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Chapter 7 - ~Twilight Vale(7)

Somewhere in a dark confined area, little Anish woke up painfully, as his body was full of bruises, scratches and a broken left arm. He tried to remember what had happened to him, but nothing came to his mind. The only memories he could recall were of him and his family. He gritted his teeth while trying to get up, but his body kept falling no matter how hard he tried to summon his strength.

"Please move, body... we still have a responsibility to fulfil" Anish begging as he finally able to stand up. He walked slowly, not knowing where he was going, he hoped to find his remaining family whom he believed should be nearby, since they had all been taken together by the person who destroyed their house

Suddenly, he heard a crying voice repeatedly calling out 'Brother!'. Little Anish rushed to the voice, worried it might be his sister, who was still too young to witness such horrors. As he walked in that dark place he stumbled with something on his way making him fell to the ground. He looked at the thing he had crashed into only a pair of red eyes were visible. Then, without warning, that thing kicked that poor kid, little Anish couldn't protect himself with his bruised body.

His body was already at its limit, his leg was bleeding just from walking. "No, don't rest yet, body... we're just getting started" he said as he tried to get up. He was able to get up once again with his vigorously shaking legs and pulled up his guard ready to face that creature. Then, a red pair of eyes appeared and charged at him. Little Anish was being hit like a sandbag as he was no match for that thing. Little Anish would always end up unconscious, but that thing doesn't let him to faint. Every time he fell unconscious, that thing will break one of his fingers to wake him up. The torment continued until there were no more fingers left to break. It didn't end there as that thing still torture him with strong push on his stomach to keep little Anish conscious.

It was endless, little by little Anish's body began to adapt to the hit and eventually heal his wound even faster than normal kid. Little Anish also learned to dodge while sharpening his sight to see on that dark place. Finally when he was able to destroy that thing, another one comes to him but with a bigger size and more smart than the previous one. At first Anish was overwhelmed by that thing, but every times he fell he couldn't stop thinking what would happen to his sister if he stopped fighting.

He would always stand back no matter how hurt he felt and kept fighting for the one he loved. With unbreakable spirit he fought the endless wave of that thing, not aware of how many things he has destroyed or how many seconds, minutes or days had passed. At the age of ten the wave finally ended and revealed the truth of that place.

That place became bright and the floor was made with treadmill that can followed wherever Anish walked or ran. It also had speaker around the room, that speaker mimic his younger sister voice and a sliding metal door through which the robots entered. Anish stood at the center of the room, like he was surprised that he has been locked down after all this times, but when the guard robots came to handcuffs him. He resisted and broke the robots easily, he actually wasn't aware of what had happened as his personality had changed through time he experienced been tortured and fighting for the past few years. He became berserk as he only saw the same robot covered in black cloack he has fighting over and over in that dark place.

Somewhere over the big glasses,researchers watched him and celebrated after computer with Anish image was shown with a word 'SUCCESS'.

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Back to the cave, Ariys ran while dodging fallen stone above her, while running she prepared herself to engage in a fight. She tied her light stone below the sword handle, as she got near the source of quake. The quake grew stronger and happened more frequently, but then after she nearly arrived at that place. A big strange rock wall were blocked her way, it's like the wall was made by something to blocked that way. Ariys then searched for a gap to slip through it, but the only gap she could found was merely fit her whole hand.

Since she couldn't find another gap big enough than this, she planned to see what happened beside the rock as her curious growing big. As she peeked through the gap, the first thing she saw was a big stone was flew to her making her startling and falling to the ground.

"What was that?" Ariys said while gasping for air.

She stepped back a little bit farther before aligned her eyes to be at same level as the gap. Her eyes widened in disbelief as she stared at the war between two giant golems with their followers.

"So this is why the cave are shaking so much suddenly, but what could make this two golems fighting each other?" Ariys said while keep watched at the war field.

There were a bunch of earth golems were fighting with two stone golems near the wall, but that was just one of many more battles that happening between those golems under the glazing of dusk. The most noticeable fight was the two king golems, standing tall than any other golems. They fight became the main source of this vigorously quake with each punch they delivered, not to mentioned they surrounding had already destroyed with many corpses of minion golems from both side and the cave structure were all crumble all over the place. Even the cave roof that was far from them was not safe as there were many big and small holes, letting the sun flashed inside the cave.

