but Rinka is holding his knife tightly. Suddenly several of the prison guards find Rinka and start to attack, one of them runs towards Rinka with his arms bulging, another one morphs his hands into flesh swords, another one launches long blue tendrils towards him and the last one shoots fire at him.
Rinka pulls his knife out of Rimin's neck and runs towards the guards, he quickly dodges a punch from the one with bulging arms and stabs his throat, the flesh swords head towards Rinka. Rinka dodges them and slices the guard's neck open with an uppercut. Rinka runs and weaves around the blue tendrils and dodges the fire, then stabs the guard with the tendrils and the one with fire in the neck.
Rinka turns around and looks at Rimin, who is lying on the floor looking lifeless, his breathing gets slower. Rinka runs away from Rimin and deeper into the forest, the news camera in the air try to catch Rinka but they lose sight of him due to the number of trees.
Several ambulances, police cars, and firefighters arrive, the news reporters look away from the gruesome scene and change to reporters.
…
A few minutes have gone by, Rinka hears a voice.
"Hey, long time no see"
Yutsu walks out of the forest's shadows and approaches Rinka.
Rinka: Oh, hey I didn't expect you to come here.
Yutsu: I was watching the news and heard about your arrival and since it's been so long I thought you'd need help back to the base.
Rinka: Yeah, it's been some time since I've killed people out here, I missed it.
Yutsu: Is that so? Anyways we should get going.
They walk off.
Suddenly Yutsu quickly tries to hit Nunda, he quickly reacts and blocks.
Yutsu: Just had to make sure it was actually you.
Rinka laughs.
Yutsu and Rinka continue walking down the forest.
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Minaro and the others are outside the prison, they wander around while Minaro is holding his phone.
Minaro: Where the hell is the service. Did my parents forget to pay the phone bills?
The 3 walk around the city in the dark, everyone is distracted dealing with the prison break.
Minaro: Oh ok, this place has service. Here, write Sumairu's number.
Minaro hands the phone to Doa, she writes Sumairu's number and calls him.
Sumairu: Hello?
Doa: Sumairu, It's me Doa.
Sumairu: Doa? Why are you calling me? Aren't you supposed to be in prison?
Doa: A lot happened, didn't you see the news?
Sumairu: No, I was asleep.
Doa: That Guardian hypnotized Rinka to kill a bunch of people and break out of prison.
Sumairu: Wait, Seriously.
Doa: Yes! Tell Bukkaru to take us back home, we'll tell you more when we're there.
Sumairu: And are you like... on the run? Since you're out of prison?
Doa: No, the guards and authorities are too focused on the situation with Rinka.
Sumairu: Okay. Bukkaru should get there in a few minutes.
Doa: Okay, thanks. Bye.
Minaro: Glad he still trusts us.
They patiently wait for Bukkaru to arrive.
…
Guardian Defei and Guardian Liz are standing eating bread while watching the news.
Defei: He's dead. I feel like I should be sad but I never really formed a bond with Rimin. Is that mean?
Liz: I also didn't form a bond with him, no one did, he was always pretty distant.
Defei: I'm more pissed than sad, fuck if only we knew sooner that someone left the prison we could have prevented this.
Liz is silent.
Defei: We have to find the guy that killed him.
Liz: I know we do.
Defei: One thing I also noticed, he seems to resemble that boy Rinka we spoke to a few days ago.
Defei picks up a photo of Rinka off a table next to pictures of Minaro and the others.
Defei: Rimin sent us these photos today cuz they were arrested for killing 20 people but isn't a weird coincidence that someone who looks like Rinka kills Rimin and breaks out of prison.
Liz: I'm pretty sure that guy is Rinka.
Defei: Jeez, wonder what happened in such a short amount of time to make him massacre everyone, he seemed like a nice kid on the phone.
Liz: ... I may have an idea of what happened but I'm not sure. I'll tell you about it once I confirm I'm correct.
Defei: Okay, you're the smartest so I'll wait.
Liz: ... We're going to have to hunt Rinka down right?
Defei: Yeah, I think 2 or 4 of us will be enough. We'll send them whenever we can get a good idea of his whereabouts.
Shima, a guardian with long light green hair that covers one of her eyes enters the room. She has an off-shoulder red long sleeve shirt and blue jeans on. Her eyes are green with a little bit of dark green at the bottom.
