SHARD: The Prince Who Was Promised

Episode 8: Here

Episode 8: Here:

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. No, you are wrong dear sir, absolute power reveals absolutely, it merely amplifies us, it makes us more of who we already are.

Khalil and some other white weirdo had been senselessly arguing over the bad effects of us having more power than any race in this world was allowed to possess.

I had barely even been awake for a minute but I burst into laughter and everyone's attention was now drawn to me, the clown arguing with Khalil then asked me what I meant.

I told him that I just found it really weird that those who have no power are so quick to judge power since they had none, that seemed to draw his attention a lot more.

He looked at me clearly angry and asked me what I had achieved with my power, he asked me what use my powers were if I could not save the other two million soldiers that came into battle with me.

I looked at him in silence and then, I asked him why he was so quick to judge us and what we did with our power if he knew nothing about the responsibility of having them. He immediately replied by making me understand that he actually does not believe our power was inherently bad but he only believed that it was poorly distributed, i.e., given to the wrong people, a category I and Khalil fall into.

I asked him why he was trying to make a virtue out of what he lacked when we clearly do not possess greed. His answer to that was the fact that he believed there were better things we could use our power for rather than killing of people.

I asked him if he really would be any different if he and his people had our powers. He of course replied with a resounding yes.

I told him that was not true because he had made it very clear here that if he had that power, he would believe himself to be inherently better than anyone else.

He told me he would be better because unlike us, he cared about doing right by doing good things and being a good person, I could only devilishly smirk as I asked him if that was the case or if he simply feared being a bad person, or rather, being viewed as a bad person.

He laughed and told me my evil has brainwashed me and that unlike my kind, not all humans were rotten at our core, I nodded and told him that while I do agree with him, I also hold the opinion that we are all human and for that reason, we were not perfectly pure hearted. Deep down, he also craved power and everything that comes along with it, you long for the power to be superior so you can actually feel alive.

He looked at me disgustfully and told me this was not about him, it was about doing the right thing, I asked him what that was and silence followed, he simply had no idea what that meant, I gave him an answer soon enough though, I made him understand that the right thing was simply a lie he told himself to make up for the fact that he was purely weak and truly desired power, power he was almost certain he would never get.

He raised his voice and told me I had no idea what I was talking about since his motivations for his actions do not make his actions genuine or not, so, I asked him if his actions were genuine to his true self, not the mask he portrayed to others.

I asked him why he thought that good people always won, well, it was because history is decided by the victors and that if he truly believed that he would remain good when he has power, he should find a way to get it and see if he actually can remain a good person.

I heard a clap from a dark corner of the room we were being detained in, with my hands and legs stretched out and cuffed, there really was not much I could do; besides, I was currently beyond tired, he told me I was quite smart, that's why I was able to sink three cruise liners alone, he then told me that my intelligence was supported by an unbelievable amount of stupidity, I had believed a Melato Master was a spy but the truth was that I really was beyond wrong, I was the spy.

I asked him what he meant, and he asked me about a mission I took, one which I had fought one of his kind in a battle, a one on one battle, the guy had planted a tiny parasite into my body, my healing powers had removed the pain closed up the wound but the fact was that I had carried an extremely small but very efficient camera and all the information Master Kashi had been killed for were revealed by me.

I called him a liar but the bastard stuck a red hot knife into my chest and cut out some metal covered in blood, the realization hit me hard, I had just killed an innocent man. Almost like he had read my mind, he told me to not become sad that I had killed an innocent man, after all, I had killed innocent people at the facility and on that ship and for those reasons, I would spend the rest of my life here being tortured till I eventually passed away.

You see, the plan was to t*****e and extract sperm from I and Khalil, they had also taken four women from amongst us, they would put our sperms in them, take the kids they gave birth to and raise them solely to serve the whites, I knew it at that point in time, my life as I knew it had now come to an end, my life was now whatever these bastards wanted it to be, I was now infinitely f****d.

The guy that informed me of all this stepped back, introduced himself as General Andrew Bauer Jr, Bauer? Oh right, I had murdered his father, his father was now gone and it was all thanks to me, can't expect him to treat me kindly, that's for sure.

