The World We Do Not Know - 134 Fated One

The stadium is filled with all the schools and fellow competitors of other schools. “What are you looking at sir? That little kid? I know right? He looks like the only freshman among all our schools.” A member of Leviathan’s school starts a conversation with him.

“What do you think about him? Does he looks strong?” Leviathan asks him.

“Him? haha not at all, sir. He is not even at the lowest levels. Do not be concerned with such puny beings sire, you are truly one of a gifted one.

The world, has a constant urge to wage wars, destroy mother Earth and to show supremacy. The Rich gets richer and the poor grow poorer.

“Rei! collect everything as fast as you can, we need to leave soon before someone comes.” An old man hurriedly tells his grand-daughter, while both of them are collecting metal, gold, silver and whatever they can find useful from the pile of dead bodies in the war field.

Right now, it’s a war between the only two nations existing on earth, after the end of the earth and humanity, this is the new beginning. With only one continent that survived the chaos. To begin yet another one.

The cries of people involved are heard throughout the cities. Desperate screams and wails were causing sleepless nights to many civilians.

“Grandpa! It’s 4:30 in the morning, why do we need t-” Rei a nine year old kid, pauses upon stumbling across a severed head with it’s brain gouged out. The sight caused her to puke her intestines out while being scared.

You…stupid girl! We need to live! Collect whatever you find useful.” The old man yells at Rei, he is here on this battlefield, risking his life, trying to scavenge whatever he can for his family back in the village and he does not want his work to be slowed down because of Rei.

He yells at Rei but his sights are fixated upon the severed head, he slowly slips his hand to grab the brain.

*Gulp* Rei who was watching her grandfather all the while is beyond grossed out as her grandfather grips the gooey brain and slides it inside his bag.

Rei closes her mouth with her hand, suppressing her urge to puke and continues her search.

“Well well, look at this will you? looks like we have caught two little sneaky rats here.” A deep voice sent chills down the spine of Rei.

There is a battalion of soldiers in their stealth clothes.

*”It’s not the time for soldiers to assemble yet, but these people are here this early? Crossing borders and scouting for information is their motive?”* The old man is confused with the sudden appearance of the soldiers.

“Do you not respect the people who died protecting you? Do you not know how big of a sin this is?” The one leading the battalion asks the old man.

“P-please Mighty soldier, please spare us for this one last time.” The old man instantly falls on the feet of the captain and pleads.

The captain raises his leg to place his foot on the head of the old man who is bowing down. The heel of his shoe is digging into the skin of the old man.

“Naturally, you would be hanged, if the higher ups were to know what you have done.” The captain passes the old man and walks towards Rei with an amusing expression on his face to continue.

“But, I’m a kind hearted person, so I will let you go, and I will let you keep what you stole.” He says firmly.

“Ahhh! Ahhh! My master, we are so lucky today, an angel himself came to our rescue.” The old man joins both of his hands, he gets up on his feet and decides to leave.

As he was about to take the hand of Rei and leave, the captain pulls the girl to his side and a soldier from behind grabs the girl’s face, covering her mouth and holds her tight.

She felt as though her body has been locked, the hand of the soldier is pressing hard on her mouth, as if he wants to break her skull. She suffocated under his hand.

“B-But sire?” The old man is dumbstruck with what he just saw. “S-sire? She is only nine years old, le-let us go sire.” He pleads helplessly while watching his grand-daughter struggling to get out the hold..

“What are you talking about? Girl? Where is the girl? I didn’t see anyone, it was only you from the start.” The captain put his hand on the shoulder of Rei, she persistently tries to get rid of his hold, but is tightly restrained by the soldier holding her.

“We are telling you there is no girl here, stop bothering us, you don’t wanna go? Fine! Become our sand bag.” Ten of the soldiers circles the old man, pushes him around, pin him to the ground and starts pummeling on him with their feet.

Rei breaks down into tears and pleads with her eyes. However, the captain slips his hand under the sleeves of her dress.

Rei stumbles in shock and tries to move away from him, but she… being a kid, is not even able to escape from the holds of these men. Where the captain and his soldiers gladly laughs while kicking a helpless old man. He places his other hand on Rei, completely holding her by the shoulders.

“~~~!!”

Suddenly, all the soldiers felt tons of pressure around them, there is a sudden spike of blood lust in the atmosphere. The skies seem to have turned dark and the winds are roaring.

*”Th-This is way above the charts, there is no human who possess this immense spiritual power.”* The soldiers and the captain are frozen in fear, the pressure built up on their bodies is immense, it’s as if the very nature is hungry for their blood.

Amidst this chaos, the eyes of captain widens as he watches something. At first glance, it was just a man walking towards them, but then, strange aura is being emitted by the man, all of the aura being released like a steam from his body is headed above to the sky.

