"Am sleepy, but I don't want to let you be alone you might attack other people." Mary said her voice barely audible. Her eyes were heavy and she was having a had Time keeping them open.
"You can-" before he could continue he felt some weight on his shoulder, he turned his head and found Mary leaning against him, she had fallen. Her face was extremely beautiful, causing seen to look away bashfully.
"Shit," seen cursed inwardly and gently lifted her in his arm in a princess carry, back to the home they were staying for the night. When he reached he laid her in the bed and watched her.
Next day when seen woke up, he felt arms wrapped around him. He opened his eyes and found his face was pressed onto Mary's chest, his faced turned a little red. Not wanting to wake her he stayed like that until she woke up.
«let me try to sense the treasure,» the thought popped up in his mind, while he comfortably lay next to Mary.
Seen closed his eyes and began to search for the treasure he was looking for. He was searching for red Aura. After scouting the whole village he didn't find anything;
"This is odd," seen muttered to himself;
"dad said I was going to find the treasure in this village. I couldn't have missed it, could I? " He questioned himself.
"for a famous assassin you're sloppy, you couldn't let this beauty least a little longer," Mary said her voice gentle. She retracted her hands away from seen.
"Which beauty?" Seen questioned indifferently.
"Is there any other person here?" Mary asked with a pout.
"no, just the two of us. But I don't see anyone beautiful. " Seen pushed himself off the bed.
"You can't find the immortal drop can you?" Mary arranged her hair with her hands as she spoke slowly.
Hearing this made seens blood lust shoot up, he bolted to Mary's throat in a mere second. His arm gripped her neck and lifted her legs in the air.
"Speak," the only thing Mary could sense in seen's voice right now was disdain. How did such a kind person switch between two personalities this easy.
"Its... It's, down... Deep... Down In... The river of life..." Mary struggled to speak. After hearing this seen dashed outside of the house, but the scene that welcomed him was blood everywhere.
All the villagers were slaughtered mercilessly. Mary ran out and stood by his side, she was so scared that she held onto his hand subconsciously.
"Who did this?" Seen thought, and why was Mary holding his had and trembling like a little kid. Hadn't she seen blood before?
"Twins..." Mary uttered silently.
«wait, twins?» this thought had finally enlightened seen.
"Show your selves, saline and polyos!" He spoke with a commanding voice.
...
On top of the biggest building in the river of life, the twins appeared. Saline held a dragon like mans head.
"Am surprised you found out it was us, but it doesn't really matter right now does it?" saline through the head to the ground.
"That was... The v... Village... Chief," Mary said in fair. She moved back and hid behind seen.
"Mary, ran as far as you can. Don't look back," seen told Mary knowing what was going to happen. Mary fearfully started running away from the three siblings.
"The cold hearted brother has got a lover. We won't let her escape," the two sisters said in unison.
"Lover? I have no such emotions!" Seen bellowed. His sharp crimson scythe appeared behind him. It was trembling as if excited for what was going to transpire. But seen on the other hand was shaking because of his rage.
"Why did you two decide to betray dad?" He aura started increasing.
"Betray him? You betrayed us. Dad is the person who desires to kill off all of us after he obtains the immortal drop," polyos said.
"Where only preventing that from happening." Saline continued.
"Is that your justification for killing every villager here? " He never intended on asking this question but he still went through with asking. It wasn't like him to care about people who died during a mission no matter the number.
"so you also don't know where the immortal drop is." Saline ignored seen's question and concluded.
"He doesn't, the village chief also didn't." Polyos said.
Seen grasped the scythe behind him. The air around quickly got denser Even for the twins.
"I'll put the mission on hold, you two deserve to die." Seen spoke condescension dripping from his voice.
...
When seen got ready to attack he felt a familiar presence surface from the river. Everyone other than seen fell face first to the ground because of the persons pressure.
Seen looked at the man and bowed down on his knees.
"Dad, I apologize for my lateness. I burdened you with coming here, but I assure you. Am not in need of your aid." Seen spoke.
The place went quiet, the two sisters had passed out. Seen focused his gaze on what was in his dads grasp.
"Kill your sisters." His dad ordered angrily. Nothing had angered him this much in his life. When he was finally going to obtain immortality his two stupid daughters had to kill the only man who knew how to use the immortal drop.
Seen's father looked at seen, he then shouted again;
"Kill them or you'll follow them!"
His voice triggered seen, his eyes turned white. He got up and lifted his scythe to strike his sister's but a black scythe and a sword blocked him.
"Brother, it's been a while," Orion now grown up spoke as he pushed seen's scythe away.
