Chapter 46.
He slides his leg and unsheathe his sword, ‘ I would not let you pass ’, in a serious tone.
Alon looks around and discovered that some group of people are approaching their destination with weapons, ‘ let's leave, leaves get out of here ’.
Ino turns around, ‘ Hope let's get out of here ’, he signals out to him but Hope was not planning to leave empty handed.
‘ I came for him and am not leaving here without him or else my name isn't Allen Hope ’, he voiced out.
Alon and Ino Lucky were both stunned by the new Hope, ‘ if you say so ’.
The both of them followed, landings to the ground and unsheathing their katana as well, ‘ till the end bro ’, Ino said while moving side by side.
He then realized that he was out numbered and slowly moves backwards to draw the attention of his men, ‘ you little kids are brainwashed, you don't even now what you are doing, turning me over isn't going to profit you nor me cause they don't even give a shit anymore ’, he points his katana at Hope, ‘ kill me and put an end to my misery ’, in a subbing tone.
But Hope was not a heartless killer, ‘ I can not kill a defenseless old man, I have no choice but to leave ’, he said to himself.
‘ guys let's go, he has nothing to offer us ’, as he turns his back view against the old, a large multitude of people blocked their front and suddenly, ‘ swish ’.
‘’ tch ‘’.
‘’ blood gushing sounds ‘’, ‘ what was that ’, Ino asked. Alon turns his back and let out a loud yelling, ‘ Hope ! ’.
He held his abdomen as the sword pierced through his stomach, he holds the sharp edge of the sword resulting to him cutting his palm. The old man kept pushing the sword forward with both of his clutched fist holding the sword.
‘ I told you that I will kill you ’, in a soft tone.
Hope laughs, ‘ you never said that you were going to kill me ’.
‘’ spark ‘’, Hope leaps up into the air with the old man letting go of his sword still attached to his torn up flesh.
‘’ thud ‘’, with dusts ascending into the atmosphere, ‘ gather them and round them up ’, several man formed a circle around them with Hope and his crew in their midst.
‘’ argh ‘’, he struggles to pull out the sword but it seems to be stock, ‘ I can't do this anymore ’, he rose up on his feet.
‘ we need to get this sword out of you unless you are going to die, choose your choice bro ’, Alon said while hold the sword with his hands covered in blood.
‘ wait ’, Ino stood up, ‘ let's try to make peace with them ’.
‘ what if they refuse ’, Alon asked.
‘ then we will have to kill them just like I always wanted ’, he replied.
He moves forward hurling his sword to his right and slowly walking up to the old man who had fear written all over his face, ‘ I am here to make peace, let us go free handed and no one is gonna die, but if you resist us then so many people are gonna die than you expected, choose now or I will do the picking for you ’, in a soft tone while staring directly into the old man's eye.
His people whispered into one another staring at Hope who was practically dying off like a dog struggling to survive, ‘ don't listen to them, it's a trap ’, one of them said while the other spoke, ‘ don't, it's a trap, let's just waste them ’.
‘ silent ’, he yelled with his hands up, ‘ no body is gonna die as far as am concern so for me I don't really think I will be up for your challenge ’, he turns his back against them and slowly walks away, ‘ so...kill them ’.
The scene changed with the city people closing up to them with their unsheathed sword and a deadly look on their face.
The three of them centered up, ‘ now what do will do ’.
He kept quiet for a while as he slowly rose up on his feet with his katana, ‘ we kill them like we always wanted ’, Hope answered.
He sighs in and clutched to the sword in his abdomen, ‘’ tch ‘’, he swiftly pulls it out with blood splashing everywhere.
As they sight him they all moved closer to him as he tears from his cloth to stop the bleeding.
Then he repositioned himself as he tighten the cloth on his abdomen accompanied with a smirk on his face and he drags himself up, ‘ let's finish off this bastards ’.
