《The Spiders》 prologue:So close...to freedom Kai''s P.O.V "I hate all of you and everything here" I told the manager of this "fine" establishment. "Explain to me again why I bothered to come here and work for you, in this lame ass coffee shop, like I don''t even get the bare minimum wage like why do i work here" I told the senile old man "stop being a whiny little bitch, besides what the are you gonna do about it" the old man replied. "Moo" I moaned to the old bastard "just fuck off" I exclaimed. "Moo, what the is that supposed to mean" the old man went on telling me I will never leave this village and actually do something with my life. I truly do hate this place everyone here has nothing to offer, except crushing disappointment, just like life. Well fuck this im going out. "Hey, old man im gonna take a break, I''ll be back in a bit, got that" I told the old man as I walk out. When I opened the old wooden door I see a staggering figure right in front of me, with demon red eyes and sanguine skin and hair as black as the pit it came from and like any brave person looking into the eyes of a demon I could do only one thing, just stand there and do nothing because he looked like he was about to kill himself. The old man came charging at me and hit me across the head with his metal cane, "stop scaring our costumers and get out of here" he yelled into my ear almost making it bleed. I stood back up and saw that the staggering figure was Pantu of the navy. Pantu was said to be the strongest navy admiral right now, and i can see why. His stature alone can frighten anyone, its also a wonder why the is he just standing there and not talking or doing much of anything really. "Why are you still here Kai" the old man whined. "stop having a fit" I said to the old man as I walked away from this mess. "Did I come at a bad time, cos if i did, I wouldn''t care, now get me a coffee cake" Pantu ordered with a deep and depressing voice. "Are you blind or mentally retarded? cant you see the sign said closed, also how the did you open the door...oh wait you just broke it, hmm I''m surprised I didn''t notice that, but anyway get the out of here " the old man shouted back . I walked down the street path and all the way to the village square and as I did so I thought to myself that it''s a good thing i left before the old man gets hurt or worse yet if i get hurt, now that would be bad, oh well. I kept walking until i reached the square and when i got there no one was to be found, its as if I lived in a ghost town, however all the food stand where open and no one will witness if i just "borrow" a few things such as this really delicious danteru or this octopus shaped bread covered in chocolate. I carried on eating until I heard a scream and being bored i decided to investigate. The scream sounded like it was coming from down at the far end of the road. I walked down the road, running seems like a waste of my energy, even though i would most likely help whoever is screaming, but still i''m not going to run, at least i thought that but after seeing the most beautiful girl i have ever laid my eyes upon, i decided to slowly jog to her rescue. "Help me!!!!!!!" the beautiful girl cried out while she was being pulled by a man in shackles, he looked more distress that the girl, I took a closer look at the girl and realised that i seen this girl before and it was when i was serving and she was the only person in the shop and she was being the most bitchy person anyone could think of, being rude and told me i looked like a cancer patient when i had short hair, it wasn''t even short enough for me to get chemo what''s worse than all of that is that she never left me a tip. There is only one thing i could say to this person and that is "FUCK YOU, your the cunt who never gave me a tip, there''s no way in hell i''m saving your lame ass" i yelled at the top of my voice. "Not even if i promise to let you have this ass for the night". I was disgusted when I heard that, does she think just because she is very beautiful and i mean very beautiful that she can just do whatever the she wants to, because if she does, she''s right. I charged the man pulling her away, knocking him on the floor and taking his keys. If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. "Kai your some horny kid you know" the beautiful girl said as she was getting up and going behind me. "How do you know my name, girl who said I could have her ass?" i asked her "I sit next to you in class i asked you for help just yesterday and I asked for black coffee that other time in that cheap ass coffee shop, to which you ignored for an hour straight and finally gave my coffee cold" she explained to me and with my retarded memory cant actually remember this like a normal person. "All i remember is you not giving me a tip, also what''s your name?" i explained and asked. She came closer to me and gently put her hand on my