Chapter 147: Chapter 147

Water...

Sara wanted to voice out but she couldn't, all that left her lips was a shallow and agonized breath, she was so cold and bare to the eyes and breeze, her wounds felt like burns, painful as they bled out, slowly, not even giving her the mercy of a quick death.

Drain her... take her energy...kill her...were the random words she managed to comprehend, there were many others but she couldn't focus on any, her head felt so heavy and her mind was clouded, she didn't want that end, nor did she want to die, not then, there were still few things to do, few confessions to make, and many mistakes to rectify.

That, and the fact that she wanted to see him, more than anything, it was his face, his eyes, his smile, and his closeness that she craved more than anything else in the world, there was so much that they missed, so much life.

How nice would it be? To get another chance, throw all the pain of the past behind their backs and live together? With a ghost of a smile, Sara closed her barely opened eyes and surrendered herself to a world of wishes and dreams that managed to distract her from her pain.

"Was this necessary?" Nicholas asked in disdain, his eyes looking at the bare body of his half-sister, laying on the ground of the shack where the true Goddess was resting, her blood pouring out of her wounds to form a pool around her while a circle of Nov' blood was surrounding it.

"No" Nov answered nonchalantly, not bothered by his toy's obvious jealousy, not while the sight in front of his eyes was so breathtaking, she was so beautiful, he thought to himself, surrounded by her blood and his, it was a ritual no one dared to perform before, extract her blood that contained her life force and contain it with his only to absorb it later, but again, that one girl did what no other God did, that storm she created, making the whole world bow, surpassing her own mother in the terms of divinity, her actions challenged him and steered that hungry part of him that always looked forward to surpass others, to be above everything and everyone, luckily the attack drained her, leaving her vulnerable to him.

"I don't lik..." Nov was about to cut his toy's tongue for the blunt way he kept on interrupting his meditations, but before he could, a loud growl followed by the screams of the priests shook him for a second, he recognized the angry growl, the threat and anger it carried, and a smile made it way to his face.

He was finally there, and it was finally there, payback time.

"Stay here, watch over her and don't let anyone come near her, threat them by killing her if you had to, but don't you dare do anything stupid!" Seeing the way the harsh words affected his toy, Nov walked to him, placing his hand behind the pathetic human's neck to pull him into a kiss, it was a game he couldn't get enough of, manipulate the bastard and play with his heart.

"It is you, whom I want, it is you who I choose to remain with me in the end!" Lie! But the stupid human believed it, his heart was racing and his eyes were gleaming...

Just pathetic!

Walking out of the shack with confident steps, Nov sniffed the air only for the scent of fresh blood mixed with the scent of the forest and dark energy to fill his nostrils, sharp, metallic, and exciting, he knew whose blood it was, the priests who were guarding the shack, the flees did not last a second, but again, it wasn't an ordinary enemy that they fought or faced as he doubted that they had any chance to know what hit them, and then what was standing in his demonic form, all mighty and wild, rage overshadowing his eyes as blood covered his hands.

"Where is she?" The beast roared, only for Nov to tilt his head to the side, a mocking smirk on his face.

"Inside, but I must warn you, she is not descent!" Even as his words were spoken slowly, his body wasn't, for unlike the last time, the God knew what he was facing and wasn’t taken by surprise, if anything, he was anticipating this particular attack, the beast’s high speed, and his strength, evading the clawed hand in the last minute, Nov quickly counter-attacked, delivering a strong punch charge with his pure energy right to where the demon’s core was, sending him a few steps away and watching him cough a handful of blood.

“Are you tired already? We just began!” Nov taunted the beast as if he was a little child, the energy in it pure form wasn’t the lightest attack to perform, it damaged his own path but it was worth it, it was the only possible way to kill a God, and the demon had the strength of a Goddess, which meant that ordinary attacks were almost useless against him.

However, the demon endurance was also to be taken into consideration, which meant that he couldn’t waste time, even when it meant that he had to abuse himself with those kinds of abusive attacks, his own core would be damaged, but it didn’t matter for he was going to get that of Historia’s soon.

As he coughed out his own blood, Eren tried to ignore the burning pain inside of him but it was too overwhelming, it reminded him of the first time he met Sara after two years, the bastard was using raw energy to attack him, and with the way he was trying to breach through the center and the lack of feeding, his body wasn’t at it best either, nevertheless, he managed to stand up, not even bothering to ignore the pain, not while his fair lady was bleeding inside the damn shack, but before he could even balance himself, the bastard was once again in front of him, punching him again, this time in his neck, causing his windpipe to almost break and his entire body to jerk violently.

