Chapter 5: massacre

::Kyo smiles looking at the old man as he slowly approaches him, the old man grinned devilishly, there was just a strange presence Kyo would feel whenever he was around the old man, he blinked a few times then walked up to the old man, his sword sheathed:: "Well done Kyo" ::the old man said and went back to his evil smirk, Kyo nodded and stopped in front of the man:: "does this mean you'll train me now?" ::Crashion (the old man) nodded:: "yes I will train you now…this may take a long time if you wish to learn everything I know" ::Kyo nodded:: " I will do whatever it takes to become stronger…I really need the strength" ::what Kyo was hoping for was to become stronger then the demon in his mind so he could overpower it…if it where possible, Crashion turned around:: "alright boy…follow me" ::he started to walk off into the huge field that seemed to stretch out for miles, it was starting to get cold as a brush of wind blew against Kyo sending a shiver down his spine. They kept walking for what seemed to be hours till they reached a stream that seemed to be glowing in the center of the plains, there where tiny orbs flying around it as Kyo's eyes widened in amazement and then smiled:: "wow…..it's beautiful" ::the old man nodded:: "look carefully into the orbs" ::Kyo blinked a few times then looked at one of the orbs as it flew up right in front of him, it was a tiny fairy, he smiled looking at the little, female fairy, it was completely nude as he smiled:: "you know…Fairy's can make you stronger when your weak and they can become your worst enemy when your weak as well…they have many powers…they could take over your mind and body or they could give you more power then you could imagine…pick one out and I'm sure he or she will follow you..they love to follow wonderers…well most of them do anyways::

::Kyo nodded then looked at the one right in front of him and smiled:: "will you like to come with me" ::he said to the small fairy as it seemed to smile back but it was hard to tell as it flew over and rested on his shoulder, Kyo looked at the old man and nodded:: "Now what?" "now young boy…your training starts" ::the old man pulled out a long sword, that looked too long to be a katana, with a very long hilt as well, the blade was thick but not that thick cause it still maintained to be a Katana, it had words encrypted into it in elvish. The tip of the blade was extremely sharp, Kyo gazed at the swords beauty then held out his sword as it glowed blue again:: "Now Kyo…STRIKE!" ::Kyo lunged at the man as fast as he could but the old man spun out of the way smacking Kyo in the back of the head with his Hilt as Kyo flew face first into the ground, Kyo jumped back up looking at the old man smiling:: "hmm…your too off balance….your going to need a lot of training young one" ::Crashion smiled::

(three months later)

::Kyo wakes up in bed rubbing the back of his head, his body ached in pain from all the training, he had bruises and cuts all over him but he still got up exhausted from his last day of training, he walked outside seeing the old man, Crashion smiled at Kyo:: "you finally finished my first level of training" ::Kyo blinked:: "WHAT! Only the first level!" ::the old man smirked:: "yes only the first..there are five levels…your not yet strong enough to start the next levels" ::Kyo nodded:: "….alright" "BUT! Kyo I have something that might be able to get you stronger…go to the town of Vercentage and Join the army there" ::He smirked evilly again:: "Kyo smiled:: "alright I will then…but…don't they only let knights of royal blood join?" "I will talk to them…I'll be there in a few days…I have things to do here first alright…so go now.." ::the old man tosses Kyo a map as he looks at it, the town actually wasn't very far from where they where, Kyo nodded then ran off in the direction of the town, it took him about an hour an a half to get there, he was sweating from exhaustion but he was much faster without the traveling it might've even tooken him a day, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and then walked towards the town. It was eerily quiet for such a large town, he walked a few feet in looking at the side of a house seeing a huge blood stain, his eyes widened quickly as his body started shaking for a moment he ran in seeing a body of a child, the child's eyes wide with fear, blood running out of his mouth, his left hand had been chopped off and a deep wound in his gut, Kyo blinked:: "..wh….what kind of monster would do this" ::Kyo ran further into the town hearing a man crying and screaming in pain, Kyo started shaking as he walked further into the town seeing a cloaked figure with his hand on a man's neck and the other on his side, the cloaked figures head on the man's neck, there where bodies everywhere, children, men, women, where all hacked to death, there was a long hilt coming out of the cloaked figures cloak, the man was shaking and screaming as blood was running out of his neck, as Kyo could hear the man's skin being ripped off, the cloaked figure was eating him alive, tears where flowing down the man's face as Kyo's eyes became teary seeing the man:: "STOP!" ::Kyo shouted as the figure turned his head, the cloaked figure dropped the man' his neck was torn almost down to the bone, the man was hurt and shocked so badly he couldn't stand, the man lowered his hood, he resembled Ferverus a lot..but it wasn't, he had long black hair, his hair covering the left side of his face, he had blood red eyes, he had small black armor under his cloak, black pants, with small fragments of armor on certain places of his legs, at the ends of his black hair, the blended to white, he smirked evily at Kyo::… "if you wished to save them…you are by far to late" ::Kyo glared at him:: "you evil bastard!" ::Kyo charged at him but before he could even swing his sword at him the man disappeared appearing behind him as Kyo could hear his Cloak flap, Kyo quickly turned around unsheathing his sword now recognizing the man his eyes widening:: "your blaze!!" ::Blaze smirked:: "yes of course…how did you hear about me the many rumors and legends…or was it a nightmare of the berserker….many rumors many stories about my power" ::he smirked devilishly as he appeared in front of Kyo his speed incredibly fast, and impossible to keep track of as he punched Kyo in the face as blood flew out of Kyo's mouth from the blow, he then blacked out and fell over onto the ground, all he could hear was Blaze laughing::

