Declaration Of The Witch
I was dropped in front of Uncle Haru, Aunt Blue, Cho and the ones that we rescued from the two rocks. My body hurt all over and I was too exhausted to be able to move. I was only just on the verge of unconsciousness. All I could feel or think about was the pain I was in, but that had only just begun. I knew that I was bleeding but I did not want to think about that nor did I want to think about the fact that she heald me before she started her first wave of torture.
I remembered how I was paralyzed and healed. Then she placed a hand on my head and light and pain erupted from that spot. I found that I could not even scream out. It was almost as if there was something painful piercing my voice box stopping me from letting out a single sound. I remembered how much I longed for her to stop but she did not for until a minute. Then it stopped but only for a moment. Then it started again and this time it lasted for two minutes. Then another moment's break before it continued for three. This led to four, then five, then six, then seven, then eight, then nine and then ten.
Not once could I fight back. I did not stand a chance! I was a fool to make that deal with Inanis. I could not kill this witch! She was just too powerful and I was weak as a kitten in front of her. She easily overpowered me. She easily was able to hurt and torture me and I was powerless to stop her! I hated it! I was at her beck and call!
"Aqua!" Aunt Blue shouted.
"What did you do to her?" Uncle Haru growled as he went to dive to me, but the moment that his fingertips touched my cheek he was pulled away.
"How did you do that?"
"Who are you anyway?"
She laughed.
"Have you not figured it out yet? Why! I am the witch that cursed those two rocks to lure you all in them to decay so your life force would feed my own! So when I returned to my home world I would be more powerful than ever before. However I was unfortunately killed by five people and four of them were just as old if not younger than you, before I could enjoy all that. My name is Towitch Terrasaga and I have come for the rocks, all of them!" She declared.
"Don't you mean both of them?"
She chuckled.
"No, I meant what I said, child of a tyrant!" She sang.
She crouched behind me and reached out her hand to me. I felt myself flinch as she picked me up by the back of my neck and I was pushed forward. Then I felt the blade at my throat. Then she pushed me to take a step forward. Knowing that she would slit my throat if I did not obey her, I did all that I could to force myself to walk on.
Then Aunt Blue raced to me then I felt the blade press against my throat, making it bleed. She looked down at the blood. This caused her to stop. I bit my lip to stop myself from crying out. I did not want to make this any more worse than it already was.
We walked back inside the mansion. Then I was led to the room that I found Stellum all those years ago. I could taste a strange sad taste of nostalgia upon looking at the place. Yet I did not have the time to appreciate this as I was nudged forward as to remind me of the danger I was in. I walked down the stairs then to the room where Inanis and Stellum were. I, knowing what the witch wanted, opened the door. Then my eyes rested up on them
"Why is she not dead?"
I'm sorry…I couldn't! She was just too powerful! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
I could feel the tears falling down my cheek.
I couldn't even lift a finger against her!
"It is alright child. I know. Now, witch this is between us. Leave her alone!"
Suddenly I felt my head pounding and then felt like it was on fire. My brain felt like it had needles in every part of it. I then started to sweat as I could feel the witch's presence in my mind. Then her soul pressed against mine. I then felt a frightful moment, where I felt a naked vulnerability as I felt a fiery pain sink into a place deeper into my chest. I felt exhaustion overcome me like a wave. I could feel myself cry and scream out in pain.
"Oh, no. I am afraid I can not do that. After all, she was able to resist my curse and furthermore she broke both of my curses." I heard her say in my head.
The only thing that held me in place and stopped me from trembling was the magic that held me in place. It even stopped me from screaming.
Help! Please help! Please, someone, help! I'm scared! Mom! Dad! Help, please!
"Oh, are you already crying for your mummy and daddy already? Oh, I have not even started with you."
Why? Let me go! Please, just stop. It hurts, it hurts!
"I am glad that you asked why. After all, when I was killed by those royal bastards and that Mythos Puros in a tower my father had told me to protect. The only thing that kept me going was the curse that was on the rocks. After all, once it was broken I would resurrect when and where it was broken. Yet the nature of the curse would have its own cons. Such as the one that resisted and broke my curse would become the race of the rocks and the other, is that the only way that the curse can be restored would be by that person who would have to wholeheartedly give the caster permission to do so."
So that was why you said 'all' not 'both'!