He moves forward with Alon and Ino giving him a moving space. He staggers forward and calls out to the old man.
As he heard his voice he shuddered in fear and slowly shiever.
‘ hey you forget something that is yours with my abdomen ’, Hope said, ‘ catch ’.
As he turns around to have a clearer view, his sword was sent flying to his direction.
‘’ swish ‘’.
‘’ blink ‘’, his sword pierced through his eye-socket with blood gushing to the ground. He turns around to his people with blood covering his face.
‘ nooo ’.
‘ kill them all for killing our leader ’, they all dashed for the trio with Hope driving his sword through their flesh, cutting and slicing them into pieces.
They kept on fighting till some of them decided to run away with their lives while some of them were already dead like animals.
Hope holds the old man daughter and cloak her hands to her back with his right hand clutching her left hand.
‘ let go of me ’, she cries but Hope drags her against her will, ‘ please, don't kill me, forgive me I beg of you ’.
He stops with his face against her, ‘ now you ask for mercy after your father almost killed me, I can't believe that you still have the gods to speak ’, he said.
She tilt down her head, ‘ please spare my life and forgive me from my wrong doing ’.
Ino walks in with Alon, ‘ just let her be, you don't wanna shed anymore blood, trust me on this ’, Ino said staring at Hope.
‘ even though she doesn't have anything to offer, talkless of the information we are here for, it's like a waste of time, I know we should have not pleaded for mercy cause he wasn't gonna speak but instead kill us ’, Alon concluded.
He slowly loosen his grip on her, ‘ go, I don't wanna see your face no more ’, Hope said.
She moves backwards a little as they were all walking away from her, ‘ it's like I know what you are looking for but you are not gonna see it here unless you look further ’, she said.
Few minutes later...
‘’ boom ‘’, the door was stomped down by Alon's foot.
They all walked into the room with Hope looking around confused, ‘ what is this place.
The room was filled with animals feed accompanied with farm tools.
‘ this is our city animal shelter ’, she answered while leading the way into the room.
With Hope and Alon behind, Alon blocks him with his hands, ‘ wait, I think this is a trap ’, Alon said.
He softly pats him, ‘ don't worry about that, cause am not going to let it happen, trust me ’, Hope replied while walking through Alon's hand.
‘’ slowly clinking sounds coming from an old metal door ‘’.
‘ this might be what you are looking for ’, in a soft tone while she points at a box.
Ino moves fro sheathing his sword to his shaft, ‘ I think so ’, he cleans the surface of the box with his palm, ‘ I have the box over here ’.
They both ran up to him, ‘ take a look at this ’, he shows them the box.
‘ open it let's see what's inside ’, Hope said.
He tries to open it but it seems that the old box had a hard lock on it. She sights them and drives Alon sword from his shaft and breaks through the box with it, ‘’ clink ‘’, Alon was stunned by her actions.
She slowly gives Alon his sword, ‘ sorry for that, I thought you will be in need of my help ’, she said with Hope staring at her.
‘ yeah, thanks alot ’, he expresses gratitude and sheath his sword back to it's shaft.
Ino opens the box only to see papers and marking of red-spots on some land mark, ‘ what are we suppose to look at ’.
‘ I think we just wasted our time on nothing benefiting ’, Hope said while looking disappointed as he slowly turns away from them.
‘ wait ! ’, Alon said.
He rolls the lower part of the paper, ‘ there is something missing here, where is the upper land ’, he asked.
She points at a geographical illustration on the map, ‘ it's over there ’, she answered.
He holds his lower jaw for a while as he slowly hums with Hope and Ino slowly retracing back, ‘ we were never wrong, the demon invasion, everything all started here, thank goodness we never thought of backing out talkless of giving up ’, they remained silent, as he noticed he turns around with a surprise look on his face, ‘ right or was I wrong ’, in a soft tone accompanied with a surprise look on his face.
‘ no, we like never, ever, do that ’, Ino answered confused in his words.
