Chapter 11:Redemption

It has been three months since the tragedy had occurred on The Dragon's Den.The beautiful world of Dragon's had now became a dragon cemetery.There were no dragon slayers to be seen in sight.Nobody on the sidewalks, stores, or the streets for if you were to be seen out in the open it will mean an automatic death sentence.If there are multiple people in the public, De,Struc, and tion will force you to fight to the death and whoever would win the fight will be able to live for another day.However at first it wasn't as bad as when the rules were first set up.Before they're were many brawls to the death around town such as six through seven dragon slayers leaving they're homes just to buy supply food and fresh water for the families.Out of those numbers of dragon slayers in the brawl, however there would be no casualties but no lives remaining at the same time.

All of a sudden there was a ear tingling noise on the island. DE was making one of his morning announcements.

"GGOOODDD MORNING YOU LITTLE SHITS. I JUST WANTED TO REMIND YOU THAT THERE WILL BE NO FOOD COMING TO THIS ISLAND ANY TIME SOON.DO YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE WE ATE THEM ALL, HAAHAHAHAHA! ANYWAY THERE WILL BE MORE FOOD BUT YOU LITTLE SHITS JUST DONT HAVE THE BALLS TO ACTUALLY GET UP AND GET SOME FOOD OUT IN THE MARKET AND GUESS WHAT?BECAUSE OF THAT REASON ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO FUCKING STARVE.UNLESS YOU JOIN US OVER AT THE MANSION.JOIN LORD DARKNESS'S REBELLION AND YOU WILL GAIN AS MUCH FOOD AND POWER AS YOU WANT. AS FOR THE REST OF YOU, YOU COULD ALL STARVE TO DEATH FOR ALL I CARE.ANYWAY THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY TO YOU FOLKS.GOOD RIDDENS." DE finally had cut off the speakerphone after that loud discussion.

"Javi.I think it's time we get some food."Guts told Javier in a choked up voice."It's been a while since we went out-"

"Enough Guts! You know what happens everytime I go outside. It always ends up with me having to kill so MANY people."Javier screamed trying not to hold back his tears."I could still hear they're screams, begging me not to kill them and all I did was slice and punch and kick and blast until I couldn't hear them scream anymore. I can't do it anymore."Javier stood in front of Gut's face not saying anything else so the tears won't slide down his cheek.Guts looked at him.

"Javi, I get it.You killed many of us already and you feel like a monster.Yeah you probably are a monster and a murderer but it's not like you had much of a choice.You could either sit back starving yourself to death and beating yourself up over all of those deaths on your hand or you could go for the real enemies here.Because get what Javi, you think that the other dragon slayers wanted to try and kill you as well? NO! They just wanted to live just as much as you want to so they didn't care if they even had to kill you to get by.The real enemies you have to get rid of here are DE, STRUC, and TION!"Guts told Javier in a loud aggressive tone.All of a sudden there was another silence in the room. Javier gave a light smile towards Guts.

"Honestly...to think I would be getting a lecture from you.You've really grown."Javier said patting his head.Guts blushed.

"I know what I must do now."Javier said walking out of the damaged house that they both lived in.

Guts thought in his head,"I hope he actually gets what I was trying to say."

Javier had his hands in his pockets as he was walking down the streets."Alright I need to go get some food real quick so Guts and I can finally get a decent meal--".As Javier was walking he stopped to see a familiar face.

"No..No..NO" Javier said. He had as face of heartbreak when he saw Nawoku with a big bag of food staring back at him with the same look on his face.

"Javi...I see we both had the balls to finally leave the house."Nawoku said

"Why do you have such a big bag of food? You don't got any family alive.No offense."

"Jamie came over to my house and we've been living with eachother for a while now so i'm taking care of her."

"That's nice. How's Alex doing?"

Nawoku stood there quietly with a sad expression on his face.

"Oh..I see. I'm sorry."Javier said

"So, what's gonna happen now? Are we gonna have to fight?"

