Episode two: It wasn't just me

One month has passed and Damian can walk! Three months passed and he says his first word "Bloody hell!" at one year of age, Damian begins to show fighting skills akin to that of his father who is a military officer, five years have passed, Damian is five years old (obviously). He is showing extreme intelligence, one that surpasses those at his age. Twelve years have gone by and now he is twelve. He is taking a stroll around town, and what is his goal? Absolutely nothing! He was finally let out of the house and is now roaming around the city pointlessly! It is around 6pm and the streets are oddly quiet, sudden he hears a scream from an alley just up ahead, "HELP! SOMEONE!! ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!" then someone else replied, "SHUT UP WOMAN! THERE IS NO ONE AROUND HERE, AND EVEN IF SOMEONE DID HEAR YOU, THEY WON'T HELP." After hearing this Damian reached his conclusion, "And he is sooooo right! What ever is happening there is not my problem" says Damian, until he heard this "They are far too weak." said the second voice. "WEAK?! HOW DARE YOU CALL ME WEAK! YOU PATHETIC HUMAN! SUCH IMPUDENCE!!" yelled Damian at the top of his voice, before even given the chance to react he was hit in a face and slammed into the trash can at the corner of the alley. The tall, bald, muscular man was out cold. Stunned the lady being harassed stumbled backwards after seeing a child take down such a monster. "Th-th-thank you" she muttered, then finally regaining her confidence she says "I'm Cynthia and you are?" "Damian" replied Damian, "Damian Kalahari". Cynthia looked at him from his head down to his toes, she was staring at a boy about 5 feet tall with long silver hair that reached down to his shoulders and attractive sky blue eyes that could be noticed from afar. "That's quite the strength you got there, how'd you learn to fight that well?" Damian thought for a while then replied, "I am the reincarnation of the Great Dage, leader of the apostles who slayed the Halos and restored peace to a dead world." then to himself he thought "The truth would do, I haven't got the time to think of a lie, plus she won't believe this anyways." "The Great Dage huh?" replied Cynthia, then she laughed so hard tears began coming out of her eyes "I'm sorry kid, you have quite the imagination. Would you consider writing novels with that head of yours?" Damian gave no response. "Ahem, see you around then Damian" said Cynthia, almost looking embarrassed as she walked away quickly.

Back at home, Hannah and Jonathan were sitting on a couch, watching television, when Damian came back. "Damian~" said Hannah playfully "How was your little stroll?" "Boring" replied Damian. Jonathan looked at Hannah and said "Don't you think he was out far too long for his stroll to have simply been boring?" "I agree with you Jon," turning to Damian she said, "Now tell us what happened." Damian thought to himself "Could they know what happened already?" the he sighed and said "Look I'm sorry but I kinda beat up a guy who was yelling at a lady, I think he was a thug or something." "WHAT?!" exclaimed Jonathan, "You beat up a thug?!" Hannah on the other hand didn't look so surprised. "Alas", she said, "You have always been a weird kid, I refuse to be surprised by what you do, I just hope you didn't kill him." "Kill him?" replied Damian, "Of course not, only those who have killed deserve to be killed." And in an intimidating voice that sounded like that of an elderly warrior, he said " A life shall be paid for with a life!". "Whoa now!" said Jonathan, "You don't have to say that now, you always behave like this when you hear of or see criminals, it's scary." "My apologies father" said Damian as he went over to his room. Unknown to every one around Damian had been followed and monitored right from the alley. The "spy" as I'd like to call it was dressed in a dark blue cloak with dark blue boots and dark blue gloves. After witnessing all that Damian had done, right from the explanation of his strength to Cynthia at the alley to his sudden burst at the living room with his parents, the spy smiled and said to himself "The commander must hear this" then Damian quickly turned his head to the direction of the spy as though he had sensed his presence, but the spy was already gone.

Damian quickly got out his window and jumped down then gave chase. After a few minutes he spotted the spy, but gave distance, he thought to himself "I should try to avoid being seen, he was spying on me for some reason and I wanna know what he is up to now."

