❝ HELLION ❞
There was no wind. No rain, no clouds, nothing but a rare dark light around him, the kind of light you can see, but
which is being stopped by something. There had to be a way out, back to sunlight and its warmth. That was all he
desired, to end up with that, to get out of there and go back with his kind, visit his family. And instead he was there,
stuck in a devastated city full of useless humans, bodies and ruins. No one could tell that was New York, not even New
Yorkers. The most important part of the city, what used to be Manhattan, one of the most famous cities over the
world, was now a graveyard. The piles of bodies went up and up at every corner, and the other humans...well, they
weren't humans anymore. The destruction had driven them mad, and they tried to kill whatever was on their way.
They were set to kill, just what the Omegas wanted.
Because Hellion was an Omega, a very young Omega, and that was his first mission. Some kids got their powers
revealed when they were just fifteen. Poor them, they were so easy to kill. Every alpha born was a threat to the
omegas, and the same thought the alphas of the omegas. It was better to finish the weaker members of the pack.
And those were usually the kids. But Hellion's powers appeared last year, the day before Christmas. Probably his
opposite, an Alpha with a power that could neutralize his, got his powers earlier that month, or even some months
before. Because he was sure his opposite would be a boy, he could feel it, and he'd recognize him as soon as he could
see him. And then, one of them would be destroyed.
Eventually, Hellion got out of the subway station where he had slept last night. His first night in the ruins, looking
for humans to become part of the soldiers the omegas were hoarding. Hoarding for what? To destroy the Alphas'
army. Because the Alphas had a human army too, and they were planning to use it against the Omegas. And they
had sent him to avoid that. Since the virus level went down, the Omega's Intelligence Service had been planning a
"field trip" to New York, to know if the "new humans", what the SI called them, were usefull and if they could be
recruited. And that was Hellion's task: evaluate the humans. It would be a hard work, he'd have to study them, get
close to them, and check if at least one of the thousands of humans on the island was sane. But Hellion wasn't sure
what to call Manhattan, because it wasn't surrounded by water now. All the water had evaporated, there was only
dust, dirt and rubish left. The dome didn't let anything in, and anything out.
Outside, the light was brighter, but still it didn't look like a normal day. Inside the dome, you felt hermetic, like
a box, and it smelled like a room closed for a long long time. But the air wasn't any fresher outside, and he missed
the dirty air of the city, which surely was purer than the one inside the dome. There was his other mission, find a
way out of the dome. Probably, or at least that was what Hellion wanted to think, his superiors had high expectations
on him, and they had given him a hard task so he would prove his value by acomplishing it. There were new humans
in the city, he knew. They surely were hiding from one of the factions, maybe from both. He'd have to find out where
they came from, where's the crack or the tunnet that goes inside. But that would take a lot of effort. Taking a deep
breath, Hellion kneeled next to a wall, surrounded by a small garden. With a stick, he started to draw on the dirt
the parts of Manhattan, and locating himself in that ocean of ruins and dead bodies.