The World We Do Not Know - 201 sympathize

Ares lays on the ground lifeless, Tanya walks up to him, sits on her knees, grabs and places the head of Ares on her lap and brushes his hair while her tears keep rolling down on the face of Ares.

“It was hard on me Ares, forgive me.. forgive me.. forgive me.” Tanya begs for a few minutes and she then wipe away any traces of her tears from her face and then leaves the island to report the successful plan of wiping out Ares with the whole island.

“He was a monster! An-and I saw the same in this child.” Yang told the captain on the phone.

“We are not able to hear you, hello? Yang?”

“Huh? Hello? What are you saying young captain? Hello?”

The phone call got disconnected. None of them knew what the reason was. No one was able to realize that they are going to get hit by a storm that is never seen before.

*”I have seen a kid that is exactly like Ares. Because I have seen him doing it.”* Yang thinks to himself.

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A huge loss could have happened that day that would have brought the family of Gus to their graves. Gus is fighting with the evolved wolves to protect Faust and Bella from being eaten. He has already suffered an injury that made his left hand totally paralyzed.

But, the villagers were shocked at the sight of wolves which were torn apart and dissected, they walk up to Gus who has become unconscious and takes him in. One of the villagers hears a rumble from the foot of the cliff, as he and the villagers saw what is below them, they were scared and dazzled. A pride of lions which were guarding Faust are starring up at the cliff towards the villagers, the lions stayed with Faust without harming him and left him like a gift to the villagers and they make their way back into the forest.

*”This truly seem like a work of God, which lion who eats humans, protects the kid from the wolves and has been doing that until help arrives?”* The villagers thought to themselves and takes Faust, Gus and Bella back to the village to treat them.

Before they realised that the lions protected them. Only Gus saw what had happened and he told to Yang about it.

“Grandpa!” Faust who suddenly wakes up with a fright, tries to open his eyes slowly to see if he is alive or in a dream. He feels as though he is flying in the air, his body hasn’t touched the ground like he thought he would when he fell down the cliff from the push of Gus. He can feel the cold breeze grazing his cheeks and so he thought he must be dead and his spirit is floating in the air- *”ah I must have died due to the hard fall and I’m in afterlife”* Faust thinks to himself and he once again closes his eyes believing his once happy life is over.

*Chirp chirp~~*

*”Huh? It somehow feel so good, the smell of damped earth combined with old fallen leaves and the sings of bird, is this heaven? It is so calming and comfortable here.”* Faust muddles and opens his eyes to hear for the beautiful sound of chirping birds. He wasn’t expecting the sight he saw once he open his eyes, he was hanging from the vines of trees. The vines coiled around his limbs making him feel like he was floating in the air, his eyes watched the green leaves rustling in the bright sky swiftly.

The clothes that Faust is wearing have been shredded and blood drips due to his fall into sharp branches and he was held by the vines of the trees without hitting the ground.

*Awhoooooo!! awhoooooo!!*

*”What is it? What is happening?”* Faust comes back to his senses panicking and watches in the direction of the sound, his eyes seem lifeless as he sees two wolves running down the cliff and howling as if it’s a signal to the pack of wolves on the rocky mountain that they have discovered the location of Faust.

*”I see, it’s basically useless trying to run away now, I was so stupid and useless today. I don’t want to create anymore chaos. I’m tired of running.”* Faust thinks to himself and closes his eyes as he accepted his fate with the wolves without intending to even fight again for his life.

Being an introverted kid Faust never stood up for himself, he always put below everyone and belittles his own self. No matter the situation he still apologizes to whoever he is talking to and takes the blame onto himself rather than blaming other. He accept what comes his way as his own fault and hence he closes his eyes waiting for death, letting the wolves do what they want with him since he is too tired to try and run and change his destiny.

*Thud~~*

*Thud~~*

The body of Faust seems to resonate all of a sudden as if someone is thumping him to wake up.

The wolves who were happily charging towards Faust were stopped in their trace suddenly as they faintly sense a weird aura forming around Faust. The wolves cower right away as though they have come across something they shouldn’t have.

*swisshhhh!!~*

The vines around the the limbs of Faust were sliced into tiny bits and Faust lands on the ground facing towards the wolves while his eyes are still closed.

“Why won’t you creatures just won’t leave me alone?” Faust says in an innocent naive voice as his head tilted to the side. The atmosphere around Faust gets uneasy, the winds are increasing. The birds in the vicinity flies away leaving their nests and all the other small animals and deers run away from the presence of Faust as if a calamity is heading their way.

Even the rest of the wolves and Raka on the cliff were stopped in their traces of toying with Gus and watches towards the direction of Faust and the two wolves.

*Grrrrr* The wolves groans quietly and tries to come forward to Faust moving slowly.

