1st chapter : the beginning
Always seek the sunny side of the story. Everyone hears them as positive words, encouraging words. But as much as you can see the sunny side of the story, You can’t ignore the dark side of the story. To the end you can only hope to get out alive and when you won’t notice, you're gonna die a pathetic death .
As it describes the uneasy crown to hold. You shall wake up the one who’s gonna wield everything but die as the rest of us. A sudden guy said to a boy, a boy who kept watching endlessly a dream and always woke up by the end of the mysterious man’s words.
“Sigh, seriously I'm already used to it, well, time to get up”.
The boy said as he woke up on his bed uncomfortable with a dream that kept hitting him for 5 years. He stood up from his bed and went to wash his face as he kept talking to himself while preparing the breakfast.
“ Looking at this from a different view, I need to find a job close to here. Hello, my name is Marco Deca and I’m here to apply for the job …. no no no not like that. Hi, I’m Marco Deca, I came to apply for this job. I'm a student and a part timer … yeah sure, thanks sir …. Yeah I can guess that he’ll accept me”.
Marco kept talking to himself over and over as he was eating breakfast. As it was his birthday, he chose to wear his favorite clothes for that day. Straight after wearing his clothes he went and knocked on the door of his little brother.
“ Arthur , don’t oversleep and wake up already , I’m heading out …. Probably still asleep ”, Marco whispered his last words.
He and his little brother Arthur have lived alone in their house since Marco was at the age of 12. Before that they lived with their grandpa due to their parents’ death and around Arthur’s birth Therefore Marco doesn’t have a slightest memory with his parents, in addition Seven years after their grandpa disappeared too. Eventually he never appeared again leaving the two at the age of 7 years old and 12 years old with no relatives and just a friend's family. The two kids lived their life and by now Marco is reaching his 18 years on the October 20th 18xx.
“Arthur I’m going!! no response huh , well he does what he wants ” marco yelled before mumbling the last words.
Marco sighed a little as he was wearing his shoes at the front door while seeing that there’s still no response to his words, the day was too calm even Arthur didn’t appear at all for that morning. Everything seemed too calm and beautiful on a sunny day. Marco went on his way and noticed that there’s not a single living creature in the whole area.
“ Gotta buy some eggs and milk first and I guess the old man will have some fresh vegetables too. There’s some leftovers from yesterday’s dinner but….” Marco spoke on a whim.
He felt an unease and a heavy pressure on his body as he was walking.
“You really asked why!?!? sigh! It is obvious!!!!! because we woke up! I woke up again!! Ah sorry! you woke up again!!”.
A sudden voice struck Marco's mind making him feel as if he was inside the bottom of the ocean. He looked to his right side therefore didn’t see anyone. He tried to keep walking but with every step he took he moved less. With every step Marco didn’t notice a dark matter accumulating on his back floating close but never attached to him. Aside from the one next to his back there was also something far on the other side away from his location but still visible if focused on. Marco stopped walking then felt the black thing turning into some shape, it materialized into some other thing.
“You traitor!!! No!!! Stay away!! Stop it!!! Don’t get closer!! Scum!! Monster!! GHAAA!!! Wait!! RGHAA!!! You monster!!! Why!!! RAAA!!! Marco!! Marco Deca!!! Deca!! Marco!!! Marco!!! Listen !!!!”. The screams never stopped.
Marco heard the screams of many people who were in fear and agony. He was about to turn around, however Marco found himself drowning in a deep black ocean.
“I’m sorry! I’m really really!! Really!! Really sorry!!! I’ll look more at you!! I’ll take care of you more!! So don’t!!! Don’t!! Don’t erase anything!! I’ll be here for you!!!” followed by a deep saddened face, a woman who resembles Marco in a lot of characteristics, spoke with a tear falling from her eye.
His mother appeared as if she was trying to help him. Therefore Marco didn’t hear a single thing then in an instant he found himself standing behind a man.
“Ahahaha! To think this kid is one of us. I’d say the weight of the world is resting on your shoulders though it’s a bit hard at your age, I’m sorry kid”.
As always he couldn’t hear what he was saying as if Marco was unconscious. The things kept coming at Marco, finding himself again in the hands of a woman who grabbed him by the neck and touched his lips as she got closer. Then found himself gazing into the emptiness and another woman hugged him from the back as she was merely on his shoulder.
