Dead Birthday's

Chapter 11 : Festival Part 5

Alphonso Willis POV:

The stomach is full of lunch that has been eaten. I walked around this base area. My final opponent was Mort. It's time for me to show my power to him when all the spirits are absent to prepare something,

All of us spirit holders are given a part of their respective spirits which we can use to materialize spirit weapons. But what is the difference between a little spirit and full spirit when we are at our side? That's the question we spirit holders ask.

Suddenly a familiar female voice shouted. "No! Why did you allow him? I don't approve of this!"

I ran towards the sound's origin to see what was going on. After arriving it turned out that the screaming sound, I heard was Mort's mother. She cried angrily at her husband, Mort's father.

Mort's father grabbed his wife's shoulders, bringing her faces close to look at each other. "Honey, I thought we knew this was going to happen. Mort is all grown up now, let him decide which path he wants to take."

Mort's mother screamed. "Grown up?! He was still sixteen years old! I've only been enjoying life together with him for only sixteen years!" She closed her eyes with her hands. "I still want to live with this family!"

Mort's father shouted. "Honey!"

Emily hugged her mothers said. "Brother won't die! Allow him to participate, because he has a reason for participating in the war. Besides, he is one of the strongest holders here!"

"Even though your brother is the strongest, no one will know what will happen to the people who participate! There is no guarantee that everyone who participated would come back alive against those monsters!"

She opened her hands, our eyes met. Mort Mother immediately ran towards me, knelt down and grasped my shirt, crying, said. "Alp, you're Mort's best friend, right? Please don't let him participate in the battle against that creature! Please... please..."

She grasped my shirt getting harder, begging from me to help her stop Mort from participating in the battle against dragon Noes.

I will always do anything for the good of my good friends and those I love. Now the mother of my best friend is asking for my help. For the good of Mort himself and his family.

I helped Mother Mort to her feet. "Auntie, I don't know what Mort's reason is for joining the war. Whether for self-gratification or to accompany someone he is in love with. So, since we don't know the reason for him participating it will be difficult to stop him. I know this because I have been with him for so long. But I also don't want to see my friend's mother just cry, so from that in the final fight I will make him stay away from the war."

The only thing I can do is make a bet with Mort. Mort always kept his word so there's no need to worry about that. What we need most to hope for is whether Mort will accept my bet or not.

Mort Krueger POV:

The victory in this mocking battle is me. My bet with the Alp also won by me. Alp begins to explain why making bets like this. Here I just found out that my mother still has not accepted me to participate in the war against Noes which will happen in the last few days.

I fell down hearing about this. Dad and Emily seemed unable to persuade Mom to let me.

I gave a hand to Alp, and helped him up from the ground. Suddenly a voice from the person I was thinking about screamed. "Mort!"

I turned towards the voice, all the audience looked at the person that is my own mother standing with my dad and Emily. Her face where the area of ​​her eye was visible traces of crying and tired of sweating.

The audience gave it away, my mother slowly entered the arena with her face like that. I still don't know what to talk to her about.

When my words didn't come out Alp walked towards my mother with her face looking down said. "Sorry aunt... this is all I can do."

My mom gave him a smile and put her hand on Alp's cheek while lifting it gently making the two of them meet eyes and then mom just said. "It's okay Alp, thank you very much."

My mother took her hand off Alp's face, slowly she walked over to me and looked at me with her eyes that seemed heavy on her face and said. "Do you really wanna go? Nothing can stop you from going right? Not with your father, Emily, your best friend or your mother."

My mother started to squat a little where our faces began to line up. "I won't stop you again, so please promise me a hurry back... We will celebrate your sixteenth birthday together."

Her smile slowly became bright in my eyes. It made me cry hearing her words. I gave her a big hug and said. "I promise... I promise mom... Thank you for understanding!"

Father and Emily ran and hugged us both together where the atmosphere of my family filled this area.

"... Crybaby!" Alp's insulting words to me. I wipe my tears and glare at him angrily.

Mom, dad and Emily started coming back to their room after this. Before they left in this area, mother came back to me and whispered. "One more thing you have to promise me Mort. When you come back, remember to introduce the girl you like to us, okay?"

The sentence made my face and ears get hot. Since when did mom know this, and how did she know? I got suspicious of someone, I looked at him. Alp pretends to whistle to hide his mistake. So, he's the culprit!

"Alp!" I called him with a sinister look. "Don't you forget that you lose on your own bet to me!" With that, Alp became a scary cat.

The third and fourth winner deciding matches were held. Krishna won against Mr. Kenneth so Mr. Kenneth didn't get into the top three. But even though he lost, Mr. Kenneth still strived to fight. Maybe Mr. Kenneth has a muscle brain.

On top of a podium Mr. Kenneth stood resting and shouting. "All participants, let's call the winner in the practical battle of the holders. Mort Krueger, I invite you to come up and stand beside me!"

Following Mr. Kenneth's words, I walked upstairs and stood beside him where I was still feeling nervous, more nervous than before the start of the match. I also hide my shame seeing all the people who stare at me.

"As I promised beforehand, the winner of this mock battle I will give a prize! Now I'm going to keep that promise and give this winner with an amazing prize!" Mr. Kenneth pressed his feet together and shouted even louder. "Soldiers! Release the woman!"

One by one the women came out of a room. Adult women between the ages of twenty to thirty. All the women immediately approached me, teased me and sealed me with their bodies.

So, this is a gift from Mr. Kenneth?

I can see Alp watching me with jealousy where Krishna is getting angry beside him, my embarrassment starts to increase because my family saw me. But all of that doesn't really matter, what I really care about is Lynn looking at me like this with her smile alone.

I cried to myself because of that. Unable to break free because I was still exhausted from my previous battle. I was forced to wait for this gift to finish while enduring the embarrassment and crying.

With this the mocking battle between the holders has ended. Rest was given to all participants until the day.

Now is the day when humanity's first festival faces. One of the festivals of the twelve Noes races.

Preparations have been done, all the soldiers with their equipment ready. The evacuation went smoothly in the past few days. The area around the crack will appear empty of civilians.

Tanks were already lined up facing the field where Noes dragon was expected to come out. The fighter plane was ready to fly, all holders were ready in the field with their spirits and Noes. Manes and the others had returned from their business the day before today.

It's time for me to protect this city full of memories and finally cracks began to appear. We were all immediately alerted to what was coming.

Waiting for the crack to open wide, where it continued running from below to the sky. Everyone seemed to be trembling from the dimensional crack that opened up beyond the tallest building of this city.