“Fuck with me and you will never be pardoned” Faust opens his eyes fiercely like the wolves have just irritated him even more. His eyes are sharper than before when the wolves saw him on the cliff. The look in his eyes showed despise and anger, but what really stands out is the corner of his eyes, the white part(sclera) of his eyes in the corners are painted in blood red, he’s like a completely different person.

This pair of eyes was different from when the moment Gus was narrating him the story of Ares and his eyes reacted strongly, but this time it’s different. Because at that time the whole white part of Faust’s eyes were bright red, where as now only the corners are glittering red with green Iris which is shining like a jade glass.

“There’s no letting go of this now, I didn’t want to kill animals, but you are an exception” Faust says while being really calm even when the two big wolves was standing in front of him. This is a very different Faust from a while ago where he cried like a baby at the sight of just one wolf.

“Prepare to get purged.” Faust says with a carefree look on his face. His face shows displeasure as if the wolves never stood a chance with him ever.

“A-wooooo Awo- ooooo” the wolves communicates with the rest of it’s pack with continuous anxiety howls, their howls are not even completed like usual as they are greatly intimated with the Aura that keeps building around Faust.

*Rumble~~*

The earth starts to shake and the small stones near Faust and the wolves seems to be vibrating violently as if a great disaster is approaching them at a great speed.

The wolves senses a pack of 5 lions to be charging towards Faust at great speed as they stare behind Faust.

The lions which live in the caves on the other side of terrains divided by a small valley charges towards Faust as if they are panicked or just charging forward because of the fear of Faust like most animals which tend to attack when they’re feared.

The wolves are a bit relieved as they see the lions too sensed the aura of Faust and came to attack him and kill him. The wolves are waiting for the lions to land a blow first and then they can steal the lifeless body of Faust from the lions.

The lions come more closer to the Faust, one of them which was thrice the size of Raka, bared it’s fangs right behind the head of Faust.

The wolves decided that Faust is going to die and are waiting patiently to grab Faust.

“RAWRRRR!!!…..”

The lion suddenly jumps over Faust while roaring from it’s lungs. The roar was so loud that it resonated over 5 miles and paralyzed the wolves. The sound of it’s roar up close is as loud as the sound of a mountain falling down.

The lion then grabbed one of the wolf by it’s spine, lifted the wolf up with his jaws and slams the wolf onto the stone to death. Immediately the other three lions approaches the second wolf. One grabs the neck, one grabs the limbs and other dogs it’s teeth on its chest and tears apart the body and limbs of the wolf in a brutal way. It was like they were tearing a soft toy apart through its fiber without considering the blood spilling from each of the wolves.

Faust is just standing all this while while the air is blowing through his hair and his cold eyes looking down on the wolves.

The fifth lion stands behind Faust as though it was protecting him. The eyes of Faust comes back to normal and his bright mist like aura around him disappears and Faust falls down like a worn out vessel, which has used its power too much and beyond it’s capacity.

The thoughts of his Grandpa flows in his mind and the lions respond as though they understand Faust’s intentions. Four of the lions goes up the cliff while the last lion keeps the unconscious body of Faust in between it’s front and hind limbs and watches it’s surroundings as if it’s protecting Faust.

Faust can hear the whimpers and cries of the wolf while his eyes are closed, he still thinks he is dreaming.

*”Why did the lions help Faust?”*Gus who was badly injured from the attack of the wolves, but was still able to survive, was watching what has happen for the whole time. He was having all fuzzy thoughts about what just happened and trying to process the information he has just gathered, when one of the lion suddenly roars at him standing at the edge of the cliff. Gus being badly wounded gets carried over to the edge of the cliff by another lion, he sees Faust safe and sound in the protection of a lion and he drops his guard down and lays down on the ground while holding onto his wounds.

Gus and his family are rescued and are protected by Faust. No one including Yang knew why or how the lions helped Faust. And the next day.

Faust wakes up after staying  days in the hospital surrounded by his friends.

“Huh lions? They were protecting me?” Faust asks Tim as if he doesn’t remember anything that took place.

“Yes, you even have the favor of many animals, they won’t attack you or behave badly with you while we go to hunt together with my dad, even though they do all the things with us. But this time lions too? Mehhh, you must be lucky or something.” Tim says to Faust with mocking tone, but a hint of relief can be seen on his face.

Faust vaguely remembers what happened, his memory is foggy and uncertain but he remembers lions killing the wolves in front of him. Everybody thinks that falling off the cliff might have made his memory a bit sloppy and he himself think that might be the case too.

“Manh ! you are lucky, you would have become meal for wolves if the lions didn’t come, but how cool is that Faust, being saved and protected by lions. I’m so jealous of you.” Says the excited Nick who visited Faust in the hospital along with Tim and Roy.

“Yes Fausty, everyone’s calling you a gifted kid. You have been blessed with a miracle of God, though I’m happy you didn’t get hurt.” Roy says while he make gestures to cheer up Faust who looks rather sad and heart broken.