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Chapter 1: Agbayani

Gunshots were heard, bloody screams of soldiers and natives alike were heard, and poor Agbayani was hiding inside a wooden casket witnessing the massacre that is currently happening in his village. Following the order of his father, he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth as he helplessly watched his fellow tribespeople, his family, and his friends die every single time he hears the intimidating sounds of the wooden sticks brought by the foreigners. He hears their evil and disgusting laughter, taking the women away and slaughtering the men, he even saw his own mother coming with them! He was enraged, but, he can't come out.

Due to the emotional shock, he's received, poor Agbayani fell unconscious. Just as the sun dawned on the village, he woke up again only to see their village in tatters. How did this happen? No, he's asking their god, the one where they offered a lot of sacrifices, their holy rock. He slammed the rock on the soil smashing every single bit.

He wanted to fight those foreigners who deceived his father, the tribe's chief by showing gold, and food and making a blood pact which was violated by the time those foreigners came back. He wanted to fight them, but he can't! He's but an eight-year-old child and all he's ever done was to learn of the tribe's ways so how can he possibly hope to survive? Those were the thoughts that were running rampant on his mind blaming his weakness and incapability to help his tribespeople in fending off those foreigners.

While in a daze after what had happened last night, he had a sliver of hope when he didn't remember seeing his older brother and sister come or get killed by the foreigners, so he tried to find them. He looked, and looked, scurried each nook and cranny of the village only to lose all the strength in his legs, as he saw his father, and older brother's heads on a stake, the tribe's women, even his mother and sister's body is being played around by those people!

"How infuriating!"

Agbayani thought, and so, he gathered up his courage and went ahead to attack those disgusting, foreign monsters who are laughing while playing with, his family, friends, and everyone else.

He picked up a sword that he found from a rag-like thing, and tried to kill those people. But, what happened next, although he managed to wound some of them, he suddenly feels like the world is turning around, as he fell to the ground, and then, he heard "Agbayani!" the poor kid looked at the clouds and saw his family greeting him, he mustered all his strength and while shedding tears, he muttered and wrote on the ground "Nanay(ᜈᜈᜌ᜔), Tata..y(ᜆᜆᜌ᜔)". Then darkness came.