Chapter 9: Scream 2- Obsidian

10 years ago

The war raged by the previous demon of wrath had ended, and now thieves and scavengers were going through the dead and destroyed cities and villages

Phemiscra city

One of the most inhabited cities before the war was now a ghost town filled with the scent of death. No place for a child however.

"Valerie my angel, when I find some valuable things you and I will blow this hellish kingdom and head straight to Alphestos(the best kingdom in the world)" said a woman with bright red hair and pale skin said wearing tattered armor while carrying a baby girl on her back sleeping.

The woman looked through the buried houses until she stumbled upon a particular black blade.

"What's this? seems valuable" she said as she lifted the sword from the ground,it had purple particles in it shining like stars in the night skies.

"Obsidian blade? I wonder how much this will sell for?" She said reading the name on the side while swinging it around however.

'swoopppp!' a swing of the sword created a purple shockwave that destroyed an entire block of buildings.

"Wooooow! Or I could just use this to earn even more money!" The woman said as he kept the sword by her side and ran off.

And so the legend of the woman called Rouge the destroyer, a thief, a mercenary and a mother, over the years enemies both humans and monsters came for her head thanks to that black sword.

5 years after getting the blade.

"The hell are doing here? after abandoning us for so many years and now you're back? Why?" Rouge questioned a man with brown hair and red eyes wearing a white suit.

"Rouge! this isn't the life I want for my daughter am taking that sword of your's while you and her hide somewhere, am willing to sacrifice myself for the both of yo..." The man said before he was hit in the face by Rogue 'slapppppp!'

"You lost me when you talked about the sword, Clide, you're nothing but a scumbag that only does things for his own benefit!" Rouge shouted.

"Just give me the sword bitch!" Clide shouted as he rushed her however...

"guuuuuhhhh" Clide spit out blood as Rouge hit him in the stomach with the hilt of the blade making him faint immediately.

"I can't believe my teenage self fell for that disgusting charm" Rouge said with a disgusted look on her face.

Rouge took her daughter far away from their home. Knowing more enemies would come after her cursed sword she cast it into a flowing lava stream of an active volcano there it would get destroyed or at least flow far away from her.

"Where are we going Mama?" Valerie asked energetically.

"Somewhere safe, somewhere for only the two of us" Rouge told her daughter.

"As long as am with Mama I'll be happy" Valerie said with a deep smile.

Rouge carried the brown haired little girl in her arms and hugged her tight, reaffirming what she's fighting for, as she went into hiding in the grassy plains outskirts.

4 years after that

Rouge had gone back to her thieving ways, however famine would finally catch up to her on a job near a town with the plague. Her condition made her bedridden leaving Valerie to take the mantle of thief from her mother.

Valerie wore the black and white coat of her mother while holding the a small pouch which could carry a large

Amount of items.

"Mama I won't fail you, I promise I'll bring back lots of money and medicine and cure you in no time" Valerie said determined.

"I wouldn't have permitted this, if i had a choice, your the most precious thing to me, just please be careful" Rouge said with a sad tone, no mother would want her child to go through this.

After a heartfelt hug, Valerie departed from the grassy plains

2 months later (present)

Grassy plains nighttime

Rouge was gathering the remaining strength in her sickly body to go search for her daughter until a gang of thieves had infiltrated her house for the location of the obsidian blade.

"Rouge hand over the blade" a dark haired man wearing a cloak said in an calm tone.

"I think I left it in the basement why don't you guys accompany there" Rouge said with a smile.

The 10 bandits not seeing any hostility from her, accepted until a loud scream came from behind them.

"Mama! am back!" Valerie shouted as she ran under the bandits legs and gave her mother a huge hug.

"Valerie!" Rouge shouted as she embraced her daughter.

"Where have you been? And what are you wearing" Rouge questioned.

"I got captured by bandits, then I was rescued by this scary looking brother with lots of power! And his friend who's really chubby but really nice, he made me this dress, they fed me for free and didn't get mad at me for messing up and..... I stole from them" Valerie said with a happy tone until she came to the realization she tricked kind people.

Rouge at that moment realized her daughter wasn't cut out for her kind of life style, she also thought about the people who helped her.

"They didn't try to do anything to you did they? remember you can't trust anyone?" Rouge reminded.

"They didn't! they treated me like me like guest and yet I stole from them!" Valerie Said with tears in her eyes.

"What a heartfelt moment, but we're on borrowed time here" the dark haired man said.

"Hold on goddamn it!" Rouge barked at him and he stopped.

(If these people are truly good people, then I believe I can intrust her to them) "Valerie I need you to return that money to them I'll be right behind, we'll apologize together" Rouge said with a smile.

"What about your illness?" Valerie asked.

"We'll deal with it together" Rouge told her daughter.

"Promise?" Valerie said wiping the tears from her eyes.

