Mirror of Nightmare

Chapter 44: Day IV; Demon and God

After Link shows Iris's Notebook to everyone, they know that they have to find the 6th piece and the 7th piece as soon as possible because they still have no clue about the last one. The location of the 7th piece is very clear, the Lapice Region. And the location of the 6th piece… Rucas suggests that it must be the Kingdom of the Dragonking, the kingdom of the prideful dragon type Pokemon.

"What do you think? Do you think that we should divide our group into two groups again?" Rucas asks, but Diasol shakes her head no.

"… We had divided our group while trying to find the 3rd and the 4th piece, and…" Diasol says and starts crying. Everyone knows what does that mean; some of their friends had died when they divided our group, especially Princess Xynnia.

"Diasol, calm down." Yterval says and embraces Diasol.

"Hey! Listen! How can we enter the Kingdom of the Dragonking?!" Navi asks.

"According to my research, there is the entrance to that kingdom locate in Lapice Great Snowfield." Zelda says.

"Got it, let's go." Rucas says and runs out of the Hyrule Castle, Link, Navi, Diasol and Yterval follow him.

'… I hope that we will not lose anyone again…" Link thinks while following Rucas. There are only four members left in the group, nine had perished already. But they still don't know that there are some more members waiting for them with the 6th piece of the Mirror of Nightmare…

Link and his friends run across the Hyrule Field and enter the northern region of Irtha, the Lapice Region, the region of snow. This region is divided into two zone, the Lapice Great Snowfield, which is as large as Hyrule Field, and the Northern Mountain.

They reached the Lapice City at the time when the sky is veiled with the twilight. The twilight makes the snow on the ground looks very beautiful.

Lapice City is the snowy city. This town is the only few areas in Lapice that doesn't get a harsh damage from the eternal blizzard that blows from Northern Mountain, so most living creatures are living in this place.

After checking into the inn, Link, Navi and Rucas go to Lapice Bar to have a dinner while Diasol and Yterval say that they want to explore the Lapice Great Snowfield Some more.

In the bar, while waiting for their food, Link, Navi and Rucas see someone is entering the bar. He is the bard that they had seen in Hyrule Bar.

The bard sits on the chair, many children gather around him, and then he starts telling the new story.

"Heart and Soul… It is one of the few things that belong to no one but its owner… What about the body? Speech? Sometime although it is yours, but it isn't yours… Listen to the story… Story of the Demon and Princess…" The bard says and plays his hard, before he starts telling the story.

Not all gods are good, and not all demons are bad… There is a god… This god isn't the good god that likes to bless the poor souls… Nor the bad god that likes to bring the destruction upon the land… He is the god who prefers nothing… Not good nor bad… It is because he had made a great mistake once in the past… The other gods declined him from doing anything that relevant to the world… Now he lives alone… in his own world… Because of that, he created his own world, it is the world that is ruled by himself… And he become the god of that world… He has three trusted minions… Two are the royal bloods while the third one is the demon… He sent all of his minions to cause the chaos in his world… No god can stop him because this is his own world so they couldn't do anything…

However… After getting invaded by the god's three minions, the living creature in that world decided to strike back and defeat the god's minion… They defeat two royal bloods easily, leaving only the demon… However, the demon is the strongest minion of the god, so no one could defeat him… And he still continue serving the god…

Time passes… The world changes… But everything in the God's Ideal World is still the same… The demon, servants of the god, invaded the world,tremble everyone in the ideal world with fear and nightmare. They keep praying for their god to help them… But none of their pray had been answered… Ultil one day…

The demon is on a mission from the god to destroy the obstacle that tried to free the world from the demon's misrule… He comes across a princess… This princess… is said to be the most beautiful princess in the world… She is the princess who rule the kingdom of light in the ideal world… Her kingdom was invaded by the army of god's dark servants… She couldn't do anything to protect her kingdom. She was escaped to her allies kingdom along with her sister… Now she is in the deep despair, yearning to help her kingdom, but couldn't do anything… The first time that the demon encounters her, the princess falls into the deep fear because in front of her is the leader of the demon who invaded her kingdom… But… Seeing the tremble body of the princess makes the demon feels strange… It is the strange feeling that he had never felt before… The demon decided to spare the life of the princess before he leaves the princess behind…

From that day, the mind of the demon changes… He starts to question about everything that he is doing… He used to do everything that the god commanded without any doubt, but after seeing the princess, he starts to question the violence thing that the god ordered him to do…

Time after time, the heart of the demon starts to bright up again, and his soul starts to shine… He had just realized about everything that he had done… He was just a puppet that the god uses, but after meeting the princess… He knows that he is doing wrong… He wants to quit everything, but he couldn't do that or he could get punished from the god. He isn't strong enough to defeat the god…

After finishes telling the story, the bard stands up and leaves the bar, leaving the last question to everyone…

"If you are that demon, what will you do?"

To Be Continue…

LD: Hey! Isn't that the story of…

Pokedragon: Shut up, LD.