Chapter 12: Chapter Twelve
Chapter 12
Demitria Frostine
It was late that evening and two persons were running in the middle of the woods. Both were panting, looking for a place to hide. It was a mother carrying her child.
The mother took her daughter behind the wall where she realized that it was a dumpsite for baskets. She put her daughter inside the baskets and kneel in front of her.
Tears started to form in her eyes. That bloody red eyes, that were supposed to look like a catastrophe was about to come yet it looks angelic on the mother’s face. Her pointed nose met her daughter’s nose, crying.
A loud explosion can be here in the background. Screams of people reign the place. That night was full of begging. She hugs her daughter tightly, not wanting to let go, But she has to…
“Hide here my darling, You shall be safe here.”
“Mama… Papa?”
“Papa’s not yet here darling, but he will… soon”
The mother placed her child comfortably and even put some fruits and vegetables she could while she hides inside. For the last time, she held her daughter’s face as if she was trying to memorize her looks. The child’s eyes were screaming hope.
She covered her daughter with an old brown blanket full of dust. She gently taps her leg and silently sang a song to put her child to sleep. The mother was trying hard to make her child sleep even when explosions still can be heard. It was chaotic but she successfully put her child to sleep.
She kissed the child’s cheek and forehead as tears rolled down her rosy cheeks. She cannot stop it anymore. Her ranging feelings wanted to show but as a tough mother she is, She chose to conceal it.
The mother’s eyes were full of hatred, fear, and longing, which her daughter cannot see nor understand. Her mother was problematic and panicking.
She didn’t want to left her alone in the dark but she has left no choice.
“There she is!”
The mother stands up and runs right away, wanting to have her last glance on her sleeping daughter but she didn’t, to save her from them.
“Omisha!”
“Shit!” I suddenly woke up when I heard footsteps under this tree. I almost fell but I was able to hold on to one of the branches. I kept silent for a moment. I am still not ready to fight.
I stay still until the noise was gone. I sat again and I realize that I had a weird dream. I was trying to remember what happened there but I got shocked when I heard the noise so my focus got shifted.
“That was weird but why does it felt so real?” I asked myself as I went down the tree.
“Look what we have here.” I remained calm and didn’t even make a move. How unlucky am I?
I turned around and saw a guy that looks like Lorcan. His hair was was ash gray and his eyes were as yellow as the sun. His looks scream calmness but his smirk doesn’t.
‘Raiden Thorley’ I read on his uniform. His flag was also purple so this means that I will be battling with a person with the element of thunder. This is a tough one.
“Don’t give me that look, I usually don’t get swayed easily.” He said and swings his hand in the air and thunder blades were summoned on his both hands.
I got frightened a little bit. There were almost five flags on his uniform and being the desperate person that I am, I must try hard to snatch away those flags.
This might be my last opponent for this battle but I have to do everything to survive.
I felt the cold sensation again. The way it travels through my body makes me feel strong and satisfied. He jumped as he aims the blades at me.
All at once, he swung the blades as if he was trying to slice me in half but I parred with his attacks. I cannot make my attack since he was too fast on giving me.
He stopped when I lost my balance and gave me a pitying look but in no time, he pierced the ground with the thunder blade and it created a huge crack until the ground make an explosion and everything near the crack was cast out.
I was able to do a back lift in the air and fell on the ground with my feet. I heard him chuckle yet he sliced the ground again but this time an unknown feeling dominates my body as I was in the air everything was in slow motion.
I looked at my hands and saw that I was holding a bow and an arrow aiming at him. I released the arrow as I felt the impulse. The arrow duplicates itself into three as it approaches my enemy. Two arrows hit the ground and one hit my opponent.
“AARGH!” He screamed in pain as the arrow melted on his skin and stick to his body.
I took the chance to get him lost his focus when the arrow burst into a cloud of smoke that made our battlefield full of snow and fog. He can’t see me but I can see him. He was injured so I want to focus on his injury.
I kicked his chest, pulled his head down, and in a blink of an eye, I was already sitting on his back as he was facing the ground. I took my dagger and pierced it on his shoulder where I made the injury.
“AAARGH! You will not defeat me!” He shouted and turned around. He pulled me down strangling me.
My dagger was thrown away because of his force.
“Y-yes, I w-will!” I screamed and the sky started to turn dark and fog started to control the weather.
The wind blew harder and thunder roars. It was like our elements combined and was uncontrollable.
I pushed him hard he tossed away from me. A snowstorm was starting and I can feel that my eye color was changing as the ice started to cover my skin. I never felt this strong so I will take my chance.
“You’re still nothing. You cannot change the fact that you came here because of privilege and you took it out of desperation.” Strings of thunder were surrounding him and his eyes turned into golden yellow. It was as bright as the stars.
I can sense anger and I am feeling it too. No one wants to give up and this means war.
“This is why the academy must teach all of you why being nothing can become something. You are all so full of yourselves when you cannot even prove yourself to them.”
“No, It only means that what’s inside that academy are those who only matter.”
“So are you saying that those people outside the academy are worthless and meaningless?” I shouted in pain by the truth that those who are in the highest position thinks that we are worthless and we don’t give meaning.
“I know it’s hard for you to accept, but it’s the truth Demitria. They let you join the battle so they can kill you without putting your blood on their hands. To discard you immediately.”
“And then that only proves that people like you are more meaningless.”
I said and approach him with a speed of light and strike him the dagger that I enlarged to make it look like a sword. I swayed it with the power of the snowstorm. He dodges the attack with his thunderbolt.
I felt the desire to kill for once in my life. He didn’t only degrade me but he also degraded those people who work for him.
“Demitria!”
“Raiden.”
We both swung our weapons on the air and it hits each other. I was trying to push the dagger and he was pushing his weapon towards me.
So this is what it feels like to be inside the eye of the storm. The wind inside was harder and thunders keep on roaring. I looked at his eyes and I only see his urge to defeat his opponent.
“Not this time Demitria!"bladeThis is a perfect time,” I said and gave him a smirk that he would never forget.
I toss his blade with my other dagger. He lost his balance as he also lost his grip on his blade. I grabbed his blades while he fell on the ground, took the chance, and pierced his blade on his stomach.
“N-no”
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Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone