Fire burned him, making a dark glow around him, Herman wails of agony are heard from the screen above, the two people looking down at them, they saw them as two abnormal silhouettes
"What is fighting him?"
Alex muttered, glancing at Judy beside him, Judy observed them noticing a fire around one of them. Judy asked Lee and their staffers take a record of what they are witnessed as they watch oneof them burn and the other in the air, Judy glanced at Frankie, she's writting a note to the congress, warning them of what's happening in the senate,
"I don't know," Judy let out
Suddenly, a gold light came from the screen, frightening them when a voice came from it,
"I know this won't stop you, Herman,"
Shai beheld the fire that burning him. It's dark, almost black as it wrapped around Herman. He looked around him, feeling himself burn within the fire. He felt as if he had skin that the fire could burn off. he could feel the fire start to burn through him, Herman glared at Shai.
"This won't hinder me any longer."
Herman stepped into the cloud. He grunts in pain, holding back his wail, he stared at her walking into the agonizing clouds, Shai gazes widden at him and feels the weapon shook at her side,
"He's moving through the clouds?" Shai asked
It shook shining white, Shai glanced down and saw Herman made it halfway through the clouds, Shai pointed her weapon at him. Then, she shot the bullet, but a hand pushed hers.
"You can't stop me,"
Shai stared at Herman's clone burnt in half, his grip tightened on her that broke her leg, and she breathed out in pain, lifting her leg with him clawing at her leg.
"Off,"
Shai kicked him back into the fire and floated above him, Herman's hand reached out of the clouds towards her,
"I will take over Shai. You can't stop me,"
They hear a bullet shot near the clouds. Herman pulled his head out of the cloud. burned in some places as He turned to Shai, letting out a laugh,
"I will not underestimate you, Shai,"
Shai lookednon as he fought through the pain, pulling out his body leans over having the burning lessen, his head twitched and turned with his limps, he stood fixing his legs and went to fix his arms,
"For what you have done so far,"
Herman muttered, fixing his arm and moving it around, then fix his other arm, Shai observed his form while the weapon shook in her grasp,
"You will have sush an insufferable death that it will be remembered for years to come," Herman continues
He fixed his arm glaring at Shai, the weapon shaked again over Herman, Shai looked at where he stood, he wasn't there, he's in front of her punching her throught her stomach, Shai has a sickening pain throught her stomach. Shai coughed out blood onto Herman, who grinned at her pain, tasting her own blood,
"You shouldn't have done that,"
Herman twisted his hand into her stomach, Herman stared down at her from leaning down on his shoulder. Herman leaned to her ear, whispering,
"You should've expected that you will lose against me. You have nothing, Shai. You will die here while I finish what they... I want,"
Herman went to pull his hand out, but her hand grabbed his. He looked at Shai shocked, her blood dripping down her chin with her hands clamped on his, her vines glowing gold with her eyes glaring down at him. Herman pulled his arm away from her grip and kicked Shai away from him,
"Give up,"
Shai punched her hand into the ground, stopping her. Her hands burn with the gold starting to spread into her arms, and the weapon appears in her other hand, shaking rapidly. She breathed heavily, having her hair pulled from behind her, Shai looked at Herman, and he grinned at her and told her,
"Just give in Shai,"
He kicked her side, causing Shai to shout in pain. Herman stared at ger empty, then punched ber back, Shsi stumbled from him,
"Given in. I will achieve my goal, and you will be the first to witness it,"
Shai slowly stood turning to him with the weapon on her hip, glowing. Herman punched her face, leaving her staggering,
"I will find those confidantes of yours. Then figure out how to kill those that helped you achieve such strength,"
Herman stopped seeing Shai leaning back with her head staring up at the screen. He scowled and went to kick her thigh and wanted to send her back to her knees, Shai didn't bend. Nor move from the kick. Her hair covered her eyes with her grasp on her hip tightening,
"Stop, "
Herman eyes twitched its odd. Her voice. It's lighter. Like rain falling from the sky, a drizzle. Shai stared at him, her eyes glowing gold filled with distress. The brown that was there was gone, and her vines shined the same, but it went to her neck,
"That's not normal," Herman muttered
He lifted his hand to strike her, and it landed on her cheek, but it didn't move her. Shai grabbed Herman's wrist, twisting him away, Herman caught himself observing her, fascinated.
"You won't do anything,"
Shai said, straightened up her posterior, glaring him, having a painful ach on her stomach not stop her, Herman felt something off with her. Something in her has changed. Herman scoffed,
"What makes you think that, Shai? Haven't I disproved that?"
He started at her dully when a loud voice came from her, but her lips didn't move.
"You know not what you fight with, "
Shai rushed at Herman, raising her fist, Herman lifted his hand to stop her, but Shai kicked it, and Herman watched his arm scatter. He felt the air move past him as he fell on the codes bellow him,
Shai felt her vines throb going up to her neck,
"You say that we're insignificant,"
Shai let out and materializes in front of Herman, he leans on his other arm to repair it, Shai shifts her leg and kicks Herman before he could, Shai saw the weapon appear in her hand and is aimed at Herman, Shai noticed the glow from it. It was green laced with white.
Shai nodes shofts her gaze at him and shoots it, he watched that bullet gone past him, and he falls right next to it, Shai stares down at Herman, still trying to recollect himself. His strength started to fade in his left arm, and he looked at undeterred, pondering.
"How could one punch from her do this to me?"
It spread up into his shoulder when Shai slammed her foot down onto his stomach, Herman shouted at her, and Shai stared at him like he had for her,
"But on the contrary. We are more important than you think,"
The codes shift under him wrapping around him, Herman tried to move the codes but could not. Tried to shift through the codes. He couldn't phase through it. An enormous pain grasped at him, shaking him. Shai saw the lightning wrapped around him, Herman glared at her holding in his cries,
"Let me out!"
"I thought you wanted to kill me. What happens to that?" Shai asked
The electricity crackled around Herman, burning his frame. Herman attempts to move out of it, but it held him back, scorching him worse them before but failing to scream.
"I can't let this stop me. This weakness you have caused. It couldn't be me."
He looked at her with a glint of orange in his eyes. Shai stared at him bizarrely. Her gaze went around them to find nothing,
"Why would he have that in his eyes?" Shai thought
Herman squirmed in the lightning, only for it to constrict around him, Herman let out a grunt, keeping his eyes on Shai when he heard a calming voice.
"Come on, Herman,"
A pool of blood lies under Sidney,
Yuval tries to confront him. He explains what happened, but Herman stares at Sidney's dead body with no emotion in his eyes. He thought it died with her.
Herman screamed in pain as the lightning crushed him into the codes,
"Sidney!"
The area went quiet once the lighting stopped crushing Herman, his gaze stayed on Shai, she leered at him compassionately, Shai walked closer to him but somethings off.
"You had a bad deal done to you, Herman,"
The lightning lessened, almost disappearing, Herman tried to regain control over his body,
"That not an excuse for what you done," Shai finished
"No, I have every right to my goal,"
Shai realized the weapon shake in her grasp, warning her, Shai let out a shout, holding her stomach. Herman watched her holding blankly,
"You are just like the rest of them, Shai,"
Shai gaze went to the ground, a bundle of code formed beneath her that stabbed her in the stomach. She held on to her stomach as Herman stood up and stared at her composed.
"Always with compassion, you have,"
Shai saw her hands that glowed gold at their site.