There lies a representation of the very devil above him, with screeching voice and pointy teeth, it’s tongue is out of its mouth oozing with juices while eyeing at the soldiers.

The man came up from behind the old man, who has no clue of what happened or why the soldiers froze in fear, taking this chance, Rei ran towards her grandpa.

“Excuse me old man! But do you happen to know the way to  Agartha nation?” As the old man turns around to the voice, the aura disappears, along with the climatic change. It’s peaceful and silent, like the eerie calm before the storm.

“Wh-who are you? You cannot be here, do you know that you will be hanged if you are seen here? Before the old man can answer, the soldiers who are now able to move, ran their mouths while being hesitant to make a move.

“Ahh! Ignore them! Please show me the way.” The man asks Rei’s grandpa again.

“It’s this way.” Rei gestures her hand towards the border, facing the man with a blank face.

“Ahh! Such a cute kid, I’m really thankful for your help.” He says as he draws his arms on either side with a smile with squinty eyes, as if he is enjoying this conversation.

“You need to come here” The captain utters in anger. He grips Rei’s arm,  pulling her towards him.

*!!!~*

Rei is at the same place as before, the captain is in confusion, he is sure he pulled her. Upon closer look, he saw a hand sticking on Rei’s arm, it looks similar, he looks over at his own arm.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”  His hand is cut till the elbow, he held the arm in a panic.

“Dammit! You asked for this.” The soldiers immediately responded by drawing their guns to shoot at the man.

The strange man however did not respond to anything, his eyes are still closed with a happy expression on his face.

“Too annoying!” He mutters in a cold voice.

“God arts – Reality Swap!”

*Whoosh~*

The entire war field area of 10km consisting of tanks, artillery, the fence, the barricades, the life, the dead, everything, except the old man and his granddaughter within the 10km radius disappeared instantly in a blink of an eye, leaving a huge trench on the ground and the sky is clear, the sun appears as a red rose, blooming in the soil of the blue sky.

Only a trace of the man’s extraordinary power remained on the border where the man stood upright. Even the land that was soaked with blood has disappeared, as if someone has erased them forever from mother Earth.

“Maybe I overdid it” – said the voice softly to himself. “You both are free to go now, I need to go too.” He says to Rei and her grandpa as he crosses the borders of one of the nations that is involved in this awful war. No trace of remorse could possibly be seen on his face as he walked out, like a body with no soul or feelings.

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The people in the HQ(Headquarters) are desperately trying to contact the front lines but none seem to be responding.

All of the soldiers are quickly trying to connect to cameras or phone lines.

“What is the status.” The head of the HQ yells while he stands behind the soldiers who were rushing to get the Intel.

“I’m asking, what is the status idiots!”

The yells from the head sends chills down the spine of the soldiers. One of the soldiers with glasses leaps forward and gets up from his seat.

“Th-the entire front lines have disappeared!” The soldier says with a blank face.

“D-Disappeared?” The head asks in a puzzled voice.

“Ye-yes, even the war field. The very land is empty all over and no trace of blood or a soldier’s body is found.” The soldier replies, as if he himself does not believe in the report he got.

“EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!”

Out of nowhere, an alarm goes off with loud sirens.

“We are under attack by someone- he- he doesn’t seem normal !”- a report came by fast through a speaker from the camp nearby.

“What is happening here? Under attack by whom? I want the surveillance camera right now! Let me see what’s happening!” – the head yells in panic, it spelled chaos in every corner of the camp.

“A stealth drone is dispatched to the sight now, sir” A soldier in the HQ room yells out. His hands are trembling in fear and he has to force his fingers to type on the virtual keyboard.

But, the view that the HQ sees as the drone arrives at the camp is beyond horrific. No one could have described the graphic that they witnessed.

[At the camp]

“Gather up! Take aim and fire in his direction!” A captain orders his fifteen soldiers, and the soldiers fire endless bullets from their Assault Rifles. The ground before them trembles and all the dust turns into a screen of smoke.

“G-get the generals! We might have pinned him down.” The captain passes an order to one of his soldiers.

“Dispatch the tanks and helicopters to assist the generals, no matter how strong he may be, he cannot take on generals.” The head in the HQ commands his soldiers.

The tension in the atmosphere increases with all the backup moving out with two tanks, helicopters, wranglers with no roof or side door with two machine guns on either sides are dispatched.

One of the tanks emits green color while the other emits red, both the helicopters are surrounded with a mist like purple aura. And the wranglers, both emits red aura.

All the artillery, soldiers and generals gather around the spot that the man was hit. Footsteps are heard and a man is seen walking towards the cluster of soldiers from within the smoke.

The rhythm of his footsteps is perfectly synchronized, showing his confidence. A man with ash colored hoodie covered his head and blue jeans gives his appearance to the soldiers.

