Chapter 18

Zero's POV

I woke up with a throbbing headache. My wounds from my previous fights are all tied up with a bandage and new clothes were put on the nightstand which is next to the bed.

I groan as the headache got worse. I get up and stretch before finding the bathroom and going in.

I do what I have to do there and go out before changing my bloody clothes to the new ones.

The room was quite big but comfortable.

I saw my weapons on the wall which are far from the bed and grab them, putting them in the right places they were before.

"Whoever saved me didn't want me to go and kill him in his sleep" I whispered for in case that he was behind the door or had a perfect hearing.

I have to get out of here as fast as possible.

I walk to door and try to open it but it was locked. There are two options right now.

1. Break the door and make noise and a lot of it.

2. Break the window and get out hurt.

Option two it is. If I am going to break the door the owner of this place will wake up and I'll end up dead. I don't know what's happening to my body but I feel like a human so I don't stand a chance against him especially since he uses magic and if he is the ruler of this world than that makes it even worse.

I take one of my swords and make an X on the window. The place I am going to break is the center of it. For some reason the sword was very heavy and hard to lift off of the ground so it took awhile.

I take a couple steps back and put the sword in it's place it belongs.

I kick the glass with my foot but only small pieces of it flew out which injured my leg. Some pieces of glass were digging into my skin and blood was flowing.

I pulled every glass out and waited for the small wounds to heal but it never happened. They were still bleeding and I was losing a lot of blood.

I look around the room to find something to tie my leg with and for my luck I found some bandages in a shelf, hidden deeply in it.

I wrap some around my leg and around my fist.

Now I am going to try and break the glass with my fist and believe it or not it worked.

My hand was bleeding but thanks to the bandage wrapped around it, it's not that bad.

"I should hurry" I whispered before jumping out the window and landing safely on the other side. I don't believe though.. I jumped off at least from 6 floors just now and I didn't get hurt as badly.

"I guess my talent as a hunter is still in my soul" I said before looking around the place which is kind of creepy.

The huge house was surround by long trees and their shadow makes it even more creepy.

Whoever controls this realm knows this place like his own palm because there wasn't even a road that leads to the forest or out of it. This place is just surrounded by trees.

I started walking towards the forest. It was twice as harder because my wounds have opened up again and I was bleeding out. My head started throbbing again and my breathing became heavier as I enter the forest.

The smell of the dirty ground and rain appeared and disabled my sense of direction.

**** (3 Hours Later)

I was breathing even heavier than before. My blood started to leave trails behind me as I pass the trees. The weird smell changed to flowers but now my sight is blurry.

I lean on a tree with my back and slid down until my butt hits the floor.

I relax my muscles and close my eyes for a couple of minutes. Even my stomach growls at me saying why haven't I have fed it. I am tried, angry and hungry.

This is the last day and if I survive in this place I hope Lucifer will at least agree to train me. Hopefully it's enough because that's the only thing I can do right now unless I have a weapon that a human can carry I think to myself as I try to relax and sleep but I got interrupted by a loud growl from in front of me.

A lion. It's breath brushing my face and the smell of blood and meat swims from his mouth to my sensitive nose.

Seconds passed and he was still sniffing me until I heard another growl from him. Suddenly, my shirt was ripped to half and something wet and big slid over my chest.

I open my eyes slowly, to not alert the lion, and find him watching my every move. It's were really beautiful too.

The wet feeling is gone and the lion sits next to me, helping me with his head to sit up at little.

I look at my chest and the serious wounds from my fights earlier are completely cleaned and healed. Next thing I know is that the lion's tongue was sliding slowly on my face and when I touch it the wounds were gone as well.

The lion bowed his head and licked my hand.

I smile and pat his head then thank him.

"I should get going though. Will you help me out?" I asked him and he nodded happily.

"Well... What are we waiting for? Let's go" It said and I stared at it's back as it walked away from shock.

I follow its tracks and catch up to him.

"Y-you speak?" I asked.

"Well of course. I am not a regular lion after all" He said.

"Why did you help me?"

"Because I saw you future."

"And?"

"You will have a lot of obstacles but later you will live a happy life" He said. "And also because your father told me you were coming"

"The second reason sounds more reasonable" I said before chuckling.

"Indeed it is" He laughed with me. "By the way.. I am examiner today so do well. It is going to be very difficult" He warned.

"It looks like it" I said. "So.. Who am fighting against?" I asked.

"Me"

I stop and look at him in shock. He stopped right after and turned around to face me.

"I have to tell you something before my master comes here."He said.

"What?"

"The only way to defeat me is by magic." He said. "He is here" He said before jumping on me and pinning me to the ground with his claws digging deeper and deeper to my stomach.

"I am sorry but that's the only way out of this place" He said before I scream as loud as my lunges allow me to as he try to take his claws out of my skin.

And before I know it I am bloody and holes in the shape of claws were printed deeply to my skin and beyond.

My vision become blurry and black was the thing that I was seeing as my world started to disappear.

"Leave everything to me, Master!" An unfamiliar voice echoed through my mind as I felt my wounds healing and then my body, standing up on it's own.