Death, the beginning.

Frivel, what used to be a happy, hard-working village, turned to a cemetery overnight.

Guards and men resisting the massacre dwindled down, lifeless bodies now kept the village grounds company.

One man filled with desire to keep his family safe still fights on.

Huck's first thought when he looked around the ruined village was the fate of the villagers, a slight glance of some hiding was enough for him to keep fighting, afterall his families were also in hiding.

Fear for their survival and anger towards the intruders turned into fuel for a humble killing machine.

"He killed Drakang".

An intruder told his peers, afraid to engage

Huck.

"What? "

The scattered intruders focuses on Huck still standing on the patch of ground where he buried Drakang.

"We got a fighter".

Says an intruder, walking slowly towards Huck.

"Surround him" he says.

Little to no time Huck was surrounded, this issued command carried out quickly, hinting on the intruders being trained and the one in command now shows himself.

"Test subjects usually squirm around like you". "nothing too serious, that magma brat shouldn't be careless".

"Hmm! it also seems like you're running out of time".

Huck's limitless aura starts to fade a little.

Huck pays no Heed,his focus was all on the safety for his family.

He looks around, he saw the hammer crab archon heading towards his house. The rest of them surrounding him wasn't worth an attention.

His goal was set, The hammer crab archon has to die.

Just then two men surrounding him launches a surpirse attack from behind, leaping in an attempt to ****** their blades on his back.

"Hmmmh" huck released an earth spike suddenly.

Impaling the two.

"Fools" the leader said.

But just after Huck uses a move his bright aura diminished, his limitless form was up, he was now at a huge disadvantage against the intruders.

He sweats, still, even though powered down, he wasn't undetermined at all.

He stands battle ready.

"My my, if only you have enough time"

"Attack! ".

All the men surrounding Huck charges from all direction.

Huck spins once and stomped the ground

Cracking it, summoning rock spikes and even the force was strong enough to launch blocks of ground up, acting as shield, some debris knocks out some men, the spikes impaled a couple. Some were experienced enough to avoid the sudden move.

Huck uses this moment to dig under,making a tunnel leading to the house.

"Where's he? ".

"He disappeared? ".

"You fools!".the leader closes his eyes.

Sensed the aura underground,

"There you are rat".

he sprints a couple of feet

Aims one hand on the ground

"Vacuum bubble".

"huh! nothing happened? " wondered a confused henchmen.

"No idiot! Captain placed his bubble underground ".

The captain raises his arm.

"I caught a rat"

A bubble pop out of the ground,

inside was Huck floating inside,squirming, punching, kicking

trying to break free.

"bhahahah! they usually squirms like that"

the captain laughed.

He levitates the bubble further up

"this gentlemen is how you catch a rat".

the men laughed.

Over to the house the archon took his first step inside

"Seems like Breece blew away half of the room " he laughs "Where are you beautiful, I saw you crept in here".

Istha and the rest were hiding in the bedroom, scared were the children.

"Shh! don't make a sound"Her fingers on her lips. She knows they'll be found eventually.

"Everyone jump out of the window, slowly".

"Don't make a sound".

Arthur and doubleu guarded the door.

"You two get away from there" Istha whispers, wailing her arms to come to her.

"you guys go first, we'll come after you".

the boys still bravely guarded the door, arming themselves, Arthur with a well made staff and a hammer for Doubleu, each standing on both ends of the door.

First one out of the window was a hurt villager, he helped Melca get out of the window first.

But then suddenly the archon smashes the bedroom door opened.

Mary screams loudly.

"There you are pretty".

The archon stepped in.

Right as he puts his foot inside.

Doubleu hammered the archon's knee.

The archon bent down, hands on his knee.

"Ahh! son of a--"

Arthur followed striking him right on the face breaking the staff.

Doubleu then hammered his jaw.

Knocking him down

Istha rushses towards the boys, she grabs them and pushes them out of the window.

She follows after.

The group ran towards the forest.

The captain and his men heard Mary's loud scream

"looks like someone's having fun"."Hahahah".

they looked towards from where the scream came.

Huck noticed the men facing away, looks the same way and noticed the big guy wasn't there anymore.

"Shit! Did he went in!?".

"Why can't I breathe, and I can't hear anything either".

"Am I dying? "

"No!"

"Istha, Children".

Hucks thoughts piled up one after another.

Thinking the worst, tired as he was he made another move, he grows spikes on his hands.

"I'll focus on a single point".

