The House Of Wind (W/W)

Chapter 7: Truth

I rise, as the river carries me into the air while I was in a woozy state. My body is painfully tired and my heart is weary. I stand on the cliff I fall from and move forward, scared of looking back, I look forward to see a cave hidden by rocks. The tunnel is narrow an I squeeze through.

Dripping water makes me a little jumpy but I brave forward, I must complete the wind's request.

“I must deliver the princess to salvation," I remind myself.

Ignoring the gaunt shadows that tries to intimidate, warn me but I am a warrior of the wind, who can't lose to such tactic. Though the flesh and heart are weak, the mind is not.

When I reach the end of the tunnel, I'm greeted with an injured princess and mad Barley. The princess hold the deep cut on her shoulder and a rock in another hand. Barley with his ragged beard, red eyes, and a sword dripping blood.

He says,“You! It's all you! A cursed child!”

“What are you saying? Didn't you say you are doing this for the resistance? Why are you attacking me?" She cries but her grip on the rock tightens

“You still don't understand it? It was Ra and the other who believe they can actually beat the system, but I wasn't blinded by such fantasy. If we had the ability, it would have been done ages ago." He rants.

I step out of the shadow and finish his explanation, “So you went behind your teammates back and partnered with the prince, that's why it was easy to kidnap the princess instead of the prince. The prince set up his only true ally, his sister, to survive and grab the throne."

Barley pig like face distorted into something like a hideous monster, a look of horror on his face but my appearance may look worse from what I went through. Of course, that won't stop me from completing my mission. On the other hand, the princess looks desolate at betray of her only true kin.

“It can't be," Barley trembles as his face ashen, “I killed you!"

I take a step.

He steps back, “No."

“And I've risen from the dead." I take a step.

He steps back, “Impossible!”

He raise his sword to me but the bleed river suddenly floods the place. Washing the cave, revealing a holy room fill with blue decoration of the highest materials. The sword pulled from Barley hands and find itself by the princess side.

The princess grabs the sword with a sort determined look in her eyes and says with a snare, “You will tell me everything you know.”

Barley wasn't scared, how can a little girl scare a big man? Ignorant human, the little blood from the river isn't done with you yet. The blood entangles his body like a snake and the man struggles with his captive but It doesn't let go, tightening it's hold the harder Barley fights.

The princess moves closer to Barley and asks the question again but Barley keeps a tight lip as he struggles with his confinement, so the princess use the butt of the sword and slams it into Barley's head. The scenes repeats yet Barley never answers even his head bleeding.

The princess, who is losing a little too much blood, pales and her face turns a little ugly. She thrust the sword through the man's heart and throws the sword to the ground.

Barley's lifeless body crumbles to the ground while the princess soon follows him, ready to die.

“Is that it?" I ask her.

“What choice do I have," she says, “I have nothing.” She says with tears slipping from her eyes and onto the floor.

That when I realize her blood is flowing in the crevices shaped as a symbol around the room's center fountain. And I remember something about the Cave of Wonder.

“So that's why your brother helped them bring you here. He wanted to use Barley and sacrifice you at your God's temple in exchange for the storm to quell and gain the support of the people,” I say while watching the bloody fountain become pure blue water.

The princess laughs. Her laughs strangles into a self deprecating war cry, “Then, let his wish become true!”

I ignore the suicidal princess and walk to the fountain. A blue glow above the fountain flies to my hand and I say to it,

“Lord God of this world, I sacrifice the four sinner in exchange for salvation for the princess. To save this world from the corruption that grows everyday. May the world reset and be pure as it should be.”

The Lord God splits into multiple being. The first shoots into my body, a fragrant of the God's power and my reward. Some of the time that was stolen from me is replaced and my body grows from a child to a teen.

The second part of the Lord God flies over to the princess and swallows her like Pac-Man and I rub my eyes at the sight but it disappears as if everything was a hallucination.

The third piece made a portal for my next destination, so I jump in before the fourth piece can be triggered to reset that world.