He asked me to play a game with him and when I declined, he informed me of the fact that I was his prisoner and he was not mine, he chose what happened to me now, I no longer had that liberty.

He told me he would ask me a question and if I had no answer to it, he would take off my limbs till I got it right, I wanted to ask what he meant till I saw him I wanted to ask what he meant till I saw him I wanted to ask what he meant till I saw him pull out a diagonal plier and a nail puller plier, he then asked me to choose.

I ignored him and he told me he would choose for me, he used the nail puller plier, he asked me what gets more valuable the more of it you had, I proceeded to ignore him and he pulled out one of my fingernails, I really don't know why but that hurt like hell, I kept my composure though, I kept my composure and acted like it didn't hurt as my body slowly healed itself, he went on and on till he pulled out all of my fingernails, seeing that I had not flinched, the bastard only smiled, I thought that would discourage him but he seemed happier.

He congratulated me on my mental and physical strength and like that was not enough, he told me we would go one step further and rather than take fingernails, I would lose my actual fingers. I had no idea if I even had the strength for that cause I was really tired but he instructed me to answer his question, I answered with a f**k you and I promptly lost the thumb of my right hand, I could only scream in pain as he yanked it off, that hurt a lot worse, he smiled and asked me what the answer to his question was and when I could not give an answer he took off my fingers and toes one after the other, he then informed me that he would return when they had regrown.

The moment he left, Khalil tried talking to me but I was way too weak and too far gone to reply, it took a while but I was woken up again, I don't even remember sleeping off but I really had, I was woken up as they poured freezing water on me, I looked in horror as I saw Andrew looking back at me.

He asked if I did not miss him too much and told me that my healing was rather slow since I had taken over thirty minutes to heal, he then promised me he would not use the pliers on me again and as I thanked him, he brought out three nails and a hammer.

He then asked me if I knew the answer to his question and the moment I said it was money, he smiled, said wrong and hammered in the nails into three of my toes, he then turned and twisted them one by one until they all came off, I cried out in pain as he went on with this horrible act until I eventually cracked and lost consciousness, I could really hear him say they should ensure I don't die right before I passed out.

I woke up sometime later and watched as he told me to be grateful to him for the iv drip he had given me since I would be dead without it, he said that while pointing towards a little sack of water that was connected to my hand. I simply looked at him and frowned but he had worse things coming my way, he brought out a drill and asked me what the answer to his question was, I looked on in silence and would you believe what this bastard did, he took the drill, aimed it right at my eye and slowly drilled into my eye, I could only cry and scream in pain because hell, that hurt like s**t, that's when it hit me, this guy was my enemy and the one thing that gets more valuable when you have less was opportunity.

I gave him my answer and he said wrong, like that was not enough, the bastard drilled right into my other eye and that was when it hit me, the more friends you had, the less important you had and vice versa, the answer was a friend, in-between tears and blood, I screamed out my answer and he simply held my cheeks, I guessed he was smiling but I really had no idea since I was now blind, he told me I was right, gave me a hug and told me the point was to make me realize that I had no friends, with that said, he informed me that he would be back when my eyes were healed and he promptly walked away.

I regained my eyesight soon enough but it took a long time return, he then told me that my next question was what his mother's name was, I told him I had no idea and he brought out a knife, gently carved out the left side of my body and he simply put in some machines, I wondered what those were but I found out soon enough, there were cutting, slicing and eating me from the inside out, they went as far as damaging my organs and bones as I screamed out in pain, Andrew asked me if he could kill me and I told him he could, I begged him to please kill, I told him that I really did not want to live anymore.

He smiled, brought out the machines, left me to heal, took away his iv drip and left me alone to die, but he told me to live since we were going to continue tomorrow and that was really not what I was looking forward to. The moment he left, I heard a voice, it was Khalil, he told me to hang on and told me we would get through this, I had honestly forgotten about Khalil, I was too busy being tortured but it was a little comforting to realize that he was HERE.................................................