Yes, good girl. Now if you have figured that out you should know what is about to happen next.
I felt a tear fall as both dread and despair sank deep into me. I knew that she would never let me go or leave me alone. No, she would do all that she could to get that. This meant that she would put me through more pain than I ever have. This was going to be worse than anything that Doctor Wolfram ever put me through. The worst thing was that there was not a thing I could do to stop it!
"Now get them. Do anything and I will slit her throat. Or I could do worse."
I then felt a slight release of the magic and I walked over to them. I tried to do all that I could to keep myself from falling to my knees. I reached out and took the rocks. She then clicked, making me flinch. I felt the blade cut me slightly.
She let out a chuckle and showed me a large black sack.
"Put them in."
I did. She then flung it over her shoulder. She then turned to see Aunt Blue rush up to her. Then she clicked. The next moment Aunt Blue burst into flames. I let out a scream.
"No! Stop it! Please heal her! I'll come with you. No struggle, please stop!"
She then turned to me.
"No."
I felt my knees buckle beneath me as I heard her screams. Truly helpless as I saw my Aunt being burnt to death. Desperately I bashed into her. She landed on the ground and I patted her body again and again as she screamed and screamed and this did nothing to stop the flames. She stopped screaming and she turned to ash before I knew it.
Then I looked down to see a bullet in the ashes.
"Aqua!"
I looked up to see Cho!
"No! Get out of here! P-"
She too burst into flames. I had to look away. Then I felt a hand on me. I was pulled forward. Towitch pulled me out of the room and then the library too burst into flames. She flicked her hand out and she pulled me out of the window. I let out a scream as I gripped onto the witch. Then I noticed that we were in the air. The next thing I noticed was the mansion was now on fire. I saw people run out. I counted twelve. Even though I was scared, I felt a sense of relief.
None will die in the fire. That's good. I thought as we flew away.
The Prisoner Of The Witch
I could feel my fear eclipse my thoughts and drowned out everything else. I had never been more scared in all my life, not even when I was taken to be experimented on. I could feel myself shaking all over more than I ever had not even when I was attacked by those adult men back in New York when I got my tramour hair. Nothing I had even been through could compare to this. Never had I felt so hopeless and helpless.
My mind went over what she did too. The feeling of her soul touching mine. The pain that I felt and the way that I heard her speak in my head. I cringed just remembering that part sent an indescribable chill down my spin. Yet I felt both disgusted and nauseous. Then my mind dwelt upon Aunt Blue bursting into flames. Then Cho too. I hated the fact that I could do nothing to stop it.
There, in the sky, I felt truly alone. Yet during this, I felt an incredible amount of dread build as I knew that I was about to experience more pain than I ever had felt before. I knew that what I had experienced was only a taste of what I was going to go though. I knew that the witch would never truly let me go. She would torture me as long and painfully as she would want and there was not a thing I could do or say that would stop it. Only giving her permission to put the curse back on the rocks would. Then other children would get lured in and trapped and their life force would be up feeding Towitch's power. Yet I knew that still she would never ever let me go.
After that, who knows what would happen to me? Would she kill me the moment that it was done? Would she keep me alive to torture whenever or however she wants? Will she ever let me go once she has grown bored of me? No, I knew that regardless of what I did, she would never do that. I would be at her mercy for the rest of my life until the day I die.
Then to hell with it! I thought as I hit her in the chest. This caused her to drop me.
I soon fell. I found that as I fell lower and lower I was getting faster and faster. Even though I was scared, I was relieved at the same time. Even though I would die, the pain would end in the moment of death. At least I would be free from the witch and her evil. At least all my troubles would end. At least Stellum and Inanis would be free and, without me, they will remain free.
I closed my eyes in this acceptance. I had, for a moment, peace as I accepted the quick death. The only regret would have been that I could not keep my promise to Inanis, but at least this would be the next best thing that I could do. I looked forward to seeing Cho, Aunt Blue, mum and dad again. Wrapping my arms around them all. Telling them all what I had been through. Crying in their arms. I was looking forward to it.
Then reality and despair sank in the moment that I felt Towitch's arms around my waist. She gripped me tightly and stopped me up. I let out a scream as she pulled me back up.
No, no, no, no, NO! I thought as I started to feel my tears well up and my heart raced.
