Several months have pass and Sarah was having a hard time going about by now, the baby could arrive in any time. Bernard was making preparations to insure the safety of both mother and child. Sarah spends most of her time in bed, her swollen stomach hidden under her night gown; Sarah couldn’t help but sigh at how Bernard was anxiously going by his day, always jumpy and nervous about the delivery. It was night time when abruptly she screamed with all her might
“BEEERRRRNNNAAARRRRDDDD!!!!” The man dropped whatever he was doing, face as white as sheets, came running to their bedroom on the second floor “What’s wrong? Is it time?” Bernard asked only to have a pillow thrown at his face.
Sarah exclaimed in a huff voice "why are you doing nothing but pacing around?!! If you have that much time on your hands then do something useful!" She angrily grabbed another pillow and threw it toward him. The pillow arcs its way to hit Bernard's chest "I'm sorry hon it’s just...." At a loss, he looks at his wife pleadingly
Sigh "I'm sorry Bernard; it's just my nerves getting to me"
Seeing how shaken his wife is about the upcoming birth, he hastily waves his hands "no no Sarah you're right, it must be tough on you when I'm acting this way"
Laughter erupted between the couple as the tension began to lessen, but abruptly Sarah’s face contorted in pain. She looked at Bernard and whispered "my water just broke"
Lightning struck Bernard, as comprehension came to him whom slowly turned into panic. "OK ok we can get through this" breathing heavily, dizziness started to shroud his mind.
“Bernard!” Yelled Sarah
Blinking for a sec, he regains his mind, but the panic increases "what should I do?"
"Get the transmitter in the dresser" replied Sarah
Bernard hastily went forward and flung the clothes trying to find his transmitter "where is it?" He feverishly asked himself
With a thud, the transmitter fell on the ground; quickly he retrieved it and looked at his wife for further instructions.
Sarah irritably answered "call healer Kate and her husband Jonathan!" "Yes yes" flustered by Sarah’s temperament.
Pouring mana into the device, he urgently urges the couple to hurry. After a couple of minutes, his transmitter lit up; rapidly he views the contents only to have fear written on his face. He looked towards his Sarah “Jonathan and his wife were on their way here, but they were caught up by a behemoth boar”
“Behemoth boar?” stifled Sarah. An image came to mind, a massive boar with skin of bronze and red like magma etched in its hide streaking from their spine running down to their limbs. Two curl like tusk longer than lances, with a horn jutted out its forehead. Four eyes brimming with intelligence, its purpose only known to bring forth destruction in its wake. And last but not least, the behemoth boar was an A rank monster.
“But how did a behemoth boar show up in these parts?” Sarah gasp
“I don’t know”
Bernard was out of the room in a flash only to return carrying his sword hilt, the blade long gone, “stay here Sarah, and try to hold on while I go get them”
Nodding “please hurry Bernard”
Bernard grimly nodded before heading out.
Once Bernard was out, Sarah heard the door reopened, thinking that her husband must’ve forgotten something “what is it Bernard? You should hurry and get them”
“There is no rush my lady” a man walked into the room, wearing a white shirt and a blue jacket, brownish pants buckled with a sword, his looks befitting a noble. Chestnut hair tied into a long pony tail reaching his neck, with handsome qualities one couldn’t help but swoon, a look of terror crossed Sarah’s eyes. “L..Lord William”
An ugly grin started to form on his face; he bowed half-heartily before cackling madly contorting his features, his blue eyes gleaming with insanity.
“Yes my love I’m here for you” William replied
Lord William a C rank warrior and eldest son of Lord Geoff of the house of the Northwinds, they ruled a small town by the name of Dunwich in the north a few miles from Everford. During one of his travel’s, William passed by her village and became so smitten that he proclaims his love for her but was rejected. For William has a quite a reputation that has spreaded far and wide, an arrogant man who believes himself superior than others, he uses every chance he can to torment anyone in his grasp while he views the opposite sex as nothing more than a pleasure to sate ones desire and for breeding. When Sarah decline his love, he angrily forced her to go with him, if not for Bernard’s intervention, Sarah would’ve had a fate was than death.
