Sky - 0121:49 Mar 23 2020
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Sky Blue stepped from the kerb, in summer of '96 and into the middle of a junction, in 2018
Traffic squealed, as several drivers sought to avoid the man who had appeared, from nowhere.
He was used to this sort of thing and, they were not.
Cars crashed, horns blared and, from somewhere the sounds of police sirens appeared.
Sky Blue lifted himself to a standing pose, then looked around himself, with eyes that were a penetrating sky blue, that matched his given name.
All around him was chaos.
So, he did as he had done so many times, Sky ran.
He had run many times, since his creation. And still he ran, 'After all,' he reminded himself, 'all life is sacrosanct, including mine.'
He ran from the riotous intersection, into a side-street, where he rested his back against a red-brick wall and, he sighed a long sigh.
It was in the seconds afterward, he heard the sound that caught his attention, metal on brick, spark rising.
He heard it and saw it, as clear as if it were before him: a knife being run along the brick, as someone approached him.
Sky Blue stiffened, in anticipation and, yet he smiled already aware of the outcome of this meeting: “Don't do this,” he said simply and quietly.
The figure that approached did not stop, as he would have preferred. But, that did not surprise him. Since his rising, Sky had many like this one seek him out and, over all these years, he had survived and was still here.
And as the creature lunged, it's talons seeking his flesh, Sky sank into the shadows and prepared.
He disliked the next part of what had to follow. Yet, it was part of the path he had followed, since her birth and, Sky allowed a smile to flit across his lips.
“You are a child of the anti-mother. I recognise you.” It was a statement of fact, for the fellow dressed in grey had met many of her kind, since the birth of humanity.
The slim man dressed in grey sought no appreciation for his attentions to what was; yet, every now and then, he would wish, that someone might know what he did and perhaps, fight, as he did.
But, since then, way then when the brothers had fought, it had been he who had waited to be given the gift of Life like them. He had seen The Creator weep at his creation, then unleashed him, upon the world created, so as to remove The UnGodly, as had been written.
Sky turned to look at this adversary, who had the visage of a woman he had loved. That was no surprise and, Sky readied himself, for the inevitable attack. It happened, as expected.
That's when he lost 'his cool' and he thrust his fist forward, so that blood fountained outward.
Seconds later, he held a still beating heart in his hand and, Sky Blue smiled.
Then suddenly, he fell backward, into time... where another adversary would await him.
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