"No, no, no! I can not have you die. Not right now." She cooed, stroking my cheek like a mother.
I looked back in frustrated anger. I then punched her and she let go. I then tumbled down into the trees. I rolled down and then I rolled on to the ground.
I scrambled onto my feet and ran and ran. I could feel pain in my arms as I knew I would be feeling everything tomorrow. Yet I pushed through the pain as I ran and ran. I knew that I could not stop, not for one second. My head started spinning, but I forced myself to focus and push through it. I ran and ran. I started to sweat but I could not stop. My lungs cried out for air but regardless of how little I could satisfy them, bylut I could not give it. My legs started to hurt but I dared not to take a break. I then dared to look back but then I bumped into a woman.
"Watch what you're doing!"
I looked at her horrified. For a moment I thought that she was the witch. Then I saw the green eyes and blond hair. She had healthy peach skin. Then my eyes dropped to her track suit. My heart was filled with relief. I let out a sigh as I felt a slight smile spread across my lips.
Great! Now all I need to do is get out of here as fast as I can.
"I'm sorry! I was running from-"
Outrage entered my heart as I already felt her hand on my back. My smile faded and my heart sank. I felt panic sink in as all the colour left my face. My heartbeat became uncomfortably rapid. I felt nauseous. Then I felt her arms around me. I felt my tears start to fall as I found I could not move again.
"I am going to have to punish you for that." She said as I felt a blade in my hand.
"Alright you two, I'm having none of this, I'm calling the police!"
No, no, no. She can't do this! She actually can't do this! She's not going to do this! She's not going to do this! Can she do this?
Then I felt the pain as I did when she touched my soul. I then felt her hand in the back of my head. Then I saw the blade raise up. I then felt her force my wrist forward and into the throat of the woman. At this I let out a scream as she fell choking on her own blood.
"No, no, no!" I started to weep as I tried to go to her, but I could not move.
I looked back with tears streaming down my cheeks.
"C-can you heal her?"
"Yes."
"P-p-please?"
"No, after all, that was a punishment. Now,"
She pulled the blade out of my hand and cleaned it. Then she put it back into its sheath.
"Should you try that again, the next person I see, I will make you strangle to death. Do you understand?"
I looked up at her shocked and completely defeated. I did nothing but let her fly me to wherever it was she was taking me.
Fighting The Will
Of The Witch
We arrived at a large field and we finally landed in the early hours of the morning. Thesun of the dawn let me have a look at the witch. I looked at her long white hair and saw her white face with high cheekbones. Her eyebrows and eyelashes were barely visible and I was finally able to see her eyes. They were red in the centre but as the iris met the white of the eyes the colour became green. She carried the ice cold beauty of the incarnations of her spell in the rocks.
I looked back, wondering if I would run but then I remembered that woman. I looked down to see the tiny drops of her blood on me. I felt my stomach drop in disgust at what I was now. No, I did not want to do that again. I did not want another innocent person to be killed by my hands.
She looked onwards and raised her hands and the grass shook. I fell as I could only look in shock as a tower rose from the ground. It was made of a bright royal purple crystal. It had five floors and had a flat roof with high and pointy merlons and narrow crevices. The machicolations were narrow but wide enough to fit three arrows one on top of the other. I could see that there was a staircase spiralling to the top leading to the roof. I would have wished to appreciate the beauty of the Tower if I had not been so scared.
Towitch then looked back at me for a moment before she looked up and pointed to the sky. A purple light shot from her finger. Then a purple dome stretched across the sky and down the field. She looked back at me with a smirk.
"There. I think I would like a little privacy. Do you not?"
I struggled to get to my feet. I then turned to the dome and, for a moment, I wanted to run away. I then heard her chuckle. I then looked back as the woman was still in my mind. I felt my breath become shallow but rapid and my body became cold.
"Alright, here is your one and only chance. If you can escape then you can go home and you will have no negative consequences. However, you need not fear, I will not try to find you once you reach the doors of your house. If you do not then I will be able to do to you whatever I wish. Now go!"
