HALF: Dead nor Alive

Eve spread her wings as Archie watched her fly away and kick the king’s head like it was nothing to her. The king got knocked back by her kick and fell to the ground making a heavy earthquake that everyone at the port could feel the ground shaking.

“What was that?!” Ruby asked as she turned around and saw the king collapsed and Eve flying under the thunderstorm. “What is that?!” she asked again as she pointed at the sky.

A very long silver-white hair that was carried by the strong wind could be seen from the city. Vincent and the others were looking at it and they had no idea what was that or who was that.

“Let’s go and check it out! Maybe it’s Archie!” Ruby said as she started running back.

Vincent and the others couldn’t do anything to stop her so they were following her from behind.

Eve descended and walked toward Archie, she was a bit surprised when she saw his power that could regenerate. She smirked as she covered her naked body with her wings and walked toward Archie who tried to stand up.

“That power,” Eve said as she kept staring at Archie.

Archie stood up and stared back at Eve and at her wings. “You’re Eve, right?” he asked as he fixed the bones on his shoulder.

Eve just smirked as she stared into his eyes and didn’t say anything.

“What do you want from me?” Archie asked as he slowly walked back to make some distance between him and her.

Eve tilted her head while raising her eyebrows. “But you were the one who came to find me, is it not?” she asked back as she kept walking closer to Archie. “So, shouldn’t I be the one who asks you that question?” she continued as she kept getting closer.

“I was curious because I heard that you killed a Drautnir and I want to know if that’s the truth,” Archie asked as he held his sword tightly.

Eve suddenly extended her wings and put them behind Archie’s back then she pushed him closer to her. Archie tried to push the wings away but they won’t budge as if he was pushing a mountain. Eve then grabbed his cheeks with both of her hands while she kept staring him in the eyes.

“You want to know the truth?” Eve asked as she showed her claws at Archie. “The truth is that I didn’t kill a Drautnir, but I killed two of them,” she continued as she scratched Archie’s cheek with her claw and it cut open like butter.

Archie covered his torso with the tissue and the gel behind his skin while Eve was astonished by Archie’s regeneration. Eve then noticed the parasites inside his body were trying to protect him from her, but she immediately stabbed her right hand into his chest like dipping her hand in the water.

“Do not be afraid, is what they told you didn’t they?” Eve said as she glared at Archie with her nose touching his.

Archie couldn’t say anything as Eve squeezed his lungs, and all he could do was gasp for air that he couldn’t get no matter how hard he tried. Eve saw his mouth wide open and immediately pulled out her tongue but before she could kiss Archie, Ruby came with the others.

“Archie?” Ruby asked as she saw Eve who glared at them from the corner of her eyes.

The moment they realized that Archie was being held hostage by Eve, the four of them immediately pointed their guns at Eve. Eve chuckled and covered her mouth then started laughing at them because she found it funny that they used those to threaten her.

“Let him go,” Ruby said as she pointed her pistol at Eve’s head.

Eve tilted her head and pointed her fingers like a pistol at Ruby. “Bang,” she said and pretended she just shot Ruby then Ruby’s left shoulder suddenly got dislocated.

Everyone looked at Eve with a shocked expression, including Archie because that didn’t make any sense.

Archie looked at Eve who seemed to be having fun and used the opportunity to swing his sword and cut Eve’s wing with it. He used all his strength to swing his sword but he didn’t expect her wing would be so sturdy that he almost failed to cut it off.

Eve was shocked that her wing fell to the ground and Archie immediately ran away from her. “Everyone, run!” Archie screamed his lungs out while Eve was still in shock from what just happened.

Before Eve could chase them, the king’s leg stomped on Eve and started to roar again as it stood up using its wings. Archie looked back as the king kept stomping its foot on the ground, he couldn’t see Eve because the ground bent as the king stomped on it over and over.

Archie couldn’t care and kept running until the king stopped stomping its foot. The king faced its face to the north and it was staring at something for quite a while. An earthquake happened not long after that and they were looking at each other because the king didn’t do anything and just stood there.

“I have a bad feeling about this,” Vincent said as he looked at Ruby.

The moment he said that a howl could be heard coming from the far north, and they stopped moving and looked at the north. It was too dark to see because of the thunderstorm and it was still dawn. As soon as the lightning struck, they could see a parasite as big as the king slowly crawling toward the city.

“Did you guys see that?” Tommy whispered as he glanced at them.

“Yeah, it looks like a dog but it has two heads,” Daniel replied as he tried to look at it with his binoculars.

“We need to go back to the port now because if the other king showed itself, that means the parasites from the north are following it here,” Archie said as he looked at Ruby. Ruby nodded with understanding and the five of them went to the port.

“I just hope that they finished building the ship, or we all going to die here,” Vincent said as he looked back and saw the silhouette of the second king.

They back to the port and the ship wasn’t ready, they would still need at least a few hours or at least until sunrise. Fanheim and the others couldn’t believe there was actually another king that came and it proved Archie’s word about the clash of the kings.

An hour had passed and as expected the parasites that came from the south were attacking them at the port. All the Axis Humans were fighting the hordes of parasites for the second time, but it was thanks to Archie and the others for giving them time to rest, that they recovered their energy to fight.

“Wait, is that thing coming toward us?” Tommy asked as he pointed at the second king.

Ruby and the others looked up and saw the second king facing toward the port. “No, I think it’s going to the city,” Ruby answered.

The second king set its foot inside the city and everyone could only watch as it trampled the buildings and the wall. They could only hope that everyone who decided to stay was safe inside an underground bunker. The second king then looked at the pillar and decided to bite it with its massive mouths.

They saw the pillar collapse and the sky station fell with it, it was devastating for them to watch their home get destroyed. The station that used to be the thing they could see in the sky finally met its end.

The sun rose and the parasites kept coming like water, there were no ends to it but Archie could handle them easily and he alone was enough to deal with it. Fanheim and the others almost finished the ship, but the clash between the kings made them distracted because of the earthquakes, smoke, and debris.

“The ship is finished!” Fanheim shouted to the Axis Humans who fought the parasites outside the port.

Ruby who heard it immediately ordered everyone to fall back, but when they were running back to the port, they saw a woman in a coat and a hoodie. Archie saw a glimpse of silver-white hair from the hoodie.

“Everyone! Stop!” Archie screamed.

Ruby and the others turned around to look at Archie but then some of the Axis Humans that ran next to them start to collapse and their heads exploded. Everyone was shocked and then Eve removed the coat from her body and spread wide her wings. Archie looked so confused because Eve had the same ability to regenerate her body.

Eve smirked and walked toward Archie while the Axis Humans were stunned by her presence. One by one their body exploded for no reason, Archie couldn’t believe what he saw because how could she so easily kill them without even touching them.

The moment Eve looked at Ruby, Vincent, Tommy, and Daniel, Archie ran past them and then swung his sword at Eve. Eve grabbed the sword with her bare hand and she smiled sinisterly as she choke Archie with her other hand.

“How cute, my little Adam,” Eve said as she pulled Archie closer. “You can’t run from me because I have found my new toy,” she continued as she smirked then kissed Archie in the mouth.