Chapter 505 - A close death (1/2)

A hole had been made through the large tent from when Ray was attempting to escape from the white  stone attacks. It had managed to hit for a few seconds. His skin was red raw and started to flake off, eventually as the skin fell off his normal colour had returned.

'The white light stopped.' Ray thought. The pain from the attack was far worse than he imagined. It was no wonder that the attack had managed to kill the fake dragon from before. While the white stone helped them greatly, it was a reminder that it could also be used against Ray.

Once he had recovered, he decided to head back into the tent. When he entered he noticed that the other Redwing leaders were standing around something in the centre, as Ray walked in they made way for him with their head held down in shame.

That's when Ray saw Kyle's dead body on the floor. He stood there staring at it for a while not saying a word. They imagined that this was quite tough on him. Kyle had been one of the original black sashes with him, just like Gary and Monk.

And now out of the original black sash members, he was the last one that had not succ.u.mbed to the shadow.

”I'm sorry Ray, but I had no choice.” Harry started to explain. He was the only one speaking but seeing how Ray was acting he had to say something, he felt like he needed to explain himself. ”I saw Kyle before with the dragon bones on his own and he had a strange look, but I knew it would be hard to out him. So I decided to try and make everyone think I was cursed.

”I was never planning to kill him, but Ray you would have-”

Ray raised his hand, he could tell by the shakiness in Harry's voice his words were genuine. The two of them in the past were good friends, everyone was and they had been through so much together.

The others were even wondering how Sylvia would deal with the bad news.

Calling Noir, Ray picked up Kyle's body and placed it on her, he then ordered her to run back to Avrion. He would be the one to inform Sylvia, but he thought it would be best for Kyle to be buried at Avrion, not in some random forest.

Ray didn't say anything, but they wondered what to do as they couldn't just stay there in the tent doing nothing. So Martha had taken temporary charge, as even Harry still seemed a little out of it.

She had decided that it was best to give Ray space and as the others went to check up on the rest of the knights, while Lenny continued to keep a keen eye on Harry. Even though he had said Kyle was under the influence of the shadow and he was not, Lenny didn't believe that fully.

After all, there were still some strange things that Harry had done from time to time, and the skin colour change was unusual and needed to be explained somehow.

With Ray being left to his own thoughts, he sat on the ground and started to meditate, feeling the Ki around his body. He hadn't done this in a long time, it was something he used to do often when Von had taught him the principals of Ki a long time ago.

Why can't I stop the shadow from doing as it wishes?' Ray thought. 'It continues to infect those close to me, even though I am right by their side.'