Rouge paused for a bit and smiled, Valerie saw this and nodded running away from the house back to the knights, awaiting her mother's return.

'Now where were we?" Rouge said as her happy expression turned into a rage filled face.

Basement

Rouge was turning the nob of a weird looking safe which the bandits took as the container of the obsidian blade.

"You've got a cute daughter" the bandit leader said.

"Yah her future is brighter than mine, that's all I can hope for" Rouge said with a solemn voice.

"Too bad, she's going to grow up without a mother" the leader said getting his sword ready, after she gives him the sword she would have to die, so she couldn't try to get it back.

"Yah, it's a shame, all I hope is that those knights treat her well, and she doesn't follow the same path as I..." Rouge said with tears flowing down her cheeks as she turned the knob again.

"Of all the mistakes I've made in my life, am glad you happened Valerie! I love you! She said as she opened the safe and she was immediately engulfed in a bright orange light.

"Oh Shi...." The bandit leader as he was engulfed in it as well as his men behind him.

In mere seconds the house was engulfed in magical flames.

"Mama!!!!!!" Valerie cried as she saw the house in flames from the corner of her eyes. Her tear flowing out more profoundly.

"Damn that bitch! Once again she's stopped me from getting what I want!" A man in silver armor said as he walked up the plains, he had dark brown hair and red eyes like Valerie's.

"Huh your Valerie, you've grown hehehe Rouge told you were the blade was didn't she? Come to Papa?" The man said as he realized Valarie was near the house.

Valerie stood her ground against the mysterious man and said "I don't have a father!, And Mama didn't tell me anything about a blade"

"Damn it, even you! No you're lying am sure you're lying come here you brat!" the man charged at Valerie who still stood her ground until...

{Air wall!} A voice shouted as a wall of teal energy shielded Valerie from the crazed man.

Edward then jumped from a floating platform above the plains and along side him was the demon of Wrath Remi.

Remi looked at Valarie and shouted "Stealing is wrong! If you wanted the money you should have told us your reason!".

Valerie with tears in her eyes touched her back pocket and brought out the bag of coins she took "Am sorry, am so sorry!" She cried out.

"Sir , we can deal with that later, now I want your help in dealing with this guy" Edward said with a serious tone.

"Is it too late to negotiate?, that's my daughter over there! And my wife just committed suicide over at that house, give a guy a break!"

"Give it up Clide the rogue warrior, we know you and your gang were planning something big but.... but this is just unbelievable" Edward said with disdain.

"That Unala! If she had said something about this sooner maybe we could have saved Valerie's mom!" Remi said as he gritted his sharp teeth.

"You've got it wrong! it's not like we came to kill that woman, we just wanted information! she's the one that blew herself up!" Clide protested

"She was your wife!" Remi shouted.

"She was a bitch!, who kept me from the ultimate prize! For years she kept all that power for herself, she should rot in hell! at least now I can gather what little info that girl has and..." Clide was stopped as Remi drew his sword and landed a hit Clide's sword.

Metal collided but the blue light of Remi's horn and eyes shined brighter than the sparks.

"Am tired of your voice!" Remi shouted as he sent Clide back with the force of his sword.

Remi continued to rush Clide with reckless swings of his blade while getting blocked. Edward confronted a sobbing Valerie.

"Valerie, I swear after all this is settled we'll give your mom a proper burial" Edward said as he ran to his partner.

"Wait! Why? Why are you doing this after all I did to you people?!!" Valerie asked sorrowfully.

"Only scum would ignore the tears of the innocent, sir Remi and I are knights, we can't let this situation go on!" The chubby teen said to her as he ran off to fight.

Valerie stood up, she couldn't stand the fact that these two people were fighting on her behalf, she needed to help them in some way, but how?

"Don't underestimate me! [Reaper jab!]" Clide released a skill his blade turned purple and in a flash stabbed Remi in various places.

"Gahhh!" Remi shouted as he moved  backwards, blood flowing from his open wounds.

"Hehehe you can dish out attacks, but you can't take them? Is this the worth of a knights nowadays? Pathetic!" Clide teased Remi.

{Air wall! Bash} Edward shouted as he charged Clide with a wall made of teal Mana.

Clide swung his sword at the wall but only managed to dent it 'clinnnk'.

"Guwahhhhhhh" the wall bash sent Clide flying as it broke on impact.

"Whuurahhhhhh!" Remi screamed as he used the opportunity to jump to Clide's location and land an attack at the back of this silver armor.

"You little insects, trying to break through my defenses little by little" Clide spit out.

"That's the best strategy when fighting a higher level opponent" Edward said

"Well give up on that! You ain't beating me! Am *lvl 40* and am just getting started!" Clide said as purple aura filled his body.

Clide then charged at Edward with his arms crossed.