"Seems like it."

"Fine than.I guess we never had a choice anyway."Nawoku said putting his bag down. They both stood in they're fighting positions. Just than they both had finally moved.

NAWOKU RUSHED JAVIER WITH SUCH SPEED AND PRECISION MAKING JAVIER STUMBLE A LITTLE BIT.NAWOKU THAN STARTED THROWING A BARRAGE OF PUNCHES AND KICKS TOWARDS JAVIER HOWEVER JAVIER HAD HIS HANDS UP BLOCKING MOST OF HIS ATTACKS.JAVIER GRABBED NAWOKU'S HANDS AND TOSSED HIM IN THE AIR BUT NAWOKU TOOK THAT AT HIS ADVANTAGE.

"GLASS DRAGON ROOOAARRR"NAWOKU SAID SHOOTING A BLAST OF GLASS OUT OF HIS MOUTH.

"WOODEN DRAGON ROOOOAAARRR"JAVIER SCREAMED IN RESPONSE SHOOTING A BLAST OF WOOD OUT OF HIS MOUTH.THE TWO BLASTS CLASHED AS WOOD AND GLASS STARTED TO FLY AROUND TOWN.THEY'RE BLAST FINALLY DISPERSED AND THEY BOTH RUSHED EACHOTHER WITH THEY'RE ATTACKS.

"GLASS DRAGON:SHINY FIST!"NAWOKU SAID RUSHING JAVIER MID AIR WITH HIS FIST TURNING INTO GLASS.JAVIER MOVES BARELY COUNTERING IT.

"WOODEN DRAGON:TREE TRUNK" JAVIER SAID MAKING HIS LEG TURNING INTO A THICK PIECE OF WOOD.HE SENDS NAWOKU ZOOMING DOWN TO THE FLOOR NAWOKU NOT WANTING TO GIVE UP.

"DAMN, IM GONNA HAVE TO FINISH THIS IN ONE BLOW."JAVIER SAID.

NAWOKU GOT UP OFF THE FLOOR AND LOOKED UP AT JAVIER.

"DRAGON'S SLAYER SECRET ART:" NAWOKU SAID WITH BOTH HIS HANDS IN FRONT OF HIM PALM TO PALM.JAVIER LOOKED AT HIM WITH SHOCK ON HIS FACE.

"GLASS SHARD VOID BLAST!!" NAWOKU SCREAMED SHOOTING A MASSIVE BLAST OF GLASS SHARDS BLASTING WHITH A HUGE RADIUS.THE BLAST HIT JAVIER DEAD ON CUTTING HIS BODY UP IN THE AIR.

"THAT HAD TO GET HIM."NAWOKU SAID.HE LOOKED UP JUST TO SEE THAT JAVIER WAS STILL UP READY TO FIGHT. NAWOKU LOOKED AT HIM NOT BELIEVING WHAT HE SAW.

"MY TURN."JAVIER SAID "DRAGON SLAYER SECRET ART:... EXPLODING FOREST LEAF CANNON JAVIER HAD SAID SHOOTING THOUDANDS OF LEAVES TOWARDS NAWOKU'S WAY.HOWEVER JAVIER KNEW THAT AMOUNT OF POWER OF LEAVES COULD KILL NAWOKU SO HE DISPERSED THAM AT THE LAST SECOND AND RUSHED DOWN TO JAVIER BODYING HIM TO THE GROUND.

"I win Nawoku."Javier said sitting on Nawoku's back with his hands behind his back."Take your food Nawoku. Live on and get stronger so we could fight again in the future."Javier said letting go of Nawoku."I'll see you."

Javier stood up and walked away leaving Nawoku speechless on the floor.Even though he was hurt he just smiled, blessed to live another day.

