Chapter eighteen

"You try to get up one more time, you're dead", Eida said.

He still sat up anyway.

"Everything is going to be alright. Dietri is still leading the Academy, and the Masters are going for the summit".

"I don't trust them".

"You gave them safe haven. It's time they pay you back".

"How's Joe?"

"He's back to his life".

"I failed him", he said sadly.

"You didn't. I told to stop using The Reaper transformation. It's been eating up your body".

"He was there that night".

"That demon?"

"Suna. He's been revived. If I don't stop him, he's going to start another war".

"We'll do out best to call a truce at the summit with the Demon Hunters", she promised.

The Land of Fire

Damien's POV

Three thousand years ago

I ran down the streets. The guards were chasing me as usual. Not because I was a thief. No, because because the young master had run off again.

Who was going to stay indoors during the festival of the gods?

I slipped into the crowd. I wasn't a child, and I could take care of my self.

I stopped