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VESSEL OF AN ANCIENT GOD Chapter 163
“There are too many coincidences. Too many strangers. And, I can feel it. There is someone here who is carrying something evil.” Jiro looked away. “Why are you here? I cannot convince him.” “You can try,” Oz closed in on Jiro. “You have to try.” “If he doesn’t listen to you, he can’t listen to me. There is nothing I can do.”“He let you leave prison. You are still here. There is a reason I’m sure. No one lets a murderer of their man live.”Jiro’s eyes darkened. “I didn’t kill anyone!” “Then why did he leave you to live?” Oz stared into his eyes. Jiro’s lashes flapped, holding back the revelation hanging loosely in his eyes. “You are his son, aren’t you?” “No!” Jiro snapped. A smile played on Oz’s lips. “You know.” Oz scoffed. “You have always known. So why are you hiding it?” ***“What was that noise?” Daichi turned to face Tanya. “Did you hear that?” Tanya shook her head. “No, not really.” Her nonchalance got under Daichi’s skin. “What exactly is wrong with you?” Daichi voi
VESSEL OF AN ANCIENT GOD Chapter 164
“The wizard came to ask me if I knew who the vessel was.”“What?”“Yeah. You need to be careful, Kakashi. There is a strong feeling among a lot of people here that could expose you. This is why I never wanted you to reveal it to everybody in the first place. They seem to believe the prophecy is at hand. I don’t know why or how, but the wizard was certain the demon was around.”“He does not know it’s me.” Kakashi voiced calmly. “He suspects Suke. He thinks Suke is the demon. He can’t read him so he thinks something is wrong with that.”“Suke, hm,” Jiro muttered.“What is it?” “What?”“Why did you mention his name again? You think he is suspicious?”“I know he is. Something is not right about him. I have something to tell you.” Jiro held Kakashi’s gaze, his face straight and void of emotion. Jiro’s gaze was fixated on Kakashi. Silence overtook the room, Jiro piecing the words together like a puzzle. “Okay, why are you not talking? What is it?” Kakashi asked, eager to get over whateve
VESSEL OF AN ANCIENT GOD Chapter 165
“Uh, come on we have to go now.” Jiro paused behind him. Kakashi kept his eyes on Zoa, mute. “Come on, we have work to do.”“You have work to do,” Kakashi replied in a calm, low tone. His feet remained planted on the spot. What could have made her talk like that? Was she the one who told someone about the demon? “Stop this, let us go.” Jiro’s breath brushed the nape of Kakashi’s neck. A quick turn around left Kakashi’s eyes holding Jiro’s gaze. “You have to get them out for the preparation, not me.” Kakashi stomped out, leaving Jiro stranded.The hallways and the footpath through the Arena were scarce with scattered people hanging out. “Oh,” one of the students yelled out.“Are you okay?” Kakashi closed his eyes, clenching his fists. He didn’t see the table in his path. He got to his feet, picking up the fallen table and placing it in its position. Without acknowledging any of them, he fled. ***“Where is Kakashi?” “Why are you asking me that?” “Because you both are supposed to
VESSEL OF AN ANCIENT GOD Chapter 166
“Okay, now what is going on?” Daichi said to Zoa, his head swirling in the riddle Tanya and Zoa presented him.“What do you mean?” “Tanya told me about one of her friends being in a situation where he is not in the best of states but for some reason, the reason is enough reason for him to die if anyone else knew.”“What?” Zoa’s face twitched. “I know!” Daichi added. “And here you are talking about Kakashi reducing this place to dust. Phew… I don’t know what is going on with both of you.”“When did she tell you this?” Daichi shot her a glance, a tint of amazement settled in his eyes. “Why? Does it have anything to do with Kakashi?” “What? No,” Zoa sighed. Her response was unconvincing, she tucked her hair behind her ears.Daichi peered at her, flipping through her face like pages hiding the map to a wanted treasure. “What?” Zoa probed. “What are you hiding?” “What do you mean? I am not hiding anything.” “You are hiding something.” Daichi’s gaze read through her. “No.” Zoa wrig
VESSEL OF AN ANCIENT GOD Chapter 167
