Impenetrable- Sequel to Arcanum

Chapter 35: Colt

I stared at the two in the cell, and felt something hit me.
Why did she try to stop her father from killing me? I've always been ready for death. Yet she stopped it even after I did all those things to her.
I shook my head and walked out of the room.
There were nasty holes in my memory that just made me wince and nearly cry everytime I tried so hard to remember. Why couldn't I?
I couldn't remember much between when I was cursed as a child, to now. I barely recongnized anything or anyone. Cassidy told me about the girl, telling me she used me when we were dating, and simply cheated on me.
But why does it seem like she does care? That she does love me?
I gripped my arm, and scowled in frustration,
"You should get those injuries checked." Cassidy appeared from behind, and I raise a brow before I realize I am bleeding a little.
"Heh so the perfect prince isn't so perfect after all." She teased, and I glared.
"I'm not a prince." I said through gritted teeth, and she shrugged.
"Whatever you say prince." She said and I continued to walk until I got to a nice, cold and empty room.
I sat down in the middle and closed my eyes. Everything was so confusing. Why in the world do people enjoy living like this? Or am I just different?
I felt something shift in my pocket, and I looked to see my pocket glowing slightly.
Confused, I reach in and pull out a glowing crystal. It was beautiful and green. I frowned, and wondered why I had it. Also why I felt drawn to it. It sent vibrations up my shoulder and for a moment I saw things I couldn't understand. They weren't clear, but I could've swore I saw Spruce holding a hand out to me, and when I saw myself take it, I saw Kaliska dancing with me. We were so close and moving swiftly and against each other, not giving each other much space.
I blinked and found myself face to face with the stone wall again, and I desperately tried to give myself more memories, but it just didn't work.
I gripped my hair, and I came to an awful relization. They were my friends or family. Whatever you may call them.
I looked down at my feet and smiled to myself. I looked so happy and carefree.
"Colt what in the world are you doing in here?" Cassidy asked, and I blinked and let myself become dark again. For now, I'll play along and figure out as much as I can.
I followed her out into the hallway and flinched at the screams coming from the room down the hallway. I didn't let Cassidy see my face though so I quickly looked away until the screams faded away.
"Now then, we're going to go attack the catori and humans tomorrow. I want you to be ready by then." She said, and I nodded, keeping my face neutral and keeping my inner thoughts and emotions at bay.
When she disappeared, I snuck into her room and frowned at the dark setting. It made me shiver, and I quickly went in to grab the teleportation crystal sitting at her desk.
I could already feel the curse coming back to me so I had to hurry. I slipped the crystal i to my pocket and ran to the room where King Lucas and Princess Kaliska were being tortured.
When I walked in, the man was just raising the whip, but I intervened by grabbing his hand.
"I shall continue. Leave now." I spoke darkly, but it wasn't hard when I could feel darkness taking over my thoughts. It almost felt natural to speak like that.
I waited until the door closed behind the man, to turn to the two prisoners. They looked so helpless in front of me.
I fell to my knees and gasped when I felt a sudden blackness hit my soul, and I took out the crystal.
"There isn't much time to explain. But I'm coming to the kingdom tomorrow to attack you all.. I wish you to defeat me." I hissed out and Kaliska opened her mouth, hope in her eyes but I shook my head and broke her off by teleporting them out of her and sighed in relief.
A second later, I could feel things become darker and sudden angry thoughts filled my mind. I looked at the crystal quizzically. What was I doing with it?
I returned it to Cassidy's room, and walked back to my room.
The night went slowly as I gripped my bow, feeling insecure the entire night. For whatever reason, I felt that somebody was going to jump out from the shadows and kill me.
I whimpered and curled up in a corner, trying to get control of my beating heart but it was hopeless. When day eventually came, I found myself asleep in the corner when I passed out last night, and a man was shaking me awake.
He seemed familiar but I never took the time to remember people's names anymore.
I followed Cassidy out into the forest once we got our forces ready, and I breathed in the cool morning air.
When we reached the kingdom, they of course already knew we were coming, so the army attacked us before we got close to getting into the castle.
A guard attacked me and I used my arrow like a sword to deflect their attack and stab them.
Not a second later, an arrow whizzed past me and skimmed my ear.
I felt the blood fall from my ear, and I gritted my teeth and glared at the idiot who shot me, and shot them in the head without another care.
The battle continued on, but what I realized was I wasn't targeted, in fact most tried to stay away from me. It annoyed me to no extent, so I excused myself from the battle and searched for the king.
I found him on the battle field surprisingly. I usually never see a king fight with their army. They're usually shadowing the entire war after all.
The kig saw me and his eyes brightened and he ran over to me.
"Colt!" He shouted with joy, and I sneered and rose an arrow, ready to shoot him. I let go of the arrow, but someone cut the arrow right in half before it hit the king.
Now standing in front of the king, was Spruce.
I smirked, and drew another arrow.
"How interesting for you to pop up here Spruce. I'd have expected you to still be laying in bed." I said darkly, and let the arrow fly.
He dodged to a side, and glared at me.
"How dare you try to shoot father!" He shouted and lunged at me. I calmly dodge out of the way and stand a little further away.
"How dare you raise your sword at me, your brother." I mock, and grin at him when he glares at me and lunges again.
"Shut it! My brother isn't evil!" He snapped and his sword skimmed my hair as I ducked under.
"Well here I am, in the flesh." I say in a bored tone. He shakes his head and jumps again.
"Well it's too bad to come down to this brother. Maybe if we chatted more, we could've gotten to understand each other better, and we wouldn't fight so much." I tsk and draw an arrow from my quiver.
"What are you talking about?" He growled and stayed back for a moment so I could explain.
"Hah so sad that you couldn't understand. You never saw how jealous I was of you and your attention. After all, you're the older brother. You get everything. The kingdom, the ladies, the friends, and everyone's support. I'll always be the shadow. Always following you but nobody will notice me." I spat and swiped my arrow at him. I caught the front of his shirt when he jumped back but sadly didn't hit any flesh.
His eyes widened, and he stopped and stared at me. I hadn't even realized it but tears were coming from my eyes.
"Nobody wanted to hang out with me! Whenever I'd see another kid my age, they just wanted to hang with you!" I shouted and started swiping harder and harder with my voice getting louder and louder. Suddenly everything stopped when Spruce ditched his weapon and pushed my bow and arrow out of my hand and hugged me.
It was a tight hug, and I could feel him trembling against me. I didn't lift my hands to hug him back.
"I'm sorry Colt.. I never wanted you to feel like this.." He murmured, and then he lifted his sword and I was too shocked to realize what was happening until the bottom of the handle on  Spruce's sword came into contact with my head and made me drop to the ground and stare up at him until the light faded and spiraled from my eyes.