The Fate of the First Hero of Light
The Green Skin Lizards move to attack.
I signal to the Dark Elf she gives the call. The Dark Elves cast their strongest magics.
The whizzing of the bracelets that the Lizards wear can be heard.
"GEIR!" I shake my head side to side. It did not work. Such a simple design yet it can defeat almost any magic. The Lizards are wearing bracelets made of a certain stone. Inside of each bracelets are concentric rings that can spin freely inside of each other. When the magic touches the Lizards the bracelets absorb the magic and start spinning, dispelling the magical attack from hurting the Lizards.
Their society is structured that when you vanquish an enemy or kill a competitor. You receive either another bracelet or claim the fallen foe's bracelets for yourself. This means the strongest members will have the most bracelets and be the most resilient against magical attacks.
The Dark Elves specialize in magical attacks, if not for the magical barrier stopping them from entering the Spirit Eye Woods. The Dark Elves would have been eradicated many times ago.
"Unfortunately for you no amount of spinning jewelry can save you from me!"
"CAH-CAH-CAH-CA..."
I grab him so tightly on his neck. I can almost feel my hand on the other side of collapsed throat.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
"...cah..."
He wet himself. I drop him on his knees his limp tail is holding him upright. I hit him so hard on the top right of his head. His lower jaw breaks loose from the muscles holding it attached to his skull.
PLOP
I pull my fist out of the hole in the top of his head.
"Who is next?"
I hear the sounds of small trinkets being dropped. I turn around they have discarded their bracelets. There is one Dark Elf I know him he is trying to cast a spell. His head flies of his shoulders. My ice shuriken flies through the air it flies right in a curve and returns to my grasp. It was Icnipi Orsoseid chunks of his neck and flesh fall onto the ground.
I turn to face the Green Skin Lizards.
"Follow the female Dwarf over there. You will be assigned new posts. You are welcome to try and attack any Dwarf. It will be the last mistake you ever make."
A Mighty Muscular Dwarven Warrior approaches he has a mighty mustache and a braided beard.
"Geir son did I miss the fight?"
"Uncle Thandall!" I rush to him I embrace him.
"Geir me boy glad to see you!"
"Uncle Thandall look here."
I pick up a bracelet "Son it is finely crafted but there must be something more tell me."
"It dispels magic by using mechanical means."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!"
I spin the bracelet with my ice magic.
"Geir me boy this is a revolutionary discovery! This will change Dwarven technologies for centuries to come. Please I must leave immediately can I have this bracelet?"
"Yes, take that heap and also the Lizards who make them with you."
I point to the Green Skin Lizards and the heap of bracelets. Uncle Thandall grabs them all in his Mighty arms. He starts moving to the Dwarven Realm.
"COME SCALIES LET US LEAVE!"
The Lizards awkwardly start moving behind Uncle Thandall.
"COME LADS AND LASSIES NO TIME TO WASTE!" The Lizards move with speed.
A young Lizard boy approaches me.
"Cah-cah-caaah-ca"
"Do not be alarmed you will be safe."
"Caaah?"
"He attacked a defenseless person. He can take up his grudge with me in the afterlife if he wants to."
"Caaa-ca-caaa-cah."
"Who told you that? Ice god did those other fools start spreading rumours."
"CAAAAH!"
"I am sorry I was think about someone else. I apologize."
"Cah-caaah-cah-cah-cah-caaaaaaah-ca-ca-caaah-cah-CAAAAAA-cah?
"Yes."
"CAH-CAH!"
"I also could not believe at first. When you slice it open you can clearly see it."
"bleeeeeeeeehhh"
It was terrible. Even after I ate it. I spat it out, warmed it up and cooked then what should you do..."
"Cah-cah-CAAAAAAHHH!"
"Even after all that I could not eat it. I was following all the steps.."
"CAH-CAH-Caaahhhhh!?"
"Yes, it is not worth your time."
"COME YOUNG LAD! WE MUST HURRY!"
"CAH-CAH-CA!"
"Sorry son I was not angry! We must make haste!"
"CAH!"
"Yes, let's leave."
"Cah-cah-cah-caaah-cah-caaaah"
He hands me twin bracelets.
"Cah-cah-cah!"
