Chapter 17: Words That Have Meaning
Shawn stared at Adonis with a broken look on his face. "What... What are you?" He exhaled.
"I don't know," Adonis replied, now stepping back up on his feet. As he advanced toward Shawn, Shawn quickly retreated away, tripping on himself and sprinting the opposite direction. Adonis sprang after him, "Hey!" He called, gaining some of his energy back. His lungs still weren't exactly healed, but he wasn't the type to pass a race. Shawn didn't look back, and Adonis was a bit scared of what he was going to do. "Stop!" He commanded as they both blurred between the multicolored lines of trees.
Shawn was huffing and puffing harder every step. He clearly wasn't the running type. Adonis wondered how he got far into a Warrior School acting this way...
Adonis knew what he had to do. He propelled himself up into the air with a zero-gravity jump. Aiming in on his target and going in for the blow, he forcefully descended downwards upon a tired Shawn. At the last second, Shawn upturned his eyes behind his head and had one short look of pure fear dawn his face.
Bam.
It was as if even the forest could not help the hurt of the two boys. Adonis now had Shawn by his collar, they were both on the ground. "You will not tell anyone about this, got that?" He threatened. Shawn's face now housed a black bruise on its center and blood once again flooding it. "You'll... You will never.." He grunted. He was having trouble finishing his sentences it seemed.
"You will never... Never make it out of Diamon...
"Or this forest...
"Alive."
Adonis could feel his anger coming back to him in a much more controlled way. He raised his fist as his target braced for impact. He was stopped by a simple voice.
"NO!"
His head whipped to the left, eyeing what was standing there to be the idiot's sister, Shera. Of course, when he's in trouble, the sister isn't far. It's beginning to get very old the way she just interrupts these things.
"YOU BETTER PUT YOUR FIST DOWN BEFORE I SPLASH THIS POTION ON YOU!" She declared. In her hand was an odd-looking dark red potion. Or was it pink? Adonis' seeing was a bit off since that episode he had earlier. He reluctantly lowered his hand nonetheless, and Shera took that moment to gather her brother away from his grasp.
She kept a very close eye on Adonis as she did, but Adonis had both of his hands up in a harmless position. He too got off the grass, his hands still in the air. "He said something about my mother," he explained softly.
"Huh?" Shera responded annoyingly. Adonis calmly repeated what he said, and Shera replied, "You think that makes any difference?!"
"How would you feel if someone said something about your dead parent?!" He finally cried. He couldn't stop the tears from flowing out of his eyes now. "Don't you see? You're brother doesn't care about other people's situations! All you two see is a poor boy with a Netherborn tag on his head! My mother's dead and he made fun of it! My dead mother! He knows nothing of what I went through as a child!"
Shera was awfully quiet the whole time. "Say something!" Adonis demanded. "Tell me how that has nothing to do with the fact I hurt him! Because he hurt me first!" Adonis' face was dripping wet with tears he had no control over at this point. Shera closed her eyes and looked downwards, gritting her teeth.
"That doesn't give you the right to hurt another being. No matter how wrong they may be."
Adonis covered his face in defeat, knowing that he messed everything up for all of his friends. He couldn't bare his pain anymore, knowing that he let something out that he swore to only tell those closest to him. He hadn't found that person yet. Why was it so easy to let go to her and not to his only family he had?
Could it be... No..
He wiped his tears and sniffed his snot. "What, so you just don't care? Bullying someone on their dead mother like those words don't hurt?"
"I understand words have meaning, but actions have bigger meaning!" She yelled, clenching her fists way too hard. Adonis could feel her emotion even from across the forest.
"Our dad died too. He was killed by someone we thought we could trust.. That's why Shawn is the way he is."
He had no words.
"Look... Like it or not, your mom's not coming back... It's hard to let go, I get it, alright? But it's more painful to hold on than it is to let go."
She wiped her own tears, and Shawn was unconscious on the ground still.
"Just because you're hurt doesn't mean you make my pain any less difficult," Adonis stated. He had no emotion in his face; he was unsympathetic.
"I never said a word about his dad, but as soon as he hears me crying for my mom, he jumps on the chance to get at me. That's wrong no matter how you look at it. She's not in some luxurious and comfy cloud in Notch's Temple, she's in the raging and fiery hot Nether where one if the worst people ever to exist rules the domain." He stomped his foot on the grass and watched it crack, revealing it's dirty insides.
"She isn't safe. I wanna believe she is, but she isn't. Not in the same dimension with whoever my father is lurks. Everyone else has at least been claimed and seen their nether parent at least once. Not me."
Shera looked away. "You're father must hate you then." She said.
"Yeah, maybe he does," Adonis agreed. "And that's why I can't help my mom. He wasn't there to support her. She had to be all on her own with a unique child on her hands.
"She did good though. For what she could do," He added. "Maybe if she was still here, I wouldn't be with here with my friends today."
"If she was still here, you wouldn't have your friends today, Rex," Shera replied. Adonis' eyes got wide after a moment. The thought had never crossed his mind. He was here, in this position, in this life, to find the people he had now. Nothing had ever been so in his face the way that fact was.
He didn't know what came over him, but he ran straight towards Shera and gave her a hug. Shera obviously thought something else was going to happen so she had her hand on her iron sword, ready. But now knowing it was an embrace, she awkwardly patted him on the back.
He let go a few second after. "Thank you," he said. She was blushing, "For what?"
"For helping me see the sky."
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