Hope noticed it and decided to push forward, ‘ so what are we suppose to do now, are we suppose to be like going through with this mission ’, he asked.
‘ of course, you all should come over here let me show you something really interesting ’, they all gathered around him.
‘ you see this point ’, he points on the map, ‘ this is where the demon hideout is, it seems her father was able to track them here but for no reason decided to hide if from us ’, Alon said.
‘ you are wrong, it isn't called a hideout ’, she said.
He looks at her, ‘ then what is it called if it isn't called a hideout ’, with a serious look.
As she noticed it she keeps her cool, ‘ don't worry about that, carry on ’, she looks away from him.
Hope noticed and stops Alon from speaking, ‘ tell us what you know ’, he asked.
‘ what do you think you are doing ’, Ino asked.
‘ she knows something about their hideout, it's better for us to gather information first before we head out ’, he replied.
‘ if you say so ’, Alon said while staring at Ino who asked him the question.
She looks cornered and had no choice but to let the cat out of the bag, ‘ it is called the Infinity Castle, an endless labyrinth which houses the Demons heads ’, in a cold tone.
‘ I have heard of that place from someone but I don't know who ’, Ino said out loud to their hearing.
Hopes was still in shock, he tried to join everything together but don't seems to have a hold anyone, knowing that they are houses of demons, he rather just stay away for a while.
‘ no body have been there cause it isn't even in the map, talkless of the entire Europe ’, she said.
‘ then how do we counter those bastards first ’, in a bold tone.
‘ you should be talking about how we would be able to locate the place not how you will be able to kill them, we all know that those bastards are difficult to cut down ’, Alon said.
As they were all arguing Hope voiced out to their hearing, ‘ you all should just shut up, we are talking about demons here not children, we need to rethink this if we wanna get rid of those bastards ’, in a serious tone before he brought down his voice, ‘ who is with me in this ’.
They all looked at him.
Few minutes later.....
Hope and his fellow hunters were outside waiting for him while he was busy talking to the young lady who he killed her father, she wasn't even looking bothered about it.
‘ am sorry for what I did, am sorry for kill your father, I know how important he was to you, can you find it in your heart to at least forgive me ’, he pleads while holding up his bursted abdomen.
She looks at him with a relief expression, ‘ I don't even look bothered about that cause he never even cared, I should be grateful for what you have done for me, if it wasn't for you I would have been married out a long time ago I mean...you know what am trying to say ’, before bursting into laughter.
‘ take heart ’, he pats her and was about walking away when she lunge up to him and embraced him, reminding him of his sister Gwen.
‘ thanks alot for everything ’, with tears dripping down to her cheeks.
As Hope as his friends took to their horses and went a distance forward, she waves to them with a smile on her face.
In another place far away from England.
The owing sounds of the night owos echoes through the midnight embodiment. In that environment, a mansion can be seen forward.
Sitting at the front of a chilling with burning woods was a young man sitting on an iron chair. He seems to be putting his hands inside of the flames when a voice surprise him, ‘ master ’, he mistakenly placed his hands inside the fire and immediately pulls it out.
He shakes his hands for a while before taking a look at it only to discover that it has been healed even before he removed it.
His hairs were long covering his eyes and his mouth while he was looking muscular and strong with long pointed claws accompanied with his pale skin and his dried lips.
He joins his dried lips together, ‘ what are you doing in here ’, he asked.
He was already shuddering in fear as he words were like death itself, ‘ I am here to inform you about the demon hunter corp, they are already in the upper land, searching for who they think is a demon ’.
His eyes opened in fear, ‘ when did they announce this information ’, in a cold tone.
‘ it was in the morning sir ’.
He slowly helps himself up with his head tilted down, ‘ don't worry yourself about anything cause they would not dear war into my mansion without my permission ’, he immediately rose up his head, his eyes were glowing red as they flashed through his hairs dangling around his face.