15 First Right

Once more seeing the same scene in front of himself, Grim simply laughed in derision. Just that voice of whatever it was was already enough to shut off his body. Whatever it was, it wasn't something he could hope to reach in a short time. He sighed as he looked at his hands. He still remembered, even as he tried his hardest to try and use the flames in that weird bracelet to at least make a scratch on his surroundings, this damned thing simply did not work.

' Useless. ' He thought in his heart. This was supposedly the inheritance he recieved from an eternal and was supposed to be all sorts of strong, but it simply did not work at all.

He kept looking at the weird tattoo on his arm and thinking of what could possibly be the problem with this little trinket. He had the feeling what he had been doing till now was the right way to use it, but something just didn't feel right, even back then. Now, this feeling had become ever stronger.

He shook his right arm violently, to try and fix it just like how one would a television remote.

" No batteries at least." He murmured. He shook his head once more and looked around himself. The same area with a forest on both sides of a plane, with a river running nearby.

' What do I do now ? ' he thought as he stood up and walked over towards the sound of running water . " A bath sounds about good right about now ... " He muttered .

The river was nice . The water wasn't flowing too fast from the looks of it and it wasn't too deep , but still not low enough to be called shallow. He slowly removed all his clothes one by one, except his underwear and slipped into the cold water, which apparently had no fish in it.

He felt the coldness upto his waist just by the bank. It had been at least a few weeks or even a month since he last took a bath. It felt nice to just let go of all caution in this damned place. The last time he felt like this was back in the library on the island.

He slowly lay his back against the bank and closed his eyes, remembering the times when he wasn't in this place and even way back when he wasn't even on the island.

His parents, he doesn't remember much of them. The thing helast remembers about them was his mother, with her wavy black hair hitting his face and telling him she'll be back soon right before he became an orphan with nowhere to go. For an year he went from place to place, as those places with his footsteps on there had nothing but ruins left to their name. Frankly, without his luck, he wouldn't even have had the luck to survive to the day he was found by the geezer.

" Haaaaaaaaahhh. " He sighed and slowly got up, but a moment later his eyes widened and he jumped out of the river and quickly picked up his clothes and ran behind a nearby tree.

" Who is it ? " Grim shouted as he quickly put on his pants. " Peeping isn't a thing that heroes like us should do, now is it ? "

Grim waited as he buttoned his shirt up but stopped because he heard the sound of air whooshing.

Bang!!!

He rolled over just in time to avoid a bullet that pierced straight through the tree that was nearly five times as thick as himself.

" It seems you don't want to talk to me ." He muttered as he put on his coat once again with one hand while the other put his tie back around his neck. " Then I shall not be a gentleman either. "

He hid behind a rock this time which was a bit farther away from himself in the process of which he had to dodge 3 more sniper bullets.

" Shit . " He muttered under his breath as he touched and quickly retracted his hand from the side of his neck. A bullet scraped by, and barely even missed. He kept making different gestures with his hands to try and use that bracelet once more but he didn't get any results at all. " Come on, come on, come on "

He kept muttering under his breath as he looked at his hand.

" Do something." He muttered as he looked back in the direction of the tree, on top of which the bullets came from.

" Do Something." He kept on pointing in the direction of the tree, in hopes the gun he used before would come out once more and let him shoot his aggressor.

" DO SOMETHING." He nearly shouted , but this time something finally happened. He felt something in his body flow towards the location of the tattoo on his right arm and the bracelet came out of it again, just like the last time.

An orb of flame came out of it and turned into something like a knife and flew towards the tree his assailant was on top of and he heard a beautiful ding in his head.

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