Chapter three – demanding

Tira was seventeen and the world she’d been raised in was collapsing. There was an organization known as the Evil Seed slowly wiping out members of the Bird of Passage while she was on a mission. There was nothing left of her world but ruins and flames. Hate burned within her core. Tira ran to escape it, knowing there was nothing more she could do. She ran to escape the pain and the hate…but it followed her.

“Aah!” She shouted. Tira stared into the crystal clear water of a creak, catching her breath. The water swayed gently. Tira glared into the water. She slid her finger on the reflection across a thin violet line across her nose and cheek. It was a scar from the first evil soul she’d encountered in the Carpathian Mountains. She glared and splashed she water.

A figure appeared behind her in the reflection and everything went black. When she awoke she was in a bed in a little cottage of a city. Tira sat up quickly. Her memory was faded. “Where am I?” She said quickly. A woman rushed into the room.

“You’re awake!” She said quickly. Tira heaved.

“Why don’t I remember anything…” Tira panicked. Her mind retraced itself over and over and her memory never recovered. The last thing she remembered was leaving for a mission for the Bird of Passage.

“Hun why don’t you just calm down.”

“Who are you!” Tira shouted, lunging towards to woman, but Tira stopped once near her. She stood thinking silently as the woman tried to calm her. Answering each question Tira asked, the woman was spared from being torn to pieces. Tira lived with the woman and her family for nearly two weeks. It was a quiet city where everyone had quiet ordinary lives. Until one night, Tira’s memory got the best of her.

“What happened to the Bird of Passage?” She asked angrily. The woman stared silently.

“It’s been…dissolved.” Her husband answered. “By the Evil Seed.” He looked at his wife and smiled. “Good thing, too!” He laughed as Tira’s anger reached its limit.

The house in the quiet little city was on fire and Tira was smiling. Something awakened in Tira that night. Something inside her, she’d never experienced. She glared suddenly at the flaming house with the woman her husband and their quiet little family inside. “You deserve the most painful death imaginable.” Her voice was no longer harmonious. It was filled with hate. She wasn’t herself.

She left the city wandering throughout Europe. Eventually people began getting in her way, calling her a nuisance. Each person she slashed her way through them, just like her old games as a child assassin.

Laughter filled her with each kill. Laughter that was the same as the part of her that had spoken the night of the quiet city fire. Soon Tira had begun to hear that voice in her head, begging her for just one more kill to soothe the pain. One more kill to hide the hurt. Travelling, she’d begun to cut down every person she’s meet while she wandered.

The darker side of her becoming more and more intense. Tira found her Greece, finding information about a man named Nightmare, cutting down every person in her path. Her heart pounded with excitement.

“Find him!” The darker self screamed. Tira smiled. “Finally, someone to whom I can give myself entirely…”

“No…” Tira muttered. “I must continue my travelling; I must destroy the evil seed, as it had destroyed my world.”

“Find the man in Azure armor.” Her darker half pressed on. “He will give you a way to achieve you’re revenge.”

“Shut up!” Tira yelled. “You just want him. You don’t care about the Bird of Passage.”

“Its gone! Get over it! You’re becoming such a nuisance! With him you won’t be wandering a lone anymore! Remember what they trained you for! Do what you’re told! Do it or die!” The rage forced its way through her and Tira agreed to her darker half….and slowly it was taking over.