“You told me of your battle with Shinjuya. They are very powerful. I know because my brother and I grew up there. We… our parents were killed because they found a potato in our house. We were spared but made to work all day. We would get fed a potato each for our troubles for the day. There was one time my hand got sliced by a machine. When the master saw it, he beat me more. He said I damaged his machine. We endured this for years. We couldn’t live like that, not like that. The first opportunity we had to leave, we took it. We were caught on our way out, rats feasted on us that night. We were stripped of our clothes and left in the cold with rats. They did that to us, we were children. The next time we had an opportunity to leave, we couldn’t. We didn’t know who to trust or what to do. A raider came bearing gifts once, and he was asked to take anything he wanted, anything. We weren’t allowed to go easily, but he was hell-bent we were all he wanted. He took us to his home and groomed
VESSEL OF AN ANCIENT GOD Chapter 168
Jiro dashed through the Arena, leaving an array of tables on their faces. Vases crashed in his wake. Petals vomited their seeds, and blood of different colors painted the ground. “Wait! Hold up!” Kakashi trailed far behind. Something must be wrong. He kept running even though he had no understanding of why. He can’t be this anxious if there wasn’t a problem. Jiro swung the doors open, leaving the walls with angry marks. “There is a problem!” His voice screamed above his breath. Kakashi’s feet screeched, fighting the ground to halt at great speed. Master Yonda stretched his neck out to see who arrived. “Uh, I’m with him.” Kakashi said, his voice a blend of nervousness and struggle to control. Jiro nodded in affirmation. Master Yonda drew back to face Jiro. “This better be worth my time.” His words were stifled under his clenched teeth. “Horses approach. A great army is on its way here. We need to act fast.” Jiro uttered.What? That was a summary of what was happening!“You don’t
VESSEL OF AN ANCIENT GOD Chapter 169
The words spread across the room faster than Kakashi and Jiro could deliver the instructions from door to door. “We can easily avoid all of this if only you just let everyone know about you.”“Know what, Zoa? What are you talking about?” “You know exactly what I am talking about, Kakashi. I can’t lose my only remaining family… for you. If you do not talk now, I will.”“Talk about what?” Kakashi’s face dropped. “Talk about what, Zoa? Tell me what you want.” Kakashi rushed after her. He pulled her by the elbow, halting her brisk walk away from him.“Yourself! The truth about yourself! You are a demo…” his palm tightened over her face, numbing her words. She mumbled into his palm, but the words clogged in her mouth, stopping at the palm of his hand. “Let me go. Stop!” She hummed. Kakashi glanced over his shoulders as he dragged her away to a corner. He surveyed the surroundings before dropping his hand. “What did you just do?” She extended her hand, and black chaos energy shot out, se
VESSEL OF AN ANCIENT GOD Chapter 170
His feet fled on the ground, manoeuvring its soles to avoid the bodies lifeless and pouring out blood. “They are too much. I don’t think we will be able to take them all out!” He was still a few metres away from Master Yonda. “What?” Master Yonda squinted his eyes. Kokohashi jumped to shield the master from the charging soldier. “What is the problem?” His sword overlooked his head. “They—Master,” the soldier bowed. “They are far too many. We have no chance against them.” His breath rose and fell persistently, his chest displaying the motion. Master Yonda’s eyes passed his glance away from the reporting soldier to look wide into the crowded area. Are they that plenty? “Master? Master!” Master Yonda was brought back from his reverie. He blinked twice, recovering his reality. “We can take them on.”“But, sir—master, they are still trooping in. For every fallen soldier, there are two coming in through the gate. This is going to be impossible to overcome. They have taken the whole sch
