Sauren's Protector

Zeph looked at his Teacher, whose third eye slowly closed as a peculiar smile formed on his face. He looked below to see Sword pierced into his chest, passing through his severely beating heart. He finally relaxed as he fell down to his knees. 

"It shouldn't be like this….."

Muttered Zeph under his breath. His eyes were stinging due to repeated crying but he was unable to do anything. 

Adonis almost on his last breath, tried to raise his hand to hold the face of the Zeph, 

"...it was meant to be exactly like this. Only….only I could go back in time and choose you as my disciple. I would have  . .."

His last words were almost inaudible as slowly life escaped from his eye. The sword tried to suck the life energy as usual but the spirit snake inside for the first time, deliberately controlled it to not do so. It didn't want to rile Zeph up by vandalizing his Teacher's corpse.