HALF: Dead nor Alive

“Am I safe? I should be safe, right?” Archie asked as he climbed up the hole.

“Don’t talk, keep climbing!” The witch replied.

The witch used her human form as she helped Archie climb up the hole with the whirlwind that was strong enough to lift Archie’s body. She kept looking down because she saw Eve and was terrified that Eve might pursue them. Fortunately, Archie was too focused on running for his life that he didn’t notice Eve’s presence or to be exact he didn’t care about anything because he knew that a strong presence was near him.

Archie climbed up and managed to reach the top, he immediately ran out of the mouth cave and saw the thunders strike the ground around him. He looked up and the king was the one who made the sudden change in the weather. The dark clouds and the thunderstorm were covering the whole continent, which was a bad sign for everyone.

The sea was rampaging and Archie looked at it with confusion. “What’s happening?” he asked.

“Don’t think! Just run back to the city because the other kings have responded to this king’s taunt. You guys don’t have much time left and you need to leave this continent as soon as possible!” The witch said as she pulled Archie to the cliff before he couldn’t go back to the continent because of the waves.

Archie dove into the rampaging sea and he barely managed to fight the waves, he kept swimming back to Newfoundland with the help of the witch by blocking the winds to calm the sea a bit. He kept swimming and his eyes were focused on swimming forward where the cliff was a few hundred meters away from him.

The witch became one with the wind and she checked the island once more to see if Eve was following them. To her surprise, Eve really did follow them to the surface but the moment she wanted to follow Archie into the water, the parasite looked at her as if she was a huge threat to him.

The king used his flippers and tail to attack Eve but Eve stopped them with her hands like it was nothing. The witch was shocked and couldn’t believe what she witnessed, she knew how strong Eve was but she never thought she would be able to be a match with a king.

Archie heard roars that came from the island but he didn’t bother to look back, but on the other hand, the witch watched everything and saw Eve butchering the king with her nails. There was no logical explanation for how could a woman could fight a parasite that was as tall as a mountain on her own, with her bare hands.

The guts of the parasite were spurting out and exploded into the sea, the parasite’s body hit the ground really hard that it shook the entire island and the sea became wilder that Archie got pushed onto the cliff. It helped him and he immediately climbed up the cliff and then rested on the edge of the cliff while he caught his breath.

“Archie you need to keep moving, the real threat is here,” The witch whispered into his ear.

Archie furrowed his forehead and turned his head toward the island. He squinted his eyes to see the parasite but then his eyes widened when he realized the king that he just ran away from half an hour ago was already dead with the heads decapitated.

As Archie watched the dead body of the king, he saw a woman with very long silver hair that reflected the sun that had just uncovered from the dark clouds standing on top of the corpse of the king. She was waving her bloody hands at him with a mischievous smile on her face, Archie got a chill down his spine and immediately got up.

“Eve?” Archie said under his breath.

Eve just smirked and then licked her fingers while kept staring at Archie.

Archie immediately knew that something wasn’t right about her, he thought that Eve would be normal like any woman he knew but she was nothing like what he imagined. He decided to run and left without looking back.

“You believe me now, Archie?” The witch asked as she followed him from the side.

“Did she kill the king?” Archie asked as he dodged and jumped over the obstacles in front of him.

“Killed it? She butchered the king with her bare hands! She took down the king like she was killing a fly!” The witch answered.

Archie looked at the witch with disbelief but there was no reason for the witch to tell him a lie at this moment. He turned around and the island was no longer visible, he felt a bit relieved when knowing that Eve wasn’t following them.

“The sky, is it going to be like that for a while?” Archie asked as he looked at the sky.

“Yes, and you can see that the dark clouds are forming from the south and north as well. They’re all responding to the king’s call but they don’t know about the king’s death, so this will be a big problem because now all of them will come to the surface,” The witch answered.

Archie gritted his teeth and slowly transformed his body. “I need to hurry and go back to warn everyone before it’s too late,”

(At the same time in Newfoundland Island.)

Eve looked at the dark clouds as she sighed, she then walked down from the king’s body and walked toward the cave. She heard growls and roars from the cave, she ignored them, and suddenly hundreds and thousands of the king-class parasites appeared from the hole. She glared at them and all of them immediately went to the side and tried not to get too close to her because they were scared of her presence.

“Brainless maggots…” Eve said as she walked deeper into the cave then grabbed one king-class parasite and sliced it into pieces with her claws. Eve’s gaze was terrifying enough to make some of them decide to crawl back into the hole and hide.

Eve jumped down into the hole and before she landed on the ground, a pair of wings made from her ribs, flesh, and skin came out from her back and slowed down her landing. She put the wings back into her back and then walked casually along the dark tunnel.

As Eve walked in the forest, she couldn’t stop thinking of Archie and his face, she couldn’t stop giggling and smiling like a maniac. “He’s so cute,” Eve said as she kept smiling and resting her head on her palm. “I should have followed him and seen where he was going, but since he went to the west, I think I know where he’s going,” she continued as she looked to her left where another giant hole that lead to somewhere.

Eve stood on top of the mountain underneath the earth and then entered the mouth of the mountain. She walked deeper into the mountain and saw the lava flowing below her, she kept walking and went deeper into the mountain.

“You’re still alive?” Eve asked as she stared at a guy that was wrapped with flesh-like tissues. “Oh, you’re still alive, why don’t you die already since I don’t want to play with you anymore,” she continued as she crouched and glared at the guy in front of her.

“W-why…” The guy weakly asked with his eyes barely open. “You’re supposed to be mine… but why are you doing this, and why they allowed you to do this,” he continued and then coughed blood.

Eve giggled then rubbed the guy’s face gently. “Who told you that I belong to anyone? They didn’t tell you that, they only told you to find me,” she answered. “You’re not the first who thought that, and you won’t be the last,” she continued as she rubbed the top of her teeth with her tongue.

“It should be like this… you promised me that you will be mine…” the guy said with desperation in his voice.

Eve sighed and slowly moved her index finger and middle finger toward the guy’s eyes. She then gouged his eyes as the guy screamed in pain. “You were no fun to play with compared to the first guy,” she said as she was enjoying torturing the guy with a straight face. “I’m bored of you, now just die and let me take your power,” she said and then tore the guy’s face with her claws and tore the front half of the guy’s body.

Eve grabbed his heart and ate it so slowly, and she could feel the power flowing into her body immediately. The flesh-like tissue unwrapped itself from the remaining of the guy, Eve approached the tissue and it became one with her as if it belonged to her in the first place.

“Now, it’s time to go and get my new plaything…” Eve said as she licked her fingers.