Chapter 13: One's State of Mind

Marsen and Dogbite made their way back to the capital to report to The Old Man with the good news of Marsens success in defeating the Balamont. However Marsen has been trying to hear that voice he heard before but to no avail, nothing.

Dogbite has been slowly nursing Marsen back to former glory from the severe wounds he has recovered and was happy to see him become stronger, however she now knew that she herself needed to become even stronger.

They made it to The Old Man's cabin side by side they kneeled in front of him "Master, I'm sorry for disobeying your orders, I couldn't leave him to die, however he did manage to kill Balamont." Dogbite said first.

"It was no easy feat and I learned a lot about myself, I know what my weaknesses were and I could overcome them thanks to this spear, Gungjr and my own willpower." Marsen followed secondly.

The Old Man smiled weekly "My glad my children, now I have another task for you two." The Old Man vaguely replied to both of them, almost in a sinister like atmosphere. After the shocking task those two received they nodded and left. "It's your turn Kid, become stronger." The Old Man said.

Meanwhile the past 2 days before they got back kid has been under going a new type of training with Jugo. "So you just want me to sit in this cave for a month? Isn't the The Ceremony in a month as well?" Kid asked Jugo

"Yes, so shut up and sit, we're gonna teach you how to enter the inner soul realm so you can talk to that voice in your heart." Jugo was forceful and demanding in his teachings just like The Old Man. "I thought the voice I was feeling was the sword spirit?" Kid was now getting really confused with Jugos methods and lectures.

"Be still I need to draw the pattern on the ground so you can enter your innee soul realm, before we begin, you will have to make sure no other beings can cloud your mind or enter your heart, if they do then you will be locked in the soul realm for ever." Jugo at the last minute gave Kid that advice and Drew the final line for the star pattern.

"Find the voice and you'll find your weakness, overcome it and you'll be able to save the sword spirit." Kid was still confused "Wait wait, what am I suppose to do, how do I find a voice???" With that Jugo says a chant of unknown words and casts Kids conscious into the inner soul realm.

Soul realm is a haunting place, voided of light and filled with tormented screams of agony and pain, Kid was float or rather swimming in what felt like a thick slime, making it hard to move around. Lost and almost afraid Kid pushed himself forward, after what felt like 30 minutes of aimlessly wondering he still saw nothing, he can hear something though, like a itch in the ear but too deep in the ear canal to get to.

Jugos warning was fearful about not letting those cloud his thoughts, he was talking about the Insanity of being unheard, unwanted, being alone, seeking something but not attaining. Kid could feel his legs getting heavy and unbearable to move as if someone or something was latching on to them.

Kid felt claws stab into his legs, into his back, and hands around his neck, he began to lash out in attempts to break free, finally he was able to see figures of deformed humans and monsters, they wanted Kids soul to obtain more power, Kid had no choice but to fight.

It was the worse condition to be in Kid couldn't move, he was bleeding out and what little vision he had was only getting worse, it felt like his head was going to explode, he wanted to give up, he wanted it to end... He wanted to die.

He started fighting back, breaking free, being more wounded and becoming fatigued, if he doesn't keep fighting he'll die, the limitless swarm of humans started relentlessly barraging him...Humans? Kids vision was bright now. he could see what were humans, and around the ones standing were the ones that were dead, then ones that Kid killed.

Kid started to tremble at the sight of the dead, it made him whimper like a pup, it brought back the memory's from the war between the races and the Drakin. Kid was in the middle of it all, Kid remembered now that he was being held by his dead mother in a ramsack village and a dying Drakin inflicted a curse on Kid when he was young. He now knows why The Old Man took him in and trained him.

He also connected the pieces as to why he would be at disgust of hearing The Great One mentioned or why he would never offer anything. There was something lingering over him a darkness that couldn't be cleansed and with the knowledge of all that a voice rang out.

"Hey hey hey, don't you fucking dare go dying on me buddy, you die, I die, if I die, I'll be sure to kill you over and over in the next realm." an unknown demonic sounding voice was being heard. Kid couldn't move, he knew what it was and what his weakness was now. He turned and looked over his shoulder and saw the Drakin from years ago.

End Chapter.