Javier started to limp a little bit on his walk on the street."Damn, that really did a number on me.Maybe I should've taken the food."Javier had said..Javier had finally reached the empty market and saw all the food that was left out.Until to his horror he saw an image that he will never get out of his head.When he looked around the corner he saw a girl with her stomach cut open holding a rotten apple in her hand.She had bruises all over her body and face.It made Javier sick to his stomach.Javier than felt this one act of despair. He knew exactly who caused this. It had to only have been DE.STRUC. and TION who used this girl as they're little play thing.

"...…"Javier was finally tired of all this torture that those three monsters had been putting his island in.Javier turned around and finally understood what Guts was really trying to say.It was finally time someone stopped this madness once and for all. Javier ran across the island towards the bright mansion hidden in the woods that DE had forced the kids to build.As Javier was running,his form had started to change shape due to all the rage he had in the inside. Just than Javier had a dark brown aura surround him as his eyes started to change from blue to just plain white as if he was possessed and his hair went from light brown to dark brown.Javier had finally reached his destination however the person who arrived to that mansion wasn't Javier at all but it felt like another person.

JAVIER WASTED NO TIME RUSHING TOWARDS THE MANSION.JAVIER KICKED THE DOORS WIDE OPEN SENDING THEM FLYING.THERE WERE MNY DRAGON SLAYERS THAT HAD JOINED DE,STRUC, AND TION LOOKING AT JAVIER AS HE BARGED IN.DE WAS STANDING RIGHT ON THE ENTRANCE OF THE MANSION LOOKING DOWN ON JAVIER.HE SMILED.

"OOOHHH..I REMEMBER YOU.YOUR THAT LITTLE SHIT WE BODIED WHEN WE FIRST PULLED UP HERE.I SEE NOW YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH."DE HAD SAID "CLEAR OUT EVERYONE. IT'S TIME I MAKE AN EXAMPLE FOR YOU ALL WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CROSS ME.

DE RUSHED JAVIER ABOUT TO PUNCH BUT AS SOON AS HE THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA LAND A HIT ON JAVIER, JAVIER SIMPLY REACHED HIS ARM OUT AND BLOCKED IT WITH ONE HAND.EVERYBODY LOOKED AT HIM IN SHOCK INCLUDING DE. JAVIER THAN LAYED A SOLID PUNCH IN THE FACE SENDING DE FLYING INTO A WALL.

"IF YOU ALL WANT TO LIVE THAN GET OUT.THIS IS BETWEEN ME,DE,STRUC,AND TION."THE OTHER KIDS CRIED IN HAPPINESS KNOWING THAT JAVIER HAS COME TO AVENGE THEM.ALL THE DRAGON SLAYERS RAN OUT OF THE MANSION UNTIL IT WAS JUST DE AND JAVIER.

DE GOT UP ANGRY AND RUSHED JAVIER THROWING EVERY MOVE HE HAS.PUNCHING,KICKING,BLASTING ALL THE MOVES HE HAS HE WAS TRYING TO USE ON JAVIER BUT JAVIER WAS DODGING THEM ALL WITH JUST ONE HAND.

"GOD DAMN YOU!!"DE SAID TRYING TO LAND A HIT ON JAVIER.FINALLY DE LANDED A PUNCH O JAVIER ONLY FOR JAVIER TO JUST STAND STILL LOOKING AT HIM AS IF HE FELT NO PAIN WHATSOEVER.

"MY TURN"JAVIER SAID IN A DEMONIC WAY.JAVIER PUNCHED DE OUT OF THE MANSION MAKING HIM SPIT OUT BLOOD.JAVIER THEN KEPT PUNCHING DE BREAKING A MAJORITY OF HIS RIBS IN MIDAIR. DE AND JAVIER FINALLY LANDED INTO A FOREST. DE GOT UP WITH NO SHIRT ON BARELY ABLE TO KEEP HIS POSTURE.JAVIER THAN RUSHED DE SO FAST THAT DE WASN'T ABLE TO SEE THE BARRAGE OF FISTS HEADING TOWARDS DE'S SKULL.DE COOULDN'T MOVE ANY PART OF HIS BODY AS JAVIER CRUSHED MAJORITY OF HIS BONES.

