~ Chapter 11 – Father Vs Son
The people in front of us tightly gripped their weapons. They were ready
to attack when given the order to. The Dark Lord walked up to me, face to face.
I held a firmer grip on my fruit knife.

Dark Lord: Long time no see, Tai. You too Athena and…some magician.

Raeken: ………

Dark Lord: I’m sure you already know who I am, so I’ll skip the introduction. You’re
coming with me Tai. If you don’t, everyone here will kill your friends and capture you.

Athena: Eziko was no stupid boss. He was tough. You’re tough… but his gang
could shred you to pieces.

The dark lord just grunted and then smiled. Soon after he laughed. When he
was finished, he coughed a few laughs and told us what happened.

Dark Lord: I’m the dark lord…I have my ways.

Me: That’s a stupid answer…

Athena: Anyway, you’re not taking Tai…or should I say…my son. If you
get in our way, we’ll cut you all up till you’re laying still on the floor, unconscious or dead.

Wow…I never would of thought my mom would have such a backbone. I was proud to
be her son. Raeken agreed with Athena and they both readied their bow and staff.
Again, all Dark Lord did was chuckle some more, but It was a short laugh. He looked at us
serious and said:

Dark Lord: This isn’t going to be a pretty sight…and knowing you guys, you’ll be too
foolish and stupid to give up.

Me: At least we’re not stalkers!

The dark lord commanded all of the gangs to attack us, and sure enough, they obeyed
and charged at us, with no battle plan. What stupid people. Doesn’t anyone in Zipangu
besides Ezuki’s gang have brains? Raeken told me and Athena that he can handle the gangs.
He told us to find a way out and he’ll follow. The whole mansion was covered with some
anti-magic seal, so Raeken couldn’t teleport us out, so we’ll have to get out the old fashion way.

I sliced some of the gang members who were in our way and scrammed, leaving Raeken
to back us up. We ran through the corridor, Athena shooting down people getting in the way,
and me being her backup by shooting some with my maple soul searcher. I was good with
both close combat and far range combat. Guess maybe I could be half thief, half bowman?

~ Back to Raeken [Raeken will now be the protagonist for this part of the chapter,
so when I say “I”, I mean Raeken, not Tai]

Forming a palm of mana in my hand, I transformed the mana to make a long eletric
thunder spear. They could never touch me. I avoided every attack they pulled
and slashed the spear at them like a huge lightsaber. The concentrated mana in
the thunder spear pushed back the gang members. Once I slashed through a dozen
more people, I decided to do the finishing move. I absorbed the remaining mana
from my spear and formed lighting.

The lighting strook many down, but they’re were many people. So I combined
the lighting shocks with light miracle. The electricity turned into thunder spears
and dozens of the spears came hurtling down, stabbing every person in the room
besides me. The all moaned with pain. I didn’t want to kill them, so I spared them, but
they won’t be doing any crime for a long time…or maybe ever. I ran towards the direction
Tai and Athena faced, but suddenly a flaming arrow came at me and pushed me back.

I saw the man who shot the flaming arrow at me. I expected it to be one of the leaders
or bosses of Eziko’s gang, but It was a magician. I was right though. He was magician…but
part of Eziko’s gang. I suddenly froze when I saw his dark pale face. He was a traitor who
ran away from Ellnia and told people about how to get into Ellnia. That backstabbing @sshole!
So he told everyone in Zipangu did he? He walked up to me and said:

Magician: Heh…hey Raeken…It’s been a while. How’ve you been?

Raeken: Fine, until you showed again…father.

Magician: Heh…just call me Rogue. I don’t want to think about
the idea too much about fighting my son.

Raeken: Heh…you’ll go easy on me then? Well then,
I’m not going to call you Rogue…father!

Rogue: Hmm…If you beat me, I’ll tell you something intreasting.
I want to see how much you’ve grown. This could be the last
time we see each other again. So…good luck…son.

Raeken: Shut the hell up and fight!

Controlled by rage and anger, I charged at him without thought, furiously
lashing out a giant thunder spear. My intention was to stab him, but due
to my rage, he avoided my lunge attack with ease, and made himself
his own thunder spear, but even more giant and he hit me with it on the back.
I screamed with pain and he was about to pull the finishing move, but before
he could, I teleported out of the way just in time.

I tried to hold back my anger, but It was hard. After 20 years, he finally
appears in front of me, part of Eziko’s gang!

