9 A Monster in a Child’s Form (1/2)
”That about does it, oh Dusk came back!”
Stigma was tending to the fire when he felt Dusk's presence so he stood up, and saw Dusk dragging something heavy as it made it was here, a while ago he found the bag of food that was buried under the rubble.
It was still full just a little crushed with some dust, but it was still edible when he considered the time he hasn't ate yet.
To make sure the food he found was cooked, he collected some dried branches beforehand, and tossed it in the remaining wood with fire to make sure it won't go out.
As Dusk got closer the object it was dragging was flailing around, out of its way he slammed the object to a nearby tree and the object stopped moving, eventually Dusk continued towards his master, and stopped about three feet away from where Stigma was standing.
'Huh? There is an ax on his face and what was that thing being dragged?'
Stigma took a closer look and found it was the fat one from before, Gus, only this time he looked like he was in an accident because of being swatted by the tree he had broken spine which made his posture weird, spikes from the pit trap set not far from here were pierced on his stomach and on his legs, his limbs were broken just like he ordered, and blood was dripping out of his mouth, the color of his skin was pale but he was still breathing.
Looking away he was looked at Dusk who had an ax on his head so he moved closer and tried to remove it, fortunately is was already removed by Dusk when he thought about it and gave it to him.
He then turned his head on the figure on the ground.
”Looks like he's still alive, throw him against the wall and dig out the other one” Stigma turned back to the food cooking by the fire, while Dusk did as he was ordered to. Out of curiosity, he looked at the crippled figure.
'It was able to hear my thought from far away, even when I was unable to see or hear him, pretty convenient since I can't order him when people are looking at me like a lunatic.'
So he turned back to tend to the food being cooked by the fire, placing the ax beside him as he ate a piece of hard bread.
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”Ugh! Hah!? What the hell?!?! Where am I!?!!”
Gus woke up from his concussion, despite the injuries he had sustained he was able to at least sit up and look around only to find himself facing a small child with his ax by the fire eating like he never noticed him, while he was up against a collapsing wall.
He immediately knew he was captured, and the boy must be a follower and was ordered to keep an eye on him, while that thing was looking around for more prey.
Thinking about what would happen next, he made a plan to escape.
”Hey, you brat! Get over here and feed me!” he noticed the kid was alone, so he wanted to use him, for his escape plan.
If that monster comes back, I can use him as a hostage and get away from here.
Thinking about what to do next was what kept him preoccupied but the child didn't pay attention, much less turned to even look at him.
Gus was irritated from the child's inability to hear and said his order multiple times only to be replied with being ignored again, finally he had enough and threatened the boy.
”YOU BRAT! GET OVER HERE! IF NOT, ONCE I CAN MOVE, I'LL BEAT YOU TO DEATH!!!!”
Gus was already trying to keep calm, but with the lingering fear of that monster coming back anytime soon, made him lose his patients, if his arms and legs weren't broken he would have killed the kid for ignoring him grabbed everything here and ran back to the Mordan, spread the news to the Naga's to get his revenge.
When the boy turned around he had a look of annoyance like he was the important one, Gus who was in rage a moment ago was in shock.
He looked at the boy's face and he recognized him, it was the corpse that he threw in the valley not long ago, before all of this happened he peeked at the copse out of curiosity so he had immediately recognized him, and although his overall appearance had changed drastically, he could at least recognized the face.
His clothes were full of wear and tear like before, his injuries like his broken limbs were completely healed, his hair was now black, his face that was pale like he was a ghost but now he was healthy as if he was never dead, and looked like a starving child, and his aura was making feel Gus feel uneasy.
Then it came to him, before he got his corpse, he heard a bunch of rumors circulating about a crazy individual named ”Corpse Eater” going around killing random people, and day by day he received their corpses the same time.
Afterwards the ”Corpse Eater” was found out that he was only a child so he was exiled, but the gates never opened for days, except Gus who was allowed to leave with the corpse disguised as a gravedigger.
Then he realized, he had received the corpse the same time the news of exile was announced.
Fear started to takeover him when he remembered, he was dead he was sure of it.
The monster must have been him! He really was the ”Corpse Eater”, and I have offended him by throwing him in the valley, but instead of dying he was woken up from the fall!
Gus was starting to lose control in front of the monster child before him, and all he could do was try escape, but with his limbs broken his weapon beside the monster, his henchmen was buried from who knows where.
He started to hyperventilate with all that was happening at once, and all of a sudden he heard a horrible cry like a person was in pain, then the wall beside him started falling apart, he started to struggle fearing he would be crushed under the weight.
Gus can't see it clearly from his view, but Stigma who was in front of the cave was actually looking at Dusk, who was digging to look for the other one, and it looks as though he found him.
A few moments a large amount of rubble fell creating a dust storm, later a figure was seen on top of the rubble it was Frank, who was unfortunately in a state of shock due to intense pain, but Gus wasn't even aware of the result so he screamed in delight.
”Frank! Thank the heavens your all right! Get over here and get me out of here!”
To his perspective, Frank was climbing out of the rubble, he might be weaker than him but the rubble was not enough to kill him.
But Frank didn't even move for a moment, to Stigma he was the only one to see Dusk, who was grabbing the one named Frank by the neck and his arms were dangling making it look like he climbed out, he also saw his lower half was bleeding heavily.
'Looks like it listened to the order, but since I couldn't see what was it like inside, Dusk pulled the other one with his legs still pinned down ignoring the weight and pain he was in, hence he fell into shock after having his legs pulled by a such a force.'
Stigma analyze the situation that Frank had been in with sympathy.
”Huh? Why are you not responding!???!!!!” unable to relax for a moment, Gus yelled at Frank to the top of his lungs enough that he was coughing blood.
Unable to understand what was wrong, he saw Frank or more accurately Frank's body floating in midair, instead of landing on the floor he crashed to the floor in front of the youth.
Gus then saw Frank lying face up in front of the monster, he then saw what state he was in both of his legs, both were torn from their place, what was left was his body without his legs and a lot of blood was flowing.
The youth was calm, not even caring about Gus's frantic outburst, which terrified him even more, he then turned his eyes to the boy, only to hear stomping sound from above.