Chapter 6

Livius leaned over a tree as he stopped walking. Why did that happen? He doesn't remember having any illnesses.

His face was pale, his body felt as if it was being killed. His arms and legs were jelly in the pain. 

He sighed and slid through the ground as he clutched his painful chest. Its only been a day since he left the kingdom and he's already in pain.

He couldn't help but close his eyes and let the darkness enveloped his whole being.

Maybe he'll be fine once he takes a nap.

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"Are you sure that he's dead?" Zeus asked.

"Yes, sire. He fell off a cliff after he was stabbed by one of our soldiers. He couldn't have survive in that fall. I'm sure the Chaos God is dying as we speak" Apollo reported. 

"Haha. I can't believe it. If it was this easy to kill that little dirt then I should've done it in the first place" Zeus said as he laughed merrily despite the dirty looks that were given to him by the other Gods especially Athena. She couldn't believe that her child had died without his mother doing anything. 

"Good, this is a good! Call other Gods, we'll have a feast to celebrate that rat's death!" Zeus said happily as Hermes stood up and bowed then went on his way to give out invitation to the other Gods.

Athena also stood up and went back to her home as she couldn't hold back the tears that poured out of her eyes. Is her child really dead? The child she desperately wanted to see for years, has been killed just because of a mere prophecy.

She was a strong and powerful Goddess. She was able to stop Ares' rampage and lock him up in the deepest dungeon of the Underworld and yet she couldn't save her child just because she was afraid of what will happen to her at the hands of Zeus.

She tearfully kissed the ring on her hand. The very first present that she got from her lover, Lividio. She regretfully muttered apologies for not being able to protect their child. 

She isn't fit to be called that child's mother. She doesn't even know his name.

"I'm so sorry....." she repeatedly muttered as she cried endlessly at her thought that her child had befallen.

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Livius groaned as he felt like he was being shaken. He opened his eyes and blinked to adjust his eyesight and was greeted by trees.

He looked on his side, only to see a little fox shaking him. He blinked in confusion. What's wrong with this fox?

"Hey, would you stop that?" Livius told the fox. The fox looked at him for a split second before he bit the side of his pants and started tugging.

And Livius realized that it might be telling him to follow it. He sighed and said, "Okay, okay. Just stop that"

Then the fox stopped tugging him and so Livius stood up. The pain, however, made him flinch. He didn't know what's happening so its only normal that he doesn't know what to do.

He took a deep breath and told the fox to lead the way then he followed it but a little more slower because his whole body was aching and screaming pain.

They fox led him into the bottom of a cliff where a body lied down, bloody and looked dead.

Livius then walked up to the body and kneeled beside it. He reached up his two fingers on the carotid pulse to check a heartbeat. 

He found one but it was weak and he was losing blood fast. Livius sighed. Great, first he got attacked by a pain that's hurts so much, its killing him and now he found a boy that was almost dying. His stomach had a deep wound. He looked like he fell from the top of the cliff. Good thing, the ground was grassy and cushioned his head preventing his head from bleeding. 

He took the backpack off from his back and look for a potion that could stop the bleeding. When he found one, he ripped off the cloth covering the boy's stomach and poured the potion. In two seconds, the potion started taking effect and stopped the blood from flowing. 

The wound was deep and the male lost a lot of blood, it was a miracle that he was still breathing. Had Livius came later, he probably would've been dead. 

Livius then took some bandages from his bag and wrapped it around the wound. He also treated his scratches then carried the male to a nearby cave. 

He noticed the fox looking quite sadly at the male who he guessed was the fox's owner. 

He patted the fox's head and said, "He'll be fine" 

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"Do you think he's alright?" Julius asked as he bit his nails in anxiety. 

Eversince Livius left three days ago, he's been constantly worrying over his adooted son. The twins who were so attached to their big brother was constantly visiting the Hidden Chamber everyday. 

"He'll be fine. He might not have left the Chamber since he was born but he's a tough boy. He'll be fine" Charles said as he wrapped his arms around Julius' waist.

"You're not really convincing when you, yourself, can't disguise your own worry" Julius said with a chuckle as he noticed the shaky breath that Charles let out.

He noticed that the young King would often makes mistakes on the documents that he needs to sign which would make his secretaries and ministers sweat drop because he makes doodles or writes a whole letter adressing to Livius. 

"Was it really that obvious?" Charles said letting out a nervous chuckle.

"Of course it is. The last straw was yesterday. They thought that you were cheating on me and kept quiet about it. They were so guilty, one almost passed out in front of me" Julius said with a giggle. The faces of Charles' secretaries and ministers were pale as ash, thinking that what they found out was gonna cause a royal scandal.

