It Hurts

I know what I have to do. Wipe out an entire army of demons. They will probably go extinct because of this, but if it's to save the world, it is a fair sacrifice in my eyes. Especially since they are evil.

I don't want to kill so many demons. They all have feelings, thoughts, emotions, families, and comrades, but I can't let them destroy the world.

My mind went blank, trying to block out everything I was about to do. What was I doing again? I can't remember. I'm activating my magic though. Why?

The next thing I know, I am standing in the sky, far above the battlefield that had raged below. How am I standing in the sky? Oh, it's condensed air through my air magic.

How did I get here though? I can't quite remember. I know that I came here to defeat the demon army and save the world, but I don't remember much after realizing that there were more magic circles.

"ARGH!"

A loud scream shot through my mind, totally shocking me. My hands immediately shot up to my ears to try and block out a sound that didn't really exist.

"WAHH!"

Another, just as loud as the first. It came from no where, and disappeared from my mind in a flash, yet I can't stop repeating it to myself involuntarily.

More scream, those of men, women, and children kept seeping in and out of my head, stopping my thoughts and sending me into a rush of panic.

I can't think! I can't focus! Make it stop!

Having lost my focus, my air magic gave out on me, and I started falling to the ground, but I was so distracted by the screams that I never even noticed.

WHY WON'T THEY STOP!?!?

In the next moment, my body crashed into the ground, landing on top of a pile of demon corpses, one of the many piles I had created. Their thick reddish purple blood oozed and seeped from their flesh as I landed with a thud onto their bodies.

LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!

After a few more moments of agonizing screams, they all cut out at once, leaving my mind in silence once more.

My face is wet from tears I had unknowingly shed, and my throat sore from the screams I had unknowingly let out. My eyes open, and a blurry sight is all I can see, though it clears up after only a few moments.

It is now that I realize just where I am. I remember everything I just did as it floods back into my mind, one moment after the other. Because of my incredible memory, every moment is burned into my mind, impossible to forget.

I remember when I suffocated the soldiers first, making a force field around them and setting fires inside to eat away the oxygen.

I remember when I blocked off the exits for one of the magical circles that had brought in children and I remember burning them alive while blankly listening to their pained screams.

I remember listening emotionlessly as they begged for their lives over and over.

I remember the true reason why they were sealed.

They didn't make the curse to come back 10,000 years later to get revenge. They did it to escape the senseless genocide that their race had been facing. All of the other races feared them because of their power and looks, and because of that, tried to kill them.

When they fought back, they were made to look like monsters. When they fled, they were made to look like cowards. To try and escape the torment, they used curse to come back in the future in hopes of finally being free.

I killed the demon race because they wanted to be free.

My eyes glance around at the bodies all around me.

Some had their arms and legs twisted at irregular angles.

Some were literally burnt to ashes.

Some were so brutally beaten that their skin was split where bones broke through.

I did this.

I did this!

I DID THIS!!!

I'M A MONSTER!

HOW COULD I SUCH A THING!?

WHAT HAVE I DONE!?

I KILLED CHILDREN!

I DESTROYED A RACE!

I'M A MURDERER!

WHAT HAVE I DONE!?

I CAN'T HANDLE THIS!

I CAN'T BE HERE!

I NEED TO LEAVE!

My thoughts can't properly organize themselves, instead firing off all over the place. Not being able to process just what I had done, I ran. I ran as far away as I possibly could for as long as I possibly could.

I was so distraught over what I had done that I had broken my speed records, tiring myself physically for the first time in this world. When I finally stopped, my hands strongly gripped my knees as I gasped in and out for breath while having a panic attack at the same time.

I looked down at myself as I stood there for the longest time. My skin and clothes were stained by the reddish purple blood of the demons. My hands especially were dotted with the blood from when it sprayed onto me after having crushed, punched, or slammed one of the many demons.

My skin of my knuckles were torn from how many punches I threw at their rather tough skin, and my own blood sat at the tears trying to repair what I had broken. It stung. The first time I've felt physical pain in this world.

As I continued with my sporadic breaths, the black abyss I had become rather familiar with engulfed my body out of no where, sucking me out of that world and into the quietness. The memories kept replaying in my mind as I sat in the silence. I hate it.

"Ah, my child. You have finished your quest. How pleased I am to have seen you succeed."