“Any last wishes?” Melissa said with a blade right on Jerry’s throat, ready to slice; her gold and red eyes piercing coldly right through him.
Jerry was kneeling down covered with both huge injuries and minor ones. The entirety of his body was riddled with wounds and after healing them over and over again, for many times he was finally drained and could only admit his doom.
Jerry stared up at her with resentful eyes as he huffed and puffed, out of breath. There was no way he was leaving Jack in the hand of this bitch! Especially when he was co-operating with the world spirit! Jack would be so dead.
“It seems that there is none, therefore… DIE!” Melissa exclaimed on seeing his vindictive look. Even after being in such a way, he still dared be stubborn? She would have tortured him instead of giving him an easy way out, but she still had to finish the main mission.
With this thought, she slashed, ready to kill off Jerry.
Her eyes were filled with a mad glint as she swiped down. She would kill Jerry and then go meet Jack, finally, finally she would win!
She would be a Queen after so long, even if no one wanted it.
She would finally be that which her mother had made her swore to be! She’d fulfill her promise!
Fuck you father! I’ll be queen no matter what the hell you fucking say! It’s my heritage and I will take it by force if I have to! Watch me from hell bastard!
Shee slashed off Jerry’s head…..
But instead of the blood, so prepared to see. What was seen was an image of flowers fluttering away by the wind. Melissa's eyes widened as she nearly dropped her sword in shock.
“I… AM NOT DYING JUST YET! I HAVE A KING TO SAVE!” Jerry shouted with determination.
***
“Huff…. puff…. huff….” Elen gasped for breath as she took a short break to regain her strength.
“You okay? I could carry you if you want?” Danison asked with worry, making Elen flinch.
She stared at him with suspicious eyes. Earlier, she had watched in awe without being able to even move a muscle as Danison literally demolished a high ranking Pure with overwhelming power like it was nothing.
He was still a goddamn Normal not to mention! And now, even after running for so long , he was barely out of breath. Why was she…. she a half-pure was…?! She was so embarrassed, she wanted to transform, but she had overused her transformation for today and wasn’t even in good condition talk more of.
“Don’t be so hard on yourself. You’ve been using your powers since today, so it's natural you’re this tired,” Danison consoled as he gently placed Elen on his back and ran with her casually.
‘He’s not even out of breath….’ Elen thought in shock. She was sure she weighed a lot, so how was he carrying her like she was basically weightless? His speed had barely changed! And she could see that he was even being careful with her.
‘Who the hell’s the pure now?!’ Elen complained.
“Hey… are you really Danison? How can you be so strong?” Elen asked absent mindedly while leaning on his shoulder and the next minute she was brought down.
‘Whaa?? Did I hit a ne… nnmgh?!’ Her thoughts were caught off when she was pulled into a kiss.
During the kiss, Elen felt a wave of memories flow into her brain and her eyes widened in shock.
The kissing lasted for about a minute before it ended but to Elen, it seemed like an eternity, she suddenly burst out crying, Danison, this bastard was really back, he was actually back, he was back for her, for her and Jack, to see his son, he actually can see finally see his son.
“Danison….. It’s really you,” Elen declared in a very soft voice that seemed like a whisper
“How did you know?” Danison asked with a smirk
“Idiot, you’re the one who let me peer into your memories, I don’t know how you did it but… I believe you, let me take this crazy decision just once,” Elen muttered while tears droplets flowed down her cheeks at Danison was displeased that he couldn’t wipe off
“Elly…”
“Also…. Jack, the one in danger is our son. We have to save him!” Elen suddenly said with a battle light in her eyes.
“My son?! So that’s where you got the DNA from… wait! I had a son?!” Danison asked in delight, all this while he thought that Elen was after the children that she gave birth to with Johnson and he was actually cool with it but she was shocked to hear that he actually had a son!
“Yeah,” Elen muttered while nestling into his embrace.
“I really have a son?! Was that even possible?” Danison asked, still in disbelief.
“I’ll explain everything to you. Let’s go first,” Elen said with a soft smile as she leapt onto Danison’s back again.
***
“Having fun?” Melissa asked as she gave Jerry, who was panting like a dog on its last leg, gracing him with a hard-core flying kick which lifted him up and flung him into the river.
Jerry could only helplessly fall. He was getting weak as he had used up almost all his strength. In the end Melissa was winning, even if he had remembered most of his memories.
As long as Jack’s powers along his memories were still locked, he could only awaken a few of his because as a slave he was tied to his master Jack.
‘This is not good, I have to do something, Melissa is only going to get stronger as times goes on, not only because her restriction is getting weaker and weaker but also because her powers increase as her battle intent does!’
“What are you thinking?” Melissa asked with a smile as she threw Jerry a punch, which he dodged, although quite wackily as he was getting really tired.
‘I’ll have to do that,’ Jerry thought with a shiver of dismay about what he was about to do.
