Chapter 2 Sword ghost and a bear

Character Pov Lyon Amiel

Woah, I'm 4. And my birthday gift, the death of my parents. There are still green lights around me. Going into my chest, each time one of them comes into me, I feel a surge of power.

But my surroundings are dying. The trees are dead when they should be alive. It's summer and the wood looks to be rotted. The grass is dead too. “GRAMMY”. I was so full of hatred, pain, and sorrow. My body might be feeling better but my soul. My soul hurts. It feels as it's being sliced with a dull knife.

As I hear the howling wolves of the night, I wondered about my next action. Do I wait here for Grammy or go find her myself. I do know something, however. I will kill whoever killed my parents. I gritted my teeth so hard it hurt. I will enact my revenge. No matter what happens, I will kill whoever did this. Step step “Who there?” I asked. “It's me boy,” Grammy said.

Woah she looks very tired. What could she have done to look all sweaty? “What happened Grammy?” “I got into a skirmish with the man that killed your parents.” She killed that man?!

He took down my father who I could never beat in wrestling. “ Your that strong Grammy?”

“You could say that child. I'm nothing like I used to be.” That's insane that Grammy beat that man. “You’re coming with me boy. I'm going to train you for the next 8 years until you’re 12.

I'm going to make you strong enough to kill the people who beat your parents. My eyes widened, Me being able to kill them. “I will do anything to get my revenge.” “Perfect child. But the next 8 years won't be easy, and you won't have the luxuries of a normal child.”

“ I will do anything.” “Good, For your first part of the training I want you to meet me at the top of that mountain.” That mountain looked to be miles away from here. No way I could make it there fast. “You have 1 week to make it there’’ “ONE WEEK? Are you insane?” “Don't raise your voice at me boy” She sent a chill down my spine when she said that. “Ok ill see you there”

She just disappeared before I could react. I'm an energy full 4-year-old having to travel over 100 miles I might as well as bury my mother and father.

There that should do it. I buried my parents with my own hands as I had no shovel.

The strength I’ve gained from green orbs that killed the forest seems to come back to the forest.

“Goodbye, Father. Goodbye Mother” I buried them under a tall oak tree. I couldn't hold back my tears. I just let it all out. I had to walk away. I have one week to get to the mountain's peak.

I walked back into my house and grabbed everything that I would need. Water, food, sleeping bag, and I couldn't forget the family picture we took for Christmas. I looked so happy. No cares in the world. I put them in my backpack and I headed out.

It was sunrise, I had no sleep at all during the night. I’ll manage through it I have no time to waste. As I started to run into the forest, the crisp air felt great in my lungs. The morning dew glistened and shone as I ran past. Then I tripped over a root and hit my head. I got so mad I punched the tree. “Stupid tree!” Those same green orbs came out of the tree and it died. My head instantly stopped hurting. I was so confused that I died the same thing to another tree, but nothing happened. What could have been different in those 2 times? OH! I wanted the tree to die and I wanted to wish it would die. I tested my theory by punching another tree. No luck. I was getting frustrated I stood at the beginning of the forest for the whole day. The next morning I finally got it down. I have when I punch the tree grasp the tree's soul and take it while I have contact with it. It's weird to do but every soul is different in size and shape. Some are harder to steal. But whenever I use up the energy from the tree I lose it until the tree regains that energy all over again. What I found I can use the energy for is using it in different parts of my body and making them stronger. Such as a jump, I can jump nearly 50 ft high with 1 tree's power.

I can also increase my running speed to that fast enough to outrun the Forest hyena. From what I read, some of the fastest animals are able to run 150+ Miles per hour. ROARRR!

A great sound from the distance was made. A giant roar, it sounded like a bear. I think I should be able to beat it. I am running low on food as well. I started hopping from tree branch to tree branch. Until It saw feasting on a dead body! The body looked to be that of an old man, he has very long red hair. There also seems to be a sword stuck in his stomach. I'll bury him after I kill this bear. I started by grabbing the energy out of the tree I standing on. I'm still new to this feeling so I messed up 8 times in a row. But once I stole it, the hard part was out of the way. I can just easily transfer that energy around my body. I wanted to get the bear away and take the sword. So I gather one-twentieth of the energy I had and blasted off the tree snapping the branch off cleanly! I was going so fast I got a bug in my eye and It caused me to miss the bear completely. I missed so far off that I hit the tree right behind the bear face on. I wasn't hurt as much but the bear definitely knew I was here. The big bear turned around and stood on its hind legs and let out a massive roar. I had to think quickly. I noticed this bear has grey streaks running down its body. “Haha”. What? Who is that? To my surprise, I'm seeing the man I thought was eaten alive was alive and well.

