Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and mother of elves. She has always sworn to protect the planet in its inhabitant. Even after leaving Earth, she continues to watch over the planet. It was only natural that the mortals would worship a being as powerful and as kind as her. But even with all the love and affection she receive, Athena was unhappy; because today her youngest brother, the Demon King died.
While the whole world celebrated this news, she alone mourn his death. Even the other entities were happy about his passing. She has watch him endlessly fight against the mortal, each death broke her heart. Even though she knew what her brother was doing was wrong, she still love him. Wanting to save the mortals and her brother, she offer him a place for him in heaven. But his hatred for the entities made him refuse the offer. Even in death, his hatred never waned. Athena accepted this, she believed that his hatred for her was justified. After all, she was the one that led him down this tragic path.
Chapter 3
Separation
Finding Alice. A simply enough task. Unfortunately as simply as it is, I currently can’t do anything in this one year old body. Hell I can’t even wipe my own ass. How long do I have wait till I can move on my own? Lucky for me, I’m good at killing time. Being immortal, it’s one of the first thing you need to learn or you’ll die of boredom.
And so, time slowly passed by. Whenever I could get the chance I would explore around the house. The house itself wasn’t that big. It was just a one floor house with two bedrooms, a kitchen and bathroom and living room. Even though this house was small, it still felt kind of fancy and expensive.
A year went by. It seems those two couldn’t keep their hands off each other. And as a result the woman got pregnant. Great, just what I needed, something else to annoy me. They happily ask me do I want a brother or a sister. To which I reply “None, it’s already a pain in the ass to deal with you two.” Of course I didn’t actually say anything. But I sure as hell which I could. Being mute this long actually prove to be a challenge. I remember when my voice struck fear into the bravest of souls, now I just sound like a bratty kid. I miss my old voice.
A few months past, I was doing my usual patrol around the house. Most parents wouldn’t let their kid run around by themselves. But since I was smart enough not to put myself in danger like other babies, I’m able to roam around the house without them worrying, they usually will check up on me every now and then. But today no one didn’t check up on me. Crawling around, I found the woman standing by a widow. Whatever she was looking at must be interesting, she even had a smile on her face.
What the hell you gawking at? Interested, I crawl towards her. I had to nudge her a few times to get her attention.
“You want to see daddy training?” Picking me up, I was finally able to see what got her in a trance.
The father was swinging a sword around shirtless. He’s actually pretty built, hard to tell with the heavy clothes he be wearing. Plus that goofy expression on his face is gone, replace with a more serious look. The aura he was giving off reminded me of all knights that challenge me in the past. Maybe he was knight in the past, it would explain why this family is so rich.
We continue to quietly watch him train for a couple of minutes. C-Can I go now? There’s a limit to how long I can watch a half-naked man train. I look up to see she was in a complete trance watching him work out. *sigh* I think I’m going to be stuck here for a while.
A few more months later, the mother finally gave birth, it ended being a baby boy which they name Aaron. As everyone celebrate this news, I could only think about how much of pain it would be to deal another human in the house. Oh well hopefully they’ll spend more time giving him attention, so I go about and do my own things.
Another year past, and a new problem arise. My right eye turn red for some reason, and my brown hair slowly became black. I can only assume this is the body way of adapting to my soul inhabiting it. Naturally my parents started panicky thinking I got some kind of weird disease. I was quickly taken to the town to see a doctor. The doctor himself was puzzle with my appearance and couldn’t find anything wrong with me. He took a guess assuming that light was irritating my eye, so he gave me an eye-patch to cover up my right eye. And now I look like a pirate, awesome.
And other news, word got out that a little kid was chosen to wield Excalibur. And now he undergoing his training to become a hero. How interesting, even though Excalibur was only created to fight me, they’re still using it. Well it is one of strongest weapon ever created so I guess it’s no surprise that they’re still using it.
This just means that I have to be extra careful to not reveal my identity. I rather not get into a fight with a hero in my current state. Even though it just a brat, heroes have always been tricky to kill, and it going to be even more tricky now.
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Another year past, and now I’m four years old. I’m finally able to freely move around without anyone hassling me. Unfortunately, I found myself with too much free time. Instead of spending of all that time with my “family.” I decided to drown myself in reading. I’m really not into books, but I been dead for two-hundred years. So naturally a lot things has probably change, and I don’t want to get caught off guard by anything, especially since the stakes has risen even higher for me.
