The cold sweat dripped down my face as the cool breeze blew gently through the air. Everything became blurry, silent... No pain, no agony, only a rush of ecstasy alongside the panning feelings hunger and confusion. I feel so alive!
"Haah.... haah..." All I could hear was my heavy breathing, inhaling and exhaling the surrounding air. I could make out some muttering through the silence, noises of a distressed comrade, a mix between sadness and anger.
"-it... me..."
It made little sense, if any at all. The voice sounded so familiar and nostalgic.
"Sh*t! Why are you doing this to me..?"
The muttering began to become clearer, I could hear properly. My vision cleared up as I looked at the fresh blue sky. The sun caressed my face and my surroundings politely.
"Guts..."
My hunger grew as did my senses. Not only my sense of vision, smell, sound, and what not. I had power, beyond anything can imagine. I was the best there was! Not only did I have a rank that outmatches all other claymores, I was more alive than ever!
"Alison, I'll never forgive you for making me do this..." Beck cried.
Have I done something terrible to her? All we did was a simple duel, and looking at her battered up and bloodied body I must have come out with the rank of number 1.
I looked down at her for a little longer until the hunger finally became unbearable.
"Guts... Human guts..."
I mumbled. I left Beck to wither away in despair as she could only look at my back. I'm ahead of her, I'm better than her. Watch this back, Beck! You'll never touch it ever again!
"Alison... how could you... I never thought of you as inferior to me even once... so why? Why did you have to awaken!!?"
Those words pierced me like sharp swords on an open wound. The pain shuttered throughout my body as I felt a cold shiver take control... A cold and dark shiver went throughout my body and on impulse I acted.
"Awakened?" I asked rhetorically.
"Don't get so jealous you inferior dog. You've looked down to the rest of us from above and now that I'm above you... You try make up such an obvious lie?
Don't be silly... You've never seen me as inferior because you've always known that one day, I will beat you... and that day is today."
I heard nothing after that. Silence stood there staring me in the face. I slightly turned my head to catch a glimpse of her. Beck shivered with both hands fisted, she shivered with her teeth clenched together.
Beck shivered in utter defeat... And that's all I needed to see. I turned away from her once again and began to walk.
"Don't F*ck with me." Beck spoke with narcissism.
"I never thought of you as Inferior to me, not one time did I think I was above you until today." Her tone became filled with more confidence.
"What did you just say?" I hissed back at her.
"I said that the Alison that I knew was better than this lump of sh*t in front of me right now!"
"...Beck, Have you lost all your pride!?"
"No, Alison... I never had any pride to begin with... As a Claymore, the only thing I held onto was my humanity, not my pride. And that's why I'm better then a monster who threw away their humanity for useless pride!" Her bark got louder, and more egoistic.
Once again silence stood in our presence for a brief moment, only to be broken by an annoyance once again.
"Look at yourself, Alison... Look at what you've become!"
Beck raised her claymore with the reflection of an awaked being residing inside it. I flinched back as I turned to face behind me. Emptiness... Nothing but an empty forest!
"What are you running away from? This is what you have become, a monster... An abomination with no shred of humanity!" Beck whispered into my ear softly.
"F*ck off!" I screamed as I swung my arm at her.
Trees fell down and the ground shook. This feeling... Have I really awakened? Sh*t! What happened during that battle between me and Beck! Remember!! Remember damn it!!
The cold hard steel of the claymore grazed my cheek. A rush of blood fell out and without thinking twice I ran away from Beck... I became a deserter... I fled to the sky... away from land, away from reality.