The Earth After Rebirth

"Is he okay? Why's he glowing red." Ishaan asked with concern.

Not one person answered or even showed interest to the speaker. They were all worried for their leader but none of them had answers. They just waited and hoped for the best.

Felix clicked his tongue. He especially hated this situation, as Ishaan was ordered to protect him. He didn't trust the kid with anything, much less his life. He didn't know it yet but he was starting to warm up to him, the fight he showed was impressive.

Nobody knew but Felix didn't actually mean to stop healing him, his fighting put him in a trance. He always enjoyed watching things get hurt. But it wasn't like, he'd let them know that.

"Okay then, let's stand guard until he's done." Hiro said taking charge.

Even though it was never communicated they didn't really question him. They'd always just seen him as a vice leader of some kind. Maybe because he took care of their needs when it came to weapons and armour.

So they stood around Kiro, straining their eyes into the distance, ensuring they could see an approaching enemy from afar. It was dark, so they couldn't tell whether it was just the night or an undead was hiding in plain sight.

They'd only be able to tell if the shadow moved, but no shadows were moving here, which made their brains the more paranoid. Making them more or less see things that weren't there.

While Nikolai was a supposed king of shadows, pitch darkness didn't give him an advantage over the undead, so he waited. Blending in the shadows, becoming one with them. But he couldn't feel anything out of the ordinary.

"Heh, you guys don't have stand so close. I'm not totally open while in my meditative state." He said his eyes still closed.

"Better safe than sorry." Nikolai shrugged.

After 2 hours, Kiro had already absorbed enough. He was satisfied with how fast it all took.

He began to sense the vibrations in the abandoned movie theatre. It was truly a nightmare, hundreds upon hundreds of what seemed like zombies. They weren't moving at all, he figured they didn't move because they were too clustered together.

Since the zombies weren't going anywhere and it was night, he decided all on his own that tthey had to camp out here for the night.

So he wasn't in any rush to get off his meditative state. There was something in there within, with him, something that was right in front of him, but tried as he did to grasp onto it, it just slipped through his fingers.

But somehow, he knew if he didn't grab this opportunity it may never come again and he might regret it for months to come.

So he sat there and endured the playfulness it radiated, sound from the outside was completely blocked. The skill was truly amazing, he couldn't wait to see what it can do once it evolves again.

He couldn't explain what it was that he saw or heard or felt. He couldn't explain which sense was it, or it was all of them. If he had to guess though, the peculiar object felt like vibrations but more vicious and refined.

He didn't dare break the concentration in fear that it would disappear from his senses forever. So he kept at it and endured.

Even though he has never done it himself, he has seen it in films before. This hide and seek the object played resembled a lot a scene of a young man trying to court the woman of their dreams.

The woman would be uninterested at first but as he showed how gentlemanly he was, they start falling head over heels. He was very patient, and radiated love towards it.

Slowly but surely, it broke out of its shell and let Kiro absorb it completely. The feeling was peculiar, it wasn't a temperature he was used to, if he'd have to explain it. It was extreme cold and extreme heat at the same time, blended together. All at once he was hit with knowledge about it.

He could feel it, he now could sense, through vibrations, everything at once. No matter the difference in frequency. It was like a radio station that had all it's stations under a single frequency. The noise was definitely a bit annoying for him, but it was nothing he couldn't handle.

'This is fun. I bet if I worked even harder, I could sense the whole universe vibrate!'

Ding!

[Congratulations. You've understood your vibration skill a bit more. It has evolved.]

Just then, he once again allowed sound to come back to his ears, the movement from within the movie theatre was somehow louder. The rest couldn't hear it because it was subtle, it couldn't be heard by just listening.

Then, hesitantly, he opened his eyes. The deep blue eyes crackled with electricity, if only a little.

It was still dark which was strange, he noticed that everybody didn't look very happy to be just sitting around waiting.

He just smiled and said, "why the long faces guys?"

"You are kidding right?"

"Some nerve."

"Don't ever do that again, leader."

"About damn time, what took so long?"

They all said, almost at the same time. Kiro didn't blame them. He didn't mean to take all day either. But he wasn't feeling too bad, since he had gained more than they know. Kel and the spectres were the only ones who didn't complain, time to them wasn't anything special. Whether they had waited a month, it wouldn't have mattered or made any difference.

"There are definitely zombies in there, hundreds of them." He told them nonchalantly.