06 Waist deep

We stand silent still almost motionless, I shift my foot to the right and without a seconds notice I am attacked. It came so fast I almost didn't react by a pinch of salt it missed but my neck still dripped a little blood, not enough to kill me but enough to make me realize that her brother was better than her, by a lot. I collect my feet beneath me shuffling and scooting back a few times before I even find solid footing I'm attacked again. On my left a sharp pain was felt and through my hand was a blade that didn't quite make it to my face, my side bleeding and my hand punctured I knew how serious this was. looking to my left I called to Orisa, "RUN, DAMNIT RUN!!" Gripping the hand of the girl holding the blade in my side keeping her from moving and pulling it out I look ahead at cerberus. "you let her go, I let her go"

"having my sister by the hand won't do much kid"

As he mocked me, I became furious and pushed karina's hand aside catching her off guard making her loose balance she came forward and I pressed my hand to her neck and began to squeeze.

"as I said you let her go, I let her go"

looking in his eyes I saw that he looked at his sister and nodded. Then I pressed hard till I heard a crisp snapping sound as her brother cleaved Orisa's abdomen. As I watched her body fall and as I let go of Karina a voice appeared in my head.

"Will you let them continue to take from you"

Who is that did the Assassin bring someone else are they a telepath. why do things keep getting worse, who's coming now I can barely fight of this guy.

"Will you keep letting them take from you"

What does that mean. Take from me. Who. The warguards, how could I can't bring dead people back.

"Will you kill them" [voice]

"Do you want to kill them" [voice]

"yes I do and for good this time"

"Then let the trumpet's sound let the grounds crack let the seraphim of sand play the harp of destruction for the king of sand has descended" [voice]

What the hell are you talking about you edge lord. yet as I thought those words my body became hot and the ground shook and I and cerberus as well as everyone on the continent heard the distinct sound of 7 trumpet's and when I heard the last one blow. My mind went blank and an magic power swelled, it felt powerful so powerful I felt like I could toy with the world. I felt like a god.

"Cerberus van'ental warguard do you know what I've just realized" [Alton]

"what might that be"

Cerberus replied with sweat peeling down his face and as it hit the ground it turned to black ash, or maybe salt, or more like magnetic metallic sand. I look down at the ground as it perforated and sunk in places. The whole area I was in shook violently as this happen almost as if a earth quake was nearing, just when it got to the summit of this shaking it all stopped, not just the ground everything and I heard the voice.

"this power, this power is something you and you alone hold the power of time, to make anything you want go forward or backward as you please or simply stand at a holt for all of eternity, now speak my king and it shall be"

After those words I didn't say anything I thought that I wished everything was covered in a blanket as a joke and that joke became a horrific reality. This metallic sand moved from the ground up it started turn everything metal black and rustic and everything biological became sand and more sand and more sand. I devoured everything with my power I heard the screams of thousands reach my ears in seconds and soon after silence, as far as I could see, was sand. What have I done. what do I do. I looked at my hands only to find Orisa's body at my feet. then it all stopped again and the voice said to me, "you can bring her back you know, it hasn't been 12 hour's since her death"

So is that how it works every 12 my time itself resets. "No every 12 your death point resets to were you are but souls don't exist on this plain for any longer than 14 hours but after 12 since you reset it'll be harder to bring her back"

I see. Then I knew what to do, like the voice said before just speak and it shall be, "COME BACK TO ME" with those words I heard a sound almost akin to a sonic boom and metallic chains rattling then a click and Orisa who's body was going cold a moment ago sprang up with life and the cut on her abdomen was gone. As I reached in to embrace her she pulled away and looked at me with fear and disgust and asked.

"What did you do, how many have you killed your hands are deep with blood and you look unchanged"

"I..."

"I don't know what I did, I made a thought of a blanket and all this happened in an instant I, I don't want to believe it I can't believe that I killed to many just because of a thought"

"You did Alto and the sooner you accept that the quicker you'll realize this power you have shouldn't be used at all"

These words she said, they were true. I didn't see it. I didn't think of the families I killed, the babies, the children. How many, how much blood did I have on my hands now. No this blood isn't just on my hands it's everywhere and it's drowning me slowly soon I'll be far more than waist dead it'll be to my neck, then I'll drown.