My heart thumped in my chest as if it wanted to escape. Emmi's head laid on my lap as I writhered in pain whilst stewed with anger.
'I-I-… Emmi! No, no, no. How dare they!' Power surged within me as I held the love of my life in my arms. My mind swirled in a vortex unable to think clearly.
'Kill, kill, kill! ah! No. Stop!' Dark thoughts entered my mind as I watched them. 'Should I kill them? Kill… them.'
"What the fuck is happening with that thing?" Asked Harold. "He looks possessed."
"Let's not go near that thing…" the female figure stammered.
"Are you scared? Little Evie," asked the figure inbetween her and Harold.
Evie side eyed him and shook her head. "No uncle, if I'm afraid all the time, how would I ever rank up? I need to do this and reach rank 1050."
"Atta girl! Has my brother given you the family blade yet?"
"Yes. Father handed it to me this morning. It's right here." Evie replied as she patted her waistband, a scabbard strapped to it.
"Good," he nodded approvingly. "This creature will be your first kill with that blade, any objections?!" Asked Evie's uncle to the other two male companions.
Both shook their heads.
"It's all yours Eve." Said Harold.
"Ya!" Confirmed the fourth figure.
Ha… they called me a monster, is that what I am? Is this thing inside of me, apart of me deep inside, what I am?
My eyes wavered as the pain became too much and I've became numb to it like if I were to apply woodwyrm leaves to a wound but rather than the leaves bring a sense of relief, it did the opposite and brought more pain until your mind shuts off that particular area and it became numb. No more pain receptors telling the person that, that area on their body where the leaves are, is in pain. There is no more pain only a void where the pain was.
It has became a trend amongst doctors to apply these leaves on those who have been tortured, to enflict more pain under the guise of helping them after the information has been extracted. This was the same and is the exact same feeling as those cursed leaves.
Evie kept on walking forward but the other three stopped. Her eyes roaming all over me.
She took out a knife and swished it around her fingers before brandishing it in front of her, the twisted blade's point aimed directly at me.
I've never seen anything like it. The blade glowed a bright red colour that matched the same red colour that started to emit from the female's eyes themselves. She stared at me with those glowing eyes as if she was looking for something.
The power within has now reached my fingertips, a tingling sensation pricked all my fingers as if a thousand lighting bolts had struck them. As if that wasn't irritable enough, two sharp pain appeared on my upper torso, on two spots on my back.
If lightning bolts had struck my fingertips then, two of the strongest lighting bolts from the gods had struck my back. I gritted my teeth and closed my eyes only for second but that second was the biggest mistake I've done. The pain had distracted me from the fight and now as I opened them again in that second, Evie had already closed in on me. Her blades swiped at two spots on my body in the blank space of time where my mind was adjusting to the situation unfolding before me.
A new surge of pain appeared from two places on my body that sent my knees buckling to the ground. I looked down and blood dripped from the wounds the blades had inflicted, luckily she had missed the vitals by a hair. The dripping of blood told me that as if the vitals were to be hit, a lot of blood would've left my body right now and my clothing would've been drenched in the crimson liquid.
My eyes haphazardly wandered from the wounds to my attacker who had now distanced herself from me by a few metres away, her eyes locked on the wounds on my body, a smirk slightly etched on her lips.
I tried to move but the searing pain from the wounds and the swirling pain that had now reached every inch on the rest of my body, especially by back intensified.
'Am I in hell? What is going on…. Ah! Even thinking hurts…' I wanted to close my eyes for another second and hopefully control this pain but if I did, I would be dead. Evie who was still a few metres away, eyed me like a predator on the prowl, probaly waiting for another opportunity to strike.
It was a strange tactic since most people would just attack since their opponent has clearly been wounded and had half fallen.
'She's cautious… very cautious.' If it wasn't for this unbearable pain, I could've made at least an effort to evade her attacks.
'Kill her… If you don't they will take your precious Emmi away…' The voice inside my head was right, they'll take her away like that guy in the middle had said. As my mind contemplated, Evie disappeared. 'Shit'.
A few seconds later new pain seared into my body, my mind. I looked to the left and then to the right but no one was there. All the evidence to anything happening was the blood that dripped from my newly created wounds.
I'm a wreak and there is nothing I could do, both my arms were dead weight as multiple slash marks ran down the length of my arm.
"Evie dear! We are on a time crunch! Finish the fight quick and grab the little fairy!" Evie's uncle called out from the sidelines far enough away from the fight.
"I'm working on it!" Evie responded a second later, her voice was like a whisper in the wind. Evie was like a ghost, I couldn't detected where she is and her voice sounded like she was moving from one place to the next whilst she was talking.
Though I was focusing on the battle I was currently in, I couldn't help but look over for a quick few seconds to the sidelines. Her uncle and Harold were animated and hollered at the girl when ever she did something that excited them. I guessed they are the ones that's mentoring her.
My gaze then fell only for a split second to the last person in their group, the short man with the axe. Out of the four, the other three who had spoken a lot, the last one had only said one word. I get the feeling he is the 'more action less words' type of guy. The twitch of his fingers around his axe told me as much.
I know I couldn't last much longer against her nonetheless the other three who would jump in if they had any inkling of the girl in danger. Even though we are fighting one on one, their auras had been encroaching on me since the beginning of the fight as if it was a warning.
On top of all that, this pain is relenting, I have no idea what's wrong with me but if this pain persists, then I would certainly lose and my Emmi would be taken away. I couldn't let that happen. I wouldn't let that happen. Pain be damned, Emmi will be protected at all cost… even if it's at the cost of my life.
I took in a deep breath and snarled at the girl in front of me whom was watching me with a smile on her face. If the voices in side my head knows what must be done then I had listerened because all the pain that enveloped my body stopped and euphoria replaced it. I felt power coursing through my body like lighting strikes but rather than painful electric shocks that would've incapacitated me, it now had the opposite effect, it poured power into my limbs, it radiated power all throughout my body making me stronger and more alive. It was at this point, I felt it.
The source of power that sent a rush to every limbs on my body now pooled into two spots on my back. It's as if something was going to explode from those two spots out of my back. There was no pain but pleasure as I felt my back stiffen and then my visioned blurred as power and energy broke through the skin in my back and was released into the outside world.
For a split second the whole wold turned red. I heard loud shouts of words I did not know or understand. The girl in front of me had wide eyes, fear visible with them, her stance faultering as the two behind her rushed forward with their weapons ready.
I have no idea what was happening but this power is nothing I've ever felt before and from the looks on my enemies faces told me that the tide had turned. I was no longer a prey but became the predator. I listened to the devil within and now Emmi will not be taken from me.