05 Torment of the innocent

As I awoke I sat in a daze not thinking not speaking just sitting quietly not moving at all. I looked around to find darkness and the smell of blood. It wasn't a dream. She's really gone, why did it have to be her my mother. First dad now mom, why me, why now I thought and my mind trembled and I screamed, "is this some kind of sick game for the gods, why" my anger, my sadness, my pain, my hatred, my disbelief, my memories all combined into one thought that made me almost brake down, "this is my fault" I didn't really think of how it was it just felt as if I could've prevented this if I just stayed home longer I just had to go out searching for Orisa, why couldn't I stay, why couldn't I just take a day and stay.

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Several days later

How long have I been sitting here. I need to. I need to move my mother's body to a resting place. Damnit where do I lay her, where could I put her to rest, she always said, "bury me by the river and let the current take me." So what's the closest river. As I skim over a map, damnit east delmore, "well looks like I can't go today" The war with the humans is still raging in the east from what used to be a place called russia, all the way to a place called the isle of sun. Well considering the continents connected 60 years ago that's a helluva long way, there must be somewhere closer. I search the map again, harder and sharper this time and landed on a place westward of central delmore called washington, "says here it used to be where a capitol for Us A stood?" What in the world is a us a, well I guess that's where I'll go but it looks far. Being in the central continent sucks. (for those wondering delmore is modern day europe) As I stand over my mother's body I tremble and thoughts arise once again, "why did it have to be her," my mother was always a kind person, "it should've been me" I can't fix this I can't go back why, why, why can't I go back please let me fix it why. I sob on the floor uncontrollably and begin to curl up when I hear a knock.

"hey Alto you there it's me Orisa haven't heard from you in a few days so I thought I'd check in"

I pick myself up and put on my best smile and stargazers eye's and walk to the door trying my best to mask my pain. When I opened the door I remembered I hadn't showered or moved the assassin's body or cleaned my blooded up and torn clothes, it was to late though so I told her everything as we sat at my dining room table now decorated with a new but decaying body.

"so what you're saying is you killed this girl because she killed your mother and tried to flee" [Orisa]

"yes that's what happened, well the simplest version but yes" [Alton]

As Orisa stood up I fixed my gaze on her as she walked over to the assassin's corpse.

"you know you did one hell of a job" [Orisa]

"not like I really had a choice, it was either be thorough or be dead and I choose the former, henceforth I'm still alive" [Alton]

"oh no I get that I wasn't talking about you I was talking about her" [Orisa]

The moment Orisa's words escaped her mouth, a girl I thought I killed sprung up and tried to run. Wait how the hell is she still alive I put a blade in her solar plexus and crushed her sternum she should've been long dead, as I look lost and confused Orisa looks at me and gestures to the girl saying, "so you gonna capture her or you gonna let her slip" with those words I sprung into action sprinting past her and having Orisa corner her from the back.

"you really are a slipper snake you son of a bitch" [Alton]

"yo Alto language you don't know her mother" [Orisa]

"right"

"two kids really I'm not even back in standard condition and I can still give both of you the slip" [Assassin A]

"you couldn't give me the slip in pitch black darkness, now you're trying to do it in the light are you stupid or just delirious"

"who said I was alone this time"

"you always have to ruin the element of surprise, anyway time to tie off some ends" [Assassin B]

"yes it is brother." [Assassin A]

"we are karina and cerberus warguard you know of the warguard assassin's yes." [Cerberus]

"I'm aware of them, what of it." [Alton]

"your family, well more specifically your father made enemies and your mother paid his price." [Karina]

My father?! I've never seen my father, let alone meet him and now these assassin's are telling me my family has enemies and my father knew and still left and my mother said nothing. I the one who is a bystander in my own family and innocent extra in their movie, now I'm being dragged in. Into there mess. Down with there demons. Having the skeleton's in their closet's pour out onto me. Why me. I just wanted to live normal get by and be happy I thought the evaluation would change that, it made things worse. Then I find someone I might be in love with and now she's being dragged down to, I have to get her out of this.

"Hey! you bastards how dare you tell him his mother was collateral for his father's actions, you people came here to his home and killed someone who had nothing to do with that shit bag of a father!!" [Orisa]

She's defending me but why. It doesn't matter she'll just dig herself deeper if she keeps talking I don't want her to die. I know she's good with magic but these guys are hand to hand combat specialist I only survived cause of luck last time, last time was a surprise and off guard thing I'm no longer a new opponent to karina it won't end well.