A few hundred miles away from Damian's house was an abandoned warehouse. The spy rushed in, Damian watched. The spy landed on an oddly brownish tile on the floor and said the words "Lord Draco". He then disappeared. Damian was filled with rage after hearing those words, he went over to the same tile and tried saying the same words "Lord Draco" he said, and after he was let in he completed "...Will die again!" He was teleported to a what seemed like an elders hall and was immediately spotted! "Intruder!" they all yelled as they charged at him about 50 men! "As servants of Draco" yelled Damian in a voice akin to that of an enraged god "You will all die!!"

He began to levitate, at about 5 meters off the the ground, a massive blue wave in the shape of an orb covered in lightning exploded from his body and eliminated every soul in the room except one, the commander, Arthex.

He was the only one not dressed in a cloak, but rather, a silver armor from his neck to the sole of his feet. He was without a helmet so one could see his rough face and shaggy black hair. His eye was filled with stories if murder and bloodshed and yes I said eye, for he had only one the other was but an empty socket. "So you must be Damian, or should I call you Dage" said Arthex, "My subordinate described you to me, well before you killed him that is, my my you have quite the strength, eliminating all of them in barely 5 seconds even tailing one of them back here without being noticed. Here's an offer, join me and enjoy the wonderful gifts of Lord Draco!", "I just killed all your men, you survived, very impressive" replied Damian once again in a godlike manner, "That means you are not some weakling, but if you think that'll scare me into joining the side of my mortal enemy you are more than just a fool!!!" His eyes turned bright and glowy and a mysterious rune appeared on his forehead. "Intimidating appearance but Lord Draco gave me power that cannot be matched by a little kid! Foolish decision boy!" Both warriors clashed in a loud bang that damaged the very ground on which they fought! After exchanging several blows they began to tire out "Give it up boy! I admit you have immense power but you cannot best me! Wether you are indeed a reincarnation of my Lord's greatest foe or not, you are still a boy!" said Arthex. "Face your death in silence you filthy vermin!" replied Damian, then thinking to himself "He is indeed powerful. Twelve years, I've been here and I'm only figuring out that Draco is back as well now! Pathetic! I need to grow stronger! Much stronger!". Damian's long silver hair began to adopt the same blue glow as his eyes and the rune on his forehead and with that his power grew rapidly as well, sending Arthex flying into a nearby wall. "Now tell me where the rest of you are!" demanded Damian, but Arthex refused saying, "I will never betray my Lord, but don't you worry, I am merely a pawn in his arms. The others will come for you and you will not survive." After saying this, he laughed himself to death.... literally.

Damian, feeling exhausted fell flat on the ground as he was drained of energy and fainted.

"Where am I?" said Damian opening his eyes, "Home?! But how did I get here?!"

"YOUNG MAN!" said Jonathan, "Where did you go to last night and why did you appear so drunk?! Do you realize you fell asleep at a damaged warehouse?"

"Warehouse?" thought Damian, " that's right, I was at the warehouse and I blew it up by mistake. That man was strong and he only called himself a pawn? Then those ahead of him? What about Draco? I have a long way to go in terms of strength if I want to beat him. I must get stronger!". "Young man! Are you listening to me?!" said Jonathan, then Damian replied, "Father, do know of a way one can get stronger?". "Stronger?! Is that what's going on here?! Hold on were you beaten up?" replied Jonathan. "Oh what am I thinking" thought Damian "He is only human, I'm going to have to figure it out on my own" then Jonathan said "What? You wanna go train on some magical land that supplies one with Mana or something? Don't be ridiculous. You're already stronger than I am.". Then Damian's face lit up! "That's it!" he said "those always helped! There were many of them around. The only problem is that this world looks very different now and I'm not strong enough to sense it's Mana now. I can only hope that I come across some land that strange things happen on since odd things tend to happen on "Mana fields". Perhaps people seeing dead guys walking or weird monsters popping outta nowhere!" then Jonathan said, "Well there have been rumors of strange things happening like people seeing zombies or weird monsters popping outta nowhere." "WHAT?!" replied Damian, "Are you serious?!". "Well yeah" replied Jonathan, "One happened not too long ago, a few miles out, but it's just a rumour like I said." "Even rumors have their origins, I'll have to check it out."thought Damian, "Thanks Dad!" he said as he zoomed off. "Hey get back here! You're mom hasn't scolded you yet!!" yelled Jonathan in response, "Sigh he never listens to me, how does that Hannah have more authority than me? I'm the man here..." he continued sounding depressed.