Punched the bubble repeatedly.

The bubble cracks.

He eventually break through.

The captain in a state of disbelief

"The hell!, He broke my vacuum"

Huck immediately dives in the hole he made previously.

"The rat"."Everyone go there".

the captain points towards Huck's house.

From the way huck made the tunnel. The captain is sure that Huck will go towards the house.

Everyone runs towards the house.

Huck was the first to arrive. Bolting out of the ground.

"ISTHA".

"CHILDREN ".

Huck ran towards the bedroom but all he saw a broken window amd immediately follows through it.

"ISTHA, MARYYY".

"PAAAPAA"

Children screams loudly

Huck follows the sound.

He too was followed by the rest.

A couple of distance away Huck saw the archon grabbing Mary by the leg besides them were Istha, Arthur and doubleu laying on the ground, the archon knocks them down earlier when they were trying to save Mary.

Huck wasting no time shoots a head size rock spike that burst through the hammer crab archon chest, killing him instantly.

He runs to his family.

"Are you all okay? ".

He helps up Mary.

"Sweetheart, you all right ".

"Yeah! We were worried about you".

"Papa's fine, but we have to run away".

"Quickly".

The family ran deeper into the woods but they were immediately caught up by the captain and his men.

"Rat, More rats".

the captain taunting Huck and his family ,to him they were his test subjects.

"This keeps getting better"

"You escaped my vacuum".

"I admit, I was surprised "

"But Rat, you ran out of POWER".

The captain aura starts intensifying.

"Limit breaker".

The captain points his finger at the family, his fingers resembling a gun.

"air bullet".

He shot a little bubble that moves really fast.

"AHH!! " the villager fell, dead.

The bubble was fast, the shot landed almost in an instant, the sacry thing was that they were 6 yards away.

"That was suppose to be a warning shot. "Haha! I'm just too good, I can't miss".

"Hihi!!Captain's so cruel".

"These trees won't provide you cover rat"

The captain shoots three shots simultaneously. Hitting nothing two times but the third hit Glove at the thigh, he falls and cries . Huck quickly grabs the child.

"Honey hold Melca"

"There's no time to stop" Huck reluctant, knows what Istha is about to do.

"I know we can't stop running, But I can heal while running".

Istha Hands over Melca to Huck

"Know your limits honey".

Huck looks at Istha.

She puts her palm against Glove's thigh

A light-green light shines from it.

"There all better, sweetheart".

Blood drips from her nose slightly.

"Dear!.Here Melca's lighter".

Huck noticed. Wondering if Istha can keep up.

The desire for survival, love for each other and the adrenaline was the only thing fueling the family.

In this desperate moment.

they do what they can only do.

Run.,only running was the option.

"Use the adrenaline, Just run as fast as you can".

"I'm always besides you".

Huck shouts trying to encourage the kids.

The family ran not looking back they ran out of the woods so fast but only to a cliff, so steep and the fall so far down.

"No! Shit!".

It seems luck wasn't around for the family.

"Everyone come close, stay tight and hold Papa".

Just when Huck tells his family.

He sensed danger, pulling his head back slightly dodging an air bullet.

"As expected, you're a dodgy little rat".

The captain and his men steps out of the woods cornering the Le'hault family.

Istha and the kids ran towards Huck.

No way out surrounded completely, behind was a cliff, jumping meant courting death.

But Huck got a plan, tired as he was he somehow could get the family safely down the cliff, afterall he was a strong Rock Archon.

"Cornered Rats".

The captain flauting his hands.

"We're just a humble family, leave us alone".

"If you want me to beg, I'll beg, just don't hurt my family".

Huck pleaded hoping to find an opportunity to kick-start his plan.

A proud man shattering his pride aside was a sight that made Arthur and Doubleu shed tears of anger but to the captain it was a wholesome sight.

Opportunity didn't present itself for Huck to carry out his plan, Nor can he make one.

The enemy bullets were lightning fast.

Not to mention there could be more Archons among the intruders.

Completely disregarding the plea

"I saw some bright green lights".

"You're not the only Archon are you?".

"And from what it looks like,the boy I shot ran,he seems fine".

The captain leans his head to the left staring at Glove, his face was creepy, a detestable face with an evil sinister overtone.

"It doesn't matter, I decided already ".

"My hands are already dirty, might as well make it filthy".

Huck pleaded again.

"Kill me, if you have to but leave my family alone".

"Noo" Shouts Arthur.

