Chapter Five: From Fire To Ashes

Alex returns to Postalla riding the white beast he was suppost to slain. Now he faces William Hexium in a epic battle for Maybel and the Solem dagger. But will things so as planned?

"What the hell is that?!" squalled a beer belly grunt right before a ravaging blade struck the throat with flamming steel, wielded by the hand of vengents. The entire village of Postalla was ingulfed in terror and flames with cries of women and children filling the air as their husbands and fathers fall prey to the edge of my father's blade. Smoke from the burning buildings were so great it blocked out the light of the full moon only guilded by the light of fire. One by one I swip past every grunt I saw spilling trails of blood in my wake all the while searching perfuelly for my beloved Maybel and the preious dagger on top of the bare back white beast that now bites and swips through the armor of the countless grunts polluting our path.

 

Flames from the witch's curse completly covered my father's blade with bright flares of fire and rage causeing embers to fly with every swing turning nearby houses into hellfire and lovers to burnt corpes. In the mist of all this rush I felt as if this bloody curse of mind has started to take a toll on my mental state... I felt no pain, no remorse for all the lives I take this night... for all the families I destroy... it's as if I'm becoming a totally different person and for the moment I think I like it. The injuries I endured from the white beast seemed to have numbed down, almost non-existing... I felt as if nothing could stand in my way from retrieveing Maybel and the dagger.

 

I continued my search down a stretch of dirt road placed square in the middle of Postalla when I saw before me a thick cloud of smoke hugging the road, blocking my view from the rest of the dirt road. Telling the beast to hult I held my ground perring deeply through the smoke trying to see if there was any signs of grunts up ahead. As I started to proceed into the thick, grey smoke (over looking the danger ahead) an array of arrows caught me off guard as they flew fourth like lighting from the depths of the grey smoke aiming straight for my skull. With the sword in a blaze I swung as quickly as I could sending out a streak of fire scorching the arrows to ashes before they could pierce my flesh.

 

"So you managed to tame the horrific beast I see. What a shame... I was hopeing the both of you would kill each other off." The cloud of smoke thined away to reveal a small but thick row of archers with none other the cocky William Hexium with the Solem dagger held at the throat of Maybel behind the archers. "B*****d!" I shouted as I jumped off the beast back and rushed towards William with father's sword held in hand high and firm. Before I was evevn close to that damn William his archers had their arrows pointed just inches away from my body freezing me in my tracks. "I'm willing to make one last deal with you little warlock!" yelled William over the snaps and crackles of the surrounding fire's, "I will spare your life if you and that giant mistake behind you to leave right now and never return here ever again!" Grinding my teeth I could only watch William over the row of archers, his smeirky smile mocks me as I stand here suffering over Maybel's saftey from the dagger's bite.

 

"I'm not leaving without Maybel or the dagger!" I plunged the blade of my father's sword into the earth splitting cracks under the feet of the archers across the dirt covered ground,"Besides William you need to pay for all you put me through and the best payment I can think of that's fitting for everything you've done is your life!" I grabbed hold of the sword's hilt plunged in the ground and transfered the flames of the witch's curse to my father's blade creating walls of fire to shoot up from the cracks beneath the archer's feet ingulfing them in a blaze of hell with screams of torture that eventually died down when the bodies fell to their knees. "Very impressive..." smiled William as he watched the flesh melt away from the dieing grunts,"... but I couldn't care less for the lives of my people, especally those worthless grunts." I pulled the sword out from the ground firmly in my grasp,"What kind of mayor doesn't care for his own people?!" I shouted out in rage with my father's sword pointed at William's chest

 

Lowering the dagger from Maybel's throat William tucks away the dagger in his back pants pocket and releases hold of the horses ring. I stood there wondering why William would release her, I thought she was the b*****d's hostage. "What gives?!" I asked grabbling hold of Maybel's rings as she trotted towards me,"Your just gonna let her go?!" "I'm giving you one last chance to leave with your life." relpied William with the look of mercy on his brow,"All I wanted from you was the dagger... not that damn horse of yours." Tears of rage streammed down my blood shot face as I glared down William eye to eye. "THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!" I yelled in a dreaded outburst,"YOU NEED TO SUFFER FOR WHAT YOU PUT ME THROUGH!!" Out of nowhere William begins to laugh... at me! "Ha Ha! Your acting like a child! If your going to be like this the whole time there's no point in killing you if your gonna act like an over grown baby."