Rogue: Don’t let anger possese you. You’ll die If you’re not careful.

Raeken: I said shut the hell up and fight!

This time, I held back the anger, and fought smartly. I combined
my lighting with light miracle, and the lighting once again turned into
giant spears. I made all the spears lunge downwards at him. He didn’t
move. He stodd still…but when the spears were just about 10 feet
above his head, he murmured some words and yelled Seal. A strange
purple cube appeared on top of his head and suddenly, strange icons
appeared around the hurtling massive spears. They stopped in an instant.
He faced me and closed his eyes and said, “Release!”

The spears moved, but they changed their sharp edges at me and lunged
foward at me. 100 massive thunder spears, determined to kill. I tried to
send them back at him, but my father’s mana was far greater than my own.
It was nearly impossible to push back the spears, so I did the only thing
I could of done. I teleported endlessly to diffrent spots, avoiding the spears.
I teleported a lot, slowly draining my mana supply. The spears were all on the floor.
It was worth it. I grabbed one of the 100 spears on the ground.

Rogue: Hmm, you got better, but I’m not very impressed. 20 years and you
still suck this bad? I’m afraid I’m going to kill you here and now.

Raeken: I don’t know why you abandonded us. You could of stayed and lived
a happy life, but you put our lives in danger and put me in to my own personal hell.

I took a very deep breath that lasted for almost a minute, then exhaled.

Raeken: I wanted to live with you, I wanted to have a father, just have fun,
maybe go on a few adventures, but you’ve abandoned me and the people
of Ellnia. You were one the most respected magician in Ellnia, until you
made that deal with Eziko. He promised you power did he? Fortune? You’re
forgetting happiness!

Rogue: Money and power brings happiness you numbskull.

Raeken: It may, but the thing that grants you the most happiness is friends
and family, and Eziko took it away from you or you took it away from yourself.
I wished I was never your son! I’m going to finish you now! By breaking the seal.

The seal was a tatoo on my backside. It had mystical powers that Grendel gave me.
He told me to use it only if It was truly needed. The punishment for using it was
not pretty, but It was worth it now. I closed my eyes and stabbed myself in the back
with the thunder spear I was holding. The seal was activated.

My body was changing. i felt immense pain…but in the end, I felt incredible power
surging through my body. Then, something strange happened. I grew…wings…
white wings. It was like Tai’s wings he cut off, but it was white. Before I could
even wonder why I grew wings all of a sudden, I couldn’t control my body. The source
of this power. The demon in my head then talked to me.

Demon: Member of the Hakashi Clan. You are granted with my power. In return,
I will feed on some of your soul.

I couldn’t speak back, I had no power. He took complete control of my body
My dad suddenly shot a magic composition at me. My body quickly dodged the attack
and flew at my dad. I blinded him with my wings, or…the demon inside me did and
forming a giant source of mana in my hand, I made a giant eletric blade. It was really big.
It was 50 feet long. Before I knew it, I was casting eletric waves with my blade and
charging up more power with Element Amplification. He did the same and release
a poison myst attack.

It was a brutal fight from then on. We slashed each other with giant blades and
giant explosions formed by the tip of my dad’s staff. I suddenly had no thought. I couldn’t
see anything. All I saw then was light. It was not long until I heard a giant explosion
and the sound of a blade swing. I finally came to my senses.

When I came to, I saw the wings crawl back to my back and the seal returned, and my
dad was lying on the ground. I got near him. He was breathing slowly. He was severly injured.
He would not live for long. Speeding up the death process, he slowly speaked to me and said:

Rogue: ….urgh…..you coward….relying on….your seal…..to finish me.
I’m glad you turned out……to be…..a strong young man though. Don’t ever
be killed….you must live. I was a bad person…..and I know. Oh yeah…I promised
I would tell you….something intreasting. Theres…going to….be a war….a big one….soon.
Be prepared….and….hopefully…..I’ll see you in the….afterlife.

Even though I hated my father so very much, It was hard to see him in pain. I cried,
and I showed my feelings to him. I didn’t want him to die. he smiled at me, coughed
for a while…and then slowly, closed his eyes, and finally went into an enternal sleep.
I just stood in front of his body, kneeling and crying…unable to move from pain and sadness
, I sat still. Not knowing what to do but stare at my dad’s body.

~ Chapter 11 – End ~