present and THE PAST

''so it's been four years since we have been training''

''oh yeah'' excitedly said by Isaac

''so today we gonna do some sparring again, you guys are gonna fight against me''

''fight against you'' said by Ethan

''yeah no worry i won't go hard on you guys so be ready''

after hearing the word of their teacher, they were ready, so the teacher charged towards Ethan and punch him as Ethan try to block it with both of his hand but still was push away..

Cato try to attack the teacher while he strike Ethan but got a kick in the stomach instead as he did Isaac try to grab his teacher neck from behind but the teacher pull his hand and slam him on the ground..Sun then jump on the teacher from the tree but the teacher escape and Sun try to hit him but the teacher evade them but sun continue his punches on him as he did, the teacher grab both of his hand and throw him on the tree..

they were all beaten up and exhausting as well since they spar right after they finish their training..

''damn today was not so hard as well, I mean we have been doing this for a year now''

''what'' said by draydon as he touches his head..

''you said it was easy Isaac''

''I mean we could not even touch you but still it is the same as always, I got used to it so it kinda became easy for me and i think the rest of us''

draydon let out a small laugh ''easy, huh''

''no, today it will be different, it will be hard i won't let that happen again not this time''

as he did, draydon transform into a big size monkey which was even bigger than the surrounding trees..

''argh'' scream by draydon as he transform

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back in the villiage , the elder was in his home working on the papers as he suddenly hears a scream..

he went outside realizing the scream was coming from the mountain

''oh no sun'' he ran towards the mountain as he said'' you guys be careful I will check what's going on''

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as the big size transform monkey was looking at them, he grab issac and throw him away as issac was hitting multiple trees until it stopped and then he kicked both cato and ethan as the same thing happen to them...

sun was trying to escape, but he grabs it and try to crush it as he struggle against it...

the elder saw what was going on and then he hit on his leg but the transform monkey was moving his leg to hit the elder but the elder evade it and then hit it with his all and finally it was on his knees letting sun go as it did the elder catches the unconscious sun...

''Sun'' shouted by the elder as he looked at sun and then looked at draydon transform...

he started hitting draydon transform form as it went on for 10 minutes..

draydon finally was on his conscious realizing what he did , he transfrom back to his original form..

''elder, i...'' the elder hit him even without letting him complete his word

''you...'' shouted by the elder ''what did you do?'' said with some sadness in his voice..

''i...''

''you could have killed sun, you know that''

'' I lost myself, I couldn't control myself''

''why did you had to transform in the first place anyway...'' shouted by the elder looking at him angrily ''huh''

''i didn't want to happen again''

''what did you say'' as he was grab draydon and was near hitting him until he saw draydon tears dropping as he release him?

'' i didn't want to go easy on them, i didn't want what the past happen to them again''

said as he was shedding tears...

'' I-I was a teacher in the past I had students as well i went easy on them i did what they wanted, did whatever they desire since the teacher i had was never like that so i didn't want to do the same so i did whatever they wanted, whatever they liked but that lead to one of my student dead...''

''if only I was strict like my old teacher maybe then maybe he could have hold until i arrive there to save him, it was just a minute differences''

''i got justice but that won't bring him back alive now..''shouted by draydon

''you couldn't understand since you never been like this''

'' don't say like that''

'' you don't even know what i have gone throught''

said by the elder while draydon was still having some tears on his eyes..

''my father, he never cared about me, never provided for me or my mother, used to abuse me and my mother so I went on a journey to become strong to provide for my mother and I did it''

''I became an official guard for the king and had a son as I did, I provide him everything that my father didn't provide me as I was all the time busy in my work''

''never realizing what my son was going through, I thought providing him was good and enough for him but what he needed was a father love and care which i could never do when her mother died after a year of his birth i didn't know what to do anymore but for him i kept on living and kept myself distracting in work to not think about what happen, it came to a part where he was like a stranger to me but still I love him and provided whatever he wanted..'''

''I didn't even knew what was going on and what he was doing until i heard that he die, his dead devastated me it broke me, i couldn't get it''

'' I love him yet I didn't get the chance to show him and now he was dead''

''it felt so unreal yet it was real''

''i try to retire as quickly as possible and when i did, the king gave me some land for my work as he did, I spend my time alone for sometime and then gathered people for it''

''i never wanted what happen to me happen to my son, but it did when i finally thought i broke the cycle of my grandfather hating my father and my father hating me and me hating my father ,he probably hated me but just couldn't express like i did to my father and when i finally got a new grandson Sun, i was so happy i swore that i will not make the same mistake i did and now you almost kill him''

'' i almost lost him'' said as the elder was trying his best not to tear up..

''it was my fault as well since I didn't want sun to go away from me, I wanted him to train here since i could see him and that i force you out of your will''

''it was really my fault that i almost lead my grandson dead''

"Isn't it pretty to think so?" We are all deluded to our own imaginations'' said by the elder while looking at draydon as he sat down on the ground...

''elder, i am going to go off the village, i don't want my past to control me like it did, i want to be gone from the world for a while''

''draydon, i don't blame you for what happen as it was also a part of my fault you don't have to carry that burden alone''

they both were silent for a while as he heard his grandson voice..

''Sun'' as he went towards sun as he heard his voices..

''Sun, you awake don't move i will carry you'' the elder carry sun on his back.

''don't worry I will bring the other kids back'' said by draydon...

as the elder was going to the villiage, he stopped..

''we don't see things as they are, we see things as we are''

''draydon, remember that''

as they were going to the village, sun was awake

''grandpa''

''sun, I am sorry that i force you to train while i didn't even ask you or what you felt''

''i am truly sorry for what you gone through today, i am sorry''

Sun was tearing up as he make some crying noises..

''grandpa, it was my fault that i was weak and that make you worry , if i was stronger than this wouldn't happen and no grandpa i like training after doing it several times i was addicted to training and i was feeling all-powerful but still i was weak''

sun was tearing up

''don't cry, there is still time for you to grow strong so please don't cry'' as he said those words, the elder was also tearing up silently..

they eventually reach the village, and sun was on his bed and various thoughts was coming....

''when I grow up in an environment where I was ignore or made to feel guilty because I couldn't live up to the standard expectation, I slowly become invisible as I learn to be quiet, to never speak up and obey without a question.. the me no longer exist and I never knew what I really was as i never then got the chance to know myself and that it lost forever as time passes by to never to be found again..''

''but here i am loved by my grandpa and the villager, I don't want to feel weak like in the past, I want to be strong and live up to the expectation of my grandpa and the people around me...''

''i never had a goal when I came here as I was just simply living but when I was grab by my teacher, I felt what I used to feel in the past..weak and being able to do nothing but accept what was happening''

''i don't want that anymore, no I don't want to go through that anymore, I want to be strong.... stronger than anyone else and that is my goal from now on''

''strength is everything in here as i am quite strong myself for my age as I also liked to train but that is not what i am going for, what i am really going for is to be stronger than anyone else...the strongest'' said as he looked at the window that was open wide.