Chapter 10

The World Asura

{Arthas I know your pissed but we have a very angry Demi god on our hands} Damion’s voice echoed in my head.

I looked up at the Grim Demi God whose hell fire blue eyes stared down at me. Not knowing what else to do I kneeled down on the ground and started to plea for my life.

“OH Great Demi God I ask for mercy!”

{Oh quick to drop your pride} Damion’s Voice leaked into my head once more.

‘What good is my pride if I’m dead’ I thought; but to my surprise Damion answered back.

{Well I agree with that}

“Little being how do you know the foolish Damion?” The Demi God asked in his ear shattering voice.

“Great Demi God I was forced by this heathen to commit these acts against you and I ask only for forgiveness” I said, putting on a face of innocents and using the voice of some that couldn’t hurt a fly.

{Fuck you don’t blame this all on me!} Damion’s voice yelled out in protest within my head.

“I see you’re good at acting little being; but the act is worthless in front of me” the Demi God seemed unpleased with my acting. “Little being I have had my agents watching you since you’ve got here.”

“Right I apologise for my act” I stood and shook off the façade I had. “Grim Reaper as it is now I see no other way out of this but to plea for my life” I looked straight into the Demi Gods eyes.

“Hmm I like the cold look in your eyes; it’s no wonder mother has so much interest in you” the Demi god seemed almost excited as he stared into my eyes “Little being think of this as a once in an existence opportunity and thank my mother for this opportunity!”

The Demi god moved even closer to me and was just inches from my face “Never return to Purgatory or I’ll crush your soul like the bug it is; even if mother has asked that I let you live.”

The Demi God retracted its face from the wall and its black cloak surrounded its whole body then vanished from my site. Seeing that the Demi god was gone I could feel the cold sweat that was running down my back. I sat down on the ground and let out a sigh of relief then spoke to Damion.

“Damion Leave my body now!”

{No can do Arthas; I mean think about it if that was so easy would the Grim Reaper have left me alive so easily} once again the Annoying voice echoed in my head.

“So what you’re saying is for now on I have to share my soul with you?” I said holding back the curses I wanted to send at Damion.

{To be hundred percent honest… yes} before I could start cursing Damion he continued {but this has to wait; I know your pissed but we only have a bit of time left before we can no longer leave here}

Hearing this I suppressed the anger I felt and let Damion continue. {Right now I need you to step into the middle of the circle and repeat the words I say}

I stepped into the circle and asked Damion one thing “What about Akino?”

{We can take her core with us; but I don’t know if her core will gain a body or not}

“If she gains her body will she have her memories?”

{If she gets a body… I don’t think her past life memories will stick with her; but hey who knows!}

‘Hmm’ I didn’t know what to think so I decide to take a chance “Damion what are the words.”

{Right ahem…}

{“Evil God this servant asks for your favor in breaking the rules of this world; let this servant return to the living with his memories.”} I could feel the ground sucking me in when familiar words came out of my mouth “Let everything return to what it once was, let the darkness rule once more and let the light weep the mighty darkness will claim that which was once his!”

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Darkness… endlessness… void of all life… the last time I was here I’d just died. ‘Damion you there’ I called out in my head; but he didn’t answer. I floated in endless darkness for some time; I even started to think that maybe none of the events I experienced were real. I started to hope it was; but then… that would mean that Akino wouldn’t be real. The thought of Akino being a lie made me angry beyond words.

But then in the distance a light; it filled me with a feeling I’d long forgotten the feel of… life. It got closer and closer till I could just about touch it; when I was stopped by a hand that grabbed my wrist. I looked over and saw someone familiar; it was the person that had sent me to purgatory in the first place.

“Oh hey there faceless haven’t seen you in… a long time” I’d forgotten how long I’d been in purgatory.

“You’ve been there for 84 years 40 days 23 hours 43 minutes and 12 seconds; in your worlds time would you like other world’s times too” the faceless being said.

“Ah no thanks… so why are you here” I looked at the hand that was holding my wrist “and why’d you stop me?”

