Rev wakes up 2 days later with a massive headache. He stumbled over to the fridge and heated up some more food. He wolfed it down and started walking around the building. Seeing strange drawings on the walls. Diagrams of dragons spread out, breaking down every part of their body and its function. He glanced at the cage where Steel was kept. He then tries to walk over to it and his body felt a wave of uneasiness pass through him.
RU-
“Shut up already!” Rev groaned as he pushed past the instinctual feeling.
“I see you’ve finally woken up. You remind me of him. Waking up after what must be multiple days of sleeping and complaining about the voice echoing in your head.” Steel tells Rev.
Rev glares up at Steel “Don’t compare me to that monster,” Rev says.
“Am sure there’s many people in this world that would consider you a monster. Or have you forgotten-”
“Of course not! I can never forget. No matter how much I try, so just leave me alone.” Rev tiredly says.
“No human alive could ever kill a dragon, and that’s why they call Loka a monster. Loka choose to become a monster to take on that burden. If you knew what lead him to that decision, I’m sure you’d understand why he did it. Am not saying you’d like it, but at least you’d understand where it’s coming from. To understand that Loka doesn’t go around killing people for the fun of it.”
“Knowing why he did it isn’t going to bring them back!” Rev says.
“And killing Loka will?” Steel asks.
“…”
KILL LOKA!
KILL LOKA!
“Ahhh!” Rev yells he drops to his knees.
KILL LOKA!
KILL LOKA!
KILL LOKA!
KILL LOKA!
“STOP! PLEASE STOP YELLING! I’ll KILL HIM OK I’LL KILL HIM I’ll KILL HIM I’ll KILL HIM I’ll KILL HIM!!!” Rev cries out.
“REV!” Steel yells out.
Rev covers his ears and curls up in a ball as he tries to drown out the voices. He crawls alway from Steel. The farther he gets, the more quiet the voice gets. Steel looks at Rev with a look of pity. Rev catches his breath and lies on the floor as he looks up at the ceiling. He sees a portrait of a person unfamiliar to him. He closes his eyes and rest for a moment. “If Loka can hear the voices too, I wonder what there telling him to do…” Rev thought. Rev sighs and gets up, making sure to not get too close to Steel. He looks over Loka’s neatly organized journals, piled by date, upon reaching Loka’s desk. Past them, he sees weird contraptions. A small jolt of electricity fired out when he reached out to touch them. Inside, he finds several small art inscriptions engraved in the source metal.
“What is this thing?” Rev asked.
“I don’t know. Loka would work on things like that for years.” Steel says.
destroy
Rev head aches with the continues sonic assault. “Well, that’s a new one. The voice just told me to destroy it.” Rev says.
Rev starts to become dizzy; he grabs hold of the table, using it to help him stand upright. He takes a seat and looks at the diagrams on Loka’s desk.
Note: There are 206 bones in the human body…
Blah blah blah. Rev continues to skim through Loka’s notes. He looks at the picture of the human skeleton, along with all the organs.
“Ew…” Rev whispers.
He looks down at his hand, seeing the source run through it. He tries to picture the bone that makes up his hand. Then looked over at a glass tube with a human skeleton floating in it.
“What the fuck…” Rev says.
Steel laughs. “That’s Loka’s skeleton, believe it or not.”
Rev scuffs, “You think I’m stupid?” Rev asks.
“I don’t think you're smart.” Steel responds.
Rev glares at Steel. “Am absolutely terrified,” Steel mockingly says.
“Shut up! You're going to die in that dirty cage all alone!” Rev says.
“Unlike you, I have to problem dying alone.” Steel tells Rev.
Rev turns around in the chair, ignoring Steel’s comments. He continues to look through Loka’s stuff. He opens all the drawers and cabrits he could find. Finding thousands of papers that Loka had written equations that Rev didn’t understand. He found blades of all sizes. Source metal armor too heavy to wear. He moved up and down the building, taking brief breaks to eat. He found blue prints for the weapon that fired the source metal bullets. Soon after, he found the weapon it’s self. He loaded a bullet in as instructed and fired.