 

"RAAWW!!" my instinct to kill took over and before I knew it I was sprinting like a mad man towards William with my father's blade in gulfed in flames of fury ready to end this b*****d's life. I swung for William's throat as fast as I could swing but to my surprise he already took a step back making him just out of range from the blazing sword. I kept on swinging my father's sword trying to split the b*****d's skull open but William's reaction to my attacks were so swift he was able to dodge them before I could ever swing the blade. It's almost as if he was already a step ahead of me. "Play time's over kid." smiled William as he dodge every fatal blow coming his way.

 

In a blur William strikes with a blinding uppercut directly into my stomach, crushing my ribs row by row as the shock wave travled up my chest. "......A...ah...uhh..." the excruciating pain from William's attack was so intence I couldn't even scream out in bloody agony as I laid beneath his feet twitching and cradling my belly with my father's sword on the dusty ground just a few feet away from me. I felt the fire fizzle away, disappearing from my soul... from the sword... it's fading away. "J-Just what the hell a-are you?!"I said struggling to look up at William's b*****d face from the blood stained ground.

 

With a evil grin William swiftly kicks my battered body onto my back and slams his foot on my already beatten chest adding more pain and discomfort. William lends forward showing off his crafty smile and stares his face to mine just inches apart," To answer your question from before...'why did I become major if I didn't care for the lives of my people?' hmm..." William begins grinding his foot deeper into my chest causing blood to be coughed up all the while sending tremendous pain throught my body. I try reaching for the hilt of my father's swor'd but allas it was an inch out of reach. "I suppose it's because the life of a major is far greater then the life of an assassin of Solem."

 

"W-WHAT!!" it turns out this B*****D was an assassin the whole time freaking time! Could he be the one who murdered my parents?! "As an assassin I was under appreciated... an out cast... all because I was old they thought I couldn't make it as an assassin. But in my prime I was the top dog... I NEEDED to feel like that again! So I found this rat hole of a village, killed it's mayor and took his place. Now I'm loved and appreciated by EVERYONE in Postalla!" I began to feel this uncontrolable rage slowly building up inside me ready to explode upon William. "I p-promise you... I WILL kill you before this is all over with." I snarled wispering in pain under the pressure of the blasted mayor's boot. William reaches behind his back and pulls out the Solem dagger he stole from me and presses the blade against my throat. "No more talk... it's time for you to die now." William said with a cold sting in the tone of his voice.

 

As William was about to slash open my throat and watch the warm blood spill apon the cold ground the white beast (who was fending off grunts behind me) began to charge full force at William with attent to kill. "hehe... " snickers William as he watches the beast rush towards him bearing fangs,"Looks like your friend wants to play too huh, hehe... okay... let's play." Taking his foot off my broken chest William releases the pressure leaving me gasping for breath as William stands like a grinning statue infront of the white beast path waiting for the massacure. This was my chance to grab my father's sword and retaliate but intence pain was still circulating through my body making it hard to move... but I got to try.

 

Waiting for the full frontal asssult William stands unshaken as the beast moves like lighting closer to it's prey. Like a mountain the white beast towers over William as she get's ready to swip the head of the b*****d mayor, ready to finish this ungodly soul. As if he was the wind I watched as William quickly jumps up in the air and strikes a deadly round house kick across the jaw of the beast sending her soaring through the air eventually crashing into a small building ingulfed by flames all before the white beast even had a chance to kill. Watching with tears I witness the entire building collapse on the beast crushing her under rubble and flames, an instint death. Reaching the hilt of my father's sword I hoist myself back to my feet with the sword as leverage thrusting the blade into the earth I lean pantting on the sword feeling tired and weak.