"YOU...YOU DAMN...MONSTER..JUST WHAT ARE YOU..."DE SAID COUGHING UP LOTS OF BLOOD.

"ME...HEHE..I'M THE TRUE RULER OF THIS ISLAND.I AM JAVIER THE WOODEN DRAGON SLAYER..AND THE MAN WHO IS GOING TO KILL YOU."JAVIER SAID

JAVIER WAS JUST ABOUT TO END DE BUT THAN HE WAS SHOT I THE BACK BY A BLAST.JAVIER LOST HIS BALANCE FOR A LITTLE BIT.HE THAN TURNED AROUND TO SEE STRUC RIGHT BEHIND HIM WITH HIS HAND OUT.

"DE, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?"STRUC ASKED

"THIS LITTLE SHIT BARGED INTO OUR HOME AND JUST...BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF ME."DE REPLIED WITH BLOOD COUGHING OUT OF HIS MOUTH.

JAVIER TURNED HIS BODY TOWARDS STRUC.

"WELL THAN COME AT ME,I'LL KILL YOU QUI--"JUST AS STRUC WAS ABOUT TO FINISH HIS THREAT, JAVIER...HAD CUT HIS HEAD CLEAN OFF.BLOOD GUSHED OUT ALL OVER THE FOREST AS WELL AS ON JAVIER'S SHIRTLESS BODY AND FACE.STRUC'S HEADLESS BODY SLOWLY FELL TO THE GROUND.JAVIER SLOWLY TURNED AROUND TO LOOK AT DE AND WALKED TOWARDS HIM.

"PLEASE... HAVE MERCY....."DE SAID WITH TEARS RUNNING GOWN HIS FACE.

"MERCY...DID YOU HAVE ANY MERCY WHEN YOU KILLED MY FRIENDS?DID YOU HAVE ANY MERCY WHEN YOU MADE ALL THOSE DRAGON SLAYERS FIGHT TO THE DEATH? I DONT THINK SO."JAVIER SAID IN A SOFT VOICE.JAVIER PUT OUT HIS HAND OUT AND SHOT A BLAST AT DE KILLING HIM IN AN INSTANT.

"I COULD'VE SWORE THAT THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE."JAVIER SAID.AS HE SAID THAT HIS POWER WENT DOWN.JAVIER HAD RETURNED TO NORMAL WITH HIS BLUE EYES COMING BACK, HAIR CHANGING BACK TO REGULAR COLOR, AND THE AURA SURROUNDING HIM DISSAPEARINNG.

"That's weird. I could've swore that there was another one."Javier said.

Javier was right however as TION was watching the fight from the very beginning.Tion didn't pursue Javier however but he just disappeared into mid'-air.

Javier than went inside the mansion, body sore from all the fighting and breaking his limits.Javier still had the effort to bring himself into the mansion and locate the loud speaker that DE had used for the morning announcements.

"HELLO...HELLO..HELLO! I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS CAN HEAR ME BUT IT'S ME JAVIER.I'M SORRY I COULDN'T PROTECT YOU GUYS WHEN DE,STRUC, AND TION FIRST CAME INTO THE ISLAND.BUT IM TALKING HERE NOW TO TELL YOU THAT THE DESPAIR IS FINALLY OVER. DE AND STRUC ARE DEAD AND TION HAS APPARENTLY TO HAVE FADED AWAY, AND I MADE SURE OF THAT.DON'T BE AFRAID TO GO OUTSIDE NOW FOR ALL THIS DREAD IS FINALLY GONE.JAVIER OUT.