BANG!
“What are you doing Rev!?” Steel yelled out.
“Shut up, you old beast!” Rev yelled back.
This time away helped relieve his headache a bit. The voice would tell him to run, but it was much quieter now. Rev tried to talk to the voice, but it was to no Avial. The answer was always the same. Telling Rev to run and go kill Loka. Rev then found a strange devise. He messed around with it until it started making a sound.
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“What is this?” Rev asked.
The sound grow louder as he turned a dial. It was oddly comforting. He had never heard anything like it. “Music…” Rev thought back to being on the farm with the humans, how they would bang on the table with their spoons and start to sing. Rev had found it quite annoying back then. Rev sat on the floor of that cold room smelling of alcohol. He thought back on his life once more. “I wonder how many people hate me just as much as I hate Loka…” Rev thought. He looked down at his dirty hand, his nails stained with blood. His dry and damaged hair draped over his face. He pulled out his dagger. He brought the point to his neck, feeling its sharp cold edge on his skin.
NO!
Rev dropped the dagger and took a breath. “Where are you and why would you care?” Rev skulkingly asks.
“Why won’t you just let me do what I want? It’s not like I was going to do it. I won’t die…not until he’s dead first.” Rev says.
Loka must die!
“I was going to kill him before you told me to, so shut up already. I can’t focus with you yelling at me all the time.” Rev says.
Rev gets up and turns the music up all the way, drowning out the voice’s constant remarks. For a fleeting moment, he closed his eyes and enjoyed the rhythmic sound. He then rested his head against the wall and looked up. For a moment he was a piece, but that moment was gone. He couldn’t escape it, no matter how hard he tried. He clenched his teeth and let out a bitter sigh. Then slowly got up and left the room and gathered all the stuff he need including some frozen food.
“What are you doing now?” Steel asked.
“Something you failed to do. I’m going to go kill that monster,” Rev says.
He fills his bag as Steel laughs at Rev’s comment. Rev scuffs and heads for the exit. “I’ll see you soon Rev!” Steel yells.
“Cass, what’s wrong?” Bron asks.
“I saw him…and I can’t accept it, but the will of the twin gods is final…” Cass says.
“What did you see! Tell me, if he was there, then I have the right to know at least!” Bron tells Cass.
Cass sighs, looking distort. “I told you before. I saw war on that involved the whole world and he was at the center of it and a hooded figure by his side…” Cass says.
“Hooded figure?” Brons asks.
“AHH” Cass drops to these knees, his eye turning purple as he receives another vision. “Those eyes! No, it’s the same as before…Rev.”
Their paths must not cross
Cass stands up, recomposing himself. “The twin gods have spoken. Their paths must not cross.” Cass tells Bron.
Bron looks at Cass. “How do we stop them from meeting?” Bron asks.
“We need to find one of them. Assemble a troop, we set off as soon as we can.” Cass says.
“Troop? are you serious,” Bron asks.
“More than I could ever express. You’ll take your possession as the leader. I’ll accompany you to relay any more vision I may receive.” Cass says.
-2 days later
Rev reaches a large lake. He starts to walk around it. He pulls out his map and begins to back track where he got off the shit. It was in a snowy area, then he went into the mountains and have just now gotten out to see a large lake. He looks on the map for anything that might match up. “So that’s where I am. If Eden is here and Frayer is there, then where was the shit I got on taking me?” Rev asks. Rev looks around the map some more. “Loonan? no we were too close to Eaven shore. That coud only mean it was taking me to…Paradise?” Rev thinks.
Rev looks around and thinks back. “So where did Loka go? and how did he know where I was?” Rev asks himself.
Across the ocean in Tartarus, the queen is discussing further plans for dealing with Loka.
“Send out 150 dragons in all directions. Have them look for Red eyes at all cost. We must capture him as soon as possible. Failure is not an option, you hear me!” The dragon queen orders.
“Right away, my queen!”
“…My queen, why don’t we just kill Red eyes?”
