It was fire everywhere. As molten lava was flowing from the sockets of the giant skull. The skull resembling a giant human. Whose jaw was not visible as it was deep in the ground. The ground was coal which was red or black randomly covering the entire region.
"Am I in hell?"
Zack snorted, scratching his hair.
"This is indeed your hell and you're it's source."
A voice came from somewhere as Zack looked around his surroundings but he couldn't saw no one. There was smoke coming from molten coals as lava was melting it.
"Ah come on, who is this? Don't play hide and seek with me."
Zack still says in his causal tone, keeping his cosmpure.
"Why are you not true to yourself? Why? Why are you still trying to wear that shell of yours? Even in here. Your own creation."
As a figure appeared from front, the smoke was so much that Zack couldn't saw him, just his shadow. He covered his hazel eyes as the smoke was increasing rapidly through out the region.
~ The hell is this. I didn't expect that.
When he feels the smoke had stopped. He relaxed his hands which were covering his eyes. Seeing the whole new place.
"What the hell? WTF is happening here."
It was a gold- orange sky. With the birds chirping as he was standing on a small bridge. Bridge of old times in towns to cross rivers. Just after him was a town where people were doing their normal lives routine.
~ This place looks good. But why do I have a strange feeling?
Suddenly he felt as if someone was coming from other side of bridge. As he turned around he saw horsemen coming at great number from the other side of jungle.
~ What?
"Hey! Why the hell are you doing this!?"
He yelled at them but they didn't listen at him as now they were coming closer and closer to the bridge.
With that in a instant, he was wearing a armor of a knight. A red- golden armor with a huge sword in his back.
~ Can anyone explain me what is happening here? ... It seems like I need to protect this village.
As he takes out the sword from his back. It was huge sword more like a chunk of iron regardless he lifted it like nothing as if it weights nothing but just a feather to him.
"You don't listen to me so here I come!"
He yelled at them before charging, still in his energetic tone.
~ Some people don't listen with words so this is the only way then...
His body was now powering fire and his sword was burning as he clashed an attack to them by swinging his sword. The fire attack slash destroyed the bridge and kill many people in just one blow.
"Wow, it was that easy. Well I know this isn't real so I shouldn't pity on them."
He murmured to himself.
When he turned behind to saw the village. His eyes became wide open shocked to saw what he had experience.
The village was burned, childrens were brutally stabbed and cut open. Blood become water there as Zack runs towards them but he was about to cross the bridge.
A voice murmured to his ears.
"No matter how hard you try, you can't change fate."
It continued.
"Why are you trying to help them. Messor mortis ( Slayer of the Death in Latin ).?"
Zack frozen silent as soon as he heard that name.
~ I always hated that name.
Suddenly the space shifted as now he was again back in the fire region. A figure had appeared in front of him. More like a smoke as it doesn't have a physical body.
"Remind yourself who you are. Or I will remind you."
With that in a instant. A projected screen appeared.
"Let's start the storytelling."
Zack turned around, not seeing the screen of his story.
***
[ Flash back ]
A kid was simultaneously stabbing knife to a man. It was dark and the place looked like a temple. Before that man there were many men who had the same fate as him.
"Good. Ah it's over now."
The kid wipes blood from his cheeks and knife. As he goes to the temple.
There was no one there as the kid leaned to a pillar, taking a break. Few steps before him was a old man who was brutally stabbed as his head was in a statue of idols.
The kid takes out a button from his hand and started leaving. After a specific distance, he clicked the button.
BOOM!
Blocks and debris scattered everywhere through out the forest. With fire gradually engulfing the trees.
He takes out a small phone from his pockets.
"Hey! I have done it."
"Good, we will reach soon to pick you up."
The man's voice came from behind the call.
Few moments later a helicopter arrived and some men takes him with them.
After moments of travelling, they reached an underground facility. Where the kid was meet with doctor.
"Oh you're here Zack. So how was the day for day."
He says with a smirked.
"Average."
Zack ignored him before going to another room.
The man smile, a werid ridiculous smile.
~ Of course, the serum is indeed working.
He takes out a document where some tests were displayed on Zack.
" Zack.D. Roy is family member of a Royal family. He was kidnapped when he was very young and he had many experiments going on him. The goal was to make a perfect human to adapts to everything. "
"Since young age he was exposed to chemicals and serums which could killed a normal human but he somehow survived and become a demon. He doesn't have feelings in his core so he doesn't think of anyone. "
"He has super in human strength not just strength. His body is perfect for any situation. A tryant like him if exposed to the world can bring a disaster itself."
The doctor just checked it before leaving it on the table.
" Messor Mortis is indeed nor a random title for this kid. Killing hundreds of people by himself in such a young age. How expectational."
With some time, when Zack was 13. He killed all the facility by him alone.
"Why? Zack you were my perfect creation."
The doctor murmured as he doesn't have any strength left. Alarms were blinking everywhere and bodies of soldiers and scientists were scattered like ants.
"Was just bored since a time anyways bye now."
As he stabbed his head brutally. Before leaving the facility.
Eventually he was found by police and his family recognized him on the news so they came to pick him up after 7 years of his lost.
Zack then started to experience something he had lost from his life.
His meets his cousins and eventually Ender.
Zack was a introvert and he doesn't talk that much. His killing desire was not kicking in because he was exposed to experienced new things day by day. A normal life.
Zack become close with Ender and eventually started to forget his past.
But pieces of it still lingers in him.
~ I don't know why but I should act like them... Just to experience something, what is that thing? I don't know.
He day by day become an extrovert, making jokes and sarcasm. Smiling willingly but the thing no one knows about his past he had suffered. Till to this day he acts like a normal person, trying not to awake his killing desire in him.
***
Zack clash the projected screen with his sword destroying it.
"Why? Zack. D. Roy, this all was an experiment for you then becoming an Astran is also an experiment then..."
"No, this is....This is for them."
He spoke with a pause.
"Why for them? Why not you? You deserve everything. Not them. Kill them and I will gave you this power. Or leave them."
"That's not going to happen because.... They're my friends and they need me for our journey... For that why I'm doing this. I– I don't know why I'm doing this is just this feel better to me. Maybe some answers are answered by time. Indeed, time is a great teacher."
He spoke with serious with calm tone.