WHAT THEY TOOK FROM ME

WHAT THEY TOOK FROM ME

I am the master of my fate and the captain of my soul. I have control over my life and my destiny so no one can trample over me.

“I believe I am the Overlord and I am ready to sacrifice my life for the cause of humanity.” I said to the old man.

You might be wondering what happened here. Okay let’s get a flashback about yesterday. I said I wasn’t ready to give my life for the cause of humanity. Well thinking about it from my own part, it is not entirely my fault for thinking that way because all this cruel world has done to me was punish me for things I don’t know if I did commit them. Life has taken everything from me. Is it life that is cruel or just fate? I mean fate brought me to a place where I most probably will die it is like life and fate doesn’t even want me at all. I might as well play along with them. They too away the last thing I had which is family and replaced them with family that doesn’t even like me. Life and fate are way too cruel to me. I still don’t know what to do. Should I just accept my fate and know that it is my destiny to die for the cause of humanity that didn’t even offer me a great life. Come to think of it, what does a fifteen year old knows? Now I, a fifteen year old, has the burden of the world on my shoulder or so I want to believe because it isn’t certain yet that I am the Overlord, I still have to prove it. I made a decision last night to make something out of living. Sure life and fate took a lot from me but guess what, they didn’t remember to take themselves away from me. I still have life and I am yet to know what fate has left in store for me. All I know right now is that, it is those who have lives are entitled to have faith so let’s believe things will get better for me.

So guess what I did this morning? After my morning routine and breakfast, I went to the training ground and said that to the PT.

“You lost your chance to answer my question. The deadline for the answer of the question was yesterday and you lost it.” The old man answered me.

I was used to my hopes been down but now I wanna have my hopes up always. I wanna be the hopeful one.

“No, there is no such thing as a deadline to an answer. Answers to things and life itself changes at times.” I said hoping he will change his mind. After a while he took a long breathe and asked me the unexpected.

“How do you think you can lead when life and fate are against you?” he asked me. I didn’t know what to say because damn it he is right. “Like I thought, you can’t have an answer to that.” He said and when he was about to walk away I remembered something from school and I said it out loud.

“It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate and I am the captain of my soul.” I said with lots of confidence.

The old man looked taken aback. Maybe he wasn’t expecting me to say that out of the blue. Well school helps a lot.

“Training starts in an hour go get ready.” He said to me with a smile. Wow the old man smiles. I was beyond happy. With what I am feeling right now, happiness is an understatement. So I got ready for training and when I got to the training ground, the old man called me separately and it was there I found Ryan.

“Hey Ryan.” I greeted him but surprisingly I got no replied from him. Okay no panic he might be a lil upset with me. Ryan is my teacher? Wow am as surprised as you are. We started training with yoga and then moved on to other things. He said I needed lots of concentration.

“You have to know how to maintain a position no matter how much loads you have on you.” Ryan screamed in a command tone the one that tells you he is not in the friend mode. Back to the situation on ground, how does he expect me to maintain balance when I have lots of heavy s**t on me? After a while we shifted to other things. He told me to freeze time and I tried but to no avail.

“Clear your head and let the power overtake you, feel the power.” He said. My head is clear actually but about feeling the power I wasn’t feeling it instead I felt hunger. Few minutes after, he said we should call it a day.

That was it, day 2 gone with no powers. I was starting to get discouraged but I wasn’t going to let my guard down now. I still have a day left to prove I can be their leader, to prove that I can be the overlord. Time flew by and it was the last day I had to get this power.

We started training again. Unlike yesterday, we didn’t do any yoga, we went straight to the power training. We trained! Trained!! Trained!!! We trained non-stop and I was getting super exhausted but he wasn’t stopping.

“Can we take a rest, I mean we’ve been training non-stop since morning and it is late in the evening so I was thinking we could take a rest.” I asked

“No we should not. You have only today left and you haven’t showed forth any sign of having any power talk less of the power of TIME.” He said.

“Yeah, I know but then I am damn tired already. We can maybe continue before the day breaks tomorrow and I will be proud that I at least did my best.” I replied and the first thing I got from him was a scoff.

“Tried your best? You call that best? Less wonder why life and fate haven’t been good to you. You call what you’ve done your best? You are not even close to good talk less of better or best. I am not even sure you can rule the magical world not with this mentality of yours. You can as well give up and go back to whom you’ve been all your life, the Tiwa that doesn’t know the worth of life and blames everything on fate and life.” He said and walked out on me.

That wasn’t fair. I was already in tears. How dare he use my life predicament against me? I was frustrated, angry, upset and sad but most of all scared. I was scared of my life. I was scared of going back to who I was. I was scared of the probability of losing my life if at all I am the overlord. The day went by and that was it too. Day 3, the last day gone with no power.

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It is time for me to prove to the magical world if I was the Overlord or not so I was asked to fight with their most powerful man named Desmond. Desmond is huge and big. He sure is not someone I can or will pick up a fight with on a normal day but here I was asked to fight him against my will. He sure did beat me up and all I did was cry. He gave me a strong blow and the tip of my lips had a cut and was bleeding. In short, he beat me to a pulp. I was defeated. I tried to lift myself off the ground but I couldn’t because I am too weak to. Then Ryan’s word repeated itself in my head

“Tried your best? You call that best? Less wonder why life and fate haven’t been good to you. You call what you’ve done your best? You are not even close to good talk less of better or best. I am not even sure you can rule the magical world not with this mentality of yours. You can as well give up and go back to whom you’ve been all your life, the Tiwa that doesn’t know the worth of life and blames everything on fate and life.”

“Says who? Says who? Says who?” I screamed out loud in between sobs. My whole life as a failure reminiscence right before my eyes. I have given up a lot of things. I hated the fact that he is right that I gave up everything including my own life, I would have died if not for that portal.

“Who the f**k says I have given up?” with that said, a circular wind spread out and everyone was shaken. I stood up and screamed out loud;

“I am the master of my fate and the captain of my soul. I choose who I want to be and I choose to the Overlord.” Trust me you don’t wanna know what happened next. My eyeballs turned green and my body was spitting out green fire, Desmond couldn’t bare it so before he got burnt, he ran away from there. I started floating in the air and everyone watched in awe, magical iron clothes started wrapping itself around me and I got a staff that absorbed the green fire and turned it into an orb on the staff. I hit the ground and my feet are standing firm to the ground with my eyeballs still green and my face looking at the ground. I was hearing whispers and sounds and murmurs of how impossible it is. And when I looked up, the council of elders bowed and called me the Overlord and the whole audience of more than a thousand people bowed before me and all chorused after the elders;

“We all live to serve you OVERLORD.” And that was it, the beginning of my journey as the Overlord.