chapter 2: Betrayal

"I don't plan on dying the second time."

Conut heard chi's words and laughed aloud;

"You think you'll survive? You must have let eating gods heart cloud you!" Conut lunged at chi with a kick. Chi Dodged it and countered with a gut wrenching kick that put made Conut spit out a mouthful of blood and fall on his knees.

Chi then hurried and wrapped his arms around Conut's neck strangling him, and his legs around his waist like a koala. Conut struggled to breathe, he was unable to get free from chi's hold.

'i guess, the power of god Simon is still superior to mine,' This was conut's last thought before he fell on chi and passed out.

Chi pushed Conut off him then got up breathlessly. The power from gods heart seemed to have a side effect, it was draining his energy. He trudged through the forest breathlessly. He was tired, hungry and hurt.

'shit, my eyes are failing me,' as he walked further he felt his eyelids were getting heavier every second that passed. When he made it through the forest, he saw the deep crimson sky, it looked beautiful.

The people in the city walked around with smiles on there faces like everything was fine, the building in the city were a wreck, like building in the era of war. The people's smile made a smile creep onto his face.

'finally made,' his eyelids closed and he nolonger had the scene of his city and the sky, only the darkness of his unconscious state.

"Chi, wake up!"

He heard in his unconscious state, his eyes opened for a brief moment and saw hospital lights then passed out again.

The doctors operated on his injury as fast and precise as they could. It not was there job but they were obligated to save him because he was the only one to return from the dangerous mission.

Chi opened his eyes and bright rays hit him causing him to close his eyes and hide them with his hand. He removed his hand from his eyes and opened them slowly. He blinked a few times looking at the hospital room he was in;

'shit, who brought me here? I remember I left only one hospital here and a regular Activist like me couldn't afford it,' he mused in the quiet hospital room. The sun was overhead, which meant it was close to 12 00am.

"I'm hungry," he touched his stomach and felt a sharp pain. He was hungry, had a sore throat and hurt.

'oh, I was hurt in that fight,' he removed all the apparatus attached to his body. He got up like he was feeling before he ate gods heart, but this time his life energy was higher, much higher compared to his peers.

"I heard, only those above the fourth power have access to a vast amount of life energy," he muttered to himself as he walked to the door and opened it.

The door did not lead him outside the clinic but to a passage were he found four faces he recognized. They stood there as if they expected him to wake up, there serious faces broke into smiles when they saw chi.

"You're finally awake," The captain broke the silence. He was one of the only orphic levels the activist had.

The three remaining activist's saluted Chi. There actions caught him off guard, he was a regular Activist, why was the captain treating him like this?

Chi bowed, returning there respect;

"I greet you all,"

The captain hugged chi's shoulder acting Buddy buddy.

"Why are you being so uptight chi? You're a hero to everyone here!" The Captain's elated smile echoed through the passage.

"Hero?" Chi questioned unaware of what he did that was so heroic.

"Yes, a hero! This three guys will give you a uniform, come to the base for a position advancement!" He said excitedly and left chi with the three activist. Chi had always heard the commander was cold hearted, now he doubted the rumors.

After being given food and a uniform, he left the hospital and walked to there active base. It was the one of the only building in the city that was not in ruins.

"Can you believe I hadn't stepped this close to the base for three years?" Chi tried to make conversation with the three activists.

"Haha, well it's not like you had an option right," one of the three responded happily but another was hostile. He quickly shut off there conversation.

"There is no time for conversation, let's just hurry up."

'okay, big serious guy,' chi did not respond, he new his rank was higher than his, speaking was a problem.

When he entered the base chi was welcome, it was the only party that had taken place after the incident. The party was fun but business had to be taken care of, the captain called chi to the podium.

"Everyone, I introduce to you Chi han! The only one to have succeeded the heart of god retrieval mission!" Everyone began to chant his name. But they began to quiet down when they saw chi's confused expression.

The captain looked at him and asked;

"What's with the face? Didn't you retrieve gods heart?"

Chi sensed how quickly the mood in the environment was changing so he answered quickly;

"No, I did retrieve it but..."

"What do you mean but? Do you have gods heart or not?!" The Captain's voice grew hostile.

"I, eat it! I was going to be killed if didn't do anything, there was no other wa..."

Smack!

The sound of the slap across chi's face echoed through the hall. Everyone went silent when they head the slap.

"What do you fucking mean you are gods heart?!" The captain questioned his voice louder.

"I didn't have much of a choice," chi said taking steps back.

"The only hope we had to save this world from the god Simon! The only, and you dared to fucking eat it?!" The Captain exclaimed. Green life foggy energy began spreading around his body.

Chi and the other guards felt a pressure enough to block there lungs, it was now had to breath. Fear was written all over chi's face, he wanted to run away from this place immediately.

"Sofan, can gods heart be extracted from him?" The captain turned the Activist with the glasses.

Sofan pushed his grasses up and spoke;

"Yes, but only if he's dead."

When chi heard this he took to his heels. He dodged every soldier and exited the building.

The captain was caught of guard. He didn't expect a regular Activist to posses such speed. It must have been the hearts ability.

The atmosphere in the hall was tense, everyone were scared of the Captain's wrath even if it was not directed at them.

"Find him and bring him here! Dead or alive!!! If you don't, don't return. His banished from ever stepping on this village's ground alive!" The captain screamed at the top of his lungs.

Everyone in the hall apart from the captain ran after chi.

'three years for the mission and they just want to kill me? I watched my camarads die for shits sake!!!!' he ran faster and faster. He dodged every citizen in the roads and made it to a Cliff.

The village was in an uphill area, so he had one option now.

"If I don't jump, here I'll be killed," he muttered to himself his heart beating rapidly. Ever since his fight with the occult he had no time to think rational or access what was happening to him. All his decision were forced like a king in check.

He looked behind him and saw the other activist's they were coming in quickly and he had one choice of escape.

'looks like a couple of hundreds of high! Shit!' he gulped down the saliva in the mouth and jumped down. His brain did not realize the betrayal his fellow activist right now, he just wanted to survive.

"Aghh!" He screamed loudly as he plummeted to the ground.