《The Devil Of The Triad》


 Prologue

    In a dark eerie forest, where the only source of light was the moon. You could hear the sounds of crickets, owls hooting and an occasional wolf howl but sound that didn¡¯t belong in the forest could be heard. Where 3 figure¡¯s could be seen digging into the earth with their shovels, their panting reverted throughout the area they where in. The 3 figure¡¯s had distinctive differences, from the shape and height ,you could tell one of them was a young boy of about 10 years of age, one was a young man, the other a was a woman. The shovelling continued and you could hear their panting get louder as it continued, One of the figure¡¯s soon stopped and fell on the ground, you could hear her panting as she lyed on the ground, through her panting she said ¡®¡¯isn¡¯t this deep enough¡¯¡¯, her voice wasn¡¯t normal ,it was shaky as if she just went through some shock. The young man responded ¡®¡¯I think its deep enough now, we can bury him now¡¯¡¯, he shook as he said this. The youngest if the trio soon stopped and also collapsed onto the ground with heavy panting, the young man looked the youngest and sighed, he didn¡¯t wish to put him through this as he was just a child, but he insisted to come with them and wouldn¡¯t take no for an answer. He turned around and brought a body in a plastic bag and dropped it into the pit they had just dug up. As the trio watched as the body drop into the pit they had just dug ,memories went through their heads as how they ended up here ,the young woman couldn¡¯t take it and looked away, you could hear her sobbing ,while the young man just looked at it with a cold look on his face .However what no one noticed was the young man was smiling in the midst of this, even he himself was unaware of the face he was making at that moment.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.


    How they ended up here , well it started a few days ago¡­¡­..

 Chapter 1

    In a house that looked like its seen its better days, there lived a family of four. In the kitchen that looked old, there is a middle-aged woman who just finished making breakfast, she wasn¡¯t exactly the prettiest, she had a few wrinkles on her forehead and crow¡¯s feet by her eyes. She had a bruise by her left eye, most likely the result of abuse. The was a middle-aged man at the dinner table where she was setting the table, his was a bit burly and had clean shaven face with a few wrinkles on his forehead, while his head had full grey hair that didn¡¯t look natural. The middle-aged woman soon shouted to the stairs, saying breakfast was ready.


    The first person to walk down the stairs was a young man with average looks, who looked like he was 18 years old. He had blonde hair that didn¡¯t looked natural but the result of bad quality hair dye, He had short scar across his cheek. The moment the young boy spotted his mother, he noticed the bruise on her left eye. He shook a bit but ignored it as it was a common occurrence in their neighbourhood or among people of their social status, as they live in a ghetto. As the he sat down, and young boy soon came running down with even younger girl following behind him. The boy had black hair just like his mom and the young girl behind him had brown hair, the young boy looked like a normal 8-year-old boy and you could see the innocence in his eyes, while the girl behind him looked 6 years old. She looked small and cute as you could see the dimples on her cheeks. When they sat down at the table for breakfast the young boy noticed the bruise by his moms left eye but didn¡¯t say anything about it and just looked down, while the little girl was to young and dint notice her elder brothers attitude and asked her mom in a cute childish voice, ¡®¡¯mommy what¡¯s wrong with your face ¡®¡¯. The middle-aged woman shook and said in a hurried voice ¡®¡¯ it¡¯s nothing, why don¡¯t you just sit down and quickly have some breakfast your goanna be late for school¡¯¡¯, as the little girl was too young to notice anything strange, she just replied ¡®¡¯okay¡¯¡¯ and climbed on her chair to have breakfast with the rest of the family.


    The young man soon finished breakfast first, but before he could leave the middle-aged men called out to him ¡®¡¯Dustin¡¯¡¯. Dustin replied casually ¡®¡¯yes father¡¯¡¯, the middle-aged man replied back ¡®¡¯where were you last night, because I seem to be remembering that I told you to that curfew is at nine o clock¡¯¡¯ he said this as he was wiping his hands on a cloth. The table became quiet, the youngest boy in the room quickly said trying to defend to his older brother ¡®¡¯¡¯umm, father could you please forgive him, brother works very hard and his job is very dangerous, so please¡¯¡¯ his brother quickly cut him off saying ¡®¡¯I had to do an extra run , and took out some bills and handed them to his father¡¯¡¯ . The middle-aged man quickly counted the bills and nodded. He put the bills in his pocket and said ¡®¡¯I¡¯m done ¡®¡¯, he then got up and left the kitchen. As soon as he left the youngest couldn¡¯t take it and shouted to his brother ¡®¡¯why did you let him take all your money, you worked hard for it!¡¯¡¯, his mother shouted back to him¡¯¡¯ Bob! now you know the rules of the house, you dad set them and since Dustin is living here he has to follow them and you too¡¯¡¯ .Bob shook, but his older put his hand on his shoulder and said ¡®¡¯its fine , don¡¯t worry about it. I can always make more¡¯¡¯. He the rustled his brothers hair ¡®¡¯ come on , you have to go to school and get a proper education ,so you can get a proper well paying job¡¯¡¯ . Bob replied ¡®¡¯ but I¡¯m not really good at school work , I want to be strong just like you brother. Then I can protect my family¡¯¡¯. Dustin just laughed it off and continued rustling his brothers hair and said ¡®¡¯ now come on ,go and take your sister to school¡¯¡¯.