"{Air wall}"  Edward shouted as a shield of air protect him however...

'crackkkk!' the shield broke immediately after Clide bashed into it and didn't push him back.

"Take this!" Clide punched Edward in the face sending him backwards.

"Guahhh" Edward cried as blood flowed out of his nose.

"Rahhhhhhh!" Remi charged again with his sword however Clide dodged the attack with his superior speed.

"Too slow!" Clide shouted as he kicked Remi's chest shattering his bronze chest plate and breaking a few ribs.

"Greeeeiiii" Remi coughed out blood  as he stumbled to his knees, healing multiple injures at a time were making it difficult for him to fight at his best.

"[Ominous pledge!]" Clide shouted as he placed his sword in the ground and clapped his hands together, numerous skeletal fist appeared and launched a flurry of punches at Edward and Remi.

"Griiiii, Gahhhh" the knights screamed as they were bombarded by punches, as the skeletal fists made contact with them they disappeared into dust.

Valerie fed up with this, walked in front of Clide and readied her fist.

"What are you planning on doing? You'll end up just like your mother and these knights if you don't do as I say!" Clide shouted with a sadistic smile.

"Stop this now or else!" Valerie shouted back.

"Or what? you'll shout at me some more! Go ahead hahahahahaha" Clide laughed.

"Stooooooooppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The words from Valerie manifested into energy waves that took hold of Clide like a fly on a spider web.

"Whaaaaat the hell is this?!" Clide cried as his ears were bombarded by the word 'stop' until he heard nothing other than it, his magic was cancelled releasing the two knights from the skeletal assault.

In Clide's state of confusion, Edward signaled the freed Remi to attack by raising his fist up.

"Now! {Air wall: fist }" Edward covered his right fist in teal Mana as he launched a magic attack at Clide.

Remi put all his anger into his right hand his glove tore off as veins bulged out of his arm, "Graaaaaaaaaaaa!" Remi shouted As he ran towards Clide as well.

Clide, who was desperately trying to block out his daughter's cry was suddenly hit with a sharp pain in his right cheek and stomach.

"You're finished!", "Die!!!" A shout from Edward and Remi respectively entered his ears as they exchanged blows into his body.

Clide didn't have a second of relief as the pain quickly took away his consciousness, 'thud' he fell to the ground with a broken jaw and broken ribs.

"Rahhhhhhh!" Remi shouted out a victory cry as his rage was satisfied with Clide's defeat.

Edward however looked at Valerie who had collapsed to her knees holding her throat tightly.

Valerie was gently gasping for air after shouting her lungs out, she noticed her hands had gotten smaller and she could now smell the scent of the plain's grass more profoundly.

Edward looked at her in fear as she slowly started breathing again.

"Valerie you you're...." Edward struggled to finish his sentence.

"An abnormal?" Remi said as his horn sunk into his skull and he regained his senses.

Valerie stood up and saw that both Edward and Remi were taller than before she also had a strange feeling coming from her feet, she looked at them only to realize tiny brown hairs had covered the top of each enlarged foot. Her feet were twice their size.

"What..what?!" Valerie  cried out, her voice sounded younger.

"Valerie it's okay we'll figure something out, but for now let's go get your mom" Edward said as he bent down to her level.

Valerie quickly, stopped her cries and gave a serious expression.

The. Three looked through the rubble of the burnt house and found 11 piles of ashes on the floor, one in particular stood out as it had a red ish glow to it, Valerie confirmed it was her mother's and Edward packed the ashes into a soot sack.

Morning after the battle

Valerie had come to terms with the death of her mother and her change in appearance, she was now shorter in height, her ear had become bigger as well as her feet, and her hair was a lot more curlier.

She walked to the edge of the plains where a small gravesite for her mother was made with small stone, with a large stone serving as her tombstone, she was holding the soot sack containing the ashes of her late mother Rouge.

Behind her was Edward wiping tears from his face while Remi looked solemn as usual with his grim face.

Valerie then released the ashes into the breeze as it flew away gently.

"Mama, I'll miss you a lot but don't worry about me, I'll be fine, now you'll be free from all the bad people that wanted to hurt you..." Valerie said as tear flowed down her cheeks.

Remi put a hand on her head to comfort her as she cried her heart out.

Far away from Remi and the others

Cliff side

A man with blue hair wearing a black cloak that covering his ears, sitting by the edge of the cliff waiting for something.

He gently opened his purple eyes to see a cloud of ash approaching him.

'swóooooooo' the man inhaled and the ash was absorbed into his body.

A single black horn popped out from his forehead as  he stood up, he looked around in every direction until he stopped north east.

"What a drag... Why can't things like this be as easy to find as apples" the man covered his entire face in the cloak and vanished.

Who was that? The story continues as more forces jump out from the shadows, next time the fate of Valerie hangs in the balance.