A memory from the past, one somewhat… distasteful-
{ “Some mates actually cut their beast mark when endangered to alert their own? Isn’t that… painful?” Orinda winced at the dangerous thought of actually doing that.
“Of course it is and whoever does that always ends up either losing half of his beastly attributes or dying unless a special medical care was given,” Favela said as he carefully removed such dangerous books from the little pet making him pout. }
‘I’ll have to do it, even though him marking me was on a very crazy basis of doing it in necessity and not out of love, it still meant so much to me,’ Jerry thought sadly as his reluctance to actually harm the Beastmark which signified his bond to his master intensified.
Jerry, remembering this memory, chuckled sadly. This was one of his precious memories, but the one which left a really deep scar on him was the other….
{ “Why master? Why? Why did you…” Orinda asked in anticipation but was cut off by Favela’s answer.
“It was only necessary, or rather….are Are you more willing for another person to do IT? Mark you? Do you not know your owner? Do you not know that I own you?” Favela said in a cold voice, making Orinda flinch and bow his head in shame.
What was he expecting? A love confession? How pathetic.
He had gone in heat again all of a sudden without any prior warning in the middle of a meeting among the beast heads, as the only remaining specie of his race, it meant he was to be there as a beast head- of the peacocks; and as the king and the last dragon race, his master too.
He had ended up humiliating himself and his master. It was no wonder his master ended up marking him suddenly with no preparations.
He was actually surprised his master could possible do that, as a handicapped beast, whose entire beastly attributes were locked due to unknown reasons, his master shouldn’t be able to actually mark him, but he somehow did, breaking nature’s law, it was no wonder he was seen as the most ‘unique’ king ever ruled.
“I do, I apologize for my tyranny, dearest master,,” Orinda muttered with a bow.
Favela stared at the little one’s pale face entirely drenched from sweat and sighed internally, it seemed… he had used too much pressure….
“I apologize too, but this wouldn’t be just another thing to be brushed off. I’ll dance the mating dance with you and you’ll be officially seen as my mate,” Favela said before taking his leave.
Orinda was stunned before blushing profusely. Favela actually apologized to him, MASTER actually apologized to him, THE BERSERKER actually apologized to him! And he would dance the mating dance… w-with him!! YES!!!!
His joy knew no bounds as he went to his room to daydream about such an awesome day. Maybe getting marked wasn’t that bad after all,, eh?
But their dance was ruined by Melissa’s threat to Favela’s audience, which landed them here now }
Back to reality-
‘I’ll have to do it. That’s the only way. Either way, master can always heal me when he gets back to normal. Right now, this is the only thing I can do! Plus, Melissa wouldn’t even expect it! Maybe I can stimulate master’s spirit to officially awaken even its only temporarily’ Jerry decide to shake off all thoughts or memories that might drag him back as he made up his mind
As Melissa slashed at Jerry, Jerry suddenly grasped the bare blade with his hand and broke it into two, leaving Melissa with one part and him another.
“What the?”
*SLASH*
Jerry stimulated his spiritual energy. The owner and the mate were the only two people who could possibly see the mark and therefore manipulate it.
Taking the broken piece of sword, he slashed at his mark instantly. All was done swiftly even before the confused Melissa could get herself.
*Ripple*
The sound of a sword being dropped into the river was heard. Melissa backed away from Jerry a bit in stunned,
“AHA….. HAA-HA….. AH! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!”
***
RED, TRANSPARENCY, SCARLET, BLUE, BLOOD, RIVER AND… A DEAD JERRY.
“*Gasp*” Jack woke up with a start. He just had a nightmare. Although he couldn’t remember it all, he was sure something bad, as in really bad, happened to his Jer.
Looking around, he was in a place with shrubs, grasses, trees….and a sleeping Jean; no Jerry. His heart chilled, the clawing feeling of something being incredibly wrong clung tirelessly to his skin and his gulp was very obvious as it startled Jean into waking up.
“Where’s Jerry?” Jack asked. For some reason, his mind was all foggy and he couldn’t exactly remember what had happened, but he felt that whatever did was NOT good.
Jean was a bit sleepy, but his eyes cleared up as soon as he saw that Jack was awake and okay.
“You’re okay! Thank goodness!!” Jean exclaimed with a rare smile, which made Jack confuse. Was there something that would have happened to him? Something bad?
But he didn’t care, all he cared about was-
“Where’s Jerry?” He asked again and finally noticed Jean’s reluctance to say a word but under Jack’s intense gaze, he ended up spilling the beans-
“He’s fighting a sea monster,,” Jean said softly.
“Fighting a wha…?” Jack asked as he stared at Jean incredulously, like he was speaking the languages of gods. Even that seemed more acceptable than what he was bullshitting.
However, he was shocked with Jean’s genuine show of surprise at his statement. His heart slightly sank. It couldn’t possibly be!
