Prelude to a Destiny

A few minutes have passed since Stella and Irina left the Castle, heading towards one of the commercial areas of the city.

Irina looked around excitedly as she walked through a city she had never seen before, the infrastructure of the area being very similar to a city in the Human Realm

Small food stalls, which seemed to have products mostly made from blood, clothing, items among other things that are very normal for Irina

-I thought it would be a little different, something more ancient?

Without taking her eyes off her surroundings Irina talks to Stella.

-In a way our Kingdom was influenced by the Human Kingdom, their technology in convenient.

Stella says while looking at the people passing one after another.

Walking through the crowd a stall catches Irina's attention, approaching a necklace captures her attention.

-This is...

It was a silver necklace with a black gemstone embedded in it.

Taking the necklace in her hands Irina tries on the necklace.

The vendor at the stall says

- The gemstone matches very well with your hair color-

encouraging Irina to buy the necklace.

Irina, who had the necklace on, turns to show it to Stella.

-It really suits you, let's buy it.

Smiling at Irina, Stella pulls out a red bill with a black number 1000 on it.

Seeing Stella's bill in her hand, the salesman says, "You want a protective box.

- You want a protective box, it's a gift from the house".

Irina noticed the sudden change in the salesman's attitude and turned to Stella in confusion.

-How much are you giving her?

-Hum? 1000 Drans?

Stella says a little confused by Irina's question.

-How much is that in dollars?

-Something like $1000 is the same value?

Stella says as if it was a small amount of money.

Irina froze when she heard her answer, she had never had an accessory with so much value on her before.

Stella gives the 1000 Drans bill to the seller.

-Thank you for your purchase.

says the salesman with a big smile on his face.

Irina who was still in shock, was brought back by Stella.

-Well, let's go.

Stella takes Irina by the arm, pulling her along with her.

After walking for a few more minutes, they arrive at a bakery.

Stella is excited when she sees the bakery.

- They sell very delicious chocolate cakes here.

Stella's eyes shone with intensity

-I wish Dark could come.

says Irina with an evident sadness in her face.

-Well, when he recovers we'll surely come.

Stella says trying to make Irina feel better.

-Can we bring him something to eat?

asks Irina a little shyly

-Of course-

says Stella smiling at Irina.

As they are about to enter the bakery, a big explosion echoes in the surroundings.

-*Boom*-

A building is cut in half and falls to one side of the street, cutting off the way.

Stella noticing the place where the building fell, turns to Irina, as if to say "Shall we go?" Irina noticing Stella's look nods and together they go towards the fallen building.

***

Being 150km from the castle Stella and Irina approach the middle of the fallen building.

When they are on the main street the fallen building had blocked one of the intersections.

Stella looks up to see where the lower half of the building is, but notices a clean cut through the structure.

-This is...

People run around away from the fallen building, but suddenly another explosion is heard.

-*Boom*- Half of another building falls down cutting off the road leaving only the main road.

Irina standing next to her notices someone on top of one of the surrounding buildings.

-Stella that's it...

calling out to Stella and pointing to the top of one of the buildings.

A white-haired man was staring intently at them.

Raising her head Stella sees him and a shiver runs through her whole body, her whole body screams danger.

-Stella, we must go.

Irina who had crimson rays running through her legs, grabs Stella by the arm and starts to run.

Stella who is being dragged by Irina, sees the man disappear from the top of the building.

-Irina stops!

Irina dryly stops when she hears Stella's words.

-What's going on?

Irina asks, confused by Stella's sudden scream.

-Something's not right.

Standing firmly on the ground, Stella observes her surroundings carefully.

-I don't see the white-haired man.

Irina notices the man's absence.

The people around her also stopped running and began to look around.

Suddenly a man's head flies through the air, blood gushing out, without being able to process the situation, another head flies through the air filling the floor with blood.

In less than 1 second the heads of all the people around Stella and Irina were lying on the floor.

Irina is in shock, Stella trying to stay calm, fear, anxiety all kinds of emotions were running through Stella's face.

Suddenly the man appeared in front of them, he was wearing a black suit, it looked like a battle suit, his blue eyes were staring at them.

-You are a Tepes.

says the man looking at Stella.

Stella's body trembled with fear when she heard the man's words.

Irina is motionless looking at the man in front of her.

-And you are?

moving his gaze from Stella to Irina, the man looked curious.

Irina tensed even more when she felt the man's gaze.

-Well, it doesn't matter, the result will be the same.

shrugging his shoulders the man begins to walk around the street, looking at the fallen bodies trying to regenerate.

-I don't like that.

the man raises one of his hands, covering himself with a Violet energy, creating hundreds of Energy stakes around him, sticking them in the heart of all the bodies lying on the ground, hundreds of screams are heard in unison, suddenly the whole place is silent.

-That's good.

A smile forms on the man's face

Stella and Irina seeing the expression, a single thought floods their mind.

[Running]

Irina who is faster than Stella, gets completely covered in Crimson Rays, tries to grab Stella but is stopped and pinned to a building tens of meters away.

Stella, seeing Irina pinned to a building, tries to come to her aid but is stopped.

Two Violet energy stakes pierce Stella's legs, pinning her to the ground.

-That's better.

The man says as he looks at Stella

Stella knew that the man was overwhelmingly powerful.

-Well, what should you do? Killing you is a waste.

Says the man as he walks around in circles.

-I know!

Creating an energy dagger, the man approaches Stella quickly.

-I don't like to make women suffer, so...", he says.

Smashing his head against the ground, Stella loses consciousness.

-Well, let's get started.

Taking one of Stella's arms, using the energy dagger in his hand he cuts it off.

-Yup, one down.

Large amounts of blood gushed out of the wound. The man watched in fascination as blood gushed out of his wound.

-This is unbelievable.

-Stella!

Irina, still pinned to the building, screamed as she saw her friend lying unconscious on the ground, spilling blood and having one arm less.

-So you're conscious?

The man sees Irina as if she was a nuisance, disappearing and appearing in front of Irina.

A surprised Irina tries to hit the man, but is dodged, a blow hits her in the head knocking her unconscious.

-Oops, something broke.

moving away from Irina

-Well, let's go on.

Approaching Stella and cutting off the missing limbs.

-This should be a good message, but something is missing ummm what could it be? -

Bringing one of his hands to his chin, he turns to the decapitated bodies scattered on the ground.

-This is missing-

Forming a claw of energy he gathers the bodies together creating a mountain.

-Enough-

Admiring the surroundings as if it were a work of art.

***

-This was too easy.

Says the man sitting on the mountain of corpses.

Suddenly a man with black hair and amethyst eyes appears from an alley.

Without paying any attention to him he approaches the woman on the ground, without looking at him once, jumps up and lowers the woman pinned to the building, laying her down next to the other,

The man looks at him with curiosity, suddenly the two women disappear on the ground, leaving only the man with black hair, turning around he says

- Did you do this?

-So what if I did?

A big smile forms on the black-haired man's face.

- I never thought of having the thought of wanting to kill someone, I couldn't have been more wrong.

The man felt an unbreakable will in the eyes of the black-haired man.

[This is going to be fun]