I legged it. I did not think, I did not even speak. All I could do was run. I ran as fast as I could. I did not stop. I did not dare stop. I could feel my lungs cry out for air, yet regardless of how much I panted, they could not be satisfied. I started to sweat as my legs raced. I soon reached the edge of the dome and the moment I hit it, I flew back! I then ran at it again and I was back on the ground. I then ran along the edge of the dome. Yet I dared to look back to see that Towitch was walking towards me. I could feel my desperation force me on and caused me to not think of anything but getting away from her. I then ran the whole parameters of the dome. Then, with a cry of despair, I realised that there was no way out.
I felt tears fall down my cheeks. I felt my knees shake and my fear increased. I fell onto the grass. There was no escape. There was no stopping what was about to happen.
No, no, no,no! It's not fair,, it's not fair! I can't get out of this dome! I can't get out! I can't get out! Why can't I get out? Did she rig this whole thing? Yes she did, she rigged it! SHE RIGGED IT!
But why?
Hold on, she did this to give me hope! Hope to find a way out. Hope to escape her!
Why?
So that she would be able to crush it! If that's true then-
I felt a chill run down my spine.
The torture has already begun!
At this, I felt anger and that anger flooded my heart and overwhelmed my fear. I wanted to hurt her. I didn't care how. I wanted to make her feel the pain that I felt, the pain I was going to feel. I was going to be hurt by her anyway so at least I could do what I could to earn it!
I raced to my feet and ran to her and our eyes met. I went to give her a punch with all my power but she stopped my fist in the air. I tried to move it but I could not! I felt frustration build within me and I tried to throw a kick but that too was stopped in mid air. I went to punch her with the other fist and this too stopped.
Why? Why can't I hit her.?
She has magic, remember?
At this I felt my tears start to come. I felt trapped in my body. No, I was trapped in my own body. I could not hit her and I was helpless to stop her.
She curled her finger up and I felt my body rise. I followed her as she walked slowly to the tower. I knew that was deliberate. She wanted to prolong this as long as possible. So I forced myself to calm down. I knew that I could not let myself play into her games. Yet there was one thing that sank in, her sessions had already begun.
We arrived at the tower and she gripped my neck. We moved closer and closer to the bricks. I could feel her grip on my neck getting tighter and tighter. I tried to move my body to stop her but I could not. I could feel my head pounding as my heart beat uncomfortably. I could feel her grip getting tighter and tighter. Soon I was feeling weak and my pounding head became light. My arms fell and I was being held there as the word was darkening.
Then we walked through the bricks and she threw me into a chair. Then cuffs grew from the chair and wrapped tightly around my wrists and ankles. She then took out a knife. My eyes widened in shock and fear ran over me. Again eclipsing all else. She smiled as she started to stroke my arm with the blunt side of the knife. It was cold and yet she moved it so slowly that it was almost soothing. I could feel my body relaxing against my will. Then she pressed in and blood was drawn. Pain engulfed me and I screamed. Then she dug in further and further, drawing more blood and bringing more pain. I screamed and screamed. I pulled and pulled against the cuffs. I wanted the pain to stop as I screamed and screamed and screamed. Yet the cutting went on and on and on. Then she pulled away.
I wept as the shock entered my mind. Yet as my body started to rest, I felt her start to stroke the other arm. I felt despair enter my mind as she moved the blade. She did it again and again and I screamed again and again. I felt hot tears stream down my eyes. I kicked and kicked and pulled against the cuffs only to make the situation worse.
Then after hours of agony she put the blade away and I passed out. Yet even my dreams did not spare me, for I found myself in a pool of blood and as I noticed that my legs were covered in leeches. I could feel them. I could actually feel them, just like they were real. I felt the pain of them sucking all the blood out of them. I then swam to shore and climbed into the land, only to feel my body as being gripped by countless venus fly traps! They bit me again and again. Tearing out my flesh.
When I woke up screaming. For a moment I hoped that the previous couple of days's events were nothing but a bad dream. But then I saw that we were in the room above. I saw the sun rising. Then I saw the marks in my arm and the previous day's events flooded my mind. I then realised they were not part of the nightmare. Aunt Blue was dead, Cho was dead and none could call me and save me. Worse, I had become a killer! I felt my tears come. All of this was all for the witch to get permission to cast the curse that I broke. So that she could get more children to feed her life force.
No. I have to be stronger. I can not let that happen. I must do all that I can to resist everything that she throws at me.
"Oh? Are you awake?" She mumbled as she took out a full English breakfast.
