A Forgotten Hero - Volume 1 Chapter 3

Swoosh and bang continuously ring through my ears suddenly. Panicking I wander what on earth is happening. Being lost in thought I realize something very important…I.CAN’T.MOVE. With any might I try to muster to move even my little finger is to no avail, its as if I am not even inside my own body! No it feels like I don’t even have a body to begin with! To make matters worse with all the noises and distraught of having no body, a realization just struck my mind, it was the fact that my entire view was literally nothing but just pure black. Already feeling body-less, now I am in a predicament of even being unable to see,feel,touch nor speak out loud and only be able to hear that irritable noise. Feeling myself drifting in this void of who knows where I began to wander how I ended up in this situation which luckily did not take long as I finally remember.

Remembering that I was betrayed by the world and stabbed in the back by my friends (literally), feeling pure anguish and rage across my face while everything on me including my clothes were robbed off me. My memories started flooding back to me near instantaneous I remembered my murderous intent to the world, the feeling of the sword deep inside my flesh right through a major organ, best of all the sword was enchanted to make sure I did not immediately die but slow enough to see them have their way with me by mocking me, kicking me,cutting me,laughing at me,shaming me,glaring at me their f.u.c.k.i.n.g savior! Pure rage started to rise inside me as I remembered all the pain I went through at a single span of a day yet to me lasted an eternity. At the time when I felt everything the moment they finally ended their cruelty and took everything from me I recall saying with my last breath “IF I SURVIVE I WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU MONSTERS!” with a rage of a thousand gods but then passed out to now in this predicament.

Honestly after my memories were brought back to me I felt an emptiness in my heart making the panic and distress I felt a few moments ago as if it did not seem to matter anymore. Its as if my emotions but anger just got sucked inside a void inside my heart, honestly I felt lost and didn’t know what to do. I said i would destroy everything if i survived but I don’t exactly know if I survived or not, heck even if I did I don’t even know if a body even remains, In fact for all I know I could be a wandering spirit of the void or about to be reincarnated!… though I doubt that since it seems the gods are against me…

My thoughts were interrupted by the `bang` and `swoosh` noises irrupting though my ears! For god sake haven’t I suffered enough? Why out of all the 5 senses did I have the ability to hear such loud, distorted noise! Honestly I wanted to cover my ears yet I could not….. Does my torture continue? Am I not allowed to even feel any form of peace in what I assume is this afterlife? Cursing the misfortune upon me to the point I was going to lose all sense of reason.

Luckily before I lost myself I heard someone saying “oh? Your finally awake I see.” The voice sounded that of a female with it sounding excited and thankful for the fact that I “awakened.” Which sounded quite odd to me but for some reason I felt more thankful instead of anger from her since she sounded sincere as if she was happy that I am here. I felt that there was no fear or a hint of falseness at the sound of her gentle and delicate voice. Just from hearing her, I felt a chill of ice from when she spoke which freezes some anger in my heart a bit allowing my sense of reasoning and thinking to come back to my reality.

“who are you? am I dead?

“No you are not dead, don’t worry, you have just been sleeping is all” She explained with her calm icy voice.

“uh sleeping? For how long” I hesitantly asked..

“Well I would say around one thousand and five hundred years. You are quite a heavy sleeper” She exclaimed with some sarcasm at the end…Did she just giggle?

“WHAT! How on earth is it possible for me to sleep for so long. Also I will have you know that I am a very light sleeper” I answered with extreme seriousness about my sleeping.

For a moment I felt that she was surprised about how serious I answered her about me sleeping yet it seemed she was laughing at it! but it didn’t annoy me as I felt that she was laughing because she found it amusing and not because she wanted to belittle me.

With her cold yet warm tone “You was in a critical state and long story short I saved you, but to do so I encased you in a rock of ice to prevent your death and resulting in your consciousness to freeze as well but allowing me more time to heal your injuries, so to you it felt like mere moments all this happened but in the outside world it has been 1,500 years. Oh but don’t worry other then your healed injuries you still have a young appearance, in fact you didn’t age at all thanks to my ice.”

I was utterly shocked from a few things like how I have been in a ice block for a long time, the fact that this women managed to save me from death and preserve my body causing me not to age,the fact that she even had such power to pull of these fetes all by herself or that she saved someone who was hated and feared off by every intelligent life! Usually I would feel some distrust from such kindness yet oddly enough I don’t, its like I know she isn’t lying to me, like we have bond to know when one another is dishonest. It’s very weird.

A realization dawned on me “hold on…..if I have been sleeping for 1,500 years….does that mean….all the people who betrayed me have already passed away….”

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The voice didn’t reply thus creating an awkward situation. The no reply made me incredibly down…I am unable to take my revenge on them….they all passed away with no worries…they got the easy way out…..as I thought about how I was blessed at another chance of life but I am unable to take the revenge I swore to take if I lived.

“Hey voice in my head, when am I able to break out of this ice?” I asked with an unenthusiastic tone. When you find out that your unable to get your revenge its very disheartening.

Almost instantly “Oh yea, you can leave whenever you want, Just concentrate the energy around you and pull the energy inside of yourself then use it to control the ice which allows you to feel your body again then just brake the ice with the energy, I am sure it will naturally come to you great hero”

Oh yea so easy I sarcastically thought all I have to do is brake some ice that managed to freeze me for years on years, nothing to worry about. I got the courage and tried to follow her instruction by feeling the energy around me. After a few moments of concentration I started feeling a chill down my spine then towards my lungs causing my breaths to release cold frost after each breath. The chill energy then started to travel to my heart which gave me a strange odd feeling however something was wrong, If I am trying to break the ice why am I surrounding my organs with ice when they are practically frozen! So trying to change the course of the energy I course the freezing energy from my heart and instead of condensing it I spread it around my body to the top of my skin allowing the ice energy to leak out from me. My temperature started to rise and miraculously I started to feel my fingers ever so slowly. Yes its working! Releasing the energy out of my body is way faster and more effective then whatever the voice said!

After a few minutes I basically managed to feel my body and all that’s left is too release the energy in one go to completely brake this weakened ice!

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BANG!

I did it! I broke through this ice but still some frost remained on parts of my skin. Oh well it was my first time controlling energy after a long time. Embarking on my achievement I see a frail and shocked girl on the floor near the former ice rock. The girl was quite short with low quality material of clothes giving me the impression that she is a slave. After closer look at her I saw bruises and cuts around her body with mud covering the places the bruises and cuts did not cover. Did she fall in mud? I wandered. This girl had medium length ginger hair with watery blue eyes however with all the mud,bruises,cuts and poor clothing she looked more of a peasant then a human. Maybe she was a peasant.

The girl examined me and once she looked down her face turned bright red and looked away immediately and said “p..p..pervert!.”

I was utterly confused and frankly pissed off that this girl called me a pervert when they haven’t even met before but then I looked down…..I AM N.A.K.E.D!

No wander this girl said what she said i literally have no clothes, which now that I think about it does make sense considering I was robbed of literally everything before being frozen….

Well I must admit my first meeting a person after 1,500 years, I did not imagine it to be like this.

Once again like earlier I and most likely her felt very awkward about this uh….predicament.