No More Tricks

I open eyes and find myself back in my own body staring right at Damien, who asks.

"did you manage to kill Collin?"

trying to play along as the imposter I reply.

"he his done."

Damien chuckles.

"nice try Collin, but I won't be easily tricked."

he chants at me and makes a claw like gesture, I smile as I see the air that is supposed to choke me come towards me in slow motion and I avoid it with ease, Damien says while wearing a concerned expression.

"it's strange that you and that friend of yours were able to avoid a spell that can't be seen."

I look over to Rosie who seems to be laying on the ground, not moving at all."

I ask myself.

"is she still in the that other world? where me and her are still kids?"

I shake my head and say to myself.

"focus, you need to get her to safety and the fight Damien."

I reply.

"well that's not the only thing I can do."

Damien chuckles.

"I see, then it doesn't matter since I'm just going to take those powers for myself."

I grin.

"I'd like to see you try."

I run to Rosie's body and as I grab her I chant.

"dragon wings."

I jump up in the air and as I start flying high into the sky, I hear Damien shouting orders.

"get him!"

I look down and see many of Damien's underlings who are wearing the Cult of Mauri's red hooded robes firing many elemental projectile spells at me, but I safely elude each spell since they still seem to be flying at me at slow motion, I then think to myself.

"I haven't seen members of the Cult of Mauri in a while, but I guess there is no reason for them to stay hidden since Damien has brought the alliance to it's knees since the deal was made."

while holding Rosie's body, I shake her hoping that it would somehow wake her up, but no matter how many times I do it, she doesn't respond, I then sigh to myself.

"damn it Rosie, please come back to me."

I fly just outside the city walls Grezia and lay her down by a tree, I gently run my hand down her cheek and whisper.

"I'll be back for you."

I jump into the air and fly back into the city, where all the cult members are at, I then ask.

"what? were you not expecting me to come back or something?"

Damien laughs.

"I honestly thought you were going to cower in fear just like the other humans."

I reply.

"sorry to disappoint you."

he responds.

"I'm already used to disappointment so you wouldn't be the first."

I sigh and chant to myself.

"Platinum eyes."

Damien smiles.

"go get him, my loyal disciples."

at that instance I charge in towards to one of Cult members and grab them by the face mask, and with full force, I slam the back of their head to the concrete floor, and a sickening crack echoes through the night air, the other members panic and start firing their projectile spells, but I sidestep and dodge them effortlessly until I reach another member and punch them in the gut and as they slouch forward in pain, I break through their face mask, and smash their face open in a bloody mess, I then think to myself trying to calm my conscience.

"these people have killed innocent people and have eaten them, they shouldn't be allowed to live."

as the cult members falls to the ground, gurgling on his own blood I move on to the next member, a quivering female voice comes through the mask,

begging for her life.

"please spare me, Mauri made me do so many bad things."

I scoff at her.

"and what about others who you have taken the life of, did you spare their lives when they begged."

she puts both her hands up to surrender, but I ignore this gesture and kick her in the chest, sending her flying and breaking through the walls with the sounds of bones breaking, I whisper to myself.

"I can't show these people any mercy no matter what."

the other members stand there staring at me in shock and fear, on the brutality of my methods, but then Damien booming voice breaks them from their frozen state as he shouts a threat.

"you either die to me or die to him!"

aa they all prepares themselves to do an all out attack on me, I take a deep breath and shout.

"Dragon's flame breath!"

I open my mouth and while a burning hot stream of orange flames comes rushing my throat and out my mouth, I turn my head from side to side, so I can get all of them, and the flames breaks through whatever magical protections they've placed on themselves and the result was terrifying, as they are completely engulfed by the flames and scream in agonizing pain when their robes burns off, and makes contact onto their skin, I then avert my eyes and think to myself.

"I'll refrain from using this spell on, this is too cruel even for my tastes."

as the smell of burning flesh runs through my nostrils, I hear Damien cackling.

"amazing, you are absolutely merciless."

he chuckles.

"you are the second most brutal mortal being that I've met."

he then says.

"well now that you've taken care of them, I'll give you another plaything."

he shouts.

"get over here you big oaf!"

a massive humanoid figure with yellowish green skin, and arms that dangle down, touching the ground emerges from another home and I think to myself.

"weird I couldn't sense or see that ogre."

Damien points at me and says to the creature.

"entertain me by mutilating the human for me."

I don't let the ogre do anything by rushing towards it and punching it in the knees, the ogre shrieks in pain as the bones in it's knees crack, it collapses face down, causing the ground shake, I then walk to it's head and land a strong kick, snapping the ogre's neck, I then think to myself.

"I struggled to kill one before, but this time I managed it quickly."

Damien then claps.

"amazing, you just keep surprising me."

I respond.

"no more tricks and no more of your underlings, let's end this now."

Damien gets serious.

"alright since you've got a death wish, let's end this nonsense."

he the repeats what I said.

"no more tricks."