The Purged Ones

Chapter 36: Within The Girl named Deva, Part 1

Eve

I couldn’t understand the outrageous action that Deva took. She led an army to the city without warning; how did she gain such men and women? What happen to her during the year that went by? Her hair was as pale as paper. Her skin looked as if leeches sucked out so much of her blood, but I was able to see some color on her.

“But…but…a price we must pay?” Mira eyes stood still as water came out of it. She had her hands over her chest. She was confused and heartbroken of what Deva have said. “What about those innocent people?”

“…I guess you, Eve, Angel, Seven, and the others can go take them to a safe place. I’m sorry, but this is my chance to end Fiora’s life! I have no time to waste!” She stormed out of the house with her face all red, it gave her more color.

“Why? Why would Deva not care about the people that will be caught in the crossfire?” Mira asked.

“Haven’t she learn anything from the attack that happened ten years ago?” I mumbled loud enough for Mina to listen in.

“How you expect a girl to remember that specific event, if she have lost her memories after the attack? As of now, she isn’t scared from it, she have no feelings that would have prevented her choices and she isn’t the same anymore.” Mina said as she tended to Angel’s wounds.

“But she heard stories about the horrors!” Mira raised her voice.

“Mira! Don’t raise your voice at your elders!” I said.

“I’m sorry…I’m just too confused about Deva not caring. She not like that…” Mira calmed down as she had her head towards the floor. Such a gloomy vibe gave off of her. The poor girl was confused about the person that took her in as he daughter and a big sister. 

“It is alright. You can’t blame the child for not being able to understand.” Mina calmly said as she finished up with Angel.

“What do you make of Deva?” I asked.

“Something within her have changed her physically and mentally, but I’m not surprised about the mental part. The poor girl must have felt weak after the constant failure she faced against Fiora and Saya, but she was stubborn to realize she was too weak to fight them and probably was clueless about her stubbornness.”

After Mina’s analysis on Deva, I got a glimpse of Mira’s eyes that have wondered to the floor. She also let out a sight and shook her head.

“She felt that she needed power and she managed to gain such a power, so that she can take back this city. She wanted take back the control over the city from Fiora…” I mentioned

“A Conqueror bent on conquest. I tell you this now, beware of the path Deva is heading towards because it will end in chaos. Trust me, youngsters, I have seen this before in a girl that I knew. I wanted to believe that the girl would have moved on from her vengeances towards the world, but she managed to change the course of history, changed the course of God’s will. For that, she have met her grim fate worse than death. She did managed to create a religion, but where is she now? ”

“What was her name?” Mira asked.

“Yeul…” 

I was not surprised to find out that Mina knew Yeul. Mina was a very experienced person and held many knowledge of history. I did wondered how she met Yeul.  I wondered how she looked like. I never had the chance to meet her, the mother of balance.

“Did she look like Deva?” Mira asked, but that question caught me off guard.

Mina began to rub on her chin while her eyes were looked to the side. “Let’s see…”

Mina finally remembered and began to describe Yeul. She said that Yeul would always wear a skull over her head. Mina never knew why, but she confronted Yeul one day and Yeul told her that she liked it, that she looked cool in it. 

Yeul’s hair was long and red like Deva’s hair was back at the gates, spiky and long enough to lay across the back with no split-ends. Her eyes were a bit big and she also had hazel eyes, but accorded by Mina, Yeul never liked her eyes and managed to get eye contacts that would make her eyes red instead of hazel. I wondered why Yeul never liked her eyes because hazel was a pretty color.

“I guess that looks like Yeul? I don’t know.” Mira shrugged her shoulders in a slow paste.

“I don’t know much about her past, but she was an orphan like Deva and all of you,” but then Mina noticed a gloomy vibe from Mira, who had her face dead and wiggled her foot. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that word to define what you are.”

“It’s alright. I never knew my parents. Deva was the one who raised me like a mommy.” Mira forced a cheery mood around her face and eyes.

Suddenly, Angel awoken from his beautiful eyes and I was the first thing he laid it on. He slowly lifted up the light on his face and made small butterflies flap around inside of my stomach.

“Eve?” He said as he took his right arm and rubbed his eyes.

“Are you alright?” I asked as I held his hand. Mira stood next to us and gave a childish giggle.

“Please! No mushy stuff!” Mira yell, but poked her nose and we all began to laugh. Soon the laughter died down as we thought of Deva. We have to go after her, but at the same time, we have to save the innocence people that were caught in the crossfire.

The sounds of war sounded much louder than before.

“Go! You must save the people before their lives become more in danger!” Mina said as she opened the door.

“Why Deva? Why so hasty that you ignored the innocent people? Do you really not care about the lives you just put in danger?” Mira mumbled as if she was giving a prayer.

I nodded my head to Mina and beckoned Mira and Angel to follow. We sprinted towards Fiora’s tower, but managed to find Minerva, who stood in the middle of the street and watched the destruction that covered the streets with blood.

“I can’t let this happen again! Why Deva?” I yell as I sprinted passed the soldiers that fought hard against the horde of demons that Fiora planted across the city. A battle have commenced and I must gathered my group before more blood was spilled.