6 Dark as night

What is this? Where am I? Why is it so cold here? I can't open my eyes...

What is this place? I only see dark. Everything hurts damn.

My eyes slowly started opening and the light shone right into my eyes, almost blinding me. What is going on?

"Ugh…What the hell…" I felt dizzy and as I heard my voice coming out it seemed as if I was beaten up.

"Be quiet!" Said someone with an older voice.

"What? Where am I?" I questioned the light luminous to the point of invisibility.

"You young lad are on a carriage." The voice from the white void answered.

"What carriage, what's going on?" I just then felt the wood under my back and me hopping up and down every now and then.

"I guess they didn't tell you. You got yourself 'killed' kiddo." The voice seemed to change to a less annoyed one.

"What?! What do you mean 'killed'." I almost shouted. Everything's happening so quick… What is going on actually. Why and what?

"Well, your power was zero. So your parents decided to 'Kill' you." He said completely not caring. No emotions behind his old voice.

"…" I just said nothing. I don't understand how parents can do that to their own child.

"Yeah I know your problem lad, I'm also not powerful. I got 2 when I had my power evaluated and something similar happened to me. My parents sold me as a slave... But after some time I got recaptured and said to be free. An old story."

"How many days have passed? And where are we going?" More questions with no answers, everything hurts.

"Hmm… It's already a week I think."

"A week!? How is it possible to be asleep for a week…" How the hell was I asleep for a week? Where are we? I don't know- He doesn't want to answer, I can't answer...

"Well, sorceries. There are many of them so it's probably that." How can he be so emotionless? Again nothing in his voice. No expression...

"That still doesn't explain where we are going!" I shouted. I'm lost! Confused. Where!

"Stop shouting, my ears hurt. Listen. The place that we are going to isn't a place for a kid. I don't know everyone who goes there. Only those that I bring and when I'm doing it I never saw a child like you there. My carriage was always full of scum. But not only. There were also normal there… Or even innocent."

"So… You mean it's impossible for me to survive?" Is that what he means? I'm young so I will… Die?

"Pretty sure of that." He said it instantly. I hate that lack of feelings in somebody's voice.

"Well, that's motivating..." I was still looking down. Very confused by everything right now...

"Just be quiet and remember what happened." Finally, irritation in his voice. An emotion.

"I can't-" I'm too confused to think about what happened...

"Freaking kids. Okay, I'll tell you what actually happened, but I won't repeat myself."

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The week before…

When she took my hand her expression changed to dread and fear. She knew that when she will say it my parents could do something. But she still did it while her forehead was sweating immensely.

"Hayden Moonshine power amplification 0!" Her strong voice was shivering with both fear and laughter… She shouted. Almost everyone that still remained in the hall started laughing without restraint. They knew that my father wouldn't do anything the same goes for my mother. Both of them looked at me with disgust and contempt. I knew it would be like that if I got my power evaluated really low. But to think that it's zero? I have zero darkness... nothing? I can't ever use powers? Am I useless? What am… I?

After that everyone started asking themselves if level 0 was ever existent in the history of mankind and they have never heard of someone with a power level of 0. It was so weird everyone stopped laughing and started whispering about it. I felt completely shameful. I felt a hundred eyes staring, gazing at me as if they wanted to rip off my soul... I was so embarrassed I only looked in Jacob's direction as he held both hands on his mouth as if he was praying for me with a look of despair. His eyes were completely dark and desperate while he was gazing at me.

Flora… Her hands on her mouth as well. Tears falling down her face. Her eyes terrified. Her whole body shook from fear. Her hair looked destroyed from that feeling… She turned to the left, she didn't want to look anymore at the humiliation… I ran past her when I tried to escape. She quickly whispered.

"Run." This is the only thing she said. A quick and single word.

I ran out of the hall as quickly as I could. I was so ashamed I didn't even say goodbye to Jacob.

I ran back to the forest where I met the girl from earlier. I sat under a tree and started crying... Loud. I was thinking about what will happen to me and what is going to become of me. What can I do? Why do I deserve such a fate... I heard someone. I wanted to stand up and start running. I was too slow, it was my older brother Leon, he appeared out of nowhere.

"Oh, little brother… What fate has caught you to be such an embarrassment to our family? I wonder what will mother and father do about you." He laughed with a devilish laugh. A loud and evil laugh.

"Emm, Older brother? W-What do you mean?" My head started slowly spinning and my mind was focused only on what is to happen and not what is happening around me. I didn't care about my brother, my family, and not even about Jacob nor the girl. I'm scared and lost, I don't know… Help Flora.

"What I mean is the truth. Hahaha. It's that you are useless. And you should be killed." He smirked. "I'm only doing the world a favor!"

"Brother why do you have to do this..." At that moment I saw a dark spike in his right arm. It was like a whirl of blades. I'm scared. I don't want to die! I want to shout, I want… Someone to hear my prayers! I knew that no one would be here…

Screaming in my mind. Trying to get help. Any help… He took me by my neck really tightly.

"Fl- Flor- Flora…" The word left my mouth and the smile on Leon's face became even bigger.

"She is no longer here." He started laughing. Really loud. Tears from my eyes flowed like a fountain of water. Terrified, he stopped holding my neck...

"You… What did you do!" The memory loss made it even more devastating. All the memories I just recovered… Everytime she helped me. She worried about me. She made me food… It is all there now. I screamed, I screamed with tears of terror flowing down my white.

"Hahaha!" What do I do… I'm powerless. My legs aren't listening to me, they are shaking. "I took her outside, raped her and chopped her head off!"

"..." What can I say? What can I do! What is going on! Why!? Why did he kill her! I went into a lament. Screaming and crying simultaneously.

He threw something right under my legs… It was her head. Pale almost completely white. Strands of her hair in blood… Stained in it. Her eyes slightly opened but I couldn't see her pupils… Only red flowing from it as well. Why! Why! Why! You f*cking bastard! Why did you kill her!

"Fucking that poor whore was so boring… I guess poor people also have poor sex." He said while taking a look at his nails. "I loved her screams. Amazing. Even if fucking her wasn't too good her body was amazing! And chopping that head... Oh god, what a pleasure! Her medium breasts and that body shape." He licked his lips. I jumped at him with my fists. He only made a fast movement with his hand so quickly that I didn't see it. He held my neck again, I can't breathe...

"Le- Let! Me. G-" I can't say anything... My neck is being held too tight. Please… Let me go! You fucking bastard! Please, why did you...

"Goodnight little brother..." He whispered into my ear and that spike slowly started going to my stomach. That moment prolonged… It felt like an eternity. But once it got there… I felt every single spike penetrating my body and reaping all its insides… Then I lost it. The last thing I was still aware of was the feeling of my own blood leaving my body. And the sound of it hitting the raw stone under me… Resonated in that eternal slumber.