~i am currently sick right now, so if I don't get better soon, no chapters next week but is I feel better then I will upload chapters~
'Run, you idiot!' Otto yelled
Elijah gathered all the strength he could muster hen ran away from the ruin, he ran for a few minutes in those few minutes he found monsters in varying sizes each one more terrifying than the other.
After resting for a few minutes Elijah spoke "s..s…she put me in the den" he said, his breath was heavy. A heavy sound came up behind him
'doge!' Otto yelled Elijah moved to the left then the ground that he was on collapsed, Elijah was grabbed by a sudden force and then pulled back into the forest that was nearby it had dried-out trees filled with dead plants some looked alive but if you were to get closer to them you would die.
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pain, pain, pain
is all Elijah could think about his body felt like it was being burnt (what was it that grabbed me?) his eyes fluttered open, and the air was filled with a fresh smell, and it smelled of blood, he twisted his head and then saw a herd of rabbits surrounding him they had deep red eyes there bodies were covered in deep blackish eyes. in one of the rabbit's mouth it had a bloody red large intestine, Elijah gazed at his lower torso it was gouged open blood slowly flowed out as the human-sized rabbits grabbed at his insides "uh..ahhhhhh….." Elijah screamed, his body was being split apart from head to toe the rabbits pulled at his ribs the shards of the broken bone punctured his lung.
The human-sized rabbits took apart Elijah, and what was left of him was his heart, brain, and lung even though it was damaged, he was somehow alive, he tried to speak but it came out sounding like he was drowning in his blood (I want it to end)
'i can end all of this if you accept the contract,' he spoke with a worried voice, but there was something hidden within his voice(decivement) ELijah thought about what Otto just said. One of the human-sized rabbits came over they had baby rabbits in their hands Elijah was placed on the floor in front of the babies, after a few seconds of Avoiding Elijah, one of them took a bite out from Elijah's lung the pain-filled Elijah, he was stunned he couldn't move or scream
(I wanna die
I wanna die
I wanna die
I wanna die
I wanna die)
He repeated that over and over in his head; the rabbits kept munching on Elijah they were violent unlike the elder Rabbits, they were somehow gentle, the rabbits kept eating Blood swept out the vieny hearts that had been beaten by one of the rabbits the other one went for the face the rabbit bite off Elijah's nose he's eyes were blank yet still alive, Elijah body soon lost its heat then…his body went cold
The mysterious voice around ELijah shifted and turned it sounded like they were speaking to him then he's head started to throb unlike any pain it felt like the rabbit was coming out of his head His body slowly cracked open from the pelvis to the head.
then he awoke to a lake scene "This is where I was earlier…." Elijah ran from the spot he was in, he closely listened to the surroundings he could hear the shifting of feet running towards him at a fast pace
Elijah spent half of the time running and resting he tried to find food, but all he could see were monsters 'How about you..-'
"Could you stop talking… I'm not accepting any of your contracts" Elijah said with an annoyed tone 'I wasn't going to speak to you about the contract' he peeled "Then what are you trying to ask?" Otto's tone became released he spoke softly 'What I wanna ask was…..'
The ground shifted as the sky turned a deep blue. A monster with three horns spotted Elijah "Fuck!" he used the rest of his energy to run, and in a few minutes, he found an opening on the side of a cliff. He went in the inside was dark and damp, the inside looked as though something big had here a few days ago
'we can rest here for a few minutes' otto exclaimed, Elijah stared at the entrance ready for any sudden attacks, but he heard Otto speak again 'as I was about to say earlier…..I was about to ask you how we survived that?' ELijah's face shifted to confusion "What do you mean?" (could he somehow have remembered the past where I died?) Otto spoke in a confused tone 'Even though we are alive I somehow have memories of you being eaten by those Falllens' Elijah paused diguesting the information (so what should I do now?, the monsters could kill me anytime they want and I have no why to protect myself…) ELijahs hands slowly trembled he didn't know why he was feeling this why.
This feeling was somehow new to him. This feeling was genuine fear. He feared getting eaten by these monsters. He feared getting ripped apart as he had earlier. He wanted to feel safe, but where could he go to feel safe who could he even count on to feel safe (....wait!)
Elijah thought back to the honfaric name the god of combat had given him
He got up from the ground slowly and then took a deep breath after his breathing exercise was finished he spoke softly "THE GREAT SYMBOL OF POWER,
THE ALMIGHTY THAT MASTERS ALL WEAPONS
KING OF ALL KNIGHTS" Elijah waited for a response (thanks to Selina I got to learn the breathing technique she uses whenever she is nervous)
'give up on trying that were in a den the call to gods won't reach them' Elijah tightened his face in anger "If I can't call for help using this method then what the hell do I do!?" Elijah yelled, but he managed to keep his voice low enough to where no monsters could hear him 'To escape this place you….hmmm' Otto paused for a moment "What's with the pause?..tell me how to leave!" Otto didn't replay 'i will enjoy seeing you try your best escape this place, also I will give you one piece of information that you will need Fallen are people that went either insane or curppted trying to advance, or they are foolish people that switched to a different oath without the proper rutrial'.
ELijah tilted his head facing the floor he realized the tension from his legs, and his body dropped to the bottom (how can I even get out?) all thought of ways he could try and find a way out but he couldn't think of one his thoughts were on all the people of the church and how they have helped him learn a new language, he thought back to the times were they played games together even though he didn't spend long with them. He wanted to finish his cooking lessons with Selina, he wanted to complete his training with Elliot
(I…wanna go back to those times….i want to go back)Elijah's voice softened as a faint cry came from him, his eyes became watery tears started to flow down uncomfortably the moon was a seep black, Elijah was ready to scream when he realized that it might attract some of the Fallens (why did I have to have such Faith?) he asked him self …but the world gave him no answer.
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Two weeks had passed since that night, and Elijah discovered a way for him to survive by hunting down those rabbits. it took him a while, but he finally found a way to catch them he spent 4 days studying them, how they hunt, and how they gather in this den they are the weaker creatures they eat small plants called shrooms, and they taste of meat (why is a shroom like this here? how did it even survive?) Elijah had a lot of questions about the shrooms, but this was the only source of food he had
But he wanted a way to defend himself so he set up a trap for a rabbit, the bait was shroom (come on bite it!) he beamed, the rabbit's eyes almost might his then he realized that the rabbit had a greater sense then he does they are more robust and far faster. To catch this fallen, he would have to set up an atomic trap where he can not be seen or sensed …..
He spent the next three days planning a way to create a trap where he could catch it. He discovered something he called the prey effect, in the den, if there's a fallen far more substantial than the other fallen, then they have higher spirituality which means they gain the ability to sense their surroundings without the use of their eyes he found this out after a trap he had set up failed the stronger monster stopped the rabbits in its track before it could even move
(.. it caught the rabbit) the fallen had bright blueish skin with massive horns puttering through its head; half of the skin on its face was pilled off it had a barrel-like body