 

After watching with glee at the beast's death William turns around to face me once again but finds me standing man to man. "You stupid fool... if that monster couldn't kill me WHAT makes you think you can?!" Blood fell from my body like soft spring rain soaking the ground beneath me. I force myself to stand on my own weight and I peered into William's eyes grinning. "Cause your just a freaking crook with a more crooked soul." Wielding the sword infront of me I summoned the witch's curse to finish this cocky b*****d once and for all but... something went terribly wrong. "GAAHH!!" I dropped to my knees pantting clutching my chest for my heart felt like it was on fire. William began laughing maniacly at the sight of my own self torment while he walks towards my twitching body.

 

"Haha! well well... isn't this a sight to behold. Looks like I don't have to kill you after all. But... you can never be too cautious..." In a blitz of speed William delivers a finishing blow breaking open my chest plate and puncturing both my lungs with shards of bone all from a single kick. I felt my life slowly drainning  from my body as I watched William turn and walk away into the thick, smoky atmosphere that filled the streets of Postalla. As if frozen in time I lie in a stew of blood and defeat unable to move... unable to make a sound waiting for death's icy grip to take hold of my soul. Mabey if I didn't over do it with the damn witch's curse I might still have a chance but... that's not the case.

 

Everything around me faded into darkness and i felt myself slipping away from this world. I failed my mother... my father... they died in vain... but worst of all I failed myself... I couldn't avenge them... I'm... sorry. "Damn it do I have to do everything myself?! GOD! your a weak little prick!" Out of nowhere I was being pulled out of the darkness and into the world of the living. But... how? Who was that voice...?

 

"RRRAAAAAAWWWWWW!!!!!" Shouting out in pain I somehow got sprung back from the dead and found myself covered from head to toe in flames. William turned back around at the commotion I'm causing from my agonizing screams and moans. "So the kid still alive huh..." thought William as he made his way back towards my screams of torture. William arrives to witness my horrible demonic transformation. Black vains slithered all over my skin like snakes and my eyes turned blood red as if they were the color of hell itself with a set of jagged teeth to match. I rose off the ground to my feet with the flames surrounding me cooling down to form a thin aura coursing throught my body, all while facing William with a stare that could even scare the devil back to hell.

 

"Your a little tough nut to crack huh? Just don't wanna stay down." Frowns William twirling the Solem dagger up in the air. "Oh well... I guess it looks like I get to play with you a little while longer huh..." My firestoned eyes continued to stare straight into William's insanity with sights set to kill. My body felt completly different then it didbefore, almost like I'm a stranger to it. This has never happened before butI feel......new....

 

"DIE!!" In a spontanious eruption William closes in without hesitation ready to strike yet another devastating blow upon my flesh. I held my stance like a statue watching William rush towards me like a mad bull with eyes mixed in blood lust and insanity. The round house kick was headed straight towards my skull but in an instint I caught William's boot stopping the forcefull blow from crushing my cranium. Unmoved I raised my head glaring into the b*****d's face which was now quaking with fear and surprise at how easily I stopped his asault. With a dark and demonic grin I spoke in a possessed manner which ecohed deep within my throat. "Your a sick, pathetic fool... acually thinking you can take us on with a full frontal attack like that? For this... your stupidity and lack of judgement must be punished."

 

"HHHAAWWWHHHH!!!!" With a quick flick of the wrist I mangled William's foot by twisting it to a 180 degree angle causeing massive fractures all throught his ankle. Dropping onto his back William quiver's in pain and fear as he looks up with heavy teary eyes at my own glaring back down like glowing red pearls under my dark sinister shadow still grabbling to the foot of his demise beneath the thick smoky cloulds that now hover above Postalla. "Now... listen to us carfully..." I said dementedly, "Did you... or did you not assassinate a man and a women who lived in an old cottage in Tegiya Country a little over a year ago?" "What the hell are you talking about?!" Shouted William still suffering in pain with confusion on his brow, "I retired from that line of work five years ago when I took control of this rat hole of a village! But somehow I lost my Solem dagger so I wanted to take yours for my own!"

