Chapter Five, The Nightmare, the vision, and the mistake.
"Oh how I wish I had never made that mistake so many year's ago… But what could I do? What was done is done… Now let's hope that things go all right… But the nightmares would not stop tormenting me… Could I have really been saved?"
Flashback
Chu Sin is standing in a burning field; there are dead people all around him as he holds onto the Demon's blade, an insane look in his eyes. He holds up the sword and lets out a fearsome howl basking in the light of the crimson red moon.
Chu Sin awakens from his dream with Ni Shai by his side; she's looking down upon him with sad eyes. He looks up at her and gives off a sigh of relief.
"Oh it's only you… You scared me…"
She sniffs and sighs sadly.
"Yeah it's only little old me…" Chu Sin places his hand on his aching chest and can feel his hot blood stick to his fingers.
"Tell me what happened? I've probably got only that long left I guess…"
She sighs and looks out at the window and the slowly lightening sky.
"It's just that tyrant Chu Chu… I'm probably never going to make it out of this castle alive…" She looks back at him with tears in her eyes, he sees this and sits up bracing himself on his pillow.
"What did he do?" There's a knocking on the door and she gasps.
"Listen, there's not much time, he's going to try and get you to help him, he's going to use you like everyone else." She looks back at the door as it starts to move against the lock that she placed there.
"He's going to say things that aren't true, and he's going to try and fool you with kindness… Listen if you don't believe me just ask about Chu Naia and Fu Xi's sword then you'll know the truth. Promise me that ok?" Chu Sin nods as the door breaks down. There stands Chu Chu with two guards.
"Apprehend her now!" She shakes her head and runs to the window.
"Remember, Chu Sin, Remember!" She jumps out of the window, there's a thud and what sounds like hay being moved.
"What are you guards waiting for? Get her now!" Chu Chu looks over at Chu Sin.
"Chu Chu… I want to talk with you." Chu Chu nods and walks over to him, and looks at his bloody chest and hand.
"As do I, the doctor told me that you no longer wish to be a drain on Chu Naia, however, she is the one who wishes to help you." Chu Sin looks at him funnily, remembering how Chu Naia seemed to hate him
"What about Fu Xi's sword?" Chu Chu looks surprised at this; he did not think that Chu Sin had heard anything about it.
"Fu Xi's sword is not here, nor will it be…" Chu Sin looks annoyed; he could tell that Chu Chu was lying to him. He decided that now was the time to confront him.
"You're lying, you've been lying all this time, to me, to Chu Naia, and everyone else! What is your true goal, what are you hiding, and why is Fu Xi involved?" Chu Chu sighs and chuckles as he backs away from Chu Sin.
"It's all none of your concern, just rest and get healthy so that you can be of use to us later." He starts to open the door when Chu Sin gets out of bed and stops him, blood running down his chest, his eyes full of rage.
"What about Chu Naia, do you even care about her?" Chu Chu backs away from the door in fear, as Chu Sin opens it.
"Why worry about her, she would rather see you dead anyways." Something in Chu Sin makes him snap, he starts running as he slams the door behind him. Pictures and images fill his head, he can see Chu Naia lying in bed, and she's gone a pale white, the doctor's by her side shaking his head. Chu Sin looks up and realizes that he's at her door. He opens it slowly fearing what he may see, there in the bed is Chu Naia, she's gone so pale that one would think that she's dead, the doctor is at her side shaking his head, he then looks up at Chu Sin with sorrow in his eyes and covers her head.
"There was nothing we could do to save her, she denied her own father and paid the price." Tears of rage and sadness fill Chu Sins eyes; he turns away as a feeling catches his attention.
A familiar warm feeling starts to draw him; he starts to run not really watching where he's going knocking over vases and pots along his path, he follows this feeling out into the grave where the Demon's blade was placed. There stuck in the dirt is the Demon's blade, he can feel it calling to him, beckoning him to take and use its powers. Chu Sin finds himself slowly moving towards the blade reaching his hand out slowly.