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Chapter 21 - Greed.

Kids...Inside of a cage with little clothing on. 1 was so skinny you could see their ribs. One of the kids was crying.

"Hey shut up before I chop off your tongue!" The guard that was waiting there was obviously not friendly. The kids had chains on them. They were slaves.

"Eddy...I'm so hungry...It hurts." One of the little girls said. She was 6.

"Don't worry Sanna. Just stay awake and we'll have food soon." Eddy rubbed her cheek.

"It's cold and dark...I'm scared, Eddy...I don't want to die." A tear ran down Sanna's face.

And the other little girl just kept crying.

"What the hell!" Tom whisper as sweat dripped down his face.

"This is horrible...Hey, guys let's head back." Pam panicked.

"But we can't just leave them here!" Toyomo said.

"Yeah and we also can't beat that guard. We'll retreat and figure out something. We got to go for right now though." Pam explained.

They nodded and went back to the house. And went inside.

The royale Guy was handing their parents something in a little bag.

"Well hello, kids." Sue was acting weird and giving them a creepy smile.

"M-mom are you ok."

"Why wouldn't I be Tom?"

"M-mom what's in that bag?" Pam started to sweat.

"Well...this nice man just gave us money..."

"Money!? No..." Sam thought to herself.

"What's wrong honey?" Sue and Peter smiled.

"I guess we can stop with the act now Sue," Peter said smiling.

"What are you saying!?" Pam asked clutching her fist.

"We have no need for you guys anymore," Peter said with a hell smile.

"You now belong to Mister right here," Sue said smiling cheek to cheek.

"Well...I Only want the girl and that one." The man pointed at Tom.

"Well, then what should we do with Toyomo?" Sue asked.

"Heh, Kill him." The man said.

Toyomo's heart dropped to his stomach.

The mother grabbed a knife off the table.

"M-mom?" Tears ran down Toyomo's face. The other 2 were frozen. With each step, she took toward him the room felt heavier.

"IM NOT YOUR FUCKING MOM!" Sue raised up the knife and tried to slice Toyomo but Pam jumped in the way and the knife went into her neck. Then she collapsed in front of Toyomo.

Her blood splatter on them. Pam's eyes slowly went dim. The necklace she got from her mom cover in blood.

"Damn it woman you missed!" The man yelled at Sue.

"I'm so sorry!" Sue got down on her hands and knees and bowed.

"Your lucky I'm In a good mood today. Since that one dead no point in having these two. I think I'll have some fun with them!" The man had an evil look.

"Run!" Toyomo said grabbing Tom and running out the door.

The guards caught them. And held Toyomo down. And tied Tom's hand up.

"MOM! DAD! HELP ME!!" Tom screamed tears rolling down his face.

Then they tied his legs up, tied his hands to one horse, and tied his hands to the other.

"NO PLEASE STOP!" Toyomo screamed.

"MOM! DAD! HELP!" Tom yelled as the 2 horses ran in opposite directions.

...This was hell...Toyomo watches as It happens. "Hell, It has to be! This is hell! HELL! HELL! HELL!" Toyomo went silent and put his face on the ground.

"Fight! YOU HAVE TO FIGHT!" Toyomo's feelings started to speak to him. And all of them said FIGHT AND LIVE! GET UP!

Black Iracuj started pouring out of Toyomo and his hair turned black with the red looking like blood. His eyes became peer black with red as the pupil. And he blasted the guards of him.

And stood up and "AAAAAAGH!" His yell was not human anymore.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! over over over again in his brain! power exploded out of him! Then he stopped yelling and the burst of power stopped as well. And he looked at all the guards. 20 guards. That's what he counted. He took one slow step toward them. And started making each step faster. Toyomo ran and instantly took one of the guard's heads off then pulled out his spine and used it as a weapon. He rushed at another guard and slice through his body using the spine. They started firing fireballs and lightning at him. He dodged it all And kept killing them one by one. He ripped off one's head and threw it at another guard's head and crushed his face. ripped off another one Jaw and stabbed another guy with it. "FIGHT! LIVE! DO IT FOR THEM DON'T FALL NOW! FIGHT!" Is all that kept going in his head. after 3 mins 20 guards were slaughtered by a 7-year-old with the spine of one of their own men.

Toyomo looked at the royal and the royal pissed himself and dropped down to his knees.

"I'll give you anything you want! Please spare me!" The royal pleaded for his life and Sue and Peter couldn't move out of fear.