    Bob just brushed his brothers hands off and went to take his and his sisters bag, and got ready to go to school. Their school wasn¡¯t far from where they lived, it was just a 10 minute walk. Their neighbourhood wasn¡¯t exactly the safest, in fact it was far from safe but wasn¡¯t at the level where they would rob little kids. So it was safe for them to walk to school without worry but however the world they lived in wasn¡¯t a normal world but a world where magic exist but not everyone could use it. When a child reaches the age of 10 his powers will awaken and will be able to use magic, but the chances of awakening are only 1 in 1000 people. The children that have awakened are tested and graded according to how much magic they can use and how much affinity they have for certain elements, then their put in special schools designed to cater for their abilities. Every child dreams of awakening their powers, and Bob is no different who dreams to be as strong as his brother. His brother is also an magician, including their father but he hasn¡¯t noticed even when their magicians why are they living in the ghetto and not in a modern safe neighbourhood. There are ways to awaken your powers other than having a natural safe awakening and that¡¯s by using drugs but however its looked down upon to use drugs to awaken your magical powers and you will not be accepted into any magical academies, in fact you would be ostracized or arrested and put in prison if caught, and even with drugs it¡¯s not guaranteed to awaken and there¡¯s a chance of the user dying ,including side affects that can cripple the user. The price to play is high but there are still many people willing to try it even if it costs them their lives, reputations etc. Bob is 2 years away from his awakening and he can¡¯t wait, has been sneaking out of his house to go and train his body and trying to copy his brothers training schedule. Even if the affects have been small and is impatient and wants to quickly become string as his brother as right now his strength is just that of a 10 year old boy.This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.


    They quickly reached their school and Bob dropped is little sister of at her class and he quickly reached his own class. His class wasn¡¯t that far from hers as they where only separated by two grades, their school was a large government school with student count about 1200 students. Each grade had 4 classes. The first grade to the third had their own building near the entrance that was coloured in different colours, while the rest of the school was had blue coloured buildings. The buildings weren¡¯t in the best shape as they where broken windows and graffiti here and there, and there a bunch of litter on the ground. It was just a normal government school that didn¡¯t receive much attention. When Bob reached class he just went and sat down alone in the corner of the room and the rest of the class ignored him , this was a normal occurrence in this school as his family had a bad reputation and rumours that his dad and brother used drugs to awaken their magical powers. Bob wasn¡¯t the only receiving this the end of the stick, his sister to was being given the cold shoulder by her classmates. At first it hurt and they were pretty down and depressed about it but they soon got used it and it became a normal occurrence, today they where getting their test results back and Bob was just barely scraping through the classes they where taking, they were getting their math results back and it looked like Bobs luck had run out as he got 30% on his test, what¡¯s worse was the teacher was calling out their results to the whole class and when Bobs results were announced, the whole class started laughing , and making jokes about his results. Bob was never good at hiding his emotions behind a cold look or hiding them like his elder brother, so you could see the look on his face was the furthest thing from happy, if he could he would beat all his classmates to the ground, but he knew that was impossible. So he just endured, got up and went to take his test from the teacher. The teacher just gave Bob a cold look, as if he wasn¡¯t his problem, Bob just took his test but on his way back his desk a classmate tripped him and he fell to the floor. The whole class started laughing at him and the classmate who tripped him said ¡®¡¯ his just a pathetic as his older brother¡¯¡¯ and at that moment it was like something inside him snapped and before he knew it he was already being dragged away from his 3 classmates bruised and bloody bodies.

