When I opened my eyes I saw two gray eyes staring at me and some other heads behind them.
Flashbacks of the images overlay them like a flash causing me to blink and start fighting back tears.
I hear Aqua's voice with a hint of concern
"Are you okay Julian?"
I open my mouth with my eyes closed but I give up talking
'I don't want to worry them'
When I realized that I had given up, I heard another voice, this time from Victor
"You know you can always count on us, right?"
That was enough for me to start feeling the tears come down from my eyes as I fought against it, even at that moment with my eyes.
closed
"I don't know how to start"
stopping to think about how they would believe this I hear footsteps and open my eyes to look
Hermódio starts walking towards me with a worried expression.
"Brats, I need to take him to the old man, so let him go."
Catherine looked at him with hostility as if she didn't want me to leave
'Cute'
He picked me up and we started walking towards the old man's house.
"Do you know what he wants with me?
Relaxed as ever as he looked around he said
"I think the time is coming"
'Is the time coming?'
We arrived at the old man's house as we entered, all impeccable wooden furniture, while he had a somber expression on the other side of downtown as he watched us arrive
Hermódio without even thinking came in and sat on the sofa between me and him, I sat on the available sofa while he looked me in the eyes with the same closed expression
"What you saw?"
'As?'
I can't hide my surprise at the precision of the question
"I have my secrets boy, how do you think this village has survived this long?"
'Prediction of the future is? should I tell you about my god too?'
He interrupted me before I started while looking suspiciously at Hermodius during the first few sentences.
"No, you shouldn't tell anyone who your God is, this is our greatest strength and weakness, since knowing the name of your God it may be possible to find your weakness, because it is mirrored in us"
'Why didn't he tell me that? I could have told everyone about my weakness.'
I start to frown as I think about it
"Well, I've had some visions, but I'm not sure if it is or how far in the future it is."
I start to feel my eyes cloud over as I start to fight back the tears.
"Everything was on fire, everything,
I saw many, many bodies on the ground, and when I blinked I was in the forest with Hermodium who was very injured"
Take a breather before continuing
"He probably saved me, and I only got to see the two of us alive."
The old man's expression darkened but he didn't show doubt or ask anything, as if he already knew
'yeah, now that's for sure'
His expression froze for a while as he looked at Hermione with cold eyes.
"How long would it take to turn him into a monster?"
Hermódio furrowed his eyebrows as he placed his hand on his chin.
"He has a monstrous talent, but if we train together here he can be observed, and his weakness will be discovered"
The old man responds with irritation
"True, so you think there are rats here too?"
'Find out?, Rats?'
"Surely, there's no way they can break into our defenses without someone on the inside helping them."
I hear the old man take a deep breath
"Well, Julian, I'm sorry to have to put you through this but you're our only hope, so you're going to have to do two jobs, come here tomorrow before the sun comes up and I don't need to tell you that you're not supposed to tell anyone what that you saw, ok?"
I widen my eyes feeling all the weight on my shoulders as my conviction grows
'I will save everyone'
"Yes sir, I will do my best with whatever you need"
Looking satisfied he looked at me
"Well, you can go Julian"
I get up and say goodbye to hermódio before starting to walk towards my house,
'The streets are empty, aren't they? strange...'
I see two men coming towards me, talking casually, when a vision overlapped their figures, where they started to attack me and made me fall from the bridge,
I feel my back shiver, as we got closer, I started to hear their conversation
"Day pulling on Lucian"
The other man replied
"True, and we'll still have to work harder"
I see the man on the left put his hand on his back and I continue walking towards them when they stop and look at me, I put my guard up and wait for them to attack me, when one comes running towards me while another tries to get around me to attack me from behind,
Already prepared, I start to run as he was heading towards me when he pulls out a knife and tries to stab my chest.
I dodge while with footwork I move to his back
"Why? Why are you attacking me?"
I see their enraged expressions as they ran towards me again
when one of them said
"Die! you foreign son of a bitch"
'No fucking way'