Chapter 7 : Parents Past 4

For five years I ran . I don't know anymore what I ran from.

Every minute I relax I am attacked by something I have to become strong.

Strong enough that they can't chase me anymore ...

Who are they ?

I learned to survive.

Fighting monsters every day made me quite good at battle, 
and I was even stealthy enough to vanish in an instant.

I embraced the power which courses through me and bend it to my will. 
If I try hard enough I can even make it visible 
Everyday fighting monsters and being soaked with their blood

I soon forget.

Who am I ? ... 
What do I run from? ... 
Why am I alone ?

I don't even have the time of day to ask myself such questions.

I am one with nature and I feel them. 
Every living being in this world. 
I feel someone unusual approach my forest. He is more powerful 
than any creature, I ever came across.

I have to see this person ... I have to.

Blending into the shadows I approach this person and I see a monster. 
But not the normal ones of my forest no he is different. 
It looks like a male human with scales, horns, and red eyes. 
I know humans ... They sometimes come into his forest to kill my monsters, 
but I never saw one like him.

I'm scared .

I can feel the clear power difference between us and he seemed to notice me. 
I panic and run back to my little shelter only to feel him following me, 
but distancing himself on purpose.

Why? He is strong enough to capture me , why is he lagging behind.

In my shelter, I feel safe ,apart from feeling him right outside 
my shelter with my gift.

I feel him waiting , for what ?

Does he want me to go outside ? why?

Seeing him not moving from his spot right outside 
my shelter even after counting to 100 ,

why can I count up until this number ?

what is counting ? ,

I see no point in making him wait longer. 
He was a stronger predator than me and I felt the urge to submit to him ... 
Blame my years in the forest with the rule that the strong rule the weak.

As I exit my shelter suddenly he lunges at me and throws me 
to the ground, in shock 
I instinctively try to protect myself and start to fight him , 
only to be pinned down by him.

That was the first time I saw him up close. 
He was ... Beautiful in a rough way, and these eyes ... 
You could lose yourself in them. 
They had the color of fresh blood and the slit pupils gave them 
a powerful feeling, 
like I was staring at the king of beasts.

But suddenly he said something to me, I don't know what it is 
but my mind was suddenly assaulted with terrible pain and 
I again started to fight him.

After a while, he pulled his clothing of his upper body of 
and bound my arms with it , I was shocked .

Why do this ?

Before I had time to process the chain of events he lifted me on his shoulder 
and started to walk back to where I found him 
for the first time.

We exited the forest and I felt sense of loss as the familiar pressure 
of these woods left my body. 
We walked into some kind of settlement but I had no Idea what it was. 
Around us, people started to appear. 
They also had this kind of ancient power in them and I could see 
that they also had scales and slit pupils, 
but none had his wonderful blood-red eyes and obsidian horns and 
no one even came close to his power level.

He went to a big ... I don't know ... 
It was some kind of shelter made out of woods and clothing and 
it seemed very big.

He bound me to a wooden stake and wanted to say something to me but 
I could still not understand him and as he started to talk in that strange language 
again my head was again assaulted by pain and a memory. 
I could not see exactly what it showed me but I felt loved ....

What is love ?

He left me as he saw that I didn't understand him and I felt again 
a sense of loss, 
but this time I knew it was because this strong man that didn't 
do anything to me 
and seemed as to not want to hurt me left me alone in a place I didn't know.

After recovering from my memory and sudden feelings, 
I worked on the rope that bound me. 
It snapped and I bolted out of this shelter only to run into the man again. 
He looked surprised but suddenly grasped me hard and threw me to his left.

I landed in water. Clear water . 
I hadn't had some of this in ... A long time. 
As I tried to remember when I last had clear water to drink my head hurt again 
and I didn't even realize that the man climbed into the water to 
and started touching my body.

Of course, I fought him, but as I experienced the last two times I lost utterly 
to his strength and he started to ... Clean me ?

After he was satisfied with the results he just carried me back to this big shelter 
and started drying me with a cloth. 
I felt exhausted and couldn't keep my eyes open but struggled as to not show my 
weakness to this man.

He chuckled a little as he watched me and laid me in the bed while 
laying next to me and clasping me in his arms. 
I instinctively struck out again but was to exhausted to really fight him.

Just before I gave in to my exhaustion I heard him say

"Emerthelil"

over and over again ...

I wonder what this word means ?