I rise from the ground and make my way inside the house.
I cant cry anymore, there is only one path for me, revenge.
I will extinguish the very memory of this white wolf clan from the face of this world, no matter who I have to kill.
But im still too weak, the power that awakened inside me needs training, and I need more training.
I make my way toward the bathroom, I take off my dirty clothes and sit to bath.
Im numb, after so much pain, after almost crying tears of blood, I feel nothing.
I do not feel like myself anymore, I feel like what came down from the ground today is a different Nyxia.
How could I be the same after today? It changed me and made me twisted, but it does not matter to me what im anymore. It's better this way if I were myself from yesterday, I wouldn't bear to go down this path.
I get out of the bathroom naked and go toward my room.
I put on a baggy gray tunic with long sleeves, black trousers, and a black bandana over my mouth.
Grabbing a white cloth bag, I put some clothes.
On the doorstep, I turn myself to give one last look at my house.
Papa Mama, your daughter is going.
I turn myself but something strange happens.
A few houses are still standing around the village, others are burned.
But there are crows everywhere, and for some reason, they are all looking at me.
Maybe it is just a coincidence, let me see.
I walk to the left and all their heads turn to the left.
Their gaze penetrates me, I feel something behind them, something watching me.
Something clicks inside my head and they all fly away to the same place.
"Now I know" I say informally
I run toward the forest as fast as I can.
I know, something clicked inside my mind the moment their heads followed me for some reason. That place, they are trying to get me there.
I find three trees making a triangle on the wall.
It is open now, mysteriously the tree in the middle is not there anymore.
I dont know what it's happening but I feel something calling me inside.
A stair going down and everything is pitch black, I cant see anything.
Soon I arrived at some place, a door, and when I passed through a lonely fire appeared in the middle of the room.
I can barely see but behind the flames, there is a statue of a giant crow with wings spread, around the statue I can see multiple crow eyes but I cant see them, only their eyes.
Where am I? I cant see anything only a few things around this flame, and like before all the crows are looking right at me.
"Daughter of the night, I choose you" I hear multiple loud voices around me, they are so loud that hurts
Argh! My head!
I fall to my knee on the ground in pain.
My eye, my eye hurts, my head hurts!
Something is coming out of my head, I feel it in my right eye.
In pain, I put my hand on my head clenching my teeth in agony.
My right eye explodes making blood fall on the ground.
I scream in agony.
A crow flies toward my shoulder, he is dirt with blood because he got out from inside my right eye.
Huh? it stopped?
I look around confused my right eye seems different, im seeing differently.
All the crows disappeared even the statue only the flame in the middle of the room stayed.
I need to get out of here now! I dont know what happened but it got my eye!
I run desperately to the exit and im now in the forest, the smell of rain fills the sky while it falls on my body again.
Im confused, why I can still see? but the vision seems like it is coming from a different angle.
I look at my side and on my shoulder there is a crow, a black crow with brown eyes, he is a little dirty with blood.
?! what the hell!
I scare it away and it starts flying around, curiously I can see myself from the sky while he flies, I can see everything, it is like my eye is his eye now.
What is this?! I cant turn it off, my head is spinning like im flying too.
Get down! stop argh!
Then he got down and landed on my shoulder again.
I was cursed? My confusion grew.
I look toward a tree branch and I think about it landing there, and to my surprise he did, he got out of my shoulder and flew landing on the tree.
I dont know if this is a curse but... it seems very useful.
I think again and it came back to my right shoulder.
Partner, do you do something else? I feel like this is too little for exploding my right eye making me see through a crow.
I stare at the crow on my shoulder with a bit of angriness.
It starts to fly without me thinking it goes up in the sky and comes in my direction with its head down at high speed.
What the hell! My head argh!
My reflexes make my hand go in the crow direction and boom.
The crow disappeared after touching my hand, there is a sword in my hand now.
A black scabbard appears on my hand with a hanging crow feather and lines making waves going toward the top of the scabbard. Inside there is a katana, I can only see the pommel, handle, and guard.
The pommel is completely dark and the handle is black with a few details in dark purple. The guard is black but looks like there are a few cracks around it glowing dark purple.
It looks beautiful... it confuses me but I can see it clean as the day, this sword is strong and I dont need to unsheath it to understand.
I put my hand at the handle and take it out slowly from inside the scabbard.
