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A/N: Ladies and Gentlemen, I am BACK!!!!! Yes, after a 2 month absence from writing on , I have returned!! If you are still following this story, bless you!! You are waaaaaayy too patient for this!! Anyways, things have been busy around my house lately and there hasn't been much spare time. This has been my first break where I had enough time to do this. Now, for those who are interested, I went back through the story and tweaked a couple of things, but they are so minor that you're probably not going to notice. Enjoy the next chapter of Heaven's a Lie.
Before any of you read this chapter, I strongly suggest that you re-read the rest of the story (if you haven't read it within a week), otherwise you will most likely be majorly confused. However, I can't make you read it again, so do as you wish. Just thought that I would try to help you out.
"It was very foolish of you to request this challenge, Khalon." Jaeger snarled at me, as we circled each other in the intense heat of the desert.
"What was foolish about it, Jaeger? My choice of location?" I asked him.
"Your choice of opponent." He said. I let a smirk come across my face as I glared at him.
"No, I made the right choice on choosing to fight you, Jaeger." I told him.
"It's too bad that your daughter's wisdom did not descend upon you, Khalon. It's also a shame that she was insufficient to my wishes." He said calmly, as if he was stating that it was slightly warm where we were currently standing. My blood began to boil.
"Insufficient to your wishes?!" I yelled at him. "You brainwashed her!! You took everything that was my daughter and erased it from her mind. The woman who betrayed me was not my daughter; she merely looked like her. She was nothing more than a shell of my daughter." I said.
"Then why are you here, Khalon? What do you have to fight for?" Jaeger asked me.
"My own redemption." I told him.
"Your redemption?" Jaeger scoffed.
"When I do eventually die, I want to be able to go to heaven, Jaeger, I have always been taught-"
"Your heaven's a lie, Khalon." Jaeger said to me, as we simply stood facing each other. "Nothing more than a foolish sinner's hope that they might actually have happiness beyond death. Come on, Khalon. You and I have both died, and we know that there is no greener side. There is only darkness."
"If there is no heaven, then there can be no hell." I told him.
"I must disagree with you there, Khalon. Take a look around you. What do you think this is?" he asked me. We both knew that we putting off this battle, but neither said anything about it. He knew that he still had uses for me, and he knew that I was nowhere near as strong as he was. He didn't want to have to kill me.
But that was the only way he was going to get me back to the camp with him.
And we both knew it.
" 'This' is earth. This is the obstacle course, Jaeger. This is the gauntlet. You pass the gauntlet, you get the grand prize." I said.
"A ticket to heaven?" Jaeger asked me. I shrugged.
"Perhaps." I said.
"Then I think that it is time for you to cash in that ticket, Khalon." He said before lunging at me. In a flash, we were both lying on the scalding hot sand that only the bottoms of our feet were used to feeling. I screamed as the sand burned my back. Jaeger grabbed both of my shoulders and began to press down on them, his eyes blazing like torches.
"You chose the wrong opponent to test your strength, Khalon. Do you not recall that it was I who made you? I made you what you are. I gave you the gift of immortality, Khalon. What made you think that you would be able to defeat me?" Jaeger screamed at me. I squirmed beneath him, trying to get my back off of the hot sand. "ANSWER ME, KHALON!!" he yelled. "What made you think that you were going to be able to defeat me?" My whole body began to tremble with rage when the thought came to mind. Jaeger kept screaming, demanding to know where I had gotten the idea from, but I could no longer hear him. I could no longer feel the pain from the scalding sand, either. I could only feel the rage…the anger…
My hands took a sharp grip around his biceps, and my extremely long nails dug into his skin. He narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth, but only shoved me harder into the hot sand. I raised a knee into his gut, and he fell to the side, releasing his grip on me. With lightening speed, I grabbed the makeshift stake that I had brought with me that he had disarmed me of earlier, and ran over to him. I straddled him and held the stake millimeters above his chest.
"You know what your problem is, Jaeger? You're so obsessed with your own power that you are blind to the power of others." I said, and raised my arm to shove the stake through his cold, unbeating heart.
"She didn't die peacefully, Khalon. It took a bit of time." Jaeger said quietly. My hand froze in the air. Jaeger stared into my eyes. "She betrayed me, Khalon. Betrayed me after betraying you. I had to make her suffer for it. Let me tell you, she was never the shell that you claimed her to be. She was always your daughter." I felt the tears sting my eyes.
"I hope you rot in hell for what you've done." I said before slamming the stake through his chest. I quickly hopped up as his whole face turned from shock, to anger, to finally pain. His whole body began to convulse and shake. His limbs flailed uselessly at his sides, shaking this way and that. I watched silently, my lips pressed into a thin line as the man who claimed me to be his servant faded into nothing more than dust in the desert.
When only his bones and my stake remained, I turned to make to slow journey back to a town. I knew, that from that moment on, I was going to have to go through and kill everything that Jaeger had created. It was a massive list, but I somehow knew that it would have to be done. I knew that it was going to take me thousands of years.
And I also knew that my name was going to be the last one on that list.
I was awakened from my deep sleep by a hand that was shaking me quite roughly. My eyes opened slowly, as if I had not opened them in centuries.
"Time to wake up, sleepyhead." Amy whispered to me, her hair lightly brushing the back of my neck. I yawned and stretched a little.
"What time is it?" I asked her.
"10 o'clock." She said. I smiled. I had just slept a whole 8 hours of sleep for the first time in about 150 years. Congratulations Khalon! "We need to get going. We're supposed to be at the arena by 1, and it's a two hour drive to the city." I nodded.
"I'll be ready in a few minutes." I said.
"Oh, and I scheduled the doctor's appointment. It's tomorrow at two, are you going to come?" she asked. I rolled onto my back and nodded at her, while stretching again. "Good." She said, and kissed the tip of my nose.
"So all of the other stuff from before, are we just going to forget about it and start over?" I asked. She nodded slowly.
"I would like to be able to start clean, because I think that you deserve it." she said, before getting up off of the bed and walk towards the door so that I could get dressed.
"Thanks." I told her. She walked out of the room and closed the door behind her, and I found myself thinking about my dream. Like all of the other memories that I have been recalling, I have no idea as to why this particular one showed up, but climb out of bed and simply file it away in the back of my mind to think of later. It's nothing to worry about right now.
Besides, I'm sure that it will come up to bite me in the ass soon enough.