“Haaa!!! You’re really cute!!” said the first woman.
“Don’t even think about it! He’s not food!!” the second woman instantly interjected.
“Honestly, he has good lips, just a small sip! I’m sure he’ll make it out alive from anything I give him!! Tehehehe!!!” the first woman giggled as she was touching his lips.
“Hmm, hmm, for me I guess I’ll try beheading him, his neck is sure stiff!!” the second woman spoke with a calm glare, slowly sneaking her fingers around his neck.
He couldn’t hear a single word from the three or even his mother. As for the other part a gate manifested from it at the same time as the screams then a hand got out of that portal forcibly trying to break through. The monster kept going out furiously struggling as if he was escaping prison.
“What are they saying? Nothing understandable” again that mysterious voice spoke “You couldn’t hear them!!! Man what a weak dead fish I got here, someone swap with me!!! Cause he’s going to die after all”.
As Marco saw in front of himself a guy with black eyes and a dark mark from his left cheek to his whole left part. Marco thought he was gazing into a mirror as he heard the roar of the monster getting out of the portal.
“MOVE!! MOVE!! MOVE!!!” a raging thought crossed Marco who thought it was someone’s voice.
He couldn’t keep up with anything of what’s going on around him. As everything seemed unnatural, “I’m sure !! that wasn’t me !! that face!!” A state of desperation is what anyone can describe what Marco was having.
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The monster instantly got out as soon as Marco saw it. In the moment he wanted to run, he met eyes with the monster who had a sword in one of his arms, two featherless wings that look like bones, four tails on his back and one big jewel that showed a hole of darkness. Using that sword, the monster slashed the portal along with Marco who was clearly standing far away from him.
Marco didn’t even have time to run as he looked aside, he saw himself already being slashed and his right arm flying into the air next to multiple buildings being sliced down to halves. He collapsed on his knees then fell on his right side losing a lot of blood and almost his vision which got hazy.
“ah!! My consciousness is fading again. This really isn’t a dream” A few thoughts crossed Marco's mind at that time but only this one was clear and loud inside his head.
“Marco nii!!! it’s not a big deal!! Now get up!! you lazy big brother, our strongest big brother!!”. Marco heard a voice of a little girl along with a boy, he hallucinated the two standing in front of him therefore that gave him the strength to struggle and move away.
“I need to run away from this, I need to move!!!” Marco kept thinking.
“ Ahaha !!! here they are!!!! These eyes!!” the black eyed guy suddenly said. As Marco tried to look up as he was lying on a lake from his own blood.
“That’s it!! These eyes!! That look!! I like that look!! Same as those days!!! What are you going to do now!?!?! ” The guy was thrilled in enthusiasm the moment he met eyes with Marco.
Marco at the same time tried to get up, replying slowly “shut up!! For a!! Second!! Will ya!?!?”. Marco roared as the iris of his eye started to change form into the black that centers in the middle and a green glow came to his eyes yet it looked so pale and dead.
“I don’t know what you are talking about!!!!! Look !? Eyes!? That’s none of my business !!!!” he added as he had Merely glares full of death, the one shall say as he was heavily breathing from the blood loss.
“That’s unfortunate!”, the black eyed guy interjected as he saw Marco having a desperate smile at the end of his words. Therefore not paying attention to the monster behind made Marco pay for it. The monster stabbed Marco in the back and held him with his sword right from the chest in the middle of the air after walking slowly to his location , then It let him fall down to the ground. Marco was about to fall but landed on his foot at the last second.
“My whole life till now, I was avoiding everything, I was telling myself- Cough!! Cough!!! to get away!! to run away!! there’s no place here!!” Marco’s bloodlust slowly started rising up.
As he was looking down he looked up as he had a death expression on his eyes “screw that!! I’ll erase everything!! Lower your head you lowly mere creatures!!!”. In the last words both Marco and the guy spoke the same.
While Marco was talking the monster almost changed shape as his head got bigger and the four tails from his lower back surrounded Marco as if It was about to eat him.
“For god’s sake, I said lower your head” Marco cut the front of the monster’s mouth along with its long tongue. The monster stepped a little steps to the back as he covered his face with both arms and even his four long tails acted as a shield before roaring from the top of his lungs. It felt Marco’s bloodlust.
“Ugh!! Stop yawning already! My eardrums are going to explode from your cries! You took an arm and a leg from me, didn’t you ? I only paid you the debt back!”. Despite the lost arm and leg somehow Marco felt lightheaded more than ever.