Being an A rank warrior, not much people would get involve in their matter, nevertheless for a lesser noble. Burning with humiliation and anger, he left in a jiffy, planning to wreck havoc on these two people when they least expect it. When he heard they were getting married, something inside of him snapped, demolishing everything in his path to vent his anger. William wanted to hurt Bernard for getting his hands on something that’s his, and for that he must pay and William realized that there is a way. He set to motion this day over the years planning and preparing to give the biggest pain imaginable to Bernard, as for Sarah, she still has her uses.
“W..wha..what are you doing here?” Sarah stutters, the pain getting to her “nothing my love, just giving a helping hand, especially in your time of need. I did say that I will always be there for you when you need me” smiling proudly, William snapped his fingers and two healers entered the room, one of them was as tall as Sarah wearing a blue robe while the other could be nothing but a child wearing a scarf, draped in a dark blue hood.
The tall healer was around Sarah’s age wearing brownish dress with a shawl covering her reddish hair, her greenish eyes widen in fright. “Keep calm Aenor, as an apprentice you mustn’t show any fear” the other healer at mid height proclaimed in a high voice. She lifted her hood and slowly unraveled her scarf to show an aged woman with white hair and blue eyes with depths of piled knowledge. Removing her robe, her light yellow dress showed her plumb figure, she looks disdainfully at William “if you wish to follow this profession, you must never allow the mother to feel alarm at any moment for it could cause the child its life” She told Aenor, but clearly this message was towards Lord William.
“Yes master Bedolda” Aenor replied
“Humph, just do what you’re paid for dwarf” William says disdainfully
Looking coldly at the man, Bedolda turns to face Sarah, a smile playing on her face “don’t worry my dear, everything’s going to be alright, believe me” for some reason, her words gave comfort to the weary women “al..alright” Sarah whispers.
The smile on the midwife’s face soften, nodding her head “alright, then lets deliver your baby”
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Rushing out of the house, Bernard raced towards the road leading to the village. After a couple of minutes, he heard the sound of battle and accelerated in the direction of the noise. What he found there was a pile of corpses, blood running red on the ground, and in the middle of it was the boar. When the village guards heard the roar from the behemoth boar, they rushed to help, which sadly turns into nothing more than a slaughter, most of the guards were either dead or injured.
Jumping into the fray, Bernard whips out his sword hilt, giving a mighty roar, he channeled his energy into the hilt. The hilt glow a yellowish light before a blade started to extend, reaching its maximum height of thirteen ft, he slashes vertically at the back of the monster. The beast gave a roar of pain, but Bernard doesn’t stop there, he executed a mid flip and ended by the monster’s side, he shrunk the sword to five ft before swinging at the monster, he quickly increase the speed of his sword, hacking away trying to finish the beast.
Out of nowhere, the boar twisted his head and lunges his tusk at Bernard. Back stepping, Bernard barely dodges, cold sweat dripped from his forehead. Charging at the boar, he sidesteps and twirls gathering momentum before slamming the sword horizontally at it, but the monster charges at Bernard causing him to shift the slash into blocking the beast’s tusk. The sword blocked most of the force, but Bernard was still blasted a few feet, blood spurting out.
A magical pentagram unexpectedly appears directly above the monster “hurry up Bernard” someone shouted. Looking around Bernard tries to locate the voice, when his eyes met with the owner, he jumps back “secret arts fifth form: sword rain” Bernard bellowed, his sword gleaming in bright yellow light, using both hands, he swung his sword skywards. Several energy swords dropped from the sky and pierced through the symbol enlarging the swords and adding a blazing fire, stab the monster. With a wail, the behemoth boar slouches down, bringing up debris and slowly the dust falls covering the beast.
