Volume Six: Part 3: The Child Of Prophecy
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I looked to the front, they were not there, they weren’t behind me and were not on my left or right either, I wondered, where then, either way, it doesn’t matter, I’ll beat them up as well. That’s when they began their combined attack, I was buried to my waist in the ground, then I was thoroughly soaked in water and then finally, thoroughly electrocuted with lightning. I was rather pissed off, we agreed to use none of our powers but they just combined their powers to hurt me, no matter, I’m still going to beat them up. I happened to be very wrong, Olivia and Camilla kicked both sides of my face at the same time and as I spat blood out, Emily served me an uppercut which forced to pass out.
I woke up on the ground only to look up and see my cousins gleaming at me, I bet that they probably felt really good about bringing me down to earth, no matter, they just had the element of surprise, next time, I won’t be humbled so easily. We trained day after day and with each day that passed, I and my cousins only got better and better. I also learnt a few things, anger was my problem, I might hit better when I was angry but I most certainly don’t fight better. I really missed Damola, the mere fact that I had her blood on my hands was really painful and horrendously heartbreaking, I wish she were still alive but it really is what it is, they say you get what you give but life never gave me any of that. I wanted to love but all I got was pain and it was served to me in a million fold, that’s ironic considering I never gave pain to anyone who didn’t thoroughly deserve worse. I’ve always wondered though, can someone die in a living room, meh, forget I asked. The day I was to fight Lord Azarailus came, I was nervous, anxious and scared, I know violence is never the answer but violence is the question and the answer is “yes”, I’m going to show Lord Azarailus some violence. An atheist once asked me, “faith is good and all but does God believe in us”, I never really got the answer to that and I still don’t have the answer to that, but I sure as hell don’t believe in Lord Azarailus and he doesn’t believe in me either, I don’t care what he was, now, he was just a man or woman, whatever, it doesn’t matter, all that matters is that, I am going to defeat him and I’m going to do it mercilessly and make it stupendously painful for him, her, whatever.
I gave an amazing speech to everyone, I ensured they knew we were going to war as an army and that we could all die but it’s okay to die trying to defeat the most dangerous being on earth, if we failed, we were going to die in peace, knowing we were trying to save the world. I was about to finish the speech when Danzaki said to me, Jamal, with all due respect, I shut him up because I knew Danzaki, his with all due respect is always followed with full disrespect, no iota of respect and with all disrespect. I turned on my eye of death, sheathed the sword of light, told everyone to get themselves in a cluster, transported them to the front of the special squad academy and before I joined them, I smiled because I felt the battle was already won, I was bringing an army to Lord Azarailus, he had only himself, as I transported myself to the frontline, I realized how wrong I was, Lord Azarailus has an army of dead soldiers who were ready to fight without question and kill without mercy. I thought to myself, this can’t be good. I had only a battalion of about a little over a hundred soldiers and Lord Azarailus had soldiers numbering tens of thousands and they all couldn’t think for themselves. I saw just how terrified my soldiers were but I told them, to not forget they were fighting for peace and I screamed to them, charge!!! They charged and although, it seemed like we were doing well, we weren’t, the army of Lord Azarailus didn’t die so easily, they needed to be completely obliterated to stay dead, even if only an arm was left, that arm would continue fighting and killing. I was destroying over five hundred dead soldiers every minute, my cousins were averaging fifty but the others were nearly wiped out, those of them who died rose as servants of Lord Azarailus and the living couldn’t bear obliterating their friends or family but the dead really didn’t care, a few moments later and they were all either obliterated or in the army of Azarailus, I levitated my cousins and then buried the army of the ground by opening the ground and engulfing them in its middle, I closed the earth and put my cousins down. I thanked all those who died today and I made a promise to them to ensure their sacrifices were not in vain. It was now time to face him, the man I despise the most, Lord Azarailus, he had better be ready because I was going to go really hard on him. I went inside the academy enraged and filled with anger, I had murderous rage. The moment I stepped in, I saw Azarailus and five copies of himself, I didn’t know which of the six was lord Azarailus but I was prepared to kill each and every one of them or should I say of him without hesitation. Lord Azarailus welcomed us to our imminent deaths but rather than start fighting immediately, I was going to rope him in, I said to him, Azarailus, you wanna hear a joke? He replied with a yes, stating that people tell the best jokes before they die. I simply said to him, my powers. He looked at me in confusion and said to him, I don’t get it. I laughed and said to him, exactly, you won’t be getting my powers. My father once told me that if I couldn’t be a pencil to write people’s happiness, I should be the eraser to their sadness, Lord Azarailus did it the other way round, he was the eraser to people’s happiness and the pencil to their sadness, I was going to ensure he had a taste of immense pain and sadness today. What I had said earlier angered Lord Azarailus as all six of him charged at my cousins, I realized immediately why they were six of him, five could use the five different elements and the last one was just like me, he could control all elements.
I immediately informed my cousins in a way I knew they’d understand, I called out, E to L, F to A, W to F, A to E, L to W, I told them to fight with the elemental parts they could easily beat, Earth against Lightning, Fire against Air, Water against Fire and so on. They defeated the clones of Lord Azarailus in seconds and it only remained I and Lord Azarailus going hand to hand in combat. I had wanted to help my cousins out earlier but I had to practice self rescue first and that’s when the unthinkable happened, Paulo tried to join the fight between Azarailus and I but Lord Azarailus killed him almost immediately, before I could react, Olivia's head rolled to my feet, one after the other, Lord Azarailus killed my cousins before I could react. I looked at their bodies in immense anger, damn, I was going to give Azarailus pain worse than death for taking away my most precious cousins. I have never had a choice, the world is so so cruel, my whole life, I had never really had a choice, even now, I couldn’t choose to forgive him without dying myself, I really just don’t want to meet a useless and pointless end, with someone burning my body without even caring to know who the body belonged to. I wasn’t trying to forgive Azarailus anyways, I am not a good person, I take revenge, I’m an avenger, I could never really stand good people, they forgive bad people, thinking that makes them good, that makes me sick to the stomach but as my father would say, good people aren’t stupid, they just think everyone is good. I don’t even believe in the terms good and bad because it was impossible to be entirely good or entirely bad, in evil, there’s a touch of good and vice versa. That begs the reality tho, isn’t it tragic that tortured souls had the kindest hearts. No one is really evil because it is evil, he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he desires. I didn’t know why Azarailus was doing all this and that but I’ll ensure he pays for it in full……………………..
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