Haig
My eyes was so painful, as I cannot looked directly at the scamp. There is nothing I can do to fight him, I cannot because of the dazing light that came from his palms. I had been thinking if how I could defeat him, he is really determined to fight me, because he is still following me even I went away. Until I realized that there is one more thing that I could do to fight him, and that is to use teleportation. Therefore, I teleported towards his back and kicked him on his knee to dropped him down on the ground. I did not failed to dropped him down, but he just knelt down and his hand was still pointing at the same position.
"Whahaha!" He laughed. "Are you really thinking that you could defeat me easily as that?" the sun man asked.
"What the hell!" I exclaimed.
He turned his palms towards me, I did not expected that it would be that so warm which seemed to burn me alive. He is really a sun man. If he is really a sun man, why he is not looked like the sun? And the heat that came from his hand was just like a fire and not sun. I bounced away when the strong force that came from his palm pushes me.
Now I know why I called him as sun man: he was so strong. Fortunately, there is no hard and dangerous things around this place, it's all green which means a playground of the place. His eyes turned gold as he went near to me, I was full of self-pity, which could thrust myself away from him. Because of fear to get burnt by this sun man, I realized something that I should do and that's to teleport away from him. Unfortunate and fortunate, I am in between, because it was fortune that put me in danger, and it was also the fortune that I was still alive. I realized that I cannot be die even in the worst situation if it was not my time, I believed in destiny.
My clothes burnt, especially at my abdomen and even my abdomen itself hurts. I felt an unexplainable pain that caused of burnt. I am getting accustomed to be always hurt by this mission. Currently, I remembered the words from Cain. He told me not to blame him because he did not lacked warning me about something, though he did not really warned me about the exact thing. This might be what he mean, because I seemed to blame him that he did not help me in killing the sun man. I did not got burnt like this if he helped me killing that man, he is just enjoying his freedom. I cannot believe that there is a curse in him if he can even do everything that he want in his life, though he don't have life anymore because he is already dead. There is only few things that he cannot do, that's to stay in fight for a long time, to go back to where he came from and to perform magic in a long period of time, as he can perform magic, but in just a limited time. I don't know why he really want to go back to where he came from if his life here is just beautiful as what everyone wanted. Well, it is his decision and he told me that he can only find the real freedom in the place of spirits, because there he can take rest.
What I can do now is to plan it how I can defeat sun man. What an empty brain I had, there is not a way to destroy that man. Maybe I can deceive him, or observe him before making a plan to destroy him. Eventually, there is something that came to my mind. If he wants to fire on fire, then I will give him what he wants. I need something—so that I can use his power to fight against him—something that can throw his own dazing light back to him. But the problem is where I could get something like a mirror, what kind of question that it have an answer automatically, of course in the houses around. What kind of hell that I need to do this.
Now I know what to do, that's to use teleportation to quickly get the things that I need from those houses ahead, that would be a mistake because I am not just a killer, but also a robber. It's an important thing which other people does not know what's the real reason of the happening. As what they always do, they just witnessed a portion of happening, but not the whole story. I know I can't avoid everything that was destined, and even I will run, the universe will pulled me still.
After my fight with the sun man, I will be coercing Cain again to teach me how to perform magic, such as making things appear, so that I won't need to rob again and my clothes will never torn because of fire or as what the sun man did. When I was going to teleport towards the houses ahead, I was stuck for the reason that I don't know. Consequently, I stopped thinking and try to go there again, but I was failed. When I looked around to know why I can't teleport and I saw Cain behind me, raising his hand and fought my power to teleport.
"Oh, it was you, but what are you doing here?" I asked.
"What do you think the reason why I was here?" He asked back.
I sensed what he mean. "Uh... Uh... Uh..." I stuttered. I gently rob my head. I don't know what to say. Finding an alibi, to bragged or anything else to avoid the talk about the sun man.
"Whahaha!" Cain laughed. "You looked like a coal, what happened to you, huh?" He asked.
What kind of man, he is making fun of me.
"Ah... it is nothing, just caused by an accident. A while ago, there was a fire and I was nearly burnt," I lied.
