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A/N: let me tell you a short story of one of my dominion matches.
I was playing as Shugoki on the temple map, when the match started I quickly ran my fat-ass over to zone-C, when I get there I see one of the enemy team standing right on the edge and he hasn't notice me so I decided to use the charge move to knock him in. I knocked him in the water, but the most bullshit thing happens... I run straight into the water, I am not joking.
I ran into that lake like Tom the cat when he tried to run over Jerry with a toy train only for an anvil to drop in front of him and Tom going straight down into the hole with that stupid grin on his face. It was so stupid.
Trekking up north Burr feels his belly growling with hunger, paying no mind to it as he headed north, Burr thought of what Ylva meant when she said that the cave will test him? what did he have to do? many questions Burr wanted to know the answers to, but there will be no time to think as someone was lurking up to Burr behind the bushes three goblins heard about the prize the Witch up the Mountain put on the prince's head.
"There he is," the first goblin pointed to Burr who was out in the open.
"How're we gonna this?" the second goblin asked.
"Let's just rush 'em, there's three of us and one of him," the third one said getting rowdy.
"Alright we'll do it on the count of three, but we gotta be really quick," the first one informed the carefully.
Daggers at the ready the three crept up on the young warrior thinking they have the drop on him, but right when the goblin was about to count down the third goblin got too excited and prematurely leaps towards Burr, but in a twist Burr ducks letting the eager goblin fly over his head, he reaches for his sword as the second goblin tries to charge him only for Burr to spin around slicing the goblin across his body. Taking care of the second goblin Burr takes the kite shield in his hand dodging the third goblin again by easily stepping aside letting him stumble pass, the goblin turns back around and attempts to stab Burr, but yet again Burr shows he's the better fighter.
He steps back from the goblin's thrust making the goblin dip low and Burr kicks the dagger out of the goblin's grasps in a desperate attempt the goblin throws a punch at Burr only for his first strike to be blocked by Burr's shield. The goblin tried again throwing a second punch and third and a fourth, his knuckles banging against the tough exterior of the shield scrapping his grey sickly skin. The goblin punched the shield again Burr steps to the side causing the goblin to stumble so he swung his arm towards Burr only for Burr to duck under.
The goblin accidentally losses his footing as he swung his whole body when swinging his whole arm the result he threw his body onto Burr's shield and Burr driving his blade into the goblins collar. The sword easily pierce through the goblin going far enough for the end of the blade to come out of the back the shoulders.
Burr shoves the dead goblin off his shield and the blade slide out of the goblin with ease, Burr turns to see the last goblin now running away after he saw his two friends been easily dealt with. Burr puts back his sword and shield and pulled out his bow, he readied an arrow onto the string pulling it back as he took aim he thought back to an old Viking saying his father told "don't bother running. You'll only die tired" those are the words his father said and Burr let go of the string. The goblin died cowardly. Walking over to retrieve the arrow, Burr pulled it out of the dead goblin's back, and continued on with his travel, however Burr was once again confronted by another warrior that heard of the bounty.
It was an uruk, standing about seven feet tall, he had bluish skin, but the strangest thing bout the uruk was how he was dress looking like one of the many bards Burr seen in Ashfeld and a lute fitted with spikes on one side and a blade on the other.
"What's more fun than killing, when two warriors are willing," he sang.
He sprinted towards Burr gripping the lute by its neck and striking down at the prince, Burr was quick bringing up his sword blocking the uruk's battle lute, their blades clashing against one another. Burr stood his ground against the singing uruk seeing how easily the bard towered over him, a grin could be seen on the uruk's face as he took joy by partaking in a fight with the prince. The uruk bard swung his lute sideways hoping to slice Burr's head clean off, but only if Burr stood a little taller the uruk could separated the boy's head from his shoulders, but ducked under him.
Burr swung his blade at the uruk to hit him in the back, but the uruk was more skilled than others, he blocked Burr's swing catching the blade with his, and the bard tripped him. Burr landed flat on his back as the uruk bard sweeped him off his feet.
"Time to dieeeeee..." the bard sang lifting his lute high.