"My brother and sister are never coming back. And I want them to come back. You cant give me what I want. So I'll make you suffer instead!" Toyomo Chopped off half of The royal's foot. Then began torturing him. After about 15 minutes the royal died out of too much pain.

After he was done with that he looked at Peter and Sue. And Their fear was too horrible. But they managed to speak some words.

"T-toyomo. We're sorry for what we did. Remember I'm your mother." She was desperate and Tears ran down her face.

"Y-yeah. We Love You remember!" Peter whimpered.

The rain started falling. As tears started running down Toyomo's face.

"...I...Love you too mom. And dad."

They both smiled get.

"That's why I'll make your deaths painless," Toyomo said as he stuck his hand inside of Peter's chest and killed him instantly.

"No wait Toyomo I'm your mother!" She pissed herself.

"You are? Then where is that motherly smile you had?" He sounded soulless.

"Right here! See!" She smiled desperately.

More tears ran down his face. then he looked her in her eyes.

"Y-Your not my Fucking mom!" He stuck his hand right through her chest then laid her down gently.

Toyomo stood up and Looked up to the sky as rain poured down on him. And all his thoughts calmed down.

"AAAAAAAAHG!!! HUNG HAHAHA!!" Toyomo broke down into tears. The blood was being washed away but his heart will be forever stained. The clouds separate but it kept raining with sunshine. As if the sky was crying for him. After a minute, he got up and grabbed Tom's body, and started digging a hole and buried him. Then he walked inside and Took off Pam's necklaces and put it on. Then he dug a hole next to Tom and laid her there.

"...Goodbye, you guys. I'll make sure to build that kingdom," Toyomo said turning away and started walking down the path away from a place he thought was home. He started getting closer to the guard that was guarding the little slaves in the cage.

He ran and tackled the man and started punching him in the face over and over and over again. until he died. Then he got off of him and looked at the kids in the cage.

"Are you here to save us!?" one of the little kids beamed.

"...Yeah." Toyomo sliced through the bars and let them out.

"Thank you for saving us!" The little girl said.

"No problem...Some of you look hungry do you want to eat something and get out of the rain." He asked Them.

There were three kids in total.

"Would you really do that for us!" A boy said. He looked to be 11 years old.

"Yeah. It's no problem." Toyomo looked and sounded soulless.

"Then we accept your offer!" The boy bowed.

Toyomo led the way back to the cabin past all the dead bodies.

"Did you do all this?" The boy asked. carrying one of the children on his back.

"Yeah, I did."

The children didn't seem to bother by it. They walked inside and Toyomo gave them some leftovers from yesterday.

"Thank you very much! Here Sanna, eat this." The boy tried to feed the girl he was carrying on his back but...

"Hey...Sanna, why aren't you eating?" The boy already knew what was happening but he was in denial.

"Oh no..." The little girl that was across the table said.

"Sanna...Sanna!" The boy starts crying and breaking down into tears and fell on the floor. Sanna starved to death right as they were saved.

Toyomo went over and hugged him.

"I'm sorry. But if you need to cry I'll hold you through it so don't hold back" Toyomo said as The boy started balling his eyes out. The little girl got in the hug as well and cried.

After that, they buried Sanna next to his family.

"These two graves right here. Who's are they?" The boy asked.

"My sister and my brother. They were just killed. By those dead men over there. So know that you not alone." Toyomo said patting him on the back then he led them inside to eat.

"...Why is the world so cruel?" Eddy asked.

"I couldn't tell you...But just like my sister said 'Push through and keep moving even when things seem hopeless. Be the light everybody needs to travel in the dark.'

"...It hurts so much though," Eddy said.

"I know. But we let the pain fuel us. And let the good memories guide us. Put them behind you and let them push you forward...At least that's what she says. I'll just be like her." Toyomo gripped his necklace.

"Your sister seemed like an amazing person." The little girl said.

"Yeah, she is."

After they were done eating...

"You guys have a place you can go back to?" Toyomo asked.

"No, our parents were killed by that fat baster," Eddy growled.

"You mean the dead one outside? Don't worry he had a slow and painful death."

"Good."

"By the way what are your names?"

"My name is Earza." the little girl said. She looked to be 10. with brown hair and eyes.

"I'm Eddy. You can just call me Ed." Ed had dark purple hair and brown eyes.

"I'm Toyomo. Nice to meet you both."

"We have to leave this place, and because we have no place to go how about we travel together," Eddy suggested.

"Sounds like a plan to me." A little bit of light came back into Toyomo's eyes.