She was almost glad that Anish wasn't there, but as she looked carefully again as her heart say the opposite she spotted a strange fight where both minions golem been threw off. There a single man with blue violet hair was throwing hand against those golems, "Seriously why are you involved in this fight. You're not a golem or are you?" Ariys said as Anish background was still a mystery or because she still couldn't believe Anish's story the other day.

"But why he looks different? Did he get hypnotized by something?" Ariys said as he realized that Anish wasn't the same Anish that accompanied her. She became restless, she began to search for a way in, "Anish don't you dare die in front of me, I don't want to feel that pain again, so please just stay alive until I reach you" while her mind reminded her of Fri.

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Somewhere inside of Anish thought, Anish sat while questioned himself. "What am I doing?" While kneeled depressed on the ground. "How long has it been?" He began to lay on the ground. "Where is my family?" He looked at the rubber bracelet his younger sister made. "Why this thing keep hurting me?" He was laying, but he could felt that his body were fighting. "When this pain will ease?" His tears began to flow down.

"Please, someone save me from this agony" he begged. As he cried for help there's a man approaching him, without warning the man kicked Anish. "Pathetic" the man said while getting closer to him, "Did you really thing someone will come and save you" the man sounded out loud. He then grabbed Anish's head, "Look here man, you're monster". Anish watched in shocked as that man was himself, but with body full with injuries. "Not just me, look at all the man standing behind me" he pulled Anish's head to watch behind him.

Behind him standing hundreds more versions of himself with many various fatal injuries making him screamed and vomited, disgusted by all the bloods and limbs scattered around the ground. The man laughed looking at Anish, "What are you disgusting at? You're not different than any of us here. After all you're the main body here" the man voice echoed in Anish's head. His throat tore itself raw with screams, even his skin split apart, like paper soaked in acid.

Return to the real world, berserk Anish was laying inside a big crater with surrounding full with minion, vanguard and sentinel golems from both side. The golems decided to team up to fight him as both side lost many members because of him, as they all looked at him the air grew dense and suffocating. Anish stood up, his body was still clean even after being beaten up by group of golems. Then he screamed like a mad man before jumped into the crowd, he easily destroyed bunch of minion golems by his fist.

Vanguard golems didn't stand aside when saw they comrades dying, earth golem launched a barrage of punch. Berserk Anish simply counter it by moving around and grabbed the golem's head, he used it as a shield and bashed through the other golems. Two stone vanguard golem stopped him while on earth vanguard golem was tried tackling him from behind. Anish jumped over the earth golem letting it crashed into its own team, he then jumped into the air and elbow them all at once destroying them.

Before he could stood up again, a boulder was threw to him making him crashed with a sentinel earth golem's leg. Earth golem continued attack by pushed him into the ground easily because of his ability to control earth, Anish was left deep into the earth. Earth golem come out from the ground while stone golem watched at the place Anish was buried, Anish struggled to breath against those soil. He tried moved his body, but the pressure that holding him was too strong. The more he moved he became more despair, fueled with rage he unleashed his full power hoping he could free himself.

He failed, even with his full power he didn't managed to made a hole to the surface. Now, not just he had made a big hole he also had put himself even deeper, he was too tired to make another move and was running out of air. As he lay down and watched the earth above him, his eyes slowly closed. Suddenly a strong quake happened shaking the whole place, above him a big crack appeared. Then it began to crumble, the golems above him also fell together with debris of earth. Among them there was one girl, that girl looked aroud.

When she spotted Anish, she took a breath before shouted "Anish" as Ariys looked him with a smile face. Anish didn't respond while she and the golems fell hard on the bottom ground, Ariys quickly ran to him ignoring her her pain. She checked on him right after arriving, she put her hand onto his chest. Anish's chest still moved signalled he was still alive, she thought Anish just fainted because lack of air.

"Thank goodness you're still alive, Anish" she expressed her gladness before took her stone sword and stood up to face against those golems that fell with her. They had ready to attack them, Anish held her sword and got ready in position to fight. "This time I won't running, I'll fight you guys to protect my friend" Ariys said and engaged into fight.

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