The Dark Legacy

Chapter 2: Determination

' Booom ' suddenly an ear deafening sound echoed, making everyone in the city frightened like a kitten.

Kris woke up from his sleep alarmed only to see darkness in his view. He stumbled upon something, he couldn't stand properly. Something hard was blocking him from standing.

" Mother, are you there? where are you? " Kris shouted his lung out but there was only silence.

He became afraid, not because of the darkness but the silence made his heart shiver.

" What's happening !" He shouted inside, desperately crawling, trying to find a way out.

After a few hours of struggle he saw a faint light at the end of the darkness.

" Just one step, one more..." He finally got out after much struggle. A blinding radiance covered his whole vision suddenly, making him cover his eyes.

Soon his eyes adapted to the light. What he saw infront of him was only a sea of fire. Blazing fire engulfed everywhere. He saw dead churned up bodies lying here and there. He felt only aura of death everywhere.

His mind suddenly jolted, he remembered his mother who was at the room next to him.

He looked back and saw a huge pile of ruins. His heart started pounding from pain.

He understood the truth, there was no way for his mother to be alive.

" Arghhhhh....." He screamed in agony looking at the pile of ruins.

He couldn't even hear his own voice.

His both knee was touching the ground as he lowered his head. Tears continued to roll down from his cheeks.

He cried silently amidst the blazing fire which kept incinerating everything.

The temperature started burning his skins and hairs but Kris's mind was full of grief , he didn't even realized the situation he was in.

The scenery changed, the young Kris stood against a huge five headed monster beast.

It was more than ten meter tall, looking down at Kris with its fierce vertical pupils. There was a corpse lying under its feet. It was a middle aged man's bloody corpse.

Half of his left side was eaten away.

Kris looked at the beast with endless hatred in his eyes.

" I'll kill you...." He dashed forward with just a broken knife in his hand, without even thinking about the consequences.

The beast also roared furiously, crashing its huge paw at Kris.

Silence, there was only silence within the dark and gloomy room.

A young man full of perspiration sitting on a stone bed. His breathing was ragged, he swallowed his saliva hardly. If someone saw him right now they would clearly notice the tear drops that were flickering on his face. The dim light reflected the tears in his eyes clearly.

" That dream again?..." Kris stood up from his stone bed as he wiped the sweat from his body.

He stretched out his hand, taking the water bottle. He drank until the bottle was empty.

He took a deep breath calming his heart and mind.

Kris opened a thin book in his hand, skimming through its pages.

It was a beginner level spell book. He was currently living in the furthest corner of Alicia histeria magic academy.

He wasn't a student here, only a cleaner. Few years ago he saved a wounded teacher from this academy, so the teacher pulled some strings to let him live in the academy as a sign of gratitude.

Kris wasn't dissatisfied in the least, because he knows very well that he doesn't have any magical aptitude. He can only live here as a cleaner not as a student. He borrowed few books from that teacher. All the books was about learning magic and spells.

He doesn't want to give up just because he was incapable of using magic. He has a photographic memory, remembering everything within the book.

He ended up memorizing everything, but what he regretted the most was his inability.

Sunlight seeped through the small corners of the wooden house which fell on Kris's figure. Birds chirping could be heard nonstop.

Kris stood up stretching out his arms slightly.

" Need to work again...." Kris walked out of the house, heading toward the academy. From here he could see the majestic castle like buildings standing far away with glittering lights.

Kris sighed, he didn't even have the permission to enter the buildings, he was allowed to clean the outer area of the academy where grass and extra vegetation would grow.

" One step, two step, three step, reaching the sky with thousand step. One step, two step, three step, reaching...." Kris hummed as he broomed through the road.

The road became crowded, more and more youngsters entering the academy.

They all wore same dress, provided by the academy. The youngsters were full of aloof and noble aura. They all disdained people like Kris who was just a commoner without any background. Sometime they would intentionally cause trouble for Kris. He had to bear everything keeping his head down. He never retaliated nor he even retort to their mocking. He silently endured all the suffering's.

Kris suddenly felt an acute pain in his back, his vision turned dark as he growled in pain, his body flew by few steps away before falling to the ground with a thud sound.

" Hahaha look he rolled like a ball just like i told you..." A youngster shouted.

" Heh he was clearly acting, it wasn't you who made him roll.." Another voice sounded.

" Then lets kick again to see ...." Few boys surrounded Kris from all side. They all wore the academy dress,it means they were the students from the academy.

Kris knew he was being toyed with, he just gritted his teeth, taking beating without making any noises.

His lack of reaction made them lose interest soon, they left one after another.

Many students watched him suffer, no one stood up for him. In their eyes even if they killed him, it wouldn't matter to anything.

Kris stood up shakily, he couldn't stand straight because of pain. His legs and hands kept trembling from pain. He took the broom in his hand, started sweeping weakly.

Many students laughed,looking at his weak posture.

To their mocking and contempt Kris acted indifferently, never minding their words.

The sun was about to set, Kris returned to his wooden house.

" One day....one day....i will shatter everything in my path...no matter who they are...." Kris uttered slowly with eerie gaze, looking at the sky far beyond. The nights darkness enveloped his whole body, seemingly like a blurry shadow. His voice contained determination and conviction.

At one night Kris was sleeping soundly inside his wooden house.

Kris woke up from his sleep, hearing some weird noise outside.

He frowned slightly, no one would ever come to this remote place of the academy,it was almost desolate, so where's this sound coming from?

Kris walked out from his house following the sound with his ear.

His footsteps was very light, almost without any sound. Kris was a veteran hunter, so it wasn't much for him.

The area was full of large trees and bushes everywhere, full of darkness without any light.

Kris was walking very vigilantly, measuring his every steps. Suddenly he couldn't hear any sound.

Kris involuntarily looked around but he heard nothing, only bug screaming could be heard.

" I clearly heard the sound was coming from here...why did it stopped suddenly! Could it be another student is pulling a prank? Wait...why am i here again? " Kris suddenly became clear minded as he felt weird.

He experienced this weird phenomena already four times in a month and fifteen times in a year.

He never understood what was actually going on.At first he was very afraid but after experiencing it a few times he felt that it wasn't harmful.

During the time he would stay conscious but his head gets muddled, always following the weird sound .

Kris threw everything at the back of his mind.

" Humm....i need to work early tomorrow...lets head back..." Kris said to himself as he turned around.

Kris felt something amiss as he looked back only to see a big mouth, with sharp teeth, shot toward him like a cannon ball. It was extremely fast, Kris didn't even got the chance to evade.

" Hahaha...i'm going to die? Just like this? Hehehe....hehehe..." Seeing imminent death,Kris mocked himself before his mind turned dark.