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Chapter 2 - The Present

The ice around Ola finally shatters and melts, his body now on the sandy beach as it sll get stuck to his skin and clothes due to the soaking wet clothes. Minutes pass, Ola's eyes begiin to open, everything is a blurry mess and his muscles are very weak unable to help make him stand so he lays there.

Ola is so hungry and dehydrated he could drink the whole ocean if he could. As he lays there his memories flash from the past that only seem to be the day after for ola. After being preserved in the ice for two thousand only felt like a quick nap to him. He grunts and groans as he lays there face flat into the sand, he can hear a faint sound of something crawling towards his head, its not a human that's for sure due to too many taps. Its a crab, Ola flicks his eye to the right and can see a single leg of the creature, but then a sharp pain attacks his ear.

Ola's muscles got a shock from the pain and he shoots up. As Ola now stand he can feel the crab hang of his ear by its claw. "W-what, a crab?, ow, get off my damn ear", Ola grabs the crab and ribs it off his ear, As he dropped it onto the floor one of its legs fell of leaving ola with guilt. Ola's stomach growls loudly and his eyes instinctively dart at the crab with an urge to eat it but he holds himself back, the feeling was suddenly unexpected. "W-what was that, I've never felt to meed to eat something so much before, I'm so hungry". Ola says with a growling stomach.

Ola spends a good hour searching up and down the beach he is on, He does not recognise it but one things for sure, it's deserted and has embeen for years with how much rubbish is washed up on it. In the distant there is a visible smoke raising in the air, ola doesn't spent another second and decides to run towards it disregarding the possible danger that could be ahead, especially he is passing tall massive buildings made of stone and brick which he has never seen before. Its has been 2 thousand years after all. After a few minutes ola turns a corner and looks directly at the smoke, but what he sees is bone chilling and blood rattling.

What Ola is seeing is horrible and pure horrifying. A group of humans standing in a circle all shooting a beam of fire from their hands on a pile of tied up living humans who are all screaming, pleading and slowly being burned alive. Ola stands there froze with the cruelty he is seeing. To the right of the pile of humans being burned alive is another pile of humans all tied up covered in blood and bruises mixed off men, women and children. Anger washes over Ola and doesnt want to see any more gruesome violence. "STOP!!!!", Ola screams out loud, his voice echoing through the creveses of all the building. A Silence soars through the air in a high tension and all the mages shooting fire all simultaneously turn there heads and look at Ola. There eyes are red and are pulsing every few seconds like there some sort of machine. Everything seems so confusing. There are people being burned alive by being that don't seem human.

Ola has enough as he remembers his mother being beheaded and hearing the screams of death hits a nerve, For the first time in Two Thousand Years, Ola starts to generate his magic feom his inner core that now feels like its burning his insides despite his pain Ola charges towards one of the enemies. In as if a robotic movement, the being turned facing ola and his fire magic spewed out of its palm now darting right towards ola. Being full of rage Ola doesn't think about the fire blast and runs straight into it. The massive pressure force from the fire is like a tornado being hammered Into his chest, which makes Ola stop on his tracks and pushes against the blast to keep himself from being blasted away.

Ola holds this form for a minute. "Argh, w-what force, what are these things, there not human", ola says during the attack. But another strange feeling is happening to ola. He is taking a massive fire blast directly head on, ola comes to his senses and realises the bad predicament he is in, but something is happening. Ola is not being affected by the fire. As the other humans are still currently being scorched alive by the other being, there screams that have now turned into the sound of the wind signalling that they are dead. " no please show mercy. Let the kids live at least".Ola hers the other group of humans scream in terror as Loud footsteps are walking closer to them. There screams fuel Olas rage more so he starts raising his magic to make a forcefield to push the fire back.

Ola's magic pushes the blast further and further back that gives him the perfect chance to jump out of the way. The fire blast shoots straight past his and Ola runs towards the being, now finally in arms reach. Ola balls his fist up and throws a punch. As his knuckles connect to the beings cheek, Olas rage growm Into fury and unintentionally embues his fist with his magic. The magic flows around its face from his his with a dark red aura and within the same second, it's head exposed into smithereens. As the body falls to its knees and falls onto its side. Ola stays in motion, confused by how easy he killed it with one punch. The other beings stop in there tracks and begin to one by one fall onto there faces. It's as if Ola just defeated the leader and its minions are also dying.

A silence stands in the air, the streest sounding if nothing but wind and crackling of broken glass and rubbish. " no blood" Ola saya with confusion as he expected to be covered in blood once he blew up the head but there isn't any. "T-there robots sir", A little girl shouts from within the group of humans who were about to be burned alive before Ola saved them. Ola then to them and feels slightly uneasy as he sees only a few bright and relieved faces but all the rest are showing indifference and some even look petrified of Ola. The little girl shuffles on her knees to the front of the group, tied with her hands behind her back and her kegs together with a robe attaching her wrists and ankles. Ola looks at her with putty as he sees her innocent smile with broken teeth and bloodiest face and body. Ola walks over to her and kneels down infront of her to gently pat her head. "Robots you said, what are those, I've only just woke up but everything is all different", ola says. The little girl tries her best to give him a reassuring smile but winces in pain feom her busted lip. "It's okay sir, Everybody has there own problems b-but *sniffle* it's how you deal with it". The little girl bravely says as she starts to sob. Tears stream down her bruised swollen face and her smile is gone replaces with her real expression of pain, broken missery.

All the others start to cry and all Thank Ola for saving them. " n-no, please, I did nothing, let me atleast untie you all". Ola says as he makes a sharp edge over his finger with magic and starts cutting the ropes of the little kid first.

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