"This is for me!" Acacia gritted out as she slammed the pipe down on his face, his body hitting the ground."This is for Mirkil!" She hit his face with more force and speed, "And this is for Christine, you bastard! Damn you!" Acacia's voice choked with tears falling down her cheeks and she hit his face once more. The pain on her face, the ache in her stomach and the numbness of her right leg seemed to all disappear as her anger took over her very soul. She didn't know how long she was hitting his face until her arms grew tired and she stopped.

His face was completely battered and disfigured. Blood stained every inch of his face and she slowly wiped the tears from her cheeks.

'What have I done?'

Acacia slowly looked down at the pipe that was now stained with blood, her entire body shuddered at the sight and she backed away from him. Her sharp pain struck her leg and she immediately knelt down to the ground, the numbness of her right leg spreading to her hips and waist.

'Do not think about him. Do not think about him.

She chanted in her head as she crawled on the pavement towards Christine and Mirkil's bodies on the ground.

"Hey..." Christine smiled weakly at that sight of her friend reaching out to her.

"How are you feeling?" Acacia asked and looked at her hands covering her stomach and her uniform stained with blood.

"For starters, I feel really weak and lightheaded." Christine closed her eyes and sighed.

"You will be fine, someone will come and we will be..." Acacia folded her hands tightly until her nails dug into her palm.

"....Acacia, I don't think I will be fine."

"You will! You have to..." Acacia gritted her teeth and took deep breaths to calm down.

"I hate to break the sweet moment but I feel kind of left out." Mirkil spoke out with his hand on his stomach. A pool of blood surrounding his body.

"You're alive...?" Christine questioned in a weak voice.

"Yup, my body is trying to heal itself but it can only fix the minor damage." Mirkil mentioned.

"I see, so you can't heal at all?" Acacia glanced at his body for a moment before looking back at his face.

"No, I'm too weak right now." Mirkil shook his head as he replied. "Is the bastard dead?"

"I think so." She glanced at the limp body of the man on the ground.

"I wasn't expecting you to break his face." Christine commented.

Acacia let her body rest against the floor as the numbness started to spread to her second leg.

"Well I wasn't expecting you to bite him." Acacia replied.

"Strangely enough, I've always wondered how being stabbed would feel like if I became a hero. So far the experience is more unpleasant than I imagined." Mirkil said in a soft voice.

"You are weird." Christine said.

"I thought you were used to it ." Mirkil smirked as he watched the sky and the clouds.

The three of them stayed in silence, not uttering any other word to each other as they enjoyed the quiet moment between them until Mirkil spoke up.

"I was excited about graduation and moving to the next level in my life..."

"We were all looking forward to graduation." Acacia murmured weakly and her vision blurred slightly.

"How about we close our eyes and imagine we are graduating, dressed in our graduation outfits, writing our wishes in a paper and burning it up by the bonfire so that it comes true."

Acacia closed her eyes and smiled at the fake imagery in her head, dancing around with her friends as they took numerous photos and collected their certificates.

"That made me feel a bit better." Christine slowly closed her eyes and her figure gently slumped to the ground.

"You can also imagine me asking you to be my girlfriend." Mirkil said.

"What?" Christine asked in confusion

"Will you be my girlfriend?" Mirkil asked again with a sigh

"Are you really asking me that, right now?"

"Well, I was planning to ask you during our graduation but my insides are... spilling out and the world is ending. So just pretend I have flowers and I look incredibly handsome in a tailored fitted suit." He smiled and closed his y

"...yeah I'll be your girlfriend." Christine chuckled and opened her eyes to look at him only to catch him already staring at her with a small smile on his face.

'His timing is unbelievable.'

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Acacia slowly opened her eyes and stared off at the sky, she waited for her friends to talk but neither spoke up. Four minutes passed and she heard the sound of something like a machine.

"Hey guys?" I think I hear something."

Acacia turned her head to look at Christine but she didn't move, her eyes were open with a smile on her face but she wasn't blinking. Acacia was confused and crawled on the ground, dragging her legs against the concrete as she reached her side and pressed her hand on her chest and waited for the familiar beat of life.

'No..'

Acacia took a deep breath and removed her hand, shaking her shoulders desperately.

"Wake up! Dammit!"

She turned her head to face Mirkil but noticed that his eyes were also open with a small smile on his face. Her breath hitched and she crawled over to him and tapped his arm but no response, she didn't know what to feel in that moment and just sobbed, the lump in her throat felt heavy as she tried to wrap her head around it.

''Are they just gone? Just like that? So easily? We were going to graduate or maybe I'm in a realistic dream, a horrible dream that will soon be over. Yes...a bad dream... Christine is probably waiting for me at school, my mother and father are waiting for me downstairs for breakfast...my brother is on the news as always.'

She held her head in her hand and changed in her head like a prayer, hoping to be answered as she refused to look at her friends bodies. She saw the familiar red butterfly landing in front of her, her mind momentarily distracted by the sight.

"Acacia?"

The familiar voice jolted her senses, the sounds of boots on the ground as the figure walked towards her and the butterfly flew away. She raised her head to see a tall man with short brown hair and blue eyes, donned in an elegant white attire.

"Lucian?" She said weakly.

"Oh sister, you look horrible."

