Chapter 5: the red gift

Benji awoke now in a forest, he started to get tired of the changes. He stands up, he can only think about what had happened , Min, the figure , his heart. His heart, he almost forgot, he looked at his chest , he saw a long red line as his eyes followed it. A big red sun tattoo traced on his arm, half his chest and half on his back. He notices all his scars and injuries are gone. His body is healed back up, the hole in his chest gone too.

He sees a red wrapped rectangular figure next to him as he grabs it. There’s a little note on it, “ a gift, welcome to my family “ it says in purple writing on a golden paper. Benji rips it off, opening it. It’s a blade, a sword more or less, it has a peculiar look to it. Its blade is yellow and white in its center, with red piercing eyes aligning the blade, maybe its eyes for the purple figure from earlier. The handle is red and contains gold aspects. Benji holds it, the sword is relatively big, big for a human , but not that big for a tall being such as Benji or the celestials.

He stands as he walks the blade in hand. Only one word in his mind, Min. He walks for almost days. He ends up in a dusty village, it seems poor, no life, kids scurry and adults of all ages around. It’s night , the night in the village is freezing cold for its dry and sandy nature. Benji walks, not caring about the cold, he finds a group of stores and merchants. Too many people surround Benji, he’s starting to get overwhelmed. Too much noise, too many people, so little room.

He runs away , his pants slightly feeling better with the less of a crowd. He feels a tug at his cloth as he looks down seeing a small child, many children actually. They point to their stomach, food. Benji quickly understands as he looks around, finding a vendor as he takes food, handing it to the kids as they scurry off. The vender almost yells at Benji until he actually sees him and decides it’s best not, especially with him holding that large blade.

He looks into the darkness, he sees a figure. Min. He thought

Benji quickly runs to the figure, he looks to see a dying thing. Benji can’t quite make out what it is, it looks like it has a body, and can quite tell it’s dying. Benji looks closer seeing something had been pulled out of it. The thing coughs. “What are you?” Benji asks the thing. “ I was a powerful being.” It says before dissolving. Benji looks at the spot it was just before , he doesn’t know what just happened. He walks a little further trying to see if the thing that did that to the thing is still around, maybe it knows something.

He sees someone sitting on a rock. It seems to have something as it gulps it down, soon turning its head. It was the being who somewhat helped Benji before.

“Ah, welcome” it says, Benji just stares. “My name is Diz, I know you already.” it turns their whole body towards Benji as he looks puzzled. “ You were the one who held me?” Benji. Diz shakes his head, “ I took your heart, I gave you my blood, you are now part of me” he says. Benji tilts his head, “Apart of you? Why?”.

“I wanted to. You’re now protected under my will. I wanted to because, well I’m in need of disciples, you are the first”.