The moment the scent of the food entered my nose my stomach rumbled. Yet I dared not look at her. Then I felt her touch my chin gently. She nudged my head to her. She opened my mouth. She then put the food in my mouth and forced me to eat. She did it again and again until the meal was done. I felt satisfied, yet she produced another. Then she opened my mouth and forced me to eat until I was done. Yet then she produced another and she forced me to eat that too. My stomach started to ache as she produced another then forced me to eat that too. I felt like there was a dagger in my right as I started to feel nauseous as she produced another. Soon I finished that, then I felt the acidic taste in my mouth. Then I puked and puked. Then when my stomach settled she did this again and again until I puked again. It did not stop until the sun came down and I passed out, completely covered in my own vomit.
In my next dream I was at the edge of a pit. It was filled with all types of spiders, centipedes, millipedes and scorpions. I then felt a hand push me in and I fell. I landed in and I could feel them all around me. I felt them in my ears and upy nose and hair. I screamed. Then they crawled in my mouth and bit, stung, pinched and scratched me all over. The scorpions pinched and stung me. I felt their venom in my veins, setting them on fire!
When I woke I felt a painful hunger. Yet I did not want to eat a single meal ever again. Then I spotted another level. I looked all around me and spotted that my arms were covered in scabs and blisters with pus infecting them. I then could feel like I was burning. I also noticed that I was taller than I normally was and my chest was flat. I was wearing green overalls and a gun in my hand. I ran and saw a blond haired kid and shot him. I then looked in his eyes. He must have been no older than seventeen. Yet to my shock I saw my father's face. He had a scar on his left cheek and another scar on his eyebrow.
I then raced on and saw a Japanese man.
"Haru? What are you doing here?" He asked as he shot him.
Then I felt a sense of dread build in my empty stomach as I heard the whistling of a bomb before I heard the explosion. I then ran on only to see another man in front of me who looked identical to me!
"Get out of my way Nastu!" I said in Japanese.
"No. Nor will I be having a traitor like you bringing more dishonour to our family name!"
"You would have done the same if you were in my position!"
"No, I would not!" He said, as he fired. "Now my family's honour is restored."
I then noticed that I was back in the tower again. I felt myself crying.
"Oh! So, you have traitor's blood in you! If you were in my world you would have been hanged! Now let me see some more!"
I shook as I shook my head.
"No!"
But it was too late, soon I was looking at Aunt Blue. She was holding my hand. I could feely energy draining from my body. My vision became blurry. I could feel my heartbeat felt odd and I knew that there was something wrong but I could not place as to what.
"Is Aqua home?" I asked in a shaky voice.
"No. I don't think that she's alive."
I closed my eyes.
"I thought so..They took her and there was nothing that we could do. Now she's dead! I'm a failure of a mother!"
No, Mom you're not!
I felt tears fall down my cheeks.
"I wish that I knew! I wish I knew. I wish that someone would send something to tell me that she was alive!"
I soon broke into tears as I snapped back into reality.
"I'm alive mum! I'm alive! Please let me tell her, I'm alive! Can you do that?"
She smiled as she whipped the tears from my eyes.
"I could do! But where would the fun in that be?" She said leaning close to my ear. "Little orphan, all alone and nobody that could save you."
She then pressed her finger back onto my head. Suddenly I saw myself as Towitch to the back of my neck. I could see my face becoming pale and I was panting. I was sweating and I looked as if I was about to faint.
Oh no! Not this again! Please, not this again! Stop! Please stop, not this!
I then rushed up to Towitch but I suddenly felt fire engulf me and I was back in the tower there, tears streamed down my cheeks as I passed out.
I was at the edge of another pit. I looked down to see snakes of all species. Again I felt a hand push me down and I fell into it. I felt their coils around me, getting tighter and tighter until I could barely breathe. Then I felt them bite me. Then I felt fire in my arms. I felt spasms all over my body. I could do nothing as they constricted more and more.
I woke up shaking and painfully hungry. Then I felt it. Towitch gripped the back of my neck. I felt the pain as she pushed herself in my mind. I could feel her soul pressing against mine. I could feel her hand around the neck of my soul. Then she crushed it. I saw a blade in her hand. Then it cut into the arm of my soul. I could have screamed out in pain which was much more intense than the pain of my flesh. I could feel myself getting colder too.
