Martyr The Devourer Of Wands

Nolamine was in a nightmare. He did not know why Aapep was quiet and the fact that he could not see his eyes anymore made what was happening even scarier. He could feel his presence, something he couldn't do before he ate the fruit.

What he could only call a snake-like creature got to him even before he could swim a meter away from where he was.

Using its dark menacing tentacles, it wrapped them around his leg as he was swimming away and that was when all hell broke loose. He struggled as he tried to kick it and it was then that he remembered his mother's dagger.

It was far though, as the snake-like creature moved up his leg and was now around his belly. It went under his armored shirt and he felt it go into his stomach through his bellybutton.

He felt it swim around his stomach and then coiled itself around where the fruit had been and still was, as he could feel it there when the snake-like creature coiled itself around it.

He could feel it merging with it.

"Boom, boom.."

It was happening again. He flared his arms around as he panicked. He remembered the pain that had followed after the beats and he wished it on no one, especially himself.

"BOOM! BOOM!"

It beat again and he looked at Aapep's cave.

"Aapep! What is going on?"

He yelled in his head.

"BOOM!!, BOOM!!"

It was the third time but the pain never came. He stopped struggling and looked around. He scolded himself for acting like a scared child, but then he felt something was about to happen.

Dark sinister light escaped his orifices as the white light had done, but this time something accompanied it.

A demonic creature's head tried to escape his body. Its head was so large that it filled the whole of the pool as it went up, turning it dark again. It reached above the pool of water and a scream was heard throughout the Great Forest. It sounded like the cry of a dammed creature that wanted to be let out.

This time, the Grand Witch left her hut and joined the others as she looked at where the waterfall was. The whole village too was looking that way.

Son-join got out of his hut with his face having been beaten to a pulp. He had made fun of Langa the other day, making Analka and the other girls in the village laugh at him and making himself the target of a beating of a lifetime. He and King were best friends at that point, as he knew no one else who was bold enough to diss Langa either than him.

In the east part of the Great Forest, in the village of the Serongunis, a beast was walking around as the tribesmen rebuilt the huts that had burned down. By the caves in the cliff's face, chained kidnapped people who were both young and old meant to refill their ranks were being told that their lives had changed and they needed to accept it or be sacrificed.

Those who lived in the caves were working, with others resting. The cry was heard and the werewolf-like beast disappeared. They all looked at where the scream came from and everyone in the caves that were on the cliff showed themselves. Many looked like honed warriors with battle scars on them.

In the cave that was at the top of them all and bigger, where the leaders of the village lived, the beast reappeared with a female that looked young and with white ash that was all over her body. She had walked with a limp and was tall with all her limbs long, including her neck. Her teeth were brown and black while her body looked dirty like she had never bathed.

She calmed down the werewolf-like beast as she brushed its back.

"Such magnificent chaotic power. It is so malevolent that I want to bath in it."

She said as she looked over to where the scream had come from while showing her ugly horrible teeth.

The mass of cursed energy was then sucked back into Nolamine like a vacuum and the water was clear again. He again floated gently onto the pool's bed and laid there unable to move.

He was close to where his mother's dagger and wand were. He could feel the tree moving around in him. He felt it move from his stomach to his chest, then to his arm until he felt it pushing against the skin that was on the palm of his hand.

It went out of his hand thereafter. He thought it was going to be painful and he would see blood, but just like when it had entered his stomach, there was no open wound.

It was just as before, moving like a snake in the water as it went for his mother's wand.

"No, no, no, what are you doing?"

Nolamine tried to yell at it but it ignored him and he could swear that it was licking its lips.

When it reached the wand, it bit into it like a pit-bull puppy trying to bite on a stick. It shook it around as it wrestled with it. Nolamine signed as he had thought it was going to bite through it.

He even thought it was cute for a second until it lifted it up and opened its mouth wide as it swallowed the wand whole from the pointed side first. His mind went blank.

It burped like it was satisfied and grew scales on its outer body that looked like that of dragons while the inside of its mouth took his mother's wand texture and color.

It was now a wand that was black as the abyss itself as it continually had black smoke leaving it like it was cursed.

It crawled back to him like a worm would as Nolamine looked on, not knowing what to make of what just happened. It reached his hand again and went in it. He felt it returning behind his bellybutton and turning into a ball shape there, like it was an egg.

Nolamine still could not think. It was one of those days for him, when too much happened at once.

"The birth of your wand is almost complete. You should give it a name, then the process shall be finished."

Aapep said, finally revealing himself again as his two eyes could again be seen. Nolamine wished he would have told him what was going to happen to him during the process, but he tried to think of a name as he wanted it to be over.

He could not come up with one but remembered why he was there in the first place, to liberate his father.

'Martyr'

He thought after thinking of his father and his situation.

"Then it shall be. Martyr The Devourer Of Wands has been born."

Aapep said, and Nolamine felt the area around his stomach heat up again. It traveled around his body and all the way to his head as black veins could be seen all over his skin.

It was like the egg had cracked open and was being assimilated into his body. His eyes turned black for a moment, then the black faded away as they returned to normal.

He felt like a new person, like he had been born again.