The Memory

Having freed myself from the wrath of my wife due to Al's explanation when he finished enjoying the pain inflicted upon me. I sighs as I walks into my son's room, he stops crying when he sees me.
"Hello there Negi," I calls to my child. He coos flailing around his tiny twig arms, wanting to play with him I poke my right index finger into his grappling palm. He grips at my finger making noises all child makes.
Thank god Arika didn't have to spend another moment bringing him to the world, I thought as I looks down to my left hand, purple bruise across the palm in shape of a hand. I grimace at the pain when I twitchs it.
"Nagi!" A voice call out from the kitchen. "I'm finished with packing our travelling supplies, is Negi ready to go?" "I guess he is re-" interrupted by a sudden jolt to my right arm, I yelps in pain and following that is the giggling of the infant still gripping at my finger.
"What happened Nagi?!" she shouts with a concern as she rush into the room. "I think Negi just used a lightning magic on my finger," I reply with a pained grin on my face.
"What? That's amazing!" She gleefully said obviously ignoring my well being. She shove me aside to pick up her son spinning on her foot with Negi secure in her hands.
My face is probably displaying a dumb look. How easily Arika's mood changes, that's the only scary part of her... well aside from that royal magic.
"Fu fu fu. He take after his father. Would be a shame if you were not there to be a guide for him." Albireo said giggling. I cracks my eyebrow in unpleasantness, "Al. Shut up."
Al raise his left hand covered beneath his robe to his mouth and giggles again. Sometime I hate this guy. I want to be a father, but... it have been eight years since that day, and there hadn't been any news on him.
Al casually walks in and, as if he knew what I had been thinking, said, "I heard there were visual rumours of Fillius Zect wandering around in a black hooded robe on the other side. Apparently he has a silver haired man for a companion."

"Do you know where?!" I shouted in anxious. "I have the general area, so I suppose I do," he replied. I grins approvingly, Albireo really saved me. I begins to think of that day...

"Heheh... Fair enough. I'll join you out there, Nagi. My wounds are the lightest, after all," my child-size master no less ten feet away from my left, I feels happy hearing him say that.
"Master..." I said, and out of sudden and with warranted concern, Albireo shouted, "Zect! The two of you can't possibly face him alone!" Zect counters with, "If we do not defeat this guy here and now, then the world will be reduced to naught. Do we have any other choice?"
The armless Hellas man shouted at me, "Nagi, wait! It's no good... This guy's on a different level!" Jack continues, "You'll die! We have to regroup for now-" and I interrupts him, "Oh, come on. We won't make it if we hang around doing a thing like that. This isn't like you, Jack."
I ends the conversation with, "I'm the invincible Thousand Master, remember? I'll beat this guy! You leave it to me!" I leap forth with Zect, "Let's do this Master!" We nears the entrance to the arena with the Mage of the Beginning before Zect gestures me to listen. "I'll act as a decoy, boy. You strike when he's distracted."
"Wha..." I attempts to understand, but he already dashed off. Nothing I can do about it. I just have to believe in my master. I stop short of the entrance and suppressed my magic. I sneak in toward the location of my master's energy.
I arrive to find both Zect and The Mage of the Beginning in combat. Despite my master's injuries, he's keeping up his stamina and his defense. That's my master for you! "Why do you struggle?" The eerie voice leaks out of the darkened hood. "Why should violence continues? Why should illusions remain real? Why do humans struggle? A world full of lies, and they struggle for it... Why? Tell me... why do you struggle?"
Zect remains silence to keep his focus, something about the villain that unnerves me, I'm surprised my master could ignore his words. "Is it because she cuts your hairs?"
I couldn't exactly hear what the mage said, but it clearly broke Fillius Zect's magic barrier. In the next instant, I see something unforgivable, my master impaled by a black colored spear.
"Cough...?" Zect struggles with blood being thrown up. I feels my rage build up, I rush toward Mage of the Beginning, he notices me a split second too late. I shouts with all of my anger, "I'll defeat you! In master's stead!" His barrier shattered by my rage infused thunder magic as I slam my fist against his chin.
His hood explodes alongside his head in bloodbath, having no mouth to use, he laughs. "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-hah! So you defeat me human?! Very well! Defeat me and become hero! Perhaps it will offer the sheep some comfort!"
I yelled, "You're one stubborn bastard!" He continues, "But you must never forget this!" He unleash a major spell, "There is no solution that can fulfil all! The curtain of despair will one day fall upon all! You too... are no exception!"
Barely blocking his magic, I groans, "Shut... the... hell.. UUUUUUUP!" Infusing my fist with the power of lightning, I punch him, the shock wave reach outside the Gravekeeper's Palace and explode.
My rash barrage continues on his fragile body, "I don't care... if you tell me the whole damn world... will be destroyed tomorrow!" As I kicks him away, I rambles again, "I'll never give up... That's what it means to be a human!"
My staff floating behind me glows and the thunder magic binds onto it and shapes into a spear. The mage laughs once more, "Ahahaha... One day, you will come to realize that the 'eternity' of which I speak... is the only compromise capable of saving all souls."
In the fit of my rage, "Don't... you... dare... underestimate... humanity~~~!" Right then I threw my staff-spear hard toward where I had punched him with the force of two hundred newton force effortlessly piercing him.
As the spear slips through his body, he twirls with the force tearing apart his torso, as the palace erupts with lightnings. He laughs once more, unaffected by the amount of pains I must had inflicted on him, "It's too late... I win!"