"Welcome to the team," Earza said smiling.

"Alright since we got to leave we mine as well take all the stuff from those guards we can carry and sell them," Eddy said.

"I would agree but won't it look kinda weird for us to have those things? The royal out there had a lot of money on him, let's just take that and leave." Toyomo said. It was like he matured a lot in this one day.

"Yeah, that makes sense," Eddy nodded.

They all walked outside and the rain stopped and the blue sky came out and all you could hear was the sounds of natural life.

They check the guy's pocket then and found 6 silver. Then Toyomo walked over to Sue and took the bag of money that was given to her and it had 10 gold in it.

"Holy shit we hit the jackpot!" Eddy said excitedly.

"I guess we were only worth 10 gold," Toyomo said to himself chuckling a little.

"Heck yeah, we did! But what are we going to do with this money?" Earza asked.

"We'll save it and only use it when we need to. This money will be the start of the falling of the Kindom." Toyomo said handing it to Eddy.

"So you plan on taking down the kingdom...I'm with you all the way then" Eddy said grinning.

"I am two!" Earza said.

"Alright then let's do this." The king started his walk away from the cabin this time not looking back.

They walked through the woods to the kingdom. They passed through the gate and entered. The Kingdom was filled with shops people food stands. Toyomo was not used to this.

"So where is a place we could get stronger at?" Toyomo asked.

"We could bounty hunt monsters. It's a good way to get money and stronger." Eddy replied.

"Wait don't we need weapons to bounty hunt?" Earza asked.

"Yeah we can get some but I'm already pretty strong so we'll get you guys some," Toyomo said.

"Sounds good to me," Eddy replied.

They found a nearby weapon shop and went in.

"Welcome to my shop! Oh, it's just some kids. Look I don't have any money for you." The shop was a buff bald guy.

"We aren't here to ask for money. We are here because we need weapons." Toyomo explained.

"What would a little kid like you need a weapon for?"

"It's not for me it's for these two." Toyomo pointed at Eddy and Earza.

"Look man we got money so just let us get some weapons," Eddy said stepping up.

"...Alright fine. As long as you got money."

The group smiled then went to go pick out weapons. Eddy chose a bow that looked to be made with steel and Iracuj. And Earza got a sword that was made with Iracuj.

"You guys got what you want?" Toyomo asked.

They both nodded.

"Are you sure you're going to be able to pay for this?" Shopkeeper said.

"Well, that depends on how much it is," Eddy responded.

"Well for both of those are special weapons that help draw out Iracuj and are made with Iracuj. So those 2 together are 2 gold coins."

"Would you be willing to settle for 1 gold and 6 silver?" Eddy asked.

"That's a pretty big leap in price!"

"Yes this is true but on the fact that you have so many weapons, you haven't gotten much business, have you?" Eddy said smiling.

"It's because I'm a new shop and there are already so many good shops."

"And yet we choose this one, so It must be fate that we came here!" Eddy said with heart.

The shopkeeper jump in surprise.

"Do you not see it. Your first sell was too dirty-looking kids that have so much potential! Does that not sound like a start to a Legend! Just think about it, if three weak kids use your weapons and get stronger and stronger the word will spread and you would get more sales than you could handle!" Eddy was really into this speech.

The Shopkeeper jumped when he heard this and realized that he was right!

"You got yourself a deal! What're your name's first customers?"

"I'm Eddy this Toyomo and this is Earza." Eddy was being really dramatic.

"My name is James. I look forward to working with you for years to come." Eddy and James shook hands and smiled. Then he set the money on the counter and they left.

"Wow, that really worked." Earza put the sword in the sheath she had on her back. (it came with the sword)

"Yep," Eddy said grinning.

"Hey, you think you could do that again so we can get some new clothes?" Toyomo asked.

"Yep, no problem."

They found the nearest clothes store and entered.

"Welcome to our shop what can I get you today?" Because of those Pricey looking weapons, they weren't turned away.

"We just need some new clothes we'll be taking a look around." After a little, they got some clothes for about 2 silver. That's is half of the price of what they really were but Eddy worked his magic.

Eddy walked out with a leather jacket with a black undershirt and black pants. Earza had a red dress on. Toyomo had black pants and a black button-up shirt.

"This is much better," Toyomo said stretching.

"Yeah. now we look like we could be bounty hunters." Eddy said.

"I feel pretty in this dress."

"Alright then where is the bounty hunter place?"

See you next time space cowboy...

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