Hated

Ethan started running towards his cousins in full speed, like a bowling ball rolling toward it's target, planning on knocking them all in one go, but... His cousins who're in front of him snickered, thinking ' Like a rabbit running towards a hyenas' den.

" Eh?! Ethan, you have a bed hair!!" Angelo shouted, interrupting. Ethan wasn't even half of his original distance form his 19 cousins at that time when he tripped from his legs interlocking caused by lost of control and balance from hearing what Angelo just said. Ethan's face fell flat on the ground.

". . ." Everyone has gone quiet. Then sounds of faint laughter of their trying hard not to laugh. Meanwhile...

" Pu- puhahahahahahahaha" Angelo, Faith and Lloyd laughed, then the others followed. Harold's face went all red, same goes to Ethan who stood up, both face-palmed.

" Nice landing, your nose must've been crushed along with your pride." fierce eyes glares straight at Ethan with its gun aimed at Ethan's head. " You're dead". Pulling the trigger, the man realized that the time suddenly felt slow.

" I'm afraid not. I only have one life, some of you guys are immortal while the others have tons, I can't afford to lose it."

Hearing that, the man, Darren, went back to his senses, only remembering the time when his gun was pointing at Ethan's head, Ethan moving to the right and locking Ethan's golden eyes with his, and now, before he knew it, Ethan is already far away from him.

' How?! '

•

" . . . He's not immortal? " Zeke asked, slightly frowning, feeling disappointed and displeased. ' That boy clearly has the 'Order' which is known as a sign for the next ruler, or the ruler itself. . . And they're all immortal. . . How did this happen.'

Harold scratched his head. " That's right, as you've already found suspicious, his eyes and hair color is different unlike everyone in the family, he's mixed. . . And to be honest with you, there's a high possibility that he won't even reach adulthood because of it. . ."

" What a disaster." Zeke snorted. ' Ephemeral being. . . How nauseating'

". . ."

•

Three: Leo, Gerald, and Rue backed off from the group and had their body in battle suit. They floated. Leo's hands had them with fire, Gerald had his body covered in black haze, while Rue presented his hand, pointing at Ethan's head, and so the power to make one hallucinate was about to activate.

" HOLD IT" Zeke ordered as he stand up from the 'sacred' chair. Everyone in the battlefield froze. Silence, then mutterings of the question why.

" Hendrixs, my grandsons, that was rude of me to suddenly ask you to fight without preparations. Do take your time, I shall give you ten minutes to prepare." Zeke said. And so, everyone in the battlefield are going to their tables. " Ethan." Zeke called and Ethan sighed before turning towards him. " Don't use 'it' again, it's a total disgrace and a total shame in my name name" Zeke said firmly. Ethan walked away after nodding.

" Well, that was harsh." Angelo said, exuding unfriendly aura around him.

" We can't blame him, his blood was dirtied by purity."

" What?! his blood dirtied ours first!"

" So I'm dirt now?"

" T-th-thats. . .!"

Ethan sat to his seat.

" How was it?" Ethan asked with a bright smile, exposing four sharp fangs untouched by blood.

" A (fucking) total disaster!" Jacky, Lloyd and Angelo said in unison.

" What the f-?!?" Lloyd cursed loudly, another heart attack for him when Jacky answered too.

" Oh, I'm shock, your soul and body is still attached together." Ethan said with two fingers hardly hiding his smug grin, obviously provoking the beautiful girl in front of him. Jacky leaned closer to Ethan and caresses the cheek of Ethan with the band aid. Ethan leaned his face to her hand more as he hold her hand and smiled while looking straight into her eyes, she grinned, not feeling a hint of butterflies in the stomach, only staring at Ethan like a monster pretending to be vulnerable.

" Ahem!" Faith, Lloyd, Kevin, and Angelo coughed in a pretending manner, feeling the criticizing eyes glaring at them attentively. Clyde only closed his eyes with his hands.

As soon as their eyes and hands stopped intersecting, a cold and sinister atmosphere was formed.

" It's funny how you still keep that 'things' with you, and they somehow multiplied. " She mocked, referring to everyone sitting in their table except herself and Ethan.

" What? Miss the time when we were the only one around? "

" Who told you to send me to a long-lived war? "Jacky retorted. ' It was boring as heck!'

" Who told you to cut ties with me? " Ethan's face leaned closer as it rest on his hand. ' Then why didn't you come back if it's so boring? '

". . ." She got her tongue tied.

" Okay, enough you two." Angelo interrupted. " Hey, are you for real? Why are you acting like this? "

" Acting like what? " Ethan smiled with his eyes closed, like an innocent puppy begging for a head pat.

" Exactly like that! " Angelo pointed. " Don't smile when you're all beaten up! Whenever you smile like that. . . Something bad happe-"

" Here you go. " Ethan handed a jar of candies to Kevin. Candies made from poison and its antidote, a poison with slow effect of death but can cause addiction, with the help of its addictiveness, eating twice can fasten the death of its addicted consumer. But he didn't give it to Kevin to die.

" Don't ignore m-"

" Gun back." Ethan then handed a silver gun to Angelo, silencing his complain. Angelo sighed. "Knife back." Angelo gave him his platinum butterfly knife. Then both handed out a double edged dagger to Lloyd before saying " Dagger's back in game." . Lloyd had no choice but to accept, since the two pointed the dagger in their hand to his neck.

' The fuck are they doing. . .? '

" Clyde, could you get me these?" Ethan showed Clyde a picture of a clothing with its location, color, and other information.

" . . . Understood" Clyde answered after pondering.

" What a bossy bastard, if I were them, I would've left you long ago. " Jacky said to them.

" Right?! If it weren't for master, I would've left him long ago! " Lloyd agreed.

" . . . " The others remained quiet. Kevin was just chewing the poisonous candy, Clyde was busy taking Harold's hoody, while Fait keeps fidgeting for she doesn't know what's happening— the three just don't care at all.

" You regret it, do you? " Jacky asked Lloyd with a winning smile towards Ethan, asking Lloyd like asking a kid. As if her gaze to him was saying ' one down, three to go '

" Of course I regret it! " Lloyd once again agreed with a nodding head. Jacky was going to once again brag that victory to Ethan. She shivered, as though a giant python was watching her hungrily with its mouth open wide. She gulped twice in a second with a slight of trembling and partnered with coldsweat.

" Ethan! Your eyes! Your eyes!!" Angelo whispered.

" H-heh, what's this? Did it sting?" Jacky teased with a stutter.

" Yes." Ethan answered honestly, so fucking straightforward too.

". . . Jeez, at least let me tease you!" Jacky whined, still scared but his pride can't accept defeat.

Ethan stood up, right before the countdown finished and rang. Ethan catched the hoddy Clyde has thrown, removing his clothes as he walk away from his table full of 'good friends'. Revealing his upper body full o blue giant bruises, he changed to his father's hoody as his battle suit. Everyone of his cousins were wearing expensive and cool looking suits while he looked like he's about to sleep in bed.

" Fight!" Zeke started the fight.

In the middle of their clashing, a kid suddenly appeared. It was Faith.

' I am already pissed off. . .' Ethan whined before loosing control.

A massacre it about to begin