She then bit into my neck and then tore a chunk out of it. I then elbowed her and she let go. Then all went black.
In my dreams I was back in the chair. She pulled out a whip and she hit me again and again. Yet I could do nothing to stop her. She then pulled out a knife and stabbed my arms again and again. Then she plunged it into my chest again and again. Then she stabbed me in the gut again and again and again until I cried out in pain. Then she slit my throat and I woke up. Tired, hungry and angry. The first thing I felt was the breeze and knew that I was at the top of the tower.
"Kill me!" I cried. "Just kill me!"
"No. Not until I gave what I came for."
"No." I muttered.
"I could throw you off."
"Then at least you can never curse those rocks."
"Good point."
"Now kill me."
"No."
"You better kill me."
"No."
"Then I will die being tortured by you. As you will never have what you want."
She swung the chair to her.
"How about after you give me your permission, I make you my daughter."
I spat at her.
"No."
She slapped me.
"No."
She slapped me again.
"No."
She slapped me again.
"No!"
Then she scratched me. Pain erupted from my cheeks. For a moment I flopped over. Then I saw a crop of white hair flop over my eyes. To my surprise I noticed that there were more white strands in it now. More trauma hair and this gave me an idea.
"No!"
She scratched me again.
"No!"
She slapped my arms causing the wounds.
"No!"
She slapped the other one.
"No!"
She slapped my face again.
"No."
She punched me in the gut.
"Let me finish witch!"
This stopped her. I looked at her with such rage as I panted.
"How about this? You, me we have a duel. If you win, you have my permission. Including having me as a daughter, pipil, slave or whatever you want to do with me. If I win then you let me go and the rocks too. Then take me back to Uncle Haru."
She smirked as her eyebrow raised.
"And no tricks?"
"None."
"Alright. Then, I think I ought to tell you something, before we duel. Before I resurrected, I was able to sustain myself on one person for the longest. One person gave me the power I needed when I was divided. And that was your Aunt Blue. Then you sustained me for a while until you started breaking my curse. So I searched elsewhere. Do you want to know who that was?"
"Who? "
"Your mother. But I guess she was just too weak to handle it. Poor thing!"
This caused nothing but rage to fill my heart.
"Scratch that! If I win I will kill you!" I declared.
Defeat Of The Witch
I stood on top of the tower. I was weak, tired and hungry. Towitch was not going to give me any chances of winning. Yet, even though I had no idea if I was going to win, I was too angry to care. I was as cold as ice and I was shaking slightly. I found that I felt lighter than I was when I entered the tower. Even my stomach felt non-existent.
Yet, upon the moment that she walked upon the roof, I ran at her. I went to throw a punch, yet this did not work. It just stopped like before. Yet it did not stop me. As my fist was in the air, I stepped forward and threw another punch. She stopped that too. I rapidly leaned in and bit into her chin. I sunk my teeth in as far as I could before I pulled back. I felt the iron in my mouth and spat out a chunk. This released my fists and I was finally able to hit both of her cheeks at the same time. I then pounded her again and again and again. I did it as fast as I could.
She pushed her palm into my gut and my fists flew in front of me. I winced in hunger as I flew back. I jumped off the merlon and flew at her and was about to throw a punch but she stopped me in the air. I soon spat at one of the eyes and this caused them to close. Then I dropped. When I landed I thrust my palm into her stomach. Then I hit her again and again in her stomach. She clasped both her fists together and threw them into my head. I then hit my head on the purple bricks. I then was raised, stiffly erect and she punched my face again and again. She took a break and went to kick me and I caught her foot. I then twisted it. She then sent a blast at me and I let go.
Then used the cover of the light to hit her in the nose. Then I hit her again and again, I didn't care where. I then punched her wound in the chin. Then she threw a blast of light at me but I dodged. She threw another at me and I dodged. She threw another and I dodged. She threw another and this hit. The next moment I hit the merlon.
She ran to me and kneed me in the gut. She slapped me again and again. I then fell and she dug a fist into my abb. I was dragged up as this caused me to feel the ache in my groaning stomach. She then punched me in the chest and pinned me to the merlon. Then she kneed me in the gut again and again. Causing the ache in my stomach to become worse and worse.
