4 Leaving Home

when I woke up in the morning, father and mother were already downstairs eating breakfast, just like that, something felt off this morning because they never started eating without me. As they saw me coming down the stair mother spoke,

"you've finally woke up son"

"I spent quite some time in the library". I looked over at father, he was eating his but I could tell he was listening to our conversation.

"you must have been studying really hard", she said gesturing for me to eat down.

I sat down at the table father was at the other end of the table while mother was right beside me. I could tell he didn't want me to leave, but he knew it was necessary, I was a grown adult and they can't keep me in forever. my mother was the one taken it the hardest she had bags under her eyes indicating that she had been crying for days.

"so father how has been work", breaking the silence, puts a smile on his face. my father liked talking about work and he could go one for days about the great things and people he had encountered as a merchant.

"it's going great son, but it seems more good are coming in his day". this conversation went on for quite some time even my mother had to get up and leave. Shortly after mother went father followed after he has a big bright smile on his face, he is really happy about his job.

After breakfast, I went up to my room to pack my luggage but it seems like the maids had already done that for me. So I decided to take one last walk around the manor. but I had no intention of gathering my ki so I went to the general garden to play with the butterfly's this was my quiet spoke for as long as I could remember.

At nightfall, after I just had dinner, The last dinner I could have with my parents for a long time. I request if I could get to bed early, it wasn't like I didn't want to spend time with them id did it because I didn't want to get emotional. As soon as I got on the bed I fell asleep.

The next day, I went to look at my room once more as the once occupied room was emptied. I was thinking about how much I'm going to miss this place and my parents.

No one had shown me this much love before. So when it came time to leave I couldn't help but break down in tears as my mother also started to cry. As they were unloading my stuff into the carriage, mother came forward and handed me a pair of boots. She had all kinds of boots in her store.

"we'll miss you", mother said with tears still running down her eyes as opposed to father who just fought back the tears as he is trying to be the bigger one.

"Don't worry mother I'll be back soon enough", I said with a big smile on my face trying to reassure my parents.

Those were the last word I said to them as the carriage pulled away and I began my new journey. I kept looking back my parents waved in the distance till I was out of view. After a little while, I searched through my pockets I saw a picture of a family

The picture was an old one. He seemed to have a very crowded family because it looked like everyone is trying to fit into the group picture, and there was a little boy in the middle.

The boy in the middle looked just like a younger version of my father. If he had such a big family why have I never seen anyone of them visit before? It felt like he was always alone.

soon after, I heard a sound,

"not you again".

"hello", the voice in my head said.

I was nervous as I remember the terrifying power this character holds but this time I wasn't going to give up.

"Why are you here, what do you want"?

"I was just wandering around in my void trying to think of ways to fix our relationship. and I wanted to ask where we are going".

"we? there no we".

" your actions reminded me of someone knew a long time ago. I'll tell you what, I know of ways for you to become as strong as me for your bear my bloodline. and can you tell me your name again, but this time properly".

After our conversation, I blacked out and appeared in the void that I once was in before, and we continued to take as we both sat there staring at each other like we were foreign objects.

"Tell me , kid what's your name?"

"My name is Rayn , what do you want with me".

"revenge, I want to kill those damn gods that betrayed me".

"What happened to you, why do you want revenge" .

"Let's just say I was the strongest of the gods, the other did not like me so they worked together to kill and destroy my bloodline, but it seems like a few survived". he said looking at me like I was meat.

"so what does this have to do with me ".

"You are an uncut gem , all you need is someone great to cut you open, someone like me" he said with a bright smile.

But before I could respond I was back in the real world , the carriage driver had stop and we had to setup for the night. This was a new thing for me I have never slept outside before. As we both settled into our sleeping bags I couldn't help but think about what he said as I drifted away into sleep.