Charlie VS The Hiders

As soon as he left, I wiped the painful tears from my eyes and picked up my axe, jumping out of the opened window located at the right end of the small hut.

I rolled onto the floor sloppily with my axe falling out of my hand and scraping my leg.

I got back up and held it as tight as possible, watching the crowd of people burst through the wooden fence to come to attack me with their pitchforks, spears, and small swords.

The first one came in for an attack stupidly in his grass uniform.

All of this felt fake as he thrust for my head and I moved my head to the left, easily dodging his attack.

I grabbed onto his spear, pulled him toward my axe, and sunk it into his neck, causing him to fall over almost instantly as blood spurted from his neck, and covered my cheeks in the droplets that remained from the initial burst.

I picked up his spear and started to wield that as well, poking it toward the crowd.

"GET AWAY! I don't want to kill any more of you! Just show me the way out and I'll leave you alone!" I screamed at the people.

Some of them listened, but three others didn't.

Men dressed in the grass all came at me with swords.

They didn't even block my attempt to stab them. I thrust the spear towards each of their chests and two of them moved, but the one I aimed for just sank into the sharp point of the spear. He gasped for air as I pulled it out and more blood caked the wet mud underneath him.

His head sank halfway into the mud and it even got into his eye. It was such a horrifying sight... he didn't try to dodge!

I continued to kick at the people coming at me, realizing that the two men were too angry to use their brains to attack me.

I held the spear in a wide stance and swung it with a slashing formation, cutting the throat of one of the men coming at me.

He held it desperately as the blood squeezed out of his opened throat. It covered the other man next to him completely head to toe in sticky blood. He screamed out in peril, reciting the name of his friend.

"DOMIN!!" He screamed out.

I was shaken to my core.

Domin...?

Why did he have the same name?

What is this torture...?

I thrust at his forehead next with enough strength to burst his skull like a balloon. He instantly dropped to the floor violently and dropped his weapon right at his side. The blade was facing up, and his stomach fell onto it, cutting deeper into his body and leaking more blood than necessary.

This was such a messy fight... these Hiders had no idea how to fight, but they could shoot bows?

No... Genesis led me here...

Genesis killed those people with the bow.

As I felt the torturous vibes deep within this village... I realized that this was all part of Genesis's plan.

To knock Orion out, to force me to kill these innocent people who kept coming at me... and they all had the same names as my friends.

That much came true when one of the girls in the back screamed out the name of the man I hit in the head with my dull spear.

"ALEX!" She screamed out.

"PLEASE! STOP!" I shouted out as loud as possible in anguish. I felt tears welling up from deep within my heart... but they wouldn't stop.

The next group of three came at me... two girls and one guy.

I pushed them back as much as possible, but they were still swinging, trying to kill me.

When the guy slashed at my chest, cut my shirt, and lacerated my chest with the tip of his sword... I lost all hope.

I knew this was meant to torture me... these people... with the name of my friends. I was meant to kill all of them... it was scarring to me.

I felt like I had a hand in these deaths... and I couldn't even escape it, not in my own mind, and not in this world.

I brutally slashed and stabbed the three people, revealed to be named Ellios, Rin, and Ren.

Two men came up at me next with two daggers and a big hammer... Cody and Robby.

I dodged the hammer and decapitated Robby with a sword I picked up off the ground, then stabbed Cody once in the stomach with the spear, and then placed the tip of the sword in between his eyes.

I brutally pulled it out and kicked his body down, continuing to slaughter all who stood before me.

I decapitated, took more hits, and even a heavy hit from another blunt weapon to the side of my chest right under my right arm. It felt like a rib cracked, and it hurt to move in a certain position.

I did the same thing to that person and stomped their head into the dirt.

I was starting to lose myself as I killed the 28th person who contested me.

I didn't just kill them, I was desecrating his corpse by stomping his head out from pure emotional trauma.

I saw no way in my mind to get rid of the memory of the people who died alongside me in Orion's war than to completely stomp out their memory... so I did, and I didn't stop until every single one of their heads were brain matter under my heel.

I used the clothing underneath the grass clothing to patch up my wounds and I sat against the wooden hut right outside the window I jumped out of, looking at the pile of bodies in the back of the village.

I saw the people meant to be Sky and Dani, dead, hand in hand together. Blood trickled down my face, meeting the tip of my chin, and dripped onto my crossed legs. I wasn't even sure whose blood it belonged to, but it was still dripping.

I was completely silent.

I couldn't even listen to a thought in my head as I looked at my friends, dead in front of me. I felt ruined.

Attempting to smile was now just a dream.