Alnovia: The Beginning of the end 2

I was about to leave when I felt a touch on my shoulder

“I need to talk to you”

I nodded and I walked into the room “General, about the mechanism-”

“God, Enough of that crap. General died as soon as you left that door”

“Then that’s sad because Jeb ain’t talking to me” I shot back

“He is now, Rob, I” He sighed “I messed up. Pretty Bad”

“We can do this, Sure Darius has a lot of Ignisniels and warfare decked up under their sleeves but as long as we can confirm to our troopers that we can kill this Bubak.. They place their trust on us and win them back” Wow I thought What a way to pick up where we ended in this “friendship”

Jeb scratches his head harder, clearly not listening to what I was saying “Oh yeah that um- no it’s not that” He leaves a big whoosh of air “We can handle that yeah. Big wussies they are. Yeah no its not bout that” I raised my eyebrow because I needed further explanation. “It’s about the girl”

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I hissed “What did you do? I told you to burn it!”

I walked over to the door and checked if anyone was there and closed it shut. “First of all,” He said “It’s not an “it” It’s her. And let me tell you, I don’t have the heart to burn a baby.” “Well if you don’t burn that baby, she’s going to burn you! You do know Cloveski is genetic, Darius’s Ignis powers are passed on to her. Her yes burn with power and hunger to consume anything in front of her” He threw his head back and laughed “She’s just a baby Rob!”

I was serious. This was not a laughing matter. I headed to him until I was face-to-face with him “And that baby grows to be a strong powerful fire-breather, twice as strong as Darius, her father. Strong enough to wipe out armies of great kingdoms. Strong enough to kill 100 men in a fragment of seconds not waiting for a second chance to take over this godforsaken country. So if your chicken enough to burn a baby. At least be brave enough to burn a monster.”

The moment of silence lingered between two people who had a strong relationship but now hanging by a fragment of a thread. We both were standing there with opposing points. I stared at him, he was once a boy with bony legs and a toothy smile now a hotheaded general of an army. I snapped out of my daze, and I realized I was holding him by the shoulders, gripping him a little too tightly. He was having a sad smile and he tilted his head to the side as if talking to a child.

“I’ll show you the child. We can’t talk here. Let's go somewhere else.”

Cloveski or more correctly known as Chemically Transitioned Valsik Liquid was my very proud creation. Alnovia, a land hidden for the greater good, a land that consists of extraterrestrial creatures, most of them are faded and dying as they can't contain the newly developed Alnovia, their habitat is faded. But with my invention "Cloveski": Alnovia successfully creates creatures through their scientific research and technology development. More of these "human testers" is through simple volunteer or forcible impelling. It's a translucent liquid containing substances of different scientific value injected into the human testers.

Their desired result is a temporary stage for the creature and access control over the shape-shift. Unfortunately, there are some "human testers" who end up in the permanent phase. Those "unfavourable" are not given justice and consider "untouchables". They are to be isolated and stay away from Alnovia due to their dynamic powers.

It was banned when everyone started to blame my product. After I was removed from the Council of Masters and was removed from my role of “General”. My product was taken away from everyone who had it, including South Alnovia and Valsik Zsecktham. Darius Puik is the only guy to inject himself with a high dose of Ignis Cloveski to become the most power fire-breathing Ignisling. We’d made a huge mistake making him a General of the South Alnovia (Zantam). The most powerful creature (artificial) to burn down an entire clan of nymphs, satyrs, and cyclops. He turned Zantam into a graveyard burning down thousands of homes and killing our original creatures of Valsik.

Darius had murdered his wife after she had decided to flee with her newborn infant. He didn’t want to kill the child. He wanted someone to succeed him to be the next Ignisniel. He wanted to train the girl to be a killer.

He had a baby girl who was taken from him, she had eyes which burned with fire, the flame of vengeance. But her face was too sweet to pass up. I wouldn’t change my mind about burning her.

At least I thought I wouldn’t….