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WARNING: Gore ahead
(You have been warned)
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As I ready myself to fight, she laughs "I'm just teasing... You're an otherworlder right? You have clothes similar to theirs..." A look of confusion slowly dawns on my face. "Weren't you just about to attack us?" I ask a little suspiciously as I pull Emily closer to me. "No, of course not why would I do that?" She asks with a smile as the guards relax. She then asks "Is that child also an otherworlder?" On reflex, I cover Emily even more. As I cover Emily protectively now glaring at this 'princess'. 'Why am I being so overprotective?' Not thinking too much about it I continue glaring at her, a cold look dawning on my face. The relaxed guards are put on heavy alert immediately by the heavy am out of killing intent oozing out of me. "Oh... I apologize if I angered you..." She apologizes sincerely sweating bullets profusely.
A bit of time has passed and I'm now in the carriage with the 'princess', whose name is Alexia Nightingale. The atmosphere in the carriage is tense as no one moves afraid if doing so will make me snap. Still holding the now-sleeping Emily close to me, I make sure to have every single one of them in my vision. They all seem tense until Alexia finally speaks up "So um... did you see anything in Dark Forest Village?" She asks timidly and as my gaze focuses on her, she pales. "At the time I had arrived, everyone was already dead." She immediately perks up at first, Yearning for understanding, she listens to what I share with her, but her mood shifts to a more melancholic state. The carriage suddenly stops as someone knocks on the door, I am immediately put on high alert as I keep everyone in my vision, Alexia moves to open the door. 'Why aren't the guards opening the door...' This was suspicious as I grabbed onto Alexia's hand, I kicked the other side of the carriage killing all the guards and destroying more than half the carriage. The shocked Alexia doesn't have time to take it in as I pick her up, Emily also wakes up from all the noises. "Mommy... what's going on?" Looking over at the carriage door, I see what looks like the typical Assassins in Iseaki Anime. 'I'm not very amused....' Even Astraea doesn't think very highly of this. Not waiting I punch with my full force, destroying most of the area, as their guts and blood splatter on the ground, now looking over the damage I find one that somehow got out of the destruction but not without injuries. Not wasting any time as I jump over the destroyed land and land next to the crawling half-dead assassin, I drop Alexia to the floor as she lets out a gasp, I grab onto the assassin before ripping his head off of his body. Dropping the now headless corpse, I walk over to the shaken Alexia. "Why are you being targeted?" She's silent, probably still in shock, as I throw the head away I grab Alexia, firmly picking her up as Emily giggles, climbing up my shirt, her head popping out of my hoodie. "What was Mommy doing?" She asks curiously. "Taking out the trash... nothing else..."
Time has passed and it is now night, Alexia has seemingly regained her ability to speak, as I now have to hear both act like children (One being a actual child). Emily happily clinging to me as she plays with my hair, with another one now, that being Alexia. "Will you stop that? Aren't you supposed to be a princess or something?" I start questioning if she really is a princess, she lets out fake coughs as she stops playing with my hair. "HA... you're so funny.... Can I play with your hair again?" She asks timidly. 'I'm not going to be taking care of her too...' 'Looks that way to me.' 'Shut up...' Leaving that conversation I focus back on reality as she looks at me pleadingly. Emily starts climbing down as she lands with a soft thud she happily runs around us, I sigh. "Fine do whatever you want... just stop bothering me." As she clings to me I let out an annoyed groan as I quickly walk towards Emily. "Emily co-" *I get cut off as the sound of something in the air. As the object then lands, grazing her arm, with a soft thud I see the arrow with blood on it. 'Blood... Emily's blood...' As if losing my senses I look in the direction it flew from. Narrowing my eyes I see the perpetrator. 'Another one...' Dark clouds quickly gather in the sky above, covering miles on end, I put Alexia down and point towards the injured Emily. "Protect her with your life... help stop the bleeding..." My cold tone is very noticeable as I start to make my way to the Assassin.
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Alexia pov
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I blink and its as if she disappeared. "I um... Ok." I quickly make my way to the little girl as I rip a piece of my dress and wrap it around her arm tightly. 'What am I supposed to do?! I've never done this?!'
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The Dark Journey
AdventureA once deprived and depressed teenager gets his life taken away, and now put into a New and 'Exciting' Journey. Join her as you get snippets of this young teenagers life!