As the bard was about to finish off Burr by slamming down his lute, Burr did the same to the uruk by swiping at his feets, the uruk falls on his back with a loud thud landing next to Burr, close enough for Burr to slam the pommel of his sword onto the uruk's belly, chest, and face. Burr got up with the uruk only capable to get up on one knee as the bard coughed blood when he strucked in the face, Burr stood over him with sword ready and the bard knew he was screwed.
"My final song is rather long, it's time for me to take a bow, on second thought, just do it now," the uruk sang.
Burr swung down his blade to cleave it down into the bard's shoulder, but in a final attempt to deny his fate the bard raised his lute blocking the killing blow, but this did nothing. Even though he blocked the first blow Burr just used his other hand to simply move the hand carrying the lute out of the way and thrusts his sword right in the collar of the uruk. Pushing the sword forward forcing the bard down to the ground, the uruk was still kicking as he held onto the blade that was lodged in him, but Burr takes off his shield holding it over his head, and started banging it against the pommel hammering the sword further until finally the blade made contact with the soil.
Burr calms down taking deep breaths that expanded his chest, he then grabs his sword and with some assistance from his shield he pulls his sword out of the dead bard. He turns back towards the path to the cave, but to his inconvenience finds a line of warriors patiently waiting for their turn to fight Burr making Burr's eyes twitch a bit.
Hours Later
Burr cut and slashed his way through, thrusting and piercing the warriors sent to stop him to retrieve the blade, and save his friend. He killed bandits, bounty hunters, mercs, goblins, orcs, pirates, marauders, ninjas, a bunny samurai? (Burr shield punches the bunny in his face) a stormtrooper? (Burr simple throws a pebble) oh god not a unicorn! (shoots it with his arrows). Oh god Burr's gone mad he's killing everybody in sight, oh the humanity! be glad you're not seeing this, he's delusional from lack of food and water he's not thinking straight.
Bashed against one minion, but when the foe fell to the ground he was holding onto the shield, holding it over his face, and Burr stompping right on top of it smashing the minion's head. A ninja lost her weapons so she tried to punch at Burr, but blocked all her punches with his shield taking a step back, and finally thusting the tip of his sword into the ninja's neck.
A bandit tried to catch Burr from behind however Burr saw him coming so he thusts his sword into his neck with the blade making contact with the neck, the bandit wraps his fingers around the blade, as Burr twisted his grip on the hilt until he heard a loud snap, and Burr threw the corpse down to the ground.
With another goblin Burr planted his shield into the ground grabbing hold of the goblin's head bashing it into the top of the shield, burr steps to the side gripping his sword tightly, and slicing the goblin's head off. After cutting down many of the men and women Nil sent out to kill him Burr finally made it to the entrance of the cave standing in front of the entrance breathing rapidly and drenched in blood.
The cave seems to raise out of the ground, the dark solid stone that covered the entirety of the cave, it was so quiet only the sound of the wind whistling by, Burr stood there preparing for what's inside. The boy took his first steps into the dark cave, it was hard to see with only the light coming from a few holes up in the ceiling, while Burr delve deeper into the cave the entrance shrank in the distance behind him until it vanished from his sights.
Going down into a tunnel Burr's nose was assaulted by a horrid smell, like rotted breath of an old man's teeth becoming yellow, hollowed, and black, going deeper the smell became more and more stronger so Burr had to take small sips of air to ignore the stench. Burr couldn't tell where the smell was coming from as the stench consumed him, but to what happen from out of nowhere was a sound, a loud noise sounding like thunder booming. The loud sound was so deafening which made Burr cover his ears, but for some odd reason the smell gotten worse.
Looking down Burr found the ground covered to what looked liked brown hair, there was so much that Burr's boots made an impression on the ground, until Burr found a foot print that was giant compared to his. The print showed big round toes in the ground and Burr from his experience from hunting deer, wolves, and even bears, he could tell that the print is still fresh. He followed the trail and when he came to the end he found out that loud thundering sound was... it was a fart because laying down on the ground laid two cave trolls.