"kill you? This isn't about you, rat".

"As I said before, This is just a test and you're all just test subjects".

The captain continues.

"Your kid, hahah! so eager to fight".

"Little boy, this is what happens when you're weak".

"My timers running".

The captain readying to pull another trigger, Charging it this time, the bubble got bigger.

"Please, Don't ". Huck pleaded again.

"Geheh" Captain laughs.

*Poof*.He shoots, the airbullet towards Mary in the right.

"Noo" Huck covers his right arm with a hard rock.

The limitless bullet was too strong for Huck.

It completely goes through his bicep, dismembering his arm, completly removing his biceps and hitting Mary and Glove.

The force of the bullets removed the kids exposed shoulders completely.

The eyes of the family, filled with pain, disgusts, anger.

Those emotions, like how alchemists concocts his potions. Which explodes.

And Huck indeed explodes, the scream he let out, loud, fierce, like a hurt Magical beasts.

The sound was of anger and regret, inability to fulfill his promise of no harm befalling his kids.

The scream made some of the men, shutter, such was the intensity.

Istha filled with grief, pulls Mary and Glove close to her.

she tries to heal them, pressing her hands on both of thier shoulders.

Again a light-green light, she emits.

The shoulders completely regrows slowly.

But healing someone in order of the severity of the wounds took tolls on her body.

She blurts out blood and collapsed.

Istha pases out, Mary and Glove still out cold.

Arthur and the rest stands around Istha , covering her,Mary and Glove .

Arthur and Doubleu stood brave, stone cold.

The rest were young, scared afraid but yet brave, they stood firm guarding their Mother with running nose and slight droplets of tears filling their eyes.

Proof of a mother's love, although the children not her own but ever since they were together were showered with love, appreciation of her love and care shown by guarding her, shielding her from harm was not a heavy price at all, in fact it was an action of honour and appreciation.

It was how much they love their mother.

A sudden turn of events.

Huck grabs his severed arm turned it into a rock covered spear.

He hurls it straight at the captain.

"Field Null".

The captain had time to react.

the move by the captain make a fast bubble appear, his body as the epicenter the bubble expands covering his aura completely for a moment.

This allows the captain to deflect the attack from Huck which impaled him at the chest and was centimeters away from rupturing his heart, avoiding death. Simultaneously the bubble outer layer knocks some of his men away,the force he exerts on the outer layer was immense.

Huck finally have an opportunity he approaches his kids. Puts his arms elbow deep in the ground and suddenly the patch of land where the family are starts to slide down the cliff. This was his plan, Huck needed to put his arms underneath the ground but he didn't quite find the moment for it earlier.

"Fuuuu-"

Blurts out blood.

the captain jumps down in pursue, enraged.

"Die motherrph--".

Ready to pull another trigger but this time he uses both his hands, this vacuum bubble was the biggest he ever made, the size of Huck's body.

He blurts out blood again.

And then.

He shoots.

The impact was immense, an explosion sending whatever comes in contact with it to nothingness.

The blast nears the family.

Closer closer closer.

Fast was the speed.

Eventually, throwing salt or oblivion in this matter to the wound.

The hateful blast headed towards Huck.

He could Dodge but that meant the complete eradication of his family.

Sensing his unavoidable last moment.

He covers himself and his family with layers of rocks making a little barrier of rocks, inside was pitch black, even though he knew a limitless blast of this calibre would be unstoppable with mere rocks.

But.

Hopefulness.

The only thing Huck could cling to.

Impending doom, Huck knows.

Crying.

He looks down.

The rock barrier penetrates.

Light shines inside.

Time froze for a moment.

He saw,

His kids.

His wife.

Their life.

The moments they spent, he doesn't regret.

"I love you all, I'm sorry".

The last thought of a Dear loving husband, a man of pride, a man to the end.

He took the blast straight on.

For the last time.

Huck smiles, for the time he spent with his families.

Cries for not being able to protect them.

There, his last moment.

The blast completely eradicated his body.

Huck Le'Hault was dead, not even a body remains.

Sad as it was for The Man, The husband.

The blast didn't stop at just one.

It continues going through.

In a breathe.

Mary, Glove, Marc vanished.

Eradicated completely.

Painless, only pro of the blast for the victims.

But death is still death.

The rest of the family ,all eyes closed, didn't even know what happened, Istha still unconscious. The patch of land slides faster, getting hazardous every passing second, the speed wasn't controlled anymore.

