OverSoul

Chapter 3

As I lay there, with my arms reaching for Mandolin I feel a painful yet burning sensation. I fall to the ground to see a man , I can't even see his face clearly cause of the sun. I look down at my stomach to see a hole, with some of my clothing turning a dark red. But there's not as much blood as I expected. "Don't worry, you won't die yet." The man says, I look up at him and he holds his sword, pointing it down at my heart. "I have an idea. If you can survive what I'm about to do to you, you can live and go wherever you want, sound fair?" I look at him with swear dripping down my face, and nod. He releases flames at me and I start yelling in pain, and I get launched into the water by him. I land in the nearby lake, slowly falling deeper and deeper. I open my right eye a bit to see Mandolin's sword, I slowly reach for it and grab it, holding it close to my chest. As I lose my eye again, I can still feel the flames that man fired at me still burning, Suddenly I feel a start pain in the right side of my shoulder, it happens multiple times, almost like another heart beating in my chest. I open my right eye again out of nowhere, the flames are starting to disappear from my body.. I start feeling tingly, look at where my burns were I see.. Black Flames?

As the man looks into the lake, he sees bubbles coming from below, less and less start coming up until he slowly turns around and starts walking away. Out of nowhere he hears a massive splash from behind him, he quickly turns around to see Omen crouching on the ground, looking at the sword in his hands.

"How did he jump out.. and where are the flames I used on him?" The man's eyes flash over to the sword, a crack suddenly appears on the sword. The man blinks and Omen's gone, he feels heat from behind him and immediately turns around.

How did I get here..? What happened? And I become fully awake I look up and see the man there holding his sword, sweating. I look at the sword in my hand and my eyes widen. "Why is there flames on the sword? How did I get out of the water?" I grab the blade with both hands and grasp it hard. I disappear from from the man's line of sight, he looks around and turns around again to see me holding the blade to his throat. "What's your name, I never asked." I ask.
"...Lon." I start grinning then say, "well Lon, why am I going through this, and what are these flames on me." He looks at me annoyed and opens his palm, from him to blast me with his flames, they quickly disappear as they get absorbed into my flames. "All I want to know is why you're attacking me, and killed Mandolin. If you don't tell me you're no use to me." As I left up my blade and hold my flames in my hand.

*A soul is a change that happens in a person after they go through trauma. Souls allow for people to use special flames which are special to the type of soul you have, with Red Flames being the most common, and Black and White flames being the rarest. White flame is referred as Holy Flames, while Black Flames are called amaterasu.