Bane Of Fate!
"WAKE UP, BANE OF FATE!" a loud voice woke Phate from the strange dream!
Bam! He fell on the bed, and the three ran and helped him lay properly on the bed, his whole body covered in sweat!
"Haaaaaa...Haaaaaa...Haaaa....!" he took long breaths, one after another, as he lay tirelessly, his eyes staring at the ceiling.
He missed it so much!
"Are you okay?" a woman's voice reached his ears; his mind was in chaos, thousands of thoughts running in milliseconds.
His heart raced, and he recognized her voice so agreeably, but that terrified him so much!
How long has it been since he last saw her, much less heard her voice?
So long!
What if all this was just a dream or an illusion planned by his enemy to drive him more crazy?
"Wait...why would it be a dream, and which enemy am I talking about? Am I going insane to think of the man in the dream as the real me?"
He slowly looked where the voice came from; she looked beautiful as he remembered her with those eyes glittered with love and affection for him!
Sigh! He sighed in relief, but how could he forget her sisters? He looked at the two and flashed them a smile!
"Can I get a hug p-"They hugged him together, smiling delightfully, forgetting the young girl standing behind.
For Thalia, Shen Bing, and Qiang Ming, it was only a few moments; little did they know Phate had just experienced thousands of years of suffering, fighting, losing people he cared about, and lastly....in just those few moments!
"Although it was just a dream, everything still feels so real, like it was happening! As though it was a glimpse of the future or past, everything doesn't add up!" He thought.
He leaned more towards the former than the past; maybe he was being influenced by their conversation before he lost consciousness.
"You're okay, right? The way you're holding us... it's as if you're finally seeing us after so many years?" Thalia joked.
"You have no idea!" he said inwardly, "Hahahaha, surely you jest!" he couldn't start telling them about the weird, long dream; it would scare them.
"Are you sure, or are you just not telling them the truth?" a voice merged.
Like Thalia, Phate could recognize the voice; she can't be here, right? She was just created by the dream to make it feel more natural and scary, right?
He was debating if he should look there. If he looked and found her there, it meant he was still in that strange dream, not so?
"Yeah, Phate, we forgot to tell you, but this woman or young girl appeared right after those blasts from your eyes! " Thalia reported!
"Eye blasts? Wait, what...Was I not in a dream? Did this mean... Oh, mama!" he voiced his thoughts in a mosquito-like voice.
"When did you start saying that oh mama thing?" Shen questioned his weird words.
"Sorry..." he turned his eyes to the young lady, beautiful as he remembered, with that annoying smile he liked so much.
"Lizzie..." the name unknowingly escaped his lips; this surprised not only the three women but also the young girl two!
"Wait, you know her/me?" they asked in disbelief; they had that surprised look on their angelic faces, and he just smiled mysteriously!
"So it was not just your usual dreams!" he wondered; this thought scared the shit out of him!
Will he really lose everything like he did in that dream, or did he lose them and he had...to do that?
"Are you going to say something, oh b-"
"Bane of Fate... blah blah blah!" Phate finished her sentence like he had a notion of what she would say.
"Little boy, watch it, else I might kill you by mistake; you have not answered my question, or do you w-"
"...me to gong out your eyes' how many times have I heard all these!" he said with a pained look on his face.
Lizzie, as he called her, could only slump in the bed, giving up. She waited for him to explain, or he might continue completing her words before she entirely said them.
"You really think you can act naughty like you want before you reveal it to me that I am your master, huh?" and he continued.
"Am sure you bullied my women, didn't you, Lizzie?" she shivered; why did he seem to know her so much? He talked as if they knew each other, yet it was their first meeting.
And why was she scared of him even more when she saw that smile?
"What is going on, Phate? Do you guys know each other?" at this question, Phate decided to sit them down to explain everything.
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"I did not know you experienced such a cruel past," Shen and Thalia nodded at Qiang's words.
"It's nothing anymore; it was more like a blessing in disguise. Am afraid that I wasn't born a nobody like everyone thought, maybe I wouldn't have met you guys!" they imagined him being born in an at least well-off family; he wouldn't get that pendant from his grandma.
Scoff!
They looked at Lizzie, who had just scoffed!
"Do you think this was a matter of a possibility? This was to happen; like it or not, not even Fate could stop it. This is your destiny, a destiny that was not decided by anything but created itself!
And from what you described in that dream, it was a glimpse of the future and past simultaneously!
"Don't ask me how, though, so stop playing around for what you saw... it's only a matter of time before they ensue!"
The color drained from Phate's face and the images of the cruel thousands of years started playing in his head one by one, sweat trickling from his forehead.
Unknowingly, an immersing cold aura filled the room, rendering his three women victims of shivering!
"Wanna kill them before they get her killed by that army, Bane? It's a cruel but good idea if you ask me!" the cold aura disappeared as Lizzie's words registered in his mind.
"Stop calling me that name!" he said; his words did not portray any wish for suggestion about it, but who was Lizzie...?
"But it's your name; there's no denying that, from the moment you become the Fate Weaver, that name became yours and your whole family, that is to say, your mother!"
It was their name before he even became a Fate Weaver, but Lizzie didn't know as well.
"Tell her to prepare and be careful; you never know when Fate might strike! The surnamed Bane must be eliminated!"