"Why the hell did you do that!"
I outraged, not only did I tell them to ease up but what they did just caused us the loss of the best bet at dismantling Lacquer's plans.
"It was my leo, it went wild"
Zyderine tried to justify.
"I was frustrated when he wouldn't start talking..."
Alfron apologetically explained.
"Well good job to you then because now there's more blood in my hands, goddamn it!"
I punched the wall and startled the two. I can still see the blood in my hands no matter how I wipe it and I will also be the one to dispatch of the body, it's not going to be an easy day...
I calmed myself down and see how Crystal did while the two remained standing and looked at me as I entered. What I saw shocked me despite everything I have seen today, Perseus was neither blindfolded nor tied up and he was speaking t o Crystal as if they were old acquaintances in a coffee shop.
"The hell is this?!" I exclaimed keeping the bad cop act and Crystal was quick on he feet.
"Spade I'm sorry but I can't kill this man!"
Perseus panicked upon hearing the word kill.
"You, if you know what's good for you then you will remain seated"
Percy nodded and focused my attention back at Crystal.
"This man knows nothing, he is worthless to us"
"I know but surely there's something we can do"
The both of us give time for Percy to realize how exactly he can be used. While we waited both Alfron and Zyderine entered the room. Alfron was the most shocked in the premises, perhaps he has known this man before.
"Percy?! You're a fucking traitor?!"
"Ron! Let me explain!"
Alfron's magic became dense and condensed enough to put all in the room tensed, I have only seen Alfron do this once and it is when he almost killed me with his "Eclipse" spell. What is he going to do?
"ALFRON CALM DOWN!"
Zyderine yelled however it was all for naught and Alfron was beyond furious, first he was forced to kill his mentor and now he sees that his friend has betrayed him as well. No one could stop Alfron now, not even Crystal who didn't have enough time to charge a counter spell.
"Again I am betrayed...Again I mourn...Again there is no one by my side"
Alfron's ominous voice echoed in the room, as Alfron falls into despair the darker and thicker his magic became, Percy, Zyderine, and Crystal all try to talk Alfron out of blowing all of us up but he remained unreponsive, he is not yet ready to kill his friend but his life would be destroyed if he doesn't do it. I could feel Alfron's rage to this unfair world that takes the ones we love the most and make us destroy it oursevles....
They say when you die your life flashes before your eyes well the first time for me it didn't but now it did. I saw my life...no I saw Gordy's, it was sad and insignificant, I saw how everything he ever did was for someone else and how it eventually pushed him to despair, Alfron now suffers the same fate, one of a kind heart because they are always the ones that hurt hardest.
Alfron placed both hands on his head and looked as if he was going insane, for a split second all the lights went out and all we could see was the glow in Alfron's eyes, the coldest color of blue one has never seen, it was both beautiful and terrifying. I wanted to get closer to it but the magic forcefield stops all from moving, but it beckoned me to its side, the darkness that attracts mine. When I stared into that abyss it stared back to mine and my magic lost control and fulminated into the whole house, suddenly it wasn't just my memories I could see, I saw everyone's. The time fought Alfron, the time Zyderine saved him, the time Percy met Alfron, and the time that Alfron said goodbye.
Alfron chose the darkness and it manifested in his body, his magic was far too great and his body collapsed taking every blow that would have killed us. As if a blackhole sucked him dry, Alfron's body was absorbed by the darkness and compressed to a single ball that glowed in a cold sapphire color.
All in the room, except for I mourned. This are the people who have known and loved him. In the end I have witnessed not just the death of my enemies but that of my ally as well. Perseus wailed, blaming himself for what has happened, wishing it was him absorbed by the darkness, now he doesn't just have to live on with the fact that he betrayed his friend but also with the fact that it caused his death as well.
The three remained seated wishing that everything was just a bad dream but I know what nightmares are and this is not one of it, this is the result of actions that has led to a weak man's despair.
I went out and the bright day was replaced by thick grey clouds and as the mist grew thicker I found it much harder to breathe...but there was no mist...there was only death....one's I have caused...ones that I cannot carry for much longer.
I blindly walk to the storm, my head still filled with memories from Alfron, filled with memories of my own, and filled with the despair from this world. Perhaps it is because of this body or that I have changed but I do not feel like playing games much longer, I don't want to be part of this any longer.
I enter my room and I write a letter, one for the king , for Claudia, and one for the sisters. I'm running away from all of this. I have played my part, I have done all I can so now I disappear.
