The kid ran straight ahead and slipped into an alley. Anastasia, determined to know about the kid, got up and started to follow him. Eiser, unknown to the real intentions, also started to follow them.
Upon reaching the alley, gasping, Ana stopped for a moment before entering into the alley. While Eiser also panting, trailing and and also shouting to wait and stop for him. Ana crossed the alley, now more annoyed than determined, tiltling her head here and there to look for the kid, but strangely enough finding no one.
This time when she took the break to search, Eiser finally caught up, panting and catching his breath with his hands on his knees and his face looking up at the still wandering for the kid Ana, he said: "You run way fast! Still why are you looking for him?".
"That kid, I have to talk to him, No, WE HAVE TO SAVE HIM EISER! No matter what!".
Eiser heard those words with the change of tone, and saw an unwavering look in Anastasia's eyes. Filled with emotion and compassion, perhaps it was the first time Eiser had seen Ana persistent on something. Eiser chuckled, stood up straight, stretched his back and said: "Lets do this!". With that said, the both just stood there dumbfounded, because they didn't know where to find the kid.
Then Suddenly they heard a loud scream, a cry, perhaps. They startled for abit before trailing into the direction of the scream. They went through another alley, reached a new street and got stunned, Ana especially got so frightened that she started to tremble and held Eiser's robe tightly. Eiser cleared his throat, clenched his fists and shook his head, as they just saw an already dead man, hanging on a steel corroded pole, wrapped up in thick chains with tears of that man's blood crawling down the pole and down there were his wife and his son, crying and screaming as loudly as they could to tell thier grief. Yet strangely enough, no body else was trying to calm them down or even get close to them. People were there, some standing at a distance and some, rushing for thier worries like usual.
"Well... Good thing he died".
Eiser shook as he heard the chatter among the standing crowd.
"Totally.. The man was on the Red List for a while now."
"But why would the Dogs kill him? Wasn't he a fugitive for the government?
"Why blame the government for the wrongdoings of some measly gangs? Huh.. This fool was bound to die!"
"Yeah yeah... Serves him right".
"Look at his wife. Crying like his man was an angel."
"Huh.... He was scum anyway. Why bother stand here. Lets go".
The Chatter continued. The son of the dead man, got up. Ignoring all the chatter, he freed the chains that binded his father with the pole. Eiser seeing that, mustered up his courage and spoke up against the murmuring crowd.
"We shouldn't speak that way for a man who has just passed away. We are not the ones to judge the kind of man he was".
Shouted Eiser, with a frown on his face.
The crowd, upon hearing someone speak up, started to break and everybody started to go back thier world of worries. The Son of the dead man, also vindicated, looked with wide eyes towards Eiser. Then suddenly a middle aged man clad in full black cargo pants and a tank top with a green fur-lined capelet on top which covered his long hairs, with a disdainful look in his eyes, stepped up from the scattering crowd, rolling his arms he said:
"Huh.. What do you know passing kid? This man forsaked the heavens. He badmouthed and put blame of the evil on the Churches."
Hearing the man's accusations the crowd of passing people regrouped and started to slander the already dead man all over again. Eiser sighed, looked at the man and in a soft spoken voice, he replied:
"And does that give you the right to demean him? He is already dead! Maybe what he sadi was actually true."
Hearing Eiser's words the crowd shudded in fear and the thier faces looked pale with dread especially the man was so enraged by those words that he threw a giant fire fist at Eiser then and there. Eiser dodged and gave a sharp gaze at the man who looked so miserable with cold sweats on his face and shaking hands and his eyes clouded with disillusionment that had already renounced all hope. His face was a grimmace caught between anger and despair.
"YOU TAKE THOSE WORDS BACK!!"
The man shouted with a voice thick with rage and sorrow and gave off a look of a monster who had been forbidden to hunt yet immediately he striked again with a power never seen before by Eiser and Ana.
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Tips:
People are born with only 5 types of attributes Fire, Wind, Earth, Electricity and Air. People hone thier skills and get stronger with the attribute they have.