“I’m here on orders” the faceless being raised its other hand and Akino’s soul flew into it “I’m to let her go first” after saying that he let go of her soul and it went into the light and was gone.

“So what happens to her?” I asked the faceless being.

“She’ll be fine we just need to wait five years for your body to be ready” the faceless being said this like waiting five years was like five seconds.

“Five years! Why so long”

“Why are you whining it’s already over” He said confused.

“What how!?” I shouted in surprise.

“I just sped up time” he said nonchalantly “Anyways off you go.”

He let go and I was sucked up into the light. It was so bright I thought it was going to burn right through my eyes; then it was dark and silent.

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{Arthas wake UP!}

I could hear Damion shouting and could feel my self-awareness coming back; but then I was hit with a shock wave of pain that hit me like a truck. I could feel that I was lying on something cold and hard; I could hear some muffled sounds as well. But the pain I felt in my head was so intense and wasn’t helped by Damion’s constant shouting.

{Arthas I can feel your awake so talk to me!}

‘Fuck Damion stop shouting my head kills!’ even after saying this Damion continued to shout.

{Arthas something has gone wrong we aren’t in a newly born body; but an older one and to make it worse I can feel people around us!}

Damion was right as I was getting my senses back the first to return was my hearing and what I was hearing made me worry.

“Master I think this boy is alive!” a middle aged voice rang out to someone.

“Luca that boy can’t be alive after having his soul ripped from his body” an older man said, his voice filled with arrogance.

The next thing to start returning was my ability to move and the first thing I did was start to wiggle my fingers and toes. This was starting to cause attention to come to me again.

“M-Master the boy moved!” the middle aged man shouted out.

After the man said that the old man came toward me and said “It must be a demon that has taken over the body; we need to kill it”

I heard metal clatter as someone walked toward me; they stopped beside me and the sound of a sword being unsheathed could be heard. I opened my eyes but I still only saw blurs; but from what I could see there was a man in golden armour standing over me. Thankfully before anything happened a woman’s voice was heard followed by a younger man’s.

“What are you doing to that CHILD!” the woman shouted out.

“Stand down soldier!” The young man Shouted.

The man came in to view and kneeled down beside me and spoke to me. “Young boy are you ok?” I nodded my head and he asked “who are you?”

He looked at me with a friendly face and without a thought I played the sweet innocent boy. “Sir my name is Arthas” I even added tears in when I said this.

“Cosmas stop your scaring him. Calm down child do you know where you are at the moment?” the woman that had shouted before was now kneeled down beside me and asked me questions with a voice full of concern.

“N-No” I said shaking my head and starting to let tears flow from my eyes.

When the woman saw a small boy crying like this she grabbed me and hugged me tight and said “be at ease your safe now.” She then looked at the young man beside her and said “Cosmas this child is in pain and needs healing please help him.”

Cosmas as I now knew him as stood and said to the priest “Priest the boy needs medical treatment”

“But the boy… I’ve never in my years seen someone coming back after losing their soul; it shouldn’t be possible”

The man walked over to the old priest and said “if he is a demon of some kind then a holy spell from the holy god would harm him.”

The old priest seemed to have realized that what the man said made sense as he started to walk toward me. He slowly approached me as the woman helped me sit up; when the old priest reached me he kneeled down and placed his hand on my forehead. A golden light shone out as a warm comfortable feeling engulfed me that came from the place he’d touched; I even closed my eyes and relaxed in the warmth.

When the feeling stopped I opened my eyes to see a surprised old man looking at me. He looked at the woman that was holding me and she smiled back at him; the man Cosmas smiled told the woman it was ok to let me sit up on my own. She let me go and as he said I could hold myself up and I felt full of energy; I could now finally look around at where I was.

I was in a dark room with stone walls that was lit up with only a few candles and a single guard that held a torch in his hand in the back. I looked around to see I was in the middle of what I could tell was a circle and there were runes all over around me on the ground. The smell of blood was pungent in the room; I knew that right now I needed to keep up the act I had or I’d be in trouble.

{Nice acting skills you have their Arthas; I mean you could have fooled even me with those tears.}

‘Damion where are we and how do I know the language that they speak?’ I asked him.

