On Alya's side. After Eden was disintegrated before her eyes, Alya knelt before the scene and her body began to deform, becoming stronger. Her eyes began to change color under the gazes of Ben, Vanessa, and the guards, who could do nothing but watch, though they were mentally preparing themselves to attack the threat. But inside Alya's head, a voice echoed:
— You did not respect the terms and, because of you, he is dead.
— If you had behaved as you should have,
— he would still be alive.
— And now, it's all your fault.
— A Calamity is a Calamity when it behaves like a Calamity.
— So stop pretending, because if you don't eat, you will lose everything and die, and I will take pleasure in going to massacre Lamar and his whole family. So obey, because I know all these humans within your reach excite you. Don't hold back and lend me your body.
Alya began to drool.
And the voice continued:
— Power, strength, and I will even resurrect Eden, so give me your body just for a few minutes.
Alya finally gave in, and the voice took control of her. The inhabitants of the city around watched her, and Ben shouted:
— Everyone, hold…
Before he could finish his sentence, Alya leapt at him, her left arm forward, wanting to devour him, and in record time her right arm severed her left. She began to scream and fled; while running, she sensed humans nearby and rushed toward them.
There, where the humans were, there were four: a woman and three men. The woman was being chased by the men, and while running, she fell before a tree; the men caught up to her and the leader said:
— Look at that, guys, the rabbit has finally been caught by the wolves.
The girl said:
— Leave me alone, you pigs!
— Or else I… I… I'll scream.
One of the men replied:
— We'll silence you before you even start.
The leader said:
— No, let her.
— Go on, scream, we're watching.
— But scream with all your strength, because it may be the last thing you ever do.
The woman began to scream:
— Help! Somebody, please help!
— I'm being attacked!
The leader said:
— Are you done? I don't see anyone, you bitch. Everything was planned so that we'd be as far and isolated from a city as possible, because I didn't want us disturbed during what's coming.
He began to approach her and, when he stood before her, he tore her t-shirt, leaving her in her underwear. Thinking she was trapped, she pulled out a knife and stabbed the leader twice in the neck, saying:
— You thought I'd let you do as you please so easily?
The leader staggered back to hold the wound. His partners panicked:
— Oh, bitch, you'll pay for that!
— Are you okay, boss?
The leader stopped, laughing, and said:
— You think I'd have become who I am if those little tricks worked on me?
Because in reality he had stopped the knife with his hand, so the wound came from there. He struck the woman, who held her knife, knocking her to the ground, and kicked her violently in the stomach, making her crash against the trunk and weakening her. She could no longer fight; the man lifted her and began to touch her all over. She, as if at her limit, said to herself:
"I have nothing left to lose, so if I'm going to be defiled and killed, I'll take you with me."
She whispered:
— MA… MA…
And she spoke the name. The leader suspected nothing and said:
— So you still have strength left to talk.
— Don't worry, it won't last with me. I'll take my time and enjoy it.
One of the men ran away to save his life, and the other went mad: he began to scream and writhe in pain, tearing his face apart. The leader turned around and said:
— What's wrong? Why are you screaming so much?
Seeing his partner, he grew afraid. The partner begged:
— Please, kill me. Please, kill me, boss, before her anger falls upon me.
The leader said:
— Why? What is it?
The partner said, trembling:
— It's the name she just spoke… it's… it's… it's… it's… it's… it's… it's… it's… it's… it's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The leader said, terrified:
— What is it?
The partner screamed:
— It's the name of the Master of Calamities!
In record time, the two men were dead: cut apart and devoured by Alya, who also caught up with the third and did the same to him. Screaming, she leapt into the sky and the voice said:
— I didn't touch the woman, so she's still fighting my hold.
— It doesn't matter, I'll do everything to take full control of her body.
Heading toward another objective, she arrived at a battlefield of Calamities where all fought and devoured one another to increase their rank. Upon her arrival, they sensed she was powerful and began to gather around her; she, in uncontrollable rage, began the slaughter and cut down everything in her path. Along the way, she noticed the scent of humans nearby; she headed toward them and saw other Calamities doing the same; she cut them down on the way.
