Everything around Vlad was fading in the background, it felt like he was alone and it was just him and the Altered solution in his hands. He looked at the deep colour, it was dark and the solution was moving.
‘Is this what an Altered solution normally looks like?’ Vlad thought. ‘Why does it feel so alive?’
The Altered solution was a new way to turn one into an Altered. As in the past Altereds would have to go through a specific process in a lab. It was only recently that an injection had become available.
It was the first time Vlad had ever seen or held an Altered solution in his hand, so he had no clue if it was meant to look this way, but there was something about it that was drawing him to the solution.
‘If I inject this inside me, then I’ll become an Altered right? It will be just as easy as that.’ Vlad continued to look at the solution and part of the liquid was moving up to the top of the glass. It was moving around as if it wanted to come toward Vlad.
‘If I was an Altered, if I had this back then, would I have been able to stop him?’ Images of that night flashed into Vlad’s head. Him being stopped while his father was being held.
‘If I had this, I could have killed them all… if I have this now, I can help, I can do something.’
‘Yes you can!’ A voice resounded in Vlad’s head. Taking the injection he slammed into the side of his arm and pushed down.
“Come on Vlad, let’s get out of he-” Austin turned around, and he could see it, the liquid from the syringe going right into Vlad. He reached out to stop him, but the syringe was already empty before he could do anything.
“Vlad, those solutions, they're…” Austin remembered a few things from the meetings he had with the other Altereds. How Gary had learned information on the infected Altered, and how it was being passed around.
He remembered Gary’s debut fight, the craziness seen in that one’s eyes, it was the same as the Scavengers members had. It was just a theory he had, but he didn’t think these solutions that the Scavengers had were the real deal.
“This is it.” Vlad said, with a large smile on his face. He turned to look at Austin, revealing that one of his eyes was already completely black. “Austin, I can help, I can help, I can finally do something, and get rid of those guys! I’ll kill them, I’ll kill them all with my own two hands!”
The black was spreading; it was going into the other eye extremely quick.
‘What is going on? The Scavengers, even though they were Altereds, they still seemed normal until they transformed.’
“Vlad… it's okay, we will get revenge, remember I promised you that, but if we do this now, there’s a chance a lot of people could get hurt, including Vere!” Austin shouted out.
He was wondering if he should restrain him, hold him back, it was a tough decision to make, but Vlad was already transforming.
Small little dark brown horns sprouted from the top of his head. Transparent wings came out from his back in pairs, making four in total, and his arms and forearms grew in size, the colour matching the brown horns he had.
“I’ll kill them all!” A shadowy mist looked to be coming off from Vlad’s body in the air around him, and parts of his skin, even the Altered parts, were patchy in areas. The next moment, he flew straight forward and right into the wall crashing through it. Vlad continued forward, breaking through all of the walls and it was quite clear where he was heading.
“Holy crap… what the heck is going to happen now… what do I do, what’s the plan?” Austin said to himself. “Ah screw it, what plan, we just take out the Scavengers and protect the ones I care about, I need to protect the kid, this is my fault that he’s become like this!”
Ausitn thought as he ran through the holes in the wall that Vlad had already created.
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Nox, including the others, were continuing to watch the show that was taking place. Vere had already returned with her sister Vivi. There was a comment about the two of them taking so long but since they came back together no one really found it suspicious.
‘Things are going smoothly, if they manage to take out two of them, then that means there are only six Altered including Vixen left that the Scavengers have. Once Austin joins the stage and displays his power taking one of them out, then the other gang members will be hesitant to join in.
‘In the meantime, I’ll change and come in and stop Nox before he can escape.’
There was a little hiccup with Vivi, but that was solved and she was hoping that would be the one bad thing that came their way.
“Next up, we have the young star who has extraordinary skills with the knife, Killer!” The announcer shouted.
Killer got up from his seat, and he was quite frustrated as he looked around.
‘What the f*ck, those two went off somewhere, and then they did nothing. I was hoping they would make some type of grand entrance before it was my turn, crap… and what’s the deal with this text?’
Killer looked down on his phone to a message he had received a little while ago.
[Pack your belongings and make sure you have everything ready. We will be leaving this place, so don’t be late by a second!]
It was the strangest text he had ever gotten, and what could he do with the situation he was in now. Killer sighed as he walked toward the stage, when a loud bang went off.
It was almost like an explosion, as concrete was chucked out and onto the stage.
“NOOOX!” Vlad shouted, as he burst through the wall. “Where are you! Let me get rid of you painfully, just like you did my father!”
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