9 Fire 2

Her mind began to crumble, she still couldn't believe herself, she just killed someone. Was she a hidden psychopath? She didn't know, but she convinced that she was just defending herself. There was nothing wrong, there was nothing freaking wrong with this! Right?!

Who she was joking? She knew the fact this sin was so great, but she couldn't help herself.

Slightly looking around the room, she noticed a strange black short sword, beside one of the many boxes inside the bedroom. She didn't know why but it was glowing red. She approached it and took it unconsciously, slashed! Her skin was being cut from touching it. Her blood dropped to the sword, flowing in each side and made it seems like red veins. The light grew stronger due to her blood. Regained her sense, she didn't realize what did she just do? How come she suddenly grabbed this item? What just happened?

She felt confused, but she quickly changed her mind, her focus right now was preparing to escape from this place. Without a second thought, she took the sword with her, she needed it for her defense later.

Wait, she just realized, she just killed the chief of the tribe, right? What if his men came and took revenge at her? Cursed inwardly, she must hurry to get away from this place! She passed the dead man as she bit her lips hatefully, "I hope you enjoy the hell I gave to you!" Sarah was still grudging from what happened to her. She never in her life felt this humiliated. She spat him and left the room.

Looking at the three women who were still left unconscious. She quickly grabbed off one of their tribe red and brown clothes and wore them. One of the women grunting and unclosed her eyes, looking at Sarah who was changing clothes beside her. "W...Who are...ugh!" Sarah stabbed the woman's heart to keep her mouth shut. The woman left the living world in instant.

Without Sarah knowing, Sarah's eyes were lifeless like a doll. Her hand and body were moving on her own. The girl fell to the floor and Sarah's sword suddenly disappear.

Blinking her eyes, she asked herself what happened to her again? She was just like this a moment ago? As if something erasing her memories or controlling her? She looked at her empty hands and her side. Where was the sword? Startled by this mysterious thing. Did she encounter some magic thing?

She noticed something, a small dot formed in the middle on her right palm. "What is this?" She asked herself. Glancing to the three women. Sarah was flabbergasted, someone killed one of this lady? Who? But she was alright a moment ago? So, why?

'Is it me who killed her?' A sudden chill ran toward her calp. 'No. It can't be, right?'

A heavy footstep came through the outside door, "Chief! Chief! Emergency!" Sarah could hear Berno's voice from outside. She hid somewhere in the corner near the door. Berno barged in and just when he came in, he was shocked from the sight of the two women fainting while the other one was dead! "What on earth?"

Slashed!

His head fell as Sarah cut his neck. Blood flowing through it and his body fell to the ground. Regaining her conscious back, her previous dead eyes came back to lit up. Gasping, she witnessed Berno's dead body in front of her. 'W-What's going on? Why I didn't remember anything?' She noticed the sword came back on her right hand, the bloodstained remained on the sword. It glowed redder as the sword absorb the blood.

Her speculation was right, she was the one who killed this man and that woman. Unfortunately, she killed it not by her will not like she just did with the chief. Fu*k! Was it because of the sword? Was it cursed?!

She shivered and threw the sword to the ground, yet the sword suddenly disappeared and she had guessed her sword still attached on her as long as she had this special dot in her palm. Trying to calm down, she must not overreact with this. This magic or supernatural stuff, she should be starting to get used to it since she met that talking wolf two days ago. Right now, she must run before the others find out about her deed! She should not be in this place anymore! It would be dangerous for her!

...

Walking out from the chief tree house, her eyes suddenly reflected by a blazing flame. Under the morning sun, the tribe was on fire! All of the tree houses, the people were burn by some other humans which she noticed, those intruders were not from this tribe. They looked civilized. Sarah climbed down fast and sneak fastly to the other side of the tree. She could hear screams and battles behind her. She peeked behind the tree and noticed someone familiar. His purple robe was fluttering from the flame, it was the same with his long black hair. Standing, smiling, and ordering his men in armor to perish all of the tribe people.

Sarah stunned from the sight, wait, wasn't he the man who called himself 'Li Jili'? And why those brown armors look familiar? She remembered the time she watched historical Japanese drama, that armor exactly like the same, yet it was slightly different. She couldn't define it well. Maybe it was the style?

She heard Li Jili shouted to his men, "No one from the Badru Tribe should be alive, you hear me?! Kill all of them! Search for Maht sword in each of their houses."

"Yes, your highness!" They followed his order, half of them fighting with the indigenous people while some of them kicking tree houses, searching for the item, but if there was no result, they killed and burn Badru Tribe's people and home. Not only adults but also children.

Sarah's heart began to squeeze itself. What she was hesitating at this moment? She wanted to save them, but she couldn't. Her feet couldn't move. But what could she do? Because it was too late, almost all of the people dying one to another one. In the first place, the Badru Tribe's people were in a small group, so it got slain easily and fast.

Li Jili suddenly turned his head behind and looked up the chief tree house. He climbed up like wind and went inside the door. As he doing that, Sarah suddenly got noticed by one of the Li Jili's men, "There's another one escape!!" He shouted, bringing his comrades to look at her at the same time. Heading to her side with their swords, Sarah was panicking inwardly. Her feet were stuck on the ground due to her extreme trembling, she was being cowardly, how could she fight with this many people?!

