"YOU DARE!!!!"
The voice came out soft like a whisper, yet it landed louder than a shout..
It was as calm as the ocean surface yet the rage was as violent as the crashing tides..
The burly man froze the moment he heard it, his blood chilled inexplicably as he hurriedly turned around,
"Who!!" He shouted, only to be dumbstruck by the scene before him..
The person before him was a… boy? Child? He was confused, because the baby fat on his cheeks suggested an extremely young age, but then that voice and the height… since when do toddlers stand at 5ft tall????
You could see the question marks popping out of his head..
"You dare"..
Before he could spiral more in his thoughts, the boy's voice brought him out of it..
"In my father's land, my family's sacred city, you dared commit such an atrocity" Raiden spoke, more to himself than to anyone else..
The young boy couldn't believe it..
An attempted child rape? In HIS bane city?
His bane city known as one of THE most secure places on the whole continent?
And yet this??
Was this guy just ignorant? Or did he truly not care what my family, what I thought about his actions?
The more he thought about all these the angrier he seemed to get..
"Boy—" the burly man began, but he never got to finish
Slash…
He saw a hand spinning with blood trailing behind it in the air..
Huh? That hand and knife looks—-
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!"
He squealed like a butchered pig, his left hand going to hold the stump on his wrist where his hand used to be..
He never saw anything move, just his hand doing backflips in the air…
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh".. he kept yelling..
"Too loud"…
"Gurrrrgllleeee"… until he wasn't… his yells turning into garbled chokes as blood filled up his mouth due to his tongue getting cleanly severed…
"Mother".. Raiden spoke up, head still down..
"Yes my love" his mother, Seraphina, replied with a loving expression, never once batting an eye at the burly man…
"I'm a well read boy for my age" he said
"Yes you are.. my baby is the smartest" his mother replied proudly…
"I've read multiple tomes, scrolled through history, and in all these, MY bane city has always been mentioned as a haven for the oppressed and the weak, a sanctuary of peace" he continued…
"Hmmm.. that's about right" his mother agreed..
"Then what exactly am I looking at right now?" He asked, finally raising his head and looking straight at her with his golden eyes burning with wrath…
"Why, mother, why was such garbage filth allowed to roam MY city freely, no, worse yet, allowed to attempt something as disgusting as defiling a child, why mother? Did the books lie? Is my family's reputation just another politically curated plot?? WHY MOTHER??"
He screamed the last part, not at her, never at her…
But at the garbling man before him..
His confusion turning to rage…
But before he could spiral, his mother took him into a warm embrace..
Her hands holding him tight..
Not once in her baby's life had he lost his calm, cheerful demeanor, but it would seem the smear on his family name affected his young mind..
After all, despite his height and size, he was a child..
"My baby" she coerced in a loving voice, "wherever there's light, there'll always be darkness"..
"And I think you're mistaking something" she smiled as she ruffled his white hair, hair so similar to hers, earning her a disgruntled huff…
"Your father, and his father, and his father's father….. the agares men from since when the name was known, have always believed in one truth" she said…
Raiden, hearing what she said, perked up,
Seraphina seeing his reaction couldn't help but smile, so cute!!!!!
"And that truth was , THE WEAK THAT KNOW THEY ARE WEAK, THEY NEED NO REMINDING OF THEIR PLACE….
BUT THE WEAK THAT PRETENDS TO BE STRONG WHILST PREYING ON THE WEAK, THOSE ARE THE ONES WHO NEED TO BE REMINDED OF EXACTLY WHERE THEY STAND..
AND THAT, IS EXACTLY WHAT WE'LL DO"
"This simple truth earned them the nickname nobles bully for whilst others bully those beneath them and fear those above, the agares men bullied those who believed they were above, and as for who they feared?" Reaching here she took a pause, and an enchanting smile gracing her face..
"Even the gods do not have that privilege" she finished..
At this point, Raiden's eyes were already glowing, entranced by the pure badassry of his bloodline, his rage seemingly evaporated…
"So whilst it's said that our bane city is indeed a sanctuary, that's just the public view, your father is NOT a hero, he despises heroes, your grandfather? The same… his father? The same…"
"The only reason why bane city has its reputation is because no one dared flaunt their power knowing full well the consequences of flaunting said power, so, my love, despite the effort, our family doesn't go out of the way to play heroes, that's why filth like this can still exist" she concluded…
Raiden, after hearing all she had to say, tilted his head downwards, still in her embrace..
When he raised them back up, they burned with conviction..
"I don't like it" he said firmly…
"Hmmm?" She raised a quizzical eyebrow..
"I don't care about heroics mother" he wiggled out of her embrace saying this..
"I care about my family's image" saying so he walked slowly towards the shivering little girl…
"I do not need filth like this in a land my family lords over" standing in front of her, despite being clearly younger, his frame cast a shadow over her…
"You should fix it, you and father, I do not need such disappointment again" he concluded, leaning towards the girl..
"Of course my baby, I'm sure your father will be happy to cleanse the city" she replied lovingly..
"Thank you mom" he smiled, and his smile seemed to entrance the little girl now staring at his adorable face..
"Anything for you my baby" she cooed..
"Hehehe.." chuckling he looked forward..
Steady golden eyes met Emerald green ones that trembled faintly..
"Say" he spoke, voice lowered, smooth, " what's your name?"
"My…Myra.. Myra is called Myra"….
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