Though I know that there is nothing I can show that tells about a fire, only my burnt clothes and bronzed skin because of the scamp sun man.
"Stop lying Haig, I know that your burnt came from that man. I just came here because I sensed that you failed to kill him and I was not wrong. Looked at you, because you did not listen to me before turning back, now that's what you get. So next time when I will be saying something to you, you must take heed, because it is for your safety. Believe me, you will die easily because of your inconsideration. What's on your mind is to attack and attack without knowing what kind of people you are attacking."
I inhale and exhale an air with force. "Okay mister verbose, that's enough cause you won and I learned my lesson from my inconsideration, what you shall do is to give me clothes and attack the sun man again. There is nothing will happened if you are just saying something, but not doing anything that could changed the situation you talked about."
Cain was always at the right time. Therefore, I won't need to rob or exert too much force to kill the callous sun man, because I am sure that Cain can kill him in just a second. Also know that Cain must not be the one to kill him, but me, because it is my task. That man shall go first into hell and feel an unexplainable pain that is caused by being burned.
We went back to the place where the Sun Man was through teleportation, but it was too late; he was not here anymore. I saw nothing but the evergreen grass on the playground and the houses and buildings that were standing ahead and the sun that was hiding behind them.
"Do you have any idea where that man went?" I asked.
"I don't have an idea where. How about you?" Cain asked back.
"You don't have it? I don't have an idea, but you are so powerful to say that you don't. You are not telling the truth."
"Honestly, I am telling you the truth, and it was only you who was thinking that I was very powerful. Have you forgotten about what I told you? That my power has a limit and sometimes magic doesn't work because of the curse?"
"Maybe you are not as powerful as I thought, but don't tell me that I was the only one who thought that you were so powerful, because you sometimes bragged about it."
"I know, but that is the truth, that I don't have any idea where the sun man went. We cannot change that," he said.
"Don't say that, man; there is something that used to tell me the place where the malevolent sun man went," I replied.
"Whoa!" He exclaimed. "'Malevolent' is a big adjective, but don't you know that you are the malevolent one? It was you who wished to do evil to others."
"Why only me? Do not say that, because we are just the same. Have you forgotten that you are the one who involved me here?" I asked.
He sighed and replied, "That's enough. You better tell me what you will do to find out where the man went so that we can kill him quickly. We are just the same. We are both malevolent." The word totally came out of his lips.
Maybe Cain was telling the truth that he is not powerful enough, because if he is, the he already knew the thing that used to tell me something that I want to know, the power of hearing. He must also know where the sun man went, these evidence are telling that Cain is not very powerful. And I can be more powerful than him, and that can be only gained if I mastered all magics.
I don't want to tell Cain that I have a secret power, because there is nothing will changed if I do. I know that it can help me if I need it's help, especially when Cain wants to break our partnership in doing crime. I can be more powerful than anyone through it. Currently, I need it's help about the place where the sun man went. Fortunately, it works and it told me the place where exactly the sun man went.
"So, what are we going to do? Do you really know the place where your enemy went? Or you just want to do nothing?"
"Of course I have, follow me and I will bring you there." I walked on the evergreen grasses towards the houses ahead. Cain also followed me, but I stopped when he held my shoulder.
"Wait! Why you are going to walk if we can just teleport?"
"That's indolent man, my abdomen will turned bigger if I don't walk, looked at your abdomen, I don't want to have that stomach of yours, why I will be walking than teleporting."
"Don't be bad, I don't have a big abdomen at all, it is just normal, why you are worrying about little things though you are not even eating, you are just drinking water, and we should teleport because we want your mission done easier."
"In great minds, there is nothing little, but you have a point. it is impossible for me to have big stomach as yours, because I am not eating food. But how about you? What did you do that your stomach turned big, don't tell me that you are eating too much food though you are already spirit."
"You! I told you that it is not big at all. I am just eating foods of spirits, which gives me strength to endure in this world, because you cannot see me now if don't ate that foods. I cannot touch anything, I am just floating around."
"Not big? I told you that in great minds there's nothing little."
