The Fate of the First Hero of Light
I enter the throne room.
I feel the same looks of disgust and contempt that my parents had always cast towards me in the past.
"So this is where you were hiding. The balance must be kept. Let me kill you quickly and cast you into the other world."
I want to move to apprehend the other me.
"Knights defend Sir Claurilles! " screams Zelda.
The Knights withdraw their swords and face me.
"Zelda I do not have time for your bullshit."
"You will refer to me as Her Majesty the Queen."
"I do not have time for your games. Give that man here."
"Sir Hunfrey, Sir Izdryn stand ready!" "YES, YOUR MAJESTY!" "At once your Highness!"
They stand ready for combat. "Zelda you do not know what is going on here. If you impede me in this quest, I will cut off all your limbs." She is shaking out of fear.
"YOU WILL NOT THREATEN OR ENDANGER THE QUEENS LIFE!"
The man moves like a silver arrow shooting towards me with his rapier aiming to kill. I make an ice ice plate covering my shoulder. I feel a searing pain. His rapier has struck me! The sword's blade is stuck in my shoulder's bone. He withdraws the rapier cutting upwards, my tendons have been severed. My arm is hanging limply, I cannot move it!
"How did you do that?" "Fool why would I reveal my secrets." "After I kill you. I will not be able to learn of what you did."
"DO NOT TALK LIKE THAT TO HIM!" "Zelda did you like me so much? You had to satisfy you.."
"DO NOT SLANDER HER MAJESTY'S HONOUR!" Again a silver flash the rapier is almost going to kill. An ice arm extends out of the top of my damaged shoulder. I squeeze his neck tightly. My Ice Golem forms and steps outside of myself. The many battles in the other world. Having pushed my ice magics and mind, to create innovative new strategies and techniques.
"My arm has healed. Time to go Prince Charming." My Ice Golem puts him into a neck lock. I turn around to leave.
"GEIR STOP! WE DO NOT WANT YOU! GIVE HIM BACK!" screams the Knight.
"Excuse me?" The Prince swings his rapier rapidly, first cutting then shattering my Ice Golem. He retreats to where the others are.
"WE KNOW EVERYTHING HE CAME FROM A TWIN WORLD SIMILAR TO OURS!" says the Knight.
"Then you know enough. Give him here. He will go back."
"NO, YOU WILL STAY IN HIS WORLD!" screams Zelda.
"EXCUSE ME?"
"Yes! We don't need you anymore!" says the Fire Mage.
"You say that but what will happen when disaster strikes?"
"Claurilles is more than capable enough!" says Zelda.
"YES, YOU ARE NO LONGER NEEDED HERE!" screams the Knight.
Tears fall from my face I am sobbing
"ArE you sUre? yOu dO nOt nEed me anYmOre?"
The tears will not stop.
"BAHAHAHAHAHA! LOOK AT HIM CRYING! WE ONLY EVER USED YOU! NOW WE HAVE A TRUE RELIABLE GENTLEMEN TO TRUST AND RELY UPON!"
"Sir Hunfrey I do not deserve such praise!"
I stand up and wipe my tears and snot on my parka's sleeve.
"YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! FINALLY ANCIENT ANCESTORS YOU HAVE FORGIVEN ME! I HAVE BEEN FREED FROM MY CURSE!"
"What are you babbling about now?" speaks Zelda.
"Be quiet Miss Hot-tits!"
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!"
"MOVE!"
I push a Knight away from a large pillar. I push a button. The secret compartment opens. A chest is revealed, it is full of jewels and metal bars. I walk gleefully towards the exit. While carrying my severance package.
"Do you really want to die?"
"Bring that back!" says Prince Charming.
"Claurilles was it? A weak person deserves a weak world. This is mine."
"DID YOU NOT HEA..." I kick him even harder than when I kicked the fake Zelda at Castle Brain-Stem.
CRASH
He hits the wall at the back of the throne room. It is cracked. I descend from the throne room. Reliving each time I had to run up these steps. All the business that I lost because of their quests. The celebrations in the Dwarven Realm I missed because of their incompetence. The tears have not stopped flowing for even one moment.
This is the first time in my life that I have felt true joy.
At long last the door leading towards the Royal Castle's courtyard.
I open it.
