MERCIA
2. The Chosen Soul.
The sun was lazy to show its light, the sky was slowly blackened as two dozen men in black suits with flashlights and weapons in both hands began to scatter in search of August to catch him.
August was tired of running frustration had begun to gnaw on his mind.When he began to drop he remembered Julia and the new students on the other side of the forest.
how is Julia doing, whether she will look for me and seek help. Suddenly her worries arise.
oh no no. If he was looking for me it would be very dangerous for him to meet that group of ruthless men.
August couldn't imagine what would happen to Julia and the others if that scenario happened.
I can't give up. I have to figure out a way to get out of here, but how do I not know which way to go.
the emotions in his mind were mixed, what he saw and felt was nothing but darkness.
While not far behind him there were many flashlights that were moving randomly closer to him.
August began to move again but it was very difficult because he could not see anything in front of him, several times he fell tripping over rocks or roots of large trees.
The distance between them was only about 50 meters.
August was still trying to move but was ill-fated for him when he accidentally stepped on a large snake that seemed to be venomous.
the stepped snake responds by biting August's right calf.
Akkkhh..!
unfortunately August's shout made one of the men in black clothes point a flashlight at him.
"THAT'S HER.. ALL HERE..!"
the man ran towards August followed by the others from various directions.
August has come to know that his life is coming to an end tonight.
The man walked up to him with a gun in his right hand and August was only a metre away.
"now you can't fuck... Hegh..!" unfinished a golden spear appeared from his stomach.
Blood gushed profusely, some splashing onto August's face.
August was stunned to see that disgusting moment.
The spear slowly went back inside the man's stomach.
the man collapsed.Now in front of August there was a woman staring intently at August.
The woman was clad in all black clothes only visible to her eyes and wrists alone.His left hand wearing a sparkling blue pearl bracelet was exposed to the flashlight of the man who had just been killed, while his right hand held a golden spear that was still dripping blood.
The length of the spear is only one meter but can change lengthwise or shorten according to the wishes of the owner.
the handle contained a dragon carving, as the spear extended the dragon carving moving around the handle of the spear as if the dragon was alive, and now the tip of the spear was attached to the left neck of August.
The woman was silent and did not say a word.
"If you want to kill me, kill me. I'm just begging my family to find my body and bury me properly" lamented August resigned.
The woman still remained in silence as if she was weighing something in her mind, but this time she tilted her face to the right watching August close her eyes after her last sentence seemed to be tears in her eyes.
A few seconds later came the sound of gunfire behind him.he turned quickly and positioned his spear in front of his chest.
Duars.. Trings.. Aaaagh.
the bullet hit the spear and bounced back through the neck that shot him.
simultaneously, an entire group of men appeared before him.
The woman turned her head to the left, glanced at August and said
"hidden."
"Shoot 'em!"
group leader's orders.
Dor dor dor dor.
the gunshots began to cringe.
The woman turned her spear clockwise and then removed the spear from her grasp and spread both hands sideways.
the golden spear continued to spin by itself, against the laws of physics, the faster it emitted a terrifying wind sound, exceeding the speed of the helicopter's propeller rotation.
wung wung. tring tring. aaaghhh.
the spear became a shield that protected the woman.None of the bullets that could penetrate the round of the spear.The bullets deviated from the trees to the right or left. while every bullet that hits the spin of the spear will bounce back to the sender.
At the same time August painstakingly stood up, picking up the still-lit flashlight belonging to the man the woman had killed.
He limps away from the woman and the group as fast as he can. With the help of a flashlight August learns now the path he will be on.
he saw that his right side looked like a cliff.
August wants to find another way.
But the snake bite wound made his legs worse. The cold mountain made his breathing heavy and slowly his consciousness diminished.
August was unconscious, his entire body constantly rolling against trees and rocks towards the edge of the abyss.
the uncontrollable body was finally blown freefall to the bottom of the abyss.
But a split second before the body hit the bottom of the ravine as a shadow shot to catch August's body and then again darted and lost in the darkness of night.
While previously not far from women and groups of men there are two pairs of eyes that are watching.
The two pairs of eyes that were watching it turned out to belong to two women.
One figure looks like an 18-year-old oriental-faced, his body wearing an all-white robe, on his waist tucked in two trident pieces, while the other his face looks grown up maybe around 27 or 28 years old, with a purple-coloured robe clothes, there were no weapons on his waist or back.
