Chapter 13 - Dark Cloud

Ares continued laughing, and The Ruler didn't try stopping him. He just let Ares laugh before he said anything else.

"Hahaha."

"..."

"Can you let me explain? Or, are you going to keep laughing?"

Ares' face shifted. He looked at The Ruler, irritated." Why would I even consider listening to what you have to say? You haven't exactly been truthful to me in the past...But I'll at least let you finish telling me about this lie."

*Sigh*

"...Like I was saying...the Key Of Insanity formed a massive cloud of magical energy. I was concerned about what was happening outside and how people were reacting to the dark cloud. When I ran out of the palace, It seemed to captivate everyone's attention. Then the 10 Commandments ran up to me, asking me what was going on.

***

"Sir, what's going on?"

"Uhmm, I don't know what's happening, but try to get all the civilians away from the area just Incase whatever's in the sky is harmful."

Aki looked at the Ruler and was concerned. He had a face that he'd usually never show anyone. He was worried. "Ok, sir."

Aki was right about the Ruler being worried.

The Ruler didn't want anyone to find out this was his fault, so he made everyone leave. Not because he cared for everyone's safety. ( There's no way anybody would suspect me. But I'd rather be safe than sorry. )

It was almost like they were in a trance.

"What are you doing! Get out of here!"

No one was listening to the 10 commandments. This was abnormal because they were very well respected and trusted among the Heavenly lands, so it was strange.

Aki was wondering what was going on. ( Why aren't they listening...I bet it has something to do with the thing in the sky. )

After Aki noticed that the reason everyone's ignoring the 10 commandments might be because of the Key Of Insanity, he thought of an idea.

Aki looked around and grabbed the person nearest to him, and ran as far away as possible.

After running for a while, Aki looked up at the sky and noticed they weren't under the dark cloud anymore, so he turned back to the person he had with him.

When Aki looked back, he saw the man trying to get back to the dark cloud.

It was easy for Aki to stop the man, so he tried to ask the man some questions, wanting to know why he was acting strangely.

"Hello, what's your name?"

The man seemed very disoriented and off-balance. He was acting like he didn't know how he got here.

"What's...going on...how did I get here?"

"Well, hmm, I am Aki from the 10 commandments, and I would like to ask you some questions."

The man was still disoriented, but he did manage to understand what Aki said.

Before the man could say anything, he lost balance and almost fell, but Aki caught the man before he did.

Aki laid the man on the ground and tried to ask the man some questions again.

"Can you explain to me what everyone was doing and why you weren't listening to us?"

"..."

"..."

The man was unresponsive and wasn't opening his eyes.

"Excuse me, can you hear me."

"..."

After another moment of silence, Aki tried slapping him a little to wake the man up. Unfortunately, he still was unresponsive, so Aki checked if he had a pulse anymore.

After checking the pulse, Aki looked at the corpse disappointingly. "Useless, I couldn't even get anything out of him."

It seemed like Aki was only angry that he couldn't get any information out of the man, completely neglecting that the man was dead.

Realizing that the man wasn't of use to him anymore, Aki left the

corpse and ran back to regroup with the 10 commandments.

***

The Ruler was about to continue his story, but Ares was confused.

"What does this have to do with the Key Of Insanity being broken?"

"If you'd let me finish the story, then you'd find out."

Ares wasn't sure, but still, let him continue. ( If he is telling the truth, I do want to know what happened to everyone. )

"Well, anyway...."