The prisoner

ChApTeR sEvEnTeEn-Cofessions

"It's ok if you let me down now, Madness..." I said to him while we were walking through the garden. "I can walk, remember?"

"Yeah, I know..." he said then he put me down. "Don't worry. During the training you won't have time to rest." he said then he smiled at me. "Oh, I almost forgot. I have a new method of making you move."

"And what is your new method?" I asked him suspiciously and surprised at the same time. I saw him taking a knife from a table then I saw its sharp edge increasing his skin. A little thread of hot and good smelling blood began to flow on his arm contouring his veins. HIs dark reddish color made the image more exciting and mysterious...but still painful. Yes, painful because I knew I had to go there to get the blood and at each step, my legs hurt a lot. It felt like a thousand needles were increasing my legs simultaneously. Never mind, I had to taste the blood again so I had to move. Then I just realized something: I loved the taste of his blood, it was that familiar taste I found out when I kissed him firstly. I was absolutely dying for that blood. I finally realized what I was thinking so I slapped myself to wake up. I looked at Madness's wound again then said: "Madness...not again!"

"Yep, again. Come at me." he said laughing because of my face.

I started to move straight to him ignoring the pain caused by my legs hoping I'll get that blood so I was almost running.

"Madness, if I catch you, you'll be a dead demon---" I began to say when suddenly a terrible pain injected my legs so as I fell on the ground. "Damn it!" I screamed behind Madness who was still running away. Fortunately he heard me and ran back to me.

"Jane what happened?" asked him with a careful voice then put a hand on my left leg. "Can you move?"

"Yes." I said then I moved my leg. "But it's too painful because I ran."

He raised me up then went back to his house. "Sorry." he said while walking through the house to reach the bedroom.

"It's not your fault." I said trying to consulate him. "It will disappear one day, don't worry."

He put me down slowly on the bed then covered me with a blanket. "If you say so..." he said lying down next to me. I just didn't realize how fast passed that day. It was already 12:00 a.m. and we didn't do much things. Without realizing I fell asleep so quickly and everything went black.

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When Madness was sure I was completely asleep he stood up and searched for a paper and wrote me a note then he put it next to me in bed. He took a cloak and his black burned boots and looked at me again. "I'm sorry, Jane, I have to do this..." he whispered then he went outside. He light a fire circle around him in the grass then, without taking his eyes from it, he said:

"I have a punishment. I have to repair lots of things. So burn me down there again and let's finish with all these!" he said and the fire circle started to shrink and shrink until Madness was burning in it then everything went black.

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After some time of dying Madness's body hit the burning ground again and he opened his eyes. He stood up despite the hot boiled air and looked around: the same familiar view; everywhere fire. No heart, no smoke. Just fire everywhere.

"Let's do it." he said for himself then he started to walk straight to the coliseum where he had to solve those horror levels.

***

Suddenly I woke up. A strange feeling was covering my body. It was just like when I was scared. Something happened. I looked around me; Madness was missing. I suddenly got up then I saw the note standing on the bed near me. I took it and read it carefully while my heart bit a thousand beats per minute.