JAVIER WAS FINALLY DONE WITH WHAT HE HAD TO DO AND WAS LIMPING HIS WAY HOME.JUST AS HE GOT HOME HE WALKED INTO THE ENTRANCE TO SEE THE DRAGON SLAYERS CROWDING THE STREETS AND CHEERING HIM LOUDLY.KIDS RAN UP TO HIM AND THE TEENAGERS SCREAMED.THERE WERE MULTIPLE EMOTIONS ON THAT DAY FROM HAPPINESS TO SADNESS.TEARS WERE FLOWN EVERYWHERE AND SONGS WERE BEING SANG.JUST THAN JAVIER HAD FINALLY COLLAPSED DUE TO ALL THE PAIN AND TIREDNESS HE WENT TRHOUGH ALL DAY.

5 DAYS LATER...

It has been a few day since DE and STRUC were defeated.The town was coming back to normal and the kids were playing outside.

"You ready Guts?"Javier said

"Hell yeah."Guts had replied.

Javier and Guts had packed all they're bags and were ready to leave the Dragon's Den.Guts and Javier walked out of they're house and were at the entrance of the island.

All the dragon slayer's went to go and give them a farewell.

"Do you have to go Javi?"

"Yeah stay home with us"

The children said with a sad expression on they're face.Javier patted there head with a smile.

"I'm sorry little ones but as long as Tion is still out there we'll still be in danger,I swear that I will find him and kill him so we could be safe forever."Javier said. The children smiled back at him.

Javier looked at Nawoku and Jamie and hugged the both of them to say goodbye.

"Nawoku, I'm counting on you to protect this place while we are gone.I'm counting on you."Javier said

"You can count on me Javi.Me and Jamie will definitely look after everybody here."Nawoku said wrapping his arm around Jamie's waist.Jamie smiled and blushed.

"Well than goodbye everyone"Javier and Guts said waving they're hands smiling, as they hopped on a boat and left the island.

A FEW HOURS LATER..

"UGHH."Javier said

"What's wrong Javi?"

"This motion sickness is killllingg me."

"I don't feel anything."

"UGHH."

"Wait, Javi what's that?"Guts said pointing up in the air.An egg seemed to be falling right onto they're boat.Than all of a sudden the egg hit Javier making him fall on his back but landing on his lap.Just than it started to hatch and a tiny orange fox with wings came out of the egg.

"What the?"Guts had said

"Why is there a fox in an egg? I guess that's how they're born.Javier said

"Looks like your a mother Javi."Guts said laughing.

"Looks like your right.Let's see I'm gonna name him Munchie."

The fox's ear twitched and it smiled at Javier while opening it's eyes which were plain white.

AND SO THAT WAS THE BEGINNING ADVENTURE OF JAVIER,GUTS, AND MUNCHIE.

5 DAYS EARLIER...

"LORD DARKNESS, IT SEEMS THAT DE AND STRUC WERE DEFEATED."TION HAD SAID

"RRAAAGGGGHHHHHH."DARKNESS HAD SCREAMED MAKING ROCKS FLY WITH SOME TYPE OF FORCE.

"WITH ALL DUE RESPECT MY LORD, I ALWAYS KNEW THOSE TWO WERE WEAK.IF I CAN STAND BY YOUR SIDE THAN I CAN KILL THE WOODEN DRAGON SLAYER HIMSELF THAT'S CAUSING US SO MUCH PROBLEMS."

"FINE. BUT IF YOU DON'T KILL THAT BOY I WILL SLAY YOU.DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?"

"YES MY LORD."TION HAD SAID,HE TURNED AROUND TO HIS CELL AND DISSAPEARED INTO THE DARK CAVES NEAR THE HIDEOUT.

"CABY, KEP AN EYE OUT FOR THAT ONE."

"YES, MY LORD DARKNESS."CABY SAID FOLLOWING BEHIND TION

"EDWARD SPEAR...GOD I HATE THAT NAME.I SWEAR I WILL DESTROY YOU DARKNESS SAID BREAKING A SKULL IN HIS HAND TO PIECES.