Pale skin, long black hair that is fluttering over his right eye he carries an uninterested expression. His hand resting on the two katanas strapped on the same side of his waist. His every gesture and movement displayed a very majestic aura around him.

“Who is this kid?” A general with two mechanic gloves on his hands, speaks in an arrogant voice. On top of his gloves Is a small circular shaped dial, which is divided into three parts, decorated with three stones, red, green and white, on each part of the dial.

“Huffh, go with a synchronized attack, he will be torn from limb to limb into pieces.” Another general with grey goatee and two curved blades on his back says with a smile on his face. He is ashamed to be summoned to the battlefield to deal with a twenty year old looking kid in front of him.

“Synchronized attacks it is!!” The captains in front of the generals yells to the soldiers in the front.

The tanks glow in their respective auras followed by the wranglers, all the soldiers ready their rifles, grenade launchers and sub-machine guns.

“Let me join the fun.” The general with mechanic gloves says as he stretches his arms and approaches to the front. The green stone on the dial of his gloves turns towards a pointer that locks the green stone tightly. In a blink, his gloves gives out a green aura.

“Twin Air Cannons.” Air swirls, curls and gathers around the gloves taking the shape of two push-handles, the general grips his hands around the handles and pulls his arms behind him.

“FIREE!”

The call goes out and instantly, the cannons leaves with a thunderous sound from the tanks. Machine guns starts going off from the wranglers with number of bullets being fired and the bullets from the guns of every single soldier that is standing, along with the cannons of a general.

*Snap!*

“Freeze!” a word is uttered from the man, who is by this time is surrounded by all the bullets, cannons, grenades and inhuman elemental energy from every side.

The next moment, everything froze as if the time has suddenly stopped. The artillery is all around the man in a perfect circle, he reaches out and pulls one of the katana to his other side. With both of his hands on both of his katanas, he utters.

“Oni-Iaido (Iaido Of The Demon)” He tilts his katanas lower, flicks the hand guard of his katana with his thumbs, making the swords come out and withdraws them back into the scabbards right away.

With an explosive sound, all the artillery around him is sliced cleanly, the tanks are cleanly cut in half, along with the wranglers.

As time seems to move and everything went back to normal. The faces of the people around the man have turned white. They are in a state of confusion as to what has happened.

In the meanwhile, the sound of metal rattling against each other attracts the ears of the generals.

The man in front has withdrawn the swords from his scabbards. The general with the gloves seems to notice one of the swords, and as everyone is staring, he disappears in a blink.

Cries of the people are heard from the back, soldiers are getting cut down becoming a sacrifice to the sharpness of his swords.

As the generals are watching, the man ran a perfect circle among the soldiers, as the limbs of the people fly in the air.

“W-we need to stop him.” The old general pulls out the blades from his back.

*Eeeeuk~~*

He made a sound as his neck is cleanly cut, while he is still holding his blades in his hand. He did not even see the attack coming.

The general with the gloves is immediately alarmed. Next attack fell on his gloves, the man is attacking from different directions in incredible speed even though the general is not able to see the attacks, he blocked them with his gloves.

After a couple of attacks, his gloves are shattered to pieces. *”He-he only aimed for my gloves? And this teleportation… he can teleport at this speed? And his sword.”* As he is lost in the thoughts, a powerful kick landed on his chest, sending him a few feet away.

“S-soldiers! Cover me!” He yelled in despair. Two of the soldiers appeared in front of the general to protect him. But as he watched, the two were decapitated in a second. The blood splashed onto the face of the man with swords.

The general slowly crawls back while being dead scared of the man slowly walking towards him.

As their eyes meet, the general in the ground realises. *”T-th-the Devil”* the general recalls the person in front of him. Blood red eyes, pointy teeth and the devilish bloodlust aura. *”I-i need to let the people in HQ know, it is him! The devil.”* The general gets up on his knees, turns around and tries to run.

“F-Fuck! It’s the de-”

*Slice*

The head of the general left the rest of his body as he tries to let the people know of the man’s identity.

“It’s time for your nation to repent for the atrocities that it has committed” – says the man in a low and kind voice as he drops his neck back with a psychotic look towards the helicopters and the drones that are watching this nightmare.

“Telepo – Hmmm, no, I can use three of them at once for now, let’s see if I can increase it to four or five at one time.” The man talks to himself and leaps forward. “Time…..”

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Mindoro – Year 5062

Mindoro is a remote village with a subtropical highland climate, set among beautiful hills and mystical woods. A golden shrine stands atop of the four hills surrounding the village and the whole area is covered with grassy terrains folded inwards, leaving wide fertile plains to build houses.

All the houses are supported as well as connected to each other. The village only consists of groups of houses built nearby each other in a perfect circle with lanes dividing them into four equal parts. Painted and decorated in different colors.

