The Massacre.

The nearest city was pretty far from Amber village, getting to its position will take at least two weeks. He didn't need to hurry, time was on his side. His age and resources allowed him to treat this journey as sigh-seeing and exploration.

Inside Amber village, Rose was sitting on her bed with tears inside of her eyes. Aron transformed from helpless victim to reliable hunter and then became beast killing without blinking his eyes.

"I don't understand... Why? I absolutely don't understand… Maybe, I could try to stop him!" Casper saw his daughter in depressed state, blaming herself for lack of actions.

"Aron was different. I partially understand his actions, we did nothing to stop his bullying during early years. Hatred accumulated for all those years was hidden deep inside of him. I saw, he tried to change this village. Helping people, building those weird devices, still Ian didn't stop… It's his fault." He sighed and said another sentence.

"Killing people is wrong. Boy crossed the line and there is no place for him in normal society…Forget about him, it would happen earlier or later anyway!" His explanation was reasonable if Ian didn't attack him. There would be other simple-minded person to point at his uniqueness.

Casper was partially aware of Aron's origin. Way of learning things, handling problems and extraordinary strength were outside of ordinary human reach. His blood must contain some noble bloodline, however his knowledge about clans was almost nonexistent.

A few days later, Rose was still little depressed. Things needed to be continued even if your friend became murderer. Suddenly, she heard sound of hooves.

"Don't come out of the house!" It could be army or bandits. Other groups didn't use horses, they were to expensive for ordinary people.

Unfortunately, he was right. Raiders came to village with expression full of greed and lust. It wouldn't end up well.

"We are Blackwind Bandits, and we came for protection fees." Man was arrogant and treated hunter as air. Casper was forced to become village chief as there wasn't anyone reliable for this position.

"I am the village chief. We are poor, however I will call people to gather things for you! Please don't hurt anyone!" His voice contained trace of fear and pity.

"It isn't needed! We will check your village by ourselves!" They didn't came here for money, their purpose was simple. They came here to have fun at cost of this village.

"No..." He tried to reason with them, there won't be village after they are done.

"Did you oppose me? Little villager?" Leader of bandits dismounted his horse and approached Casper with smile on his face.

"I cannot let you destroy this village! It's my family and friends!" Determination filled his eyes, dying protecting his daughter wasn't bad.

"I am Robert! Leader of blackwind bandits! I admire strong! AND EAT THE WEAK!" His weapon was big axe, it was simple.

"Beat me, little one! I will spare your village! Die and we will rape every woman and kill every man! Show me what you got little man!" Man was around 2 and half meters tall, comparing to 1.8-meter Casper. He was simply giant muscular killing machine.

Rose's father had no choice, he took out two daggers and rushed at Robert.

"HAHA! What killer like you doing inside of small village?" Bandit's leader immediately recognized Casper's previous profession from movement and typical reverse grip on daggers.

"…" Quiet and fast, typical assassin.

Bang! Robert missed him as he side-stepped and had clear way to his vital points.

"Face your death!" Casper almost pierced Robert's throat but something weird happened. Bandit's leader dropped his axe and caught Casper's arm.

"You assassins are so predictable…All of you aim in the same spots at the end…" He broke Casper's arms and gripped throat.

Crack! His neck was snapped and some bandits laughed.

Roger heard commotion and came from his farm to check situation. His eyes became red from wrath, those bandit group was same group that killed his family!

"YOU BEASTS!" He picked random tool and rushed without any thinking. Revenge completely clouded his mind.

Swish! One of bandits shot him down with arrow and his life ended with eyes filled with greviances.

They killed, raped and plundered everything. Rose stayed hidden inside of house, waiting for her father without any result.

BANG! One of the bandits destroyed doors and entered the hut. Rose squeaked from fear and it allowed bandit to discover her existence.

"WOMAN! HAHA! Guess who is lucky today!" He spotted Rose and made a weird pose as he felt like the winner. A wifeless man started to slowly approach her with brutal lust in his wicked eyes.

"Leave me, alone! LEAVE ME ALONE! MY FATHER WILL PROTECT ME!" She was desperately crying for help, those shouts were only futile struggle as her father and most of the villagers were already dead.

"STOP RESISTING AND LET ME SHOW YOU THE HEAVEN!" It was worst nightmare for her, she shouted, struggled and none came.

"NOO!!! MY FATHER WILL SAVE ME!" No help caused her falling into extreme despair. Suddenly, she heard voice inside her head.

'NONE CARES ABOUT YOU! THEY ARE ALL DEAD! LOOK AT THEM! HUMAN SWINES!'

Voice didn't stop and started to talk to her.

"Am I becoming crazy? Who are you?" Rose spoke as it was confusing, this man didn't care and said.

"I don't care if you are crazy or not! YOU WILL..." Before he finished the sentence time stopped, and voice became harsher.

'LOOK AT THIS CREATURE! GIVE ME CONTROL! I WILL BECOME YOUR WILL AND REVENGE! NO FEAR! NO PAIN! I WILL MAKE EVERYTHING DISSAPPEAR!'

"You are lying! My father is alive!" She believed his father was still alive, there wasn't another possibility in her mind.

