After ||

"What am I?” The voice mused. “I’ll tell you what exactly I am Aliyah.”

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Draken took out his sword and struck Reda, the cut was taken to her shoulder and she lost some blood, her trust towards Ryker was weakening as her brother started getting ready for his next shot.

‘What are you doing Ryker?’ she whispered to herself. ‘All you need to do is to ask’ he said playfully, loving how desperately she relied on him.

“Ryker! Help!” she said inwardly to herself. It was a little too late as Draken had already used his sword to penetrate deep into her stomach. She collapsed onto the floor and gasped for air. She balled her fingers into a fist and could barely resist the thought of giving up and dying but something twinkled in the sky as she glanced up. She saw her brother gripping the sword in his hand, holding it up to behead her the afternoon sun was hitting her face gently, reminding her of her brief stay on this planet.

Looking at her brother’s face she saw the wicked smirk he wore on his face as it was so devilish, she spent her seemly last minutes remembering was all she was worth and didn’t want to give up. He beheaded her, her once beautiful face was now contorted with pain as it rolled on the floor, blood splattering across the courtyard everywhere. Draken laughed, pleased with himself and started to walk away.

He got to his tenth step when a force stopped him, dragging him backwards to the spot he killed his sister; the puzzling part was that she wasn’t there anymore. The hue of the atmosphere turned red and everything but him was frozen, nothing moved but him.

“Now… Tell me brother, what was it you said about half-blood?” a female’s voice cooed Reda wasn’t humanoid anymore, she was 7ft tall, her previously blonde hair turned blood red and the white in her eyes were no longer found. She appeared in front of her brother, her head was in its rightful place and she appeared thinner and stronger than her previous self. She inched closer to Draken who was covered in fear; she got closer and closer until she was right in his face.

“Are you scared?” she cooed into his ear. She brought out her index finger that had unusual overgrown fingernail. She brought it downwards her brother’s bare chest, tearing the skin on his chest. And with the other hand ripping the skin off his cheek, leaving a small but deep mark on his face.

“Now we know who’s stronger, you’ll do exactly as I say.” It wasn’t Reda in control anymore it was all Ryker, and the statement was directed to both Rhea and Draken.

***

"What am I?” The voice mused. “I’ll tell you what exactly I am Aliyah.” The voice melodically said. The being had the melodic sound of a woman.

“What do you want?” Aliyah asked, she was afraid of the outcome of this confrontation but she had no choice.

“What I want, you can’t provide.”

Lots of things were running through Aliyah’s mind, she held her sword even tighter, she wasn’t afraid to strike the air. When she attempted to strike where she thought the figure was, it laughs slowly.

“Nice try! But if you want to remain alive you better behave!” The being warned

“What happened to this place?” Aliyah’s voice weakened.

The room became darker and a single light showed, a being was formed, having the characteristics of a child. The being had a face of a child and the body of one too. Its expression was saddened by the question asked by Aliyah.

“A flood happened. It killed everyone and everything. It was caused by a demon. So much like you.” The child spoke.

“I’m not a demon.” Aliyah said.

“Face it girly you have no idea what you are in this world do you?” the child said, and all she said was true.

“Once you lose control, this world will be over, darling you have a battle to face but you truly don’t know your potential. You might think this is a dream or the past but it’s not, you are in another world.” The child said.

“Then what are you?” Aliyah asked.

“What am I? I was once a normal child, I sold my soul to a demon once to save my people from the war approaching I gave the demon my extra strength, he used it against me by making me an unknown threat in my village just before the flood, we were losing the fight against the demon, I didn’t know I was helping the opposite side until we lost, and my village was so disappointed in my actions forever cursing me to wander without destination because of my mistakes.” The child said with glittering eyes.

“What happened to the demon?” Aliyah asked once more.

“He should probably somewhere ready to plot the next big war.” The child smirked devilishly.

***