Athanor Online: Monarch of War

Pashas

In the lower caste of the grandest kingdom. The figure of a small child running with his small and fragile legs while holding a piece of bread, he ran while with a breath of fatigue, trying to escape from someone's pursuit.

The little boy turned towards the dark hallway of the narrow house, hiding in the filth of the garbage can hoping that he would not be found. It did not take long, hasty footsteps were heard along with his insults and insults that were heard in the crowded street.

The boy breathed his leg. With his little mouth he ate a loaf of bread voraciously. It did not make him so full, but at least able to make him survive. Living in dirty territory, forcing him to survive, no matter what.

The boy wiped the sweat with the crumpled cloth he was wearing. He fixed his breath as he quietly settled down, walking slowly in a very dark hallway. He walked to a place that he deserved to call home.

***

Pasha was born into poverty and became an orphan at a young age. Trying to survive in a very hostile area. Not having parents, he just depends on the figure of the brother who has been protecting him, and give him an affection.

Pasha sat in a broken chair. His finger he knocked with a smile of impatience. Soon the sun went down, which meant his older brother would be home soon, bringing him the food he had promised since sunrise. The bread he had eaten, could not bear the hunger on his tiny stomach.

The sound of footsteps sounded slowly, while the clanking of open doors sounded on his ears accompanied by a smile of happiness from Pasha. The door opened, looking a figure similar to him yet much more mature. Carry a bag of bread in large quantities. Seeing her sister as if she was starving made her a little guilty of going home late.

"Sorry to have you waiting a long time, Pasha." His word. Not hearing her brother's words, Pasha nodded with excitement due to impatience.

Isaac smiled bitterly, giving his brother a bag of bread. Pasha ate it voraciously. Seeing Pasha being so happy every time, Isaac made a small smile. The fatigue and pain of the various experiments that he has lived every day began to recover.

Both Isaac and Pasha underwent a special experimental program devoted to the Kingdom of Norman. Pasha is still young, he became a light experimental material. However unlike Isaac, he had a body that was stronger than most people making him a very extreme experimental material that no one even thought of him.

Even so, he still had to undergo this experiment to survive for the sake of his beloved sister. As long as he can think straight.

***

A few years later, Isaac grew into a very powerful army within a division called Demon Hunter. The devoted division killed or overcame the demons or Abyss creatures that crawled into the Kingdom of Norman.

Experiments based on the unification of dark energy from the shards of the Dark Andura Stone were able to make various warriors become stronger, or super warriors. Making the citizens of the Kingdom of Norman able to breathe a sigh of relief from the threat from Noctrune.

Yet.

Experiments are experiments. Those who failed would mutate into something never imagined before. Where the subject changed shape, screaming loudly like a wolf howl that never finished. Those who fail and mutate will be exterminated en masse.

Following Isaac's struggle, the timid and nervous Pasha somehow made it through various deadly experimental trials. He is strong-spirited if his brother is beside him, along with his partner and Isaac, Pasha joins the Demon Hunter army even though he is the weakest among them.

"Southern part of the forest?." Said Isaac

"Right, there's a rumor that a pretty strong demon lives there." Said someone who seemed to be an important person.

He was General Edmund, who was responsible for the experiments that had been carried out in the southern Kingdom of Norman. He was the leader of the Demon Hunter organization, also a very influential figure. For someone who has made it through experimental trials, General Edmund is a father figure to them.

"What about Dante?."

"He just got home from his long mission, it's not nice if I have to give him another one." His word.

Isaac just nodded slowly. Dante was the strongest Demon Hunter ever, much stronger than him. The figure who once held the draw of the strongest war general in the Azeroth empire, Nakroth. It even repulsed the Abyss Legion army led directly by Demon Lord Maloch, who was predicted to be the most ruthless Demon Lord figure ever.

Dante was the only experimental subject who was instead accustomed to the energy of the Dark Andura Stone. Fusing with her had even penetrated all the way to her DNA. Makes it very difficult to kill, and immune to sharp weapons.

"All right, according to your orders." Isaac.

***

The Demon Hunter entourage led by Isaac, walked slowly down each step entering the dark forest. Each of them is focused and aiming for the same goal. Information about powerful demons became their weapons.

Their swords, spears, and bows were prepared. Fused in the silence of the forest, sneaking and silent without instruction. Isaac walked forward followed by Pasha behind him, so that Isaac could keep an eye on his only brother.

