Orionos was bluffing. He had no other ways of finding the missing pages of the book, and he also needed Splendor to translate the book for him. His powers were diminished while fighting my dad's brother, Vine Santino, so he couldn't do many things. It was his defeat by Vine, which made him come back to Skyling City. He had thought killing Vine was going to be easy for him to get more powers. But he found himself begging for his life, and Vine granted him life. So while he was at the lab fighting my dad, his other army led by Mr. Kenneth was in a long march to Paradise to find Vine.
The girls and I were on the run within the bushes at the same time we were going after Orionos' army expecting to rescue Leticia. We had left Chris and Splendor with my dad and Kort. They were hurt, so they were going to slow us down. As for the fight between Orionos and my dad, I didn't even know how I left my dad fighting alone. However, I was confident that Kort was going to kill Orionos just by a bullet. I believed no one was immortal to the bullet. When we were in the middle of the thicket, Orionos' army spotted us. They started shooting arrows at us while closing in. There was nothing we could have done because we were not experienced, and any wrong move was going to lead to our deaths. The soldiers caught us, and they forced us to rode their horses. They took us to Mr. Kenneth is in the lead of the army. He was surprised to see us. He ordered his men to take the girls-Mariana, Triana, and Renata. After that, he chained me.
"What's going with you and the girls?" Mr. Kenneth asked and said, "Instead of giving your father a headrest while he says his death wish, you're are running away."
"What? What do you mean?" I asked.
He laughed and told me that the messenger had come with the news of my dad defeat. He said the lab was burnt while everyone was inside after my dad's defeat. My heart pondered knowing we were defeated. I wondered what Kort and others did. For a moment, I kept quiet thinking about everything. I couldn't think of my friends being burnt down in the lab. It was unimaginable. However, I felt nothing about my dad at that moment. I didn't know why. The feeling was echoing from a distance. Mr. Kenneth added, telling us that Orionos was then heading towards the border. At the border, a war was going to be started. Orionos was indeed ready to fight. He intended to frighten the guards at the border. Obviously, they were going to surrender and join him.
Our ride with Mr. Kenneth was filled with silence for about a kilometer. The sun was set, and we continued heading forward towards the border. With no doubt, that day was my end. My dad's confession about us made things worse because I couldn't think straight. As we ascended the cliffs, the horses stopped. My heart bit increased, and for a second, I thought they wanted to slaughter us. Mr. Kenneth jumped down from his horse and walked forward. It was at that time that I saw there was a lady lying on the ground. The lady wore white, which was seen in the dark, and her voice when she asked for help was very piercing.
"Who are you?" Mr. Kenneth asked.
She didn't speak but continued breathing heavily.
"What's happening to you... you are wrecked, useless woman. Say something before my blade tastes your blood," Mr. Kenneth screamed.
The woman stood up, still breathing heavily, and suddenly, she knelt down and bowed to him.
"I have no intent to hurt you, so please free the blackbloods. Their mission is far greater than yours. If you do so, you will all live," she said, her breathing calming down.
Mr. Kenneth touched her cheek with the tip of his gun.
She looked at him from his head to his boots, and her eyes pedaled to the men on horses who were all fully armed. It was as if she knew they were going to kill her.
"I have one wish," she said.
"Say something of sense before I kill you," Mr. Kenneth screamed.
"I want to see him... the one of black blood, " she said, panting as if losing a breath.
Mr. Kenneth's was confused. The woman stood up and ran towards us. She was coming straight to me. I jumped down from the horse, my hands still chained. Before she could even reach me, Mr. Kenneth released the trigger. She momentarily stopped as her breath left her for seconds as the bullet caught her. I jumped to catch her before she fell down. While in my arms, I slowly knelt down with her. She put her hands on my nose and caressed my face.
"So it's you... I ran for centuries looking for you. I am from the past. Everything will fall, and I have one wish left," she whispered, breathing her last and finally saying, "Let it rain!"
After her final words, something unnatural happened. The ground vibrated, lighting struck the trees around us, and thunder from a clear night sky raptured our ears. The winds suddenly became heavy, and the temperatures became low. We were all confused and not understanding what was happening. At that moment, it came to my mind that the woman lying in front of me had made a wish, a wish to make it rain, and it was about to happen. As I related from my dad's story, I remembered the first rain of the blackblood. The woman was one of the black blood, one of us. From nowhere, my tears leaked from my eyes, and they slowly drizzled following my cheeks. As the drops of them fell onto the ground, I felt my soul getting more energized by an intense unknown energy. I closed my eyes, trying to understand myself. At that instant, the rain showered, each drop on my skin, making me feel more energized.
The woman made a wish despite knowing she was dying. She was very confident enough that it was going to rain. While I was trying to make sense of everything, my dad's memories came, and they sucked my energy. My body trembled, and suddenly, I felt continuous shocks of pain in different parts of my body. I screamed loudly. Mr. Kenneth and his men were staring. They didn't understand anything. Their guns were pointed at me. Without anticipating it, Triana screamed loudly in response to my scream. I also screamed again, but my scream changed to be a strong roar which frightened Mr. Kenneth. He pulled the trigger to kill me. Triana screamed loudly, and almost everyone around fell down. The pitch from her scream was with a high frequency to rapture the human eardrums. The bullet that was coming straight to me at a high speed also got pushed away from me . The chains around our arms broke. When the army mobilized to shoot at us without waiting for an order from Mr. Kenneth, who was on the ground, his hands closing his ears, Triana screamed again, creating a wave that attacked everyone closer to us.
Mariana and Renata were still on the ground, lying lifeless. From a distance, the soldiers shoot all at once at us. That was inescapable. Triana came to me and held hands with me. We looked at each other as if we knew what we were doing. I raised my hand with my palm opened. The moment I closed my hand, everything froze in time. Even the rain droplets remained still and became ice. I then hit the ground by my hand. As my hand touched the ground, the army was struck by the lighting. Everything in front of us was thrusted backward by a great force, which was as if it all came from my hand. The impact also pushed me backward.The whole army died, including their horses. I didn't know how I did it, but I felt like a god. The son of the blackblood. What was carried by my DNA was something so powerful.
I walked to Mr. Kenneth, as he was lying down by his back. Blood was all over his face. It was evident that he bled from his ears, eyes, mouth, and nose before he died. Mariana and Renata woke up and looked at me and Triana. We could tell that they looked frightened.
"You are the blackblood. So, what do we do now... Orionos killed the man I was yet to call dad," Triana said.
Mariana turned and looked north and smiled.
"We heard north to the border... to kill the devil hunter," she said, referring to killing her dad.
"What about others in the lab?" Renata asked.
"We go north to take the book from Orionos. The shortcut passes through Splendor's lab... ," I said, myself still in disbelief of what had just happened. I didn't know how Triana and I managed to do that.