You... win? I thought he was mad, he's defeated. Defeated leader just don't win, do they? In that moment, a light extends from the above slowly increasing in size, I recognize what had happen. I pulls out a card I keeps on me. 'Albireo Imma' is titled at the bottom, I places it against my forehead, yelling.
"Al! Can you hear me Al?!" "Hey, Nagi. Honestly... you never cease to amaze me. Exceeding my expectations every single time... Now for the Princess-chan..." I stops him, "No... more importantly! The ceremony! I've defeated their leader, but it looks like they're already completed the ceremony! This isn't good!"
The communication cuts off after that, and shortly after that, Arika contacted me. "Nagi! I have a plan! You go get Asuna! I'll take care of this thing!" The link ends before I could respond, but I'll trust in the princess. I rush to reach the topmost floor where they has Asuna.
I arrives to a large empty room, the only soul remaining is a pink hair child with odd color eyes at the center lying down. "Asuna!" I calls out to her. "...Nagi?"
I jogs over to her, on close inspection, she seems to be in and out consciousness. As soon as I picks her up, she falls asleep, she've been through a lot I thought.
"Nagi! Can you hear me?" A familiar voice shouts to me. "Arika? Did you manage to stop it?" I respond in returns. "Yes, we did, but this will bears consequence... The Ostia will fall."
"The Kingdom can be rebuilt, we saved the world. You shouldn't feel sorry for the kingdom, but rather be happy for the people." "...Tha-" The connection is interrupted, "Arika?! Can you hear me?!" I hears footsteps behind me.

"So my solution was stopped by humanity's efforts eh?" An all too recognizable voice... "You're still alive?!" I shouted in rage and turns around. There I was stunned, but not by a spell cast but rather by the sight. The person standing across from me.
Voice of the Mage of the Beginning, and all I see is Fillius Zect. "W-Why...? You're alive Master...?" My master glare at me, no trace of any wound from that black magic, nor is there a hole on his clothing. Before I could yells out his name, a force hits me from everywhere as I clench Asuna tightly in my arms. "Well, no matter. These sort of failures are temporary. My solution will continue another day," Zect said. I coughs as I glance down to Asuna, she's unharmed, man... her ability is a scary stuff. "M-Master...? Why are you attacking me?"
I collapse down holding Asuna beneath my body to protect her and looks up toward my master. Zect leaps as the room around me dissolves to pieces, he lands on a rock pillar. "It is impossible for a hero of war to shape the future..."
He smirks, "In the end, you were unable to change anything..." In the middle of desolation hundred of rocks are floating around the palace with many in ring-like formation with chaotic magic swirling.
"I suggest... that you ask yourself now. Is humanity worth throwing away your own life to save?" I struggles to stands but with futile. "Humanity is beyond saving. Hero... know my two thousand and six hundred years of despair. Farewell."
He disappears with the mist of magic as I groans to myself. "Master... Master...!" Putting down Asuna and standing up, I screams, "MASTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!"