“I don’t remember a single thing. But this body of mine remembers what each word meant” yet his face hadn’t shown a single thing “ the words are”.
Marco stood as a strange aura surrounded him. The aura grew bigger as it covered the whole body before it raged out to the sky. The monster was inspecting the scene as in a split second Marco got out from the gale of aura targeting the neck of the monster. He grabbed him and turned to the other side, blowing him away over the buildings. The monster got out from the crumbles of the buildings and stood in his place, regenerating slowly. Marco was still in the middle of the aura as he removed it by just swinging his arm. He got out of the aura, almost looking like the black eyed guy. The same dark scars on the whole body and dark green eyes but a black hair instead of a white hair.
“Hee!? Seriously!? You really did it!” Marco’s face showed no expression despite the words being a mockery, “I must applaud for your great ability and for surviving that too”.
Marco looked up to see the monster regenerating. As he got out of the dark aura, he had already got back his missing arm and closed the hole in his chest as if he wasn’t stabbed at all.
“You miss this arm don’t you ?! I mean it is your arm!” Marco spoke as he was holding the monster’s arm. “Oh right ! instant regeneration and here I took the effort of removing it! Man, even your regeneration is gross!!”. He was a little talkative at the beginning before he remembered that it was a monster to begin with.
“Tsk , you’re a monster can’t understand words” as he finished his words the monster instantly attacked him, “And here you are attacking at least listen will y’a?!” Marco said as he snapped his fingers. Suddenly a dark matter surrounded the whole area looking like the shape of the portal of earlier. It took Marco and the monster as if it opened a gate to another world.
“ Let's take a small walk shall we? I need some fresh air for my lungs”. Marco and the monster got out of the gate in a different place and even in the middle of the gate.
“This place is much better. Finally some fucking fresh air”.
The monster used his wings and balanced itself. While balancing itself the monster looked around then felt Marco’s overwhelming pressure and with no waste of time It pointed the arm sword and launched a great energy ray towards Marco. The explosion made a huge impact as the whole area shook and trembled.
An old man appeared to notice the trembling while working inside his place, the old man calmly said “Pretty noisy huh ? we haven't had action for quite a few years, guess I’m gonna have some fun after all this time”. the old man silently smiled at the precarious energy roaming midair.
After landing that huge attack the monster kept roaring and even his muscles got bigger. The monster stopped as It heard Marco’s voice.
“Sigh, honestly, I don’t really get this” Marco exhaled his breaths in one sigh “ shall I ? erase it for you”.
Marco was talking while the monster’s body started to grow weaker as the four tails started to disappear slowly, the bones of the monster started to appear out too. As they were in the middle of the air Marco appeared to not be getting damage from that attack and his dark scars were attached to a dark cloak that covered his right arm down to his right knee for healing purposes. The monster moved on instinct again and attacked, therefore Marco countered him with the black cloak, He used it to stop the monster and slash It into two halves. The slash was obviously a fatal one as nothing on the monster’s body stayed intact. It tried to regenerate but the body just couldn’t keep up and made it even worse. The body was demolished and fell into the ground leaving a huge impact,
“Hahaaa!! Befitting of the wea-!?!!?!?!” Marco’s mocking act didn’t stop until the end and so he also was out of stamina.
His black cloak instantaneously returned to the scars. In the end Marco got weaker too.
“I reached my limits already, the backfired pain is getting piled up! Cough!! Cough!! ”, Marco hardly focused on a few words inside his mind as the replusiv hurdle that the dark scars had put on his body obliterated most of it on a fast scale. That hurdle only led Marco to fall too right into the blood lake of the monster. He spit blood as a harsh reaction.
In the middle of the lake of blood, the monster’s body slowly tried to regenerate again by devouring anything that came its way. The movement of the tentacles weren’t that fast, therefore Marco who couldn’t move a single finger was close to the core of the monster, just feets away.
“Well well well!!! Look what I found!!” said an unexpected voice which belonged to an old man. The old man exterminated the tentacles easily and stood by Marco's location with a calm look on his face.
He was The old man who felt their battle earlier. He stood by Marco seeing him drowning in a lake of blood. The calm gaze turned to a smile as Marco tried to look towards him, “looks like something interesting happened here! Are you still alive there, kid!?”.
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