章節 20: Morpheous has risen - 2

"My brother is ...."

Words just curled inside her mouth. Even though she had herself seen his might at the coliseum, even though everything that had happened like a page from the book of magic, made sense, she still couldn't fathom that her brother was the chosen one.

Inching close to her, Damianos gave a pat on her head and asked,

"Still worried about him?"

Looking up at Damianos she said,

"Can't you see why? Can't you see his pain? He is still struggling alone with what is happening to him. What if he is not the chosen one, and he suffers?"

"He has always been the chosen one my child," said Damianos and taking a deep breath he continued, "I have always known that he was the chosen one, because I have been sent here to look after him. I have been waiting for all these years for him to rise, but little did I know that God had different plans."

"No Damianos, No. God has given us a chance to re live that time. Maybe he doesn't want us to commit those same mistakes. I had lost my mother and father, I had lost you and mad in the fire of revenge brother had challenged Nubeous for a duel. But now we are here, we are safe. Maybe it's a way of God to tell us that there is an alternate life, a better life than all this revenge and fights and bloodbath," said Eva with tears streaming down her cheeks.

"But he is the son of God Eva. He was born with a purpose. He has already been risen, but just that he doesn't remember. He doesn't know what's hidden inside his heart, unaware of what he can do. The purpose of his life is way beyond us, way beyond this realm," said Damianos and hugged Eva who had been sobbing continuously.

"But then who will protect him? Who will take care of him?"

With a hint of smile on his face Damianos replied,

"The protector needs no protection my child. He has angels looking after him." And Damianos flapped open his wings and surrounded Eva with it.

Looking at his wings in disbelief Eva stuttered, "You... You are one of them? You are one of the angels?" and Damianos just nodded and wiped away her tears.

She wrapped her arms tight around Damianos shedding away her hidden fears as she whimpered. Tears were rolling down her cheeks, but here eyes remained open as her mind was still tangled in thoughts.

Softly patting her head, Damianos let out a gasp of air, but he still couldn't understand, as how this little girl remembered everything. It should have been erased from her memory as she fell back in time.

He kept patting her head till her sobs had been quietened out and said,

"We will look out for him Eva. I will train him to use his powers. You will see, in no time your brother will become the protector of this world." When she nodded in his embrace, he said, "Come, let's help our people. They need us now more than ever."

As they walked back towards their village, Eva asked, "Why are your wings burnt and broken? Who did this to you?"

Taking a deep breath, Damianos smiled looking at her and said, "I am a protector remember?" Eva heard him say those words and then thought for a while before asking, "So was it you? The strange man who protected my parents from the mouth of fire? The mystery man whose face nobody could recognize !!!"

"No my child, it was your brother. I was just trying to shield him because I thought he needed my protection, because I thought he has still not risen," Damianos said and continued walking.

"What do you mean by he doesn't need your protection? He would have burnt himself if it wasn't for you," uttered Eva restlessly.

"Are you forgetting the prophecy Eva? Have you forgotten what you saw at the coliseum? Didn't you see him survive the Bolt of death? The soul stone was destroyed in an attempt to kill him, and you still think that he needs protection from mere fire?"

"Yes, he does because you haven't seen the way his hand was burning. You have not seen the way he was withering in pain. "

"Calm down my child. It is just the beginning. He is like a newborn now. He needs to learn a lot to reach his full potential. What you saw at the coliseum was the birth of the biggest miracle that the world has ever seen." There was a sense of pride that reflected from the face of Damianos as he spoke about Morpheous and why not? After all he was like his progeny who was going to soon going to free the world from the shackles of atrocities.

They walked and reached the area near the pond where the apothecary was treating the villagers who was suffering from burn wounds. Nicholas and Morpheous were both giving him a helping hand along with other villagers who were unhurt.

Eva's parents Leonidas and Nefeli were also there, tending to the people without even bothering about their house or croplands.

Morpheous made a concoction out of the herbs brought by Nicholas along with the medicinal leaves provided by the Apothecary and started applying it on the wounds of the people. With every single application of it, people yelled and cried for it stung bad.

With a worried expression he looked at Nicholas, who was helping people with water.

"Give it some time to settle in Morpheous. It will sting but give a cooling effect later."

Taking a deep breath, he kept applying the medicine with a heavy heart. Every single cry that he heard was piling up the anger within him. Right at that moment he wanted to make Nubeous feel the same amount of pain that his people were going through.

As Damianos approached the area, he came close to Morpheous and asked him,

"What did the voices tell Morpheous?"

Morpheous closed his eyes for a second and then looking at Damianos with a worried expression on his face he said,

"Death is coming to Ambracia soon !!!"

"Men are going to rain blood on the land of Ambracia !!!"

"Who are these men Damianos and why they are coming for Ambracia? What is there that is left with us?"

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