Chapter 11


*Ken pov*

After months of training and fighting with the Disney reject, it was time to return to the surface. We have tearful goodbyes to King Rhoam who was finally going to rest with the rest of his people. We didn't take 5 steps outside before we thought something wasn't quite right.

For example, I'm pretty sure the sky was not purple, right?

Then came the people... My God, the people... The unnatural smiles. The glassy eyes. The stares... It was as if everyone was both sleepwalking and perpetually happy.

Even when no more than 30 feet from a half eaten corpse of one of their own... Even the dead guy was grinning.

Zelda: Please tell me this isn't how your people normally behave... This is unnatural. The magic here at this density shouldn't have affected these people so. Angry, homicidal, confused, even cannibalistic, I could understand. This...

She never finished her thought and for once I agreed.

Then we noticed the cross...

Larger than the Sistine chapel itself, and actually approaching skyscraper status, the larger than life monument was made of solid gold and was expelling an aura of holy power. The people were seemingly sleepwalking to prostrate themselves before it muttering prayers and thanks to god and his angels.

Asia noticed a child collapsed nearby and ran to heal her. She couldn't be older than 8, and was covered in torn rags that barely covered her modesty. Just as the healing magic started to take effect the girl woke up and even though her legs couldn't move, she started to claw at the ground to crawl to worship, tearing up her fingertips to reach it.

As Asia cried for her to stop, I sensed danger and grabbed Asia and jumped away. Three men in featureless masks and exorcist robes appeared around the child. They regarded us before one knelt down to the child.

Exorcist: Don't worry child, you can still serve Him.

He got up and turned to us while his buddies drew their guns. I got in front of the girls ready to defend but...

We we not the target.

8 shots rang through the air and the child's lifeblood pooled around us.

Asia and Akua screamed. Irina and Koneko ran and threw up behind some trash cans. Zelda was frozen.

I was furious.

Ken: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?! SHE WAS JUST A GIRL!!!!

The leader spoke in a chilling and emotionless tone

Exorcist: If she cannot pray, then she will give another way. Her life will serve the faithful. She would be thrilled for the opportunity. God rewards sacrifice. His son smiles down before his chosen. We will all obey the will of the holy spirit. Look.

One of the shooters kicks the child's head to face us. Her lifeless eyes sent a chill up my spine, but it was nothing compared to her face... She was still grinning...

Exorcist: Faith brings joy, happiness, peace. As spoken by the archangels, there can be no greater joy than death in service to God.

*3rd pov*

Zelda tightened her fists at the blatant disregard for life shown. She was so angry she couldn't even hear the monsters before her. Just as she was about to fight however, Ken already moved.

He sped to the leader, who reacted by going for his own gun, and sliced off his right arm. Then just as quickly kicked him in the knee, shattering his entire leg making a sickening snap. As the other two opened fire he jumped over the leader, leaving him to receive the fire from his allies, and landed behind one. He then impaled him through the heart, then kicked him, sword and all, to the second.

Zelda could see the blood dripping off the master sword's tip as it peeked out through the second man. They slumped down dead and Ken slowly went to the little kid's body.

He fell to his knees and began to son as he picked up the child and hugged her close.

Then he glared at the congregation of priests, priestesses, and exorcists at the towering cross. The weather seemed to shift and started to rain and storm.

Ken out the girl down gently and started to walk towards them.

Then started to jog.

Then Sprint.

Ken saw red and long since lost his ability to think as he sped up. Slashing through anything and anyone that got in his way. The more that got in his way the bloodier he got. The master sword responded to his fury and eagerly glowed unleashing its inner might. No one could hear the lightning over the screams of the dying or Ken's own frenzied roar.

As Ken finally approached the grand plaza, his light blue shirt was unrecognizable from the blood that soaked it and his face and hair dyed crimson. He reeked of spoiled rotten copper. Yet his mind still could only hold on single thought.

MAKE THEM PAY.

As he cut through the last exorcist in his way he glared at the man in the podium in front of the monument. His face covered completely by a ornate mask to where you could only see his eyes. Upon his head lie the large hat that signaled him as the pope of these monsters in human skin. Even though he couldn't see it Ken could feel the smirk on his face.

All around the podium, the civilians thankfully left, and we're replaced with fully armed horsemen. Men in resplendent plate armor wielding the holy arms their kind often did. The Paladins and crusaders of the vatican.

The leader spoke but Ken was far beyond any rational thought. As the army yelled out in morale, the boy did the last thing they expected. He charged the army.

Lightning flashed and his eye color flickered between sky blue and red. His hair began to lighten from blonde into a snow white or silver. And as he sprinted, he began to glow blinding the stupified army.

What was once an elf on foot, was now on horseback. The horse charged the army wanting their blood almost as much as his master.

Zelda saw the impending fight when she followed the gore filled streets right to him. She saw a flashback to the final battle of Link in her own kingdom. She felt as useless now as she had them and it terrified her.

Zelda: KEN!!

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(A/n Well I'm going to hell~ Hope God has a sense of humor. Sorry about the long ass wait but I was legitimately stuck on how I would proceed here. I would just stare at the blank screen, get angry at myself. Hope it was worth the wait I put you through. Thanks for reading)

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