CHAPTER 117: SHE DISDAINED BULLIES.

Sunshine looked at Nimo and they exchanged a knowing look. They had both met people like Cain before. People that thought they were smarter than everyone else in the room.

Major Elio tapped Sunshine’s shoulder and pulled her back. He lowered a part of his helmet and said to her in a low voice, "The people here are scared of him. Women are trembling, children are shivering. I have seen some men with bruises."

Sunshine nodded. She figured that Cain ruled with an iron fist.

He was a bully. She disdained bullies.

His kind was not uncommon to see in the apocalypse. Superhumans that enslaved ordinary humans and stepped on them like worms. Cain and others like him were the reason why superhumans had a bad reputation in some places.

"Hey, what are you whispering about?" Cain barked. The faint blue veins in his exposed skin pulsed, seeming to hum.

"Whatever he is, he is sparking." Elio told Sunshine.

"You are not military, are you? If you were, you would be asking for ID’s, offering help or bursting out the handcuffs not searching for one person." Cain shouted.

His men raised their weapons, and the soldiers also raised their weapons.

"I would stay calm if I were you." Siegfried warned the armed men.

Major Elio caught sight of two men across the room with hidden guns that were pointed at them. There was a teenage boy behind counter that was holding a machete.

"I don’t think we are going to walk out of here without a fight." Elio told Sunshine. "We can take down those with guns and knives but the superhuman is another story. Will the dragonoids takes him down?"

"Fuck this." Cain bellowed. "I want your cars and gear." He looked back at his men. "Kill and strip them."

Siegfried rushed to tackle Cain, and he was struck with voltage that looked like a whip made of white-blueish lightning.

As he was flung back, the firefight had already started and the dragonoid in Nimo’s hands fell to the ground as Cain struck it and her as well.

"Nimo...." Sunshine screamed. She leaped forward with her hammer, and it landed on Cain’s chest, sending him backwards.

Sunshine knelt down and lifted Nimo, screaming her name. Her heart was pounding like hooves of a group of bulls running down a hill. Seeing her friend hit the ground took her back to the moment when she found Nimo dead.

"I’m okay." Nimo coughed.

Suddenly, Sunshine was shoved off Nimo and a bolt of lightning hit the ground after missing her narrowly. Cain was not dead. It would take more than one hammer to kill a superhuman.

He was injured however, standing on one leg like an injured cock. There was some blood running down his neck from the back of his head and the side of his mouth. His body was humming with voltage. Visible sparks danced across his skin like lightning was dancing around him or fireflies were crawling on his skin.

Sunshine stood up slowly realization in her eyes. "Electrokinesis." She whispered. "Get our people out." She yelled at Major Elio.

The major helped Nimo to her feet. Siegfried had already been helped up. The clothes on both of their bodies had been scorched but they were unharmed. The weather absorbent under suits had swallowed all the voltage which was meant to kill them.

"Leave now." Sunshine barked. "It is an order."

Elio wanted to decline but Nimo caught his arm. The rest of the guards had been taken out anyway so all that was left was Cain. Sunshine was a superhuman too, so she knew what her friend was planning.

"Did I say they could leave?" Cain asked.

Sunshine cackled, "You are not a king, we don’t need your permission to come and go."

Cain laughed and volts sparked even more. He continued to light up more like a christmas tree in the middle of a large mall during holiday season.

"You should have run away with the rest of them." He told her. "Since you have decided to stay, you might as well be buried here like many others I buried here for insolence." His voice vibrated with static. A bolt of lightning wrapped itself around his arm like a vine. "You must be scared now, right? I am like your god right now."

Sunshine scoffed. There was nothing godlike about Cain. He simply had the ability to pull electrons from the atmosphere. Even though it was special, it was not universe creating kind of special.

Ice started to bloom beneath Sunshine’s feet, spreading across tiled floor, heading towards where Cain was standing. Every breath she released crystallized, her eyes that were normally light blue turned even paler and sharper like glacial glass.

"What the fuck are you?" Cain blurted out in a nervous voice.

Sunshine didn’t answer. She raised her hand, pulling moisture out of the air and it transformed into hard star shaped blade flakes. They came together slowly until they turned into five ninja stars.

"I was going for a fan, but this will do." She said reluctantly. "You are also foolish for standing still and waiting for me to form my stars. A clever man tries to end the fight before it even starts."

Perhaps he listened to her advice but Cain made his first move immediately, sending the electric snake bolts towards Sunshine.

She slid across the ice like a weightless leaf, dodging the bolts while throwing her ice star blades out.

Electricity surged through Cain’s legs, propelling him to the right. As two stars shattered against the wall behind him, two were embedded in his body.

As he cried out, Sunshine flicked her wrist out and sent the ice star blades out. They encircled Cain, rotated around his body like a moving halo. With every rotation, the tips sliced away at him.

Cain screamed and twisted, channeling a surge through his body. The ice stars exploded but Sunshine was already on the move again. She had already formed new stars, two dozen of them that were smaller, and they erupted forward.

Cain blasted outwards, sending out random tendrils of lightning, shattering the small ice stars and yet the more he shattered, the more came for him and soon, they surrounded him.

He found himself trapped in a cage of ice stars which he could not burst open. He tried to charge and draw more power, but Sunshine had lowered the temperature in the room and frozen everything. His powers seemed to be frozen along with everything else.

Cain’s eyes widened. His breath caught as the cage grew smaller with every second, tips of ice stars threatening to crush his body. As he panicked, he drew in more moisture, and it crystallized in his lungs.

His breathing grew heavier. The cold was no longer physical, it was molecular. The electrons which once danced around him were still and no matter how much he commanded, they refused to move.

Sunshine skidded across ice as if she was figure skating, performing for an audience. Frost followed her, covering her body like a blanket. Her eyes were not glowing blue anymore but white.

"Time to end this." She said, looking into Cain’s scared eyes.