I lay still in the safe embrace of the waters of my soul lake thinking about my life,

the world had stopped shaking and the pain bursts had disappeared leaving me only with an overwhelming sense of peace.

when though the pain had been long gone couldn't find the courage to leave this place

I thought by now considering how much I have gone through I would have been used to the pain but no. that wasn't the case it was worse than ever

I had never been more afraid or sad in all my lives and yet this is still not enough to stop it.

I think maybe when we finally go to the end of our life this pain will cease.

even though I knew this time the pain caused was for my own benefit to make me stronger

but for some reason, this is a time for tears, not smiles.

I don' know how long I laid there before I slowly started getting up I just knew I should get back to the real world

but even when I was up I still couldn't make myself leave

I was afraid of what I would find on the other side

was there more pain or was this the end will I have to go on fighting with silver to just die again and again

I was afraid I wouldn't be strong enough if I left

so I stayed in the waters until I had no idea how long it had been

I wanted to be strong to be powerful I wanted to have personality self-respect but up till now I had been nothing

but a coward

my body felt so weak and tired but I still didn't want to leave this place

so I laid there waiting until it finally hit me

I'm afraid that once I leave this place everything will change

but did need to leave

I immediately jumped and without giving myself any time to think left my soul world

At first, all I saw was darkness which scared me

a lot

I needed to escape so quickly from this darkness

I decide to move with all my strength and with a jerk my eyes flew open white blinding light filled my vision

I could hear muffled voices with they were understandable

I tried to move and get up but I was too weak

and so heavy

I decided to stay as I was

my entire body was aching all over the pain wasn't so bad as the ragging headache blasting in my mind

it felt a lot like a hangover but hangovers didn't give you intense muscle pain

slowly but surely my vision return to me and the familiar dome of the cathedral appeared in front of me

it might have been the headache but for some reason the some was much clearer to me

I could see the various murals all displayed on the ceiling

some showing old stories with people doing ordinary things hunting cooking swimming having sex and others depicting battles that happened over a golden grass

the dome had many peculiar symbols around it

there was one symbol that stood out to me

a star with a circle on its outer edge and a straight line passing through the middle with a black dot progressed right in the middle

the star was oddly shaped which seemed almost burnt away in red colour but I knew I saw it somewhere

I looked around trying to remember where but there was no memory of ever seeing this strange mark

as I was looking at it something came rushing past my face

it hit me hard in the chest making me lose air to my lungs

my head began ringing and everything grew blurry as began frantically coughing

I closed my eyes tightly and tried to think

where was I? What was going on?

"See I told you one hit and he would have woken right away"

I heard a chipset childish voice

it took me a moment to place it but I finally did

It was motherfucking SILVER

as I git on my knees wheezing and

choking

I saw the trio standing not 2 feet away from

Erebus was giving me his usual dashing handsome man smile while the lady owl just stared at home while sitting on a rock

silver was laughing like a kid who had just pulled a prank

"Apologise child of wrath but we are nearly out of time and there is one thing still left to do," Erebus said with a hint of urgency but with anger in his tone

Silver also stopped laughing and then looked down sadly and bowed

"Yes, I beg your forgiveness and I accept your punishment."

"Very well, let's begin" the owl hooked and said

can't speak normally without all the hooting and cooing it was irritating

and let's begin what exactly?

what was supposed to happen

but before I could air my queries something happened

and earthquake

the entire cathedral began to shake violently and tremble in its foundations

everything inside the church fell and crushed on itself

there was a loud shattering noise followed by a huge explosion in the centre of the cathedral causing a huge rumble

I covered my ears to block out the sound

but suddenly

silence.. silence

"It seemed we are really out of time," Erebus said with a sad bitter voice

"if you will Silver we don't have much time left" lady won't say her voice netural and monotone

silver heavily nodded and before I could do or say something silver rushed into me

I only had a blink before silver crashed into me

I braced my self expecting an impact and to be sent flying away but strangely, I felt nothing

I wanted a minute before

I looked at him in bewilderment

I felt no pain or discomfort

He looked confused as well but then he smiled at me and reached forward taking my hand in his and squeezing it gently

"Come on now, we don't have much time here"

then he dissolved literally belated into silver goo and like slime flowed into me

I felt scared as I backed away but within a second silver goo was gone entering my body for my pores

I was disgusted and baffled as I looked toward Erebus and lady Tong

"Don't worry child of wrath have you forgotten what silver is, if you still don't feel comfortable look through your bond" Erebus said with a reassuring smile

but I wasn't reassured at all

because I knew full well what silver was.

