My Beginning After the End

Are you Okay?

Virion Leywin

"He should be waking up soon, he was only running low on mana, right?" I heard my mother's voice as she spoke to someone. "I have to say, without the blood on him, he looks like he usually does."

"Yeah, any moment, Mrs. Leywin." I didn't know the voice of the person who said this. "I'll be back later, make sure to eat something you four."

"We will." My father's voice rang in my mind, there were four people in this room, not including the person I didn't know. That means my father, mother, Ellie, and someone else was in here, if I had to guess it's probably Tess. The door opened and closed, but I wanted to keep my eyes closed for a little longer. I knew that when I opened them, I would be questioned.

"I hope he wakes up soon." Ellie spoke, and I felt someone grab my hand. "I wonder what happened, Elder Virion really didn't tell you anything?" If they didn't know that I killed one hundred soldiers, Elder Virion must want to keep it a secret for now or didn't want my family knowing at the moment.

"Same." I heard Tess's voice, I was right, she was in the room too. The image of the slaughter played in my mind; I recalled killing all one hundred men. What did I do? I felt my hands start to tremor at the thought. I remembered losing control when I came into contact with the Serpent.

"His hands are shaking?" My mom said, and I could feel all their eyes turn to me. "Veer, are you awake?" As the images replayed in my mind over and over again, I slowly opened my eyes. I was met with bright smiles, and everyone stood up. "Veer." My mom took a step up and hugged me.

"Hey, mom." I embraced her hug.

"You need to stop ending up like this." She told me, and I sent a smile at Tess and Ellie. "I'm tired of seeing you like this." I pictured my sword going into that brown haired Alacryan's throat, and I flinched slightly. "Veer?" My mother let go of me and gave me a worried look.

"I'm fine." I sat up, they tried to stop me, but I wasn't in any pain. I turned to my father. "Dad." He was looking at me differently than everyone else, I wouldn't be surprised if Elder Virion told him about what happened. I forgot, Lance Bairon was actually nice to me back there, maybe I changed our fate.

"Veer, how are you feeling?" He asked me, as everyone continued to stare at me. "Are you in any pain?"

"None, just slightly tired, but no pain." I answered him.

Before he could say anything, Ellie spoke up. "What happened? Did you fight against some crazy strong mana beast? We saw you covered in blood, whose was it?"

"Jeez, haha." laughed, and the images of the army flashed in my mind again, I flinched slightly. "There was a crazy strong mana beast, we fought a Sand Demon." I wasn't going to tell them about the Alacryans, unless they knew about it.

"You fought a Sand Demon?" My father said questioningly. "A Sand Demon as well?" He repeated himself. He said as well, so he definitely knew about the Alacryans, why else would he say that? I nodded my head. "Those things are supposedly extremely strong."

"That sounds strong." My sister added in.

"I wish I could have been there with you." Tess held onto the edge of the bed and gave me a meaningful look. "I think grandfather is easing up to the idea of me fighting in the war, so hopefully I'll be joining you soon." I knew that already.

"That's nice." I slid my feet off the bed. "I'm hungry." I actually wanted to talk to Elder Virion.

"Don't get up, dear." My mother grabbed my shoulder. "Stay in bed, someone will get you food, you should rest." I turned to her, and she pulled me back into the bed.