Reborn In The World Of The Undead

3. Destroyer

3.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I was confronted with a horrific scene. I frantically crawled backwards, trying to get away from it. When I looked to the left and right of me, I realized that there was no escape. I had no way to escape because I was completely surrounded by people fighting, only they didn't appear to be human.

I was stuck in the middle of a raging battle, where non-human creatures were fighting and killing each other. I could tell they weren't human due to their height, build, the deadly words they shouted, and their blood. There was blood everywhere, the ground was stained with it, but it wasn't red in color like mine, it was green. The creatures around me were so eager to kill one another that it was like they were going to receive some sort of reward for doing so.

There didn’t appear to be an ounce of desire in any of them to live, based on the way that they had been attacking and butchering one another. It was as if they already knew that they were going to die. It seemed like they had come here to die or were they already dead? Were they undead? What the hell was I thinking? How was that even possible?

“OH….MY....GOD!” I screamed those three words that had come to mind and slipped out of my mouth because I had seen an enormous animal-like thing charging straight for me and it looked like parts of it had been rotting. I had definitely lost my mental balance due to all the violence and blood that was going on around me? I was frozen in place, but when I managed to focus my gaze I realized that a strange looking creature was riding on it, maybe it was a man.

The man or creature was so dark in color that I wasn't sure if it was a man or a shadow, but whatever it was I knew that I had to get away from it. He held a large sword in his hand, it was soaked with green blood and from the way he was hurtling towards me I felt like I was going to be his next victim. The fear I felt got my adrenaline pumping inside me, making me stand up and immediately running in the opposite direction.

I didn't have a clue which way to go as I was surrounded with beings fighting, the sounds of their swords clashing with each other resonated so loudly that it was impossible to make out a single voice above the clatter. Their screams and shouts were enough to give me a heart attack. I couldn't believe that I was actually running between them to save myself from a man that was just like them.

I was dodging left right and center, knowing that if their swords hit me then my death was certain and after that terrible incident with the bus I had no desire to die again. I didn't know what this place was, but I knew that I had been given a chance to live, I was not going to waste this opportunity even if it was here.

“OH SHIT! OH MY GOD!” I screamed again, stopping in my tracks when I saw another half animal-like thing that looked like it had been rotting. It was much larger than the one that had been chasing me. This larger one was coming straight for me, it was ten times faster than the one behind me. I looked in front and behind me at the animals that were about to crush me, but the one behind me was only about ten steps away. He would be the one to kill me first, but the one in front of me was a lot faster, either way my fate had been sealed.

I looked behind me and saw that thing was only five steps away from me, but when I looked up and saw his face, I was shocked. What I had seen was unbelievable. I was so shocked that I forgot about all the death that surrounded me, even my own imminent death at the hands of the thing that was in front of me that was definitely not a living person, he didn't have a face.

He began running towards me with lightning speed, he was about to tear me to pieces with the huge sword in his hand, which caused me to scream in fear over the death that I was about to face yet again. When I felt someone's grip on my waist as I was lifted in the air. I yelled louder as I hung in the air while riding on something that was traveling faster than a bullet train. I was hanging in the fucking air, when I looked at what had hold of my waist, I saw what appeared to be a human hand.

I quickly tried to free myself from the grip of whoever it was because the speed that we were moving at I felt like my internal organs were going to escape my chest cavity through my mouth. But the moment I wiggled, the creature's grip on me grew even stronger and tighter. I screamed even louder as I was pulled upwards, then placed down on top of the half decomposed animal.

“Are you done screaming?” The voice of a man asked. I thought that I had to be hearing things because it sounded like a human voice. I hurriedly looked up to scan his face, finding that yes, he was handsome, but he was also human. He was human like me.

“Are you done staring at me?” He spoke again all I could manage was to nod stupidly.

“Okay, then hold on to me tightly otherwise you will fall and die. Human,” he remarked with a smirk at me. I was surprised to hear him call me that, human, why had he said it like that?