{I have I guess for where we are but for now focus on keeping us alive and then I’ll answer your questions.}

Before I could say anything back; the man from before asked me something. “Boy do you really remember nothing?”

“No sir I don’t the only thing I remember is my name” I said making sure to sound confused and a little scared

“Do you have a family name?” the woman asked me and Damion told me what to say.

{Use Sharow as your family name.}

Seeing as I did have time to think of anything else I used it “my name is Arthas Sharow.”

When I said this the man looked at me and said “sorry boy I don’t know the name.”

“It’s ok sir my family wasn’t big at all” I said making sure to look disappointed.

The woman looked at me with sadness in her eyes and said to the others “let’s leave this place the smell of blood isn’t something a child should have to smell.”

The man Cosmas walked past the woman and picked me up and started to carry me out of the room; as he left the rest of the people left too. As we left I got a good look around and finally saw that the circle I was just in looked like the same one that I had entered in purgatory. There were lots of rooms in this hallway and I got a glimpse into one and saw a pile of bodies; most seemed to be woman and children.

‘Damion where are we?’ I spoke to Damion in my head

{We are on World Asura Arthas and if the Holy Union hasn’t spread to the other continents; then we are on the continent of Yun.}

‘Oh we are on Akino’s old continent then and I going to guess that these guys are all from the Holy Union then?’

{Indeed they are and I warn you to stay away from them} Damion’s hate for the Holy Union was already showing.

‘Stay away from them you say; but I might just join them out of spite for you’ but Damion just laughed at me. ‘Why do you laugh Damion?’

{I laugh because the second they find out that your magic element is Darkness they’ll kill you and when they see your eyes in the light they’ll freak out}

‘My eyes why? what’s wrong with my eyes?’ I asked but Damion never answered and before I knew it I was outside.

The light outside was so bright it hurt my eyes as they couldn’t adjust to how bright it was; but slowly they did and I saw something I had not seen in years. Trees, grass, a blue sky and the sun; that however wasn’t the only thing out here. There were tents all coloured gold and more people in gold coloured armour. I looked at the place we’d left and it was a door way in a mountain and it looked like it was abandoned.

I looked up at the man that was carrying me and saw that he had light brown hair and blue eyes. The man looked down at me and I saw my reflection in his eyes; I had black hair and pale skin and instead of the brown eyes I was used to they were now black; the last thing and most alarming to me was how small and young I was. I looked no older than 5 years old; but then I realised that the eyes that had looked at me with friendliness now had a slight coldness to them.

“Boy your eyes… what colour are they?” he asked me.

“Sir can’t you see they are brown aren’t they?” I said sounding confused at the question. ‘Fuck you Damion’ I said understanding why he’d said what he said.

“Hmm” the man thought for a second then looked at the old priest and said “We need to test your elements”

Then the woman walked over and said “I can test magic elements.”

The man Cosmas asked her “Maren you can?”

“Yup I can.” She said in a cheery voice

The Priest walked over with the young man Luca behind him and asked Cosmas “Sir what’s wrong why do you want to test his element?”

Cosmas looked at the priest and said “his eyes are black.”

The priest’s eyes widened in surprise then he looked at the man and said “Sir I knew I remembered that last name; it’s the same last name that the ancient Dark lord had” the priests eyes narrowed on me in disgust.

But inside my head I was too angry at Damion to care ‘YOU USED YOUR LAST NAME!’

{Yes I did I thought it would be a nice fit} Damion seemed smug in his response.

‘Damion you idiot how are we going to get out of this; the body we have is too weak to do anything.’

{Well I didn’t think they’d remember me ok.} Damion was starting to look like an idiot rather than an ancient so called Dark Lord.

‘Damion how did you survive for so long in purgatory?’ but as I asked; the man Luca said something that pissed me off.

“What if he is related to the ancient Dark Lord?” Luca said, in a frightened voice and when I looked at him he avoided looking at me.

“Shut Up you little coward!” the woman Maren said to Luca and walked toward me.

