Between The Region

CHAPTER 12: Preses

I was gasping the moment I woke up. I can still feel the air leaving my body, and I'm shaking.

What the hell is that? Who is Preses?

I took a look on the window and saw that it was still dark outside. I gathered myself and went out and the calming breeze welcomed my body.

This land where I stand, I can now feel the familiarity of having a once-home here, but it also hurts like my heart can't take that I am here again.

From the moment I was born, I didn't know who I was. I can still remember how my city kicked me out at a young age, leaving me alone in an unfamiliar place, and my family, who also chose to forget and remove me from their lives.

I have many questions running through my mind.

My mind can't comprehend everything, but one thing I am sure of is that I want to rest just this once. I can feel the tiredness in my bones, leaving me lifeless and unhopeful.

Questions, who I really am? Why I am here? What is the reason for all of this? Who is the man in my dreams? Am I really reincarnated? Who is responsible for all of this?

I tried to dig my mind for the answers, but there are none.

I'll confess, I'm afraid.

I don't know how it happened after that dream. I can feel the fear sipping into every fiber of my body, warning that this is not just a dream. There's a heavy hollow in my heart, and I want to remove it, for I know it won't be good for myself or anyone else.

My hand unconsciously touched my chest, and I felt a burning sensation on it. It's getting more painful as the seconds pass.

I am hypervalent.

I saw it coming myself, falling to the ground and reaching my other hand above to ask for help.

But it seems no one can hear me, I can see the fire in my eyes, burning everything in my surroundings.

No one will survive.

Even me.

I can hear an agonizing yell of pain, a kind of torture no one will wish to have. A pair of hands touched my chest, but it became so much more painful that I cannot bear the burn.

Ahh, it's painful.

The burn is now going down the body. I cannot hear my surroundings anymore.

The last thing I saw was a man screaming, but I can't hear his voice.

In spite of that, I can see the fear and pain in his face, like he is afraid I'm going to die, and I was able to mutter the name Preses.

A man is holding a lifeless body in his arms, begging the odds to give them another chance. The woman he swore with his life he would protect is now breathless in his eyes.

He knows, they saw it coming because their love is a seed of war, and the moment it blooms, a war completely awoke, leaving everyone unprepared and with no choice but to fight.

He doesn't care if everyone kills each other, as long as the woman is his own Ahavah is safe and alive.

But he didn't expect that the woman who successfully made his heart beat after a million years would be killed by his father, who wanted him to rule the region.

He felt betrayed.

He felt useless.

He felt pain in the dept of his cold heart.

With the pain, agony, and anger, he let himself be swallowed by the formable darkness.

His body changed from pale skin to black skin, and two horns started to appear in his head. A series of inks on his body also appeared, along with canine teeth, ready to strangle everyone in his path.

Carrying the woman in his arms, he slowly walks in the middle of fire and sorcery, not minding the swords and blood flying everywhere, for he wants to offer the woman in front of his father who wanted his woman unalive.