“Why did you say….AHHHHH!” I began to ask, but I couldn't finish my sentence when the animal we were riding had reached speeds faster than a car, causing me to scream. Now I understood why he had told me to hold on to him tightly. I wrapped my arms around him tightly, but my arms were long enough to reach around completely. So I was only able to hold on to whatever part I could, whatever part it was I held onto it for dear life. I managed to lift my head up and look to my right, but I really wished I hadn't because the same sword wielder from earlier was beside us and he was going to attack us. Thankfully, his sword was short, well not short but with the distance between us made it seem short. My misgivings were shattered the moment I thought about this because I could see that his sword was doubling in length as he was about to attack us.

“HEY! LOOK, HE IS GOING TO ATTACK US!!” I screamed, pointing to who I had been talking about until he looked over at the faceless man. Despite the handsome man not having any weapons, he looked towards the faceless swordsman with a look that could only be described as he would destroy him with his eyes. The handsome man picked me up, turning me so that I faced the other direction.

This way I could see which direction it was going. I was about to turn back to ask him why he turned me around. When he jumped from the back this thing we were riding straight over the faceless person. He had left me alone on this thing and I hadn’t a clue where it was going. I gripped it tightly, not wanting to but not having a choice, otherwise I would have fallen off and ended up under the feet of this thing, being trampled to death.

This thing was going to crush anything and everything in its path. I looked to the side and watched the handsome man fighting the faceless thing without fear of falling, even though he didn't have any weapons, he was still using his fists against the faceless thing. The sword stabbed him in the arms, yet the handsome man just pulled it out, turned the sword around, then beheaded the faceless man with one stroke. Had he really just done that? Had he really killed him?

I thought to myself as my eyes widened in shock. The thing that I had been sitting on top of screamed, breaking me out of my thoughts, it startled me and made me look ahead. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw that there was a chasm ahead, it was only a few meters away from us. The thing was still running towards it and I had no idea why, but if it didn't stop, then I was going to die. AGAIN!

“HEY! STOP! TURN RIGHT! STOP!” I yelled at it in a panic, but it sped up even more. My death was a few steps away from me. I closed my eyes, ready for it, when the thing turned in the other direction. It actually had done as I asked and turned right, maybe it heard me after all, maybe it somehow understood me, but how? Suddenly, the handsome man jumped back on it out of nowhere, I looked back at him.

“How did you control it? How can you command it?” He asked, shocked at what I had done.

“I….I don’t….know.” I replied, with great difficulty. He looked angry. He raised his hand towards the sky and then there was lightning. I looked from his hand to the sky, the lightning covered the whole place as a shining sword appeared in his hand. It looked awe-inspiring, my jaw dropped at the sight of it. The animal stopped running, the handsome man grabbed my waist and jumped, making me nearly scream due to how high up we were.

He turned his sword to the ground mid air and just as his sword touched the ground, all of the creatures that had been fighting began burning. I watched as everything around me burned, suddenly the place was filled with their screams. It was unbearable to listen to. They burned up like paper in a few seconds, but they hadn't turned to ash; they had just disappeared.

“What is going on?” I said to myself, as I looked at the handsome man. He violently pushed me away from him. I nearly fell on the ground.

“HEY! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!” I shrieked at him, but he just glared at me.

“You! All this happened because of your arrival.” He snapped in a dangerous tone.

“What do you mean?” I asked, confused.

“This fighting, all this fighting was taking place to get you. The place turned into a battlefield because you came into our world. What are you?” He asked and I gave him a look that clearly told him that I thought he was crazy.

“What kind of bullshit are you talking about?” I asked, not able to understand what he meant.

“You come here!” He growled as he grabbed my clothes, pulling me towards him. I was startled at what he had just done, even more so when he grabbed my top by the shoulders and pulled it down, studying at my neck. It looked like he was searching for something, his search stopped when his eyes reached the burn mark that was on my neck.

“GET OFF! HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND!? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!” I yelled and pulled away from him. I pulled my top back up, covering my mark from his eyes, but he looked stunned. He looked as if something huge had happened.

“You….” He started, then stopped, still staring at my neck.

“WHAT?!” I angrily shouted at him, trying to break him out of the shock he was in.

“You are a destroyer…..” He said, making me step back from him in alarm. The stranger from my nightmare had said the same thing. He had called me a destroyer. What the hell was going on?