I then punched her and she was dragged into the merlon beside me. I then scrambled to my feet. I then went to run at her until she started to smirk. Then I noticed that she was looking behind me. I then looked back to see Uncle Haru with Charles and Merry nearby. My eyes widened as I looked back. She produced a ball of pure electricity. I felt anger flare up as I raced to her. She then hit me and pain entered my body. I screamed out in pain. Then I spotted another and the screams rose up. I kicked her off me and dared not to look back before I hit her again and again. Making sure I got more and more of her blood on my fists.
She thrust a ball into my gut. I became blinded by both the pain and shock. I flew back and over a merlon. I reached out my hand and grabbed the top. Then my body slammed against the tower. I hit my head and felt slightly dizzy. I then shook my head and focused my mind before looking up. Then I saw Towitch racing to me. I looked up and down and my heart shuddered at the height. I then looked back up and then made the decision. I let go.
Then I saw her outstretched her hand. So as I fell, I slowed down instead of speeding up. Yet I started falling slower and slower until I landed slowly.
She then jumped off and almost floated down to me. Once she was close to me I grabbed her throat and hit her against the wall as hard as I could. I then punched her again and again. Until I saw the blood flowing from her white hair.
I, feeling very tired, took a break. Yet there was a part of me that did not. I did not want to end it now. I wanted for her to feel what I felt. I wanted her to feel the pain that I felt. I wanted her to feel the humiliation, the hopelessness, the feeling of helplessness and the fear and despair. All the things that I had been through flicked through my mind like a video on fast forward.
She then let out a giggle through her bloody mouth and put a smile on her disfigured face. She thrust out her hand and gripped my throat. I could feel the pain in my head again. I cried out in pain as I could feel that she was in my mind again. But this time, I welcomed her in. I wanted to beat her in my mind, just like how she beat and tortured me in there.
The moment I felt her presence on my soul, I turned and punched her. I could see that the wounds in my soul were still bleeding. Yet I did not care. I punched her again and again until her soul bled. She tried to hit me but I was not having it. I kicked her in the gut and then gave her an upper cut as hard as I could. She then pulled away and I was brought back into reality.
I then felt a power course within me. I did not understand it but my trauma hair, which had increased to the top half of my head, and eyes turned royal purple. I then thrust this surge towards her. I wanted her to die in the worst and most painful possible way. I wanted it with all my will.
She looked up at me with nothing but fear and terror. She was also confused and baffled at what she was seeing. She was shaking her head.
I smiled as I looked at her cower before me. I liked that feeling. No, I loved the dangerous and dark joy that seemed forbidden to indulge in.
I outstretched my hand and she screamed and screamed as her body erupted in pain. She started to convulse. She then foamed around the mouth. Then she vomited. She puked again and again until blood spilled from her mouth. Then I heard all her bones break as her internal organs came out of her mouth. Then she fell as her body became engulfed in flames leaving nothing but ash behind.
Then the sun came up and I felt my body shaking as the shock of what I did rippled through me.
Free Rocks
I looked back and saw that Uncle Haru was alright and I smiled. Even though I was nearing the edge of exhaustion I felt a slight spike of energy. Yet it was immediately wiped off upon seeing Charles, Merry and Eve's bodies lying still. I ran to them and collapsed in front of them. I placed my fingers to their cold necks. There was no pulse. This told me exactly what happened. Upon seeing the electoral ball coming to them, they ran and pushed him out of the way. Which led the ball to hit them and not Uncle Haru.
I felt my heart sink. I wanted a spade. I wanted to bury them. Even though I was getting lower and lower on energy. Then I felt a crystal tube in my hand. I looked down at it to see a purple crystal pole growing from my hand. I looked at it shocked as a square structure grew at the end. Then it stopped growing. I looked at it and stroked the spade.
Did I do that?
"Yes. It seems as if you did."
"Well she is now one of us. So it is hardly surprising."
I smiled weakly. I could feel myself shaking as I walked to a plot of land and started digging.
"What are you doing?" Elsa asked.
"Yeah! And how did you do that, you freak?" Johanna sneered.
"I am part whatever Inanis and Stellum are " I muttered through my sore throat, I panted as I could feel my throat was going to fail me.
I continued to dig and dig. I was coated with sweat and blood and I stunk of vomit. Yet I pushed myself on and on.
"And why are you digging?" Alexander and Henry asked.