"I am sorry I use magic. They will interfere with their strength. You are now the Warchief you should keep them."
"CAh-CAH-CAh-CAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
He hands me the two specially made bracelets.
"Thank you Drask. Keep well."
"CAH!"
The young Lizard boy runs towards his people moving away with speed to the Dwarven Realm. Now to rain my wrath down upon the Dark Elves.
The Dark Elves have been defeated they are black and blue.
"Geir...why...?""Grandfather you have to learn to walk on your own. I learned from my mistakes. You will develop new fighting techniques. This is the second time that I had to fight for you. Next time if you do not perform satisfactory. Your punishment will be a hundred times worse."
"Vivi we are leaving. ""Yes, Geir!""STOP YOU KILLED ICHNIPI..." I glare over my shoulder. I can see the fear in everyone's eyes. "I do not tolerate cowards!""...""Do you have anything else to add?""...""Good."
My wife greets my Dark Elven family goodbye, with the middle finger she always extends towards them.
"Vivi can you sense the curse in these Bracelets?" "There is no curse. I will ask the mages guild to analyze them."
"Why Vivi?"
"They contain your life energies."
"WHAT?!"
Many times later...
"Knight how goes the campaign?"
"GEIR HOW MANY DEAD ARE THERE?"
"I only killed the Warchief then they all surrendered."
"I SEE! SO THEY WANT TO STRIKE BEHIND ENEMY LINES!"
"Yes, the Warchief's son handed my special bracelets to congratulate me on the victory!"
"BAHAHAHAHAHA! WILL THEY EVER LEARN! WE ARE NOT THE SAME NAIVE FOOLS WE ONCE WERE!"
"Exactly Knight. Even worse the little lizard boy was so anxious he asked me about a recipe for castele soup."
"CASTELE SOUP GEIR?"
"It is a soup only made in my homelands. There is no way, they could know of it. He also called me the ice god."
"I SEE MAYBE WE SHOULD MOVE FOR A PREEMTIVE STRIKE AGAINST THE SOUTH WESTERN KINGDOM?"
"When we have stabilized the situation in the country. We should move. They will likely send assassins to target each one of us again."
"HER MAJESTY! I MUST RUSH TO HER SIDE!" The Knight immediately starts to move. I grab him by his belt and freeze the throne room doors shut.
"GEIR LET ME PASS!"
"Knight this is how easy it is for the enemy to manipulate you."
"GEIR..."
"Do not be alarmed my Grandmother and the Fire Mage are there with her. She is not in danger. The next one they will target is you."
"THEY WILL TARGET ME?!"
"Yes, that is why at this moment it is best if we keep our distance from Zelda."
"DISTANCE FROM HER MAJESTY!"
"Knight can you remember when we fought that Green Giant in the blue sand desert?"
"YES, WE DEFEATED IT BY SINKING IT IN THE MUD. THEN WHILE YOU DISTRACTED IT. I WAITED FOR THE MOMENT TO LAND THE KILLING BLOW."
"You are now the Green Giant and the Capitol is the mud."
"GEIR WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!"
"Like the giant you are bound to a place that you cannot leave. Like as I did with the giant I distracted it. The news of the enemies targeting us distracted you. You lost track of your surroundings, if the enemy was the you of the past. You would be dead."
"GEIR YOU ARE RIGHT. STILL I CAN ONLY RUSH TO THE AID. I CANNOT MOVE THROUGH THE SHADOWS! YOU ARE HERE TO HELP ME ARE YOU NOT?"
"Yes, Knight but the streets are going to be painted red for sometime."
"STREETS PAINTED RED! HOW MANY ENEMIES ARE THERE!?"
"Do not worry. Tell the authorities to postpone investigations into murders till the situation has calmed down."
"UNDERSTOOD WHAT SHOULD I DO?"
"Go about your business. I will track you and kill our enemies."
"GEIR..."
The Knight turns around.
There is no one in the throne room only an ice statue of where Geir the Butcher was.
The Knight is thinking
"YOUR MAJESTY, PLEASE LET MY PRAYERS REACH YOU! PLEASE BE SAFE!"
"LADY VIVILARA LET THE UNDERWORLD WELCOME THE BEAST THAT DEFILES YOUR HONOUR THE EVIL GOD OF SCHEMES.