::Kyo woke up a few hours later looking around, everything was black::… "wha….am…I dead" ::he leaned up, he couldn't see anything it was so dark:: "hello!" ::he looks around franticly as his heart begins to race:: "where the hell am I?" ::he continued to look around he felt his body to feel if he was still in contact with the rest of his body, his cloths where still on nothing was broken he even felt his sword still there. He then started to run off into the darkness not seeing anything as his heard thudded faster feeling as if it where about to explode. He kept turning his head side to side looking for any kind of light, then there was a white flash nearly blinding him as he shielding his eyes blinking a few times as his eyes watered from the brightness, when he opened his eyes it was pitch black again. Then there was another white flash and another then he was someplace else. All there was, was ruins. It was raining hard. His eyes widened seeing hundreds of graves and tombstones, the houses where nothing but rubble, he looked around seeing an eerie tree with five bodies hanging from it, the bodies rocking back and forth, his heart started beating faster again as he took a few steps back as a crow flies by in the distance that was probably feeding on one of the corpses. He has never seen such a gruesome sigh before, it was so disturbing to see such a thing, the ground was extremely soft his feet nearly sunk in completely. He turned his head looking at the graves again, Kyo then looks at the Rain again, looking at it carefully, the rain was going up, he started breathing heavily:: "wh…what is going on where am I!?" ::he screamed, he then felt a tiny touch, he quickly looked at his shoulder looking at the small female fairy. He smiled faintly:: "heh…hey…I thought I lost you" ::the small fairy smiled and shook her head, he felt a little less nervous till he looked at the ground seeing it all crack and break he jumped back as hundreds of strange tentacles started waving about wildly swinging around the sharp tentacles quickly as one slashed Kyo's cheek as blood flew into the air from the blow, he jumped back again putting his hand on the sheath of his sword, the small fairy started shaking cuddling against his neck as he turned his head looking at the fairy then back at the tentacles as the ground started shaking violently. Kyo glared at the monster gripping his sword tightly as he quickly unsheathed his sword gripping it tightly with both of his hands. Then an enormous head sprung out right in front of him, his eyes widened, he would only appear as a tiny bug compared to the monstrous beast. It's eyes where enormous and golden, it's face was rotted and old the hundreds of tentacles where on the beasts back still waving franticly, it's slimy black skin filled with the stench of a thousand corpses, it's fingers where long and bony as it opened it's mouth as a long tongue rolled out with an enormous stench rolling out with it.:: "what is that thing!" ::the Fairy cowered into Kyo's shoulder shaking even more::