Breathing haggardly “Jonathan get your ars here!”
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“Is the coasts clear?” ask the voice which belonged to Jonathan
“Get out of there already before I beat you!!!”
“hahaha alright my friend alright” a man and women slowly climbs down from a nearby tree “man you did a number on that beast!” exclaims an dishevel man in midthirties with short black hair and brown eyes.
“Shut up Jonathan, what were you doing up there anyway?” ask Bernard
Kate slowly brushes any remaining debris from her dress before slapping Jonathan on the arm “we were on our way to your home but suddenly out of nowhere that behemoth boar appeared” replied Kate, her long ash brown hair covering her brown eyes; she gently used her hands to fix her hair. Nodding Jonathan added “right, before that beast could notice us, I used a small spell to lift us up and another one to cover our smell. Knowing that you could arrive any minute, I conserved my mana for that big spell just now.”
“I know Jonathan; you don’t have to explain yourself. In this kind of situation you would have done more harm than good if you intervene.” Bernard replied
Bernard knew that Jonathan wasn’t a coward, heck the man has more courage than anyone he knew, but being a D level mage, he could never do any real harm to an A rank monster.
“What was that spell you used just know?” Bernard asked curiously
Puffing his chest out in pride “that my friend is a spell I crafted called inferno blaze. It not only has a fire base attribute, it doubles the targets power.”
Rubbing his chin “hmm not bad Jonathan, not bad” says Bernard before they start laughing
Swiftly a fist came to rap on the guys head BAM BAM
“I hope you guys aren’t forgetting about Sarah” Kate sternly looks at both of them
Bernard looked up in horror “how can I forget? I’m so stupid!!” slapping himself hard enough to leave red marking on his face. Kate hurriedly stopped him “what are you doing? If you still have the time to inflect pain on yourself then hurry to your wife!!”
“Right right sorry Kate” Bernard replied
Laughter suddenly rung throughout the forest “HAHAHAHA why are you people leaving so quickly when the party just started?” Lord William walks out of the forest in plain view, following him were two man donned in leather armor.
“Lord William? Was this you’re doing?” seethed Bernard
Smiling in a crooked grin “yes you mongrel it was me”
“Why?” anger glimmering in his eyes
“Because of this” with a wave of his hands, four men came out of the darkness; one was carrying his wife while another was carrying a white bundle. Two others were dragging a tied bloody dwarf and a tousled lady
“Sarah?!!” Bernard rushes at them only to be stopped by Jonathan “what are you doing? Let go!!”
“Are you stupid or something? If you charge in recklessly you can endanger your wife and child and besides, you’re hurt.” Jonathan retorted gravely
Anger welds up in him, but Jonathan was right. The damage taken from the boar was not small, and considering the amount of power he had to use to unleash the secret arts, most of his energy was depleted.
“What do you want?” ask Bernard
“You know what I want” smiling slyly, William walks toward Sarah and gently stroke her face
“?!!” controlling himself with every ounce of willpower, “I’ve told you before that she doesn’t want you. Why can’t you leave her alone?”
“What do you know?” William snaps angrily “she was meant to be mine but then you just have to appear and took her away from me!!”
Bernard frowns and looks toward Jonathan and Kate to make sure he was hearing it right. They looked at each other and they all came to the same conclusion: insanity.
William continued “I knew that I can never go against you, no one wants to face off against an A rank warrior. So I design a plan to take care of you once and for all” snapping his fingers, a figure walked out, removing his mask, Bernard couldn’t help but gasp “y..you?”
A man with thin brow and skinny hollow face peered at Bernard, his yellowish eyes gleam evilly “yes it’s me, It’s been a while Bernard”
“Jerome? w..w.h..why are yo-”
“why am I still alive?” Jerome answered “well you did do a number on me but you know me, how tenacious I am once I put my mind on something.” The man glowered at Bernard before drawing out a pair of chains from his bag “put these chains on” he threw them to him.