back. I didn''t know what she was doing maybe she was going to give me a back rub but what she actually did was digged her nails into my back when i looked back her face was red, looked like she was about to kill me and everyone in this town, her pupils shrunk and her outer eye went red and she began to bring her teeth out. The only thing i could do is question why didn''t she do this earlier to the guy I knocked down. Pantu''s P.O.V "Give me that cake, you old fuck" i yelled, "never!!!!" that old man replied back we both jumped for the cake and fought over it by having a rock paper scissor contest. Going from rock to paper to scissor each time and drawing at each turn. Kai''s P.O.V What the hell was that, why was she so mad, doesn''t matter all that matters now is that i some how find away out of this, I need to think quick because I think my back is bleeding. In the far distance I hear someone else scream for help, I looked and i saw a pervert also known as the bitch. I would rather deal with the girl I some how got mad than save the bitch. At least i thought that until I heard her demonic voice saying that she will rip out my testicles. I decided to go after that . After i charged the man and he fell down i grabbed the bitch and ran for my life. "Let me go, ass-hole" she yelled to which i replied "shut the fuck up, im saving your life". We make it back to the beautiful girl but before that i asked if the bitch new what was her name. "What, you got a crush on her and the fuck do you not know her name you two sit next to each other" she asked me in a sly and perverted manner. "No, she just promised i could have her ass" i answered, "yeah i see why you would help her out, but if that''s all you wanted you could have just asked me, you know" she said in the most perverted way possible. I didn''t know how to respond to that...I mean i really didn''t...how would I respond to that, so i just stayed silent, not even reacting to what she said. Wait i cant do that, i need to know the beautiful girl''s name. "bitch what is the beautiful girl''s name" i asked again. "It''s Melissa, dumb ass" she replied and then mumbled on about her bitchiness or whatever, i wasn''t really paying attention. After reaching Melissa, a man wearing a nobles clothes came out, not caring or even bothering to notice the crescent on the top right corner of his coat, i didn''t notice that this was a celestial and my dumb ass charged at him with my full force after all its all about that ass and nothing else. -Vision fades into darkness- I hear "im gonna do you a favour and let you save yourself, but only if you could use your life energy, don''t worry i made sure there was enough for you to use" said Pantu in the most depressing voice, as if he was going to kill himself after this I cant get up or feel my body, I became more tired as the time passes, so this is what dying feels like. Chapter 1 [Mindscape] I dont want to die. Why am I dying, oh yeah I was being stupid, thinking I could save someone, well least I learned my lesson there. But I''m still dying. -Flash back of what Pantu said- Oh yeah I can still live as long as I pull my life energy back into my body, but how would I do that. I can''t...can I ? why did it have to be me, I don''t want to die. I want to live. I tried to pull my life energy back into my body but it was no use all I could do is die in this pathetic way, a virgin. As I said that I realised that I still had many things to do and that''s just not sex, it''s also getting out of this village and being free from boredom. I want to live so I can die in my own terms. As I said that I see a whit flash I thought I died and went to heaven but I heard a distant voice saying "this isn''t heaven, you stupid cunt, wake the fuck up, besides like a degenerate like you can actually even be spat on by someone from heaven, forget going to heaven, also don''t worry this is just the mindscape and we have at least six hours which should be enough time for you". The white flash went away and i see a man in a black cloak , looking like a warlock from hell. He had no skin and in stead it was just bone and cracked ones at that too. However he had a red luminescent where his eyes should be. On the right hand was a coiled ring with some sort of serpent symbol on it and on the left was another coiled ring however the symbol was of a hand holding a feather pen. He stood at least 6 foot 4 and was leaning over me. "mindscape?" I asked. "Don''t worry about it right now, remember we only have six hours" he said in a distant and deep voice. He asked me if my conscious was back, I couldn''t make out what he was saying it still sounded distant to me, however my consciousness was slowly coming back to me. He asked me again if my consciousness came back, this time his voice sounded less distant and more menacing. There''s also this aura around him, a dark purple almost black. "Yes, I''m fully