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Tales from Aevolia; The Bladeheart chronicles.
Chapter 16 : Heartfelt feelings; "............." "Nick...."

Chapter 16 : Heartfelt feelings; "............." "Nick...."

Sorry for the delay guys u.u I got food poisoning the other night and i had to go to the hospital it was that bad qq.

Anyway i'm back now but work again tomorrow :c So here's a chapter i was working on a little while in hospital.

~~~~~Darkeria POV~~~~~

It had been 3 days since Kurth and Holysia had informed me of the circumstances surrounding Nick in the Central continent.

I couldn't even begin to comprehend how Nick could fall for any form of brainwashing, let alone any lies that ... thing could utter.

I was currently standing on the stern of a small frigate that was heading to the central continent, the cool sea breeze caressing my body gently.

Chio and i had decided to go with Kurth and Holysia to try and stop Nick but... Can we even do anything?

"Ria.... It'll be fine.... right?" Chio's voice entered my ears and i turned to my side. She was looking up at the sky with a faint sadness in her eyes.

"Yeah.... It'll be fine. We'll wake him up and give him a stern lecture."

"But... The guilt of what he's done when he finds out the truth... It might crush him"

She was right about that though. If he was aware of what he was doing that was one thing. But if he truly believed what he was doing is right..... This might be difficult.

I closed my eyes and laid down on the deck of the ship, letting the sound of the waves and the rocking of the ship, lull me to sleep.

I could sense Chio following suit and soon my mind began to drift away into darkness.

The air was thick and heavy with the scent of blood, a dull ache was forming in my chest as i looked around me. The bodies of hundreds of Humans and Aevolians were scattered about the plains in a deformed mass of blood and flesh. I couldn't stop it no matter how much i tried and in the end, HE had emerged from the gate and flashed a smile.

"Hmhm~ Hello there young lady, fancy meeting you in a place like this~ It's been, what, 350 years now?" His words were filled with madness, joy and longing, the mixed feelings i got from that voice made me shudder.

"So how's my cute little sister doing these days? Hmm? Elementia-Chan~"

I fought the urge to throw up and created a small knife in my hands.

"What are you doing here Iyagi? I thought i made it clear that i want nothing to do with you ever again. Leave before i am forced to make you leave." I threw the knife at godlike speed and it embedded itself in his left eye socket with a dull thud.

He raised his eyebrows in surprise and moved his left hand up to his face, his fingers grabbing the knife stuck in his eye.

With a wet slurping sound, he ripped the knife out, along with his eye, and tossed it away to the side. As soon as the knife hit the ground, a new eye suddenly appeared in the empty eye socket and he blinked, the smile still on his face.

"Wow~ That was unexpected. Are you still afraid of me? But that wasn't very nice now was it? I'll have to punish you for that now~"

Before i could even gather mana to defend myself, i felt a hand on my left breast and my blood ran cold. After a few squeezes i felt the hand tighten to an unnatural degree and a pulse of mana shot through into my heart.

"-cough-" I felt something warm and slimy trickle down my mouth and chin and the smell of metal assaulted my nose. The hand that had held my breast let go and i felt arms around me.

"There, there, careful now. I hope that didn't hurt too much~" His mocking laughter entered my ears and i felt a large amount of foreign mana begin to course through my veins. No... It was Iyagi's own mana, Chaos. My own mana which was made of both Order and Creation, would not last long at this rate.

I did the only thing i could at that point. I formed a bloodstone and sent it to Iyagi in the hopes it would find my child in the future. And at the same time i ordered my daughters back to my domain in the hopes that they would be safe from this man there.

I felt my strength leaving me and closed my eyes, the sound of his gentle, mocking laughter, the last thing i could sense.

I Opened my eyes with a fright and nearly screamed out loud. I knew instantly what that was without needing to be told.

"Mother's memories...." It was a hard pill to swallow but at the same time, a part of me knew why.

That time i kissed nick when he had blood on him, it wasn't just that guards blood that was on his face.

I got up and looked out over the ocean towards the Central continent and gasped. The sight before my eyes made me want to curl up and cry.

The view from the ship showed nothing but flames and bodies as far as the eye could see. Not just on the land but also drifting in the sea. There was so much blood that even the water in the ocean was being dyed a dark red colour from the sheer amount of it.

And towering over the entire island was a dark grey tower, it's presence giving off a dark sinister aura that didn't fit the island at all.

I took to the sky and shot forward like a rocket, ignoring the voices of Kurth and Holysia as i flew forward with determination. The only thing on my mind was how i could stop Nick and save what little life was left in this place.

Nick... I'm coming

~~~~~Nick POV~~~~~

In my murky consciousness i could sense something powerful approaching the ruins of this city at an incredible pace. I instantly put up my guard as i beheaded another child at my feet, the blood spraying up into my face, but i didn't care.

