What am I going to do?
Hashi is bleeding out, I don’t want to see him die!
But he has a demon and mind magic. Is it right to save him, what kind of horrors could he unleash upon the world.
Maybe he has affected my mind all this time so I would like him.
What if-
Gorta- “Kate!”
Kate- “!”
I snap to reality to see a dark cloud like substance covering the area where Hashi is bleeding.
Gorta- “This is no time to be freaking out! I need your help to save Hashi.”
Kate- “A-Are you t-that demon?”
Gorta- “What of it?”
Kate- “I-I can’t help you….”
Gorta- “Excuse me?”
Kate- “You’re a demon and a mind magic user, how could I help someone that would harbor you?”
Gorta- “Is this what your friendship was worth?”
Kate- “….”
Gorta- “Listen, I’m slowing down the blood lost but he will die if we don’t get to Kirin. If you still care for Hashi then help him.”
Kate- “….”
Gorta- “Please.”
I want to save Hashi, he’s been so kind to me and this demon is not like what I’ve heard. Hashi is apart of my family, I-I can’t just let him die, not like the others.
I walk over to where Hashi is and attempt to carry him but he’s too heavy so I have to drag him by the arms.
Gorta- “So you’ll help?”
Kate- “I-I want to help Hashi, I don’t know about you.”
Gorta- “Thank you.”
As I was dragging Hashi I glance at Albeis.
Albeis- “Forgive me….”
Kate- “No.”
Albeis- “….”
Kate- “But I still need your help if you’re willing to offer it.”
Albeis- “*Nod*”
Kate- “What about the angel?”
I look back towards the women that was going to kill me, laying there peacefully like she did nothing wrong.
Gorta- “Hashi wanted to give her a proper burial.”
He wanted to give the women who almost killed me a proper burial?
Kate- “What do you think qualifies as a proper burial for angels?”
Gorta- “We can burn her body, purify it so it may return to nature.”
I look towards Albeis.
Kate- “Can you do it Albeis?”
Albeis- “*Nod*”
Albeis gathers his breath and blows out a gentle flame that slowly burns the body of the angel until there is nothing.
Seeing the flames again brings back memories I don’t want to remember, I instinctively look away it.
Albeis- “It’s done.”
Kate- “Okay, lead the way Albeis.”
Albeis lead us while I dragged Hashi with all my strength.
I took one last look at that strange ruin that seems to call out to me. I shake my head and marched on.
After we were away from that ruin I looked to the mass of shadows that covered Hashi.
Kate- “Why does Hashi have a demon inside him?”
Gorta- “This demon has a name, it’s Gorta.”
Kate- “Okay GORTA, why are you inside Hashi.”
Gorta- “Eww, don’t say it like that.”
Kate- “Say it like what?”
Gorta- “….”
Gorta- “Never-mind.”
Gorta- “Does it matter how I ended up inside Hashi, it won’t change anything.”
Kate- “I don’t trust you Gorta, so I need to know something.”
Gorta- “What will you do? You don’t need to trust me, just trust Hashi.”
Kate- “I-I do trust him.”
Gorta- “Then it’s fine.”
Kate- “No it’s not!”
Gorta- “….”
Kate- “A demon is a being of cruelty and hatred who should never be trusted. They take hold of mages and use them for terrible things and in the end leaving their souls hollow.”
Kate- “Not only that but you also use mind magic, a form magic that was used by people that came close to ruling the world many times.
Gorta- “….”
Kate- “I can’t just be okay with this situation even if Hashi is apart of it.”
Gorta- “Do I seem evil to you.”
Kate- “You could be using mind magic on me, how would I know what is real or fake?”
Gorta- “I’m focusing on Hashi so even if I wanted to do that I couldn't.”
Kate- “You could be lying.”
Gorta- “That’s a lot of coulds and maybes.”
Kate- “I can’t be too careful.”
Gorta- “Thinking like that will freeze your mind, lost in what ifs. You can’t get anywhere like that.”
Kate- “I-I know.”
I know but….
Gorta- “Just trust and focus on Hashi.”
Kate- “….”
I’ll try.
I miss Arrea, she would know what to do in this situation.
We kept up the same pace but the night came and we had to stop at a pond with more weird markings carved on stone along it and trees surrounding it from all sides expect where we came in.
Gorta- “I feel magic here.”
Kate- “I do too, this should be a good spot for a rest.”
I lay Hashi near the water but also near enough to a tree. I put his head on my lap and laid back on a tree while Albeis curled up near by for sleep.
Kate- “Do demons sleep?”
Gorta- “We don’t need to.”
Gorta- “I’m going to care for his wounds until we get to Kirin.”
Kate- “Why do you care, wouldn't a demon not care for their hosts?”
Gorta- “….”
Gorta- “I made a promise.”
Kate- “To who?”
Gorta- “That’s all I’m going to say on that.”
Kate- “You’re very un-demon like.”
Gorta- “How would you know what a demon is like if you’ve never met one outside of old wives’ tales.”
Kate- “My ancestors have dealt with demons before, that’s how I know.”
Gorta- “So they say….”
