VI. Awakening (End)

"RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

Roaring from the depths of his soul, Zero slowly rose to his feet, the wound where the spear pierced through his back healing at a visible rate as black scales grew back stronger than before, the soldier watching in horror as he pointed his spear to the boy. Zero turned to face the soldier as an image of dark black armour with red V shaped stripes could be seen starting to form, he swung his fist hitting the soldier's chest sending the poor man flying before hitting a tree branch and snapping his neck, seeing this the soldiers started closing the distance between themselves hoping that if one of them took a similar hit the others would act as a safety net and reduce casualties.

Watching the body of the dead spearman Zero listened to sound of his own heart beat as it became louder and stronger, turning to the remaining soldiers he slowly walked over to his mother before gently closing her eyes putting her to rest until he could burry her, the soldiers watched in both fear and regret, the oldest in the group even felt grief himself having lost his own family as a boy, Drawing his sword he through it to Zero as he had honor enough to not fight an unarmed opponent

Zero looked to the sword, then back to his mother "Why... tell me why you took her!?" The anger in his voice evident yet the soldier merely shook his head saying "We were told of a strange boy with dragon scales living in your village and were ordered with the task of taking you to the capital if we ran into you, unfortunately, we were also ordered to interrogate your mother as well, when she refused to answer our questions most voted to bring her back with us... I'm sorry it came to this kid..." Zero glanced at the guard before grabbing the sword and standing up, the image of armour solidifying until a Black plate armour with red ^ stripes covered his body in it's entirety.

Zero approached the soldiers calmly, sword raised in a basic eagle stance (From kingdom of heaven) he stopped and waited for their next move, immediately the swordsmen charged him, their blades flashing brightly in the patchy light now flowing down through the treetops, hitting the armour and...

*Clang*

*Clang*

The blades bounced off the armour and before they could recover Zero's blade moved and a pair of heads went soaring into the air as blood sprayed out like a fountain showering Zero in blood, returning to his stance Zero watched as the soldiers readied their weapons, only glancing at their fallen comrades momentarily as in battle their is no time for goodbye's, the drivers of the carriage stood at the rear with rifles drawn and aimed at Zero as the others parted for them to fire and....

*Ting*

*Ting*

The shots hit Zero square in the chest only denting his armour and falling to the ground, in his mind Zero was confused 'where did this armour and strength come from?, how tough is this armour?, how am I not dead from that spear!?' changing his stance, he lowered the blade putting the hilt behind his shoulder and the tip of the blade pointed at the guards (Kenobi would be proud folks) and extending his other arm out in front beneath the blade pointing to fingers up before, he charged impaling a soldier on the blade before dropping him and grabbing the man's war axe and splitting another guards skull down to the shoulders.

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3 hours later Zero was returning to the village covered in blood and carrying his mothers corpse with a visible trembling as if weakened, step after step he marched, his burden on his back, step after step the grief in his eyes mirrored only by the tears, step after step... until he collapsed in the village center, in his mind however a bizare event was occurring.