"YOU LIKE THAT FUCKKER" the captain screams.

He grabs on an elongated arm of one of his men.

"we will hide for now, the village reinforcements will be here soon".

The family continues crashing down, they hit the ground hard.

After thr crash. Rubbles around the crash site.

"Arthuu--".

Arthur slowly wakes up, the sight he saw

Shouldn't be allowed for a child.

Their loving mother crushed. Father not to be seen.

"Mama, Maa -".

knelt down brought to tears.

Tears and tears, like waterfalls, unending.

"Hush! my boy".

Coughed blood.

Doubleu wakes up besides Istha, sees Arthur crying.

"Art, wh--".

"MAMAAA".

Teared up.

"Hush!"."My lovely boys".

"Oh! how much you've grown".

Reminiscing their pasts,

A little arthur and doubleu fighting.

"Papaa".

"Paaaapaaaaaa". they called for their Dad.

"I'm sorry, Mama may not get to see you married ".

"Nooo mama, we were gonna marry you". The boys continued crying.

"We were going to fight it out with Papa".

Istha laughs weakly.

"Mama, don't die, pleaseee".

"You can heal".

"Yes! Maa you can heal yourself".

Doubleu adds, still sobbing.

"Mama, can't no more, I'm sorry child".

"Listen, Mama needs you to be good boys okay? ".

"okay! ". they replied rubbing their eyes.

"Melca, She's sleeping".

"What-bout Papa and Mary and--glove--mar-"."I--ll c-all Paapa".

Arthur with teary eyes, can't even make a sentence

She already knew, the fate of Huck and the rest.

"Papa's resting".

Changing the topic,

Istha says "Boys beneath that rock"

She points towards a rock to the left ,the size of a young lamb.

"Go lift it up".

They did as their mother told so.

It wasn't heavy for the two, they've been training with their dad.

They saw Raa'kuun.

The boys were horrified.

"RAAAA".

"Mamaaa, Raaa's dea-".

"Raaa is, Raa is"

"Don't worry boys, bring him here".

They put him down on Istha's arm,

She embraces the motionless body.

"Oh my poor boy, Mama's sorry".

The little boy's body still has a slight pulse,

His head displaced horribly, but the little life he has, the child clings to it.

"My children, My love".

She looks at Melca, then Arthur, then Doubleu.

"Mama's going to rest, She's needed in heaven"." Papa and Mary and Glove even Marc, they're up there waiting for Mama".

"Papa and Glove even Ma--- ?".

The boys cried again.

"Shh! Aww don't cry".

"They're looking at us right now".

"Don't cry".

They started sobbing down.

"Mama, she has to go to them".

"But Mama, whyy? ".

The boys replied.

"I bet you all know how papa is, when Mama's not around".

"He gets cranky ".

Says a sobbing Doubleu.

"Right, so mama needs to go to him and all of us will always keep our eyes on the rest of you".

"From up there".

They look up altogether.

"But mama, we'll miss you".

"We will miss you too, but we will always be with you".

The boys sobbs, filled with grief, refusing to believe this reality.

They were grown enough, to know what death means, the sweet words from their dying mother was taken to heart.

"Bring Melca close, hold each others hands"

The boys did so, she puts Raa'Kuun close to her chest, she holds Arthur hand's on the left and Doubleu's on the right.

"Mama, had this ability".

"Me and Papa always planned to use this when we reach our old age"

"It's called Immortality".

"we don't want that"

"We want to come up there too"

"We want to always be with you guys forever".

says the boys.

"Yes! You will, Me papa and your brothers and sister will always be with you".

"But Mama".

The boys sobbed.

"I want you all to live"

"Can you promise me?"

"Promise me that you'll live!".

"Bu-".

Before Arthur could even finish.

"Promise me? Arty"

"Promise, mama".

"I-I promise". Arthur promised crying.

"Promise me Leu"

"Promise".

"Good, I'm so proud of you boys".

"Listen! take care of Melca and Raa"

"I love you all so much".

Istha tears falling.

"We love you too".

Istha smiles. "You guys promised you'll live, don't get reckless, okay".

"And always be the good guys in whatever you do".

"Promise" the boys said together.

She closes her eyes.

"Mama? ".

Green lights shone bright. The forest was lit up by it.

The light engulfs the children.

Raa'kuuns neck got restored.

Wounds were healed.

Istha opens her eyes.

She saw her kids.

She smiles.

"I love you all".

And disappears, with tiny specks of green dusts.

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