Chapter 3: Fallen Friends Pt. 2

I wish I had known what was up with Diablo and Addy. I hoped they were okay. I know they were more than definitely in a better place than me at the moment, but I couldn't help but worry.

"What do you want with Diablo anyways?" I asked concerningly

"We need to have him killed." He said without hesitating.

"But why?"

"Have you not been paying attention to anything?! He is a key to somehow either saving or ending this world. He is a piece of a puzzle that when it's put together will unlock something greater than we'll ever know!" She yelled at me frantically.

"He could end us all, everything, and he doesn't even know it."

I sensed worry in them. I also felt ungratefulness, anger, disobedience, but somehow, I sensed they were doing something good, and it wasn't fully against their will.

"There has to be another way! Diablo didn't do anything wrong!"

"There isn't any other way, kid. He'll be dead soon enough, and as that day comes we'll let you go. And you can find another friend."

"No! Diablo is a great friend to me! And I'm not just gonna let you kill him!" I shouted back.

"Listen here kid! There are many other kids out there, you can make new friends, become cool and popular or whatever the hell you want! But if Diablo's life doesn't come to an end we are all going to be doomed! Middle-Earth, Heaven and Hell will all soon fall apart. We need him killed to invade another disaster or worse another war!"

"I know okay! But throughout my life Diablo had been there for me! And no matter what I can't let you kill him!"

"Fine! Then I'll just make sure you die now so you won't be in the way for later advances." He then smelted a gun out of mid-air. It seemed as if it were made out of magma and obsidian. "Don't worry kid. This will be a painful, harmless death. For me at least."

He pointed the gun straight at me. Anxiety rose from within my bones, my fate had been met. I was going to die here and now, and I could do nothing, death was standing in front of me. Death was at my front door and I had been the one to open the door.

BANG!! He had pulled the trigger as everything in sight had slowed down to nothingness, my life flashed before me, and even then I was still living in the present.

Tears fell from my eyes as I knew this was the last few seconds of my life.

I felt the impact of the bullet collide with the skull of my forehead as I fell to the ground.

Everything went dark, empty and cold.

Sometimes I wondered what death would've felt like, and I guess now I know. A smile formed upon my face as I took my last breath.

"Hello mother. Goodbye world." I said as I felt my soul slowly drift away from my lifeless body.

"One less burden for this world." Drako said as he walked away with the others.

Hey! Get up! I did not raise you to be a weakling! 

A familiar voice yelled from inside me.

Mother!?

Who else would you think it is?

Mother! My mind began to race, it had been so long since I heard her voice that my soul began to weep.

I missed you child

I missed you too, mother.

How have you been my dear?

I've been doing great, mother, I made some new friends, life was getting better and fun. What caused you to leave, I wish you were still here.

I know, child. She then pointed to my heart where in my soulfully body was a glowing orb of where my heart should've been. I will always be with you. I began to tear up, as I wrapped my arms around her.

I love y-you. I said to her in a shaky voice.

I love you as well my child. Now it's time for you to go, and don't forget I'll always be with you.

I know.

Just then I felt everything go in a reverse time from what had happened. But it wasn't what was around me but my body and soul that had gone back. My soul went back into my body, my heart started back with a loud beat, as energy flowed throughout my brain.

I sat up and took a deep breath of air, the feeling was great as my lungs felt refreshed.

"What in the goddamn hell!?" He shouted at me. He then pointed his gun at me again and viciously killed away at the trigger. I had felt every bullet of his collide with my skin with a great amount of impact.

"Not this time hell boy!" I said with a smirk on my face.

"Oh screw off!" He then pistol whipped me in the side of the head knocking me out.