"You misinterpreted your own words, why cannot you call it an average size, because if there is nothing little and it is not big, then it is just normal!" Cain exclaimed. "You are just wasting time in that unimportant thing. Don't forget that you don't even want me to talk such nonsense, but what you are doing now? We better just go to that sun man, he is our enemy and not each other. It is your choice if you want to walk, teleport, fly, crawl, swim, run, etcetera, but I prefer you to teleport," he concluded.
Currently, because of Cain's words, I thought that knowledge is rare and precious, there are many used of it, but at the same time, it must be use in a right time. They are just a word, but sometimes it caused deep wounds than any swords did. Those words sometimes also made the speakers ashamed, and I was ashamed because of it, too. What kind of foolish am I? There are too many things to do, but why it always comes to a dispute with Cain. Maybe I need to be submissive if I really wants to have a good partnership with this spirit.
Hence, I said, "Okay man, let us stop the nonsense talk from now on. I know you would say that, but don't worry about that. Hold my arm and I will bring you to that sun man."
"Good to know that you thought to listen and stop defending yourself from nonsense things," Cain replied.
I felt uncomfortable as he held my ear with his cold hand. It seemed to drown me down the cold ocean. I am a boy who was born with tickle at that part of my body, and I don't want anyone to touch me there because of the unexplainable feeling that made me laughed wildly.
I laughed at the same time. Cain seemed to know not the reason why I laughed as that. I removed his hand from my ear and said, "I told you to hold my arm and not my ear!"
"Is not it inappropriate to hold you arm? Don't tell me that you felt uncomfortable with it. Can you stop lingering? Just teleport us to that sun man." He held my ear again.
"What... the... hell..." I tried to speak normally, but i cannot control my laughter. I removed his hand and went several feet away from him, as I don't want him to touch me again.
"Hey! Do you have a plan to finish you mission, or you will just laughed there? Huh? Can you tell me what made you laughed like that? I never saw you laughing as that before."
"It was you and your cold hand, there was nobody tickled me like that before, not even my mother nor her hairs."
"Tickled? Do you mean you has tickle on your ear?" He asked.
"Uh-huh, is there anything else that it means?" I asked back.
"Uh, there is nothing other, but that is not important, just bring us to the sun man, and this will done."
"Okay, I will only bring us there, but only if you will not hold my ear again. How can I focus to teleport in the other place you are tickling me?"
"You had a point. Just tell me where is the sun man and I will be the one to bring you there."
I don't know the name of the exact place where the sun man went. Hence, I went near to Cain and held his arm. Then I teleported us to the building where the sun man was, as what the power of hearing told me.
We appeared several feet at a room with green-painted door and yellow curtains hanging inside the windows that are made of glass. It seemed to be my first time having a fight in this kind of place if it happen that the sun man will fight me.
Definitely, he have two choices, which are to die or to die hard. A man like him, I knew that he will choose to die hard than to die without fighting at all. If there is someone who will ask me to choose between the two; certainly, I'd die hard, I better die while fighting than dying without fighting.
"Are you sure that the sun man is here?" Cain asked, curious.
"Uh-huh, why you are asking me that?" I asked back.
"If you are really sure that he is here, how did you know that?"
"If I tell you, there is nothing for you to discover," I replied.
"I am old in discovering things, why won't you just tell me?"
"Why won't you just open that door?" I tried changed the topic.
"If you don't want to tell me, then that is just okay, but let me tell you that there is nothing can be hidden forever."
"I know that, man."
His black robe was swinging as he walked towards the door.
"I am already old for you to remind me that," I added.
If it happen, I can be the one to break that words, or it happened that someone already broke that words. Millions of people in the world, has millions of secrets too.
Cain knocks on the green-painted door, he seemed to motivate someone to open it. I don't know why he need to knock on that door if he can go wherever he wants. I don't know what's happening to him. I don't know why he don't know that the sun man is here, though he was the one who search the man and it only took him a short time.
It came to my mind that he cannot help me if his power will not work; therefore, I abruptly went towards him and teleport us in behind the wall by the stairs of the same building.