 Chapter 2

    The whole classroom was quiet. The teacher stood there shocked that an 8-year-old could do something like this, the most shocked person was Bob himself as he didn¡¯t know what came over him. He stood there over his classmates bloody beaten face, it wasn¡¯t till a girl screamed did everyone come to their senses of what happened. Bob had just nearly killed one of their classmates, some where crying, other where scared silly and pissed themselves. The teacher responded quickly by checking up on the student who was beaten and breathed a sigh of release cause his student was still breathing, just knocked out, he would need some stiches and with some healing magic, no scars would be left behind. The teacher looked at bob with and angry look on his face and shouted ¡®¡¯to the principal¡¯s office now!¡±


    In the principal¡¯s office there was a desk and 2 chairs in from of it, the principal sat behind his desk and his computer to his left and a bunch of paperwork in front of him. His office was clean, and everything was sorted out, you could see that he takes his place of work seriously. The principal is a 45-year-old man with greying hair, you could see time taking its affect on his face, as his forehead had a lot of wrinkles, but pose said different as he still looked to be in his glory days. He wasn¡¯t alone in his office as one of his teachers came in with a problem student, who had blood on his fists, and the student looked no less than 10 years old. The principal could tell from experience that the must have been a fight that happened, he put down his pen and took a break from filling in his documents and looked at his teacher and proceeded to ask ¡®¡¯now Mr Hardwick, how may I help you¡¯¡¯. Mr Hardwick responded ¡®¡¯Mr Montgomery, I¡¯ve brought Mr Kramer here because he violently beat a student in my class¡¯¡¯, A smile appeared on his face as he said this, its well known that his family has a bad reputation around their school and Mr Hardwick has always wanted to kick Bob out of his class, now the chance to kick him out has appeared of course he will use it to kick him out maybe even out of the school, ¡®¡¯The student who was beaten had one of the top scores in class and was a good kid who would help out everyone and now his in the hospital, who knows when he will ever recover¡¯¡¯. Mr Montgomery rolled his eyes internally, how much damage could an 8-year-old boy do with just his fists, he could tell that Mr Hardwick was just making things seem worse than they were, but he didn¡¯t care as he also wanted to nip this problem student in the bud. So, he turned to bob and asked ¡®¡¯what do you have to say Mr Kramer¡¯¡¯, he said Bob surname slowly as to make Bob realise what type of situation he was in. Bob just stood there clenching his fists, as he knew that no matter what he said would help as no one in this school cares about his opinion, a tough lesson his learned. ¡®¡¯ so, if you have nothing to say in your defence, then I guess ill just be calling your parents to come pick you up as you have assaulted a fellow student and that against the rules, it results in a direct expulsion, Mr Hardwick if you would take Bob out of the premises, as his not allowed here anymore¡¯¡¯. There were no words to describe how angry and bitter Bob felt, he wanted to say something in his defence, but he knew nothing would help, he wanted to take his anger out on something or someone as he heard the principal said he wasn¡¯t allowed here anymore Bob immediately took the chair he was siting on and smashed it against Mr Hardwick¡¯s head as hard as he could, as Mr Hardwick was a normal human with no magical talent, he was immediately knocked out. His body fell to the floor and started bleeding from the newly created gash on his head. The principal angrily stood up and shouted ¡®¡¯stop¡¯¡¯ just as Bob was about to deliver another blow onto Mr Hardwick¡¯s head, bob suddenly flew back onto the door. The principal had impeded magic into his voice, which caused Bob to fly back and hit the door, people outside the office heard commotion and came quickly to check what was happening and they saw the principal checking on Mr Hardwick who was bleeding out and Bob struggling to get up from the blow he received. Mr Montgomery immediately shouted at them ¡®¡¯call an ambulance¡¯¡¯ and said to the guards ¡®¡¯take this kid out of my premises¡¯¡¯, you could see the anger plastered all over his face, if he could he would choose to kill bob here and there, but he kept his composure as he was the principal of this school and had to keep his calm. Everyone took action after being brought back to their senses. One of the guards picked up Bob who was struggling to stand and took him out the school.