There were two of them, both bigger than an average fully grown man, covered in thick brown hair except for their hands, feet, and face, the troll had round belly, their arms were longer than their stubby legs, and their noses were big and round good enough to smell the blood of a Christian man which made Burr glad he wasn't one. The trolls were fast asleep scratching their back as they tossed their bodies to the side, Burr carefully guided himself passed the sleeping trolls seeing that the only way deeper down was passed them.
If it weren't for their shedding fur the ground would've been a lot louder, but thankfully the mounding hair made the ground very soft, making it half way one of trolls swung his arms down in front of Burr cutting him off, but the troll swung his arm too hard making him wench at the pain and cracking his eyes open which in turn spotted Burr. The troll barked and growled at Burr so in an attempt to silence the troll Burr drove his sword into the troll's neck, but making the troll scream in pain waking the other troll. The troll Burr stabbed was fatally deep in the monster's neck blood pouring out like a stream, in a quick motion the troll got up stumbling around the room and unfortunately with Burr's sword still lodged in his throat.
The dying troll was soon fadding away from life, slowly coming to a stop, and falls flat on the ground face first on top of Burr's sword. The second was now wide awake seeing both Burr and his dead friend the troll roared at Burr showing his square teeth, leaving his shield on his left arm taking out his bow. Burr shoots at the troll aiming for the eyes, but the troll raises his arm letting the the arrow hit his wrist instead, the troll then charges at Burr quickly and swung his fist smashing against the shield breaking it to pieces and sends Burr flying.
The troll sends Burr slamming against the wall, looking to his arm the shield was wreaked just like his old one along with the bow, Burr was now defenseless. With no weapon the troll now has Burr corned and just in time because he was starting to get hungry, Burr crawled back until suddenly a flash of light grazed the troll harming him greatly. Burr looks over to his side to see one source of sunlight streaming down into the cave from a hole in the ceiling and he remembered the time when he was very young his father told him the tales of trolls and their greatest weakness was sunlight.
Looking to his arm were the shield used to be Burr saw the metal dome of the shield was still clinging onto his arm so Burr quickly brought it over to the light reflecting the sun's rays right towards the troll. The monster screams out in pain trying to shield himself from the light, but slowly his whole body turned to stone. Burr could not believe how close again he came to dying, he take the metal dome off and tosses it aside, he then goes up to the troll he killed first to retrieve his sword, but was hopeless as the dead troll was too heavy to roll over. Still undeterred from his quest Burr just dusted himself off and moved on.
Burr climbed over a pile of rocks and climbed down a drop, Burr wiped off the sweat from his forehead becoming more worked from the descent, until Burr came across to what was a door. It came to a complete surprise when Burr saw the door in front of him, the wooded surface, and the iron straps to hold it together. Burr can feel the sweat rolling off the side of his head, and his heart racing for the cave was going to test his heart, it was all silent Burr could only hear his own heart pounding away like a drum, he slowly approached the door, he grabs the handle, and enters into the other side.
To Burr's confusion Burr found himself in a familiar place, his room, he was back home the sun was shining through his window that was next to his bed, and the bed... Burr was so tired, It looked so inviting to see his bed. He walks over to his bed running his hands over the pelt blankets he always slept in, so warm, so soft. Maybe a quick nap. Burr climbs onto his bed once he laid his back onto the mattress he was in total bliss slowly drifting away, all the pain in his body seems to lift away. A moment later Amai soon climbs onto the bed with Burr, the boy didn't question it feeling too good, he was home and Amai was safe with him.
"Thank you for saving me Burr" Amai thanked him as she lies next to him.
She then flips over onto Burr, climbing onto him with her face just right above his, but right when Amai's lips slowly came close to his, Burr notice something was wrong. Amai's eyes, they weren't her's, Amai's eyes were brown, but they were glowing purple right now, meaning this girl is an imposter so Burr tried to throw her off him, but saddly the imposter was too quick.
