ORION
Men Connected to Blood

Not all roads are always straight. Every time he stepped, there must be some branches appearing in front of the straight path. Time and thought clash each time they meet, and now Orion must face an enemy figure who deliberately makes Orion unable to reach his desire to die.

As soon as he saw the red stain of concentration between his two fingers, Orion immediately understood that the stain was blood. Shortly before he said something dangerous, he looked back.

“I'm sorry we were suddenly in a place like this. Looks like damkar has arrived. Then excuse me,” said Orion while lowering his head a little.

The sirens of fire engines were heard shortly after. Orion turned his gaze toward the figure of someone who was reincarnated as Endaru.

“There's no need for you to continue acting your magician, Chameleon!”

Swuush up!

The gust of wind felt so fierce yet short, a sword touched the vein on Chameleon's neck at this moment. Orion said in a threatening line, that Chameleon would be unable to do anything when everything was revealed.

“Are you worried about your son?” he asked with his eyebrows twitching as he smiled widely as if to mock that it was just a joke.

“If you know, then quickly release him,” Orion said as he brought the sword closer to his neck.

Chameleon's neck was scratched slowly, spitting out a drop of blood that then flowed gently until it fell into the street.

Chameleon closed both eyes and kept a big smile. A few seconds later, Chameleon suddenly stepped back and then jumped far back.

“You mean to escape?!” orion choked after him while flying a weapon, making a sharp scythe attack Chameleon in the form of Endaru.

“Not. I was fishing for you. Then, I will recite your previous words. That I can't possibly let go of the boy because if I let go then you'll die quickly,” Chameleon said.

Draaaakk!

He dragged his right leg backwards, as the road shook strongly which then became an erratic crack. Orion stopped chasing for a few seconds he returned by jumping on every street that seemed to be separated.

“CHAMELEON!”

His shout was so loud, everyone around was shocked by the loud noise. And roads damaged by the influence of the force of gravity become an obstacle for them.

Orion directs the palm forward, forming flames into a rope that then binds Chameleon's body. But Chameleon changed his form to Gista as well as the power of ice that can freeze the rope of fire in an instant.

Fra! Srak! Srak!

Strangely, the ice did not stop at the rope of fire, it spread even more until it locked the two legs of Orion. It didn't take long for him to melt the ice with the arm of Eternal Flame, just as soon as Orion formed a wall of fire through under the path. Stopping Chameleon movement even if only temporarily.

A slash!

A sword slashes Chameleon's back and transforms him into Mr. Iki, his own partner. Once he pointed the palm to Orion's body close to him, Orion was pushed away even from the previous alley.

“Ugh, what the fuck?” Orion felt dizzy, his gaze had blurred for some time.

Seen from a distance Chameleon still smiled like that. Orion was at a loss for words, he chose silence and lunged back at Chameleon with a sword attached to Orion's left arm.

“Hei, Orion!” While calling out to him, Chameleon kicked his stomach into a bench stop.

“Hah ..hah, his physical strength is not messing around.” Orion's breath was gone.

“Of course, I can imitate physical strength as well. Maybe it doesn't belong to my subordinates, it belongs to someone else. But I can imitate more than once,” he said as he walked up to Orion.

Slowly Orion began to limp while holding the stomach that was painful. Staring at Chameleon vigilantly, and still he maintained a fire form that solidified into a weapon in his arm.

“You want to say that you will release the child as long as I come with you?” chirps Orion.

“Truely,” says Chameleon in joy. He changed his form to Dicky with bright red hair.

Taps!

In an instant Chameleon caught Orion's sword arm that was about to attack him. For a moment he glanced towards the sword eyes, then exchanged a look with Orion again.

“I'm not that strong. And I could've killed myself by now without caring about the kid. Then you will not be able to take Eternal Flame,” Orion said as he pulled an arm from his grasp.

Maidservant!

Instead he punched Chameleon in the face using a right fist. It was unimaginable that the pain that spread to Chameleon at that time, just that Chameleon was always acting ordinary as if the wound was nothing.

“Ah, so. In that case, I will force you to come back to life,” Chameleon said adamantly to bring Orion into his group.

“Heh, don't joke. I will burn my body and my ashes will fly with the wind. You won't be able to reach it,” Orion said.

“Oh, yes? I'll look for him any way. No matter what or who I sacrifice to take you. Since Eternal Flame is so precious, I will not let it go until I am satisfied.”

Half Chameleon's face burned, leaving the bones that were half to ashes to fall into the street. At that moment, Orion let out a fire from one of his legs.

He lifted his leg and said something. “My goal is just to get back to my real body and die. I'll be honest with you, that I'm afraid that you're really successful with your goal of creating a whole NED world that's why I want you dead before me.”

“Then?” Chameleon tilted his head.

“But unfortunately on the one hand I am reluctant to charge myself who will later return to death even though it will not be in the grave,” Orion added.

“So? But I think ..you care more about others than yourself or the enemy.”

BLAARS!

Orion no longer waited for the conversation to be over, he pushed Chameleon's body with his fixed kick, leaving Chameleon's body burned by the fire. Orion then jumped onto a bench stop with one leg attached to a large wall behind him.

A SWUUSH!

Orion darted far away using the thrust of the fire, the traces on his fire legs were clearly visible on the benches and walls at the stop. After leaving Chameleon, Orion used his wings to fly up the building.

There he watched Chameleon from afar.