aware right now" I replied. "Good, now look around you and tell me what you see" he asked me "an empty and distorted meadow" I answered. "Do you know why it''s like this, it''s because it''s a perfect representation of your mind" as he said that his voice got deeper and more dark, I have no idea why but his aura got darker and was a shade away from turning black. " I have no idea what that supposed to mean" I said " of course you don''t, it means you''re stupid and retarded, you dumb cunt" he yelled at me " what, well, fuck you too then but anyway why the hell am I here for". "Good question, I''m going to teach you how to use the basics of inner force and the..." "hold up, the fuck are you talkin'' about, ''inner force'' the fuck is that supposed to be, and why the fuck should I learn it, I thought I was dying" I said while interrupting him in the middles of his sentence. "It doesn''t matter OK, don''t question your fortune, look what do you want the most in your entire life, to be free right, well I can give you that and all you have to do is learn how to use inner force , OK" when he said that his voice became less menacing and much less dark he sounded like he genuinely wanted to help me, but probably has some hidden motive, but he did say I could be free and I could always double cross him later. "OK, fine, teach me" I replied back. "First things first, you need to know how to control your inner force, and to do that, well you have to want to control it if you know what I mean, wait I''m talking to a retard" he said "what, well fuck you too then" I replied back. "OK I cant make you do it the long way, we have to almost kill you", "what! why would I let you... we?" I questioned. "look behind you" he said. When I looked behind me I saw a demon with hollow eyes looking straight into mine and I did as anyone would do when they would see a demon looking straight into their eyes, I screamed and jumped back and almost had a heart attack. I was about to stand up but the demon impaled my stomach with a black sword. "OK now all you have to do is want to live and pull the inner force back into your body, rapidly healing it and staying alive" the demon spoke to me in a ominous tone. Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. I didn''t know what to do, my mind went blank and I couldn''t think of anything, the only thing that was in my mind was of my parents for some reason, god I hate them, this reminded me of why I wanted freedom. As I thought more about my parents the inner force went back into my body and rapidly healing it until I was fully healed. "OK good you''re healed, now to the hard part and that is to actually control the inner force in you" the demon said. When I got back up I could actually see him in full and not just his hollow eyes. He had spiral horns and a skull shaped head that had crimson red lines going down from the top of his head done to the bottom of it, he wore a black kimono that only exposed his chest and in the middle of his chest was a hole, he had a slim body with very little fat on him, his skinned looked like it was made up of some type of white lead. "Are you ready to go to the hard part yet or what we don''t have much time you know" the demon spoke, "wait I thought I already learned how to controlled inner force" I said. "Stop being retarded, all I did was release you inner force and you only learned how to put it back in but you don''t know how to use it to save your fucking life" he said aggressively while coming closer to my face. "OK to use your inner force you must know what you want, for example if you want to attack you must know what you want to do when you attack, same goes for defence and general use of inner force, however what you do to attack, defend and whatever all depend on the type of inner force you have" he said in a more calmly manor this time, "OK that''s all we have time for, looks like we miss calculated and times up" he said. "Wait what, what do you mean type of inner force" I said as soon as i said that the one I talked to first flicked the middles of my forehead and everything faded. I''m back into my body and I am still dying. It made me think did all of that just happen in my dream or did it actually happen, only one way to find out. I did what happened to me earlier and thought about my parents and why I want to be free and it worked my inner force went back in and I rapidly healed as well as my vision coming back. When my vision came back all I could see is a sea of red, to my horror I see Melissa''s body, all I could think is what happened to her. He dead body was almost unrecognisable, her golden hair was ripped out of her head, her porcelain skin was shredded near her torso and legs but the face was left pretty much alone, however the same crescent from before was tagged on her forehead. The perverted bitch was even worse, if I cared about her I would have been tormented