Gonna have to use simple words.
"They're dead."
They all look at me shocked at what I just said. No, I think that it was the way I said it. It was calm and cold. My words were ice cold. Yet I too felt slightly shocked too. I could feel my frustration building as my vision started to blur. However I pushed myself on and on.
"What? We can not have a proper funeral for them. After all, how are you going to explain who they are and how they were and where and when they come from? And who'll believe us anyway?" I asked, finishing the first hole.
"Alexander, do you want to get Eve and help me put her to rest? I don't think that I will be able to do that along with finishing the holes. Also I would like to dig these holes while my adrenaline is high."
He nodded as he picked her up and laid her down in the deep hole. I then started to dig the next one. I could feel myself gasping for air and doing all that I could to hold onto consciousness.
"Well I think that they will when they look at-"
Uncle Haru put his hand on her mouth.
"Are you alright"
"I am now." I said as I continued to dig
"What did she-"
"She tortured me. By the way, how long did it take you to come here?" I asked out of curiosity, however, due to my state of mind and exhaustion, it came across harsher than it should.
"Three days. We spent two, breaking the shield."
I looked at them and nodded. Then I looked down to see Uncle Haru, Alexander, 1354, Henry and the other boys had bandages around their hands.
"Will they heal in time?"
"Yes, they should." Henry said, picking up Merry.
I then moved onto the next one.
"How is the mansion?"
"It is nothing but a pile of ash now, sorry." 1354 said, comforting.
"That's alright. I have no use of it anyway."
"And what about us? You can't expect us to live on the streets, do you?"
"No, but I do not think that your life is my concern anymore."
"What? Why you!"
"Johanna, do control yourself. After all, you make it out that you are so helpless. Well you are not and you are going to have to learn to help yourself. Although I do wish the best of you." I said as I finished.
"Let me." 1354 said as he picked up Charles and put him in.
I then walked back to Eve and was about to bury her only for Alexander to take my spade. He buried the rest in silence. Then I picked up the sack of rocks and pulled them out.
"Is-is that ship?"
"No yours was red, mine was blue, remember?"
"Then how can I sense my ship in that tower?"
Maybe it's both your ships?
"How? How is it both of our ships?"
Maybe the witch combined your ships into one with her magic.
"Yes, was that magic you used back there? I wish to know."
I don't know. Maybe but how did I get it?
"It was the result of the events that happened in the fight."
It seems so. However whatever the case is-
"You have fulfilled our deal. Thank you, Aqua Aoshiné."
You don't need to. By the way, what are you two?
"Crystleists."
Crystleists… pretty name.
"Now what?" Johanna asked.
"I'm going to go."
"Go where?"
"I'm going to go with Stellum and Inanis"
"What, why?"
"I want to fight in their war. Hopefully bring it to an end."
"What!" They all snapped.
"You heard. After all, there is nothing for me here. You can do whatever you wish. Come with me if you like or stay. I hardly care. 1354, I hope that you find your name. Upon my return I hope to hear it."
"You are not going to go. Have you not been through enough?"
"I need to do this Uncle Haru. I am going to go."
"Then I am coming too! I made my vow and, over my dead body, will I dishonour it!"
"Then I will come too!" Alexander and Henry said together.
"Even if it kills you?"
"Yes."
"Then if you are going, so will I!" Declared Johanna. "1354, you have to come too."
"Doesn't he have a choice?" Alexander asked.
"It seems not, but I think that Miss Johanna is right, I do want to go."
"Is that all of you then?"
"Yes."
"But what will we do for food and water and cleaning?"
I looked at the rocks.
"Will we be able to go into your worlds?"
"Yes! And the water is clean too! Also I know which planets, which you can get supplies too. But Towitch did leave a good amount of supplies too. "
"Then there we go then." I said walking back to the tower.
The crystal grew over the windows and the merlons then collapsed inwards. The moment that I set foot in the tower I could feel every part of the tower as if it was part of me. I could feel everything that was happening in the tower and it's changes. I could feel the top becoming a cone and the air outside being sealed off. Now the only oxygen was coming from the worlds in the rocks.
I then could tell that we had enough supplies that would last us a good long while. Then the ship shook and there was no turning back now. Once we were on board the door sealed up, and we soon left the ground and shot into the sky and we left Earth and the dead behind.