"Glad you were available," cadence Said as he pulled back his black scythe.
Seen's father looked at them and increased his pressure but non of the people standing were affected.
"Wow, dad still thinks he can suppress me with his au-"
...
Before he could finish his words seen lunged at him with his scythe. Before the scythe could hit Orion he blocked it causing him to fly a few meters. Seen appeared behind Orion but Orion expected this. He kicked seen making a distance between the two. They both landed on their feet.
"I see, you're still controlled by our father. Hell, his nolonger my father. I'll kill Ace for us," Orion spoke to seen.
"talk is cheap," these few words came from seen and he Burst into motion like lightening.
...
"Both your sons are great." Cadence spoke trying to ignore seen's father's aura.
"Whoever you are, leave. I have not done any harm to you or your relatives," Ace spoke sincerely.
"if you absorb the immortal drop, I'd be forfeiting my life and this worlds. You think I don't know how powerful the drop is? " Cadence lifted his scythe and got into a fighting stance.
"This generation. You think you can stop me?" Ace asked as multiple ace cards appeared behind him, there edges shaper than a light ray.
"Hope you satisfy this old man's battle lust," Ace said as he readied himself for the fight.
"He will," ace heard two voices, the voices were familiar? No, he knew who those voices belonged to.
"So, you two choose the world over me? Am disappointed." He said addressing the twins who were now standing with bloodied noses and mouths.
"You were never proud of us," saline spoke, the air around her getting steamy.
"You've only been proud of seen, were not him," polyos said and raised her aura following salines lead.
...
The first few minutes passed, silence enveloping the whole river village, only the blowing winds and the moving water audible.
...
As sudden as lightening, seen attacked Orion with his scythe. Polyos and saline kicked seen away before his attack could land on Orion. Orion hurriedly used his combination strike to do some damage to seen, but with seen's speed he wasn't able to. He got intercepted by a deadly swing breaking his sword apart and sending him a distance away.
Seen went ahead and lunged at the twins directly killing polyos. His swing was so powerful that it split her body asunder.
"Armorment!" Orion bellowed immediately after landing. Behind him 15 pear of hands holding swords appeared and his broken sword returned to the way it was;
"You just killed another of your relatives!" He lunged at seen the hands following him.
Seen looked at saline who had stopped moving and stood there like an undead zombie.
Seen blocked some of Orion strikes but most of them landed. Seen backflipped some meters away and swung around his scythe before grasping it in a solid stance.
Behind Orion 15 humanoid black figures appeared and there swords morphed to an elemental sword.
Seen still not in control looked at Orion calculatingly not leaving out saline.
Saline was trembling uncontrollably like particles in a heated solid screaming to break there bonds.
"Seen, I'll kill you." With that saline shrunk till she was not visible. When she enlarged to her true size she had 3 pears of wings behind her back. She had grown to be an other worldly beauty. She had become an angel. All her clothes were non existent. But her breasts and her lower part where covered by huge feathers.
"Armorment!" She said then burst away from her previous position and appeared infront of seen. Seen tried to block but her attack had already landed and he was sent flying a few kilometers above the ground.
Seen tried to propel himself with his scythe but Orion who was in the air above him slushed his abdomen, his scythe falling from his grasp. The blow Sent him digging deep into the ground.
Seen opened his eyes while his body was going dipper into the ground and saw one of the black humanoid figure holding a brown sword attack him. 14 more times seen was injured badly. When he came out of the hole (I mean) his scythe reappeared in his hand.
He immediately lifted it to block the incoming attack. Saline punch was blocked. Seen maniacal smile appeared on his face.
"Armorment!" With this his solid body was absorbed by a scythe. Later when it was discharged, seen was crimson blood in a human form. He had golden leg and Golden wrist bands.
Saline was about to jump back when she felt seen's scythe on her neck. Before it could dig in her fresh 30 hands held the scythe back. Saline got so scared that her already angry state turned to a mindless state.
From the sky a golden trumpet appeared. The whole sky got covered by dark clouds and the river of life turned into salt.
...
Ace blocked away cadence's attacks with his ace cards. Cadence held his scythe tightly, infusing his energy into it as it turned to a long sword about two meters long. Before he could attack ace's cards slashed him causing him to drop his scythe. He later fell to the ground
"It's seems I have no chance of winning against you if I use a long range weapon," cadence said as blood trickled from his wounds.
Ace's cards came back and floated behind his back.
"Wasn't that obvious from the beginning?" Ace question with a confused expression. It surprised him, he had already told mark that he'd lose. But here mark was talking like he just figured it out.
"Didn't I already tell you that you were going to lose?"