LADY VIVILARA IF ONLY YOU KNEW. THE TEARS SIR IZDRYN AND MYSELF SHED, THINKING ABOUT YOUR PLIGHT IN LIFE!
EVERYTIME THE MONSTER LEAVES. I MUST ADMIT DEEP IN MY HEART I HOPE, THAT IT MAY BE HIS LAST!
ONE DAY SIR IZDRYN AND MY PRAYERS WILL BE HEARD BY THE HOLY MOTHER.
YOU WILL BE FREED FROM THE CURSE THAT IS GEIR THE BUTCHER!"
The Knight has done his rounds for the day. He has reviewed the defense plans. Met with all the Ministers they have given him the reports. He moves to his room to retire.
"ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL DAY! I WILL TRAIN AND INSPECT MY EQUIPMENT!"
The Knight opens his locker, inside is a heavy building rod. Heavier than any normal sword he will train with this. He takes his stance. The Knight goes through the drills his father taught him when he was young.
He can do these movements in his sleep.
Still he moves through each of them analyzing each movement of his body all the muscles he uses even up to the littlest twitch. For years he has trained each and every muscle used in the wielding of the Zweihander.
Just when he thinks he has mastered it all. He makes a new discovery developing a new swing or strike. Adding it to his library of combat that he has etched in his heart. He thinks.
"THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR TODAY! I STILL NEED TO BE READY TO ACT AT ANY MOMENT!".
"I MUST NOT NEGLECT MY ARMOUR! MY FATHER ALWAYS TOLD ME! STRONG FOUNDATIONS, MAKE STRONG HOUSES!" He polishes his armour it shines like a mirror, the light is almost blinding as the metal has been polished over and over throughout the years.
"NOW TO SCUFF IT UP ENOUGH SO THAT THE OTHER SOLDIERS CAN STILL STRIVE TO REACH MY LEVEL OF DRESS!" He takes various powder and uses scrubbing brushes to dim the mirror like shine. It looks like a normal piece of armour again. "THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH!"
This was the moment the Knight has been waiting for all day. He gets to touch her.
He withdraws his Zweihander Rust Bane the rusted blade looks like it might snap into two at any moment. There is a faint glimmer on the blade.
"AFTER HER MAJESTY AND LADY VIVILARA THERE IS NO BEAUTY LIKE YOURS RUST BANE!"
The Knight opens a secret container in his rooms wall. He takes out a heater shield sized dragon scale. I ASKED HER MAJESTY IF I COULD CLAIM THIS SCALE AS MINE SHE WAS GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO ALLOW IT. NO ONE MUST KNOW OF IT. JEALOUSY CAN LEAD TO DISASTER!" The Knight starts sharpening Rust Bane. Where the blade touches the scale you can see the blade growing slightly. "THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR TODAY!"
The Knight thinks "LET ME PRAY TO THE HOLY MOTHER!" He list his prayers one for the Kingdom, Her Majesty, Sir Izdryn all my comrades and finally I will beg the Holy Mother to release our Lady Vivilara from the curse that is her plight in life. The tears are already flowing. The Knight thinks of his friend's smile and the love she always extends to him and his friend Sir Izdryn.
Suddenly his face hardens. He thinks of the fiend who has ensnared her. He thinks of Lady Vivilara how she says she loves him. Each night he promises in his heart he will find the wicked mage that the fiend used to cloud her mind and tricked her into that delusion. Sir Izdryn and myself will have to meet very soon, to discuss if we can find a way to break the curse that binds our friend!
He opens the covers of his bed to sleep. His cheeks are sore and his eyes are red. When he prayed to the Holy Mother for Lady Vivilara. He could see her smiling face and feel her loving embrace, that she extends many a time to comfort and give him strength, when he feels weak. The tears could not stop. "PLEASE HOLY MOTHER DID YOU HEAR THROUGH MY TEARS! PLEASE SAVE LADY VIVILARA!" He closes his eyes.
He feels faint bloodlust his eyes open there is a face above his. The Assassin is wielding a poisonous blade. He extends his large hands to crush the enemy. The assassin jumps into the corner of the room. Immediately it lunges forward with its blade. The Knight takes his cushion and puts it in front of the attackers face. The enemy is blinded. He grabs the persons legs and swings them around hitting the ground with their head. The head's contents are revealed.