Shima: If we are going to search for someone can I go? I would like to go outside and do something.
Raskan, a guardian with sharp short light brown hair and yellow eyes with darker yellow in them also walks into the room. He has a blue jacket on under it and a light yellow shirt, he also has white jeans on.
Raskan: Let me go on the search too. You'll need me if you want to find the dude.
Shima: No don't let him, he only wants to come because I'm going.
Raskan: And? What's the problem with that?
Shima: I don't like you, so scram.
Raskan: Man, that's just mean.
Shima: Shut up.
Defei: If you both want to go feel free to go… We'll let you know when we start searching.
Shima: Alright.
Raskan and Shima walk off.
Liz stands up and yawns.
Liz: I'm gonna go to bed now, talk to you tomorrow.
Defei: Alright good night.
Liz: Also let's have a funeral for Rimin tomorrow.
Defei: Yeah, I was thinking we should do that too.
Liz walks off.
Defei continues to watch the tv.
...
a purple ball appears in front of Minaro and the others, Bukkaru steps out and meows.
Doa: Oh, Bukkaru, You're finally here.
They all stand up and Bukkaru surrounds them with the purple ball.
Everyone is back in their room in the skill center, Maya quickly groans and throws herself onto the sofa. Doa and Minaro take a seat at the table.
Maya: What the hell is going on! We got arrested, lost 3 of our friends, and escaped prison all on the same day!
Doa: So much has happened.
Minaro: This sucks.
Sumairu opens the front door of their room.
Sumairu: Oh, you're here now... Are you guys ok?
Minaro: Yeah we're fine.
Sumairu: Anyways you said Rinka got hypnotized by the guardian, but the news confirmed Rimin's death.
Minaro: He died?
Doa: What? Then what is going on with Rinka?
Sumairu: I don't know, it's either something unknown or something to do with Rinka's mentality.
Doa: I really don't think Rinka would do something like that on his own.
Minaro: He wouldn't, it has to be something unknown. No event wouldn't change him into a mass murderer.
Sumairu: Maybe we should try asking him ourselves?
Minaro: That's what I want to do, but we have no clue where he is.
Sumairu: I bet the guardians are going to hunt him down, I could ask them if I could help and learn his location.
Maya: But the guardians are going to want to hunt us down too!
Doa: Photos of us were taken of us and sent to them. They know what we look like and believe we're still responsible for the 20 deaths in Cazuya town.
Sumairu: Oh, Well.. I'll try my best to convince them it wasn't you guys. I've worked alongside them for years now plus the others aren't as strict with things as Rimin was.
Minaro: Okay then. Let us know when you have his location. I'll be ready to find Rinka.
Doa: Me too!
Minaro and Doa look at Maya.
Maya: Rinka saved me from a horrible life with my family. So I'm also ready!
Sumairu: Alright I'll let you know when everything is ready. Goodnight.
Sumairu walks away, Minaro, Doa, and Maya head to their rooms.
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3 days go by, in those 3 days, several bodies of people brutally stabbed and beaten to death in small towns and some outskirts of cities have been found, totaling to around 60 confirmed deaths.
The prison has been rebuilt and people are being alert of the brand new "Void Murderer" going around.
Rinka was the one responsible for each death. On the fourth day during the afternoon, Rinka wandered into one of the biggest forests in the region in search of more people to kill.
LossPalleys Forest, shrouded in somewhat massive trees and filled with some villages.
Little did Rinka know that near LossPalleys forest is where one of the bases where guardians live is. They're base is about the size of an apartment and it stands in the emptiest part of the forest but shrouded by some smaller trees.
Raskan and Shima are running through the forest.
Raskan: We finally found where that murderous motherfucker is.
Shima: We have to be careful. He killed Rimin so he must be strong or good with his skills.
Thanks to Raskan's tracking skill after a few days they were able to locate Rinka.
Raskan can look at any person or video/ image of any person and track them down for a minute, every day if they are near him.
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Minaro, Doa, Maya, and Sumairu are standing at the top of a hill in front of the forest staring down at it.
Minaro: This is the place the guardians told you to come to?
Sumairu: Yup. We have to find him before they do.
Minaro: Alright.
"I'll find you Rinka. I'll figure out what's going on with you and nothing will stop me".
Minaro thinks.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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