I look at the sky I have never felt this good. All the Knights have surrounded me. I search for him, where is he?
"RETURN THOSE TREASURES!"
"I am not beholden to you. These are payment for services rendered. Where is he?"
"DO YOU MEAN GERRICK AND THE OTHER TRAIT..."
My fist is touching his chest inside the armour. I pull it out my hand it is bleeding badly.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" My evil energy has been let out completely the grass underneath me is dying. All the young Knights have run away. Only the battle hardened Knights are left they are breathing heavily. Some are on one knee, they have never faced an evil force as strong as myself.
"I ASKED YOU WHAT DID YOU SAY!"
"FOR YEARS I WAS FORCED TO SUFFER THE HUMILATIONS YOU INFLICTED UPON HER MAJESTY'S HONOUR! TODAY IT ALL ENDS!"
I put my box of treasures on the ground. I remove my parka and take off my shirt. I remove the papers on my right arm.
"I will try and end it quickly!" this is the second most furious I have been. No, maybe the sixth time in my life.
The Knight charges with an overhead strike the ground shatters. My right arm touches his armours bevor the black flames melt it so quickly. It looks as if somehow it was erased from reality. He puts distance between us.
Short moments later...
His armour is off. I will grab him on the neck and melt his head off. A thrust he puts everything inside it. My years of fighting day in, day out. To me it looks like an elderly man trying to poke me with his walking stick. I grab his throat tightly.
A single tear rolls down my cheek.
He knows it is the end. The pain surges through my arm as the runes burn through my muscles, bones and nerves. I see the front half of my forearm fly into the distance.
The Knight grabs his blade and automatically goes for a horizontal strike. He breaks my hip, the ice magics protecting me from being cut into half. Where did my forearm fly to? I find it in the bushes. The blade strikes again it misses me. I move to my box and pick it up. My forearm is attached again, the fire flows freely again. The searing pain spreads throughout my hand and fingers.
"Sir Hunfrey why do you not attack!?"
"Claurilles was it? He has had a grudge against me for many years. He had wanted to settle it on his own terms. You had interfered in his quest for vengeance."
"DO NOT BE RIDICULOUS A KNIGHT MUST ALWAYS RESCUE A COMRADE, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE! YOUR MAJESTY THAT IS THE RIGHT WAY IS IT NOT?"
Zelda is looking at the ground. "Yes, Sir Claurilles that is correct."
"Miss Hot-tits never call for me again. I have found a world where I can live."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN LIVE?!"
"Not everything there is made of paper. Where this Claurilles fled from, I go there to conquer."
"I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL!"
"Simpleton! You could never rise to the level of the Knight in your whole live. The only chance you have of victory! Is if I only use one of my fingers to fight."
"Sir Claurilles please be calm. This is one of his strategies. He tries to agitate his enemies, do not fall victim to this."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Now to find Vivi and my Grandmother."
"LADY VIVILARA WILL NO LONGER BE YOUR SLAVE! WE HAVE FREED HER FROM YOUR CONTROL!"
The Dark Elf walks down the towers stairs.
"Thank you Sir Hunfrey you protected me."
"I did not believe it. But you truly are a good for nothing useless bitch."
The Knight has recovered. His rage giving him almost Dwarven like strength. He is destroying everything he hits. The walls and floor are shattering into gravel and dust as he tries to strike me.
Another Dark Elf comes around the corner of the opposite tower. She is wearing a white bloodied parka.
The Knight stops fighting. "LADY VIVILARA WHAT MAGICS IS THIS?"
The Knight looks to the first Dark Elf she casts a look of scorn and disgust at me.
"That is Princess Cehursha, Vivi's twin."
"NO! IT CANNOT BE!"
Vivi is crying "Sir...Hunfrey...Sir...Izdryn...why?"
"LADY VIVILARA WE ONLY WANTED TO HELP YOU!" screams the Knight.
"Sir Hunfrey, Sir Izdryn you could never fully accept me. Even though I tried so hard to earn your trust."
"NO, LADY VIVILARA THAT IS NOT TRUE. GEIR WAS CURSING YOU!"
"I told you I loved him. I would never lie to you."
"Lady Vivilara we knew he was using dark arts to curse you and cloud you mind!" says the Fire Mage.
"Why did you not believe me?" She is sobbing.
