Chapter 4: Why
"The village money has decreased by half this year, the amount of leather sold is almost in the red"
"The hunters should do their work properly, they think they can live here while doing nothing?"
"Do you wanna fight, damn farmer?"
The two stared at each other throwing daggers with their eyes.
"No one is gonna fight here. Why the hunters are getting less leather?"
"There is a boy in the forest leading wolves, he doesn't kill anyone but constantly stops us from hunting"
"Hahahaha, you are so helpless you can't even handle a child"
The hunter stared at the farmer with a lot of killing intent, if they were not at the chief's house, he would have killed the man.
"Paul, stop pestering and go to work. Bob, move and think of a way to deal with the child, if you don't bring something until tomorrow you will lose your position"
Bob left the house staring at the sky, walking as he thought of a way to solve the problem. After some time, a young hunter appeared in front of him and said with confidence.
"sir! I have a way to deal with the child!"
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In the afternoon, I was walking in the forest searching for something interesting. I asked the birds if they could find some glass for me.
Then, a little at the side of a mountain. I found a cave, in the cave some crystals glowed making the cave brighter.
I got close to one cristal and touched it, the light started to dim and when the cristal lost all color...
[90%]
[91%]
[92%]
The counter at the side of my vision started to rise again, I became excited, it was stuck at 90% since ten months ago.
'What will happen at 100%?'
I grabbed some more crystals expecting the counter to rise, but to my sadness, despite the counter still rising, it was at a very slow pace and the crystals weren't working anymore.
*sigh*
"I hope tomorrow I get to know what that is" I said helplessly.
I headed to the lake to fish. On the way, I found a man with a big injury in the chest, there was a lot of blood on the ground. He was on the edge of death.
'I don't think helping out a little is going to be a problem'
I got closer and picked up some medicinal herbs.
"don't get closer!" He shouted with a fearful face.
"w-wait, I am t-trying to h-help" I never talked to anyone before so the voice was a bit broken.
The man put down his guard a little when he realized I was a child.
"I w-will remove the a-armor"
I stared at the injury, tree cuts covering all his chest. After using the medicine, His eyes started to close and his muscles relaxed, then he fainted.
'what a problem, the sun is disappearing, if he stays here for the night he will die... I already treated his injuries, it would be a waste to leave him to die here' I thought of an excuse to help him.
I then brought him to the nearest cave. The cave was quite big and had a good location, very difficult to find.
*grrow* My stomach yelled.
'You are such a nuisance'
Placing him in the cave, I went to gather some sticks to make a fire. The night was too cold to survive. When I came back, he was awake and searching for something.
"you should stop searching for your s-sword, you will not find it. I didn't pick it or your a-armor"
"I guess I can't be picky, thank you. If you didn't help me I would surely die"
"If you are thankful, you should go get the dinner. It's your f-fault I didn't get it"
"I would be honored but.." he said as he tried to stand up and failed.
"I can't get up, but I assure you that I will bring a lot of things from the village for you"
"L-like what?" My heart beat a little faster, I became excited after hearing about 'new' things.
"There are a lot of different swords, shields, armors, guns, and training puppets?" He said as I lost total interest in the village.
"Go sleep and return to your village in the morning"
He spent a lot of time naming things I could be interested in.
"Mirror?"
"Yes, it is a plate of glass that reflects light and you can see yourself in it"
"I want one, please bring one the next time you come"
"It's my honor but I don't know where you live"
"Okay, I will bring you there tomorrow" I responded innocently.
We rested, and by the morning left for my cave. I questioned him a lot about things in the village like plates, mirrors, windows, and about the people that lived there until we reached my place.
"Quite the work of art here" He said as he stared at the glass sculptures.
"I didn't do it to show other people, I just feel comfortable when close to glass. You should go, your daughter must be worried about you"
"I thank you again, you saved my life"
"It was nothing, just go bring me the mirror... What should I call you?"
"Bob, my name is Bob"
"Okay, bye Bob"
Then he left, the direction he walked was a little off the way to the village but I didn't think much of it. I could be wrong too. I never went to the village because if I go there the animals would be in danger and I think the village people don't like me very much.
I walked out of the cave, spread my arms, and started my routine.
"let's start a new day! Alpha, Beta, Delta protect the base until I come back okay"
The wolves nodded boastfully.
I went to the middle of the forest to find some new herbs. There were some herbs I didn't find in the books, maybe something I could use to make the hunters sleep. That way I can stop them more efficiently.
It was at lunch when I saw a black thing in the sky, there was smoke in the air, it was quite far.
'Strange, hunters are lighting a campfire in the middle of the day?'
But then the smoke turned thicker and bigger.
'Are they trying to burn the forest?'
And then I realized from where exactly the smoke was coming.
"No, not there, please" I said while my heart started beating faster.
I started to run toward the smoke, the more I approached the smoke, the more anxious I became, my legs shaking, my hands trembling, but my eyes still had a small hope.
When I reached the place of the fire, I saw the scene of Alpha and Delta fighting some hunters, Beta already dead on the ground. They were almost killing the hunter but then more showed up and stabbed their swords at both Alpha and Delta.
"ALPHA, DELTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed as my little eyes stared at the death of my first and only friends, my tears fall from my eyes and I look at the little cave, my base, burning, the glass shattering, herbs burning, all my life, in a large fire. Then I saw the sculpture of a woman in the middle of the fire, little cracks appearing all over it.
'Mother'
Then the figure of the woman broke and my little heart broke with it, my eyes turned hollow.
'I understand... Maybe I don´t have a mother after all'
I felt a force pull me from my arm, It was Bob, he was dragging me to someplace, I didn't have any force to resist, I didn't care, my head didn't want to think, I didn't want to admit that happened, it was all a dream and I would wake up tomorrow.
Then after some time, my head still empty, Bob slapped his hand in my face.
"Hey kid, awake now? Good, you were so easy to break, we just had to kill some little wolves and look at you, now you can't even move. I feel stupid to follow all that plan just to kill you"
My eyes recovered some color and I stared at where he had brought me, we were at the border of a canyon, the canyon was huge, and at the bottom, there was a wide, deep river. He then led me closer to the border.
"Bye, you annoying and cheeky brat, look there is something new down there, we call it death" He said as he kicked my chest and I fell in the canyon.
'Why'
'I saved him, he said he was grateful, he said he would bring me new things, I believed him, then why?' My eyes recovering a little.
'Why do they all hate me? Is it because I didn't let them kill the animals? Is it Because I didn't want them to hurt my friends? Why do they curse at me all the time? Even when I help them, they don't look grateful at all!... What have I done wrong?' My eyes then beamed with understanding.
'I get it now, they are all evil, I should have killed them, they wanted to hurt my friends and I let them live, I am so stupid. Sorry Alpha, Delta, and Beta, I let you all die because I am stupid' Then my eyes recovered entirely, then shone with anger and killing intent.
I gazed at Bob, then with all the anger and hate I swore 'I will kill you' before falling into the river at the bottom of the canyon.
Bob was sweating cold, he remembered the deep black eyes of the boy staring at him, his legs shaking, hands trembling.
'Did I make a mistake?' He thought.
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