Chapter 1
"Run faster dammit! He's catching up to us!" Alisha yelled as she looked back at her limping sister. Her face was flushed and she was gasping in pain.
"I- I can't!" Alisha's sister Amy cried out before she yelled out, her foot catching on a branch on the forest floor.
"Amy!" Alisha yelled, stopping as she turned back and fell on her knees, shaking her sister who had just passed out from exhaustion,"Come on Amy wake up! Wake up dammit!" What was following them finally came into view. From the treetops burst a man in a mechanical suit, his hands opening up into weapons as the jets on his back kept him in the air.
The man lowered to about a yard off the ground as he pointed his right hand at the two women, saying,"Alisha and Amy Nareve, you have both been found to be illegal Alphas, to which the only penalty is death. The chase was fun, but now your time is at an end... Any last words?"
Alisha was crouched by her sister, her heart thudding in her chest as her thoughts raced. They have come too far to have it end now... Alisha looked down at her sister, taking one last look at her... Amy just turned 18 about a month ago, and was turning out to be quite the woman... Her hair was dark brown in color, all straight as it reached down to her lower back. She had such soft hair too, and it just lightly moved in the breeze. Amy was still growing out of it, but she still had cute child like features on her face, and hated it when she pointed it out. The dress she was wearing was also the last one she wore when this all happened, which was a light blue blouse with lace at the neck, and a pair of black shorts that hugged her thighs. She aged so much in the past week of stress thoigh... and Alisha felt no better. Alisha was different and had dark red hair, much like their father, and was 22 years of age. She was wearing a lacey red dress that just barely passed her knees.
Alisha shuddered in pain before she stood, and looked the man right in the eye, keeping her stance strong. This was not their fault... None of this was their fault... Alisha and Amy had been living perfectly with each other, until those damn bombs fell...
America had launched a nuke at Russias capital, and so that started World War 3. Every country soon had to pick a side as each side continued to throw nuclear weaponry at each other. Due to the technology we have, only a few had actually hit, but the radiation hit everyone. Hard. Soon the planet started to slowly die as the war ended, and clean up was top priority. Even Alisha and Amy were a part of it. At the same time, a vaccine needed to be made to combat the radiation poisoning, and within a few days they had pushed a cure through. Everyone was required to take it, and people recovered really quickly. Everyone had thought all the pain and suffering had ended, but it had only just started... Within a few days people started to have these strange mutations, abilities if you will, appear left and right. Nearly a fourth of the entire United States had been effected by this strange mutation. This thing that started happening were giving people incredible powers. Ice creators, those with super strength, even some who could make things disintergrate with a touch. But of course the government saw this as a horrible thing, and worked on a project of their own while they left the country to fall slowly into chaos.
Only a week later however and the Government introduced a plan to fix this. It was called Project Clean Up. It was a plan to send out the governments newest unit, the Honor Guard, to wipe out all of those with such mutations. Those with the mutations were nicknamed and coded, Alphas. The Honor Guard were a group of highly trained military soldiers who were given powerful suits that used the properties of Alpha abilities, and made them their own. With their mix of training and power against the civilians confusion and lack of training, the Honor Guard were an unbeatable grup, who started killing hundreds of thousands of Alphas a day. However, they didn't enjoy being killed, and started to fight back, realizing that in numbers they were stronger then these Guards. However, most did not fight, and simply ran... Trying their best to hide from the fight. That is what Alisha and Amy were doing. Running.
They have been running from this one Guard for about a week now, with almost no break to eat, sleep, or drink... But now they were all but worn out... With the Guard standing before them feeling all strong and mighty. He had pained both of them for too long now, and Alisha wanted it to end... She reached up to her face as she felt her left eye. There was a scar that went across her eye, making her partially blind in it as well as leaving a hideous scar.. It was all that mans fault... He had fired a round at her, and she only just dodged it, but it still hit her eye. Her sister had just barely saved her from being killed by that man. Now it was Alisha's turn to save her sister... She looked up at the man in anger, a spark in her eye as she put both of her arms out to her side.
The Guard laughed as he knew what was going to happen,"So, you want one final fight before I end your lives once and for all? Fine... Give me your best shot you mutated freak!"
A nerve burst in Alisha's mind at the word freak as both of her arms lit in a blaze of fire, the look in her eyes matching in color as she said,"You're the one that's going to die for hunting us like animals! We're people too dammit! With or without these damn mutations that you retards caused!"
The Guard laughed as he extended his arm to Alisha, replying,"Sorry, just doing my job as a citizen to clean this planet of dangerous people like yo-" The Guard was cut off as he was struck in the shoulder by a ball of fire. He fell to the ground with a crash as he skid back a bit, his shoulder smoking from the intense heat.
Alisha yelled out,"Don't you finish that sentance! Your people killed more then us! And ours were accidental! But this... This is not an accident!" She extended both of her arms as a wave of flame burst out and struck the Guard, the grass around him setting aflame as his body was covered in intense heat and flame. But this was not enough to satisfy Alisha... She started punching the air as ball after ball of fire left her fist, striking where she thought the man was in the fire, tears streaming down her face. In Alisha's mind, she was letting all her pain out on this man as if it were all his fault. Ball after ball of flame struck the increasing wildfire as it started to lick up the trees.
Alisha felt a tug at her dress as she looked down to see Amy awake, shaking her head,"Alisha! Stop! You'll burn down the entire frest at this rate!"
"I don't care! That bastard ruined our lives Amy! Him and all those Guards did! They are all bastards and just deserve to die!" Alisha yelled, still firing through shut tears as the smoke pured into her face. She felt Amy help herself up using Alisha as a balance as she felt a strong slap across the face.
"Alisha! Stop! We have to go NOW!" Amy yelled, shaking her sister. Alisha couldn't help but cry as her sister dragged her from the fire, both of them trying their best to get away from the raging flames. They could not get far however, as both of them were dead exhausted from the run they had. They both fell to the ground once they were well away from the flames, both of them gasping for breath.
"Alisha... Do you- You think you got him?" Amy asked as she turned and laid down on her back, gasping for breath as she looked at the smoke in the distance.
"Yeah... I'm sure... There's no way he could have survived all of that..." Alisha replied as she put her hands on her knees, doubled over in pain as she gasped for breath. After a moment or so of doing this Alisha stood back up as she wiped the tears from her eyes, as she didn't want to look weak in front of her sister. Alisha looked over her dress as she stood. The fire burned more away this time around, and now it was at the middle of her thigh and her left strap broke... There is no way this day could get any worse... But of course, Alisha had to mentally kick her own ass as she heard a familiar noise... The sound of a pair of jets. The man was in front of them once more with ashes across his suit. Most was off of it however from the flight over, and he looked completely unharmed.
"You call that fire? Only your first attack had any real force to it, and the rest was just heat. You are a disgrace to all pyrokinetic based Alpha's out there, as they are all considered to be the most dangerous due to their strength. I suppose you're the runt of the litter..." The man replied, laughing loudly at his joke.
Alisha yelled out as she jumped toward the man, both of her hands on fire as her eyes turned a pitch red in anger. The man merely laughed as he brought up his guns. For Alisha, everything went in slow motion as she took in all the details. She could smell the smoke in the air, taste the saltiness of her tears, hear her sister's cries of despair, hear the click of a gun, and see the flash of a bullet as all Alisha saw was white.
Word Count : 1740
Subject: Chapter 1 
