I killed myself

Alex opens his eyes and the first words that came from his mouth were "NINJA!" He was lying under a tree. Standing next to him was Hercules. Hercules "So, you've finally woken up." Alex "How are you and where's Ninja?" (Alex stumbles)

Hercules, "I am Hercules and regarding your friend. I'm sorry to tell this but he was killed by Inchaos."

Alex, "That can't be true, it can't be. How, how, how did he? I know you're lying. You're just another minion of that Pisagh, aren't you? Tell me where Ninja is rights now?"

Hercules "Look, you are not in your mind so you aren't thinking it through. What I am telling is the truth."

"NO, YOU AREN'T! (Alex interrupts Hercules) TELL ME WHERE NINJA IS?" Alex gets angry and punches Hercules. Alex's eyes turn red and black particles start coming out from him. As soon as Hercules gets up, Alex tried to punch him but Hercules slams him into the ground him and holds him tightly.

Hercules, "Look you need to accept the reality and move on. Your friend is no longer alive. If it weren't for him, you wouldn't also be alive right now. So, don't waste your life by letting the demon inside you take control over you."

Alex "What do you mean?"

Hercules "When Inchaos was set free, it started heading towards you but before it could do anything your friend used his magic energy and somehow miraculously sealed inside you. He thought that you could control the spirit but instead you are under his control."

Alex comes to his senses and falls down in the ground and starts sobbing.

Hercules "His last words were *Take care of my friend. When he wakes up tell him that he's sorry for not keeping his promise.*

As soon as Alex hears this, he remembers the promise that Ninja and he made together when they were younger. They were sitting on a tree and both promised each other to become even stronger than an S tier wizard one day.

The colorful world of Alex had been shredded into pieces. Everything started becoming worse and worse for him. Nothing was going according to plan nor was Alex recovering from his wounds. Physical wounds recover but leave a scar. A scar which is not painful but an emotional wound is much more painful, it leaves a scar on your heart which makes you cry whenever you try to sleep. Your heart will remember that incident very clearly whenever it beats.

It's already been a month since, Ninja passed away. Alex and his family along with the guild members hosted a funeral for Ninja. Since the day Ninja passed away, Alex has been sulking. He can see illusions. His own imaginations are starting to scare him; the hole inside his heart is eating him. His life is in shambles. There no smile nor there is any joy in his life. Alex has reached a point where it's all over for him.

Alex *I know you so well, so well, so well. Why do I think about this song? I want to cry but there aren't any tears left for me. Why did he have to die? He left me here alone. It's dark and lonely without you. Why did I let him die?*

"Only the fittest are able to survive in this world Rose." (Alex starts shaking) The voice in Alex's head starts explaining him about the system of the world.

"Only the ones who are capable of surviving in every situation possible can know the true meaning of this world. Others just die and leave this world with no meaning." The voice of Alex gets portrayed at the wall. A black shadow with red eyes starts moving around the walls of the room in a circle.

Alex "I..I..know you just want to hurt me, Inchaos."

Inchaos "You're making no sense Alex."

Alex "I know, I know you're just repeating this all things so that you can kill me from inside and become free."

Inchaos "If you really think I want to do that then you're dead wrong. You see it won't take me even a second to kill you."

A blackish form of energy comes out of the wall and walks towards Alex. He wipes the sweat of Alex's face and pokes Alex eyes. Alex who was still shaking falls to the ground and yells. He catches his eye and feels the pain but there isn't a scar on his face.

Inchaos "You see I can't hurt you physically so I can't kill you. But that doesn't mean I can't hurt you. Every wound I make on your body will be mine but that doesn't mean I can't hurt you. You're just a puny human with no will nor any desire to defeat me."

Inchaos cuts Alex's hand and starts slicing his body parts. Nobody except Alex could see Inchaos nor could anyone see Inchaos slicing and cutting Alex's body part. It was an imagination which only Alex could see. 1 hour passed by, Alex's body parts are lying all over the floor while Inchaos is bleeding. Inchaos leaves Alex in a condition where Alex couldn't even stand up.

Inchaos tortured Alex like this for days and gained pleasure. It had been weeks, no moths since Alex last smiled. He is lying on the floor but not because Inchaos tortured him but because he stabbed himself with a knife on his heart.

A beautiful lady with a lamp on her hand

"A pool covered with blood. Life isn't as easy as people think it is.

Will you become the warrior or will you suffer?

Will you sacrifice yourself for humanity or will you get killed by Pisaghs?

Life isn't harsh but it is painful.

The sunrise we all wanted to see is dark."

" The lines mentioned above are a part of a song. What kind of song has dark lines, you ask? Well my song does. My name is The Caretaker and the writer made me because he wanted a character to communicate with you." The caretaker smiles.

The beautiful lady with the lamp is called the caretaker and is known by no one. She is a celestial body whose task is to watch over the people and take care of the world.

Caretaker "You might be wondering about Alex. Well, he's dead. He's dead for now but don't worry, the writer doesn't have the ability to look over every single individual residing in this world but whoever he looks at is special. The writer wrote the story of Alex himself so; do you really think he's dead?"

Short story-7: The Dalaima family was a family of farmers who were treated badly the people in their village. They were so poor that they couldn't feed them properly. When the people from their village released all the chickens in their farm, they had no crops to eat as the chickens destroyed their crops.