"Oh Haig, why did you brought us here?" He asked, appalled.
Because of my father's comment "Birdbrained" —the kind of word which—or telling something or someone as stupid or someone that's not thinking about something, such as believing to someone's alibi, hearsay, wrong information, or anything else that made someone capable to be called stupid. It made me think about my family, as I said the word to Cain. I remembered how they fight for my goodness, which sometimes turned onto dispute, but whatever dispute intercedes between them or us, we will never hate each other. Jay and Leona, I really miss them. I also miss my Cyril, I hope that she is just okay. What kind of life I had, I don't know why it has to turned onto this.
I came back to my senses when Cain said in my ear, "Hey Haig, I was asking if why you brought me here, but you did not answer me. It seemed that you fell out of kindness. Will you tell me what you was thinking?"
"Uh..." I hesitated. As I don't want to show weakness to Cain.
"I just want to ask you how you could help me if your power does not work? How you will help me in killing the sun man if you are so weak and you don't even know that he is here?"
"Do you think I will go with you I don't know that?" Cain asked. "Why you are saying that I am so weak this time? Don't you ever think that you are weaker than me? Huh?" He bragged.
"Sorry mister strong and powerful, but I am the one who was asking you about how could you help me defeating the man?"
Cain sighed. "I don't know," the only words came from his lips.
"See? You don't know... why we are going to attack the sun man if we cannot defeat him without your power?" I asked.
"We will need to wait for the night to come, because darkness can help us. Let me asked you how you can finish your mission without me, as you are just relying on my power?"
The darkness could help us? How can he says that? Maybe he means that his power will work if the evening come.
"I don't know, what I only know is that I need to finish this mission for my freedom. I knew even I would not do this, destiny will push me or pull me like a magnetic, you know, towards this thing. I better die fighting without fighting at all."
"How can you fight them if you are just relying on my me?"
I want to avoid his question that seemed to make me feel inferior. "You are just repeating the question. You better tell me how we could defeat the sun man at this situation?"
He sighed. "I told you, we cannot defeat him if we don't have any power, we shall wait the darkness to come. Do not worry to much because after a few moments, my power will work again," Cain replied.
I was curious. "What do you mean by darkness?" I asked.
"I meant, the dawn, that is the darkness."
Cain was right, we definitely need to wait some minutes before we could attack the sun man, because we will just burnt if we don't have power to use against him. It came to my mind to practice water magic and that I can use this magic to fight the sun man, as it can protect us to get burnt.
"Don't lost hope Haig, I am sure that we can kill him before the daybreak."
He put his hand above my shoulder with a bit force. Something that telling me not to give up, that I can. It made me remember my best friend France. I don't know what is happening to him right now, if what he was doing. I wondered if he is just okay, does he came back to school, or he don't care about the world anymore? Does he remembered me too, as I remembered him, or he already forgotten me? Maybe he just considered me as a part of the puzzle, which means a part of his past life, which tells me to consider him as that too. Everything in my past are just a portion, though it was the reason why I am here now, I cannot turn back the time.
"Um... Haig, you are lulled there... Is there something wrong?"
"Nothing, I just need to be quiet because if not, the sun man can noticed that we are here. Our plan will fail if that happen."
"Are you sure that's the only reason?" He queried it.
I sighed and replied, "There are just some memories in the past that's coming back to my mind. Don't worry about me."
My past cannot help me from fixing something that are just happening at this occasion. They are just bad dreams that end at a time, which sometimes come back. What shall I do is to wake up, and do other things to forget them. Make myself busy on my mission, power and magics.
It was really difficult to forget my bad memories in the past, for those memories were marked on me badly. Memories that cannot be erase though I used all kind of erasure, for I bring them wherever I went and it was hooked on the rock. Though I never did hooked them, it was the nature's did.
There are some people passed by and beside us using the winding stairs and going to the other rooms. Good to know they did not noticed me and Cain to be looked weird. They might think that we are just a ordinary people who rent in here. As I know that this building is not open for public. This place was so quiet, there is not even a little sound except those footsteps made by the people who was walking around.
