Chapter 33. Soul

I Didn't move, I couldn't. All I could do was lay there. My body was out of energy but my mind was still awake. I just had to wait a little bit. So I wait... and wait... and wait... after long enough I could hear the sound of chair's moving. Since I was face down I couldn't see very well but I did see two chairs being pushed back. From what chair's moved I could see the Rena and Sylph had moved. I could also see that Que was still sitting down, in fact she wasn't moving at all. Then she slowly got up and moved towards me.

"Y...Your going to get up... right" I could hear Que looking down on me. I couldn't do anything other then lightly breath and look around.

I could faintly hear her whisper "Not again" before I could feel something dripping onto me. At first I thought it was blood but then I could hear Que sobbing. She rolled me onto my back and eventually I could looked around again. At first the only thing I could see was the blinding light but eventually Que's crying face came into focus. She eventually saw my eye's moving and her crying stopped into a large smile of relief.

"Mom quickly! He's still alive!" She yelled. Shortly after I could feel another set of hands lift me from my arms while Que carried me from my legs. I could see Rena running up with something as well. They both carried me into the room I was in before and I could see Rena had brought a small case that once she opened it revealed a large set of medical tools. After I was set down Que moved to the back of the room while Sylph and Rena started to deal with my wounds. The one from my fight with Que ripped from Heartbeat and I still had the one from the ninja. Sylph was the one doing most of the work as she lifted my shirt to see all the slashes across my chest and waist. She started pulling out the ripped stitches one by one while Rena cleaned up any blood spilling out of me. Sylph pulled out a thin needle and thread and began to close my wounds up. She looked up to see if I was prepared for the pain since I was still awake but all see saw was my blank expression. She finished on one of my slashes and put the needle down taking a small bottle and cloth. She poured the liquid inside the bottle onto the cloth and started daping my wound. Must have been disinfection since it started to sting once she started to clean my wound. She did the same thing with my other two wounds, closing them then cleaning them. Once she finished with that she brought out three large rolls of bandages. Both Que and Rena sat me up while Sylph wrapped the bandages around my wounds. Once she finished she pulled my shirt carefully over my bandages and she laid me down.

"Do your best not to move this time" She said with a sigh "I'll make something else for you to eat". Everyone but Que left the room, she stood by the window for a while before sitting down in the chair next to her.

"I'm glad your alright Soul" She said. Soul? Who's Soul? Just as she said that she realized what she said and before storming out of the room she broke up into tears. There's more to this, isn't there...

After around an hour of boredom my body started moving, slowly but I was alive. I didn't want to rip my wound's so all I did was sit up and lean against the wall behind me. I slowly moved every part of my body to make sure blood start's to flow across my body. I could slowly feel my body move less and less sluggish and eventually I could move as fast as I could in I was 'Healthy'. Not long after I could hear a knock at the door.

"Blade, Are you awake?" I could hear Sylph knocking. I didn't bother responding since I had a feeling that even if I did respond she would walk in.

The door slowly opened showing Sylph walk in with a tray of food "Oh good you are awake". She moved next to me a played the tray down on the table next to me and sat down in one of the chair's next to it. For a while we both just say there, I was staring at her trying to see what she wanted while she looked down at the ground uneasy.

"Say..." she spoke up "Do you like Que".

"No, she annoys me" I responded coldly, while she looked up at me in surprise.

"Most of the time she bother's me saying she 'owes' me while I said she doesn't" I followed up.

"She would do that..." Sylph said quietly.

"So much so that she decided to fight me to decide if she will leave me alone from then on or not" I said "It wasn't much of a fair fight in the first place. I was out of energy from looking for work all day".

"So it wasn't bandits that attacked you?" Sylph asked.

"No, it was Que" I replied. We sat there in silence for a moment but after a minute or two Sylph got up and walked over to the door.

"Be sure to get some rest after you eat" She said before opening the door.

However just before she left "I have a question" I spoke up.

She stopped and turned to face me "What is it Blade?" she asked.

I pushed myself from the wall behind me and looked over towards her "Que stayed for a little bit longer after you and Rena left. She stormed out after saying something" I followed up.

Sylph was looking at me curious now "What would that be" She asked.

I didn't break eye contact as I asked "Does she know someone named Soul?". A mix of horror and surprise shot through Sylph as she stepped backwards in fear. Then before I could ask what wrong she stormed out much like Que slamming the door behind her. Such a major change in her mood... I looked over at the food left behind. Just a basic food tray with a salad, a slab of ham and a sandwich. I took hold of the sandwich and started eating but I couldn't help but wonder why everyone was reacting the way they did.

Since it was the middle of the night and my energy had returned to me I decided to take a look around the area. I got up from the bed and blew out the candle next to the bed. After that moved over to the door and slowly looked in the hall to make sure no one was there, more specifically Que wasn't around. I moved into the hall making sure to slowly close the door behind me. Slowly I made my way to the stair case and snuck down the stairs. I found the entire floor dark with no candles being lit. I slowly moved through the room making sure not to bump into anything along the way to the front door. Once I reached the front door I quickly opened it and dashed out closing it behind me. I took a look around, I was in the middle of a field and at the edge of the field was a forest. There was also a small pond along with the sound of wind rustling through the trees. The wind carried another noise however, the sound of crying. Someone was crying nearby. Curious I moved towards the noise and eventually found the source and found Rena crying next inside a small cave. I slowly moved up towards her and eventually she saw me and did her best to stop crying. She just looked at me for a while, All I did was wait for her to stop. She had the look like she wanted to say something to me once she saw me so I waited. Maybe I could get an answer from her about this Soul character.

Finally she stopped crying and caught her breath "You look a lot like him... I can see why Que replaced you with him" She said.

"Like who" I asked.

"Our brother... Soul"