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After the series of dodging and blocking, The attacked stop.
Hobgoblin appeared from the dark mist, but this time it didn't attack. It just stood there.
*you want to see?*
A voice rang inside Grey's mind.
"So you can speak?" asked Grey to Hobgoblin.
*You want to see?* asked hobgoblin again.
"Oh, that's how it is. you aren't speaking from your mouth. you are using telepathy" said Grey.
Without paying any heed to what Grey is saying the Hobgoblin spoke again saying:
*I will show you.*
"What are you going to sho-" Before Grey could finish his sentence, Grey realized that the Hobgoblin in front of him disappeared.
No, to be precise the world in front of him changed.
He was back in the forest, but there was something different.
Grey felt a warm embrace, it was a comforting warmth. he found himself in the hand of someone.
That person held him gently in her arms. Like a mother would hold her child.
Upon further examination, he found that his body was smaller and his hands were different….
It wasn't the hand of humans and neither the body the Grey was in was humans.
Grey looked towards the person holding him and found out she wasn't human neither.
She was a hobgoblin.
But the way she looked at Grey reminded him of his mother. He felt comfortable, comfortable enough to doze off to sleep.
ARGH!!!
Grey felt a crushing pressure in the right side of his chest. Excruciating pain shot up his chest, the blow that was shot towards Grey by hobgoblin was a clean hit.
Grey was knocked back from the impact, he was back to the pitch-black world from the hands of the female hobgoblin he was in earlier. Grey was also back to his original body.
Upon experiencing sharp pain while breathing, Grey checked his ribs by touching them.
His ribs were shattered.
*You have to see more* said Hobgoblin
The hobgoblin in front of him again disappeared and so did the pitch-black world.
And it was again replaced with another.
He was standing in the forest beside the female hobgoblin who was holding her earlier. But this time the hobgoblin body he was in, was bigger.
It was still small but bigger than the body of month old baby he was earlies in, the current body had the size of a 5-year-old kid.
Grey climbed up a tree to pick out a forest. The body that grey was in wasn't under Grey's control.
The tree Grey is climbing now wasn't his course of action, Grey was only able to see what The body was seeing.
Grey was only able to see and feel what the body was doing, but he had no control over bodies action.
The little hobgoblin stretched his hand to reach out for the fruit, The little hobgoblin felt the want to eat fruit.
Grey felt the same want for the fruit that little Hobgoblin felt.
At the moment Grey shared the same body with the hobgoblin, so it was natural to feel what the hobgoblin was feeling.
The fruit was fingertips away, the little hobgoblin stretched his hands more to reach the fruit.
As he was closer to the fruit, the little hobgoblin fell down the tree.
Little hobgoblin scraped his knee, the pain that came with that small injury was overwhelming for little Hobgoblin.
Tears formed around his eyes which flowed down in little steams. The little Hobgoblin cried loudly.
Grey felt the same pain, the little hobgoblin felt.
Grey felt a warm hand over his head, it was the hand of a female hobgoblin. The female hobgoblin patted his head with a warm smile, this course of action made little hobgoblin stop crying.
Grey felt the same warm sensation that the little Hobgoblin felt. It reminded Grey of the time when his mom comforted him when he couldn't handle the pain from the Pan blood ritual.
(This female hobgoblin is this body's mother. These are the memories of the hobgoblin that I am fighting currently.) thought Grey and he was correct. The female hobgoblin was indeed the mother of the little hobgoblins.
This was the memory of the hobgoblin Grey was fighting with.
(So that's what he meant when he said I want to show you.)
Ugh!
Grey felt a sudden impact on his face and with a flash of pain Grey found himself on his back. The sudden blow to his face put Grey into a state of shock.
Memories shown by the hobgoblin to Grey put him in a state of defenselessness. While being shown memories of Hobgoblin, Grey cant move his real body.
Due to this, Grey had no way to defend himself, let alone know when the next blow was heading his way.
*You have to see more* said Hobgoblin. With that Grey was again back at seeing Hobgoblins memories.
This time he was standing in front of a young female Hobgoblin.
The hobgoblin's body that Grey was watching memories of, seemed to have gotten old, this time a teenager.
Grey felt the rise in the heartbeat of the Hobgoblin while being in the presence of the female hobgoblin.
To hobgoblin the female hobgoblin looked beautiful, the hobgoblin felt like he wanted to spend the rest of his life with the female hobgoblin.
Grey felt the same love the Hobgoblin felt while watching his memories.
Grey felt another sharp blow to his stomach and he was snapped back to the pitch-black plane.
He was again bought back to a defenseless position as he was forced to see another memory of the hobgoblin. This time a different memory.
This time the hobgoblin was grown into an adult man.
In his hand, he held his baby that was just given birth into his world by his partner. The same young female hobgoblin that Grey saw in his memories earlier, she was also grown into an adult.
Watching through the hobgoblin's eye it felt like to Grey that he was himself was holding the baby.
The small baby in his hand looked the most cutest thing to hobgoblin, Grey felt the same feeling as the hobgoblin.
Hobgoblin was happy holding his baby boy in his hand.
With another blow, Grey was knocked back to Pitch black world.
And yet again he was bought back to see more memories. Grey was watching memories of hobgoblin one after another and his defenseless real body took one after another heavy blow.
This sequence of getting knocked into the pitch-black plane and getting sent back to watch memories kept going.
One after another Grey saw the memories of Hobgoblin.
The memories of Hobgoblin having a second baby girl, the happiness he felt at that time.
The memories of his daughter getting sick for the first time and the worries the hobgoblin felt.
The memories of hobgoblin spending time with his kind, the laughed together and hunted together.
The memories of them raiding the village, eating humans, and taking all their belonging, this was the memories of them hunting.
The memories of Hobgoblin teaching his son how to hunt. The way his son tried to copy him made hobgoblin happy.
One after another Grey saw all the memories of Hobgoblin's happiness he felt throughout his life.
Grey saw the happy family he had.
Grey saw everything….
And at the end, Grey saw the hobgoblin's final memory….
The memory of a reaper invading his happy life. The reaper slaughtered hobgoblins kind one after another.
The reappear massacred them all mercilessly.
At last, Grey saw the memory of hobgoblins partner's blood dripping down from her body. She was slashed down in half by the reaper.
The hobgoblin saw the love of his life killed mercilessly in front of him.
The reaper went on to kill their firstborn son. The pride that was his son was slaughtered along with his partner. Following his son, The reaper went on to kill his daughter.
The hobgoblin's memories of the happy family shattered right in front of him.
The memory of the young female hobgoblin, the son and daughter they had together. All the happy memories were shattered in an instant by the hands of the reaper.
Through Hobgoblin's memories, Grey saw that he was the reaper that shattered such a beautiful happy family.
Grey was the one who slaughtered Hobgoblin's family.
Grey was the reaper that hobgoblin hated the most.
Grey was the one that destroyed his happy life...