They were highly trained, their hunting instincts were already at a high level, where each of their senses had been enhanced through the energy of the Andura Stone. Makes him vulnerable to the situation. The smell of blood instantly smelled, Isaac paused for a moment.

In silence he tried to confirm, as well as the others. Meanwhile, Pasha was downcast in fear, the smell of blood so pungent on her nose. Indeed, Pasha was very weak and famous for being whiny among them. Pasha the Cengeng is a nickname that he got since joining the Demon Hunter.

Isaac stroked his sister's soft hair trying to calm his mind. Although without a word, Pasha can understand from the eyes of the brother. They cannot talk and can only communicate through gestures. The devil has very sharp senses.

Isaac and his group finally found the figure. The figure of a large red-winged demon and two horns on his head. The devil was sitting asleep on a pile of corpses. The Demon Hunter that should not have trembled, yet now they were hesitant. Because of those corpses, none other than the Demon Hunters.

Isaac swallowed his saliva, only this time he saw a demon capable of slaughtering an army of Demon Hunters this much. He glanced at Pasha who seemed to want to cry, he wanted to calm her but he was also so agitated. Isaac's eyes were directed toward the figure he believed in.

Naka was his name, Naka gave a hand gesture. Said to directly attack him, while the demon was off guard. Isaac hesitated a little, but with careful consideration he allowed it. Naka with an elaborate gesture, ordered half the group to follow him.

They walked slowly, through the bush in the dark. Naka, along with most of the group, darted fast but quietly towards the sleeping demon. The instincts they had honed during the experiment made their blood superior and resilient. The increase in strength as well as speed had already exceeded the limits of normal humans. But they forgot something. The devil is no ordinary person.

The long sword that came out of nowhere, slashed down all the Demon Hunters including Naka. Made them die in one long swing. Isaac who saw that fell silent while biting his tongue, while Pasha was silenced over his fear.

Yet.

"She!."

Naka's lover screamed to see the body of the idol split in two. This made the dark red demon know the location of the Demon Hunters. Without warning, a long slash slashed the girl's neck. That demonic figure was extremely fast, even the senses that they were level could not follow the direction of the demon's movements.

Not until there the devil moves like a red lightning, cutting and tearing the Demon Hunter very brutally. Their limbs were splattered along with the scent of blood binding. In the darkness of the southern forest, the sick screams of the Demon Hunters were inaudible. Covered by tight trees. Seeing that Isaac tightened his sword grip, taking the best decision.

"Run Pasha..." Lirih Isaac

However, his fear that was so great made his legs limp not revealed. His eyes were crying along with a pale face helpless.

"Run Pasha!." Shouted Isaac

The first time he heard the snapping from the older brother, made him realize his fear. He was strong when he was with Isaac, while thinking like that, Pasha took a quick step. Isaac smiled.

"At least it's just you..."

Isaac drew his sword in complete confidence, banging his blade against the other blade that was eyeing his neck. The difference in strength was so obvious, both of his hands were experiencing such great pain, only to withstand the attack of the dark red demon, which perhaps even he was not serious.

The demon stared flatly at Isaac, his terrifyingly ugly face looking down on him. Isaac was afraid for the first time, but changed quickly. When the devil's eyes look the other way. Isaac who realized where the demon was looking quickly reacted.

"PASHA RUN FASTER!."

The devil's eyes were interested in Pasha. The long sword covered in blood he stored back, the devil's hands and long fingernails trying to reach Pasha. Yet.

"Don't touch my sister!."

From behind Isaac's cry sounded accompanied by a sword slash filled with confidence. However, confidence alone was not enough to defeat that dark red demon. The devil turned his back, pointing his sharp nails at Isaac.

The devil's sharp nails pierced Isaac's stomach. Blow it out and tear apart Isaac's organs. Indeed Isaac's magically enhanced body with Dark Andura Stone energy made his body above the average normal human, but it wasn't immune. At least he did his job as a brother.

With his own eyes Pasha saw that vile claw piercing through the body of the person he loved the most. He's strong because of Isaac, but without him?.

A piece of Dark Andura Stone energy found doubt in Pasha's heart. The stone began to whisper in Pasha's head, slowly pulling her into the darkness.

***

The death of the Demon Hunter group led by Isaac was heard by General Edmund. He bowed sadly, accompanied by no desire to eat. He stared blankly at the documentation of the dead in the southern forest.