I was terrified of it.

he was a weapon spirit and ancient weapon spirit that had a body and could drag me into his space and kill me over and over again

I was panicking again I began to hate this feeling

this feeling of fear

I hated this fear I didn't deserve it

and then the silver goo repeated in my hands

I in my desperation tried to get rid of it by jerking my hands but the good stocked to my hands like

a snake

like sludge

"Do not fight silver, fight your fear child of wrath take control of it and push back against it!" Erebus shouted at me

"I can't!" I shouted back

"Yes you can!" he screamed

"No, I can't! I can't.....

then I stooped speaking motherfucker what was wrong with me why was I being such a coward

I began to press down on my fear as I tried to link up with my connection with silver

but it turns out I need no such thing

the silver goo morphed itself into a silver axe

the axe was taller than me and bigger than anyone I had seen

it was a large broad-bladed axe with a long pole adorned in silver engraving in a language I did not understand

the weapon for its size was light very light like it weighed nothing

axe head shape was rounded and shaped like a V

axe blade was sharp and pointed it gave off the feeling of death and destruction

axe handle looked like a sword of god and godly power and yet so soft

the axe was wide as I stood and yet it did not hurt but rather it comforted me

axe looked sturdy yet gentle

but worst of all it was cold

cold as ice

cold as death

cold as hell

I shivered as I looked at the weapon

this was no ordinary weapon

" An axe, the first form is an axe just like the previous owner, now child wrath will it to the next form"

Erebus said with a calm neutral voice I looked at home

what did mean will to the next form

I knew I needed to figure it out soon

before I lost my chance

"What does it mean?" I asked Erebus

he gave me a small smile

"You already know the answer child of wrath but I am afraid your time isn't ripe so I will give you a hint think Next in your mind as loud as you can"

so I did

NEXT

The axe began to melt and in a second it was now a silver liquid floating right above my right when it once again began to shape and change any it morphed into an object

this time it was a mask made of silver

The mask looked like one that you would wear for disguise or as protection but I couldn't quite recognize it

the mask had no hole for eyes, nose no painting no image no nothing

it was plane and gory at the same time

the mask was dark and mysterious

it was sinister and beautiful

at first sight

but it was totally impractical

how was someone to breathe or see

"I have never seen this type of mask before"

I muttered and turned it around

and breath caught in my chest

the inside of the mask was just as plane there was no band to fit it on my face

but that wasn't the thing that surprised me

there were words written engraved inside the mask

{Persona mendacium}

that was motherfucking Latin I didn't remember the meaning but the one thing years, of catholic school, had taught me, was to recognise Latin at sight

" A peculiar object but we didn't have time to pry the mysterious of the object now child of wrath for your final weapon think out the word next"

I was too wheel shocked by the appearance of one of the many languages of my world but I still shouted the word NEXT mentally on reflex

like before the face melted into silver liquid before it morphed into another Object

this time it was a silver bangle

a thick silver ring bracelet with two small silver crescent moons embedded on each side of the bracket

the bands were made out of a

the same silver material with silver inscriptions etched all over them

I looked at the metal ring confused and slightly worried

unbeknownst to me, Erebus had at some point come near me and now he was standing next to me

he generally placed a hand on my shoulder

"Now, child of wrath it's time for you leave"

he said calmly

I looked at him confused

I felt as though I was about to cry

why were the gods let me loose

with my last shreds of strength, I yelled at Erebus

"But why!?"

He laughed softly in response

"Child of wrath don't be a fool, now this is goodbye"

the reality changed I found myself in a tunnel of white light as I was falling towards my fate

my heart ached

"I'm so sorry..."

I thought

But then my body landed softly on the warm ground

I looked hectically got to and looked around I was back

back where I fought that mad man back where there were thousands of crystals embedded in the walls back in the mines