Chapter 49: A Story

"Who the hell is this!? Vicente, what sort of dark arts have you fallen into?! I can't deal with two of you! Ahhh!" George did overreact quite a bit. I may have punched him in the gut while Dante just looked annoyed by George.

     "I'll leave it up to you to introduce yourself." Chloe looked like she was living a dream, but I flicked her head to wake her up. We all looked towards Dante as I could feel Rey glaring at both me and Dante somehow, but he looked completely unfazed by the glare.

     "My name is Dante Cortez and I have a story for all of you. Let's get on the pegasi and head out since it'll take some time to tell it." We got on the pegasi and waited for Dante to start telling the story, "This all happened a long time ago and while I can't say that I regret most of it, I can say that I didn't start the fight." Well this will definitely be very interesting.

In a Galaxy...Not what I meant

Centuries?

Millennium?

A Long Time Ago

     I was incredibly strong and could only be rivaled by Gods themselves at this point in my life. I had lived only to fight and become stronger than I had ever been, but I had no real problem with anyone since I already tried my best to treat people with respect. [Rey: That's bullshit!] Fine okay. I had a lot of enemies, but I was known as something of a hero to everyone. I had no family to speak of and lived in the streets for most of my life so I had to be strong. I developed Conqueror Style and improved on it as I lived and fought. My Conqueror Style was powerful and felt a need to become even stronger, but I never pissed off any Gods because I liked living my life peacefully as weird as that sounds from someone who wanted to be stronger. [George: Sounds like someone we know here.] Stop interrupting me. I fell in love with someone by the name of Elise, but after our wedding. She was cursed to never have children and to live in sickness. I tried to find a cure, but I found out that it was a Godly Curse which meant only a God could cure it. I was angered, but Elise held me back from trying to do anything to them, with her caring and loving nature. She believed that they would one day cure her and allow her to have children as she constantly dreamed of having them even before we were married. We adopted, and loved our two kids, but the Gods killed them without care. Elise died soon after from the grief, she was a saint and beautiful. The only woman I thought I would love. It caused me to go insane for a while as I went to every realm that a God lived in and killed them without mercy. They needed to know that I wouldn't stand for their bullshit anymore, I stayed alive beyond what was possible as I murdered every single one of them. I eventually regained my sanity and settled down once again after the Gods promised me to never interfere with me again. It took a long time for me to fall in love again, but I eventually did. I married another woman by the name of Maria, she was the exact same as Elise and she even fell in love with me. We married and everything seemed fine until she was in labor. As a last 'fuck you' to me, they killed her duirng labor, but the child survived. I raised him until the grief became too much for me and I dropped him off at an orphanage with a trusted friend of mine that was a master swordsman. I went back up to the Godly realm and forced the Gods to have an audience with me by threatening their children and realms. I gained the power of a God, so in defeat I killed all of them again which was even easier the second time around and left while the news of me and what I had done were covered up. I decided to stay in the forest for the rest of my life until I found Vicente and he told me his story. I knew that it was completely my fault for his life turning out the way it did, so I decided to train him and make him strong enough to fight with the Gods. Conqueror Style and everything else I have taught him has led up to him possibly having to face Gods. I couldn't allow them to mess up Vicente's life the way they did mine, so I taught him and made him even stronger. Even my son has suffered a fate probably as bad as my life, but I won't allow them to mess up his life even if I have to destroy all of the Godly realms.

Present

     "And that's about everything that happened." The story was kind of sad and I could actually say that I would do the same thing if I was in the same situation. It would explain him being so hard on me all the time, but still can't believe my teacher was actually my grandfather and also a God. We kept on in silence for most of the time before Rey broke it to have  a surprisingly civil conversation with Dante which was a real turn of events that caused the rest of the ride to be filled with actual talking. I had quite a bit to process here which made me have to rethink a lot of my life and what kind of road I was going down. Dante lost the two people he loved because he wanted to get stronger and ended up with no one until I came along. That was all a coincidence in the end, who knows what would have happened if I never took that training trip.