The Search for Freedom

After killing the lady, Alicia appeared with her devilish smile, seeing the fat woman lying down the floor. As what she always did in this occasion, she offered the spirit to her master, then the lady disappeared as Alicia's master accepted the offer.

Alicia stood up and I already knew what she wanted to say, that was to ask me if I'm ready to take the next challenge. Well, she didn't need to ask me about it, because I'm always ready.

It was already evening when Alicia brought me to the place where the eighth person could be found. The crescent moon gradually appeared in the starry sky. The houses lit around us, then I remembered when I was still in my mansion. I was always looking at the moon which looked like thin wafer of pale lemon, and also at the thick shadows that represent the stables and everything else. In the place of eight person I saw a different view of the moon, it was a white in color with some black stained on it.

I became so accustomed of the changing climate, because I seemed to travel the whole world in order to be totally free from the curse. Sometimes we were in a warm place, sometimes in a cold place, but in the place of the seventh person, I felt like normal, perhaps it was a tropical country.

Alicia told me that the eight person who was destined to fight me was a boy. A boy who possessed the power of watch. She told me that he could change his appearance into different aliens. I thought it was Ben Tennyson, so I asked Alicia and I thought I was right because of her replied that sounds the same.

Alicia told me to take care because "Ben Carson" not "Ben Tennyson" was powerful. I replied her not worry about me because I'm already great that whoever wanted to fight me, I would defeat them. I would defeat even Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider Man, Flash, Green Lantern, Cat Woman, Captain America, Aqua Man, etcetera etcetera. What the hell! I hope not so, I would never want to fight those respected superheroes, but for my freedom, I could risk everything. Alicia told me where Ben Carson was, so that I could attack him secretly and the same with the earrings woman, he couldn't use his power, because before he would he was already out of consciousness. I would seize his neck and hung him in the air.

Thereafter Alicia told me if where was the enemy, without saying anything and unlike before, she vanished in the air without saying goodbye or saying where she would be going. But I knew it was her life, a life of a spirit, and I could not control what she wanted to do with her life. She had her freedom, though she was in a curse. It was so confusing why she needed to go to the realm of spirit if she could be happy in the Earth without thinking about anything.

If Alicia was contented of what she had, she probably wouldn't need to curse me and definitely, we were living a happy and peaceful life unlike this kind of life we were experiencing. Maybe I didn't need to kill people anymore and I'm reading the books of Author Warren II in my library room. What else I could do was to sigh as how I expressed my regrets and pushed them out from my mind.

The past was just a memories and files that were stocked in someone's mind. The more I would delete those files, the more they couldn't be deleted; therefore, I should not think about them and they might delete themselves if they wanted. I should focus on how to defeat my enemy, and I thought the same way.

I went near to the house where eighth person lived. It looked old and simple, made of polished woods which perfectly attached to each other was the house. As my sight strayed at the axe stuck to the bleeding wood, I remembered when the curse controlled my body. It used an axed to kill some people; maybe I could also use this axe to kill the watch boy?

Maybe I could pretend that I was being controlled by the curse. I knew it wouldn't be easy, because when the curse controlled my body, it was okay if someone hurt me because I couldn't feel any pain, but in killing the watch boy by myself was totally a different story. I knew it would be so painful if someone would punch, kick and hit me with something. I knew it would only took three punches of a man's fists in my face, and blood would streamed and diffused my face, as of what I observed to those people I'd punched.

I continued walking towards the door and knocked on it with my left hand, while my right hand was holding the axe. After a few moments, someone had opened the door and because it was already night and the moon was the only source of light, I couldn't recognize that person. Without any doubt, I hit that person with the sharp axe between his forehead. I knew he was an old man when I dragged him out the house and I entered there freely. His skull was probably damaged. The house was small, and I easily found the watch boy who was sitting on the wooden chair beside the table. He seemed to be eating something, a rice and chicken wings, which looked so yummy, but I knew those foods were not the reason why I went there, but the one who was eating them.

Some light footsteps appeared as I walked near to him, then he stood up with his plate, for he would be putting it to the sink. The watch boy was tall and he had short hair, looked like Ben Tennyson. I also saw the watch on his wrist. He was wearing a green shirt and a lavender pants, above his forehead was an eyeglasses. He stopped when he saw me and uttered some words.

"Hey! Miss beautiful, what are you doing inside my house? And what did you do to my grandfather?" He asked.

"Hello handsome boy. Your grandfather?" I queried. "He's dead, I killed him just a while ago, and if you don't want to follow him, you should give up your life!" I informed him. "What? Did you killed my grandfather? A girl like you could kill my grandfather in just seconds? That's unbelievable!"

"Whahahahaha!" I laughed. "Did you see this bloodied axe? This is what I used to kill your grandfather. I stroke him between his forehead. Do you want me to strike you too?"

Maybe he noticed the axe was so sharp and prolific with blood which might came from to his grandfather. He was bewildered, as if he didn't know what to do, like a wind blowing back and forth at my front. He stopped and gripped his head, until he finally said that he would kill me too as what I did to his grandfather.

His appearance had changed into a fire breather alien. There was a continuous fire coming out form his mouth and he wasn't only a fire breather, he could also fly. By the used of being swift, I avoided all his attacks and I fought him with the powerful fan. I thrown him some gale which caused for his house to be destroyed. It wasn't totally me who destroyed his house, but his fires because he seemed to burn me alive of his anger.

If he thought that he could killed me as easy as that, then he would be disappointed, because the fires he was throwing were coming back to him, as how I'd use he powerful fan. He seemed to burn himself in his own fire, because he couldn't hit me, but I hit him many times and his body burnt. He collapsed as he got not a normal burnt, because he totally turned into a coal.

I didn't expected that the fire from his mouth would be that hot. He even turned himself into a coal of too much burst. He died because of himself, and I couldn't feel even a little guilt.

Alicia suddenly appeared beside me after a while, as if she really had the capability to know when the person who was destined to fight me was already dead.

"Oh Kaila! What happened to the watch boy? Why he seemed to be burnt by a large burst of fire?" Alicia queried in a surprised manner.

"He, he killed himself, he made a fire, and that's, that's what burnt himself," I stammered. "Will it matter if he looked like a coal? Do your master won't accept his spirit?"

"Of course not, it's just his body which burnt and his spirit like me can't be affected, except if a powerful spirit will burn him again, and he will be totally died for the second time," Alicia replied.

"If that so, you should not waste your time, because his spirit might elude if you can't offer him to your master," I suggested.

Alicia offered the spirit of the watch boy to her master, and we eventually went to where the ninth person was. I would never stop as long as I couldn't finish my mission in order to get rid from the curse, because stopping even for a while was a waste of time.