Seeing the chains, the dwarf struggles against the ropes but to no avail, the guard struck the women trying to stop her from struggling.
“Stop it!!!” shouted Bernard
“HAHAHAHA always the uptight man, hurry up and put these chains on or else she’s not the only one to get hurt.” Jerome walks in front of the white bundle pulling out a dagger.
“Wa..wait!!” hands out, Bernard tries to calm him “fine, I’ll do it” he bends down to pick up the chains, but before he could touch them, the chain snakes towards him. The chain coils around him, sealing him in place.
“HAHAHAHA I can’t believe you fell for that” Jerome laughs “you were always a fool, now we can go on as plan.”
“?!! What do you plan to do?” Bernard struggles but the chains tightens around him, the pain was so intense that his knees buckled, crashing to the ground writhing in pain. “That my friend is the chain of oblivion; an ancient artifact used to shackle monstrosities deemed a danger to the world. No one has ever been able to break it.”
Jerome looks at William “milord”
Nodding “you two go over there and tie those peasants” he ordered. The men by his side quickly tied Jonathan and Kate to a tree “HEY WATCH WHAT YOU’RE DOING? IF YOU’VE GOT THE GUTS COME AT ME LIKE A MAN!!!” Jonathan roared only to be met by a right hook. The punches came left and right causing blood to splattered around the area, after a while breathing heavily, the man walked back to William’s side. Jonathan’s face was bloody mess, with a busted lip and cuts and bruises all over his face, he was barely conscious. Kate grabbed his hands to make sure that he was alright and silently transfer a part of her mana to heal him.
William raised his hands “NOW LET’S GET TO THE MAIN EVENT!!” he walks to the man carrying the baby and swiftly lifts the baby into his arms.
“Wh..hat are yo..you planning to do t..to m.m..my son?” Sarah weakly inquired
“SARAH, ARE YOU ALRIGHT?” Bernard squeezed out.
“I’m fine dear” she replies in a whisper.
William angrily marched to Bernard and gave him a harsh stomp to the face “how dare you call my love?!!” he snared
“Your love? Ha is it wrong for a man to call his wife sicko?” Bernard smiles wit-fully earning William’s annoyance, he looks around before going to a small area and ripped a tree branch at four feet and six inches wide and started whacking at Bernard “who..” thump “do..” thump “you..” thump “think..” thump “you..” THUMP “ARE!!!” he screeched, breathing deeply “now let’s go as plan” he walks a few paces from the group “Jerome, start the preparations”
“Yes my lord” Jerome starts taking out items from his bag, organizing everything to start their plan
“Where was I..” William ponders before gathering his thoughts “right right, like I said I could never beat you so I came up with a plan. When will the Great Bernard, the A Ranker eeeevvvveeeerrrr show a sign weakness?” he says sarcastically “then it clicked, the greatest flaw of all great heroes is….. their families. Once I heard that you mongrel got my love pregnant, I set to motion my plan. I used all my wealth and more to secure that behemoth boar to occupy you while I went and fetch my love”
“You” Bernard looks at William pitifully but he was too much embroiled in his story to care.
William continued to drooled “and here’s the best part, your son will die a cruel death before you very eyes”
“My son?” Bernard whispers looking at the bundle in William’s arms
A crazed look entered his eyes, laughing hysterically “after that, I will defile your women in front of you while you struggle, powerless to do nothing!”
RRRAAAWWWRRR Bernard roared at William, struggling at against the chains to only have them slowly tightening. Thrashing about violently, ignoring the pain, Bernard lunges at William only to be knocked away by his guards.
“HAHAHAHA I always thought you were a monster and I stand correct” William beamed
The pain finally register with his body, Bernard starts to convulse, the throbbing agony enough to make him lose conscious.
“Tsst tsst, can’t have you out on me buddy, the show is just getting started” William motions for one of the men. One walks forward while taking out a canteen, he pours the contents onto Bernard, the cold water making him gasp for air.