The Knight adjusts his bed and after throwing the body out of the castles tower's top. Where his room is located. He goes back to sleep.
The next morning. There is a knock on his door. "ENTER!" The young maid brings him his morning hot creamy milk. "YOU MAY LEAVE!" She bows and leaves.
He has finished preparations.
"THE START OF ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL DAY!"
The Knight moves to the throne room to have the morning meeting, before the morning buffet. There is blood everywhere as he moves the Junior Knights are removing the dead bodies of the assassins who lay strewn about the castle grounds. They hop to attention he nods they carry on. He inspects one of the enemies, he seems to be still alive. The Young Cadet is bleak. "YOU MUST BE FIRM DO NOT LISTEN TO THE ENEMIES LIES!" The enemy looks towards the Knight the last thing he ever saw. The Knight opens his grip only the mush is left of the enemies head. The Cadet is going to fall over. "STAND STRONG SOLDIER!" "YES, SIR!" He has recovered.
The Knight enters the throne room.
He thinks "IT IS HIM THE FIEND! OUR ETERNAL ENEMY! SIR IZDRYN AND MYSELF WILL NOT REST TILL YOU ARE FREED LADY VIVILARA!"
"GEIR ARE THERE STILL MANY ENEMIES LEFT?"
"Knight they have almost all been eliminated. There are some left at the old royal store room at the end of the city."
The Knight is thinking "KNIGHT!" "MY NAME IS SIR HUNFREY FOOL! I AM A ROYAL KNIGHT OF THE KINGDOM!"
"MUST I DISPATCH SOME TROOPS!"
"Please do."
The Dark Elf enters the room...
"Geir!" "Vivi!"
The Knight is thinking "NO, MY LADYSHIP PLEASE FLEE FROM THE BEAST! HE WILL CURSE YOU AGAIN!"
The Dark Elf embraces Geir the Butcher.
"Sir Hunfrey what is the matter are you crying?"
"LADY VIVILARA I HAD TAKEN THE WRONG SOAPS THIS MORNING. MY EYES ARE TEARING FROM THEM!"
"Sir Hunfrey please call for me at any moment, if something is the matter."
"YES, LADY VIVILARA!"
The Knight is thinking "PLEASE HOLY MOTHER I KNOW YOU WILL FORGIVE THESE SINS I HAVE COMMITTED! PLEASE HAVE MERCY! STRIKE THE BEAST WITH A HOLY LIGHT AND SEND HIM BACK TO DEPTHS OF THE HELL! WHERE HE HAD ESCAPED FROM! SAVE MY FRIEND!"
"Sir Hunfrey are you sure it was only the soaps you do not seem well?"
"Vivi do not pester him."
The Knight is thinking ""PESTER!" YOU SCOUNDREL! MY FRIEND EXTENDING HER LOVE TOWARDS ME! THIS TIME I WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN!"
"Vivi did they analyze the bracelets?"
"Sir Hunfrey we will speak later."
"YES, LADY VIVILARA!"
"Forget about all that. What did they find?"
It contains your life forces. It was made to bind your magics permanently."
"WHAT?!"
"Vivi do you know how they managed to retrieve this energy?"
"Geir it could only be constructed. If you had made it yourself."
"EXCUSE ME?!"
"Sir Hunfrey it is true."
"I see Vivi I will be gone for some time. If I return too soon...do not worry you will know if it is me or not."
"Geir what do you mean?"
"Vivi I might have to return to the Dwarven world, we might not be able to speak for some time."
"I understand Geir."
The Dark Elf kisses Geir the Butcher.
"Knight, Vivi." he nods and leaves.
The Knight is thinking "HOLY MOTHER! YOU HAVE HEARD OUR PRAYERS WE WILL FREE LADY VIVILARA FROM HER CURSE!"
While laughing inside his mind he thinks "BAHAHAHA! SIR IZDRYN AND MYSELF HAVE WAITED FOR THIS MOMENT. LADY VIVILARA WE WILL SAVE YOU FROM THIS BEAST WITHOUT FAIL!"
Finish.
