I thought I had it all, fame, money, power, a women that I loved, but no... he had it all... Ikose Mann, the strongest from this world's pace.
Dominating me a while back ago with it's talented abilities and his cleverness (damn he!!)
Since then, I have travelled the world in order to find the hardest and the most efficient way of training. Even if it meant to move mountains, swim seas, chop rocks with the back of my fist, I wanted it all, the most though training there was. I couldn't take the disrespect. I had to take back what's mine, my honor, and in order to do that, was to give up on my social life and live a moment of my life in training.
In a southern village, I have found a women, a really well chiseled lady, long height, long and shiny blonde hair, sharp eyes and the strength of five men. Seeing how she took down an entire bear with her bare hands, after attacking her house, I straight up knew that she could be the one to take me as her student in my moment of revenge!
I made myself courage and went up to her and asked the following question:
"Can you teach me your ways?"
She told him that she can, but with only one condition, which I didn't knew how crueling it would be, until I actually tried it. The condition was to wash the whole villagers clothings in one single week.
My chin was on the ground, I had to pick it up before she could see it, but her words really shocked the man out of me, I knew I had no choice, the only way to become the best, was to fight for it.
"Bet."
I said with a hint of cockiness, but not knowing what kind of rough training will be set in my way.
She laughed and waved her hand in an unbothered motion, as she was leaving my sight for now.
One entire week of washing has passed. Seven days of muscle soreness, where I could feel the blood inside my forearms get stuck inside the skin, ready to burst out. Moving my fingers felt just like moving pieces of wood stuck to the tip of my fingers, it was like my hands weren't mine.
While I was laying on my back, with the hot sun staring in my face, I've put my hands in front of my face, accidentally covering the burning sun, and that is when she came back, my teacher.
"Well done, rookie, that was only ten percent of your total training"
Hours on hours with no sleep and no breaks, I just continued soaping and washing the clothes, and some of them were even dirtier than I thought. The only time that I took a short break of a few seconds, was to drink honey mixed with lots of water, just to gain an energy boost that would last me a few hours, after which I would just have to repeat drinking it.
With her in front of my face, standing near me with her long heigh, making her look like an giant creature, but it was just her, my trainer, in all beauty. I couldn't hold myself and I feel asleep only in a blink of an eye, and I couldn't feel anything in my sleep, It was like I was thrown in a realm of constant sleep, where I was drifting in the ocean of day and night, the place where there was no food, no hunger, no thirst, just a constant feeling of relaxation.
But that was when she woke up from the best dream of my life...
"WAKEY WAKEY!"
Just like a bad bad dream, I gasped from the way she shook me to be freshly up for the job, but I was tied, which I didn't feel or see in the few seconds, that how confused I was about the situation.
"If you want your title back, pretty boy, you have to whisper your heart out, you have to yell your heart out, that is when the human instinct will kick in, your blood vessels from your throat will be ripped, destroyed, and your entire neck will be swollen. If you can survive one week without important medical attention or water, then I will train you under my wig as my student"
Her words were scary and I wanted to go home, but I couldn't! I had to shut up and cover my thoughts of going home with constant motivation and the will to want and the will to need the victory.
As she said the next words out, the scene closed up on her mouth"
"One week, count to 50, then start"
She said, moving her mouth, but it was like I couldn't even focus on anything else, that's how shocked I was, but I knew, I knew... it was the only WAY!
Grunting my eyes and preparing my throat, I started counting all the way to 50. When it was the moment that I would arrive to 50, my teacher was already near her the village, while I was tied up to a thick tree while being sat down on my butt.
After one week, she came back for me, catching me faintly talking to myself
"Well I'll be dammed, you really did it. How was it?"
I tried to talk to her, but my mouth was so dry you could collect dust from it.
She untied the ropes that left a mark on my chest, arms and my clothes. Picking me up, she took me to the village where they fed me, gave me medical atention and... water. After two days, it was time to see what I have achieved.
"We are done now, I guess this is a goodbye"
As she walked away, going back to the village, I whispered.
"Thank you."
After hearing it, she didn't move one bit and told me
"That was the loudest whisper I have ever heard, ninety meters and counting. Have a good one!"
She exclaimed from afar, waving at me with a joyful expression on her face.
What, after all this time, she knew I already had the powers, she just knew the way for me to amplify them, which was by hard labor... that's... okay?
With my new techniques, I upgraded my whisper, with the yelling technique, and enhanced all my other abilities, I was ready.
I waved to my master women, then I headed back to the kingdom, more prepared than ever, prepared to take the title back, to it's owner, which was me.
Defeating the present king, I have recieved my title and my glory, winning with the loudest scream that was ever heard, the connection way trought my powers, the Scream-a-ton.
I won... I really won, after all that work, I really won. I glimpsed at his reaction, but he was laughing at me, which I found quite unnerving.
"Well done, Uro, you are really good... your whisper is really loud, nice!"
After beating him and taking the title back, he laughed, but somehow that didn't give me enjoyement. After taking the title and my respect back, I didn't feel anything, I was empty, tthinking to myself
"Wasn't that my goal all this time?"
I looked at Ikose and helped him get up from the ground. Shaking his hand with a joyful friendly expression on my face, I shared my title with him. That one there... that one there was the one that put a smile on my face, that there was my goal all along.
Be prepared for a special ride in the medieval plains, an intense horror frog festival, but what about the world of cyberpunk 2088 where plants are more expensive than diamonds and gold?
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COMING IN JULY 2024
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