SHARD: The Prince Who Was Promised

Episode 5: Traitor

Episode 5: Traitor

I'll tell you something no one would probably ever tell you, we are all dead man, yes, I know we live but for how long? Our immortality is uncertain but our death is surely certain. You see, death resides silently in every single person's shadow, and no one seems to care, no one cares about death, even though it is so clearly close, you could live for a million years but it only takes a second for you to die. That brings us to the question, what then is the purpose of life? Life simply is enjoying the passage of time. Do you understand what I mean Soldier? I nodded and said I did even though I had no clue what the f**k this clown meant. Is he tryna be funny or something, I just nodded and asked if I could leave, Master Ezra nodded and I promptly left his quarters, I had wondered why he had summoned me but if I knew he was going to talk about this s**t, I would probably never have come.

Alone, I walked down to my quarters, to probably do nothing interesting, you are probably wondering why I did not just go home, oh well, that's simple actually. You see, we are taken from our parents at a very young age and then, we are sent straight to Meherres, with only our first names being registered, and since we had only two hundred and fifty first names to choose from and over two billion people, you really would not be able to locate your child and vice versa. I had no idea who my parents are, who they were or any of that s**t, I was not even trained in the district I was born into, I had no idea where I was even from, all I knew was that I belonged to the Empire, nothing more and nothing less.

I got to my quarters soon enough and just went in, I was about to lay down when I heard a knock, I opened the door a bit and would you get who it was, it was Khalil, apparently, he had come to talk to me about the mission today, he asked if he could come in and I rudely told him he could not, he laughed and came in though and I honestly could not look at him, I was beyond disgusted with the events that had occurred today. I told him I was busy right now and asked if I could ignore him some other time, he laughed and told me he was here to help me out because a day will come when he would no longer be here for me and he'll be really far from me. He was going to continue but I shut him up, I told him I'd also like to help him out and then, I asked him which way he came in.

That simply annoyed him and grabbed me by the collar and with a spiteful look in his eyes he asked me why I was so stupid and what the hell was wrong with me, he asked why I don't think and before he could continue, I slapped his hands away from my collar. I told him I was today years old when I realized I did not like him, I told him that I had no problems with him going away from me but that I hoped that day came very soon and he would go far away, also, I told him it would be beyond better if he stayed there. I then asked him if he remembered that time he was saying things I did not care about, I told him that was now and that I would very much like it if he left right now. He looked at me with an incredibly venomous look and took his leave soon after.

I sat down and just stared at basically nothing, it really would be nice to have a television and a phone but we all knew that having any of those was a crime punishable by death and regardless of how shitty my life currently was, I certainly was not eager to die, not in the least, in my world, technology was an abomination, apparently, it holds one back, keeps one distracted and wasted one's time, it also makes one impure, of course, we all knew that was a shitty lie and a load of crap but who would speak up, who was ready to be hanged while simultaneously achieving nothing? Definitely not me, I was clearly unprepared to die for nothing, not like I had anything to die for anyways, or to live for too, I was just there, soul-less and hollow, I was empty and I lacked empathy, I was not only capable of evil, I was totally open to it, it called out to me, the darkness, destroying all emotions and surrendering to pure evil, my body lingered for it, I wanted it but I knew clearly that if I did that, the whole world would burn and I still wanted to save it or at least, whatever remains of it. That I think, was what made me a good man, you see, a good man is not a man who is incapable of evil, it happens to be a man who is capable of extreme evil and violence but kept it under voluntary control, That was what mad me a good man, I chose to not be evil, not because I had to, but because I wanted to.

My ability to exhibit extreme violence was one of my strongest attributes, you see, I really am not a great fighter, I certainly was a terrible one, what made me so dangerous was violence, not skill, you see, someone who fights just fights to win or defeat his opponent, violent people like me, oh hell, we fight to kill, solely to kill, a fighter could punch you five times, a violent person would take out five organs instead, I was naturally not a good fighter but nature gave me something else in return, I was naturally and mercillesly violent. I was still lost in thought when I heard a knock, it was time for lunch, we were to head straight to the great hall for Masters, I wondered what we were having today, I had never been to the great hall, this would be my first time going, my first time yes, I was really nervous but I really just want good food honestly. I walked out and had only taken three steps when I sensed a very cold chill, I felt really cold, like something horrible and life altering was about to happen, turns out I was right, I had almost taken another step when I felt a sharp pain to the back of my head, I staggered and fell straight to the ground. I woke up n***d and chained up, all of my weapons were still in my quarters and felt really helpless. I charged up my melatone and I was rewarded with an unbearable pain to my neck, I had not noticed it before but there was a collar on my neck, one that apparently weakened me and forced me into being unable to use my melato powers.

I was really lost here, why would anyone kidnap me, what the actual f**k could anyone want from me, had Master Kashi and those morons reported me, was there a rebel group amongst us, what the f**k is going on, why would anyone from the Empire want to kidnap me, what could they possibly have to gain from k********g, I had no intel, no info, I had pretty much nothing, I was basically useless, so, why in hell would anyone want to kidnap me. I was still thinking about who amongst the Empire would do this when I got the shock of my life, it was a milky, what the f**k, is this some kind of joke? How the hell had they gotten into our Empire and not only that, also kidnap a Melato Master, I did not know much but I knew one thing, they had not done this alone, they would have failed, only one thing is certain, amongst us, there was a traitor, a snake, someone betraying the Empire and I think I know just who that was, it just has to be him, he fits the perfect profile for a TRAITOR........................................