Before I could leave Rexcarius stood in my way wearing his gallant king's robe and with his shaven beard he finally started to look noble.
"You disappoint me boy"
"I'm done, I surrender, there's no defeating the enemy. And your son is dead"
"He isn't, like you he chose to give up. Show your resolve boy and your followers shall do so as well"
"Are you fucking listening?! It's over! I won't help you any longer"
"You shall do as I command! Now on your feet"
The way he spoke was that of a man who gets what he wants and although I may not like that, his command resonated with me.
"I don't care what you must do but you shall win do you hear me? No one would help you, not even I but you shall find a way to win"
The bracelet he gave me then radiated in a green light and then as that light collided with my pupil, I felt something in me change, a command resounded in my mind again and again "Win no matter what cost"
What I did next is something I never thought I would ever do again, I chopped up the heads of the dead Bronsleyt warriors and told Blade and his men to puncture it to their own spears and hang it in the outskirts of Pinecore grooves, as a warning that all those who enter shall perish. The locals became terrified of my army and soon rumors about me would spread. Blade was disgusted as well but being a man of war himself, he knew to look the other way.
In a similar way I chopped up Ralph's body and sent his head to the Vengeance camp with a note written on it, "Cebunillans burn in hell". Lacquer has yet to see what I am capable of, and neither did I know the full extent, the whole time I felt like I was on narcotics acting in a way that isn't fully in my control. Whatever it costs was something that the bracelet took with all seriousness as the next move I made was burn Fligras town, the one next to the capital, Gilgaras.
Should Lacquer still have the patriotism that he boasted then he won't be able to ignore the calls of his countrymen, at best he would find the culprit and all shall point to Bronsleyt soldiers being at fault, I'm sorry Wyatt but your letter would kill even more of your allies as I burned it but enough that a Bronsleyt seal can be found and that fragment shall be in a soldier not far from the fire making it seem as if he was caught burning it and was killed by the locals, at worst then Lacquer would ignore the burning village and the Bronsleyt soldiers will meet not just the severed heads of their comrades but also the jarring threat that we at Cebunilla will kill even our own just to destroy the enemy.
I then send the mercenaries to cause even more chaos as I attacked another Vengeance camp but made them wear the leftover garments from the Bronsleyt soldiers, naturally they were appalled but they are mercenaries, they will do anything for money, no deed too wicked for such people. I would ambush unwitting rebels, even those tending to the weak, even those who have surrendered. The dawn is one filled with blood and fire, no one would be spared.
I could feel my body renounce me, cursing everything it had made me do, but the bracelet was much more powerful, all I could think about was how I would win, it didn't matter how much was sacrificed and how it killed me inside.
As I walk in the massacre I have caused I feel a hand pull me, it was an old man, who was possibly just caught in the crossfire and with his final words he has cursed me and he asked me.
"I am a man incapable of fighting, why must thou involve me? Where hast thou mercy gone when the children were showered and blood and our women beaten like whores?"
"It doesn't matter who you are and what you can do, are my enemy and that is all that matters to me"
I say before I crush his skull ending his misery. I attacked one camp after another until all my men collapsed in exhaustion or were buried six feet under, many blood has been spilled but it has only just begone, for me and my victims, here comes the night!
With Crystal and Zyderine too devastated to stop me, Blade swearing loyalty despite everything that I made him do, there was no one who would stop me, there was no one but I needed someone to. I needed someone who will tell me that this had all been a bad dream...please... I just wanted to live a good life, I just wanted to become the good person I never had the chance to be and yet fate keeps pushing me to the darkness, I keep getting punished for trying to be a better goddamn person! I keep carrying the burdens that I have never chose to have! Why?!
A tainted soul does not belong to the light huh? I had been corrupt from the very beginning, yes this why I'm always forced to do this isn't it? The closer I get to the light, the more darkness I leave behind, I should just disappear right? Before I could do any more harm? Yes, once this is over I'll take the rope, it had always belonged in my neck hasn't it? All this was is a sick joke.
I walk forward to even further to the slaughtered bodies and I laugh maniacally, this is where I belong now! Goodbye to the morals and values I tried to uphold, I did try with all that I could but yes this is where I belong, to the world of the corrupt and the wicked. I was a fool to have tried living in the light when I was born from darkness.
"Then why are you shaking?" I hear a voice in my head.
"Because it's going to be a long night"