“I expected better!” Nov said almost disappointedly, preparing to hit the beast again, but the demon wasn’t taking it as he quickly blurred his body in a cloud of dark smoke and shadows, causing Nov’s fist to fall on air, alarmed, Nov tried to pull back his hand but before he could, strong jaws with a set of massive canines closed on it so tightly, the strength of the bite causing his skin, flesh, and even bones to break in a blink of an eye, and while the God screamed in pain, Eren greedily swallowed the warm fresh blood that poured into his mouth before jerking his head to the side and ripping off the bastard’s hand.

“I wonder if Gods can grow organs.” Nov saw the words more than he heard them, for his ears were filled with his own screams while the beast licked his lips before disappearing in the smoke again.

“I was going to kill you, Demon, but now, I decided that I will keep you alive, just enough for you to watch as I fuck her one thousand times before I kill her!” Nov hissed, watching as the smoke spread all around him, but the beast didn’t show himself, his eyes were not able to locate him either, he was everywhere the smoke was, but he didn’t give up, instead, he stood tall, his smirk back on his face, “She did look so inviting, naked and spread for me, don’t worry, I will make you watch, but not touch!”

Eren listened to those words and for a second he was about to lose it, but a sane part of him told him to not be fooled by the bastard’s words, it was an obvious trick, a pitiful one at that.

“Eren!” what What the fuck was he doing here? Eren accursed under his breath as he recognized the voice of his friend, Henry, accompanied by a dozen of soldiers, he thought he would return to the castle with his sister who was in a miserable state, but instead, he was coming to him, only to make things harder.

“Stay hidden here with the guards, if anything went wrong, run, and don’t look back!” Henry spoke the words to his sister in a harsh tone, making her flinch but he didn’t care, it was dangerous, a Dod and a demon lord were battling, making him regret the fact of bending to his sister’s nagging to go after the shadows’ lord to where her advisor was held captive, the advisor he was having worrying doubts about, but he saw it in his sister’s eyes that even if he chained her in the castle’s dungeon, she wasn’t going to drop the matter and therefore had to bring her there, at least he could watch over her instead of entrusting her to the soldiers that wouldn’t dare disobey her if she ordered them to bring her there.

It was maddening! the whole thing, his sister who didn’t say a thing nor acknowledged his command, the state he found her in, so frail and thin, the chaos in his kingdom, and the battle between the demon and the God, both of them were injured, and while Eren had several wounds all over his body, the god was missing a hand and a good portion of his thigh, but none of them seemed as if he was willing to give up the fight as they battled none stop in what seemed like an arena of smoke and blood, too much blood it made him want to throw up.

What could he do to help? Henry asked himself, once again feeling useless and weak, the two of them were deities, while he was a mere human with no special skills, only his wits that were useless in that situation.

“D…Do you think she is in there?” Nara asked, her voice weak and whispering while her eyes were glued to the small shack as they all hid behind the trees, far enough to be safe from the battle, “And I don’t see his body with the others either, could he be there with her?”

Henry didn’t answer his sister, instead, he stared at the shack with calculative eyes, the God did look as if he was defending that shack while Eren would look at it briefly, she must be there, but he doubted she was alone.

“I can try and sneak inside, your Majesty!” one of the soldiers whispered, and another joined him, determined looks on both of their faces even when it was obvious that they were afraid, but it was the girl they loved and respected inside, their fear wasn’t something that could stop them from saving her.

“Be careful!” Henry nodded at them, his heart twitching as he saw the good men sneaking closer to the shack, but right when they were a step away from it, a loud growl echoed in the air followed by Eren’s warning not to retreat and then, they were no more.

It happened way too fast! Henry thought, in a second the two soldiers were standing in front of the shack, frozen by the shadows lord’s vicious growl, and in the next, they, as well as the shacks roof and three of its walls were turned into dust.

It was a wind blow, created by the God, a pressed one that caused so much destruction, and death, it caused the death of the men who were there not a second ago.

“Oh my God!” Henry turned to his sister, at first, he thought her whimpering voice was because she just witnessed what he witnessed, but following her gaze, he was met with an even more unsettling sight.

Nicholas, and Dahlia.

His brother was there, standing above the girl’s body, he was barely recognizable as he held a long sword to Dahlia’s throat, she, on the other hand, seemed unconscious, but the way she was moving her head from one side to the other made him think that she might not be, she was in pain though, as she laid in a pool of her own blood, naked.

