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My life with blaziken chapter 18

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-it's about time I implemented another ridiculous event into the story. (You remember the wormhole)

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I had been having strange dreams lately. I would see a man appear in font of me, and he would attack me. I tried to fight back, but it was like my arms were made of lead, the harder I tried to move the heavier I got. he would hit me and I would black out. Then the dream would shift, and I would be tied up in some old riverside house, with ropes around my arms. he would walk in wearing a brown robe, and bring a knife up to my face. But right before he could do anything, I would wake up. I got up to get some water, being careful not to wake anyone.

"This has to stop" I muttered to myself. I hadn't told Becky about the dreams, only because I didn't know how she would react. Normally I could take one look at someone and know what they were thinking, but my thoughts were slow and my mind was clouded. I heard footsteps behind me, I turned around and no one was there.

"I'm going crazy" I thought to myself out loud

"What's wrong". Becky asked from the bedroom, apparently she had heard me. I was reluctant to tell he for some reason i couldn't understand. I trusted her, I had a kid with her, but for some reason... No, she needs to know what's going on. I told her about the dream, and the blood drained from her face when I described the man to her.

"What's wrong?" I asked her, something seemed wrong. I kept asking but she refused to say anything, so I let it drop. After taking a shower to wake myself up, I decided to get to work. After a while, the seconds turned into minutes, the minutes turned into hours, and the day was over. But that means sleep, and sleep means that dream again...

"I can't do this again" I said to Becky as I sat down on the bed. She sighed and put her hands on my shoulders. After a pleasant and not at all sexist shoulder massage, I drifted into sleep again.

The dream began again, the same exact thing every time. He attacks me, I can't move, I get knocked out. It never changed, not even down to the smallest details. The placing of a fallen leaf, same. The speed of the water dripping off the house's gutters, same. It was diving me CRAZY...er... Then, as always, the dream went black again. But this time was different, this time it stayed black. It felt like hours it stayed dark, eventually it finally shifted. Now I was tied to the wall again. But something seemed different about it this time, it seemed clearer than before.

"Your awake" came a voice from the door. That's not right, I've never been able to hear anything before. Something was wrong.

"Where am I?" I asked. I've never been able to speak before either. This isn't right.

"Your in my home. This is where I have been hiding all these years. This is the reason no one could find me" the voice went on. Then he stepped through the door, it was the man from my dreams.

"PATRICK!!!" I heard Becky scream. He had Becky? Now this has gone far enough, he had Becky.

"What have you done with Becky?" I demanded, doing everything in my power to contain my anger.

"My wife is none of your concern" he said. Wife? That's impossible... Unless?

"Axel?" I asked, incredulously. So this was axel, the man I almost got killed over. I had so many things to say to him, and none of them nice. But this was a bad enough situation if I didn't make him angry. Then, as he did in the dream, he walked towards me with a knife. Becky kept yelling for me to run, which wasn't an easy task when tied up.

He took the knife and placed it against my forehead, then in a very painful display, he pressed it into my skin. I screamed in pain, blood started flowing down in large amounts. I screamed even more as he dragged the blade down. He didn't do it slowly either, he yanked the blade down right though my eye. Eye blacked out (you see what I did there).

"YOU BASTARD!!! LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO HIM!!!" I awoke to screaming. Apparently I had been moved into the room Becky was in. I went to look around but my vision was different somehow. Then I remembered the knife and what had happened. He had ruined my left eye, made me blind. Then he wheeled over a mirror, and after I looked into it, I was shocked at what I saw. There was a long grey scar from above my eyebrow to my cheek. My iris and th pupil was a dull grey color, I looked terrible.

"This, Patrick, is what happens when you cross me" axel said, before shoving me face first onto the floor.

"He didn't do anything to you" Becky sobbed, she was struggling against her bonds, but it wasn't working.

"Ahhh, but he took you away from me, and we can't have that now can we" he replied in a psychotic voice. This guy was completely insane.

"We got divorced years ago you psychopath" she kept crying, he didn't seem phased. Actually, he seemed to not even hear her. After a few more heated exchanges and lots of swearing, axel knocked me out again.

I woke up again in an empty room, laying on a bed. I got up and the door was unlocked. Maybe Axel's insanity caused him to slip up? I walked into the living room where I had been tied up, inside the room was the knife that had cut me. I picked I up, it was one of those long knives that was kept in its own sheath. I strapped it to my hip and moved on.

I was about to enter the other room when I heard Becky screaming. I couldn't tell if it was in pain or fear, but I wasn't going to let it continue. I ran into the room with the knife drawn, but what I saw was not what I expected. Becky had somehow gotten free of her bonds, and she was throwing things at axel, he dodged all of them, but he was held up at the moment. I snuck up behind him and placed the knife to his throat, he froze.

"You can't stop me you know" he laughed hysterically. somehow I didn't think this guy was afraid of me, he is crazy after all. He ducked down and away from me, completely avoiding the knife. After a few enraged slashes, I realized I was getting nowhere with this.

"Deep breaths... Calm... Serene... Anger makes you weak" I thought. My eye snapped open, and I went into my best fighting stance. As far as I knew, there was no defense to this fighting style, but I could be wrong. He ran at me, I sidestepped and lanced the tip across his back, leaving a large gash. I could see the pain in his eyes, but behind them there was something else... Was it joy? Yes, that was it. He stared into my eyes, and I could see everything he was thinking.

"Kill him already!" Becky shouted at me, but I was oblivious. In axel's eyes was years of pain, suffering, and loss. But behind it he had a sense of joy, the innocent kind of look you see in children. The eyes have always been kown as a window into the soul, and in his soul he was saying "help me". He wasn't supposed to be this way. He was supposed to be a carefree, happy guy. But something had changed him, something that shouldn't be there... There was a flash in his eyes, a flash of pure malice, a look I had seems nefore, and then I knew what it was.

"So that's why your like this" I said to him. I pulled the crucifix off my neck, then I threw it at him. He didn't have time to think, and his instinct said catch. He caught it, and realization dawned on him. Then he fell to the floor and started screaming. Then as I had predicted, a haunter floated out of him. I threw the knife at the haunter and it nailed him in the face. It fell over dead.

"What the hell" Becky muttered. If flipped axel over, and the look of pain was gone from his eyes, but now it was replaced with regret.

"Th-thank... You" he whispered, and then he slipped into unconsciousness. I picked him up and put him on my shoulders.

"Let's go, we need to get him back to the house." I said. Becky stared at me like a lunatic. Maybe I was, but in my mind I knew that he wasn't responsible. As Jesus said in the bible, "they knew not what they did" and I believe that applies here. I grabbed my new knife and walked outside, with axel on my back.

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-we now have axel to deal with. Will he turn out to be a useful ally? Or a horrible enemy? Who knows, he may be needed in the times to come. *hint hint*

-Becky is not happy, but that's to be expected from the ex-wife of a master criminal.