Damian had set out to find these strange happenings talked about by his dad and after a few days he came across something strange. He felt a strange energy field. "What's this" he said to himself, "I'll have to break through it.". Then he broke through it and found a fight happening. They were fighting a bug over 9 feet tall that looks like an ant, except it stood on two limbs and breaths fire! they seemed to be having a tough time. One person was smashed into a nearby rock and sent rocks flying in many directions! One was heading for Damian when suddenly it was smashed by a dark muscular person that looked about around 20. "How did you get in" asked this muscular man, "I walked." replied Damian with a poker face, "Who are you guys and where is this space?" he continued. "We are the ones to ask the questions brat! And all questions will be asked when we take down that thing!" said the muscular man. "Kruger! We need your support! Leave the child to die if the dumbass won't leave!" yelled a random fighter. "Very well" replied Kruger "leave if you are wise kid we don't have time to protect fools like you". Damian stared with indifference then replied, "Just get it over with and answer my questions" then he sat down and watch them fight. "Tch! Fearlessness and foolishness are two different things" said Kruger as he went over to fight with his team. After about fifteen minutes they seemed to be loosing as three out of ten men were dead and the rest were on their last breath. Damian stood up and walked over to the bug, then Kruger exclaimed "Hey! Kid! What are you doi..." but before he finished his sentence Damian killed the bug with a single flick of his finger!

The entire squad was terrified at what they just saw and were rendered completely speechless! "Great my finger's dirty now" said Damian "Can we talk now?" he continued. "Y-y-yes sure we can." said Kruger "I'll tell you everything you need to know sir. May we please leave this space first?" "Sure" replied Damian, then they left.

They have left the space and Kruger's crew is ever so weary of Damian. "Start talking" Damian demanded. "Yes sir" said Kruger. "That place is known as a monster spawn. The government keeps it under wraps so as to not alert the citizens. People like us are called Apostles...." "Apostles?!" Damian interrupted. "Yes, any problem?" asked Kruger. "No, my apologies replied Damian, continue." then to himself "So my Apostles still survived, that's great news!" "Are you perhaps a registered apostle?"asked Kruger. "No, I am not" replied Damian, "then", said Kruger "Do you mind coming with me to our headquarters to get registered? With your strength you could be registered as a commander." "Hmm a commander" replied Damian looking rather concerned "What is the hierarchy of ranks in this organization of yours?"

"Well" replied Kruger looking eager, " we have Recruits, Rookies, Officers, Commanders, Captains, High Captains, Lords, High Lords Battle Sages and finally we have "Dage", the greatest being that ever lived....the leader of our organization is named after him. The highest rank is the Dage." then looking rather proud he continues "I am ranked Officer!" then said Damian to himself "So the man I face was ranked 4th out of the ten rankings in his organization, that shows how weak I currently am."

"You're pretty powerful sir, at your age, even if you're to be awakened you'll not be qualified to be a rookie up till age 14 or so. You are quite the talent." said Kruger. "How old are you and what's your name?" "I am Damian" he replied "Damian Kalahari."

After a few minutes of walking they got to the headquarters. It was through a spacial wall so it was well hidden. "No wonder it could be hidden for all these years" said Damian. As they moved in they met the head of the recruitment division, Gordon Grey. "Hello Officer Kruger, new recruit?" he asked, "Yes" replied Kruger. "Well head over to the test area. I'll be there shortly." Gordon answered "Very well Grey" replied Kruger. Ten minutes later, everything is ready and it's time for the recruitment exams. "Everyone! Listen up! You are all here because you have been scouted and brought here as recruits! This test would be an individual match between you all to gauge your strength. I'm not one to speak too much so head over to the arena according to the number assigned to you. Number one and two head over to the arena now! You'll be testing immediately!"

The recruitment test has now officially begun and Damian is participating. In a few minutes the leader of the apostles, Dage will be a member of the apostles and ultimately closer to finding the whereabouts of Draco and the rest of his minions.

***NEXT CHAPTER: ATTENTION!

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