Dreams may not falter

(Previously on Darkest Matter)

As he saw her neck, a crest developed, and as he saw the parts of her body, her hair was half red and white, and her eyes were orange on the left and yellow on the right. When she sees Akira, she quickly goes to him and hugs him tightly. "Please, don't leave me. Please," she begs in tears. Moments later, he saw her body glow with orange embers.

"You're not angry, aren't you?" Akira said.

She shakes her head as she denies it. She's just too scared. Her body was so cold and shaken like goosebumps.

Your power. You never had this except me, he said himself. Could her powers get adopted with his powers after the ritual back then? Or perhaps, she is one of them?

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"What?!" said Melania with a shocked look at Akira.

"Vengeance. For your sister and my daughters' mother. So I take my risk to do so." Akira said.

"You sure about it?" Melania said. "That's not a good idea. I mean, it'll be a long journey all alone."

He stares away and looks at the window. "You know about me?" Akira said. She was silent a bit. "I had a sister before. She's lovely like Lisa. You know it happened to her?" he asked again. Melania didn't reply. Akira stands up and leaves. Before he opens the door he said, "She has been with me just like Lisa, before she disappeared. Forever."

Outside, who awaits him is his cousin, Asagi. "You shouldn't say that to them. You make them worry," she said.

"Let them be," he said. Then he walks out without looking back.

Meanwhile, in the quarantine room, Hinata, and Amelia check with their mother about something wrong with her. "Her eyes. It's blazing in flames." Hinata said.

Amelia checked her mother's condition, she found out there were 'sparks' inside her. This isn't right, Amelia said.

"Any problem, dear?" Lisa said.

"It's fine, Mama. It's just a coincidence."

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Hours from the outside of the Kingdom, wheeling the cycle of life, the light turns dim, Akira Itoh, carries his two swords on his waist, and three blades at his back, one below and the others above. He also brings only his fresh goods and valuable herbs for him if he couldn't make a single bandage.

As he sleeps under the tree roots, as the rain falls, the coldness controls him. Twilight drowns him like a vast ocean, his body goes numb, and his eyes are sealed. "Thoughts I shall purge, memories I shall turn to dust," it whispered under his slumps.

"I didn't need your help..." Akira paused a moment. "... Apostle scum."

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Apostle-32

Dream walker

Name: Nathaniel

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"ᛋᚤᛆᛚᛚ᛫ᛑᛁᛂ᛫ᛁᚿ᛫ᚿᚮᚦᛁᚶᚿᛂᛋᛋ.," it said.

Fire in his dream, more like a nightmare, more like a memory. "Stop showing me this, again," Akira speak with an undertone voice. He engages his battle instinct, runs towards the apostle, and not even light can defeat his speed attack. The apostle disappears, turning himself to black ashes.

As Akira's about to swing his blade, he saw his sister, tormented and griefness she has, Akira quickly goes for her while she lends her hand to him and crumbles like broken ruins. He stops and stands between the great fire he surrounded. Suddenly, Nathaniel, Apostle-32 arrives at his back and stabs Akira with his Hasta mortis, a spear that takes souls in their dreams. "Now, die my friend. Die with your loved ones." Nathaniel said.

When Akira was about to close his eyes, a vision, flashed in his eye, showing his sister, playing with each other on the lawn, like other children, happily and peacefully, and a beautiful moment with his late sister, making him a death denialize. "For the sake of my sister, God shall not make me die for her... just yet," Akira says as he stares at Nathaniel, walking away from him. He crawls to Nathaniel with his dead-like body. Nathaniel laughs, his eyes roll up and his teeth show it's rotten. A young apostle walks slowly to him and stomps his left arm. Akira screams as its pain strikes like thunder.

"No hope for you to be awakened," Nathaniel said with his innocent smile. As he realized, very clearly Akira's body slowly releasing his fire embers. He quickly cuts Akira's left arm and he screams. After that, he walks away.

But, Akira with his proud blades with him, stands so flashy and attacks Nathaniel with his flurry attack, like his a dancer. He wields so flawlessly, almost impossible to avoid his air slash. His left part continuously bleeds out, yet he keeps fighting. His eyes blazed with red flames. He put his blade on his mouth and pulls another blade out. "Dare a mere human to challenge an almighty apostle like me," Nathaniel said arrogantly. He soon generates and creates a staff, then hits on the ground, making the time stops. He was shocked, and as he stops the time, Akira was in front of him less than an inch. He pushes Akira like a stone hits the earth. Soon, he realized it wasn't Akira, yet he was at Nathaniel's back all along.

"Seraphim..." Akira said then he explode like an atomic bomb. Nathaniel managed to escape, and as he saw him from afar, he saw a rusty burned knight, wielding a spiral greatsword, his breath like a metal that got blown. Nathaniel flies above the air and saw the fire symbol that shapes like an Octagram, and Akira is in the middle. Akira chanted many times with the word "Brennen".

Nathaniel felt fear of Akira without any valid reason. The aura of Akira affects his courage. He has no choice but escapes the fight but he can't as Akira stops the time. "How?" Nathaniel said to himself.

"Brennen...Brennen..."

"Who are you???!!!" Nathaniel scream in fear this time.

"Your... Ḋ̷͎a̵͕̎r̸͍̀ḱ̴̢e̸̥͐s̷̗̓t̷̠͂ ̴̺̈́M̴̞͋ǎ̸̰ẗ̵̬́t̵͈̂e̸̫͛ṛ̶̃" he said.

As time resumes, Nathaniel runs while his mind is haunted by Akira's memory of terror. The visions like killing him slowly as fear conquer him. The history of destruction. The Age of Cinder.