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And so, that how I spent my days, reading books and buying time till I was old enough to execute my plan. Every now and then I would interact with the family. Life was painfully peaceful and boring, until one day, a young man wearing metal amour knock at our door. We were all silent, probably thinking the exact the same thing. “Why the hell is there a knight at our door?” He immediately salute the dad, who open the door for him.
“James, I was sent to ask if you would rejoin the order.”
“No.” Just like that he shut the door on the man face.
“Wait!” The man quickly put his hand in the doorway. “People are dying out here, we need you to come back!”
“Listen kid, I got family now, I can’t just go off and leave them.” Looking over the dad shoulder, he takes a good look at us.
“I understand.” Pulling out an envelope he hands it to the dad.”
“What this?”
“I don’t know, I was just ask to give it to you. I’ll be in town if you ever reconsider.”
“Right.” Still looking at the envelope, he shut the door on the amour man face.
Wow, he actually was a knight, and apparently a damn good one too. They sent someone just to get him to come back.
Sitting down, the dad had a grim expression on his face while looking at the envelope.
“You don’t plan on going do you?” The mother also had a worry look on her face.
“No, I promise I wouldn’t leave your side.” Even though he said that, he never took his eye off the envelope. With unsteady hands he open it. Inside of it was a simple piece of paper, an important paper it seems, since he froze when he look at it.
Being the nosy person I am, I took a look at the paper that dad was looking at. It had names of cities and the current death toll in them. It was a report on each of the new human settlements. I remember reading about this somewhere. After my death the humans had a baby boom. Naturally with this increase population, they had to expand their territory. With more towns being build, new jobs open up, soon economy hit an all-time high. They called this “The Age of Expansion.” Or some shit like that. All I understand from this is that humans seems to kill themselves faster than I do. Their greed for land cause them to settle in some very hostile territory. Which naturally resulted in a lot of unnecessary death.
After looking at the paper for a while, he crumples it up and throw it away. Then he quietly heads to door.
“James where you going?” There was a little concern in her voice
“Nowhere, I’m just going outside to think for a bit.” After that he left the house in silent.
Dumbass, they gave you that paper hoping all those death would rattle you. Well it doesn’t bother me if you leave or not, it’ll actually make my life easier.
Later that night I was awoken by the parents arguing. Being the nosy person I am, I peek in on their conversation.
“You promise, you promise you wouldn’t leave!”
“I know, but Deborah people are dying out there. They need me.” He talk in a soothing voice, hoping to calm her down.
“I need you more than them. What am I going to tell the kids if you die?
“I’m not going to die, I promise, I will come back. I promise.” After saying that, he hug her and she broke down and cry.
“Please, you have to come back. You have to.”
Well it seem like their argument is over. I’m glad they didn’t wake the baby up, I doubt I could handle his crying over top of hers.
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“Anna, sweetie get up” I was awoken by the mother, her eyes was red from all the crying last night.
“What the matter?” I ask still in half-asleep.
“Daddy is leaving, I don’t won’t you to miss his goodbye.
Follow mother we found dad standing by the door with a few bags on his back. Upon seeing me he hug me tightly.
“Anna, I need you to do me a favor. Can you take care of your mother and brother while I’m gone?” He sticks his pinky up towards me. “Promise me you’ll take care of them both.”
“I promise” I wrap my pinky around his. A little smile spread on his face
“Thank you.” He shifting his attention to the mother who was holding Aaron. He patted his head a little bit. “Even though I’ll be gone for a while, don’t worry, your sister well be here to take care of you. And in return you’ll take care of her. That what it means to have sibling, to watch each other back. Although I doubt you understand anything I’m saying right now, I just hope that these words will stick with you.”
Finally letting go of his head, he shift his gaze to the mother. Without saying anything, he just hug her.
“I promise I will come back. I promise.” The mother didn’t say anything she just simply hug him back. Finally letting go of each other, he heads out the door, without looking back, he leaves us behind.
Well the big guy gone now. That’s one pair of eyes off me. I might actually be able to achieve my goal faster than I excepted
A/N: Hope you guys didn't mind the constant time skip. If you guys didn't don't worry this will be the only time that I do this. I just wanted fast forward through the boring stuff, but I didn't want to skip it altogether. Well that all I had I to say hope you enjoy the chapter.