Kate- “They weren't lying.”
Gorta- “Sure they weren't.”
Kate- “*The Stare*”
Gorta- “….”
Gorta- “Okay, I’ll believe you.”
Kate- “*Smile*”
Gorta- “That’s enough talking, go to sleep.”
Kate- “*Nod*”
I hope I made the right decision but I can’t stop now, I-I have to save him. He’s all I have left of my family.
….
….
….
….
Gorta- “Kate!”
Gorta- “Kate!”
Gorta- “Kate!”
I woke up to Gorta screaming, I open my eyes and notice that’s it’s still night.
Kate- “What is it?”
Gorta- “Don’t you feel it.”
I focus and notice that the mana of the area, changed?
Kate- “How is this possible?”
Gorta- “I don’t know.”
Kate- “These areas naturally have mana because of decades of exposure to Mythics with mana. To change it in less than a night would take a-”
Gorta- “A God.”
I could barely stop shaking, a God here and now? I’ve face others before but Arrea was with me, I-I can’t do anything on my own.
Kate- “I-I-It can’t be a God, it’s suppose to be at the volcano!”
Gorta- “This is bad.”
Kate- “What about Albeis?”
Gorta- “Good luck waking a Dragon from it’s slumber.”
No….
We stay in silence looking at the darkness waiting for something to jump at us and that’s when it happens.
Something, that’s all that could describe it, a thing. Something beyond anything I could imagine moves closer to us with slow speed but with a disgusting sound as it inches closer to us.
Gorta- “What on father’s great earth is that?”
I could sense more then just one around us. I could not peel my eyes away from the thing that’s invading my mind, whispering to me to come closer.
I try with all might to look away and as I try my eyes begin to bleed.
Gorta- “Kate, what’s happening to you?!”
At last I broke free from what was haunting me, my eyes are red with blood. I look down to see Hashi laying on my knee oblivious to what’s happening.
Kate- “I’m fine Gorta.”
Gorta- “Kate listen to me, you have to do something.”
Kate- “!”
Kate- “I can’t fight, w-we’re going to die….”
Gorta- “No, Kate there is no way you didn’t learn how to use your creation magic for combat.”
Kate- “….”
Gorta- “We will die if you don’t fight. Why are you adverse to it?”
Kate- “I-I can’t….”
I can hear them coming close, I dear not look at them. I’m afraid of going insane if I see their forms again.
Gorta- “Kate! I can’t see into your mind right now so I don’t know what trauma is holding you back but if you don’t do something then Hashi, you, Albeis and Arrea will die.”
Arrea….
Gorta- “Kate I have no choice but to leave our fates in your hands.”
Once again I have people who depend on me, will they die too?
I don’t want to see that tragedy again, so forgive me everyone as I say those words once again.
…..
My mana….
Heat….
and Oxygen….
Come together to form-
Fire.
Like before my hands erupt with scorching flames that burns all those in front of me. I close my eyes to the carnage I’ve once again unleashed.
I hear their screams, unholy screams that make my ears bleed but I don’t stop. I make flames erupt from the ground in random locations in front of me to make sure they are dead.
After a while I begin to hear something strange, a different scream.
???- “AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!”
I know that voice….
???- “Kate stop!!!!”
Kate- “Mom!?”
My eyes shoot open to reveal that scene again, my mother and friends, my family burning because of me.
Kate- “No….”
Mother- “Save us Kate!!!”
???- “Don’t kill us!!!”
This can’t be real!
???- “Why Kate!”
!!!
I see my brother burning with his hands reaching out for me, asking me to stop.
Why can’t I stop!
Brother- “You did this to us.”
No….
Mother- “We burned because of you.”
I didn’t want to, it was their fault.
Brother- “Don’t shift the blame, it was your flames that killed us all.”
Mother- “Suffer for what you’ve done, burn with us.”
Y-Yes, maybe it’s time to go to them.
It’s not right that I lived but not them, I should burn too.
I slowly turn the raging inferno on myself so I can burn with my family.
Gorta- “Kate!”
!!!
Kate- “Gorta why-”
Gorta- “This is all in your mind, I broke my focus for a second. You need to wake up.”
Kate- “But I deserve to burn for what I’ve done.”
Gorta- “It was not your fault.”
Kate- “But-”
Gorta- “Are you going to abandon your current family?”
Kate- “My current family….”
Gorta- “Yes, Hashi and Arrea.”
Kate- “….”
Gorta- “I don’t know how you can move on from what you’ve done but killing yourself is not the answer.”
Kate- “….”
I want to see my family again, but I-I can’t leave my current one either, not yet….
I focused and opened my eyes to see a burnt landscape where those things were. I looked to see Hashi still sleeping and Gorta still keeping him alive.
Gorta- “Are you okay?”
Kate- “No, I’ll never be okay.”
Gorta- “….”
Kate- “But we’re still alive, that’s okay.”
Gorta- “Right….”
I could still feel blood or maybe tears falling down my face, I tried to wipe them but I instantly felt-
Kate- “*Vomiting*”
Gorta- “Kate!”
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