“Trust me, I do to, but I’ve figured out he might be more use full alive than dead. Sense Loka was willing to fight Havoc to protect him, he must be extremely important. If we capture him, we could use him to force Loka to break this vile barrier he has put up to trap me all these years.” The queen explains.
“What do you want us to do while the others look for Rev?”
“You two are to prepare for the coming battle. A war to end all wars and we will be the victors!” The queen exclaims.
The entire sky begins to shake as over a hundred dragons take off, soaring through the sky in all directions. A large figure cracks a smile as he spots land full of jungle trees in the distance.
“hahaha am home!”
As Rev makes his way around the lake, he spots many farms in the nearby forest. They have seemed to have taken water from the lake and made a River of sorts. He watches them work and sneaks around. He makes his way into their buildings and looks for where they are keeping all the food. He follows behinds a human worker as he delivers a large bundle of wheat to a room. He watches as he cleans the wheat and refines it into flour. He follows him further and then the smell hits him. “Bread” Rev thinks. He quickly dashes around and steels a large loaf of warm bread. He then makes his way out completely undetected. “Wow, I didn’t even need to kill anybody.” Rev thinks to himself. He then takes a bite of the bread. A satisfying crunch follows as he breaks through the crust and into the soft, steamy bread. It reminds him of Eden, where this all started. What if Loka hadn’t killed his family? “Would I really be just another arrogant noble? Would I be happier that way? Ein would be alive at least, but what about Reed, Randy, and Rudy? Would they have died either way?” Rev asks himself. He stuffs the rest of the loaf in his bag and pulls out his map. He scans the map, looking at where to go. From what he knows, he’s in the middle of nowhere. The nearest city being Frayer, with the runner-up being Paradise which he’s never been to before.
“I guess I’ll go to Frayer. I don’t want to have to cross to mountains to go to Paradise and maybe Loka will be there or somewhere that knows where he is.” Rev says.
-3 days later
Rev wakes up in his stone shelter and prepares a meal. He then skims through the Lokas notebooks that he had taken. He had looked for anything related to source inscription and how to further use them. The ability to inscribe paths for the source to follow as it is pulled in and funneled out. He created a stone rod and started to inscribe on it with his dagger. He then stuck the rod into a tree and watched as it pulled in source from the tree and funneled it out the other side of the rod. It was as if the rod function like a living thing as it pulled in source and realised it. Rev then got an idea; he brought the dagger to his hand and inscribed a basic wind blast and fire art onto it. He then filled it with source. The arts activated at the same time and the arts triggered point blank and before he know it, he hand blow his own hand up.
“Ahhh!” Rev yelled as blood began to spray out of his arm.
He quickly healed it and made sure everything was working right. “I need to inscribe a delay on the fire art or else it will trigger too soon and have no range to the attack.” Rev thinks to himself. He then tries again. This time it works much better. Now Rev can almost instantly cast two arts at once. “Loka probably already knows this,” Rev scuffs at his own thought. He thinks back to their first fight, how he thought he came so close to beating him back then. It is now very obvious from Loka’s fight with Havoc that he had only been toying with him before. Even if he did find Loka again, would there be any point in fighting him? He thought back to what Steel had told him, “If you can convince him you're more useful alive than dead, then he would be a much better ally than an enemy”. As Rev became bitter at the thought, his head then began to ring as the voice echoed through it.
KILL LOKA!
KILL -
“Loka! I know I know Kill Loka. It doesn’t matter what could have been. I have to live with what happened. I have to live with what Loka did. With all the pain he caused me. No reason is good enough for what he did. My family may have been Royal scum but Ein wasn’t!…Reed, Randy, Rudy… Ive killed many people too, but If Loka handn’t started this, then I wouldn’t of had to kill all those people. It’s him, he’s the problem. No matter what it takes, Loka must die.” Rev says.
He grabbed hold of a tree and blow its trunks to bits as he lit the tree ablaze. He took a deep breath, and a shiver runs down his body. A gigantic shadow covered the sky.
KILL. “Kill.”