I and Cain was just standing here, doing nothing, sometimes glancing at each other and watching to the door of the room where the sun man is. As we don't want him to elude from us, else we need to search for him again. It seemed that there is someone with him inside the room, for he was sometimes talking with a woman. It was a little weird, but not just that, we sometimes heard their loud, moaning voices. I noticed that Cain was a little bit foolish, for he seemed to listen them.
"Hey, what are you seemed to cling on that wall?" I asked.
The place was filled of silence as I said those words, even the moaning voices gone too. After some seconds, Cain break the silence, he asked me if who I was talking with.
"Of course you, is there someone with us?" I asked again.
"Yeah, there is someone with us," he replied.
It made me think deeply and messed my mind, for I saw nothing except us. Who can be with us? Maybe he was talking about the butterfly that was flying around, maybe with the birds that were also flying above, those people who just passed by us, or maybe an invisible one.
"Who can be with us if there is not one here?" I queried it.
"Who do you think? It's you and me, we are with us right?"
"Haha, you are really out of your mind, but you have a point, we are with each other; therefore, we are with us."
"Don't think too far if the answer was just on the question."
I smiled, as I understood what he means. After a few moments and eventually, the wait was over. The dawn is coming slowly towards us. It's time to kill the sun man. We went back towards the front of the door where the sun man and a woman was still inside. Cain was stretching his bones and begin to knock on the green door. The sounds he made were just normal, not feeling angry and not too low.
The time came, there is someone opened the door. It was the sun man. At the same time, he said nothing, as he see nothing. He was going to close the door when Cain pushed him back inside the room.
Suddenly, the woman who was wearing a miniskirt, plain, amaranth shirt and sneakers run out from the room where Cain went. She ran quickly, as she seemed to be followed by a vassal of demons. At the same time, I went towards the door and get inside, there I saw Cain punching the sun man.
Incredible, in punching it turned that Cain automatically won, because he cannot be touch nor seen by anyone. He was the vassal of devil. As what he told me that someone could only touch him if he gave consent. He also told me that he could not touch human when his power don't work.
After a few moments, in a yellow boxer and without shirt, the sun man is now lying on the glossy floor with some blood dripped down from his forehead. I never knew that Cain could dropped him easily as that, it took him seconds. The sun man seemed to be just strong when there was a sun, but if the night came, he turned onto a pointless one.
Cain looked at me. "Haig, come on!" He exclaimed.
I closed the door and went towards them. My heart was throbbing as I know that I need to end someone's life. It is a little uncomfortable for me to end someone's life in a merciful condition. I only have courage when I was the one who turned them onto that condition, but if others, my heart wants to jump out of my rib cage.
"So, what are you waiting for? Kill him now!" He ordered.
Motherf*cker! Though I am the master of crime, I still don't know how to end someone's life. I hesitated to do the heinous crime. As usual, what makes me having courage is to think that everything about me lies on their lives, my freedom, my family, my life, etcetera.
Hence, one kicked at a time. As I hit his abdomen, the dark red liquid that came out from his mouth and nose ended his life. I had been thinking if how painful the death he got. Death is not scary at all, what's more scary if the way someone dies.
Some people would say that they fear death and I cannot judge them, for they have their reason. Those people are thinking about someone that they love and even their property that will be left in this world. As what will happened to them when they die. Some people are not scared to die, but they are thinking that they could waste their opportunity to live in this world. I am one of them.
"Finally!" Cain exclaimed. "You killed him." He smiled.
"What kind of shit you are!" I exclaimed back. "Please, don't be glad because I killed him," I said, seemed to implore.
"Whahaha," he laughed. "That is just okay Haig. We already talked about this thing. He cannot be die if it is not his time."
"It that's what you believed in, then I will just go outside, so that you can offer his spirit to your invisible master."
"You better get outside so that we can stopped talking, and please watched the people, do not let them enter here."
I got outside the room. It was already dark in the place, the only source of light was the bulbs from each room of the building and houses. After a few moments, Cain went outside the door and got towards me. We were surprised when there is someone who was going towards us.