Cruel Melancholies (Episode XXIV)

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4 min readJun 30, 2021

Ferocious

It’s evening time. Spencer saw his little sister beside him. She was 4 years of age and Spencer realized he himself was a 5 year old boy.

He looked ahead and he saw his village was safe and secure.

“What? How?” asked the confused Spencer.

“Brother? Is something wrong?” asked Raven.

“No. This is reality; it felt like I saw a big dream. It’s awkward but, my dream developed characters that I myself do not know. I remember, Doctor Clark, Mason, Captain….”

“Brother…”

“Yes. I’m sorry, let’s go home” said Spencer.

Spencer holding the hand of the little Raven starts walking home.

“What an awkward dream. It was too long,” said Spencer, and then suddenly he remembered his mother getting burned alive, “Mother!”

Spencer rushes toward his home and finds his mother cooking food.

Spencer rushes toward his mother and hugs her.

“Mom I missed you…. I… I saw… I saw a stupid dream where you were dead!” said Spencer who cried aloud, “Mom, don’t ever leave me now!”

“It’s ok son. Have some water” said Spencer’s mother.

It was evening and Spencer was sent towards the forest to collect woods. Raven was sitting on the back of Spencer heading towards the forest.

“Everything is good now. The life I wanted, the life I thought is crushed” said Spencer.

“Brother….” said Raven.

“Yes?” asked Spencer.

“Aren’t you sick of me sitting on your back?” asked Raven.

“Nah, of course not” replied Spencer.

“But I am. Now let me go! Please!” said Raven.

“No. There are harmful insects here, it’s dangerous to let you go” said Spencer.

“Please brother!” said Raven.

“Ok, ok. Here we go…” said Spencer releasing Raven from his grips.

Raven ran along the flowers with a smile on her face which made Spencer happy.

As Raven was running fast, she fell on the ground stepping on an animal trap.

Raven’s leg was wounded. She was crying from pain.

All of a sudden James appeared.

“What’s wrong?” asked the five year old James.

“My sister is hurt, do something!” said Spencer.

“Hold on!” said James.

James ran towards a hospital to take bandages. Till then, Spencer covered her wound with a piece of cloth which he tiered from his own sleeve.

“Be powerful sister. Learn how to defeat pain!” said Spencer.

After a moment Spencer noticed a fire from his village. He saw beasts from the invincibles have escaped through the border, and the village nearest to the border was the village where Spencer lived.

“This is bad, this is bad!” said Spencer.

He took Raven on his soldiers and made a run towards his village. Everything he could see was fire. People there were being eaten alive. He survived somehow and hid inside someone’s house. He was scared and started breathing heavily.

“Prime minister, your orders?” asked a comrade to the prime minister.

“2/3 is already destroyed. There is no point on saving the village. Tell the Reiss squad to exterminate that village” said the prime minister.

“But” said the wife of prime minster “there are innocent lives. We must save them”.

The prime minister slaps his wife.

“Nobody ordered you to speak. Only speak when I order you to” said the prime minister.

“Daddy, daddy, did you see my doll?” asked the five year old Sia.

“No darling. I’ll buy you a new one. Can you play with something else now? Dad’s a bit busy you know?” said the prime minister.

Spencer and Raven finds their home burning.

“Mom! Mom!” screams Spencer.

A beast grabbed Raven and Spencer saw his mother trapped inside the burning house. He had to choose one.

Spencer took out his sword and moves towards the beast. Spencer jumping high slashes the head of the beast.

“I’m gonna kill each and every beast! They will die! No, they deserve to die!” screams Spencer.

Spencer in the thought of avenging his mother moves forward to kill the remaining beasts. On his way, he faints.

“Brother wake up! Brother wake up! Brother please don’t leave me! Brother!” cried Raven.

Raven pulled Spencer out of the village. Raven saw the village being destroyed by her own eyes.

When Spencer woke up, it was morning and his sister prepared some fruits for him.

Raven sitting on the back of Spencer moves forward towards the capital.

Captain Reiss, Commander Smith and Doctor Clark stopped on a shop. Beside them, they saw people gambling.

Raven and Spencer were passing by the street and a few people hit them. They all were drunken people.

“What’s wrong with you kid?” said the drunken men.

Seeing Spencer silent the drunken men tries to punch him. Spencer blocking it, hit’s back. Spencer was exhausting all his anger on those drunken men.

Doctor Clark on the other hand was seeing all his actions.

As soon as those drunken people ran away Doctor Clark came towards Spencer.

“Who are you? And where do you live?” asked he.

“I’m Spencer…. And I don’t belong anywhere” replied Spencer.

Mason and Arthur were just moving by and they saw Doctor Clark.

“Hey Doc” said Arthur.

One of the men gambling said, “Ferocious!” That man won three times continuously.

“Ferocious?” said Doctor Clark with an exciting smile.

“What are you thinking doc?” asked Arthur.

“Nothing” replied Doctor Clark.

Spencer woke up and realized it was a dream.

“What the…. It felt so real. It felt like Jonathan himself used his powers on me. That must be it, if not then how did my mind produced things that I myself didn’t know?” said Doctor Clark.

“Is it ok?” asked Jonathan.

“Yea” replied Tyson.

“I’m a Magerious now. So I can use my powers from miles away. By the way your majesty, why do you want him to remember the past?” asked Jonathan.

“Because I know something that you don’t” said Tyson.

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Let's have a journey with two of the bravest soldiers in the history of humanity. The clash of two generation.. Cruel Melancholies!!!!!