"Lucian." Acacia looked up at her brother and she sobbed even more.

"Shh, it's okay." Lucian knelt down besides his sister and cradled her body in his arms. He removed her headband and ran his fingers through her hair.

His gaze flickered everywhere, taking in the pipe, the man on the floor with his face bashed in and the dark spots on his sister's legs. "I'm guessing you were attacked by that man."

"Yes...he acted weird and suddenly started to attack...." Acacia buried her face in her brother's chest as she sobbed.

"You were poisoned and by the spots, I'm guessing it was by the mangold lizards." His gloves hands traced the spots on her legs before standing up with her body in his arms.

"I don't feel so good." Acacia mumbled out in a weak voice.

"It's okay, I'll make your pain go away. You will never have to worry again." Lucian smiled down at her as he continued to walk.

'He is so nice to me and all I've done is be jealous of him.'

Acacia thought to herself and raised her head to look at his face. "I'm sorry if I've not been a good sister."

He suddenly paused and stared blankly before he continued to walk. Acacia felt her heart break a little at the lack of response and turned her head to look over his shoulder.

"Why are we turning back? Flow is that way." Acacia asked and tugged his shirt in confusion.

Lucian didn't respond until he turned towards an alleyway and placed her down on the ground, making sure she was in a seated position and crouched down to her level.

"Lucian...why...are we here?" Acacia felt her body grow weak, she couldn't feel her legs and stomach and her head felt fuzzy.

"To make all your problems go away." Lucian smiled gently at her and brought out a small round blue round ball. "Open your mouth."

Acacia just stared, trying to understand what was happening as she slowly opened her mouth and the ball was placed between her lips.

"Swallow." Lucian said and brushed strands of her hair out of her face.

She swallowed the weird blood and suddenly her insides started to burn, her gasped and her body twitched violently. She collapsed on the ground and heaved, desperately trying to speak or breathe, the taste of metal filled her mouth. Her chest rising up and down in a fast pace and slowly slowed down. She watched as he walked away without looking back.

Her hand trying to reach out as she stared at his retreating form, blood gushing out of her mouth. Her hand fell limp to the ground and the red butterfly landed on the pool of blood close to her eyes.

'Such a shame. It looks like you were poisoned again.' She heard a voice in her head but the pain in her chest kept growing.

'The anger growing inside you is so abundant, you will make a lovely vessel.' The voice continued to speak.

'Would you like to live?' The voice asked but she didn't respond.

'Come on, are you seriously going to die knowing your brother killed you? Don't you want revenge? You are dying quickly. I can give you the power to kill him and destroy everything. Just say yes and you will have it all.' The voice coaxed her.

'....yes.' Acacia replied in her mind and her heart stopped, her eyes slowly closed as she died.

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"Hey! Look over there! It's an egg or something?" A boy with orange shouted as he pointed towards something

"Don't touch it!!!" A white hairs man came rushing as his voice came out in a desperate tone

"It looks weird." The boy tilted his head and started to tap on the oval shaped thing clinged to a wall. It was black in colour. "What if it's a beast? Maybe we can raise it!'

"I said don't touch it!! Are you trying to die? You know what? Go ahead, my blood pressure will finally reduce when you are gone." The man sighed and rubbed his temples

'So many voices...'

'Where am I?'

"I'm gonna touch it." The boy grinned

"Boss, we found something weird and huge and Kel wants to touch it!" A female voice shouted. A woman with short black hair in a pixie cut gestured to Kel.

"He will be fine, hopefully." A second female voice rang out in a casual manner. She has a muscular build with short blonde hair.

"It's so hard." Kel muttered as he pressed his hands against.

"And he is touching it." The man rubbed his neck as if he wanted to break it.

Bang! Bang!

'What is that?'

"It broke! And something gooey is coming out." Kel said in amusement and touch the fluid, sniffing it and poking out his tongue to taste it.

"Why would you break it?! Don't lick the fluid, you imbecile!" The white haired man clenched his fists as if resisting the urge to punch him.

"Aww...hey there's a hand in here!" Kel inspected and saw a limp arm poking out.

"....is there a person in it?" The female voice asked.

"Holy heavens, there's a person in it!" The white haired man gasped and moved closer.

"Is the person dead?" The blonde haired woman asked.

"Um, there's a pulse on the wrist... Yay! A new member of our family! Kel dropped the hand in a careless manner.

"Don't be ridiculous, they could be dangerous." The black haired woman scoffed.

Air exploded into Acacia's lungs, jolting her awake. Her body shuddered violently in the unexpected embrace. Her body felt sticky and watery.

"It's a little lady." The second female noted as she inspected Acacia's body.

"What should we do with her boss?" The first female asked.

"Well, she isn't food and she is alive, maybe a beast kept her in its cocoon or whatever. Anyways we are taking her in." The second female shrugged and lifted her body up and placed her on her shoulder.

"Do you all have no sense of potential danger?" The white haired man sighed.

"I'm sure we will be fine, Jahir." The blonde haired woman spoke

"Hey girlie! How did you get stuck in there?" Kel pressed his finger against her cheek as he asked.

Acacia felt a finger pressing her cheek but didn't respond as she felt tired and sluggish. Her vision fading to black as she passed out.