She grabs hold of Burr's head trying to pry his mouth open, Burr tried to get her off, but the girl wasn't going anywhere, giggling at Burr's attempt to get her off the imposter soon manages to get Burr's mouth open and did the most disgusting thing. White mysterious fluids spoutted out of her mouth and was pouring it into Burr's, the fluids were white as milk and felt like water, the taste was indescribable, but felt himself lightheaded. Burr soon started to see double, the room was spinning, he limbs feel weak as now fell into unconsciousness.
It was black the boy couldn't see a thing in front of him, not even his own hands, but soon a light came forth, and Burr saw something that horrified him.
He saw himself his face splattered with blood, his eyes were filled with rage and hatred, but that's not what has Burr so scared, in the arms of his enraged self was Amai laying lifeless in his arms and sword driven into her heart. The sword was the Lion's mane. The vision of the scene soon was engulfed in darkness and Burr was now seeing a next one, this time he saw the castle of the Iron Legion in ruins, the whole place set ablaze as the dead littered the ground. Then Next Burr saw himself sitting on the throne looking over the land he now killed watching the whole world burn.
Burr was now becoming overwhelmed with fear and sorrow, he crumbles to his knees, tears now trickling from his eyes, he didn't want to see what he was being shown, the vision showing him becoming a monster. He wanted it to stop, he wanted ALL to stop, he doesn't want this to happen. Burr soon balled up on the ground crying in fear to what may come, will he become the monster?
A voice was heard, calming and soothing Burr looked up to see something that gave him reassurance, his father.
"There there now, there's no need to be afraid son," Raider told his son, but not Burr, Burr.
Raider was talking to a younger Burr hiding under the bed, outside the window Burr saw it was raining and Burr remembered, this was night the thunder storm scared him. The loud boom was heard all around making the young Burr cry in fear.
"Now now it's only thunder," Raider said getting his son into his arms, "Look, there's now reason to be afraid Burr- *BOOM!* the thunder means that Thor is just banging his hammer, Mjolnir- *BOOM!*,"
Burr watched as his father held onto him seeing the clouds flash brightly every time the thunder roared, making it a little less frightening each time.
"As long I'm here Burr, thunder should never hurt you," Raider promised his son and a bright light engulfed everything.
Burr couldn't see a thing the light was blinding so Burr held his hands in front of his eyes until the light dimmed down until Burr saw that there was a man standing before him. The man looked to be very old, his face was wrinkled and pale, his beard was long and white, the clothes he wore is mostly gold in color, and he was blind.
"You have come a long way to claimed the finally piece haven't you?" the man said, "but how much are you willing to give up? sure the girl that you love is what drives you, but it is not the only force moving you forward. A strong sense of anger drives you on this quest as well, you may have two working eyes, but I see more that you, you have unkowingly blinded yourself. I will not give the blade or the thing you fear most will come to reality, so tell me how much are willing to give up, will you forfeit you own humanity to slay the witch?"
Burr was still kneeing on the ground taking in the things he was made to witness believing the old man to be right.
"There is only one way you can take this sword," the old man said and presented Burr with a knife, "are you willing to make the sacrifice? to see more than you can possibly imagine? to attain the sight of wisdom?"
Burr knew exactly what the old man was talking about because this is how Odin attain his sight by cutting out his own eye. Burr took the knife holding it tight in his hands, he took deep breaths, and then did what needed to be done. He didn't cry, he didn't wench, he didn't even flinched as he drove the blade into his left eye socket, one or two drops of blood leaked out rolling passed his cheeks, the pain was so unbearable, but did was finally done.
Burr has gouged out his own eye, he dropped the knife letting the blood stained blade hit the ground, and his eye was picked off the ground by the old man.
"You proved yourself worthy," he said and Burr was engulfed by the light once more.
A strong breeze was felt blowing by, the sound of birds chirping in the air, Burr opened his eye, and found himself out of the cave, he was lying his back on top of grass, flowers were all around him. Burr picked himself up looked to see he was behind the entrance of the cave and saw the blade lying right beside him. He now has the last piece, Burr takes a rag out of his pouch wrapping over his now missing left eye, he then picks up the blade, and starts heading back to town.