All Chapters of Ethan- The Rise Of A Villain Or A Hero?: Chapter 1
- Chapter 8
8 chapters
cruel fate
“Brooooo….save me.” I laughed while looking at my 13-year-old little brother running for his life while my 15-year-old sister was chasing her with a broom in her hand.“I just finished washing them. You ruined them all, the washed clothes. I am going to teach you a lesson for life.” Iris, my sister, screamed while swinging the broom to hit Walter, my brother.I was working on my assignment, but it seems that I needed to finish a rescue mission first.I put my pen down and looked at them helplessly. They were now running round and round around the worn sofa that we had in our one-room home.“Hey, Iris,” I called her teasingly, but she didn’t listen to me. She continued screaming at Walter, who was now trying to dodge all her attacks with every trick that he had learned all these years.I ran behind her and grabbed her by her waist from behind, lifting her high.“Let me go, Ethan. I will kill him.” Iris screamed while thrashing her body in my embrace.“Calm down, kiddo. Calm down. Don’t
system and choices
At first, I thought that it was my delusional state before accepting my death, but I heard it again. This time it was loud and clear.“Do you want to save them?”Among the chaos on the street, hearing this clear voice was impossible. I didn’t know if I was still alive or I was somewhere between life and death, but suddenly everything went silent.But I felt the intensity and power of that voice. It felt as if it is coming from inside me.Iris and Walter appeared in front of me again, holding each other while looking around in despair, tears staining their faces completely.The urge to stand up and run in their direction to save them blasted in my chest.“Yes.” I choked on my voice, but tasted blood in my mouth.“Please, help me. Please save them.” I pleaded in a choking voice, looking at the still picture of my siblings hanging in front of my closed eyes.There was nothing but darkness in front of me. Their picture was the only thing that I could see clearly.Suddenly the ringing in m
birth of something darker
My brain processed the danger mentioned in that message as the screen disappeared before I could read it again.Surviving the coming attack, but how????And what the f**k was that punishment?My mind repeated the punishment if I fail.{One of the siblings of your choice will lose a limb}My stomach twisted violently, and so did my heart.This was hard to believe, as it sounded like a game of survival, just like those survival games and dramas.Players think that they are being helped, but they are being controlled by the plot.The second gunshot snapped me out of my trance.{Survive the coming attack with your siblings and come unharmed}I forced myself to breathe slowly to calm my chaotic mind.I pressed my palm against the cold wall beside the window.“If I can see what’s coming.” I talked to myself while looking outside through the blurred glass of the window.“Then I can stop it too.” I was surprised by the certainty and calmness in my voice.Continuous gunshots suppressed the scr
he killed without hesitation
“Let’s go,” I ordered them in a sharp voice, throwing both rod and gun on the ground.Walter flinched harder, but Iris didn’t move.I followed her gaze and gulped hard in pain.She was still staring at the dead body on the ground.I needed to get out before anyone notices again.I moved in her direction and held her shoulders, forcing her to look at me.“We need to get out, Iris. The police will be here shortly.” I spoke to her calmly, but the fear in her eyes took me off guard.Her terror was directed at me.I wanted to comfort her, but didn't know how. Above all, we were running against time.“Let’s go.” I spoke calmly and slowly released her shoulders.“A….re we go… ing to prison?” Walter asked me fearfully.The question hit harder than it should.“No.” The word came out of my mouth on its own.“Not if we leave now. Take everything that can make them chase us. Go.” I ordered coldly, pushing them towards our small bedroom.Both trembled hard in fear but ran inside. Iris stumbled so
a silent start
Ethan’s P.O.V.“Your coffee, bro.” Iris put the coffee mug on the nightstand after telling me in a soft voice, and without looking at me, she walked out of the room.I sighed and slowly put down the new laptop that I bought yesterday on the bed beside me.I took the coffee mug from the table and walked out of the room.It was a modest three-bedroom apartment in a secure society.Far better and entirely different from the place we have called home since birth.No broken walls here and there; no shouting, cursing, and people yelling at each other; no smell of gunpowder and blood in the air.Clean, silent…..too silent that it felt weird and creepy last night with the sound of that ticking wall clock in the living room when the sound echoed.Everything that happened in the day: gunshots, their deaths, our revival, the system, and then me, killing that man without any hesitation.Everything was overwhelming, and I needed time to gather myself and process everything.The system was still a
let the hunt begin
Ethan’s P.O.V.I stared at the building on the other side of the road with a blank gaze, hiding in the dark shadow of the building beside me.Also, at the digital big clock at the top of the building.00:35:08The building in front of me was just a simple four-storey building with so many small offices, shops, dull paint, flickering signboards, dim lights in the corridors, and overfilled garbage bins here and there.A good disguise for running a criminal den.A gambling den…..A doom for so many innocent families…..My father wasn’t a gambler, but I had seen families living on that street with a gambler in their family.Once people go in that den, they never come back the same.00:37:13My pulse quickened as the time continued running too fast for my comfort.I killed once because that was necessary for our survival.Now with this new task of destroying this den, would I have to kill more people?But the system also warned me not to get injured or get caught.“For Walter, and Iris.” I
who is predator
Ethan’s P.O.V. (Continued)[MISSION ABOUT TO FAIL]Words froze me for a second. Their red color burned in my eyes.10 seconds….Once again chase against time….Damn it…“Catch me,” I grimaced; fingers already moving on the keyboard.I had tens of windows open right now.Finding the one who would give me away was like finding a needle in a haystack and ten…. No eight seconds were not enough.So my fingers moved precisely, stopping to dump data midway, I rerouted everything.He must have found a leak somewhere.Instead of finding that leak, I decided to turn it into my weapon.I still had a mission to finish.The system screen flickered again in front of my eyes with the same warning, dark red, silent, but alarm blaring in my head now.I split all the data into fragments; scattered hundreds of those fragments across multiple nodes – government portals, public servers, dead archives; all of them.I injected a feedback loop to slow the process. I needed to confuse him.[system warning: 2
connection with past
Ethan’s P.O.V. (Continued)BOOM…..The explosion ripped through the building like a beast unleashed, trembling the ground beneath me at once.The sound of the shattering of glass everywhere, mixed with the loud explosion and the thunderous sound of concrete cracking, exploded my eardrums.I jerked my head when the ringing sound in my ears intensified.The world went silent around me, leaving that ringing sound only.I held my head with both hands, whimpering in pain, jerking my head furiously to get rid of the sound.It took a few seconds……. or maybe a minute……. to subside.The first thing that I noticed was the trace bar on the screen.98%“Damn it.” I cursed and hit my head a few times before starting to run my fingers again.“You want me, huh? I paid the price for what I have now. Are you ready to pay the price, too, huh?” I muttered, jerking my head again and again.Outside the buildings, there was another level of chaos.It was the kind of chaos that we only see on the news after