“How can such a young boy come alone in this forest?t” He asked.

“How are you alive?” I asked

“I'll tell you if you can kill that soul bear.”

The old man seemed to disappear the same way Grammy did. But he left behind that sword. It was an excellent-looking sword. A long straight blade straight of a Fantasy novel. It had glowing blue runes and a black leather grip. The edges of the sword looked sharp enough to cut the bonds between atoms. The bear made the first move and slashed its paw at me. I decided to try something out with ki energy and use the energy actively. Like a fuel source, and if I run out I can easily get more. I dashed over to the sword that was twice the size of my body and I grabbed it. It wasn't heavy at all, but it was just too big for me to use. Until the sword just shrank to my size. I inspected the sword and the runes started to change as the energy I had was stolen by the sword. The glowing blue runes turned green, as an aura involved the sword.

This sword acted very weirdly than to the other swords my father showed me. The bear started to charge at me. I had no time to think and all of my charges had been eaten. I had no choice but to steal this tree's charge. I touched the tree and focus on where the soul of the tree would be.

“I found it!”

I absorbed the tree's energy and I activated it. The bear was a mere 3 feet from me. I jumped up in the air and I hit off of the tree to the other side of the circle area. I had to think fast before the bear. Groan. Too late, I didn't know the bear could slash its paws and make cuts in the wind. It wasn't that bad of an injury as it seems that I get increased healing with my activation of the energy. I wanted to end this faster so I prepared a massive lunge toward the bear. As I took the launching steps I noticed a flaw in the bear's defenses. It had a scar right across its left front shoulder. As I was flying through the air I decided up doing an upwards slash to take out its left arm. Then the sword started emitting its energy and it turned its green aura into a fiery coating. And as I was about to make contact with the bear I pulled the sword up cutting the bear arm completely off.

The bear made a loud groan. As I recuperated from the backlash of the attack I saw the bear REGROW THE LIMB! I was furious. The scar of the bear was 2x the size of before. The sword wasn't on fire but was still emitting a green aura. I however was on 50% of the power I had from the tree I took. I wanted to end this fast. To cut its head off. I had to be faster just in case my speed was an issue why it can regrow. I decided that ill take a gamble use 30% out of the 50% that I had to reinforce my legs and arms 15/15 split. The rest I tried to get the sword to take but it wouldn't eat it.

“So be it!” I shouted.

As I put in position, the sword's blade at my hip. I thought of my favorite character from my favorite show. Genroku from Angel slayers. I took his stance from his final stand against the 3rd archangel. But this time I won't be turned into a donut! I jolted off destroying the ground behind me. The bear had no time to react! This is perfect just a little more and I win! Then I realized that my sword wasn't on fire. It was covered in a thick coating of toxic poison! From what I read this is an advanced level water adjustment. I had no control over how to adjust anything within my soul. It's like the sword had a mind of its own. I was a mere inches away from the bear, as I took a deep breath I exerted my muscles enough to make a giant BOOM with my sword! The bears head toppled off. I sat back at the tree and close my eyes. GRUGH! My chest had been slashed open! How could the bear be alive? To my surprise, the bear was walking and it regenerated its own head. I had 20% energy left and my sword was faintly emitting its green aura. My injuries were severe as they were deep cuts. I disturbed 10% to healing and 5 and 5 to my arms and hip. I'm going to throw my sword like a spear. And before I could take notice my sword had already turned into a spear!

“What other tricks do you have a weapon?”

I was going to aim for the heart. There is no way it can continue to remake its body if the heart is destroyed. I took the stances of the many great Olympians who throw spears. As I took a deep breath I launched the spear so fast that it created a 3 Foot hole with torsion marks through the bears and the following trees. The bear finally tumbled over. I Bested the bear in combat.