“I told you it was a lovely sight, I might even give you a taste of her if you surrendered…” Nov didn’t get to say anything else as the raging beast attacked him, his shadows thick and dark around him, thicker than they ever were and raging like dark flames, attacked him with unbelievable speed and ferocity, his growls louder and more animalistic as he was seeing red, red on his fair lady, and red of his enemy who dared do that to her.

He wasn’t going to wait, he wasn’t going to hold back, not while the bastard who did that to his fair lady was alive, he wanted to kill him a thousand times, each of them more painful than the other, he attacked and attacked, summoning all of Ayartma’s energy to the surface and unleashing it at the lowlife, not caring about the pain, the bastard had to die. He had to kill him!

Kill him!

Kill him!

And then kill him again and again!

“Eren stop!” Henry called for his friend who seemed as if he had gone completely mad, it wasn’t the friend he knew, the thing he was seeing was but a mass of craziness and anger, evil and wildness as he kept on rupturing chunk after chunk of the God’s Body, Nov, who didn’t even knew what hit him screamed and resisted, even stabbed the beast several times but it was of no use, and soon, his screams died, but the beast didn’t let go, instead, he kept on biting off his flesh and then spit it away, uncaring of the fact that his enemy was already dead.

“My love!” Nicholas whispered, his eyes not believing what he just saw, his brothers were all dead, their shredded bodies were everywhere around them, and them, his lover, his God, was also killed, little by little as the monster killed him, he felt air escaping his lungs at that second, to hell with air, he felt life escaping him, his soul escaping him.

It was over! Everything, everything he worked for, everything he dreamed of, it all died and he was the only one left, he didn’t want to be the only one left, and knew that he wouldn’t live anyway, but before leaving, he was going to take her with him, they were there for her, especially the beast, and he was willing to make him suffer the last pain.

While henry was busy calling out for Eren who was still biting off Nov’s flesh, Nicholas raised his sword, aiming at the hybrid’s heart, it was all because of her, she was a bane, an abomination, just like the rest of them, this world could have been a paradise if his Nov was the one to rule it, but with his death, he didn’t care if it was turned into ash, nothing mattered, just his last task of killing the hybrid who was looking at him with half-closed eyes, drained and weak and disgusting, but not afraid, it looked as if she too was tired of life.

“N…Nara?!” Sara, who watched as her half and evil brother stilled right when he was about to stab her, whispered softly, questioning what she just saw, her brother’s pained expressions, the blood on his mouth and tears in his eyes, a tip of a bloodied sword emerging from his chest, and a shaking princess standing behind him, her hands falling to her sides, leaving the handle of that particular sword.

She killed him! Her twin, her other half, she killed him.

“Nara!”

“Sara!”

The voices were loud and urgent, but besides the sight of her shaking sister, the only thing Sara could feel was the warm and silky touch that wrapped her entire body in its softness, she recognized that feeling, it was his shadows, her demon, he was there for her, they were all there for her!

“What have you done, Nara?!” Henry questioned his sister, almost yelling at her, and while his friend helped the hybrid stand on her feet, no longer bare to the eyes but wrapped in his thick and dark shadows, he busied himself in studying his sister, his worries escalating, Nara never killed anyone, she never even held a sword before, and yet, she killed her own twin, what scared him though, was that even when she looked shaken by it, she didn’t look like she regretted it.

“I had to; I couldn’t let him kill her!”

“Why?” Sara asked, her voice small and weak, the shadows she was wrapped in stopped the bleeding and warmed her body, and even kept her standing on her feet while Eren’s arm supported her, she so much wanted to savor his touch, his proximity, but it wasn’t the place for it, not in that bloody place, not while the shack of her father was destroyed, and not when her sister’s hands were bloodied…

“I didn’t know how you heard all those things!” Nara said, ignoring her brother while taking a step towards the black-haired girl whose hair roots were silver, the pure eyes still held the same pain and blaming in them, while the beast by her side held her closer and growled lowly, threateningly.

“I…I didn’t say any of them! And I didn’t kiss him! I swear it with my dead mother’s soul, I stopped my heart from wanting him the second I knew he was yours, and that night, I was surprised and a little scared, I didn’t know…what you could do! But you must believe me, I didn’t say any of those things! You are not a monster! You are not a freak!  And you are not a deviant!” Nara’s eyes were overflowing with tears, a soft smile on her face as she stood one step away from the girl wrapped in shadows whose eyes were also filled in tears, the frozen façade finally breaking to reveal the person she knew was there.

“You are my sister!”