RED HOOD ✔

EXPERT COUNSELLING

I kept on smacking my blade into the dummy, I was going to be as strong as possible, I haven't rested since I had the conversation with Zoreb also known as the moon. Everyone was worried about me, and I was worried about them, I don't have any reason not to... Like it or not, my mum was right, I loved Apsychos like he was my brother, and Anna... Well, I don't have the luxury of thinking of Anna in the sense of anything apart from a friend, I need to focus on saving this damn village.

"Hiah!!!!" I yell landing a final strike into the wooden dummy's head, cutting it off clean and sending it flying to a pile of wooden dummy heads that I formed through training. I was tired and was sweating all over, I should probably go take a bath.

I had only put my jeans on when I looked out my window and saw Joshua, aggressively training, he was dressed in the dark hood costume, but without his hood on, doesn't he care that  people will see him... Its late... They probably won't even notice him. I heard the sound of my door opening and I instinctively picked up a dagger that was laid on a desk near my bed, ready to kill, I stop to see that it was Anna.

"Oh... Sorry, should have knocked" she said looking red, she must have been scared because of the dagger, I put it down, "sorry" I said walking up to her, she just backed up a little, "you okay?" I ask, she looks like a darker shade of red now, kind of to the likeness of a tomato, "its just... I haven't seen you without a shirt on before" she said innocently, oh... I put on a shirt and walk up to her "better now?" I said, then she looked a little bit disappointed, but nodded eventually.

"So..." I say trying to bring her back to the reason she came here in the first place.

"Oh... Yeah... What did you see in aunt Liza's room... You were zoned out like that for an hour" she said, I scratched my hand on my head nervously "you might not believe me" I said.

"Try me"

"I saw Michael... And my mum, on the moon, whose name is also Zoreb"

"Excuse me" she had the most confused face ever.

"I knew you wouldn't believe me... The moon is not how we see it... Its a celestial being existing in both worlds, its a channel... I think it was through him, I came to this village"

She nods, "so the moon is alive and his name is Zoreb"

"You are really not making this easy"

"Fine, fine, I believe you" she said raising her hands up as if surrendering.

"Well... My mum was there", well she kinda wasn't, and she was not dead at the moment, neither was she alive, its really confusing, but she should be dead now, has she always been dead, and was  in that state of not being dead or alive only when she appeared in the moon... Damn my head hurts.

"it doesn't matter... All that matters is that we have to save Ruth and kill the sacred four" I said pulling my blade from underneath my bed.

"Oh... I've been wanting to talk to you about that... what if there was no other way to save Ruth, and you will have to kill her" she said facing her head down, scared of her own words.

"Why does everyone keep saying that... Ruth is not going to die, we are saving her, not killing her... She has gone through too much to just die... She has to finally live, if she dies she would have only known torment, I can't live with myself if that happens" I said gripping my sword firmly.

"I'm... Sorry... Where are you going with that sword, are you going to train more" said Anna trying to change the subject.

"Oh... Yeah" I said remembering that the sword was in my hand, "I can't underestimate the sacred four, I don't know what to expect from them... My mother told me that they have grown massively stronger since the times of Mason Magma, but so have I"