"Vivi I am going to find my Grandmother."
She signals to me. The tears are flowing fiercely.
In the distance a Mighty Dwarven Warrior.
"Geir me boy! How are you"
"Uncle Thandall!" I rush to him and hug him.
"I am well. I survived my death match."
"I see...Geir how are your preparations?"
"The Tribe's members that want to follow me are ready."
"Are there any that are crazy enough for that!"
"WE ARE THE TULOK TRIBE! The ones that want to stay, can sleep in the coffins I ordered for them. The Dwarfs Uncle Thandall?"
"We have all decided to move as well."
"How will you do that?"
"We will lock the Dwarven doors to this Realm permanently and open one to the Cursed World."
"What of your twin?"
"Doctor Stand and myself have devised a schedule so that only one of us can be in either one of the worlds at the same time."
"Me boy what of your twin?"
"Zelda, the two idiots and the coterie have accepted him with open arms. They might declare a nationwide feast, that is how joyous the are."
The Dwarven Warrior's face hardens, like I have never seen before.
"Geir son, I say good riddance to them."
"Yes, Uncle Thandall I have never felt this good in my whole life!"
"GEIR ME BOY!?"
"They were always using me to solve their problems. This Kingdom is doomed."
"Geir surely that cannot be true. I know you had important things to do, but they could not be so reliant on your help?"
"Well this Claurilles person could be considered my twin, but he lacks the most important two aspects that enabled me to keep this Kingdom from falling to ruin."
"Geir me boy what is that?"
"Hatred and ruthlessness."
"Yes, Geir son I agree none of them possess that. Especially the young Lassie she would not want to dirty her hands or make difficult decisions. I see what you mean what of your homelands?"
"Uncle Thandall I encased them in unbreakable ice. No person can live long enough to break them."
"The buildings son did you erase them?"
"I left them there. They cannot be reached. Uncle Thandall we are leaving, to stop the catastrophe from occurring. When we are finished we will return. Please advise the Elders of this too."
"GEIR SON! You are right! Must we still permanently close the gates?"
"Uncle Thandall I do not know."
"Why Geir?"
"We do not know what we will find on the other side."
"Yes, you are right. I am leaving now. We will be ready in only a few days. We will wait for you Geir son."
"Thank you Uncle Thandall."
The Dwarven Warrior departs.
"Bhelem show yourself."
Out of the a tear in the air a handsome humanoid appears.
"Hello father."
"Hello son."
He embraces me.
"Let us find my Grandmother."
"Doctor Tulok?"
We walk for many moments...
I point and explain to him the functions of the magic mechanisms that are used in the Capitol. As we walk all the women swoon over him. They do not even hide their intentions.
"Claurilles...I mean Geir are the women normally like this?"
"No, it is just with you."
I let out a hearty laugh.
I stop and think it has started my Dwarfication. I have been staying so long in the Dwarven Realm, I am starting to think and act like a DWARF!
We enter my Grandmothers estate
"BHELEM!"
"DOCTOR TULOK!"
They run towards each other and embrace.
"Geir are you ready?"
"Yes, Grandmother shall we leave?"
"Yes."
I extend my hand the whole Estate is encased in a large block of crystal clear ice.
Bhelem falls backwards on the ground.
"UNBELIEVABLE!"
"Bhelem stand up. Change the translucency of the ice." "Geir I cannot do that!" "Just stand up my Grandmother and I will help you."
Bhelem extends his shaking hand my Grandmother and I put our hands on his shoulders.
"Bhelem think of turning a glasses outer surface into fine dust."
"O...ok Ge..geir."
"The ice has stripes on the surface where the translucency has been changed.
Tears are falling from my face. My Grandmother is crying loudly.
She hugs Bhelim tightly. "Bhelem I am so proud of you!"
"Geir?" The tears will not stop. I nod to him
Tears roll down his cheeks.
"Geir what is happening to me?"
"You are the first Golem to ever master magics. You are turning into a real being."
"Bhelem we can talk later we have to leave."
I change the ice you cannot see through it anymore.
"Yes, Claurilles...I mean Geir."
Many times later...
"Is everyone here?"
"YES!" screams the people that are present.
"Let us save the world!"
Everyone rushes inside the Majestic Dwarven doors.
Finish.
