The days passed by, as Kyle found that Hunter was getting worse. He had to catch Hunter to do anything and to help Hunter to regain his memories. Kyle felt that this was punishment for his actions as a child. Hunter ducked and dodged every attempt he could from Kyle's grasp.
Fourteen Years Earlier…
"Kyle, get back here, you lousy mongrel!" Gotama screamed.
Kyle grinned at his father, "You have no rights to me, and you won't even help your fellow Faremin out!" His face turned to anger, "Besides you and mother are weak and useless. SO why should I listen to you?"
Gotama growled at Kyle, but Alli touched his arm. Shaking her head at him, then turning to Kyle, "Kyle, I know that you want to be like Azoth and be a great leader and do everything for your Kingdom but—"
"Just shut up and leave me a line!" Kyle barked at his mother; he jumped down the tree and ran off.
Gotama was yelling at him to come back, but Kyle did not listen to him as tears ran down his face. Kyle felt as if they were holding him back from his calling. Kyle did not see where he was going when he bumped into a stranger. Kyle landed on his back and feeling the pain settle in. Kyle held back the anguish that he was in pain when he looked up to see a man he had never seen before staring at him.
The man stared at Kyle before reaching over and touching him. "Are you alright young man?" the stranger's voice was calm as Kyle finches in fear. The man smiled at him. "It's okay; I am most mad at you?" Kyle opened his eyes at the man seeing he had reddish-orange hair and was wearing a trench cloak that was missing its sleeves."
The man checked Kyle's body seeing if there were any injuries. Kyle batted his hand away, "Don't touch me!"
The man smiled at him, "Well, that's good; you seem very spirited."
"Morris, sir, we need to keep moving!" A young man with blonde hair walked up from down the street.
Kyle stared at Morris, knowing who he was and that he was once one of the Council of Seven before betraying the kingdom for some reason. Kyle's froze in fear that he was going to be killed, as the blonde boy came closer.
Morris put a pouting face on, "Lovell, you are scaring the kid."
Lovell leaned over Morris, "ARK SENT ME, AND YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL WHEN HE SENDS ME OUT AS AN ERRAND BOY!"
Morris wince at Lovell's tone, "I am truly sorry, but you should not take to your superiors like that—"
Lovell's knuckle drilled Morris's head, he cried out in pain as Kyle watched in horror. "You numb skull, Ark, let me have it earlier, thanks to you!" Lovell stopped shortly after then looked at Kyle, "Kid, you should go home before I decide to kill your Faremin scum ass."
Kyle's snapped at Lovell's words. "Why should I, you know nothing at how great it is to be a Faremin or—"
Lovell blade stopped Kyle in his tracks. "Look here you, my family was murdered by your people, and they kill innocent lives every day. If you think they're so great, then why does Morris, my adoptive father, leave? Why did he betray his homeland?! He left because he was forced to kill infants that did nothing wrong!?" Lovell's anger turned to tears, "It because of that power-hungry king that I hate you and your people."
Kyle sat in shock as Lovell pulled his blade way. He could not believe Lovell, but at the same time, it felt like it was true, somehow. Lovell left with Morris as Kyle tried to make sense of Lovell's words of anger and hate towards him. He looked down at his hands and wishing that Lovell was in the wrong as he got up and headed home. As he reached his house, he could see his mother waiting for him. Kyle winced at the sight of her as they walked to the door.
She blocked his path with her foot. "You seem to have calmed down, but your father has not." Kyle looked down at the ground, his mother sighed, "Kyle, you're only thirteen, you have no idea what we have been through or what we want for you not to go through?"
Kyle did look at his mother. "Yeah, right, you know nothing about the world or what I want."
Alli gripped his shoulders, "Look, I am going to send you to the Fore Gate Academy, so you can learn to be a knight of the Faremin, but before you leave, you will learn the truth about your father and me." Kyle looked at his mother in shock. "Kyle, dear, I used to be apart of the Faremin forces, and I did horrid things in the name of the greater good. Your father is the leader of the rebel army, and if anyone there finds out, you will be killed." Her eyes filled with worry and desire, "WE—no, your father had suggested you see what we fear, and others fear from our people."
Kyle felt Lovell's words cut him like a knife as he listened to his mother. "Kyle, we want you to also report what you have experience there, so we don't have risk our lives in going to check on you." Kyle nodded at his mother, she smiled and let go of him. "Now let's go in, you leave to the academy in two weeks when the soldiers come by to pick up the other students."
Kyle followed his mother inside; he saw his father sitting off in the distance and began to feel uneasy, knowing that his whole family was fighting against the rest of the kingdom. Gotama got up and walked over to Alli as Kyle slipped out to his room. He closed his door and flopped onto his bed. He squeezed his pillow as he turned to a photo. Seeing his older brother standing beside his mother and father, holding him in his arm with a silly grin. Kyle grabbed the frame, staring at his brother.
"Kito, I wish you were here?" Tears streamed down Kyle's face as gripped the photo. "Why did you have to leave me?"
Kyle woke the next morning, he could hear his parents arguing downstairs. Kyle shivered as if a chill waft through. He got changed before heading down the stair. His fathers boomed through the walls. "He will not go!"
"I already told him that he is, besides Kyle needs to learn what he'll we went through." A young girl's voice echoed. Kyle stopped; he had never heard her voice before and knew whoever his father was talking too was a colleague. "You know what they did to me even if it was my own fault in the end."