The Dream Saga - Chapter 109

“SOMEONE GET A HEALER IN HERE,”

“QUICK!”

“THE KING IS DYING!! HURRY UP!”

Lee was screaming his lungs out to ask for help. He screamed so hard to the extent when his voice box stopped producing sound. He was screaming soundlessly.

In a few minutes, maids and servants gathered around him to help him. There was nothing in which one can carry a person, so to save the time, a big build guard tied me on his back and ran to the infirmity along with Lee.

“Kai! You will be alright, just hold on! You can do it, brother.” Lee talked to me to keep me conscious as long as possible. His voice echoing in my head.

“Kai! Kai! Keep your eyes open!! Don’t let it close” I did not know what was happening around me. Everything was blurry. Everything appeared black and white to me. My lower abdomen was hurting like someone was severing it with a chainsaw because of the rope I was tied with. The guard who carried me wore armor, and it was piercing my back like spikes. I was in so much pain I wanted to scream, but somehow, I couldn’t.

And finally, I gave up…

My eyes got closed because of immense pain.

“Huh!”

“What’s this place, have I ever been here?”

I was again in some kind of illusion, but it was not a dream, it was also not the dream where I used to meet Ecirel. It was like a memory.

“Zoooommmm!!”

“Mr. Ried, it’s a boy. Mrs. Ried gave birth to a healthy baby boy.”

“Ye-yeah I’m coming.”

Suddenly, I was in a hospital room and a woman was lying there with a cute baby in her lap; I don’t know why I felt I knew that woman like I had some kind of connection with her. I was standing in the room and a man came inside the room with a big smile on his face. The woman smiled at him and showed the baby to him.

The man carefully held the baby in his arms, his eyes flooded with tears as he saw the face of his little newborn.

“Honey, what will you name him?”

“His name? I have a name in mind. Before telling you the name, I want to tell you why I want to name our firstborn after him?”

“Okay, why do you want to name him that?”

“So, the story behind it is like this, when I was a kid, I used to watch boxing matches in the town. There was a fighter who was not the strongest of all but he never lost a match.”

“Huh, if he was not the strongest of all, then how he never lost a match?”

I watched the couple happily name their child; I felt a kind of warmth coming from them looking at them. As they’d make wonderful parents.

“I knew you’d ask me that question. He always stood straight against his opponent, doesn’t matter how strong his opponent was, he’d get beaten up to the extent where people’s will to watch ends. But he was a charismatic man. He had a will of steel. His will to win never died.”

“Wow! What was his name then?” the woman asked.

“Kai!”

“His name was Kai, I will name our child Kai, but if you have something cooler than this, then I’ll go with you.”

“No, you picked a beautiful name. He is Kai Reid from today. And I know he will grow as beautiful as his name,” the woman smiled at her child in her lap.

I stood there watching everything as a statue, tears came out of my eyes, the woman I was feeling warmth, turned out to be my own mother whom I never saw…

“Mother!”

“Huh, did anyone call me mother?”

“Kai’s too young to say that. Be patient, honey.”

“But I heard someone!”

I was calling them, emotions were coming out of my heart. I was so emotional at the moment that I ran and hugged my father.

“I’m sorry, I but am a trash. You had high expectations from me.”

“Honey, why do I feel someone is holding on to me.”

I had tears in my eyes I never wanted to leave their side, but when I opened my eyes, they were gone and I was again alone in another place…

-to be continued

“Lee, you cannot save everyone. You need to pick one, either me or Rahu!” Victor’s eyes were flowing with tears.

“Victor! Do you even have the faintest idea how hard it is for me to choose between one?” Lee’s eyes were wide open he was so emotional at the moment.

“What the fuck are you two talking about?”

“Huh!” all three of us were shocked because it was Rahu who just spoke something. His voice was low and his eyes were just slightly opened, he was talking subconsciously.

“Rahu! are you okay?” as Victor saw him talking, he forgot about everything. He held his hand and cried.

“Let’s go inside, my body is burning!” He again spoke something. The condition he was in was so critical and he was talking like he was sleep talking. Indeed, he was a strong person.

Victor glared at Lee with eyes saying only one thing “save him,” “Lee, save him please just save him, forget about me.”

“Fine, I have decided. I don’t know how I am going to forgive myself for this, but I know every simple decision requires the strongest will.”

“Lee! WAIT!” At that very moment, something clicked in my mind. I was glad that I was not late.

“I have an idea!”

“Idea? what kind of idea? What can we do in this situation, we are helpless.” He looked at me with a look that was filled with hope.

“Do you remember during my battle with Basilisk, I used my devil ability?”

“Yeah, so what about it? How can we use it in this situation?” Victor asked desperately asked me.

“It is cloning. What if we use it to get everyone inside the infirmary at once? I mean, I can create two of my clones to carry Victor and Rahu.”

“That’s an outstanding idea. But, It’ll deplete too much of your mana, and using clones can affect your actual body too. It can lead to three infected people instead of two and if the situation comes to this, I would have no other option than saving you.” Lee was thinking about the future outcomes, under so much stress. I did not know how he kept a calm head in such frustrating situations.

“Lee, at least we’d be near some people. We will have a chance to ask for help. It’s still better than leaving one behind.”

“Kai, we must hurry his pulse is getting weaker, he’s losing consciousness the more we waste the time, the fewer chances we will have of saving him.” Victor was calm now. He had prepared himself for the worst outcome.

“CLONING!” I screamed my soul out while concentrating my remaining mana on creating clones of myself.

As I chanted the spell, two of my clones came out of my body. They looked exactly just like me, just a bit translucent, maybe because of my low energy.

I was able to control them through my mind, felt like I hypnotized myself. One of my clones grabbed Rahu and the other one got Victor on his back.

We were again running with hope in our hearts, while on my way, I felt everything happened just because of me. Rahu was about to die. Victor would have sacrificed his life, and all because of me. I was wondering about it when Lee called me…

“Kai, are you okay, you’re not feeling numbness or dizziness?” He was worried about me because I had everything on my shoulders and I had put my own life at stake and he didn’t want to see me die again. We were still far from the populated area of the palace. So, I lied to him.

“Yeah, I’m okay. Just keep running we can save Rahu, don’t worry about me.” I assured him so he doesn’t feel pressured.

“Ahh, my legs are getting worn out-”

“Lee! Rahu, He passed out. He fainted. We must hurry! I don’t want him to die.” Victor cried

“We will save him, Victor. He is a strong bastard he won’t die without a fight. I know him. Huh!”

“Victor, we made it I can see people there.”

After finding some people, their speed and energy increased tenfold and in just a minute or two, they arrived at the building.

Victor yelled at a maid who stood there. “GET A FUCKING HEALER AND CALL THE GUARDS, WE HAVE A SITUATION HERE.”

In no time, a healer arrived at the location. He put Rahu and Victor on a stretcher and took them inside the infirmity,

“Kai ! We made it, you did it. Hey Kai, aren’t you glad?”

“Hey, reply to me. Kai ? Kai ?”

The look of happiness on Lee’s face suddenly turned into a frown of worry. Got Kai off his back and rested him on the ground. His body was blue, his breath was low. Something happened to him and Lee did not know what.

“Kai! Kai! Kai! Brother, wake up…”

“SOMEONE GET A FUCKING HEALER HERE, YOUR KING IS DYING.”

-to be continued