《Berk Van Polan And The Creatures Of Darkness》Chapter 4: The Blood Contract Arc: The Dead Of A King PT 2
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The pain I felt everywhere in my body was hard to explain. It’s like meat get hammered by a hammer to thin it out but imagine being a human under that hammer. Slowly I got up from the ground, but my vision was completely messed up. I tried looking what hit me but could only see something huge from a far distance, is that even a human.?
I shook my head a little bit and cleaned my eyes with my sweater. The left eye seems like there is some blood on it, no wonder why the left eye is completely blurry, but now I could see from my right eye that there is a man standing in front of Isabella. Slowly after I got up, I started to walk towards them. There was blood dropping from my right hand, must be an injury somewhere on my arm, but the adrenaline most probably hindered me from feeling where the pain is.
“Hey, you need help” A voice whispered behind me.
I slowly turned around and couldn’t see anybody there.
“Are you an idiot?” the voice asked behind me.
Turned around again, and nobody was there. Why is there a voice behind me, am I hallucinating from all the injures. The hit on the fence maybe messed up my head.
“Listen to me, you can’t see me, and my voice shows only behind you.”
Okay! I am hallucinating and now the voice is manipulating me in this situation I am in. I doesn’t hurt to play along, maybe I will get rid of it.
“What do you want?” I asked.
“That’s my boy, listen! I can help you beat the big guy; he is standing between you and the girl. In this shape you won’t have a chance.” He told me.
I started to laugh for myself when the pain started spread all over my body.
“Yeah! Sure, like I am going to believe that. I am powerless, but let’s hear you out.” I told the voice with a smirk on my face for the crazy voice of hallucination.
It went quiet for a couple for a moment when I thought at last the voice had disappeared. I kept walking towards the man who was staring at me with immense look.
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“Look boy! I don’t want to hurt you anymore, let’s talk for a bit and no more fighting.” The man told me.
I laughed at the comment that he made.
“Who the fudge are you to decide if this fight is going to end. All you got was one hit on me and I don’t understand why you would even get involved for that bitch after she hurt my friend.” I told him.
He raised his hand and pointed against Isabella.
“Well…the one that you call the bitch is my daughter. You know that you attacked a royalty, the princess of Valiant and I am the king of Valiant. So, I tell you with respect for your friend and you to quit this nonsense for a fight.”
“You…who call yourself a royalty! You call this a nonsense when your daughter attacks people openly without repercussions in the school yard. I will break her bones to show her what justice is.”
I took a step forward and the man took a step backwards at the same time. I am so fucking tired, and I don’t feel I have the energy to even get my hands up to hit any of them right now.
“DON’T COME CLOSER BOY!” The man yelled out.
Is he that afraid of me.
“Dad, why don’t you attack him and end this. Why are we backing off for every step he takes towards us.” Isabella told her dad.
He must be afraid of my awesomeness to break bones.
Isabella’s dad turned to her and said:
“I hit the young boy with full power, and he got up again. Something strong protected him from breaking all his bones from the hit. I have only seen three men take that punch and getting up again in my lifetime” The man told his daughter.
Oh...The frightening face was back on Isabella’s face again. Must have been someone reminding her of something bad.
“Give me your daughter and let me break her two legs and I promise you It will end there.” I told the old man.
His face was so serious even though I barely had any energy to even talk properly with him.
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“Hey brat! I can help you with this situation. You just need to say the name: Arzaath.” The voice told me.
The old man started to walk against me and jumped up in the air ready to finish me off. Right before the end was coming for me, I managed to utter the word the voice told me about:
“Arzaath”
Everything went black and when I opened my eyes again, I was holding the man’s right arm up in the air and for the first time I saw fear in the man’s face.
“It can’t be, you were killed after the war” The man uttered.
I looked at my hand who managed to grab him and there was black aura gushing out with no indication of stopping. I threw the man with full speed with one arm at the school’s wall and he hit it hard.
“Daaaaaaauuuummmm! Sorry, I don’t know how to control these powers at all.” I told him with a smirk on my face.
The black aura gushing out from my hand started to move over to my upper body and filled out both my legs and my other arm.
“BERK!” Someone yelled.
I turned my head to the left and saw Mejni walked slowly towards me.
“BERK...You need to calm down.” Mejni told me.
I looked at him not understanding what he meant.
“What are you talking about Mejni? I am protecting us against them.”
Mejni had a worried look on his face, I mean it was different than how he shows of normally when he is worried. This look was serious.
“That is not what I mean, that is not you.” Mejni told me.
Suddenly I started to feel immense pain in my chest, and I feel down on my knees. I had hard time breathing, but my body wanted to move against Mejni, but it wasn’t with brotherhood in mind. My body wanted to kill someone; my body was fighting against my own will right now. My whole body was shaking as I had more and more problems controlling myself.
“Mejni…you need to get out of here.” I told him.
I could see from low angle that both Isabella and Mejni was getting closer and closer, maybe they want to check how I am. This is not good at all if they come to close.
“I TOLD YOU GUYS TO MOVE AWAY, I am losing my mind and control of my body.” I told them.
The took a couple of more steps and I could feel that everything was done for, I won’t be able to hold back because of the black aura surrounding my body wants to take over. Suddenly I was in the backseat, literally I could see my body moving on its own and I didn’t have control over it anymore.
“At last, I am free” A voice from my mouth uttered.
A quick move with flattened hand that looked like a spear It moved towards Mejni…I could see I hit someone right through the chest. Did I just kill my closest friend? The control of my body came back to me, but I was still gushing out black aura from my whole body. I slowly looked up and saw the old man had gone between me and Mejni and I have pierced him right through the heart. The pain in my body and the anguish I felt made my tears cry like a river while I had hard time trying to take out my hand, even though he was dead the man’s body was holding my hand trapped in his body. Mejni just stared at me with a shocked look.
“I…I…I can’t get it out” I uttered to Mejni.
“w…w…wh…what have I done!”
“Thank you for holding him down for me, Kalin Van Auf Kaufen. You will always be remembered of one of the heroes of Valiant for the fate of all creatures with your courage to protect everyone.” A female voice suddenly said beside me.
Something hit me on my back, and I could see the black aura disappearing from my body and I feel backwards. I saw the white silky eyes with a caring look.
“Veronica” I said.
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