::the beast roared rolling it's head back as the hundreds of tentacles flew out at Kyo as he jumped back turning around running but as he looked in the distance seeing he was in the middle of nowhere, he turned his head looking at the beast seeing that if he ran the beast would chase after him and something that size would definitely be faster then him, he fell to his knees closing his eyes as the fairy started crying as it spoke to him:: "NO Kyo don't give up now you fought to survive till now don't just give up please I don't want to die and I'm sure neither do you!" ::the fairy's voice was so soft and sweet but extremely nervous, Kyo slowly stood up looking up at the monster holding the sword out with both hands glaring at the beast, he dashed at it as it swung one of it's enormous hands at him as he counter swung his sword chopping one of it's fingers off and straight down it's palm as the monster shrieked out in pain as it pulled it's hand back, Kyo smirked evilly as he ran towards the beasts torso, then more of the tentacles on the monsters back lunged at Kyo thrusting at him ,he would begin to swerve and dive out of the way as the tentacles would shatter the ground he once was to tiny holes till he reached the torso jumping up thrusting the sword into it's gut, while he jumped the blade ripped right threw it's flesh as it screamed in pain once again, he kicked it flying back away from the monster pulling his sword out, when he hit the ground sliding on the wet ground, his body now drenched since the water was coming up from under him. Then the beast roared again as it looked as if hundreds of bodies where in the creatures face trying to break out pressing out from under it's skin looking as if they where trapped under it's skin. Kyo looked horrified taking a step back, the fairy flew off of Kyo's shoulder aiming both of it's hands at the monster, as a golden light hit the beast as it burned it's skin in a small spot , Kyo then dashed towards the monster again it swung it's other arm at him but he jumped this time landing on it's arm running up it's arm quickly till he reached it's shoulder thrusting his sword into it's neck as it screamed aloud in pain as one of the tentacles flew from it's back hitting him in the side going deep in him as blood slowly seeped from his wound. He winced his eyes in pain as he quickly pulled his sword out chopping the tentacle in half and then pulling it out of his side, he jumped off of it's shoulder wincing in pain still as he ran towards the fair as all of it's tentacles at once thrusted at him he dove away as all the tentacles flew down at once like a sky full of arrows, he almost made but one pierced straight threw his right leg as he was slammed into the ground as he shouted in pain, the tentacle went deep into the ground as well, Kyo tried to pull himself up but couldn't. The fairy aimed her hands at the monsters tentacle as it slowly melted in half as the tentacles flew back behind the monster. Kyo started breathing heavily as he turned slightly pulling the tentacle out of his leg as he slowly stood up slightly breathing heavily as more blood ran from his body:: "heh…I thought I was gonna die for sure there….hehhehehe" ::he smiled slightly knowing he was gonna die:: "oh god….hehehe I'm gonna die here…I didn't think my death would be so hellish and so much like a nightmare…." ::then there was a flapping noise far in the distance, Kyo quickly turned his head as water flew from his wet hair seeing a demonic figure flying towards them with a tattered cloak ripped and torn, and it's one red eye glowed brightly even though it was very far away. Then the fairy spoke again:: "oh no more demons…Kyo I don't wanna die please I don't want to die!" ::Kyo looked at the fairy:: "we won't die I won't give up we'll get out of this somehow he looked at the demon then back at the large one that was glowing an eerie color.:: "…but…I'm not sure anymore…I don't know what the hell is going on…first I'm possessed and wake up finding out my family is dead…I find out demons do exist and that I'm possessed by one and there is such things as magic…and since this is such a demented world…we might be able to live…somehow…" ::he turned seeing the demon on the ground behind him now. It's large black feathery wings outstretched and a cloak covering it's face:: "who are you boy!" ::it sounded like two different people one with a deep and older voice and one with a more quiet and deep voice:: "I…I am Kyo" "…Kyo…why are you here!" ::Kyo blinked:: "I…I don't know I just..appeared here" ::the figure lowered his hood, it was the demon from his dream, the black demon with the small purple gem imbedded in it's head and the blood red eyes, he blinked a few times and backed up breathing heavily:: "your Kyo right…well stay here for a moment while I finish up with this pathetic beast" ::Kyo moved out of the way as the the black demon moved towards the large monster, the larger monster thrusted all of it's tentacles at the smaller one all at once, but as soon as they touched his scaly skin they would break right in half as tons of green like ooze flew from the beasts tentacles, the demon then lunged at the monster shoving It's long spike like fingers into it's gut as millions of tiny red lights flew out of it's back as the monster screamed in even more pain as it tried to punch the monster but it only broke it's hand as the snap of it's wrist breaking echoed in the empty prairie, the demon only smiled as he ripped his claws on thrusting them in and out of the demon nonstop slashing it's gut open over and over, then it dug it's claws in deep inside the monster and ripped in two different directions ripping it's stomach open as hundreds of corpses rolled out, some burnt from stomach acid, the bodies looked like mush, the stench was awful as Kyo turned his head throwing up, the demon then jumped far back as the large monster fell ontop of it's old food obviously dead. Kyo wiped his mouth looking at the demon in fear::

"you…what is your name" ::Kyo said his voice filled with fear.:: "I am the demon known as the Berserker…but I have no more reason to be out here so I be leaving now" ::Kyo blinked:: "Wait no! I need to ask you something. Then the demon closed it's eyes and there was a purple mist leaving it's body as it slowly changed shape the wings disappeared and the body turned to a man, it was the other man in his dream…..Blaze, he just stood there his cloak flapping, his long hair blowing back and his eyes closed, with a smirk spread on his face as Kyo blinked in fear.

To Be Continued…

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