"Help me! I need to check on my father!" Rose decided to allow odd existence to control her body for time being.

'AS YOU WISH! LET'S SET THE WORLD IN FIRE!' The control over body was in its hands, Rose consciousness started to fall into darkness.

Bandit was right before her, drooling from lustful thoughts.

"YOU HUMANS, NEVER CHANGE! DISSAPEAR!" She shouted with anger, and it was disgraceful to let such low-life touch her even possibility of it made her extremely enraged and nauseous.

Her body released flames in every direction, bandit, hut and small diameter around house turned into ashes. Her body was still enveloped in fire, it took shape of red dress and smile appeared on her face.

"Your father is dead." She pointed at body of Rose's father laying on ground with lifeless eyes.

'It's impossible! NO! It can be happening!" Rose consciousness fell into ultimate despair and entity decided to take advantage of weakness of her mind to finish process.

"GIVE ME YOUR BODY AND YOU SOUL! I WILL GET REVENGE FOR YOU!" Current village girl's consciousness became unable to refuse offer of dominating being.

'Get revenge for me!' Original Rose didn't disappear, it was buried inside depths of darkness.

"REVENGE? I WILL FREAKING DESTROY EVERY FUCKIN ONE OF THEM!" It was her desire to get out of prison of this village girl mind. All those years she was observing world from darkness and watching naivety of main host.

"I WILL GET OUR REVENGE! HAHAHA!" Something wasn't right, her flames should be stronger. It was like something was making tuning their power.

'She is still there! I need to finish her revenge to get complete control…' It was annoying, still necessary to unlock her full capability.

Previous explosion caused all bandits stop their actions and check the situation. They went into direction of burning a hut.

"What happened?" All of them were confused and annoyed by fact of being interrupted in the middle of fun.

They saw a girl walking from fire with a crazy smile on her face, and it was ridiculous from their perspective.

"Look, she survived and her body is still burning! Someone gives her death and we can come back to our business!" A leader shouted and turned into direction of one of the huts to finish what he started.

Bandit with bow shot the arrow at her and he felt regretful as such adolescent girl will die without him tasting her.

Swish! Arrow reached her body and fires evaporated it.

"So human pigs gather in packs too. IT'S YOUR HONOR TO DIE IN MY FLAMES!" She shouted and released multiple fire balls into them.

"BOSS..." Bandit archer wanted to shout something, however before he finished a fireball turned him into the human torch.

"YOU KNOW WHAT IS MOST INTERESTING? MY FIRE CAN MAKE YOU DISSAPEAR, THE PROBLEM IS IT WOULD BE TOO PAINLESS DEATH! FOR TRASH SCUM LIKE YOU!" Many of them were burning alive, while screaming from inhuman pain.

She left person that they called boss at the end.

"YOU HUMANS ARE WICKEDEST KIND ON EARTH! WEAK AND DESPICABLE!" She was furious as those events prompted her of something from her past.

"I WILL GIVE YOU ONE CHANCE! TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO KNOW AND DIE FAST! YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE SECOND OPTION FUCKING A PIECE OF TRASH!" Her voice was filled with disgust and anger. The sole thing that prevented her from killing this man alive was promise to Rose.

"FUCK YOU BITCH! GO TO HELL!" This answer was moderately funny to her, little smirk appeared on her face.

"WRONG ANSWER!" Her body released smaller flame and started burning slowly his body, and flames didn't touch any vitals of the boss. It was possible to die from pain, yet there was long session of pain before him. The smell of burned skin and meat was getting intense with every minute.

"ARGHHHH!" A few minutes later, she stopped for a moment and he shouted with last strength that was left inside of his body.

"I WILL...pant....pant....TELL YOU!" Potential death was better than the horrible tortures of this bitch.

"ARE THOSE ALL OF YOU? SHITTY PIG PACK BANDITS?" Part of their deal was slaughtering all people responsible for Rose suffering so destroying this bandit group was her responsibility.

"YEEESS! IN OUR BAAAASE..." He didn't care much about the life of his fortunate comrades and his conscious mind wanted only pain end.

"YOUR PIGGY PACK IS NOT SMALL! WHERE IS MAN CALLED ARON!"

"I DONT KNOW! KILL ME ALREADY!" It was, in fact, the truth, and they didn't distinguish the names of people they killed and how could they know about Aron.

"YOU ARE FUCKING USELESS TRASH!" She merely continued severely torturing him to release anger and pent-up frustrations.

"YOUUUU PROMISSSEEEED!"

"I DID? HOWEVER, YOU DIDN'T ACCEPT FIRST OPTION! HAHAHA! SCREAM, PIG! SCREAM!" Her game didn't last long as his body ran out of non-vital places very soon. Wisely abandoning him in half dead state was worse than instantly slaying him. This dead will be slow and unpleasant, yet unfortunate man wouldn't be capable of screaming or seeing as she severely crippled his senses...

"YOU COULD AT LEAST KNOW THE WAY OF THE CLOSEST VILLAGES, ROSE!" Rose didn't leave the village for her entire life, so she naturally possessed no practical knowledge about the outer world.