Suddenly her palm glowing red once more and slowly her conscious yet again disappear. The next thing she knew, her eyes turned dead as she stood there looking at the sky. Cloudy.

When the men got closer to her, she swiftly avoided their swords attacks and walked as if nothing happened, slicing each of the men in one slash. Splitting their body and made them like a lump of minced meat. The blood which she got from them was being absorbed by the black sword and glowed even redder.

Other men realized her as a threat, they took all of their weapons and dashed to her one at a time.

Standing rigidly. Sarah indifferently avoided each one of their attacks and counterattack by thrusting their weak spot on their body easily. She didn't have time to show off her battled sword, she just wanted to do this quickly and precisely.

In four minutes, half of them were being killed by her while one of them ran and hiding somewhere unnoticed by her sight. Sarah blinked her eyes and she regained her conscious back. Her eyes turned terror as the blood bath were right there surrounded in front of her. The black sword vanished into the part of her body.

She lost for words and her head began muddled. 'Did she kill people again?' She asked herself again. Staggeringly, her eyes turned to blurry, in the middle of the blazing fire, she tried to escape into the other side of the forest.

At the same time in the tree house, Li Jili found out that the chief and Berno were dead. He walked to the two girls who woke up feeling terror.

They found out one of her sisters was dead. They looked at the purple man robe, his handsome and smiled featured looked harmless, but when he tried to get closer, he grabbed their chin as his quite long black nail pierced into their skin. He whispered to them, "Where's the Maht black sword? And where's Tereza?" They shook their heads from his question tremblingly.

"You don't know?" He asked surprisingly and then nodded, smiling at them. "Alright then, it's okay, you'll be alright now. The bad people already being taking care of, I'm going to save you," he assured them so they could relax and the two women let out a relief. Not until they felt something weird, something bitter. Through their mouth, black blood came out. "Does my poison is quite strong? Sorry then."

Brakk! They dropped lifeless on the wooden tiles while their body turning rotten awfully. "Useless fool." He muttered. He clenched his fist for his failure! The sword he had been searching for this years was nowhere to be found? Where did it vanish? Was it got taken by Tereza? He thought of the possibility. Speaking of Tereza, where was she?

He went outside the tree house and lit up fire on the chief house. He looked up and saw black smoke rising to the sky, yet he didn't feel satisfied at all for his failure!! He looked down, widen his eyes in shocked! All of his subordinates were dead!

He jumped down and searched for someone who still survived. He noticed one man hiding behind the bushes as he kept mumbling, "Monster...Monster..."

Li Jili squinted his eyes, who could possibly to do this? Was there someone who came to this place the same purpose as him?

Who... Who... Who could it be beside Tereza, right?! That woman, no, that witch, fooled him again! Did this mean she was acting last night? Her true purposed was to steal that Math sword, huh. He should have known that he shouldn't favor this feeling to someone like her.

He regretted worrying about her.

"Just you wait... Tereza. I swear it on my name." He mumbled as he vowed if he could meet her again, he wouldn't believe a word of her and later she would be his servant later. He would make her obey all of his words. The fact she already stole the precious dragon treasure, from now on, she became his enemy. There was no 'rival' word in his dictionary anymore. It was already in the past and new page began to rise.

His dark shadow came and whispered to him, "You failed. That treasure is the most important than all of the three. One was already taken by that woman called Rosalina, while the other one was being taken by another woman called Tereza. While the last was still nowhere to be found. What would you do now? If you keep delaying like this, you'll die sooner or later."

"Why are you asking me that? The answer is obvious, I'm going to steal it back. That woman Rosalina was a little difficult due to her status as a queen now, while Tereza was former queen and a witch. Of course, I'm going to hunt the latter. Do you know where did she go?" He asked the shadow.

"I don't know. I can't trace her, as if something blocking my vision to see her. I guessed that woman wasn't simple as it seems, because I can feel another power within her. But, I couldn't tell what it was." The shadow explained annoyingly.

Snorting from the shadow words. "Tereza... what exactly the secret that you keep?" He mumbled while clenching his teeth in anger.

...

Meanwhile, Sarah was still running as fast she could as she was breathing heavily, her tears fell, she kept complaining about what she just did. What should she do? What was wrong with her? This accident power she got, would bring her destruction to other innocent people if she kept it longer!

She didn't realize her cheeks got scratched from the branch she just passed by. Blood came out and she could feel so dirty and a mess. Panting heavily, she cried depressingly, she just wanted to go home.

As she kept going further, the mist turned stronger than before, she didn't care about it at first, as she guessed due to the morning atmosphere, yet she didn't realize she was already entering the zone or the place which had a thick fog. The place she tries to avoid yesterday.

Slipping from the slippery soil, she fell and hit her head to the ground. Groaning, she realized her vision began to blurry. She felt nauseating and tired whether it was physically or mentally.

Out of the blue, a woman with a black dress came to her side. She thought she was a young woman, not until she let out her voice and she could saw her wrinkled face, "Poor child, are you okay?" She asked Sarah concernedly.