Everywhere was dark, Denzel couldn't say if he was blinded or if everything just seemed that way, he touched his eyes, trying to confirm whether they were opened or not, and it seemed like they were opened.
"Where am I?" Denzel tried to recollect what had happened to him.
"Ohh, Owl strangled me a while ago... Did I die...? I can't see a thing... Owl!!!" Denzel kept talking to himself, all he heard was the echo of his voice and nothing else.
It seemed like he was locked in a desolate wasteland that had no form of life in it.
"So I really did die, I now have no chance of getting revenge... Well, I did try my best, and if this is what fate planned for me, I have no..."
A bright light began to glow, but it was very little, and Denzel could make out the structure of the beak of an Eagle.
"Huh? What the hell?" Denzel didn't understand what he saw at his front. He moved closer to touch the light, but it went off. Another light began to glisten, and it seemed like it was showing him his memories, looking like it was put in rewind.
Denzel kept on watching everything till it got to the part when Leia murdered his friends. He shut his eyes for a second, he couldn't stand the sight of their deaths, as it was replayed in front of him once more.
He opened his eyes back, but the scene of their deaths kept on replaying as the light kept flickering, and it didn't seem like it wanted to stop at any moment.
"What is this? Can't this thing go off?" Denzel walked towards the light, trying to put it off, but all he tried was futile.
Denzel turned his back to the light, but another showed up at his front, their screams getting louder and louder each time he tried to obstruct his ear from hearing anything.
The scene of their death continued like a loop. Denzel opened his eyes, taking a look at it when he saw that he couldn't do a thing to stop it, "Carter, Carter," Tears began to drop from his eyes, "Rocco, Ariel," Everything began to get brighter, the noises getting louder, It felt like Denzel could feel a migraine in his head, and all of a sudden, he saw that all the lights went off.
"Have you regained consciousness?"
Denzel heard a very familiar voice, so for a minute, he freaked out until everywhere began to get brighter and normal.
'I guess fate does love me,' He thought when he saw himself in the middle of the six men that he was trying to protect, all of them unconscious, "Why didn't you kill me?"
"I just thought I should give you another chance, Leia herself mustn't find out that I gave you this chance," Owl lied, to make Denzel get the thought of wanting to quit away from his mind.
"When you say second chance, what do you mean?"
"You should have a look at your body first off," Owl told Denzel, and Denzel took a quick glimpse at his whole body.
He was tied up, completely, from his chest down, and the only hand he had free was his right hand.
"Why am I tied up? I won't run away anymore, I promise... I swear"
"You can't run away from me, that's what got these delinquents in this predicament, you have no choice but to stay with me, but that isn't why I tied you up,"
Denzel seemed confused, "So why else would you tie me up?" He asked Owl.
"You might attack me...
Look at your front, there is a knife, I want you to use it to kill each of them, and each minute you waste, I would use this knife in my hand to stab a spot in your body, until you finally kill all of them."
"So that's why you tied me up at their middle, you do know I could throw this knife at you and it would also stab a vital spot in your body,"
For a minute, Owl laughed at Denzel. "You think I would let it get to me? I could kill you off in a second, so if you actually try something like that, before the knife gets to me, you would see yourself dead."
Denzel felt like he had no other option, he took up the knife, took a look at it, and then raised it to stab the person that was right at his front.
His hand went up, but it didn't fall, he began to sweat profusely. Deep in his mind, he began to assure himself that he could do it, but then, his hands began to get sweaty, and the knife eventually dropped from his palm.
He bowed his head as he dropped his hand, breathing heavily that moment, and Owl could see that he held his breath the whole time as he held the knife.
Owl untied Denzel, and immediately, Denzel jumped out from where he was. Owl expected him to run, but he saw that Denzel stood the whole time, trying to remove the ropes that still hung around his body.
"Let's go" Owl began to walk away, and Denzel stood looking confused.
"Aren't you going to kill them?" Denzel asked him, looking at the people he left tied up. Denzel walked to one of them, placing his index finger on his nose. He didn't feel any form of wind come out, he then loosed the rope that was used to tie them up, and he saw that they all dropped dead to the floor.
For a moment, Denzel chuckled, thinking to himself, 'So he only wanted to test me, huh, there must be a reason why he doesn't want me dead, and for that reason, I would keep following him, till I have gotten stronger than him, I would make him train me, and when I have gotten much stronger, the tables would turn, and I would gain control over him' Denzel turned and began to jog, so he could get closer to Owl.
"Why are you smiling?" Owl turned to take a look at Denzel, turning back immediately he did.
"Nothing, just some few things... Huh?" Anywhere there was light, Denzel's vision was top-notch, so he could see anything far and near.
Before Denzel could meet up with Owl, Denzel could notice a shadow just outside the building, it was obvious that the person hid.
When Owl got to the entrance, the person tried to use a bat to knock Owl's head, but for some reason, Denzel had already known what he wanted to do since he kept on focusing on the shadow, so Denzel had already started to run before the person could even lift his hands.
Denzel got there but, before he even got to Owl, Owl had already grabbed the person's arm. Confirming that it was another man, he took his hand and broke it, holding him down with his broken arm.
"Denzel, can you kill him?"
"No, I can't."
Owl shook his head, took the man's head and twisted it to break it.
"I can't allow any witnesses, though it doesn't mean much, since I have Leia,"
Denzel didn't understand, but hearing Leia, he scowled his face.
Owl stood up and Denzel walked behind him, taking his bag from where he left it.