The village at night is the most beautiful sight to watch, as the street lights illuminate the road. Where, the light then merges with the colors of houses. It takes upon the form of a flower bud shining in spiritual light blue color.

Each shrine built of gold on each hilltop, glows bright yellow taking the form of golden petals. These colors at night when viewed from the tallest hill a little far from the village looks like a Divine flower from heaven.

Mindoro is also a home to rich natural heritage.

The dense forests and its flowers which bloom at night release their wonderful sweet fragrances. The snow glows with neon-like colors when the moonlight sparkles on top of the mountain peaks.

The shrines which are always situated on top of each hills are always guarded by the villagers.

One can always feel the mysterious vibrant resonating sound.waves, which feels like tons of energy passing through your body that sends chills down  your spine.

As you enter the woods in the village, you can see various kinds of animals and rare birds such as crimson horned pheasant, marble tailed ducks and Red neck, blue colored birds that resembles a red peacock. A species known to be nearly extinct out in the world can be found inside the forests of Mindoro.

Taking care of all these endangered / rare species of trees and animals, is a kind old doctor living with his grandson while treating animals and trying to protect ‘Mother Nature’ from getting destroyed by the hands of other humans in the real world.

He feels as though his grandson, whom he adores greatly, is one of the best gifts he has ever received. He takes pride in raising him alone single handedly, without the parents of his grandson.

Grandpa Gus is a very kind hearted person. He has long hair and prickly beard hair, which pokes me like thorns every time I try to hug him and play with his beard in wonder. Are the feelings of eight year old ‘Faust’.

The house or chalet where Faust and Gus live, is built on top of the mountain crest in order to offer an amazing 360° view. The chalet consists of two floors where the first floor consists of the small animals that Gus takes care of, along with the two beds for them to sleep in. And the living furniture and the egg incubators are placed on the second floor. The rear of the house is sheltered by the cliff and forest while the front cantilevers above the hill with full height glass walls, exposing them to the views of the village underneath them.

“The village is as pretty as ever grandpa” Faust murmurs while he is lost in admiration, watching the incandescence of the village, as he is getting ready for a story from Gus.

“Grandpa I want a story of a hero again!, hero!, hero!” Faust instantly turns back and shouts in an excitement. With a cheeky smile surfacing upon his face. While wondering which story Gus will be reading to him tonight.

Seeing how excited Faust is, Gus starts reading him the story. And  as soon as Gus starts, Faust is imagining himself in the position of the main character. Saving people in dire and tough situations while being praised as the hero. Achieving his dreams and many more and slowly, he falls into a deep sleep.

Faust really admires people who have a dream of their own and those who work towards making their dreams come true, especially his grandpa Gus. He admires his grandpa so much that he wants to be like him when he grows up. Saving all kinds of animals and vegetation. But of course, he mainly wants to save and help humans more than anything.

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The next morning, little Faust wakes up rubbing his eyes feeling lazy as his legs wobbling. He walks towards Bella, a husky that is living with him since his childhood. He raises his hand up to pet Bella on her temple, but before he could do so.

“Fausty! Get ready and come fast. We should reach school on time at least today.” Gus who is preparing breakfast yells at Faust. He knows that Faust and Bella doesn’t stop once they start playing. And he doesn’t want that to happen when they are already late for school.

Faust with a poker face glares at Gus as his hand is stopped in mid air. “It’s time for me to go rebel, it’s now or never for Bella.” Saying that he places his hand on Bella and pets her for a few seconds, before he goes on his way.

As Gus and Faust start for school while climbing down the mountain on a scooter,  his grandpa tries to nail some safety lessons in his head, like: who to talk to, and how to cross a road. He did all this inorder to keep Faust focused. Faust is the type of kid who slips into his own world, whenever he is by himself due to the loneliness he had growing up. Without parents or any siblings. For this, Gus need to keep talking continuously.

Even after all the efforts from Gus, Faust still ends up in his imaginary world, as his grandpa’s lecture is boring. He imagines himself dashing at high speed on side of the road while jumping from tree to tree and buildings.

*At the school*

“Again! today, I’m going to do the tasks I have been given. I’ll make a name for myself and be on top of the school’s rank. I will crush the students and shock the teachers with my answers and even solve the grown up math problems without breaking a sweat, muahahaha!!” Faust lets out a ridiculous laugh wanting to sound like an evil conqueror. He gets all ready to take on his delusional self.

“So here you are, strongest kick boxer of this school and….. My rival heh heh”, suddenly a tough looking kid appears with his arms crossed, a sly smile on his mouth and huge nose like every silly villain appearing in a story. He gives a cocky little smirk to Faust, while his eyes are half-closed and head slightly tilted.