"Isaac..." Ogre Edmund

He was guilty, considered himself the most guilty. But he had to be strong because Pasha was much sicker.

Pasha who is very closed back much more closed when losing her brother. Edmund is in charge of Pasha, replacing the duty of an older brother to take care of Pasha with great affection and treat her like his own son. He was the only Demon Hunter that survived, the scarlet demon just let him go.

But despite the advice of those around him Edmund could not let go. He who is guilty of this will then take full responsibility for Pasha.

Every silent night where he was alone, he would hear a voice whispering in his ear. The voice said.

"Go leave this place, or you'll be their death. And yourself too."

Pasha kept her head hidden in her thin blanket, and ignored the sound. And all it did was make the sound much louder and much clearer. Pasha soon realized that the voice was like no stranger, more than something she used to hear and in fact it was her own voice.

Pasha keeps the secret herself the only person she trusts has left her. And one day Pasha will also do it, to a place where he will see his brother again. If he could he wanted that day to come quickly. So Pasha stopped hiding in her dirty house and stopped crying.

***

In a fight against demonic monsters, the shy and nervous boy was no longer in sight, Pasha started fighting with an almost insane spirit and fury. At that time his nickname began to change, people called him. Pasha the Crazy.

In a tremendous rage, Pasha did not take into account the rules and often violated the terms of the Demon Hunter in force, even his own safety. So the figure of mentor and father, Edmund with a heavy heart locked and chain Pasha in a dark isolation room. In the hope that Pasha could calm her mind before destroying herself.

But Edmund did not know the torment experienced by Pasha, the whisperings tormented Pasha from day to night in his confinement. Indeed, one of the reasons Pasha struggled so hard was so that she could sleep so tired that she would instantly fall asleep that she no longer heard the whisper.

Pasha did not turn on Edmund over his confinement. He knew that Edmund was doing this to protect him and his comrades. And he was not blind to the good that the general had poured out on him since Isaac's death.

It was one of the few things Pasha still had to believe until she was released from the isolation room. But bad news immediately greeted him, that Edmund had died of illness due to overwork.

Pasha came out of the tent to cry, crying so hard but nobody cared. After finishing, Pasha returned and met the soldiers who did not know her on her way back to the tent.

"Hey look at that..."

"You're so skinny?, want some bread? But you have to lick my shoes first."

"Hey boy, you look a lot like a worm. Are you really a worm?."

The soldier laughed at the skinny boy with puffy eyes from crying too much. On the side of Pasha himself, he did not listen to the boos from the soldiers, he continued to bow his head and set on his own grief.

During his confinement he had decided to tell Isaac or Edmund everything, but they were both gone. He only had a voice in his head that had been whispering to him all this time.

"You killed him, and you're gonna kill more!." Tell that whisper.

"Why is this happening?, why am I always the one who is sad?... Am I cursed?." Pasha

Seeing the self-talking Pasha made the soldiers come back to make fun of him, humiliate him, and ridicule him. But Pasha did not hear it, only one sound was heard that whisper.

"We bring something darker than darkness, and terrifying from terror. As long as it's there it'll eat all the life around us." Tell that whisper.

"Wait... We?." In his grief Pasha was confused. "Who are you?."

The whisper laughed before answering.

"I am you, and you are me!."

In his confusion Pasha asked the whisper.

"How do you break this curse?."

Among the loud laughs of the soldiers who thought Pasha was like a madman. But it does not obscure every word heard in the whisper in his head.

"Easy, very easy. They'll live if you die!." His words were accompanied by the turmoil of Dark Andura Stone energy that made Pasha's right arm turn into something sinister.

Pasha suddenly fell asleep due to the intense drowsiness, she lost consciousness before questioning the next thing. His eyes were wide open, red and wild.

One Pasha fell asleep, and the other Pasha woke up.

***

And that morning, the bodies of dozens of dead soldiers were found with familiar wounds. The Demon Hunter had no other choice but to hunt down Pasha, and sent an army led by Dante to capture Pasha, to be tried for his crimes.

The pursuers returned and brought news that Pasha resisted when captured and fell into a high cliff in the fierce battle. From the height of the cliff, there was almost no possibility of survival. The Demon Hunters respected Pasha's choice, because they chose to die like that instead of crouching in a cell and not seeing the sun until death to pick him up.

And when the war is raging. The name Pasha is lost in history.

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Trivia: The other Pasha and Pasha never get along.