It starts with a golden blade collar carrying a black feather crest, on the blade a line going in zig-zag toward the point of the blade, the line glows dark purple and it is on both sides of the blade following the same pattern.
On my right hand, I hold the katana and on my left hand, I hold it scabbard.
I crack a grim smile.
I found it, my weapon, the instrument to my revenge is here in my hands.
I swing a few times and it looks fast and sharp, the blade is precise.
But now im completely blind in my right eye, so the power comes with a price, come back crow.
I think and the sword disappears and the crow reappears on my right shoulder.
Huh... I feel like I should give it a name.
"Penance" I say with a cold and emotionless voice
I continue walking toward the village again.
Penance, fly toward the village.
As I think he flies it hurts a little and makes me feel dizzy but I have to get used to it.
I look at my hand and I clench it.
Im numb, I can still hear his voice inside my head. The only thing I can do now is get stronger, this world is no place for weaklings and I was too scared to accept it, too scared to see the truth. I put happiness first and now I lost everything.
There is no one to save me, I need to save myself.
Penance arrives at the village and I can see corpses everywhere, Auntie Vel, Neriel, and his father, Auntie Griselda too.
Burn this image into your brain Nyxia, burn it! because you need to do 10 times worse to them.
Huh? A horse? I can see someone wearing blue aristocratic clothes, he looks rich. White skin, and light blue hair.
He looks weak, someone who came to check on the white wolf clan's work.
I crack a grim smile and start to run toward the village, I made penance stay looking at him.
I arrived at the village and I hid on some ruin right behind him, he didnt perceive me.
Concentrate... chains, darkness.
I put my hand forward and some pitch-black chains go in the man's direction, binding his body to the ground and making him go to his knee.
He screams and his expression is confused.
I walk slowly toward him and penance comes to my shoulder.
"Who are you?! do you have any idea of who you are dealing with?" He screams in rage
I stop in front of him with emotionless and cold eyes I look at him.
"No, I dont know, why dont you say it?" I say with a cold voice
The man's expression twists in rage.
"Damn pesant! Disrupt you magic at once or I assure you that the white wolf clan's wrath will fall on you" He says angrily
I crack a sinister smile. Hihi gotcha.
He seems puzzled by my reaction.
"I know who im dealing with now, my guinea pig" I say with a cold voice
He seems puzzled and continues to yell.
"I will put it in a way for you to understand, Im going to cut every part of your body, test every power I have to test on you carefully not to kill you before you feel every last bit of it" I say looking straight in his eyes with a voice filled with rage
He tries to beg, buy me with gold, use his clan name, anything to get out of the situation he will face but nothing works.
I use every last bit of his body, very carefully not to kill him.
"AAAA! NO MORE PLEASE" He screams in pain
I laugh a little and I go closer to his face.
"I begged too, but it is your fault for being weak, I begged while the stomach of my father got ripped apart, I begged while my mother was slowly suffocating but no one came to save them" I say with a voice filled with rage but my face is unfazed
He tries to say sorry and other things to try to stop the pain.
"You have two options, I could torture you slowly or I could torture you faster, if you want the faster option start talking about the white wolf clan, everything you know" I say with a cold tone
I call for penance and it turns into a sword, in a swing the katana takes out the fingers of his right hand like it is butter.
His screams fill the dead village.
I dont stop I keep cutting and using spells in every part of his chained body.
It is good hihi, I feel the frustration going out of my body, his screams relax me.
Again and again and again, I continue to rip his body apart nonstop while we scream giving me information about the white wolf clan.
Useless information, he dont seem like a big shot he is this weak after all.
After some time I look up smiling a little while the rain falls on my face.
He stopped now, he is still alive but he is broken.
I unchain him making him fall to the ground. He is completely mutilated, there are tiny holes around his body, no fingers, ears on the ground, and eyes pierced, I can see the inside of his skull through his ripped nose.
I make penitence come back at my shoulder in crow form.
Huh... It is not fun anymore if he doesnt react. Oh! I had a good idea.
I take his body to the entrance of the village grabbing him by the leg.
Some chains made of darkness appear and it hold him in the air in a cross sign.
I put my hand forward and a cross gets out of his shadow, lining up directly with his body in the air. I put both my hands in his arm's direction and I shot two pitch-black spikes and I shot another on his leg. He is nailed to the dark cross.
Message sent hihi.