I could finally see the woman that was Maren and saw she was young and pretty I could see she had a head of dark long brown hair and glossy green eyes. She wore a ruff white dress and had brown sandals.

“Ok let him down and I’ll check his element” she said to Cosmas.

He let me down and as my feet touched the ground my legs being too weak they let out; but Maren caught me and smiled then said “you ready?”

I nodded my head and she leaned in close to me and placed her forehead against mine and said some words I couldn’t understand. Damion seemed to understand and told me she was using an ancient Earth magic that should have been a long forgotten magic; at least it was in his time. He was very excited to see her use the magic and told me later to try and learn it. After she finished the magic she leaned back and opened her palm and in her palm was a flower with a green stem and black petals.

Maren seemed a little worried at this and looked at Cosmas “he has Darkness Mana in him.”

“Sir we need to kill the boy now!” the priest shouted out.

But before anyone else could speak Maren yelled at the priest “You can’t kill a child just because of his Element!”

The group here looked surprised at Maren’s outburst; Cosmas was the most surprised and said to her “Maren I know that the child looks normal but Darkness element is evil and most grow to be murderers and rapist” he got closer to her a put his hand on her shoulder “so before he causes any harm to anyone we need to stop him.”

Cosmas sounded proud of his act and was trying very hard to show off to Maren; but Maren’s reaction was not what he had expected. She smacked his hand away and hugged me tight and said.

“You don’t know how he’ll grow up and if you try to kill him you’ll have to kill me too!”

Everyone was dumbfounded at her answer; even I hadn’t thought she’d do that. ‘What the hell does she think she’s doing’ I thought as I was smushed by the girls hold.

“haha do you think your life matters to the Holy Union GIRL; we could kill you and no one would know!” Luca Shouted at Maren from behind the priest that was walking toward her.

“I run an orphanage in my town and they know that I’m helping you so they will know! You guys aren’t in your territory and have no power here!” Maren shouted at the priest.

‘Ah she really is an Idiot… Damion you have something in common with her’ I said jokingly at Damion.

{Hey shut up!} Damion shouted back at me.

As the priest approached he said just what I thought he’d say “Stupid girl no one in that town will say a thing against us!” he had finally reached her when he pulled out a knife and said “you can die with the boy now!”

But just as Damion and I guessed Cosmas stepped in and grabbed the priest by the neck and lifted him off the ground.

“How dare you; I told you that Maren was not to be harmed and you go against my order in the name of the Holy God I sentence you to death!” the choking old priest’s face started to turn blue when Cosmas’s arms started to glow with a golden aura.

Snap!

A snap could be heard that I felt make Maren jump; as the man’s neck was snapped by Cosmas. The body dropped to the floor with a thud and a similar foul stench wafted over to my nose; it was the odor of feces and piss. I looked over at the young man that had been following the old man and his face was pale white now; as he looked a Cosmas.

“Guards grab Luca!” after his words the two guards that had been following us grabbed him.

“Please don’t I-I wasn’t a part of this” Luca pleaded with Cosmas but to no avail; but he still pleaded. “Please this was all his plan; I didn’t want to harm her or the boy!”

Another guard walked out of a large tent with a huge golden hammer and handed it to Cosmas. Cosmas walked over to Luca who was being forced to kneel with his face in the ground. When Cosmas was in front of Luca he took off the golden robe he was wearing which showed his leather chest piece that had the sigil of a gold hammer with a white background on his back.

“Luca I find you guilty of defiling the name of the god of light and sentence you to death by the name of my family Bammer”

Bam!

The huge hammer was brought down on Lucas head and it was flattened like a pancake. As Cosmas lifted the hammer brain matter and blood stuck to it; the ground where his head was is a mess of crushed bone, brains, and splattered blood. Cosmas turned around and looked at me and Maren or more like he looked at Maren; who I could feel shiver at his stare.

“Are you ok?” he asked his voice seemed to be filled with care “I’m sorry that garbage like this is allowed to sneak into the Union”

Maren looked at Cosmas and said “Please just let the child live.”

Cosmas seemed disappointed that his little show didn’t impress Maren; but then he smiled and said “Of course I’ll let the child leave” he put on a big smile.

