Chapter 16. Something inside

My attempt was fruitless and I still had to get medical supplies, I couldn't think of any places I could get food from quickly other then the stall. Most if not all of them would be closed by now so my only other option was to go hungry, which I could deal with or steal from a normal civilian. I walked towards the medical store and stared at it from a dark ally way. I pushed the man out of my head... right here right now it's live or die.

I didn't want to wait any longer, my finger was starting to heal but I would likely break it again from this if I had to fight. The building in front of me was a small civilian medical pharmacy. The entire building was locked up tight and I'm sure there would be a few guard's inside, but I didn't have much of a choice. I started to inspect the outside of the building for any way in or escape routes. After a hour of searching I couldn't find anything on the outside, however there was a way in from below. While looking I found a grate leading to a sewer that had a way in. The way in however was blocked by three guard's and it was a small hallway. If they had any tactic's in there head's they would have some sort of ranged weapon since it wouldn't miss... ranged weapons... I pulled out three knifes from my straps and held them in my hand. I only had one shot at this and I still wasn't fully sure on how I would throw the knife's. I took a deep breath and took a moment to focus. The hallway was only lit by the entrance and the exit, the exit lit by the moonlight from the outside and the entrance by a torch. I sat there in the dark and felt a feeling I started to miss. My adrenaline. I could feel my heartbeat slow and my mind focus as I held the knife's in my hand. My breath's became very long quiet echo's of each other as I took my time. Then all in one moment I dashed toward's the group and threw the three knife's one after another. "Who the-" The first knife hit the man dead in the skull, killing him instantly. "Intrude-" The second landed in the man's throat silencing him as he tried to cry for help. The last however missed and hit the wall behind the last man. However this man seemed to be frozen in fear. His leg's gave out as I dashed closer and closer to him until I had one of my knife's at his throat. "D-Don't kill me please! I'm to young to die! I still have so much to do" at first I hesitated to kill him. He was like me, only doing as he was told and hoping to see the next day. Unlike me he could have a family or even a spouse. However as if the cry's fell on deaf ear's my body moved on it's own slitting his throat and then leaving him to bleed out. I stood there for a moment just staring at the man as he silently screamed for help. Not much longer later he dies crawling toward's the grate to the street's. Shortly after he died I snapped out of the trance and right away, I felt my stomach turn. I had a hard time standing as I felt whatever inside my stomach at the time flow up my neck. I vomited, I'm not sure how many time's but I did. I had a much harder time trying to catch my breath and soon after found myself sitting next to the body of the man. Whatever happened to me at the time wasn't my choice. I just sat there, staring at the wall across from me.

It's been an hour since then and I finally found myself standing up to pick up the knife's I had thrown and started to climb the ladder to the building above. I found myself on the first floor. The entrance I had climbed in from was some type of management room, since it had pipe's and valves of all sorts. I moved up from my spot only to find myself pulling my blade from it's sheath. I really didn't feel like sneaking for some reason. Maybe the man who died was still in my head. Why was it that before then I could kill and not have a care in the world... why was it that all I could think after that was 'It's me or them'? The line simply stuck to the back of my head repeating itself over and over. I felt my adrenaline rising without even being in danger, or so I thought. I had gotten up and foolishly stood in the middle of the room, where three guard's spotted my and snuck up behind me. However what they didn't know was I was far to fast for them. I felt my body whip itself away from the blade swinging to the ground and then violently whip back slicing open the guard's neck. The blood spurted out in a audible spraying noise, as I moved to another guard. The other two guard's stood there as I moved up to them, still in shock from their dead friend. With my right leg I moved and kicked on of them square in the head stunning them as with my left leg I kicked the other guard onto his back. I flipped my sword backward's as I drove it into the stunned guard's heart. I swiftly pulled it from him and swung the blood off the blade. The man who had been knocked back however had time to get his weapon ready as he fired a arrow into my chest. The arrow hadn't hit anything vital however even thought I saw the arrow hit me I didn't feel any pain. I wasn't sure how but maybe it had something to do with how it wasn't me moving my body right now. Something inside of me was in control and I feel like I know what. Much like when I first got a sword, something inside of me would take control and practice attack's not even listed in the book's I read. I didn't pay to much attention to it but now... I or 'it' broke the arrow leaving the tip inside my body as I slowly walked up to the man sword in hand. I could see him panicking as he backed up and tried to fire another arrow... The last thing I remember from that night was driving my sword into his head.

I woke up in a unfamiliar place, I was sleeping on the floor of a building that had different type's of armour's across the wall's along with blood across the floor. I slowly rose up from the ground to find both my finger and my should wound healed, completely. I shook my head to try to see if I was in a trance but still sat there looking around the room. My sword was still in it's sheath and I had all my knife's and shortly after getting up from the ground and walking around I had found I was inside my safe house. However the board's that once covered the door's and window's were now gone and leading to the entrance of the building I could see a sight that I wasn't ready for. Body's dozens and dozens of body's across the entrance of the building. I ran to the room I usually sleep in to find the chest I had used for storing food was filled to the brim with food. I had different type's of sword's and knife's across the room and instead of the makeshift bed I had there was bedroll sprawled out waiting for me. Everything was hitting my all at once and I was in shock. I did my best to try to remember what I had done all of last night but nothing come to mind. All I remember was trying to steal medical supplies and then... My head went fuzzy. I took a moment to try to calm my nerves and I could hear a bird a raven at one of the window's. I went to look and found it had a note in it's mouth. I dropped the note on the window and flew off. I slowly walked up and took the note and opened it. It was from swain.

Blade. You training has taken quite a gruesome turn. Should you do something like this again I shall have you executed. However this is also a most interesting event. I did not receive news of you activity's until this morning. If you have done this massacre all in one night that is most impressive. I must speak with you at once. -Swain.

I felt sick to my stomach again. I preformed a massacre? I don't remember a single moment of it and any time I tried to I couldn't find anything to support it. Was I going insane? I am only human... I think... I found the thought odd, I'm only human. Something about that line seemed... wrong. I didn't know much about my past at all, maybe I'm not human after all... no that felt wrong as well... I had to find out what was going on but first I needed to go talk to Swain, maybe he would know something. I got my supplies for the day and left my... massacre behind. I don't want people to see me and assume it was... figure out it was me. I walked slowly to the building, my mind was a haze and I couldn't focus. All this was to much to take in, It wasn't that I had killed all these people it was that I didn't remember doing it... I walked past a few soldier's on my way who only eyed me. One of them even jumped when I shot a look at him. I wasn't sure what was going on however there was one thing I was sure of.

Something is wrong with me.

-Authors notes-

Sorry that this chapter was rather short but the next chapter will have a large impact on Blade. The thing inside him is a key part of him and if you read the introduction it's called The Living Shadow. It's a being from the shadow Isle that had a large impact on him when he was young which caused him to lose the majority of his memory. I'm only telling you this because it will not be in the story. Thanks for reading -Blade6309