THE BRIDGE

It’s been so long but I still remember.

That day when he saved us all…

…We were being pursued by Soldiers, the Mob, the police and even ordinary civilians

Practically everyone. Accused of the worst crimes possible, horrible deeds upon horrible deeds, fingers pointed in anger against us. They said we weren’t even fit to live.

The truth is we were not innocent.

I come from the clan of Asus and by birth I am a criminal, wanted because the sins that I committed not with my hands but by the blood of the Family which I come from.

In our case the sins of a father are the sins that I a son shoulder. It’s not my fault, that due to a curse that has been passed down from the first in our lineage I am bound to go downhill and drag others with me, that I and my people are to be a constant magnet for chaos and eventual destruction. I cant’ fight it, try fighting the blood that flows through your very own veins. It’s in my genes, my nature. That’s just how the life of someone in the Asus clan is, stay too long in a place and they’ll be showing you out. Outcast and left with no honor, we hated the world almost as much as they hated us.

But,

He was different

Asus by parents but in the way he lived it was more than evident he was something else. Where I was prone to anger he calmed and where I gave in to the violence that was always boiling in my blood he held back and controlled himself. Where we all failed ,he succeeded time and time again.

Basically we wer built to be weapons, but he was the real peacekeeper with no bloodshed.

We were built and bed to be the strongest of all used for taking charge of territories our mandate one word …DOMINION FOR THE KING but corruption of the Prime Asus set in and we’ve been hunted since the but this very one again was different.

He wasn’t just some lowly asus who gave in to the tendencies that came with our bloodline. He owned it and controlled it effortlessly like a god. Being around him gave us all hope, that we could be free that we could be whole again and return to the source.

So it was no surprise when talks of a revolution started stirring up and the higher ups did not like this. If we were able to achieve wholeness we could no longer be held down and controlled we would be truly free and that was why they were coming to kill us all. For them it was better to lose a weapon totally that to have it out of your control.

It must not be heard that an Asus is capable of compassion.

And he radiated it like te sun radiated warmth , the shred of life that we all lacked he possessed in spades. He had to be eneded at all cost. They were coming to kill and they were coming fast!.

I tried to warn him , to get him to leave the city and then the continent that very day but he would not budge . he kept muttering something about this being what was supposed to happen. I didn’t understand the but I do now.

To save themselves , our people gave him up in exchange for the higher table to turn away now this was in line with Asus behavior, self-preservation first. Betrayal, betraying the very one who could have saved you, If you have just held on and believed.

The soldiers arrived in spades, you would have thought they were coming to kill one of the beasts that attacked the frozen glades. They came on their numbers on horseback and on foot armed to the teeth, battle ready but jeering and mocking “Where is the King?”. The mere sound of the hoofs of the animals both irritated and terrified me.

Then they came at him, to take him away.

He didn’t offer any resistance.

He was one of the strongest amongst us, his power charting was the best we had seen in centuries but still he did not lift even one finger.

I couldn’t take that, didn’t want him to be taken away, so I fought

Or tried to fight.

I tried to fight but I was weak and even still he won’t let me. He stopped me and all he did before he was pulled away was to place his forehead on mine and whisper, “Child now you’ll understand”.

I was confused

“Why was he not doing anything”…. “Why as he letting them take him” He might be calm but he was an Asus, might wasn’t his problem. I just couldn’t process it.

But it all became clear in that one moment.

The moment his skin touched mine I felt it!

I was set on Fire!!!

Wind, Fire and flowing Water, Light, Thunder, Electricity, His Pain ,His Joy, His suffering. His wishes for us, the life he wanted us to live, the future we could build….a better future.

I felt it all, like it were mine.

It was everything from everywhere all at once and then it just as abruptly and strange as it begun everything got quiet and by the time my eyes opened he was gone….