Elementals | Volume I: The Awakening

Chapter 6 - Revenge

- Drako -

     I opened the tavern door and walked out into the rain. Was I going to do this? Abandon my best friends and the only people who have really, really understood me? Well if they're going to be cowards and ignore the war our fellow Solites have been fighting for centuries, hell yeah. They can go ahead and watch as the next push for freedom for Solites in this century fails, but I know for certain that I am going to help them. No matter the cost. They are my people and my kin, and I will gladly lay down my life if needed to help gain our freedom. 

     I left the town after finishing some stuff that needed to be wrapped up. I bought a decent sword, armor and set off to find Harriet and convince her to let me join again. She was the only one was trying to help Solites like me. I reached a hill and looked back at the town, a single tear slithering down my face upon the thought of abandoning my friends. Maybe I could go back and live happy lives like they were going to, we could still somehow make this work, right? I shook these thoughts aside and turned around and walked away.

      I woke up the next day to a giant scorpion looming over me, its stinger poised back, ready to sting me. I rolled away from the position in the dirt where I had been sleeping just before the stinger stabs the ground where I had just been sleeping. I fumbled for his belt and unsheathed my sword before dodging a few more attacks from the scorpion and cleaving it in half. I went to its stinger and grabbed a vial from my rucksack, squeezing the stinger so that its venom dropped into the vial. I ended up getting half of the vial full and pocketing it just in case the need for it arose. I grabbed my stuff and strapped on my belt and armor before setting off to find the stronghold.

     I had traveled across Rivera for a few more days, living in relative poverty and having to live off the odd 200 gold I got a month for completing a quest. I had been attacked by several bandits on the way but had been able to fight them off and slay them. But finally, I had retraced my steps to the mighty castle on the mountain.  I walked up to the gates and was allowed in, them seeing my mask and deciding that I was trustworthy. I made my way to her office while thinking. It wasn't her fault for having to kick us out. It was just the higher-ups that were just being racist. She had saved me after all, so I owe her. I finally reached her office and sighed, opening the door.

- Harriet -

     I looked up from my papers to see Drako. That kid again. I sighed and got up, pretending to look worried "What happened Drako? I thought I told you to leave the castle, did I not? If anybody finds out you're here..." I trailed off, trying to give him the impression I actually gave two shits about his safety. "I know milady, I apologize. I have come to rejoin the rebellion, I have learned from my previous mistakes." He tells me, leaving me wondering if Harrow would like that. My signature sinister smile appears on my face as I think of how much fun it would be to see Harrow's reaction to Drako being put in his division. "But of course Drako, I shall get you in a division right away," I said, my smile widening as my plan started to fall into place.

- Drako -

     I felt pure elation as I walked out of Harriet's office and closed the door. She accepted me back! I could finally help the cause again and save countless lives. I got my dorm room from Harriet and walked there. I opened the door and walked inside "Hello?" I called out, to which Harrow came into sight. My jaw and fists clenched as I remembered the scenes leading to my expulsion. I let out a primal roar of rage and attacked him, socking him hard in the gut. He grabbed my head, however, and spun me around him before tossing me into the wall. Pain shot through my spine but I kept attacking him with an onslaught of punches, tears streaming down my face as I remembered how he disgraced Vera. I didn't care about what Harriet was going to do this time, this scumbag wasn't leaving this room alive.

     I wake up being carried by two masked individuals, asking me if I could hear them. For a split second, they looked like Khan and Vera and I smiled, before realizing that they were just two random people who didn't know me.  I had flashbacks to what had happened and remembered that I had killed him for sure, so that was Vera's honor avenged. I also remembered, however, that he had stabbed me in my abdomen and had tried the old choking trick again. Does he seriously only know one trick? I fell unconscious again.

     I woke up in the forge, the blacksmith just finishing up the new parts. I screamed at the pain of the installation of the mechanisms and he quickly stopped. Harriet appears next to me and smiles "Greetings Drako.". I look at her and ask, "Am I in trouble?" to which she just shakes her head and examines my body. I follow her lead and look down, and my mechanical jaw drops. Harriet had turned me into an entire robot, I literally couldn't see any skin on my body anymore. It was just metal plating and tubes going into me. "Wh-what have you done to me!?" I yell, terrified of what she had made me. "My perfect weapon." She gives me her usual sinister smile.