Maria, god of misfortune by Leandra A. (fiction book recommendations TXT) 📖

to him "I just found something that will save me from boredom while staying here" he answered and then look up to see the full moon.

 

"This night princess is really beautiful" he muttered to himself.

 

"Oh...do you mean the moon?" his henchman commented and was perplexed on how the general eyes look like as he gaze on the moon.

 

Each one of them doesn't realize the wheel of fate turning against their will. No one yet realize the tragedy that will fall upon them in the coming days. Tonight's events have triggered a drastic change to their fate and life.

 

 

 

 

 

What Is A Promise

Kai's POV

 

There are times that I'll wake up in the middle of night from the nightmare of my past, fifteen years ago. I can still vividly see and smell the blood that's surrounding me at that time. And fate would have it, in the middle of my grievance because of my mother's death, I saw this woman stabbed with an arrow on her chest and carrying a child. She selfishly made me promised her to take care of the child in exchange with a promise, that this child will bring me happiness as well in the future.

 

At her last breath the woman whispered on my ears a secret she told me no one should ever be told...it was this child given name. What it means and who she is, none of it was answered, since dead cannot talk back anymore. 

 

"Since a dead cannot hear and talk anymore..." I muttered as I look on the child that was left in my hands, "I'll just made the promise with you that I'll take care and protect you for the rest of your life."

 

I was about to take an empty path but this promise gave me a reason to continue living in this chaotic world. It was just like what my mother told me to promise her that I'll find something not only worth dying for...but worth living for. 

 

General Shin's POV

 

The first time I saw these two people, that was drenched in the rain and said that they were orphans that has nowhere to go, I remember the two promises I made to myself and the man I looked up to.

 

The two of them claimed to be innocent orphans that's asks to be saved but their eyes, specially the eyes of this young man with red hair doesn't reflect hope to be save by anyone. But looking closely, his eyes reflects a strong will to live and is relunctant to depend on others. I remember myself past self to him, the time before Jin found me.

 

But unlike me the two of them has a name they can be called. I don't understand myself but by meeting them, I finally understand what Jin means when he said that he found his happiness by bringing hope to the others, who has lost fate in believing to other people's kindness.

 

I as well was saved by a stranger kindness thus as I promised to Jin, I'll also save many people as possible be it like a hero or an evil. But I want to find something worth dying for, like what Jin has found.

 

The day before Jin disappeared, he was able to tell me the story about an unknown woman, who seek help from him. It didn't take me long to learn the real story behind his disappearance and thus made my second promise not seek vengeance, but to carry his will. Which became one of my reason to become stronger and live.

 

I made a promise to myself to protect what's in front of me and never again  experience the despair I felt when I failed to protect, the person I found worth living for.

 

Innocent Calm

“Arg...That general never fails in making me pissed each time he'll open that mouth of his!” Kai shouted as he enter his room and close the door. He then removes his clothing that was soaked in blood and rain, then before he rest, he also made sure that his door was locked so that General Shin would not be able to bother him.

 

“Ouch!” He looks and noticed that he has sprained his left wrist; “did I get hurt because of that man strongly grabbing my hands earlier?” He mumbled and remember again General Hawk look in his eyes when he looks at him.

 

His eyes reflect somebody who has a strong desire to get and own something he has been wanting for. “What the hell did I do to him?” He asked himself; “this is the first time I saw him...so why does he sound that he knew me from a long time?” he tried to remember harder where he might have seen him before, but it was for no luck at all.

 

“Hey! Open the door for me!” The general shouted as he stands in front of his room's door.

 

“W...What do you want!?” Although reluctant, he opened the door and let him inside his room. “I'm here for this”, the general then showed him a first aid kit and then grabbed his left arm, “Ouch!” Kai shouted and then pulled away the general's hand.

 

“Just like what I thought”, he then sit on Kai's bed and asked him to sit beside him.

 

“What do you think you're doing?” Kai was so perplexed with this man's action.

 

“Isn't it obvious? I'm here to fix your sprained wrist with this”; the general showed him the bandage and then wrapped it on his sprained wrist.

 

Kai was lost with his words because he didn't expect him to bother himself with an injured hired mercenary like him. He noticed that the general seems good in this and unknown to him that he's been staring the general intensely.

 

“Are you trying to seduce me, Maria?” He leered as he notices him blankly staring at him and found it funny somehow, so as a tease he kissed Kai's hand like that of a princess and then grins at him.

 

You! Kai shouted as he blushes because of what the general did.

 

The general just gave him a snort and then laughs at him as he leaves his room and told him to wake up early tomorrow.

 

The next morning after they packed up to get ready and return to Hellas, General Shin told him that there is a place he wishes to stop first. On the way, he bought some flowers and then asked Kai to come with him in a place; he had wanted to go back.

 

This is... Reim

 

Kai was so surprised when the general brought them to a deserted place which Kai knows best what kind of place it is before. It's the town where he was born and forced to leave before. The noisy town folks chattering and the children laughing were nowhere to be found, all they can see is an empty barren land.

 

The general then took off from his horse and then placed the flowers to leave it on that deserted place. Kai was surprise to see that calm and gentle face that he is making right now.

 

“It was here that Jin as seen last back when he was told to protect this town people from an unknown enemy”, the general told him with his deep calm voice; which almost made Kai think that he is with a different person.

 

“Jin? You mean the man who raised you as his son?” Kai told him;

 

“Oh so you have heard about him, is it from my men?” The general turned his head to him, “that man was even more uncouth than me and always made me, a child at that time, to do impossible things that you can think of”, he chuckled then began telling him excitedly stories about Jin.

 

While the general was talking, Kai suddenly remembered what his men told him, about the surprising general's calmness when he first heard the tragic news of what happened to the person he must have considered most dear.

 

“He was strangely calm and collected, without even shedding a single tear after we told him what happened to Jin”, Kai thought and then suddenly remembered one of the villager commented when he asked them how the general when he heard what was happened to his benefactor.

 

Kai opened his mouth and then closed it again “Even right now, it was as if he was telling me these things that happened fifteen years ago nonchalantly and even looked like as if he was happy remembering his past” he said to himself.

 

“This is something I can’t do and wouldn’t even dare to do” Kai muttered.

 

“Why are you so calm telling me these things”, Kai asked him and was even pissed on how nonchalant he is right now. The general just half smiled and the turned his back on him.

 

“In a chaotic world like this, where war and death are everywhere...those who have regrets will surely be the one to die first” he told him and then ride back to his horse, “Let's go back now to Hellas!” 

 

“I really can't comprehend this man's thinking”, that's what Kai thought of him at this time. With the snap of the reins we galloped off on our stallion leaving as well our regrets on this barren land.

Requiem Of Chaos

“I received the message from General Shin that he's going to come back now” General Leone said to one of General Shin's men, he then anxiously sat down on his table and placed his hands on it. His men just quietly watch him as he sit there silently while tapping the table.

 

Almost three days has passed since General Shin left his manor and they never heard anything from him. Everyone was restless and the air has been heavy since he left because of the incoming war with Arias.

 

 “I know it's important but he could have let me know what happened in Arias!” he grumbles, his fist slamming down the table.

 

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