Maren looked up at Cosmas and said “Thank for letting the child live.”

She let me go and looked at me and smiled; to be honest I just thought she was an idiot. But she did save my life; even though it was just Cosmas trying to sleep with her. But hey; you can’t be picky about this stuff. After a little bit of talking later Maren was allowed to leave with me and was even given a horse by Cosmas.

On the way back Damion and I had a chat.

‘Damion I need you to tell me how I know how to speak a new language.’

{Well I transferred my knowledge of the language we speak to you; to be honest it’s why your head hurt so much}

‘What you can just send me your knowledge; dam world is strange I mean I’ve been in this world for not even a day and already I’ve almost died.’

{Well welcome to the Asura. A place where the strong live and weak die; anyways I’m going to say this now and that’s I’m not going to send all my knowledge to you}

‘I get it I mean what use would you be if you did that. Anyways I recognize Cosmas’s last name… Oh Ya! Akino had a run in with someone from the Bammer family. I wonder where Akino is and if she is alive; maybe I’ll find her’

{Maybe you will, maybe you won’t; it’s how the world works it’s all about chance}

“Look Arthas it’s your new home” Maren said pointing in to the distance where I could see some what I assumed was chimney smoke in the sky coming from houses.

As we got closer I could see that this place was a small village and had sticks set up around it as more of a fence then a wall. The inside was the typical village a few guards here and there in very worn out leather armour. We never went to the center of the village instead went around the outside and went out the back of the village and headed up a small hill into a forest.

Then I saw it; a decently sized building with tables set up outside and children’s toys lying around on the ground. There was also a fence set up outside around the place and we entered through a gate. Maren let me down of the horse first and thanks to the time of the ride the feeling in my body was back and I could stand. Maren then got off the horse and tied the reigns to a fence post and shouted out.

“Children I`m back you can come out now!”

The front door swung open and children of all ages ran out toward Maren. It took a bit for the children to calm down and stop hugging Maren; when they finally noticed me. An older girl most likely ten or eleven came up to me and asked.

“And what’s your name” she had a friendly smile as she asked.

I decided to keep up the shy kid act and just looked at Maren who said “his name is Arthas Sharow and just give him some time to adjust.”

Then she looked around and frowned and asked the older children “Where is Sierra?”

One of the younger children answered “She is still being a loner and won’t play with us.”

Maren sighed and said to the younger girl who answered “she went through a lot so be easy on her” the girl nodded and Maren smiled and rubbed her head. “Ok I’m going to check up on her and let Arthas get to know the place”

She left an older boy in charge and took some older girls inside to help her. When we got inside the building there were beds everywhere and there was a sheet that covered the middle of the room; written on it was (NO BOYS ALLOWED!!!!). Maren pushed on the sheet and it slid open and in the corner with knees to her chest and face hung down looking at the ground was a silver haired girl.

‘Akino…’ I thought as everything about her looked like Akino; her hair, blue eyes even her skin was the same pale white tone. The only difference was that she had pointy ears and was a child; I slowly walked toward her but as I got to the sheet I was stopped by one of the girls. She said something but I wasn’t listening and still walked and the girl asked another girl to help stop me.

The noise caused the young girl that looked like Akino to look up at me and our eyes met. Her eyes widened and she stood up; when Maren saw that she was looking at me she told the older girls to let me in. After being let go I walked toward the young Akino looking girl when I was in arms reach of her she jumped out and hugged me.

“A-Akino is that you?” I asked her

The girl just looked up at me tears in her eyes; but confusion was also there. ‘Does she know me I can’t tell?’ I thought. I was answered by what she said.

“Why… why does it feel like I know you; it’s like I’ve missed you… why ‘sob’” she started to cry and hold me tighter.

{Arthas she still has memories still but they are buried deep inside we just have to unlock them} Damion told me and it made me a little happy.

But for now this was a little girl named Sierra how was lost and scared in a big world.

To Be Continued!

Arkeems notes:

So ya finally done with Purgatory and time to hang around in World Asura!

So i hope you enjoyed and continue enjoy and support me; see ya guys next time!