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He was surprised. In fact, he was more than surprised as he stood there standing in front of what appeared to be a peasant. Never before, in his past two years of pirating had he been caught by any nor did anyone ever realize about his heists, but now standing before him was nothing more than a sliver of society's framework. Even worse, the town's guards were never present at night, so to top it off, he was screwed. The man standing before him, however, was probably even more shocked than he was, in his very eyes stood a glint of greed and achievement as the man looked from the stolen wealth and the face of the thief.
" Why, hello there?" The man suddenly said in a course and croaky voice which also happened to sound creepy, " May I help you with what you're carrying, you look awfully frail for a child of what... 8 or 9?" The malevolent glare of greed appeared again, " Also, son what's your name." He ended in an overlarge smile.
" In that case" He gulped, " Needless to say, my age is confidential, and I... I have no name." He nervously stated, from a glance upward he swore the man was licking his chops and rubbing his hands together as if he were applying lotion, " However, you may call me Zero or Nihil if you wish..."
" Very well then Zero" He said in a mocking tone emphasizing on the ZE-, " I er.. what you call it?"
" Propose?"
" Well.. er... yes "Propose for you to give me whatever your holding. After all it's not like I'm a thief or somethin... In fact, I can probably protect your money from those people like y-... Nevermind."
Zero mentally groaned, he was already getting bored of the "conversation" with this man, he had been taught how to identify human emotions and thoughts since he was four to eight and he was also incredibly good at doing so. However, he had no place while conversing with people who were insane about wealth, in fact the only reason he stole was so he could get a good "boost" in his next step in life. Also, this man happened to be the worst liar ever, and his face told even more than an open book.
" Sorry sir, but you see, my dad is a very important person, and he trusts me in storing his wealth to a secret safe." Zero hoped that the man would fall for the bait.
Almost instantly, the man started adding " OH yes, yes, I... I work as a butcher and I'm very trustworthy, in fact they even call me Trivial, that's er... another language for trustworthy!" He said almost too enthusiastically.
'Wow' thought Zero, ' His intelligence is even lower than my intelligence when I was thre... No scratch that his intelligence matches that of a mushroom...' He then scrunched up his face as if in deep thought before stating, " You know what, with the lack of guards around here I think you'd make a "perfect" escort, since my dad's so "important" you should protect me with you life. Won't you?" Zero had tried hard on that note to retain his sarcastic tone of voice, however, the man seemed not notice.
"Alright, I'll guard you as well, no even better than your guardian angel protects you! Now why don't ya show me the safe." The glint of greed almost immediately returned to his eyes, "How' bout you walk in front of me. I could watch ya back for ya."
" Sorry, but my FATHER doesn't expect me to be prancing around midnight with a peasant like you, consider this a favor, escorting the banker's son." Zero tried for a brattish tone of voice, " Also, I'll stay behind you, I know how to take of my back better than you do yourself." Upon looking at the man's face, he almost laughed when he realized how angry he had made the man when he called him a peasant, his face was scrunched up in a half smile while his bulbous eyes look shiftily at him, along with that his face was literally twisted into some kind of half-greed, half-fury kind of face.
Struggling to regain control, the man regained himself before hastily adding ," ARRgh... ya little devil just give me that bag of wealth, Sheesh, ya bugger go on now before I just take it away." He was starting to lose his patience and his eyebrows were knotted so hard that it could of stayed that way for all eternity.
" Now hold on, is it money you say you want? Now, if we make it there I'll give you half of the money in this bag alright, just leave me one promise."
"Ya?"
"You must dig up the safe... Now I know it may be tough for father treasures his wages really much, but if you an do that, this little something can become yours." Zero teasingly shook the bag in front of the man's face.
" Alright, this better be good, tell me how to get there." He grunted back.
" Just LISTEN, I know to your uneducated mind, this may be too much to handle, but stay put and know your rights and lefts we'll get there okay?"
" Alright just cut the crap now. Before I cut your tongue out" He pointed toward a knife stuck between his waist area and his belt, " I ain't afraid of pulling it out and I doubt no one will find out."
" Okay, Okay, stop. This is going out of hand, listen no one needs to cut the other alright, anyway just don't get too melodramatic over a piece of gold." Zero hastily added, " Also, why don't we continue our rendezvous trip to the safe, also the less you utter out a breath, the more energy you'll have for digging."
" Alright let's go, also, smart ass." You're leading he used his beefy hand and dragged Zero by the scruff of his shirt to the front, " And if you decide to fuck with me, well, I hope you father won't miss you. NOW GO!" He aimed the kitchen knife toward Zero's back whilst grasping his arm. Zero, being the "smart ass" he was took his time before his mouth got the better of him.