No matter what was headed this way, i would deal with it for the sake of my friends and family back home.

..... Brother.... Iyagi had told me that my brother was killed in a raid on Evestead by the filthy Aevolians and a lot of the town was razed to the ground. Despite being what i was, i had been born into my family.

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"-CK!" I heard a shout coming from over the ocean and i raised my head towards that direction, my vision blurring for a moment. I zoomed my vision in on the figure that was approaching at a blinding speed and felt my heart ache for an instant.

"NICK!" I could see a blurry figure rushing towards me, dark wings beating behind it. I couldn't make out who it was but the wings told me it wasn't a human. I raised my right hand that held a murky grey dagger, up to my chest and poured mana into it. Just as the figure got within 200 meters of me, i shot forward and plunged my dagger into it's chest.

Or that was what was meant to happen. At the last moment the figure dodged to the side and sent a fist flying towards my face.

-crack- I felt a strong impact assault me and a few bones in my jaw cracked under the fierce pressure of that fist. But i held my ground without being pushed back.

"..." I swung my arm around and felt the dagger tear into flesh as a groan was heard from my side.

"Kh... This much is..." The more i heard of that voice, the more i felt the murkiness in my mind start to clear up. I shook my head a little and punched the figure in the stomach with my left hand. But i felt a hand wrap around my fist at the last moment and a huge surge of pain filled me up as i felt my shoulder dislocate and my wrist snap at the same time.

"Nick! Snap out of it! Do you really believe that our children would invade your world? Are you that blind to the truth?" The feminine voice began to shout angrily at me and the murkiness dissipated from my mind completely as a the blurry figure cam into focus. I saw Darkeria before me, tears streaming from her eyes and a look of determination emanating from them.

My heart ached and before i could say anything to her, a mass of grey tore into her chest and she fell limply to the ground.

~~~~~3rd Person~~~~~

A man looked down from the top of the tower at the struggle between Nick and Darkeria and snickered a little.

"That woman's attempts to stop him are futile. He won't awaken from that state no matter what you try." He smiled at the scene for a while before something unexpected happened. He felt his power over Nick begin to dim and Darkeria's mana began to leak into Nick.

"..." The man focused towards the two just as Darkeria broke Nick's arm and shouted something at him.

"Hmmm?" His power over Nick was almost completely gone at this point and he felt irritation towards Darkeria.

"[Burst]" A large amount of chaos shot down towards Darkeria and exploded inside her chest, tearing apart vital organs and infecting her mana flow with his own.

"It's a shame i had to kill you like this but- What!" He cried out at the scene that entered his eyes.

Nick leaned down and kissed her, sending his own mana into her and siphoning out the mana that the man had sent into her. After a few moments she opened her eyes and coughed. Nick stroked her cheek once before standing up and facing towards the top of the tower.

"..." The man opened a gate and stepped through it, back to Iyagi.

He appeared inside a large office inside a sky-rise apartment complex. He walked over to the large window and looked down at the masses below. A small sigh of irritation escaped his lips and he punched the window, causing several cracks to appear.

"Next time i won't be so lenient..." He turned around and walked back towards a desk that was situated in the center of the room. Just as he sat down, a small tremor shook the room and a portal began to form in front of him.

"..........." He felt himself begin to shake and he frowned as he felt fear for the first time since his creation.

A hand slowly emerged from the portal and formed a gun with the forefinger and thumb.

"What? Is this some kind of jo-" Before he could finish his sentence, a small voice shouting, "Bang", was heard and a large bullet of mana shot forward and buried itself in the mans chest.

"-cough- What...." As soon as he became aware of what had happened, the hand had disappeared and the portal was gone.

The man coughed up blood a few times and frowned as he realized a certain fact.

Order.... A type of mana that has been lost since my creation.... Yes the mana that had been shot at him was a lost type. The same as Chaos. Order and Chaos were two types of mana that were supposedly lost long before his creation.

He looked over to one corner of the room and saw another body identical to the one he was using at this moment.

"... Changing bodies already..." Yes, the man, Iyagi, had no true body at this point in time. He was forced to use bodies he had made himself that didn't even reach half of his original power. His true body had been sealed along with Elementia's body so that she could not escape.

"-sigh-" After swapping to the other body he looked out over the city once more before a small pain echoed inside his soul.

"Fuck me......" A small amount of Order mana had managed to invade his soul before he changed bodies. And for someone who's soul was already pure Chaos, it was like pure torture if too much Order was injected into the soul.

"But to think he wouldn't go insane from the guilt or kill himself from regret.... Nick sure has a strong heart. You really outdid yourself, Sis." A small smile formed on Iyagi's lips. It wasn't a sinister smile, nor was it a smile filled with madness. It was just an innocent smile of young man who was proud of his older sister.

Thanks for reading another chapter~ I'll try to work on the next one after work each day so that sunday i can release a big one~