even more, oh well it''s a good thing I didn''t care about her. I stood up and when I did I saw a huge cut scar going down from my right of my collar bone down to my left thigh bone and another one however much smaller, which was from my lower torso and connecting with the bigger scar but goes past it to under my belly button. I felt the scar and as I did so it felt the same as the rest of my skin, my inner force did a miraculous job of healing me but it couldn''t have healed the colour difference, "GOD FUCKING DAMN IT" I yelled angrily about my inner force, forgetting about Melissa and about the bitch. I walked away from the dead bodies only to find more dead bodies, it''s as if the cunt, Pantu and the bitch of a noble went on an ethnic cleansing. I looked all over the village the only thing I found was a drunk old man, grey hair, fair wrinkled skin, balding, wine bottle in his had and old rugged clothes, passed out, however what''s strange about him is that he is lying down around twenty dead solders all mangled up. Chapter 2 [I have a teacher now] The old white man was lying passed out on a bin in the middle of an alleyway. Since I''m not as retarded as I seem I just walked away not even looking back to the old man, I didn''t want to be involved with him, I might end up dying, so I walked away from the alleyway. "Hey......you there, come......come...here....now" the old man said with a croaky and drunken voice. I looked back knowing I would later regret this decision, when I looked back the old man still hasn''t even come out of the alleyway yet, however he did come out, then immediately fell face first to the blood stained floor. "You OK old man, need any help" I asked not knowing where this act will take me, I go down to reach for him. "Stay.......back" he yelled still drunk, which startled me a bit, I went back. The old man stood up or at least tried to, though giving up half way, he looked at me as if I was his next victim. He looked at me for a good five minutes and I noticed his eyes change colour, from a hazel nut green to whitish silver. "what...is....wrong with....you, kids.....shouldn''t be....able to look.......so dead inside" he says that while getting up all the way. Once he stood up he was still tipsy but he looked pissed, as if his wife and someone fucked in front of him.....wait, no, he would be more pissed if that happened, whatever the analogy is he''s still pissed. "What''s wrong with that, beside why do you care so much old man" I yelled back at him. After I said that the old man looked blank like he forgot everything. "I don''t know, oh yeah, it''s because kids are supposed to be happy and not worry about anything" he said and began to get out of his drunkenness somehow, "if you can tell everyone here is dead, like seriously that really beautiful that I forgot the name of died and I couldn''t save her, I don''t know where the fuck your from but here in the real world no one is happy, now fuck off" I raged at him. "I said supposed to be happy and care free, it doesn''t mean they are going to it just means they are meant to be happy and care free" he tried to defend himself. As I walked away I realised that just before I saw him lying on a pile of mangled dead bodies, I needed to learn how to do that if I was ever going to kill Pantu and the noble for what they did. I turned back and looked at him as angry as anyone can,"was it you that killed the soldiers over there" I said pointing towards the alleyway, "yes, why do you ask, wait your not one of them are you?" the old man asked me while getting ready to fight me going in to a fighting stance, "teach me" I asked. "Teach you what" he asked me his face going blank again, "teach me how to fight like that" I asked, "no" he answered looking pissed again. "why?" I said getting pissed this time, "because if I do teach you how to fight you would just end up dying, like all the others" he said with a tone of sadness in his voice, "yeah, I don''t care about the rest of the people all I care about is killing everyone in the government" I said in a mild tone of anger. "You really want to learn" he said, "yes" I replied, "well you should go and find someone to teach you" he said while walking away. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. I run up to him and kick his back, he fell and and cried about his back, I somehow forgot that he''s an old man, but I don''t care anyway. "I want to ask you something" I said, he got back up as if nothing happened to him, "OK sure ask me away" he said, "god you''re weird, but anyway why are you killing soldiers" I asked, however he just ignored me and kept on walking. I followed him for almost 5 minutes. The old man looked back and so did I, we saw more soldiers, the old man looked at me, "listen I need you to get rid of them and I don''t care how you do it just get rid of them" he said while urgently hiding in one of the abandon buildings, however I grabbed him by the collar and said "what''s in it for me" with a sly grin across my face, "fine I''ll teach you how to fight just let me go" he said while I let him go. I walked to the soldiers while holding my eyes open until tears came out of them. They seen me coming to them crying, they came up to me, I had my eyes almost closed so I couldn''t see them clearly especially because I was crying. "Stop your bitchy ass crying and did you see and old white man" one of them said, "he did this to me he did this to us" I said while stopping from time to time to make myself more believable, "wait what did the old man do to you" they asked me, "the old man with grey hair, balding, he came and, and did this, he raped everyone women, men, children even the animals, I seen him rape everyone and I couldn''t do anything to stop him, then he came after me, he hit me across the head and I went unconscious and only god knows what happened after that" I said while rubbing the tears away from my eyes. "Don''t worry little bitch, we''ll find him for you" one of them said while trying not to laugh, "I don''t think he''s here because I checked everyone''s dead now" I said, "oh, well we should be going then" they said and they all went. What retards they are, I bet they didn''t even check for themselves if the old guy was here or not. I walked back to the building the old man was hiding in when I found him he was terrified and shivering behind a wall. "The fuck is wrong with you, come on you have to teach me how to fight" I said trying not to yell so the soldiers wouldn''t come back, he wouldn''t listen so I just dragged him all the way out of the building and headed to the outside the village. Chapter 3 [Pedos training sucks] As I dragged him out of the village he still remained frightened and shivering. "OK what''s wrong with you" I said while letting him go, he came back to his senses after i let him go. "Eh its doesn''t matter, all that matters now is that we escape to another town or village and then we can start your training, do you know where the nearest town or village is?" he asked me, "yeah its that way, its about a few miles down the road" I said. We walked down the road taking a few stops along the way, we didn''t encounter anyone on the way. When we finally made it to the next town I was amazed of how poor it looked even compared to my village, I mean there are more people here and there arn''t any homeless people here but its still so poor here. "OK, here we are" the old man said, we stopped at an inn however before we entered the old man finally introduced himself. "I never said what my name was did I?, well its Souken" he said, "that''s cool" I replied, "you''re not going to tell me your name?" he asked "nope also I''m not going to able to remember your name so I''m going to call you Pedo" I replied, "what why" Pedo asked, "its because you talked about kids way too much when we first met, Pedo" I replied. "What did I get myself into" Pedo mumbled to himself and I went into the. When Pedo came in I asked him if he had any money for the rooms, he said were not going to stay here he just wanted directions to Xidnaf. The inn keeper told Pedo where Xidnaf is from this town. Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there. "OK seriously if I''m going to teach you how to fight, I am going to have to learn your name so what is it" Pedo asked "fine, its Kain" I said. Pedo looked confused and asked me for my last name "its kashirshar" I said, "your not from around here are you" Pedo said, "well no shit, what gave it away my skin colour or my accent" I said. Pedo walked away and told me to follow him so I did and we went out of the town and back to the road. When we go to the road we went into the woods and told me that he was going to unlock my eight circles by force and before I could react or do anything Pedo went behind me and forced open the eight circle and as he did so I fell to the ground. The pain I feel right now is the same pain that Pantu gave me when he cut me down, I knew what to do and how to close my eight circles thanks to the two I saw before. I closed the eight circles and stood back up, "WHAT THE HELL PEDO!" I yelled while punching him as hard as I could but it was no use Pedo dodged my punch and hit the back of my neck which made me fall flat on my face and then he put his foot on my back stopping me from getting up. "Oh my, I didn''t know you knew how to do that, I was going to tell you how but at least now I know you have some talent in you" Pedo said while my consciousness slowly faded away Chapter 4 [New beginning] When I woke up I was lying on the ground and saw Pedo next to me. "What the hell did you do to me" I said while getting up and covering my body, "oh your awake, don''t worry you just fainted when I hit the back of your neck, "yeah I''m not bothered about that, just what did you do when I was