The Strongest Ordained One

CHAPTER EIGHT

As Leon tossed the car door far away, the woman hurriedly went to her child in the back seat, she pulled her out and cradled her in her arms. The car was going up in smoke, and Leon could tell that it would be firing up soon, "It's dangerous to be this close to the car, I think it's going to explode," he warned the woman and then led both mother and daughter away from the car which was slowly going up in flames. 

A good distance away from the car and the crowd that began to gather at the scene, Leon could see the mother shaking the girl, trying to resuscitate her. 

"She's not responding, she isn't waking up!" The woman cried helplessly as she tried everything but the girl remained limp in her arms. 

The woman was helpless, she could not bear to lose her daughter, she shook her and cried out, tears pouring down her face helplessly. Leon moved to her, he felt pity for her, and her hopeless weeping tore at his heart. "She isn't waking?" He asked, it was a pointless question but he didn't know what else to say. 

The mother nodded, "She's not waking up," she sobbed. Leon moved her aside and the woman gladly stepped away, ready to receive any kind of help that Leon could offer, as long as it brought her daughter back. 

Leon touched the girl's body and immediately, he felt a power within him. He knew that it was the mystic power of the Apollo ring. With his hands upon her, he began to scan her body, and his healing power was activated, he felt all her organs and the power showed him that the little girl had a fracture. 

He was confused, he couldn't understand why a fracture would make her lose consciousness, but as his powers searched deeper, it was revealed that the girl had a congenital heart disease and that was the reason for her unconsciousness and not the accident. 

Leon looked up at the mother, he wondered if she knew her daughter's condition, but he knew that he couldn't tell her without being asked how he knew, so he decided to keep it to himself and simply heal her. Summoning the powers he now knew were within him, Leon screamed internally, trying to awaken his healing power and quickly bring the girl back. Meanwhile, to make it believable and to avoid questions from the distraught mother, he kneeled before the girl and pretended to perform CPR. He blew into her nose and mouth and applied light pressure on her chest. 

The woman watched, her eyes hopeful as Leon continued to blow into her nose and her mouth and press down on her chest. "Please save my daughter," she begged. 

Leon summoned his power again, but he discovered shockingly that he didn't have enough of the deity power to heal her. 

Still unable to understand how his newfound gift worked, Leon yelled again from within, his lips shut tight as he tried to summon the powers again to heal her, but he discovered that he was completely drained and could not sense anything. The power within him was fading, he felt drained. 

Leon leaned on the ground, away from the girl, as he tried to catch his breath. The power had run out, he felt weak. 

Unable to explain his sudden exhaustion, he was still on the floor, hoping that the little girl would recover. That was when he realized that his powers had worked. The little power he had left in him was able to take the girl out of immediate danger.   He'd been able to heal her before he was emptied of the power of the deity. 

The woman rushed to the girl as she blinked open her eyes, "Oh my God! She's awake!" She yelled joyously, the joy and disbelief evident in her tone as she rushed to her on the ground, hurling her up and cradling her softly against her chest. 

She turned to Leon who was on the ground too, looking like he was tired. She couldn't explain why he appeared so weak, but she was too excited to think further. In excitement, she thanked Leon, "Thank you so much, you've saved my daughter's life," she said happily, she believed that it was the CPR that Leon had performed that resuscitated the little girl. 

  

He simply nodded at her, he was still feeling very weak on the floor, "I'm very grateful, my daughter would have been gone without you, thank you." He said again, happy tears streaming down her face. She clutched the girl to her like she was afraid that she'd slip out of consciousness again. But Leon knew that it wasn't the CPR that he'd performed - which wasn't even real - that healed her, it was his deity powers and now, he had run out of it. 

Surprisingly, as she continued to thank him and express her gratitude, Leon discovered that he was being energized, he could feel the power within him grow, like the deity power was being restored. Soon, he felt strong again and he got off the floor. 

The little girl was fully awake now and Leon could see the joy in her mother's eyes. Leon looked at both of them, he wondered why he'd suddenly felt renewed when he'd been weak just a few seconds ago after healing her. Leon knew little about the deity's power but he had expected that it would take a few hours or maybe days for him to finally heal and restore the power, but surprisingly, he was back to normal, totally energized in just a few seconds. 

Then it occurred to him what had just happened, he now understood that it was the woman's appreciation as his daughter regained consciousness that built his deity power again. He now understood his gift, that he could use his powers to save people, and then their appreciation would make the power restore. 

"Damn," he muttered slowly as the light bulb went off in his head.