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Suke tumbled as Jiro dived straight through him. Suke picked himself up. He swept all the corners of his mouth with his tongue. He raised his head halfway, his eyes hid below his lashes, a veil of darkness covering his gaze. He spat out blood, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. “Last chance dear friend. Bring. Him. To. Me.” Something sinister chorused in his words. His tone was like a sweet lullaby in the dark. Only this time, you are alone. Master Yonda dug his hand into the sheath hung by his hip. His sword glittered in the light. “You will have to go through me first,” he assumed a defensive stance. “What the hell is happening?” Daichi’s breath quickened. His voice cracked with a mixture of curiosity and fear. Zoa stared intensely at Kakashi. “Don’t worry Dai, I will not be like my father. This will be over soon.” Her eyes darkened. Daichi’s gaze spun towards Zoa. Words hid under his tongue, but his face communicated his feelings. A quizzical look like a detective thro
Chapter 188
“Hey Zoa,” Tanya rushed to catch up with Zoa’s fleeting feet. “Zoa!” Zoa spun around. “What is it, Tanya?” She shot Tanya a glare. “I don’t like what is happening between us. I am sorry for anything I have done. Please, do not go on like this. Let us come back to what we used to be. I miss you. I miss my sister,” Tanya’s voice cracked, her face dropped into a plea hard to say no to. Zoa stood, rooted to the spot. Her eyes lingered on her, tears forming around her eyes. She opened her arms, pulling Tanya into a warm embrace. Her shoulders warmed with Tanya’s tears as they held each other in that position for what seemed like forever. They basked in their embrace, unconcerned about the passing gazes that fixed on them, the urgent feet that marched or even the touch of the commander. “Zoa!” She snapped out of her stare at Tanya. Tanya stood, her eyes still droopy. She rotated to a halt as she came face to face with Kokohashi. “Did you hear what I said?” Her head tilted. Her face cont
Chapter 187
The gates opened and the people left their mouths ajar.“How is he alive?” “What is he doing here?” “What are those with him?” Yonda rode into the place he once called home. It looked bigger and better. There were new structures scattered on widened grounds. He looked at the place he once lived; embers of fire heat underneath the huge smoke that went up to the sky from there. Huge men vacated there with black dust covering their bodies. Yonda continued deep into where their leader stayed. “Hi. Where is Master Ji?” Yonda asked the boy from the top of his vehicle. “I don’t know who that is.” The boy said and then ran away. Oh, okay. “Yonda?” The musical voice that called behind him sounded familiar. He turned around to see Maika beneath a hoodie. His eyes sparked, the memory of their last time time together filling him up with joy. “Maika.”“I thought you died.” Maika whispered. “Why would you think that?” Yonda asked. “Um, my brother said you were taken by raiders and there was no
Chapter 186
The annoying laughter from below him echoed in the back of his ears. He groaned awake, rolling on the bed. His eyes were wary of their new surroundings, parting slowly. He helped himself to sit back, leaning on the bed frame. His eyes widened as she walked in from the other room, her body drenched in water. Her eyes were suppressed under the heavy weight of beauty that crowned them. She wasn’t naked but there wasn’t much left to be imagined. She caught his stare from the mirror. Damn. What is that smile? That is beautiful. His eyes darted to the door flung open. “Oh, I see you’ve met her,” John said to Yonda, passing his glance from him to her. “She is quite incredible, is she not?” He strolled in without a care in the world. Yonda took his eyes off his brother, and back to the girl in front of the mirror. Her fingers clutched her shoulder, backing the mirror with her head dropped. She scampered off, back into where she appeared like an afterthought. “Why did you just walk in? You
Chapter 185
“There is nothing more I can say, John. You two are going to be great men.” Master Ji drew them into himself in an embrace. “Great men that will be part of the stories of the new world. You do not have to worry about the unseen. You have each other. You have a week, prepare your minds.” Master Ji dropped his hands, taking his time to climb the stairs back up. “What do you think this is?” John marched towards Yonda. “Is he trying to send us away?” “This is not something any of us possess an understanding of. It is certainly a mystery. But he has been training us for a long time—” Yonda’s words were interrupted. “Never have been trained to go on a mission. Never.” John jumped in. “Never, I agree with you. That makes this mission even more important now. There is something hidden within that we might not understand now. But I do disagree with you. The master loves us too much to ever want us out of his sight. He came for you without blinking. Alone. The master wants to see something i