 

Frustrated from lack of information I slung William from his broken foot breaking through a window of a burning house which was about to fall under it's own weight thanks to the scorched wood. As I calmly wondered towards the burning house I could here the cries of pain streaming from the inside like a cool breeze dancing on my heart. Approaching the ingulfed house I pressed my palm against it's wall and burnt it away leaving nothing but ashes at my feet. The interior was crumbling apart around William who tried hopping away from my presence but alla he had no room since it was a patheticlly small house.

 

"STAY AWAY FROM ME!!" Skreaches William picking up a random array of books at his feet and chucking them fiercly in my direction. Each book thrown my way bursted into flames and fell to ashes when they flew near me from my grulling red aura. After realizing he was trapped William finally tossed the the Solem dagger and begged for his life to be spared. "There! I gave you the dagger back! Please just let me live! I beg of you! PLEASE!!" I picked up the dagger thrown at my feet and placed it back in my inner coat pocket. I was happy to have it back in my possession.

 

William (who was now on his hands and knees) was waiting for my answer. Should I spare his life? After all he's done to me and to this village? After taking the life of the White Beast? "The answer is no..." My firestoned eyes glowed like black embers as I looked upon his tainted soul and for his actions it shall burn like the flames of hell. "WWWAAAAHHH!!!" Fire began to sprout out from every hole on William's body. His eyes and face melt away, the blood from his vains boiled until evaporating out William's body  into a thick bloody vapor surrounding the melting corpes. When it was over nothing was left of William but bits and pieces of chard flesh and scorched bones... his rain of terror to this village and to me was over...

 

Stepping out the burning house I left the body of William Hexium to sleep under the rubble of the collapsing structure forever. "Maybel!" I shouted over the crackling of fire and rubble crashing around me. Maybel peeked out from behind a strret corner and begins to trot towards me. I attempted to grab hold of the rings but Maybel rejected me and stompped backwards a little. "I guess this damn horse still wants the stupid weakling... oh well... I'll have my chance to play again sooner or later."

 

Suddenly I pased out and fell like a limp doll. When I came to I found Maybel nudging my head with his. "Mmmmahh... w-what just happen. Why am I on the ground?" I woke up dazed and confused with the black vains and red firestoned eyes gone from my body along with the jagged teeth and aura. Feeling like I just took a REALLY long nap I got on my feet rubbing my eyes and realized I was surrounded by burning buildings. "W-what the hell happened!" I climbed up on Maybel and made my way out the thick frie smoke trying to find a way out this hellish village, passing body after body of the slain on my way out. I finally found a patch of dirt road leading out Postalla up and over to this green hilltop.

 

Standing on the peak of the green hilltop I watched down below under the calming full moon at all the death and carnage ingulfing the entire village of Postalla. "Wait a sec..." I thought to myself, "Damn! I forgot the dagger!" I was about to do a full on sprint down the hill and into the fire of Postalla until something stopped me and out of nowhere I checked my inner coat pocket. "... W-wha... wait... how did it get here?" I thought for a while and finally I came up with a logical concluision. "Haha! I must of scared William into giving it to me with the witch's curse. Hmmm... I wonder if he died in all that fire..?... ah whatever." I shrugged my shoulders and stepped up onto Maybel and continued on the dirt road with Postalla at my back and my search for the murderer of my parents straight ahead on my long and mysterious journey. I just hope the next village I come acrozz doesn't want to use me in anymore crazy tasks. Speaking of which where is the White Beast?

Author's Note

Sorry this chapter took so long to make but I had a lot of things to do before I could get this all finished so I hope you enjoy it :)

Reviews

[ScarlettTheDreamer]

Awesome, awesome, awesome. And the ending was lovely! Can't wait for the next chapter!

[XxKooperxX]

thank you ^_^

[AliceSon13]

Awesome Chapter!