“Sorry, it's not time for me to think that getting into your lair is right. At least for now,” muttered Chameleon.

While down there, Chameleon appeared to be turning over with his body intact, all of his injuries recovering as he pulled out a circle over his head in a short period of time.

“I think he cares so much about other people. You'll be on my side, remember that.” Chameleon mutters.

For a while later, Chameleon finally left the area. In this city there will probably be a lot of threats coming, either from NED or Saint Fighters as a designation in this foreign country.

“Hah, finally she per— eh?!”

Orion was surprised to find Chameleon had not left here, not knowing what he planned to do until he had to go to the man again. The man with the dog.

“HEY!! WHAT DO YOU WANT?!”

“It turns out this is your feed?”

Chameleon laughed as he easily guessed the path of Orion's mind that was very easily carried away. Surely anyone would not ignore a person in trouble if that person was capable but other stories if it was Orion, he would do everything just to save even a useless person.

“I knew you were coming to save this man. But who is he?”

“You don't need to know about it, Chameleon. And I had no intention of fighting you from the beginning. At least until Gista comes later.”

As Orion had said, Orion rushed to escape Chameleon before his attack came to stop his swift pace. While carrying the man with the dog, Orion moved away from Chameleon, then hid in a crowd of people waiting for something.

“It turns out there is a discount here. Worth the queue.”

Because it is covered with many people lined up, Orion with it is arguably very safe now. Chameleon didn't touch him either.

“Te-te-thank you,” said the man stammeringly.

“How old are you?” ask Orion.

“Hm, I don't really remember.”

“Oh.”

Orion felt that something was strange about this man. It was as if he was looking at someone he had seen before. Where or when, Orion remembers nothing but the face of the man.

“Other times do not walk alone.”

“I know. But what did I just see? It looks like a superhero that is in my favorite comic or movie,” he said with passion.

“Ha?”

“VISAN!!” Their conversation ended as soon as a woman appeared and called this man.

“Yes! I'm coming, bi!”

The man hurried off to fulfill the call from his aunt, and then Orion remained there, not wanting to do anything but be alert to be around.

“The man is much younger than me, but his body is huge. More or less the same as Mahanta. Who exactly is he? Or is it just my feelings that seem to have seen him because he is similar to Mahanta from his body shape?” thought Orion.

“Forget it.”

Orion had no time to think of anything else, he rushed to head to the stop earlier. In addition to seeing the whereabouts of Chamaleon, it was only there that he got a network to contact someone.

“Nothing except towed vehicles apparently,” muttered Orion who has since only seen a few towed vehicles.

A portion of the towed car nearly lost half of its share. Some more, the glass and top look like they are split and crushed like porridge.

“I feel guilty about that wrecked car. It must be average expensive. And what about the driver?”

Just now Orion was wondering to himself, he saw an ambulance just passing by. The same vehicle was seen not long after the first ambulance arrived.

Drrt!

His phone shook, someone's sign contacted him. That is Mahanta.

[“Orion, are you alone now?”]

“Yes, I'm alone. And I just met Chameleon. What about you Mahanta?”

[“That problem ..the same lute player I still haven't found. But what about Chameleon? You caught him?”]

“It is precisely he who wants to catch me,” said Orion.

[“I've been together with others except Runo and Chairman Irawan who were treated by Dr. Eka. To be honest I was very worried if anything happened to them.”] There was clearly Mahanta's voice alarming Runo and Chairman Irawan.

“Calm Mahanta. That crazy doctor won't do anything to them. I have his life in my hands, and I cannot gather with you,” Orion said.

[“Where else are you going?”]

“You knew the boy was missing, and what was my purpose in coming here, right? Mahanta, I will try to investigate but not by asking Chameleon. It would hurt me a lot,” Orion said.

[“I understand, Orion. Be careful.”]

“Yes, you too. And let me know if Gista comes. I mean, Miss Gista.”

Ending the call immediately, Orion rushes to a place.

“If Meera had not lost her memory then she would have been useful to me. Geez, why did he take a worse hostage than my shadow,” grumbled Orion.

Meanwhile, the man who had the name Gisan. He felt the same way as Orion.

“Auntie, have we ever seen that guy before?” ask Gisan to his aunt.

“Men? Which guy? Don't tell me you're interested in a man rather than a woman?”

“I'm not a rainbow, bi. It's just like I've seen it somewhere ..oh, wait, am I just hallucinating?” muttered Gisan while massaging his forehead with his two index fingers.

He tried to remember where he had seen Orion, which he did not even understand exactly where he was.

“Ya done.”

The two still did not understand that their blood was already connected and someday they would meet. Gisan, a man who had worked in the military but one day during the war, he was slaughtered by bullets that rained down on him from above. But a miracle has happened, after so many years, he reawakens because of the immortal blood that accidentally entered the man's esophagus. And the owner of the blood was Orion who happened to be there, after that part of the city had become a barren field.

***

Duk!

Accidentally, when Orion crossed the busway stop, hit someone to make dozens of sheets carried by the person fell scattered.

“Sorry! I accidentally,” said Orion, quickly helping him to clean up every sheet that fell from the grasp of the young man in glasses.

“It's okay, sir.”

A crowded piece of paper will be colorful writing. It looks very striking and it seems that it is not a product brochure or food dish and others. It looks more like a music concert.

“Wah, I just saw the first music concert held at the university,” Orion said amazed.