Chapter 38: The Path

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Life is filled with many paths each with their own destination, their own struggles, their own diversions, their own journey. Many times in our lives we are forced to make a choice of the path we should take. Do we push forward, do stop, left or right, forward or backward. Sometimes life will force us down a path we never expected to go down but with every path there is a point of no return.

 Sometimes life will force us down a path we never expected to go down but with every path there is a point of no return

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"You're pathetic!"

"Get up!"

"We go again!"

"You'll eat when you get this shit right!"

"You want them to win. Do you want the monsters that killed your mother to keep on walking!"

"Not good enough. Never thought my son would be so weak."

"Failure."

Chace drove down the futuristic streets as his fathers words screamed in his head. The memories of his childhood being forced to become a weapon, a tool of his fathers revenge. A revenge they both felt. Despite how much that path ruined his life and turned it into a hell he also knew it was a path he had to take. It was the path despite being forced he chose to do nothing to steer off it. As much as he hated the way his father changed and treated him, he also never ran away from it because he knew his father would do what he promised.

Make him strong. Strong enough to kill his mothers killer, eventually his fathers killer and killer of his old happy self, before life changed. Before he walked down the path. Chace looked up at the Hunter Academy building returning his eyes to the road as he turned to park in the building parking lot. He parked his stylish sports car exiting and initiating the lock before noticing his reflection in the window.

"When does this path end." A child version of him spoke to him in the reflection of the window.

Chace turned his head away from his child self as he went walk onto the Academy grounds. "It ends when either me or him dies..." as he walked alone and the breeze caused his hair to flow along with it he concluded his response to his younger self. "...And I refuse to let it be me."

A few moments passed. Chace was stood waiting on the steps to the Hunter Academy Hall. He rested on a railing as the bell went off declaring the end of the students graduation. Chace watched as students came out cheering and patting each other on the backs. Some crying out of happiness and some embracing each other thanks to the friendships they made. Eventually he saw the people he was waiting for. The student squad he saw so much potential in and almost got killed. A thought that still stuck with him.

The group spoke to each other with happy faces. Smiling and laughing with joy. Chace couldn't help but feel a bitter sense of happiness. It was nice seeing them so happy after everything they went through but yet he couldn't help but remember how lonely he was at their age. How his father never allowed him to have any friends and neither did he. Only the members of his squad.

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