Chapter 7: The Doctor

'The Doctor' stood silent. Reina, frozen, just stared at him. The Titans behind him trembled, and shakingly they turned tail and ran away.

"So what do you think Zecta? Satisfied now?"

"Be silent Solomon. Your toys are running away." The voice came from behind Reina. She turned around, the squirrel was laying down wrapped around it's tail it's head perked up.

"Hahaha! Yeah! Yeah!" Solomon laughed. Reina turned back to him.

"Huh? What's happening? Is he laughing?" She thought to herself. Solomon turned around, "Well, I'll be back soon." he gave her a sneer before he vanished.

Before she knew it, Reina's hearing had returned to her.

There were no one there, but immediately there were loud roars echoing round the forest once more. The branches of the trees were shaking and explosion sounds from numerous places.

Unconsciously, Reina's body began trembling.

"Don't worry, your safe now." The squirrel said, "your body's all healed as well."

Reina stared at her. "What the hell are you?" She said in a shaking voice.

"That, you wouldn't want to know. Not about me or about that man." the squirrel's expression changed and blue flames grew at the end of it's fur. "Especially not about that man."

It sounded angry, but who could tell? After all she was just a squirrel.

Solomon went of killing the Titans one by one, scattering their limbs and organs soaking the forest in blood.

"Mhm, this is good. The gloves and boots work properly." he smiled. Standing on the corpse of a beheaded Titan, holding onto a Titans arm as well.

Around the sole of his boot and his glove, thousands of maggots were squirming around, but they formed a circle around his gloves and feet leaving a layer of red skin beneath them.

The leaves that were falling increased. "The others took to the trees, huh...?" He looked up into the trees and spotted one of the Titans in process of becoming invisible. "Hmmm, why not?" His eyes glittering as he smiled.

Once again, he disappeared. One of the trees of the forest came crashing down it's stem cleanly cut diagonally, a semi-circle of blood and leaves arranged neatly, floating in the sky, moving in the same direction.

A beheaded Titan with no arms, swaying left and right as if it was searching for it's own head.

Solomon giggling, turned to the left. The other Titans had taken a final stand of attack, rushing towards him using whatever parts of their body that was left to fight.

They swung at him, endless attacks from all around. Breaking the ground, the trees and anything that came in their path, including their fellow titans were damaged by their own attacks, but none of this was enough

Solomon dodged from side to side to any opening available he even threw his sword into the sky and turned his dodging into a dance as he sang loudly. His sword multiplied and came raining down on the Titans following them from behind.

They went from the trees to the ground then back to the trees. Solomon would clap and dance and laugh as the Titans bodies were being ripped apart and scattered around the forest, even from where Reina was she could hear his loud song and laughter.

When the Titans had been reduced to the last 20. he raised his leg in the start of a swing and all the Titans got pushed back by a mighty force of wind, killing a few, breaking a few, mutilating a few, and driving a huge hole into the forest as well.

He swung his leg upward and the trees as well as the Titans in a swinging motion took to the skies.

There were so many trees and earth up there, the Titans were basically already dead. Those that weren't were already bound to die, but Solomon didn't stop. He took a hold of one of the swords and leaped to the sky, higher than the trees and the Titans almost reaching the clouds.

"That man...!" the squirrel said, looking up to the sky. Turning to Reina, The blue flames enveloping it, almost like it was ripping out of it's fur. "Pardon me child."

"Eh?" Reina said before her vision turned black.

Solomon floating in the air took a swinging position. The blade of the sword grew in size and width, continuing to grow and grow, brining a shade over the land as it blocked out the sun, hiding it's final length in the midst of the clouds.

He sang louder as he swung his sword down from the skies. The clouds made way, the forest made way, The ground made way. Who would stop him? Who can stop him?

The birds ran, the earth quaked, The Titans were butchered. For Reina who had been blinded it sounded like the whole world was screaming, but alas the light of the sun was made visible once again, and the noise had died down.

The first thing she saw was the body of a decapitated Titan, hanging impaled in the stomach by a large spike of earth, with Solomon standing on it's back; staring down at it with his sword gripped tightly to his hand.

"Reina? Reina?"

Reina raised her head. "Y-yeah?"

"You've been staring at the ground the whole time," Solomon said, brushing his eyes as he let out a yawn.

"What are you saying? How do you expect me to understand any of this?!" Reina's face was expressionless, but her eyes dead and hollow as she stared at Solomon. Her gaze was enough to stab the heart like daggers, but for Solomon. "You weren't meant to understand anyanything.

"HUH?"

Solomon turned, smirking at her. They were walking through what was left of the destroyed forest, to a location Reina didn't know.

"You agree to meet up with me in the village. T-then the village gets all messed up, then...this foresssst. And you expect me to just go along and pretend like none of this never happened."

"Hm? Yeah."

Reina was angry, confused and terrified. She felt like her mind was getting ripped apart, she didn't even know how to react.

"This is all Zecta's fault anyway~"

"What did you say?"

"Where's Miya?" Reina said. Her voice was deep and commanding.

Zecta who was riding on Solomon's shoulder shook her head roughly and jumped down to a fallen tree. "..."

Solomon suddenly stopped moving and stopped perfectly still. For a moment the wind picked up.

Reina raised her head and looked at Zecta, seated on stem, then to Solomon whom she could not tell his expression as he stood silent.

"Answer me."

"I lost him," Zecta replied.

Reina's heart throbbed painfully and unconciously she tightened her hand into a fist. "What?"

Before Reina could say anything further. Solomon turned his head to Zecta. "What are you doing?" he asked.

There was a short pause. "Solo-" then she became silent. The blue flames quickly tore out of the squirrel, like mincing paper and a large beast came out of it; much larger than what could ever fit inside the body of a squirrel.

It was a wingless dragon, one that had many feet and golden eyes that you could only see for a brief moment. It's body was like water covered entirely in blue flames and a blue mist that followed in its wake. Racing high, deep in the clouds.

It came and went like the wind, barely revealing it's features and leaving nothing behind to prove it's existence.

Reina wasn't even suprised at this point, somewhere inside here she was even expecting this. "Doctor."

"Don't worry." Solomon turned to her. For the first time he wasn't smiling like he usually was. His eyes were dark and there was a certain sense of danger about the way he talked and the way he moved that could not be described.

"I found him."

On the first day of Avre, 204 years A.D.T. The King is born again.