Chapter 2:

Ashkar's POV

I wake up to find all my friends hovering over me. " What happened? I feel like I've been hit by plane!"

" Thank goodness!" Riley exclaimed.

" We thought you were about to die for sure!"

" Why would I die right now? You guys are just kidding about thinking that I was about to die right?" They all looked at each other.

" What?"

" Are you sure you don't remember?" Rino asked.

" I'm sure."

"Well, " Abby said, " Right when you started explaining what happened between you and Rino, you started glowing red and I mean that you had a red aura around your body. Then you started screaming like someone was stabbing a knife into you over and over again. Then you suddenly stopped glowing and screaming and you fell to your knees. That is when we asked if you were okay and you looked as if you were about to respond but suddenly you just lost consciousness. When we checked your heartbeat and pulse it was so weak we weren't even sure it was there."

" We tried contacting your mother to see if it happened to you before but we couldn't get in touch with her." In my body my stomach suddenly cramped. My brain was working over time and I was horrified. My friends had seen the one thing that I had been trying to keep from them since the time I met them. They had seen part of my Dark God Magic. I still had to hide it from them. I couldn't let them know the truth like I did with the other guild.

"It's nothing that you guys need to worry about. Everything is fine and there is no need to contact my mother." I just smiled like it was nothing. I had to keep the facade up otherwise they could die as well. That was never going to happen again. I wouldn't let anyone else get hurt because of me. But they wouldn't let up. They demanded to know.

" It you don't tell us, how are we supposed to trust you. You've told us everything and now you won't even tell us what is happening to you?"

I knew what they said was true and I slowly realized that I would have to tell them the truth about my history and the true horrors of my background. I looked at them right in the eyes and said,

" My father is a Dark God."

My friends looked taken aback at what I had said. We all knew what dark gods did. They killed people for their own entertainment and after they killed everyone they would take their souls and absorb them so they could gain more power.

" Your father is a Dark God?" Levar finally asked. I nodded. Riley looked at me and said,

" I think you have some explaining to do." I was heartbroken at all the looks on my friends faces. There was horror, disgust, confusion and pity. So I took a deep breath and began my story.

" When I was a baby, right after my mother gave birth to me, my father left us. He thought he wouldn't be exposed as a Dark God and that he would be able to have a son to take over his job after he didn't want to anymore. What he didn't realize was that my mother was a wizard. She was able to conceal her magic so that way any enemy that my mom had had made during her jobs wouldn't be able to find us. Then my father came along and thought that she was a normal person. So he married her. When I was born he was scared and furious that I wasn't a boy. There was a certain reason for his feelings."

"There was once a prophecy told to him saying that if he ever married and had a son that son would take after his father and follow in his footsteps. He would also become a dark god. But if he were ever to have a daughter, that daughter would be the exact opposite of him in every way and she would destroy him and his entire legacy. Since I am a girl he tried to kill me but my mom stopped him from doing so just in time. He then turned on her furious that he hadn't realized that she was a wizard. My mom just barely managed to beat him back from killing both of us. Both of us barely escaped with our life."

" As I grew up my mom realized that I had too much magic power. If I didn't learn to control it soon, I would literally explode and die killing anyone around me. From then on I tried my best to control my magic power. Thanks to my mom's advice we were able to stay hidden long enough. But then one day a group of wizards found me. They were called Hades Mark. They were obsessed with power and especially dark magic. when they found out that I had Dark God blood flowing through my veins they decided to experiment on me. So one day while I was waiting for my mom to come home, they kidnapped me and took me to their facility. I was there for an entire year." I stopped there to compose myself. My friends hadn't said anything throughout the entire story but now they all looked as if they had something to say. Abby talked first.

" Why didn't you tell us? You are a danger to us all! You should have never been accepted into our guild in the first place. Levar and Riley looked like they agreed. Rino's face was impassive. I couldn't read anything on his face.

" Didn't you hear me Ashkar? Get lost! You shouldn't be here. Go back with your little dark powers and stay away from us!" Those words were the worst things ever said to me. Suddenly I couldn't control myself anymore. I started yelling at everyone there.

" You want to know what happened to me when I was there? They would ask me questions, they would run tests and take samples of my blood. When they would get no answers from me they would torture me. They whipped me me until you couldn't see my back anymore, all you could see was blood! They took knives and cut deep into my flesh. On my arms and legs. Anywhere where they thought would break me. I screamed and cried begging them to stop but they wouldn't listen!" At this point I was shaking with rage. Tears were coming and streaming down my eyes. I rolled up my sleeves and and pants and showed them all the deep scars. They all looked horrified. They tried to say something but I cut them off.

"You want to know how I escaped? I had to unleash all my magic power to stop those people. Even that wasn't enough. I destroyed the facility but I didn't kill everyone that I wanted to. At the age of ten I had been captured, beat, tortured and hunted. I barely made it out of the facility in time. They couldn't come after me because I put a barrier up. An entire day later I had lost them and came upon a town. That is where I first experienced the thing that happened to me just now. Later on when I came to I saw a worried face above mine. It was my mom! I was so happy. I kept crying though. My mom asked what had happened to me but all the memories were too painful for me to bear. I really only cared that I was back with my mom. Nothing else mattered to me. But for the first time I felt a new emotion building up inside of me."

"It was hate, hate towards my father for doing this to my mother and I. If he hadn't married her I wouldn't have been born, I wouldn't have this dark power, I wouldn't be a test subject. Ever since then I have done nothing but think about the day I would kill him with his own power. That is my only goal in life right now. It's the only thing I live for. I want revenge for what he did to my mom, for what he did to ME! I then went to join a guild because I thought that would help me but you want to know what happened. I almost destroyed them completely. Hades Mark had found me and they tried to take me but we managed to stop them. After it was all over the guild was destroyed but when I said it was my fault everyone told me that it wasn't and that my problems were their problems. They were my actual family. They accepted me despite all my flaws. But I couldn't bear to hurt them any more that I already had so I left. After all those years I thought I had gained control of my powers so I came and joined this guild but I hadn't known this would happen all over again." My voice had cracked over the last few sentences.

" Do you want to know why I didn't tell you all of this before? Because I knew you would act exactly like this. You would have never accepted me like the other guild did and I would lose my only friends again. I'll leave if you want me to but just don't forget what you did to me. I won't come back to harm you because you have harmed yourself by telling me to get lost. I'm never coming back. I'll go to the guild to get my guild mark removed and then I will be gone from your life forever. Don't worry you won't ever have to see me again. I will never put you guys in danger." I tried to stay as calm as I possibly could as I headed back to the guild hall. And none of my friends tried to stop me.