Proving thy devotion (Arthur POV)

I opened my eyes, and quickly sat up sweat dripping down my face. I ended up having a dream, of mother, father, and Amethyst blaming me for leaving them all behind. I shook my head, trying to forget the dream, and stood up. I looked down to see what I was wearing, but instead of my usual t-shirt and shorts. I instead wore some pjs that matched perfectly. Walking over to a wardrobe in the corner of the room is was in, I opened and what do you know inside there was some clothes hanging in it. Grabbing the clothes I laid them on my bed, and expanded them so that I could see what they were. There was a white hoodie, white shorts, and finally some white boots that would reach just above my ankle. I put on the clothes, and just like the other men i saw the day before I pulled my hood over my head. I walked over to the door, that was across from the bed I woke up in and opened it.

Outside there were two big men, the both wore the same kind of assassin like clothing, with hoods covering their faces. They both turned hearing the door open, and looked at me. The bigger one looked back to the other and in a gruff voice he said "I'll go get the supreme, worshipper."

The other man nodded, he then turned back to me and with almost the same gruff voice as the other said "come with me kid, we must go."

He started walking away from me, and so of course I followed. Wondering where we were going I asked "where might you be taking me, good sir."

I tried my best to sound as respectful as I possibly could, as I didn't want to get the man mad. He turned his head back looking at me while still walking and said "well of course we are heading to the place where you will prove yourself worth to be a worshipper."

I nodded my head, I wonder how I would prove myself to them. As we continued walking eventually we reached a building. The building was darker than the others, and had a big sign on it that said "PROVE" looking at it I thought it must be some kind of arena. But when we walked in, it looked like it was a castle. I continued walking behind the big man until we reached a door, that had a big window next to it. The man moved behind me, opened the door with his long arms and pushed me in.

Inside of the building, there was a single chair, with a boy in it. As well as a table that held a knife. The boy wore all black, with his hood off, I could see that he had brown hair, with green eyes. Looking to the window, I saw Vak sitting in a chair watching us, he put his hand to some kind of button. As he did, he could all of a sudden hear Vak's voice. Vak said "to prove that you are worthy to work with us, you must first kill the enemy."

Looking back to boy I asked "this is our enemy?"

I heard a chuckle, as Vak continued saying "he works for our enemy, which make him an enemy. Anyways use the knife on the table and kill the boy, otherwise I'll set him free and have him kill you."

A bit scared that I could hear a whole lot of truth in Vak's words, I picked up the knife and stood in front of the boy. I pulled the knife back, closed my eyes as I whispered sorry, and I stabbed him in the neck. The life in the boy slowly faded, I fell to the ground looking at my hand as I mumbled "I…I killed him, I'm just like…William now."

Vak walked In the room hearing what I said, he then said "don't worry you are not to blame my child, that boy was evil, and would have hurt so many people had you not stopped him."

Hearing his words I nodded, and with a new confidence I said "if I can kill that boy, then I can definitely kill William."

Vak's smile widened, and he nodded his head. He looked back to the gruff man and said "why don't you take this boy to get the sign of his proof, hm?"

The man nodded, and walked over to me. He picked me up, and held my princess style. Telling him that I could walk, he set me down and I followed after him. After a minute or two, we reached another room. Inside this room there was a furnace, one of those things that burns designs into something, and a table that had straps on it. Seeing what was going to happen, I tried to get out of the room but the man stopped me. He picked me up and place me on the table, holding me in place he strapped the rope around my arms, legs, torso, and neck. Pulling my hoodie up to show my stomach, he walked over and placed the metal into the furnace. After it was red, he walked back over to me, put a belt in my mouth and pressed the hot metal into my stomach. I clenched the belt in between my teeth, as I screamed in agony. When it was done, I passed out from the sheer pain I had just gone through.