“You… you’ve forgotten?! How come?!” Jean asked in shock at which Jack just stared blankly at him
“The last thing I remember was kissing in the waters,” Jack said shamelessly making Jean speechless,
He gave him a look that screamed- Really, Jack? In the waters?! You couldn’t have controlled yourself better, could you?!
“This is….” Jean muttered in sincere surprise. How could Jack possibly forget? Did he go into too much shock or something? He wasn’t even believing him, which was normal if he really had forgotten.
“Where’s Jerr….”
“AHHHHHHHH!!”
Jean and Jack suddenly paused, they were sure of it, a loud scream was heard and if their ears weren’t deceiving them, then that hoarse yet somehow shrill and girly scream belonged to….
“Jack! Where are you going?!” Jean asked as he tried to pull Jack back, at which he got knock down at making him groan.
“DON’T YOU GET IT? Whatever the hell is happening, Jerry definitely is not in a good position there! Am leaving, stay peachy,,” Jack said as he left.
“Wait….!” Jean shouted, but was too late as Jack had already disappeared.
“Shit!”
***
PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN, PAIN………..!
This word made up of four letters was the only thing that resounded in Jerry’s mind. It was so very extremely exasperatingly fucking painful.
He stumbled around like a drunkard. What a horrible decision he had made. In this case where he could barely stand, Melissa definitely would finish him off here and now. It fucking looked cooler in the stories… he was tricked. Ah his life, he should have listened to his Master and not read those brain dead romance novels.
“Heh, you really are crazy as they said, to actually do that. No wonder you could actually mate with that insane bastard,,” Melissa said in mockery.
This had gotten very simple. All she needed to do now was finish off this pest and go after the main problem.
Turning her hand into a tentacle, she stretched out at the dazed Jerry, aiming for his heart. Jerry was too far delirious with pain to even get his surroundings talk more of dodging it, and just a second from the tentacle piercing his heart….
“Ugh!” A painful groan was heard. Jerry’s eyes shot open then widened in shock and his face paled as he stared on.
“How….?”
Melissa was also shocked. This wasn’t in the plan…. but it was better! WAY BETTER!
***
Jean was still in stun as he huffed and puffed tiredly in his hideout. He had tried to run after Jack but that guy was so fast that he had managed to give him a huge gap in just a few minutes to his dismay.
Was that bastard really just a Normal?! And did he get faster or what?!
He had to stop as Jack had crossed the restricted part where Jerry was. He loved his brother but no matter how horrible it was, the fact that he loved himself and life more wouldn’t change.
He lay down on the grass why staring at the sky helplessly when he suddenly saw a flash of green and Elen in front of him.
“M-mum?!” Jean exclaimed as he sat up in astonishment.
“Jean, where is Jack?!” Elen, who had finally reached the beach along with Danison, asked worriedly.
Danison had found a secret entrance through which they managed to enter the beach. He didn’t know how Danison was actually able to do all those things… but priority first.
“I think they’re in the farther part of the river, inside,,” Jean said slowly in a shush voice
“WHAT?!” Elen shouted as her heart dropped degrees lower. Wasn’t the monster in there?
Danison only ‘hmmed’ as he walked closer to have a near look,
“Stop right there!” Elen said as she pulled him back.
“Why?” Danison asked as Jean stared at him suspiciously and curiously, a ‘who the hell is this and how does he know my mum’? Expression all over his face.
“STAY” Elen growled at him
Danison: What am I, a puppy?
“Fine,” Danison said reluctantly, feeling somewhat uncomfortable at Jean’s glare at him… or more specifically, him holding Elen’s hand.
He only listened because he really had no better option. He was sure that either Jack or Jerry was the Transmigrator and if both were to cross part, the world would surely react and the seal would weaken.
If it did, they would be recognized as official threats by the world and be placed instantly under the extermination list. At this stage, the world would make sure to exterminate them at all cost even at the extent of risking its inhabitors- Elen and Jean.
By then, the issue would only get worse.
The better choice was his Elly going, he trusted her strength but more importantly if she accounted for even the smallest of issues, he would be there at all cost, as for how to deal with the consequence he would find a way. He always did.
Not only was his speed terrifying- he was sure he would get where Elly was in less than a minute, but his vision was also astonishing, so he could see Elen even with how far they were from each other. He was more than ready to dive right in and save his Elly.
“So….who the fuck are you to my mum, good sir?” Jean asked with a smiling-unsmiling face, pissing off Danison
‘This little brat’
“Just say am gonna be the one fucking your momma from now on,” Danison said with a smirk, successfully angering Jean.
“You son of a….”
Meanwhile,
Elen walked closer. She had to because even though as a half-pure, her senses were generally more defined, the kids were a bit too far, so she had to get a bit closer. And as she did… she heard a shout.
“‘Montage Disintegration’!”