"Haha, I can't help it. I raised that kid like my own. Eventhough, we both aren't his real parents, we loved and cared for him like our own. He's more or less, our child so how can a father not worry about a child whose destiny is so harsh?" Charles said.

"We can't go against his fate because it isn't our fate but we could atleast help him, the best way we know how" Julius said.

"Well, the way we knew is still unclear. The men that I told to gather information came back just earlier and lost the clues once again" Charles informed.

"How about the medians? We need to atleast find out what will really happen for him to become that ruthless" Julius asked.

"It was useless. The medians turned their backs on us and refused to cooperate with us" Charles informed.

Julius sighed helplessly. They have been trying to find out some information about the prophecy since Livius was still a toddler for found nothing. They were still at the dark on what's really gonna happen or unfold.

"Don't worry too much. We'll find a way" Charles said kissing the side of Julius' head.

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Rayleigh groaned as he felt pain stabbing his stomach and his head felt like it was splitting into two.

He opened his eyes to a blurry sight of  a man who had an odd hair color and eyes. Wait, a man?

"Hey, you okay?" the man asked as Rayleigh blinked.

"Who are you?" Rayleigh asked as he attempted to sit up. Upon sitting up, he saw Ty and that momentarily stopped his panic.

"Lay back down. You're injured" the man said as he pushed Rayleigh's shoulder back down.

"Wait, injured?" Rayleigh asked as he remembered what happened but felt a very bad headache which caused him to hold his head in pain. 

"I'm alive?" Rayleigh said as he looked back down on his hands.

"Naturally. Why do you think you're eyes are open right now?" the man sarcastically said as he stood up and picked up something from his bag and took out a tiny weirdly shaped thing and a glass of water.

"Swallow it" the man said but Rayleigh only looked at him weirdly.

"W-What is that?" Rayleigh asked as he looked at the tiny thing, suspicious at what it is. Could it possibly poison?

"It's medicine for your pain and headache" the man said. Rayleigh suspiciously looked at the man but nonetheless, took the medicine and swallowed it using the water.

Truth to what the man said, his headache and pain in the stomach vanished but he could still feel the cramp on his stomach.

"Don't move around too much" the man commented. Rayleigh only nodded and soon, the silence wrapped around them. The only thing that can be heard is the sound of the crackling fire.

"Uhm, by the way, who are you?" Rayleigh questioned, his eyed were strained on the rocky ceiling of the cave. 

The man looked at him briefly before answering his question, "Livius". 

"Rayleigh" Rayleigh stated.

"How did you get here?" Rayleigh asked. He was curious as to how another being has entered when he could recall that he had said that not everyone can enter this forest.

When he was met by silence, Rayleigh was about to once again voice his question but then remembered what happened to his father and attempted to stand up only to fall back to his knees once he felt the pain of his injury.

Livius sighed and helped the other up. Rayleigh grasped the male's shirt and managed to utter out words despite the pain.

"Home... Father.. Need to" Rayleigh said as he tried to breath properly. The pain on his wound hurts so bad.

"We'll go once you've felt a little bit better so lay back down for awhile. You can't go when your in so much pain" Livius commented as he tried to lay the weak male back down.

'So, there really were people who lived in the Forest' Livius thought as he looked at the male.

'Since he said that he had a father, that must've meant there were two people living here. Are there still some people who lived here? Who were those beings that I saw yesterday?' Livius continued to think but only shook his head.

He needs to find out where the Lost Soul is and take it before anyone else takes it. 

Lost Soul. A creature that hasn't been seen nor does anyone know how it looks like. A mysterious and strange creature that can only be found in the Forbidden Forest.

Lost Soul is a creature capable of find who its master wants to see the most, what his master's fate and ending. It can also find out what will happen along the way and warn its master. It also has the power to boost his master's abilities. That's why, Livius needs it. He needs to know what will actually happen the day he will be crowned as the Chaos God.

More importantly, he needs to know who his mate is. Lost Soul is the only one who can help him find out what will happen.

Livius leaned back and closed his eyes in tiredness. Being outside is nice and all but he does not know if he could actually find something out with the luck he has. He was attacked by bandits, questioned by a so called shapeless voice, attacked by some weird pain that he felt like dying, saw some weird people talking about omegas who by the way, he had no clue what it was and then found someone who was almost dying.

'What a luck he has' he thought while sighing. This has gotta be the most eventful time he had and it happened just a day before he got out of the chamber.

Does he have to bear these craziness and insane events every single day?