The Almighty General

13

It's the second day of my training and I'm already bruised. I and Master Nai had been training with the swords again and I wasn't looking, he had hit my sword, and my sword was bent, just a single dent and it tore my flesh and blood spilled out.

I looking at myself in the mirror, just then, master Nai comes towards me holding a wet towel.

I press the towel on my injured arm thinking it's soaked in water but it isn't, it's like an antiseptic liquid, I had stop myself from yelping so that I wouldn't seem weak in the eyes of master Nai.

“I'm sorry." I muttered to him.

“For what, I was the one that struck you with my sword." He said walking away. “I should be the one to be sorry Hans." He says.

My arm is throbbing.

“No, if I had doged it..." I say to master Nai and he holds up his hand in the air.

“It's the ending of our training for today, take care Hans." He says to me and I nod.

I take the towel with me, still pressing it against my arm to stop the bleeding.

I walk out of the building, examining my arm, the injury had clothed and it's no longer bleeding. As I'm examining the injury, I hear my name and I turn around to see a girl in a cloak.

“Hans, it's me." She says backing away and lifting the cloak enough for me to see her face in the late evening dimness.

“Princess Diane." I whisper, just then. She started running backwards and she disappears into a building.

I think she wants me to follow her, I say to myself.

Every step I take is heavy, what is the princess doing here and why did she call me...

I walk to the building and I start pushing the door open when I hear my name again.

This time the voice was very familiar and cold... Commander Jax.

I turn around to see commander Jax frowning at me, his eyes travelled from my face to the door, then my hand.

“What are you holding?." He asks me.

" A towel, I had a cut. But I'm fine. " I tell him and he nods unconcerned.

“Where are you heading to, your building is that way." He says pointing the opposite direction but his eyes didn't travel with his hands, they remained fixed on me.

“I had..." I started to say but then I stopped. I wanted to tell him that I had seen the princesss, but what if I hadn't seen her, what if that was some other girl that I had seen.

“You were saying?." Jax asks me.

“I was just checking the building out, the size is massive. I'll be heading home now." I tell him and I want to walk past him but he held me from going backwards.

“If you see anything suspicious, remember I'm the first person you come to." He whipers. His eyes are hard, dark and cold, like the inside of a metal coffin... He's so scary and I want to break free from his grip and go home, but something just couldn't let me.

" Okay, I would." I tell him and he nods.

“Go." He says releasing me and I start walking back home.

I enter into my room and there's a box on my bed. I open it and it's a card, just like the one for my door. There's a note inside the box that says it's for my new car.

“Great." I say and I drop the car key in my table.

I think about Princess Diane, I'm wondering if it was really her, but I'm too tired to think of it further.

I take my bath and I examine myself in the mirror, just two days of training and I'm seeing the improvements in my upper body.

My biceps are becoming more toned.

I change into my pyjamas and I went to sleep.

I was dreaming and in my dream, four strong arms were holding me and pulling me towards a dungeon.

The dungeon is dark and it's very cold, I'm kicking at the hands to let me go but my efforts are dull.

I see Jax's face and King Cypher's, they're the ones pulling me into the dungeon, they lay me on a table and they strap my hands and my legs to a bed, suddenly, we're not in a dungeon, we're In an operation room and I'm surrounded by eager doctors and scientist, when they're done with me, they release me and they direct me to stand in front of rhe mirror, at first I didn't recognize myself... Because I'm a robot.

I scream and I break out of my sleep. There's cold sweat pouring down my cheeks.

There's also a sharp loud knock on my door.

I walk to the door and I open it, Jax is standing there with his usual frown.

“What?." I ask him because he's staring at me like I have a third eye, or maybe I'm paranoid.

“Nothing." He says. “Get dressed, I'm downstairs waiting." He tells me but before he marches down the hall commander style, I stop him.

“Why do you always escort me, it's a few buildings away, I can walk there myself." I tell him.

“I know." He says and he just leaves.

I wanted an answer, I know isn't an answer.

I still feel jumpy from the dream I had.

I shower and I get dressed. In my closet, there's a cloak, I take the cloak and hold it, I'm so shocked that it falls from my hand.

“That's the cloak Diane was wearing when I saw her yesterday." I say to myself.

I wondered if I should tell Jax that I thought I saw Diane and the hand him over the cloak, but I thought better.

I take the cloak and I hide it deep inside one of the wardrobes and I head downstairs and have breakfast with Jax who dosen't utter any other words apart from “There's no more time!. "