The boy runs through the forest with a really big smile on his face... He couldn't hold his excitment, he whispers.
*(Finally... This ends now! No more nightmares!)
He spots the wood cabin from out far... The boy suddenly stops... Something was off... The trees had strage marks and some woodsticks were broken... The kid looked relutant at that... A memory returns to his head.
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The kid is taken to the forest during the morning, he asks with a still sleepy face.
*(Where are we going?)
Dharius says.
*(Hunt... We need food to eat...)
The kid looks to the man taking him.
*(But... How do we do this?)
The man turns to the child.
*(Well... First, we spot a prey...)
He looks around, he points towards the trees.
*(There... Notice the broken sticks, this is a sign of an animal rushing... Follow this track, and it will lead you to an animal...)
The kid looks at the path with a smile.
*(Then let's follow it!)
The man places his hand on the boy's chest before he could run.
*(No... It might be a racional creature... If you follow this track, they might lead you deep in the forest to the point of you getting lost... We need to follow it, but from the flanks to not alarm it from our presence...)
The kid looks fascinated at him.
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The kid looks to the simple but weird trail, he does a corner proud smile.
*(He is tasting me to see if i still remember that... Nice try Dharius!)
He walks by the surroundings, as he does so, he finds some of his old things outside the house.
*(Oh! My bunny!)
He grabs a bunny that was on the floor, he remembers a sweet memory.
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The kid bashes his head against the book.
*(I CAN'T DO IT!)
Dharius comforts him.
*(Hey, calm down... Bashing your head against the book will not make you smarter...)
The man holds the exausted boy to stop him... The boy sobs sad.
*(I don't get this...)
*((sigh) Calm down... Let's do this again... But...)
Dharius looks around thinking... He does a smile, he stands up and walks upstairs, he soonly comes down while carrying a rabbit.
*(Imagine this little guy has 10 apples...)
The kid looked to the rabbit with a cute smile and giggling.
*(Wow... He is so chubby!)
The man does a corner smile.
*(Yeah... He is... But then imagine he wanted more, he planted 10 of them, and 3 more came with the trees...)
*(Oh... So he got... 30?)
The man smilled.
*(Indeed! That's how multiplication works!)
The boy does a really happy face, the man approaches him with the bunny.
*(And as a reward... Here is your new friend!)
The boy grabs the toy with a smile.
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The kid looks to the toy with a smile, he notices that the house's window was open, he runs towards the window that leaded to the kitchen... He jumps throught it... He prepares himself to run to surprise and tell Dharius of the great news.
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*(DHARIUS! WE DID IT! I DELIVERED THE-)
His heart freezes... He blinks his eyes repeatelly, his mind doubts at what his eyes are seeing... But they don't lie...
The living room was severelly damaged... The shelves were all broken... the couch was flipped... The firplace's woods were placed all around the floor.... the touches of coal leaded to a place... The center desk... The kid covers his mouth with shock, he shakes as he slowly focus his vision to the top of the desk...
A hand is craved by a golden knife, the handle had small prints and a simbol of a fenix... The other hand was sliced, with the brute wound pouring blood to corner of the desk to the floor... His clothes were completely ripped and sliced... with wounds and bone fragments covering his body... His chest was bruttaly opened, with his organs completely tortured... To finish and seal the horrifying image... The boy looked to the person's face... A man with a face of fear and shock, like his final moments were up against a horrifying beast... That man that once gave him comofort... Only brough fear and affliction.
He approached the man.
*(Dharius...)
He looked to the man's face... He still had a bit of hope... He placed his hands on the man's face, feeling his cold, but soft skin... He was no longer scared of him...
*(Please... Stand up man... We won...)
Nothing happend... The kid looked to the man for some minutes, just to completelly break in tears upon his body...
After an hour of crying on top of the man he admired... He looked around, in search of a single answear... He could only imagine the brutal slaughter that happend there...
*(He is outside...)
The boy wides his eyes, he looks around, noticing his surrounding vanished, only the dead body upon the desk was there, a mix of voices talk with him, some soft, some rispid, some monstrous... Some young.
*(They took him away...)
The boy covered his ears.
*(Stop... Please...)
*(You know what they did to him... They never gave him a chance...)
The boy kneels to the floor...
*(This is getting really annoying...)
The boy wides his eyes... Behind the door, from really far, he hears him.
*(Darn it! Where is that idiot?!)
The boy recognized that voice... It is one of them... The voices whispers again.
*(You know what you must do...)
*(N-no... I-i can't!)
*(Yes you can...)
That last sentence was focused in a single voice, the boy got shocked... It was Dharius voice, he looked to the body... The dead corpse managed to remove the hand from the knife, he tries to reach the child with his arm... And in tears he asks with his voice tired.
*(Please... Don't... let them get away...)
The boy blinked, his surroundings returned to normal and the voices ceased
The boy looked to the body... He clunches his fists... His green eyes shiny a bit, he looked around, noticing the man's riffle on the floor, he grabs it and says with a menancing tone.
*(They won't... None of them!)