CHAPTER VI: DESTINED TO BE

AMETHYST'S POV

That guy, he's simply familiar to me. I wonder who he is. His mysterious face kept on haunting me for hours but I'm sure he is now all right after I resurrected him. But at his looks. He looks like a merciless thief who wants to be an assassin someday.

Assassins. They are people whose beliefs are way too different from the insights of priests and priestess. They believe that this world can only have peace and harmony if there will be bloodshed. They believe that everything that happens here was made by people and so the people must suffer to what they did, while us, we believe that everything that happens is God's will and people must go with the flow to the way of God's will.

NEON'S POV:

After my visions darkened, I remember a blurred vision of a woman, wearing a blue bracelet at her right arms. She resurrected me. My life was saved by one of God's disciple. What a shame to me. I was killed by a dozen of zombies. If I'm only stronger than that. One day, I'll go back there and kill all the monsters on my way, aggressive or non-aggressive.

As I sleep, I remember the woman who saved my life. Her angelic voice rang repeatedly at my ears, as if angels are with me. He doesn't believe in God. If there is God then why is the world full of hatred and sorrow. Why didn't he make the world peaceful, full of joy and no sufferings? Why did he make the people greedy and selfish? Full of question but few answers.

When I woke up, I saw myself lying at a soft and comfy bed. A man who was sitting at a chair, looked up and said, "At last, you are awake."

NORMAL POV

"What do you mean?" he asked. "You are sleeping for almost a day. We saw you lying at the ground, outside the dangerous Payon Cave, full of wounds but breathing." He explained. "You are not the one who resurrected me?" he asked, determined to know the kind lady who helped him. "Resurrected? We have no acolyte. Actually, our group, we are all merchants, was just passing by when we saw you." He explained again. "Then do you saw who resurrected me?" he asked again, hopeful, they must have seen the maiden who resurrected him. "No. We didn't saw who resurrected you. We just saw you unconscious and alone." He answered.

"Anyway, My name is Fritzgerald De Monterey but they call me Fritzie." The guy said as he offered a handshake. "Neon. Neon Symphonia." He answered as he accepted the handshake.

"W-What? Are you a relative of Hakuza Symphonia, one of the well-known assassin in Midgard?" Fritzie was shocked. "N-No. But he cared me for almost my entire life. I am just his orphan." He answered back. "I see. May the God be with him! " Fritzie commented as he looked up at the ceiling and made a sign of a cross.

He just smiled, trying to ease the pains of his wounds from his different parts of the body. Suddenly the door opened and a woman came in, holding tray full of foods. Her blue hair is short and she was wearing a merchant outfit.

"Hi! It's a good thing you are now awake. Here, have some soup. I also made some apple juice so you can regain your strength." She said as she put down the tray at a nearby table and helped Neon to sit on the bed and offered a bowl of soup.

"Thank you!" he said as he sat down and trying to take the soup. "It's nothing, we, at our guild named Merchant's Merchants, is ready to help people in need." She said as she gave a smile. "My name is Julia. Julia De Monterey. I am her older sister." She added.

"His name is Neon. Neon Symphonia. He is the rumored orphan of Hakuza Symphonia." Fritzie introduced the fellow to Julia. "Really? Oh, wow! Maybe you are as great as Hakuza." Julia exclaimed. "No... Not really. I am just starting to be a thief and wanting to be an assassin." He explained. Hakuza is not really great. Ok, maybe great for other people in different perspective but to his own, his known father was full of sorrow and grief. He knew and feels like ordinary people. He knows how to be sad, to be mad, to grief, to be happy and to feel great.

After a week of regaining strength, Neon was able to be back in his normal status. He bid goodbye to his friend and was very thankful that they helped him. While walking at the lower part of Payon Village, he saw an acolyte, being joked harshly by some merchants.

"Oh, come on, Miss Acolyte. We need someone to heal us!" the one said to her. "And we need a beautiful woman beside us to become an inspiration." The other one added. "Gomenasai but I don't-" the acolyte tried to say but the man interrupted her.

"If we can't please you with words, then we will use sword." He smirked as a katana appeared in his hands. "Hey, pick someone with your same gender!" Neon appeared at the front of them. "Who are you?" he said, trying to bully Neon. He just smirked in front of the bullies.

"Then fight with me..." he smirked. "Uh- we are just joking." The guy said at him. "Yeah." The other two nodded. "Retreat!" the leader said as he run as fast as he could, away from Neon as the two follows.

"Are you alright?" he asked the woman. The girl just nodded. "Next time, don't ever roam around, alone, ok? Where is your other party members?" he asked her. "I don't have one." She said, thankfully to the guy, as she offered a handshake to him, revealing her blue bracelet. Neon was shocked. It was the same bracelet that she saw from the one who resurrected him.

"You? Where did you get this?" he asked as he suddenly grabbed her arm and stared at the bracelet intensely. "This? Oh, this is really mine. Personalized and unique from Prontera." She said with a calm voice.

"Its that- you can't be the one who resurrected me. You are just an acolyte." He was surprised. "Oh, you are that guy from the Payon Cave who was defeated by Zombies." She surprisingly remembered the guy's face. "But how?" he asked. "Sometimes, there are miracles." She said with a smile. She sat down and Neon joined her.

"Thank you." He said, shyly. She just smiled. "What's your name?" he asked. "Amethyst. Amethyst Gallage." She said as she looked at the sky. "I'm Neon, Neon Symphonia." He introduced himself. "Maybe, we can be party." He asked. "But, I think, your level is higher than mine. We can't have an even share of experience." Amethyst answered.

He doesn't care if it isn't even share. "I don't care" "But..." he interrupted her last words. "No buts..." he said seriously. After inviting her to the party, they have a little chitchat.

"I am the youngest in our family. Since the memory of Midgard was written, our members of family are all priestess and priest or holy. Starting from my ancestor, until in our generation. My parents died, protecting Prontera from monster's attack when I was just a baby. After they died, my older brother and me were left at the sanctuary with the holy people. My brother followed the footsteps of our parents. To be a divine person, the priest. And now, like the other guilds, he joined a guild, looking for the Holy Light. I am having my own journey. I ran away from the sanctuary and set my own adventure. Finding my brother and to search for the Holy Light." She narrated. Neon was listening carefully, didn't miss any word from her.

"Well, I am an orphan of a well-known assassin. Taking his last name as mine, I became Neon Symphonia. I don't know where my parents are and who am I? That is why I am having a journey. To find the real me. Maybe if I found the Holy Light, it might be able to answer my questions..." he explained. "About your incredible power, I never heard such a news that acolytes can resurrect." He added, commenting on her powers. "I don't know. I just discovered it when I was a kid. I resurrected a cat. Only my brother and myself knew about this. And now... you..." she replied.

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