Upon reaching the path leading to where the humans were, the way was blocked by a huge mass of Calamities blocking the passage and shouting:
— Baby.
Alya stood before it and began to slash it, but it regenerated and spat acid on her. She, with her sword, slashed and dissolved the acid with her blade. But the Calamity threw a punch at her that knocked her to the ground, and she began to fight it. The Calamity got into position and opened its mouth. In the Calamity's mouth, a huge ball of acid formed, aimed at Alya; as she tried to dodge it, she struck a rock with her foot that blocked the Calamity's mouth mid-formation. And the Calamity's body began to deform, and it said again:
— Baby.
Shedding tears, Alya cut it down and continued her way, leaving the other Calamities to devour it. Arriving at the place, she found a pregnant woman about to give birth who grew frightened upon seeing Alya. Alya drooled; she remembered Eden's words saying:
— I will return.
She began to struggle to break free from the hold. The woman before her said:
— I don't know you, but as a woman, I can see you're not evil, otherwise you would have attacked me already; so fight, fight to keep control.
In Alya's head, the voice said:
— I'm losing more and more control.
— She's going to end up taking over.
— But it doesn't matter, because I too will return.
After a scream, Alya regained control.
The woman said:
— Is it really you now?
Alya nodded her head to say:
— Yes.
The woman thought to herself:
"I thought she would turn back human, but oh well…"
— I'll call her Aisha and…
And the woman began to go into labor and Alya, not knowing what to do, saw the woman say: "Haven't you seen my husband?" and Alya remembered the Calamity she had just killed that was shouting:
— Baby.
The woman began crying out in pain again and Alya helped her give birth. After pain and blood, the child was born: it was a girl, crying a lot. Alya took her in her hands and, wanting to give the child to her mother, she noticed that the mother was no longer moving; she gave no sign of life. Alya, the baby in her hands, without really knowing why, began to shed tears that she quickly wiped away. Wanting to leave with the child, two people, an old man and a young man, stood behind her; the old man said:
— Good evening, my name is Édouard and I am the fifth doctor of the Order of Doctors.
— We were sent here to help the inhabitants and exterminate the Calamities, so come with us and we can take you to safety.
Turning around, Alya had blood in her mouth, blood on her hands, holding a baby with a corpse beside her. In record time, Édouard took the baby from Alya's hands, sewed clothes for the baby, and placed her in a thread cradle beside his colleague. Advancing toward Alya, a sword formed at Édouard's belt and Alya took her sword and began to attack Édouard, who fought while watching her; Alya gave her all to take back the child. Édouard said:
— THREAD EMANATION: LACERATION.
Threads surrounded her and bound her. Édouard said:
— I've fought many Calamities in my life, but your flaw is that you have more the look of a victim than of a Calamity, and for that, I cannot bring myself to kill you.
— I don't know if you understand me but… I have a question: is this child yours?
Alya nodded her head to say:
— No.
He said:
— Okay, then it must be the child of this woman here.
Alya nodded her head to say:
— Yes.
Édouard lifted his head toward the sky, hiding his eyes with his hand, and with tears streaming, said:
— Truly, despite my old age I remain a man, and despite all my strength, I could not protect these innocents. If we had arrived a little earlier we could have changed all their destinies. Truly, you have to be a monster to remain indifferent to this.
— Truly sorry for everything, wait, I will free you…
He turned toward his colleague who held a knife toward the crying child.
— If this Calamity is her mother, then this child is nothing but a Calamity as well.
Alya broke free with her strength, slashed the cradle, took the crying baby before the man, and the baby began to laugh in Alya's hands as she fled at high speed to escape the two men.
The colleague wanted to chase them and Édouard said:
— No, let her go, but know that this child is not a Calamity and will be much safer with her than with us.
Alya ran and the child laughed because the wind of the run struck her. She found Calamities in her path but exterminated them all and continued on her way. After hours of extermination and walking, she had made a cloth to put the baby in. She arrived at a convent, knocked, and left the baby who began to cry. Alya left, and the women of the convent came out, saw the child, took her, and saw carved on the floor a name: AISHA. The women carried her inside and one of them said:
— AISHA, what a lovely name.
Alya, hidden somewhere, watched them and finally left.