"Lyra's aunt who's that woman? looks like he wants to kill that guy too. We have to help him..
see him stick his spear to the guy's neck.."
"Calm down, Carol, you're going to help her, but not today.just stay focused on our original goal" Lyra said slowly.
Carol Snowbell and Lyra DeLight are still watching.
The leader of the group of men in black suits was increasingly worried to see his men die one by one. His men were only a dozen he felt the defeat of his side.
"Sucker. This woman is not human. BACK OFF..!"
his orders.
Simultaneously with the movement the spear stopped spinning then broke into dozens of small spears the size of an adult's finger and then shot towards the fleeing group.
every person or tree that was hit by that little spear burned and died.
Now the group is only the leader and two subordinates.
The woman was about to chase after the rest of the group, but she stopped her steps, undoed her intentions and raised her right hand dozens of small spears re-integrated into a large spear as before.
He clasped tightly, closed his eyes and threw a spear into the tree 30 meters to his right.
Wush.
"We were caught quickly leaving" Lyra reminded Carol.
Blukarr..!
The tree that Lyra and Carol were hiding in was destroyed, but both survived and managed to escape.
While the woman with the golden spear went back to look for August's tracks, but after a long time he did not manage to find his tracks, he left the place.
Meanwhile, in a cave on the edge of the cliff, on a flat rock lay a weak figure of a man. Beside him there was a woman about 25 years old wearing a king's princess-style clothes, it looks like a diamond or blue diamond that seems to stick to his forehead.
He tried to drink something into August's mouth with a spoon slowly.
The half-conscious August coughed and swallowed something that entered his mouth.
"where am I? whoareyou? what are you gonna do?"
ask August who is still weak.
"Drink first" the woman forces August to finish the drink she gave him.
August swallowed with resignation.
"Your leg injuries have been treated, and I can walk normally a few hours after you drink the potion out" the woman said.
Although it was bitter that August finished the drink.he felt his stamina recover slowly.he tried to dare to ask.
"who are you?" ask August.
The woman got up and put a bamboo glass on the small table to the left where August lay.
"i have a lot of names, but they call me Oracle, and I'm sure you have something for me!" the woman replied straightforwardly.
August did not understand who the woman meant by the word 'them'
Wait a minute did he call himself an oracle?
august's mind recalls the events where the disaster first began.
a man gave him a crystal to hand over to a man named Oracle.
"You're called Oracle?" ask August again.
The woman did not answer, only a small smile was visible.
Still lying down August pulled something out of his pocket.
The Oracle saw a sharp star-shaped crystal on August's right.
"A man in a battle suit asked me to hand it over to you." August thrusts his hand towards the woman.
The oracle took the crystal from August's palm and lifted it with his right hand parallel to his eye, watching closely, and his left hand took something from under his shirt.
a small box of gold.the box opened and he put the crystal into the gold box and closed it.
along with that. August asked as well
"who is that guy? and who is the woman with the golden spear? what's the crystal for?
"The man is only a messenger, the woman with the spear will meet you again" the Oracle replied
"Well..! Is he gonna kill me?" ask August in shock.
The Oracle closed her eyes for a moment and opened them again and answered flatly
"Maybe"
August limp heard it.
"What about the crystal?" August asked.
"This crystal.."
The Oracle stopped his words.he gasped in shock as the golden box in his left hand trembled violently.
The Oracle tried to hold back with both of her hands but in vain.it crashed backwards with its mouth violently spitting out fresh blood.
The vibrating golden box floated up looking flickering light that was as if it was revolting wanted to get out of the crack of the box that was starting to crack.
Crack.. crack. blarr!
the box was smashed. its fragments crashed into the entire wall of the cave.
Now the light looks like it's clumping like a solid object, slowly forming a five-pointed star and then starting to spin.
August was very frightened, but he could not move his body.
The Oracle herself was astonished at this incident.she muttered to herself.
"Ti. ti. ti. is impossible.., is he... he.... he is a chosen soul?!"
Suddenly the spinning light returned to a basketball-sized solid and hit August's chest.
August's body trembled like a man in a trance he closed his eyes withstanding pain and an excruciating heat.
He shouted with the remnants of energy he had.
AAAAARGGGHHHH...! Byurs!
He opened his eyes and saw Julia with bulging eyes holding a medium-sized bucket and then saw her own clothes that were soaked.
"What did you water me with?" ask August.
"Former water soaked my underwear" Julia said, grunting and throwing a bucket at August and leaving.
DUKKKA.
"ouch"