Chapter 184
"Before you do that, I have something to tell you too.""What is it, Master?" John asked. Master Ji reached out to them to be guided up. John and Yonda hurried to his rescue as they took his hands, helping him up with ease."I can tell you, but I will rather show you boys what it is. Come with me." Master Ji walked ahead of them. Quizzical looks covered both of their faces as they marched behind their master."Where is this place, Master?" John called from behind."Be patient, my son.""Are you sure this is the way, Master?""Continue to follow me Yonda. Believe." Master Ji faced the wall, charging towards it."No!" Yonda and John rushed to pull Master Ji back. “What are you boys doing?” Master Ji dodged them, they dropped face-first into the ground. “Ow!” John winced. “What do you think you are doing?” “We wanted to save you,” John got up first, scrunching up his face as he held his waist. Yonda’s face peered from behind John. “You were going to hurt yourself. We had to save you.”
Chapter 183
The gates banged. No sound forthcoming sent him into a fit. Sweat covered his face. He glanced over his shoulders, scanning behind him to be sure he was alone. His breath quickened. The gate crashed with his fist banging again and again. It gave way, and Master Ji's face peered through the opening."Where have you been? Everyone is worried about you and… where is John?" Master Ji stretched over Yonda to check behind him. "Where is John?" Yonda whimpered. "I said where is John?!""He is—he is," Yonda stuttered, pointing in the direction of the woods."He is where? In the woods?" Yonda nodded in affirmation. "I've told you many times never to go there alone!" Master Ji's voice trailed. Restless, he goes back and forth. "What happened to him?" He appeared with his belt.Yonda stared intensely at the belt around the master's waist. "Wha—what is that for?""It is an emergency. Now tell me where John is, and with whom!""He is in the woods. There are raiders there. They caught him." His voi
Chapter 182
DECADES AGOClanging blades danced in the air. Their feet danced violently, shielding their lives from each other’s attack. “You seem to have gotten better. That is good. John! Careful with your wrist, careful! Left. Left. Stay there. Left. Do not run away, stay there. Yonda! Yonda!” A fresh breeze blew over his face. He followed her steps behind his head, sword in hand. The sunlight shone brighter, the spotlight illuminating her brightness more. She swayed her hips like she floated, without a burden. She turned, her hair spreading ecstasy. She smiled, and like a child in a strange place, he followed with a wide smile. His lips curved from one end of his jaw to the other. His spine shivered, cold ran through the blade pressing against his back. He swallowed, and his sword landed on the ground. He caught her from the corner of his eyes, the doors obstructing his determination. He turned. Slowly. “Put your hands up!” An order barked at him. He raised his hands. Footsteps closed in on
Chapter 181
“I need you to tell me exactly what happened.” “We were on the road here, it was dark and we could not see anything. We lost track of anything and now, we are here.” The aged man glances at the other man behind him. He nods to him and the man nods back. “We have been expecting you.” Kakashi and Jiro exchanged glances. “What do you mean?” Jiro asked the man. “Your name is Kakashi,” he looks down to Jiro, “And you are Jiro Shoei. You lost your brother when you went to a mountain, and you also lost your friend some months after. Life hasn’t been the best for your loved ones. Neither has it,” the man turns in Kakashi’s direction. “…been for you.”“It is not a coincidence that you were both on the mountain the day Lord Zodiac escaped the trapped jar. Every day has worked with the prophecy. Your father, your mother.” He turned to face Kakashi. “Your parents. It’s all going with the prophecy.” “How many prophecies are there? Because I don’t understand the prophecy you speak of.” Kakashi
