章 17: Chapter 17

(Argen Pov)

How?... She killed that monster... so how come it's still standing and looking so menacing at Lee and me... and why is Megan on the floor, bleeding from her stomach... it... it doesn't make sense...

This isn't real... It can't be Real!! Megan is one of my only friends, even if she was mean sometimes I knew she was joking... and the way she's looking up at me with tears in her eyes... why does my chest hurt so much?

Her... The Pale Lady... She did this, all because my mom is Artemis... damn it... I'll kill her, I swear I'll kill her!

Thoughts swam around in .y head as Lee dropped down and immediately started to try and save a dying Megan. All I could do was stand and stare as The Pale Lady started running toward them at imperceptible speeds... wait no... she was... slow?

Looking down at everything I saw everyone slow down, I didn't even know what was happening, though I couldn't see Asfalís anymore, possibly due to my unstable mindset...

All I can think about is wanting to kill the woman running toward my friends... she is so slow... so I can do it. I WILL DO IT!

Faster than I'd ever moved before I dropped to all fours and let out a small growl subconsciously, then going with the flow I pounced forward into the air, flying through it and landing in front of Lee and the injured Megan, who I could sense was close to death.

"You are gonna kill us? No... I'll kill you!" I yelled out as I pounced again and managed to flash behind The Pale Lady, letting my knife slip into the air before jumping up and letting gravity finish the job as I fell down with it pointed, Slicing into her monster flesh and causing black ooze to spill out.

Instead of waiting for her to evaporate into black dust, I let my silver aura flow down onto the dying monster and crush her, wanting to even get rid of her chances at going to tarturas, she didn't deserve that, she had to die...

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

"DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!" I screamed out slamming the knife into already condensed and crushed dust, tears flowing from my eyes as I killed this disgusting monster... I didn't want to look to the side, I didn't want to see a dead Megan... My first friend since Sam, who I subconsciously felt mad at, seeing as he had lied to me throughout our entire friendship.

I didn't want to see Megan look at me, because I knew that her wounds were my fault... this entire quest was my fault... and like a kid, I didn't want to take responsibility...

I knew that the way I acted wasn't normal, I knew that I shouldn't be able to smile... after everything I've been through I shouldn't even be allowed to have a happy life... but gods did I want it so much.

"Argen... She's..." Lee started to say getting my attention, As I looked over I saw the slumped over the form of Megan. "Asleep... She's poisoned but as long as we can find a good place where I can continuously give her treatment and heal her then it should be fine..." Lee finished as I slumped back with my head in my hands. In the next second, more tears flowed out as I sighed in relief, thank the gods...

...

We managed to sail for 3 more days keeping Megan under treatment, I was able to steer the boat well enough even though I missed the Dock, at least we made it to Greece, and I could already see where we needed to do next, seeing as my power was letting me see the way.

The first thing we did was find a place to stay and get as much medicine as we could. Greece... is a surprisingly unsuspecting place, kids walk around buying things without an adult in sight and they didn't care in the slightest.

The worst thing that happened was a raised eyebrow when buying alcohol, and even then we still managed to get it.

With Megan being treated, and Lee being busy doing so, I decided to get some exploring and planning out of the way, I couldn't let what happened on the boat to happen here... I didn't want to lose any of my friends...

(End Pov)

Argen walked around Greece, not using his power as he would wait for Megan to be healed or Lee to say she will survive for sure.

They never talked about the scars and the obviously stabbed in names and words all around Argen's body.

It had started with Megan being concerned, yet another thing Argen had to add to the list of things that were his fault...

"Argen didn't go far, but far enough to finally know that people were watching him... not just any people either, he was sure that monsters were watching.

Maybe it was due to his weird instincts, but he was sure that monsters were following him in secret, probably spying for the people scheming that he had seen in his dreams.

"Come out," Argen said in a different tone than usual, the air starting to chill as a monster came out from the shadows in front of him in the alley he had walked into.

Without letting the weird-looking creature do anything, Argen jumped forward with his knife and slashed its throat causing it to dissolve into dust.

"Nevermind... Lead me to your master..." Argen said swiping his silver hair out of his face and activating his power, seeing the silver lines stop right next to him, indicating he was almost to his objective... He didn't care if Lee and Megan weren't here, After all... he was the child of Silver, he would fight himself.

With these thoughts, a small pathway opened on the side of the alley, permitting him to enter...