As the four bodies leaped to me, I swerved my body to the right to avoid contact with them. Their faces slapped on the wooden dusty floorboards and as they raised their faces with an annoyed expression and red glowing noses. I stood up from the ground and I walked my way to them to help them get up. I raised a hand to Lilly first then she retaliated as she slapped my hand away.
"Hmph! Don't you dare touch me!"
"Lilly, you're not doing it properly!"
"Do it as we discussed!"
The girls started murmuring to each other as I stood there awkwardly and I changed my gaze to Sandra who smiled back whilst sitting down on the chair I slept on. She giggled while looking at the arguing girls and I couldn't help but laugh because they seemed to be closer than ever. They stared at me after I finished laughing to only form a smile on their faces.
"Well, it somehow worked I guess...."
"Yeah....Hahaha."
The doors swung open and a cold and powerful gust of wind struck me and pushed me to the wall opposite of the door. The force of the impact made the wooden wall crack but thanks to the metal plating the wall didn't breakthrough. I couldn't breathe as the impact squished my body, I gasped for air like drowning at sea. I'm almost fainting as of the moment as I squinted my eyes to look for the perpetrator, he wore a dark cloak and he had a white mask with two red lines coming from the eye sockets as if it was crying blood. He used his hand to strike the neck of the girls to knock them out. Sandra tried to stop him with a chair to only be struck with a blade through her stomach and blood splattered on the wall, floor, and ceiling. She vomited blood and her eyes widened as the perpetrator slid his sword out from her stomach. Sandra looked at me and reached out her arm asking for help for it to only be sliced off cleanly. She screamed in pain but I couldn't move or do anything. the pressure of me getting stuck in the wall was so strong that as if a giant boulder was weighing down on me. Sandra's arm toppled on the ground and her body let out a loud thud as she laid on the floor with blood oozing out of her wounds and mouth she's unconscious. Someone else entered the room and that person wore the same attire as the perpetrator only this time the difference was this person wore a black mask with a white cloak and there were no lines on the mask. The person then carried the four unconscious girls and swiftly went out. The cloaked person smiled at me and he was so quick that he disappears into thin air to only reappear in front of me with a blade stuck in my chest. He made a hole in my chest and he avoided my lungs and as he went for my heart. He pulled out his sword with my beating heart at the tip of the blade, he licked my heart then he giggled out of pure joy. I only had a few seconds to live as my consciousness is starting to fade into nothingness. The perpetrator left the room hopping and he gently closed the door. I instantaneously fell to the floor and I couldn't muster up any strength to walk. I crawled with my two arms which are so heavy and I couldn't even carry my own weight. It took me some time to get to the dazed Sandra and I asked myself how am I still alive? Probably plot armor I guess. I gathered the last of my strength to heal Sandra with the white flames and it seemed to cover up her wounds and re-attach her arm.
"S-S-Sandra...p-please.....c-call....f-f-for....h-help....." I mumbled to her ear
I laid there on the cold wooden ground as black blood oozed out of my wounds. Memories from the peaceful village and some notable memories in this kingdom with my new family and friends flooded my mind as I started to pass out. A set of footsteps ran to our location and the slammed the door with even more force and I looked up with my bloodied face and it was Zeksis....good thing help arrived...
"PLEASE! YOU CAN'T LEAVE TARUS LIKE THIS! HE NEEDS TREATMENT!"
"Unfortunately he has committed treason and we don't heal traitors."
"BASTARD!"
I opened my eyes as I woke up from someone arguing, I got blinded by the lights from the ceiling and I covered my eyes with it as I was still adjusting to the surroundings. My body is heavy as I sat upright to observe the surroundings to only be chained up to a metal reclining chair and I was inside a white room similar to where Belgis would torture me for hours. The top half of my clothes were burned and ripped off and my chest is covered in bandages. There stood in front of me Sandra being aggressive to the person.....I looked over to the person she was being furious at...Belgis!
"B-Belgis.....HOW THE HELL ARE YOU ALIVE?!"
"That question again? I thought I already told you that you can't kill me. HAHAHAHA!"
"Tarus you're awake! How do you know each other?"
"He tortured me in this very same room and he caused a lot of trouble in the labyrinth. I'm sure I sliced off his head and made sure that he was dead....."
"What the hell..."
"HAHAHAHA! You make me laugh Tarus! You really are the best! Nothing can ever replace you! Now that your friends are kidnapped what can you do?! HAHAHAHAH!"
"I'll kill you for sure this time!"
I corroded the chains that bound me to the cold metal chair and I got out. As I stood up, Immediately a spiked platform fell from the ceiling and another spiked platform came from the floor and sandwiched me in between. Several gaping holes formed in my body as blood quickly flowed out.
"TARUS!"
"HAHAHAHAH! You're powerless! You can't do anything! HAHAHAHA!"
Why am I always so useless...I can't even protect my loved ones.....is this how regret truly feels like?
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Author's Note: I'm back with a short chapter....hehe sorry! I enjoyed my break too much! More chapters coming in the next couple of days!
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