Son of Damien

Chapter 3

Rai heard muffled voices that sounded like miles away, whenever they could be just a few feet away from him. An aching pain ran down his back and near his collar bone. Where am I.. he opened his eyes just enough to where he could make out the room. It was a vast room that lead outside. Rai lay on a hospital bed closest to the exit. A tall man with silver hair had his back to Rai; the man was talking to a young girl with long blonde, almost white hair.

Where is Molly? Panic started to swell up inside Rai. He sat up quickly, soon regretting the action; searing pain started to hammer at the cite of the wounds. Rai clenched his teeth, still moving slowly to the side of the bed. The two strangers had turned their attention to Rai now. "Where is my sister?" He asked as the young girl walked over towards him. The girl shook her head. "Jaison didn't bring anyone else in other than you.." Rai started to panic.

Why is this happening?! I thought this was only a dream but why does it feel so real.. Rai looked down at his wrist. It had a black lightning insignia half the distance to his fore arm. "What is this supposed to be?! I never had anything like this before.."

The girl gave the older man a look over her shoulder for guidance. He just stood there silently and shook his head. She turned back to face Rai, not directly keeping his gaze. "Well you are supposed to be what we call a "Son of Lightning."
"What, like Zeus and the other Greek Gods?"
"No, just a Son of Lightning, that's what we call all of the Arcadia's lighting wielders,"
"Oh..." Yeah I don't get this..

Yelling could be heard from outside, flames danced on the walls. "What's going on-"
"We're being attacked," the young girl said grimly. Oh well that's convenient.. "Whose attacking us?"
"Don't answer him, he will learn soon enough," the tall man finally spoke up, before striding out of the room. A window broke near Rai, startling him. " Should I help them?" He asked, looking out of the window.

Some kind of soldiers or warriors fought alongside the man from earlier. Someone in blue fought close by, using what looked like some type of dual blades. He skillfully cut down the enemies surrounding him, waves of water cut through them like butter.

A clatter from the exit on the left hand side of the room made Rai look over his shoulder at the three men standing in black cloaks. Each of them carried two dual swords with them, and a pouch for what looked like projectile daggers.

An arrow whistled down from what looked like a staircase, hitting one of the men in the chest.
"Get up here you idiot!!" the girl yelled from above. The two men rushed at Rai drawing their swords. Shit I don't have anything to defend myself. A sharp pain went through Rai's wrist, and the insignia started to glow a bright blue. He raised his Hands in front of himself, aiming at the men. I guess it's worth a try. Rai felt stupid doing this, but he did it anyway.

The men in close gotten closer, one of them brought their sword down in a wide ark, which Rai clumsily dodged, which led to him having a cut on his shoulder. The other drove their sword into his chest, knocking the out of his lungs.

He stumbled backwards. Anger began to overtake him. An vicious snarl came from somewhere, Rai didn't know if it was from him, or a creature outside. Sparks began to fly off of his arms and hands. Allowing unknown instinct to take over, Rai unleashed bolts of lightning directly in the chest of one of the men in cloaks. In a whip like fashion, the other attacker was wrapped up in a lasso of blue electricity. Rai could hear the man screaming from a distance, but he was too caught up in his rage to care. He soon threw the cloaked man out a near by window.

The adrenaline rush seemed to drop instantly, leaving Rai's body drained. He stumbled up the staircase, up to where the girl sat with a longbow, acting as what looked to be a sniper. Rai sat down near the staircase wondering what just happened with him.

About 10 minutes later, a screech from down below called, "RETREAT!" Rai decided to stand up and watch as grotesque looking creatures began to retreat from the ground and some flew on their large bat-like wings.

"We've been at war with those devils for the last 16 years," the girl explained, as she made her way passed Rai, going down the stairs. "They've been trying to conquer the four major realms in this world." She continued as Rai stumbled after her. "Why did they attack us then?"
"It could be because you are here, but I am not the one who should be telling you about this," she sighed.

"Vanessa, great shooting," the tall man praised; the strange blue haired guy stood beside him. He was giving Rai a cold look, as if he were the next enemy needing to be brought down. "Thank you,Alaric," the girl beside Rai. "We shouldn't keep him here, it would be much more peaceful if he were dead, Alaric," the guy beside him said bluntly.
"You brought him here though-"
"I didn't know he would be some kind of devil spawn!"

Rai was now both confused and angry. What do they mean anyway about a devil's spawn, I'm just a normal person.. "What does this have anything to do with me? I don't know what you're talking about, I've lived in a whole different world all my life! I never had anything to do with what is going on here!!" Rai spoke up over two Alaric and the  strange guy stopped bickering. " You don't know how far from normal you are Rai Takahashi," the guy seemed to growl, his light blue eyes holding something murderous inside. "You are Damien's child, the Demon King of Zlephia.."