unconscious" I said, Pedo just ignored me. "Kai, lets start your next training" said Pedo in a serious tone, "yeah about that, I been wondering if I closed my circles then how would I use it also why is it call circles its kind of weird" I asked. "First of all I don''t know why its called circles and when you closed your circles you never sealed them away so you can still use it and that''s what were going to do, we''re going to find what type of power would best suit you" Pedo explained. Pedo trained me for the day and found out my power was chaotic in nature and Pedo made me train till I couldn''t even breath, but I was given a spider tattoo from him, signifying that I am his student. He made me train the same way he did when he was my age. We did this for three months straight once training for as long as eighteen hours and the shortest was about nine. Over the past three months I grew to like and respect Pedo, but not enough to stop calling him Pedo, he would be patient with me even when I''m being a cunt towards him, so after some time I finally stopped and took my training seriously. We travelled around a lot and we still haven''t gotten anywhere near Xidnaf. In the three months I seen a lot of villages and town never any big or small cities, however I did see the same thing again and again, faces that have been marked by desolation. It reminded me of my home, before everyone died and I became a wandering orphan. In the three months I haven''t been in the mindscape a single time, made me wonder if it actually was a dream or not, however it really didn''t matter because I have Pedo to teach me how to use inner force or whatever they called it. Most importantly that happened is that my outlook on life has changed so much so that for time in six years I haven''t sworn in months, big achievement if I do say so for myself. That would be my biggest accomplishment considering how many idiots I met on the way, people who didn''t know the difference between religion and nationality, thinking that I believed in a God because of where I''m from. We decided to rest in the next town or village we would get to and so we did the village was lush and I didn''t see depressed people like I saw in the other villages and towns, these people seem to be happy and enjoying life. I took a stroll while Pedo went to buy some food, I went to a old oak tree just lying in front of a bakery, I sat to meditate and as I did I saw a white flash, it reminded me of the white flash I saw when Pantu cut me down. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. When I got there I stood in awe because the place was even more distorted since the last time I was here. "Yeah, it''s us, no need to say hi, also thanks for becoming even more retarded, as you can tell from all this distortion, oh wait" the guy in the cloak said, "OK before we continue I need to know your name or this is going to get confusing" I said with a slight pissed tone, "fine I''m Ren and the demon behind you well he''s.......I don''t know who he is" Ren said. I looked behind me and saw the demon right in my face with his dead read eyes and jumped back in terror and surprise. "My name''s John Johnson" John said, I looked at him in a confused manner, "I used to be human" said john in his ominous tone. "Still doesn''t explain your name and why did you say your full name, you could have just said John also why the hell am I here" I asked John, "first of all about my name.....well........I don''t know why its that....." John said, "OK, so basically your here because we need to teach you about inner force and how to obtain your power" said Ren. I just looked at Ren not specking at all, "what, is there something on my face, god damn it John why didn''t you tell me" Ren said while trying to wipe his skeletal face. "No, I thought that I already got my power, you know with the eight circles and that" I said, "eight circles, yeah that sounds really gay and what the fuck is that even supposed to be unlocking your eight circles, sounds really gay to me" Ren said, "well now I know your a homophobic even though your in a guy right now and living with...well him" I said while pointing at John. Ren ignored what I said, "anyway, to unlock you inner force you need to know what it is and how unique it is, it is the true essence of the soul and while the soul can be healed your essence can not, that is what inner force is, the essence of your very being" Ren went on. "Yeah, but how do I get my power" I asked Ren, as he was about to tell me everything went dark and I opened my eyes to a mad Pedo. He was standing above me, he helped me up and asked me what the a wanted poster of him saying that hes a serial rapist is all about. "What makes you think I know?" I asked and casually walked away from Pedo, however as I did I got hit by a fireball at the right corner of my spider tattoo on my back, I fell to the ground in agony.