    As soon as they reached the gate the guard threw bob onto the ground and closed the gate and went back to guarding the school. After some tries Bob was able to get up, he looked at his old school and laughed ¡®¡¯hahaha, man that felt good¡¯¡¯, he had put all his pent-up emotion into that chair. He felt really good, even though this guaranteed him never going back, if he had to choose what to do if he was in that situation he would do it again. Since it was early, and they were 5 hours before school was over, Bob decided to go to the arcade since he knew his father was not going to pick him up even if the principal called him, and he really doubted he would tell his father to come pick him up. He knew that when he got home he was going to get beat up by his father, but he didn¡¯t want that to ruin his mood, so he decided to walk to the arcade which was a 30-minute walk from school. AS soon as Bob reached the arcade he went for his favourite game which was backstreet fight, even though it was old he loved it, him and his brother would play it all the time when they came here together, he was never able to beat his brother who had the top score, even after learning all the combos. He decided to practice so the next time he and his brother played together he would be able to beat him. As soon as he reached the machines he saw that only available one was being used by two thugs, their pose, clothing style and they way they spoke you could tell these two where from some local gang. Bob was even able to spot a gun on one of them, Bob patiently waited as he could tell they wouldn¡¯t last long, they were just button mashing but that gun on one of the thugs took most of his attention and he was curious about it as curious an 8-year-old child would be. One of the thugs received a phone call ¡®¡¯hold up, let me take this call real quick¡¯¡¯,¡¯¡¯ do it quickly, I was just about to woop your ass¡¯¡¯, ¡®¡¯ boy you wish you could woop me¡¯¡¯. The one taking the call quickly went to the back to take the call. The one left behind decided to un pause the game and cheat while the other one was away, Bob just smiled at this and waited. The other came back after a few seconds¡¯¡¯ I knew you would cheat, can¡¯t beat me any other way¡¯¡¯,¡¯¡¯its fair game, you took to long¡¯¡¯,¡¯¡¯ anyway we gotta go, they out back for the drop¡¯¡¯. The other one took a quick look around the arcade which was empty at this time expect for bob, he responded ¡®¡¯aight lets go¡¯¡¯. They left the game and went out the back door, Bob didn¡¯t hear anything because he was concentrating on that gun. When he saw them heading towards the back door he snapped back to his senses and decided to secretly follow them, his brother had told him to stay away from these types of people, but he was really curious and wanted to where they were going so he decided to do it secretly. The back lead to any empty ally, the 2 thugs where there but it wasn¡¯t just them as there was a black sedan parked next to them, it had black tinted windows. It wasn¡¯t expansive but seemed like the type of a car a middle-income family would buy. The thugs stood there checking out the car and Bob was hiding behind a crate, the door of the sedan opened  wide, A man who was wearing glasses came out the car and stood behind the door and said ¡®¡¯ are you the guys we supposed to make the drop to¡¯¡¯, One of the thugs replied ¡®¡¯ yea¡¯¡¯, ¡®¡¯good¡¯¡¯ that was the mans reply to which he took out a pistol took 2 shoots and got back into the car which drove away quickly.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.


    Bob stood there dumbfounded, he slowly looked at the bodies of the thugs, they both had a hole in the middle of their heads, blood just flowed through the holes in their head. Bob immediately vomited,¡¯¡¯ what the FUCK¡±. He wiped his mouth with his shirt and after some struggle he stood up shaking, he wanted to run away immediately but spotted the gun one of the thugs had slid next to him and just like a child who found a smooth shiny rock on the grounds had to keep it. Bob took the gun and hid it in his pants and took a full sprint back to his school and a full 10 minutes of sprinting he made it back to school, Bob collapsed out of breath as soon as he reached school, huffing and puffing. Bob decided that he will just wait here till school ends so he can take his sister home but he still couldn¡¯t distract himself from the fact that 2 people had just died in front of him, he started shaking, thinking what would¡¯ve happened if he was discovered, he quickly tried to shake away the but they wouldn¡¯t go away. He looked down and looked at the gun he had found, the gun was an average 9mm Glock, he quickly hid it as he realised he was just outside the school gates, he want and found a tree near by to lie down and try to calm down.  After 4 hours, school finally ended, and Bob was able to calm himself down a bit, he was still shaky after that incident. He got up and started looking for his sister, he spotted her coming towards him with her head hung low, all the other kids were avoiding her and whispering, he could tell they were probably talking about him and what he did today. Bob sighed, went up to his sister and took her hand and said ¡®¡¯let¡¯s go¡¯¡¯, he didn¡¯t give her the chance to answer and just dragged her and started fast walking home. It was a quiet walk till when they where about to reach home, his sister stopped and took back her hand and asked with a shaky voice ¡®¡¯di-did you send one of your classmates and the teacher to the hospital¡¯¡¯, Bob could tell she¡¯s been crying ,he replied ¡®¡¯of course I didn¡¯t, I was just playing with them, come where nearly home¡¯¡¯ he tried to take his sisters hand but she avoided him and shouted ¡°¡¯You lying, everyone was talking about it, you nearly killed to people and now everyone is afraid of me , I HATE YOU¡¯¡¯ , and she started running back home, bob immediately started chasing after he. She soon reached home and she quickly entered and Bob chased her in but when he got in the house , he noticed his mom coming towards him , she quickly got on her knees and said while crying ¡®¡¯Bob run quci-¡®¡¯ before she could finish a slap came out of nowhere and knocked her back, a deep voice followed ¡®¡¯shut up , Bob you not going anywhere ¡®¡¯.