" We'll aren't you a backstab- NO!" He jsut managed to catch himself though he heavily cursed at himself.
"WHAT!"
"I-I just said that the-he safe is hidden in that alley" The man threw Zero forward onto the ground, " It's just in that small shaded area, yea right there."
The man looked at Zero skeptically, then he grabbed Zero by the arm and bowled him against the corner of the alley. " Just stay there and wait, if I find that you've been bullshitting me all this time, I swear I'm gonna blow up your head until it pops. NOw how the hell do I get in this sod?" He raged at Zero.
"I doubt you can pop my head with that knife" Exclaimed Zero who was staring shiftily at the knife, " But if you do, CONGRAts, CONGRats. By the way just dig and you'll find it okay?"
The man then took out his blade and poked the ground, the ground was as hard as stone and twice as dusty, there was no way that someone could recently dug that area up and he knew it." In a fit of rage he groaned ," SO ya little bastard" He took out his kitchen knife, " I guess you been shitting me this whole time" He smiled, " Well in that case I can KILL YOU NOW and no one will give a shit, and if you're really the son of a banker, well FUck him!" He laughed, now just wait until I bruise up that pretty face of yours.
" All this for a bag of mesos? We'll now I think you're starting to turn into a Whore, cause if you're doing this entirely money then obviously you are one. Otherwise, your just so poor that you sold your uhh... Forget it, but still maybe you can spend that stuff on going to a school, I heard that they..." He dodged just in time as the knife swept over his head, he then proceded roll backwards and regain his footing. " Humph.. What was that? Was it a crappy show of knives man ship or what?"
" It's called the IF YOU DONT SHUT THE FUCK UP IM GONNA SLICE AND SPLICE YOU UNTIL YOUR DOG FOOD!" He was fuming at this child, first of all the child snarky attitude was so annoying that he literally blew up every time the kid made a noise, second off all the child bullshitted toward him and he hated bullshitters, finally, the kid's physical reactions were really fast as no one lost in speech could of dodged an oncoming blade so easily especially a child.
" Well based on your previous performance I'd say that I'll be dead by the time you even manage to hit me, so yeah... You can't really do-" He was about to finish his phrase when the man in front of him literally landed on him. Since the man was nearly as big as the alley itself he couldn't really escape. NOw the man had Zero pinned under his mass while his left hand shakily held the kitchen knife, yet he moved it right and left as if to figure out which area was Zero's heart. He snarled into Zero's ear," You think your so funny? Well I don't! So now I'm gonna rid the world of this fucker!" He plunged the knife into Zero's right lung. Blood flecked his hand and the blade was deep red with blood. He then stepped away from the corpse and grabbed the bag of wealth from below.
'Good' He thought, 'Now with this payload I can probably get a new job and move the family...' He then stopped. He had forgotten completely about his worrying household when he was trying to collect the wealth. Now, that he thought about it, it was already nearing midnight and his family would be dead sick about him. He then hastily spit on his blood flecked hands to clean off the coloration of stain before setting off. "One step, Two..."
That was how far he made it before he fell. The next day they discovered his dead body with the bag of money and a knife stuck in his neck. No other bodies were found.
ZERO/Nihil/Nil's POV
He clutched the right side of his chest as blood gushed out of it as he examined his blood soaked fingers. He stared back from the man's body to his hand and was for once speechless. He was shocked at such an outrageous achievement, "MY First Kill.." Thoughts like that raced through his conscious yet dazed mind making him reminiscences about an event that happened over five years ago...
" It seems like you' re disturbed..."
"I am! It just... I don't want to be the hero or the warrior. I don't want to kill thousands for the sake of one!"
" It's your legacy child, your destiny-"
" BUt what use is it if all I can do is kill? I may be protecting the world from harm but is it worth it!"
"Worth what?"
"The lives of thousands for the price of one, bloodshed, loss, and misery on both sides."
" Listen, child, there are somethings that we can't escape, it's in your blood to be a fighter and you shall prevail as one! This is what your father and mother would've wanted you to accomplish."
" No I WON'T. I WON'T KIll."
"Very well, I'll leave you to decide, but remember this, you cannot escape your legacy, your path of life, soon you will know what you need to do..."
And here he was standing over the body of a man older and stronger than him, "It was so easy..." He glared with disbelief at the simplicity of death and the absurdity of it, removing his fingers from his wound and glancing at the blood and crud on it. "There is no escaping now young one."
Turning around at the sea port itself, he vowed to never return to the obsession of petty theft, instead he would change to the path of his legacy and obey it once and for all. "I will become the warrior, the murderer..." He then ran to embrace with the darkness within...
END
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