The Fate of the First Hero of Light
My banishment from the Kingdom was overturned...
I am working as a TADUC representative again.
The Union and the Tulok Tribe have been doing an advertisement campaign lately, to not only promoting our Union and various businesses of the Tulok Tribe, but to help clear my name in the eyes of the public and nations surrounding ours.
Unfortunately for Zelda, Knight and Fire Mage as my name is being cleared.
Theirs are being vilified.
I am being painted as a fallen hero standing up to save the day once more.
While they are truthfully being depicted as naïve, foolish and cowardly.
The marketing has been extremely advantageous to the Union.
Being associated with the TADUC Union where I am employed, could be used in advertising by the business associated with ours.
Even under the Royal Houses I have risen through the ranks, I have risen from the "targeted for assassination" list to the title of "held with utmost contempt"!
My greatest loss of my life was my relationship with my Grandmother.
I had felt my whole life that she was the person who would never betray me.
When she first heard the "truth" from Zelda.
She immediately attacked me without confirming Zelda's tall tale.
Putting faith in an outsider, no matter who it may be and not asking me first.
Was a betrayal to my heart, I could not endure.
My relationship with my Grandmother was so precious to me.
That I had let all my defenses down even the smallest stab from her, to my heart was fatal.
Even if our relationship recovers it can never be the same.
I had been the guilty party putting total trust in anyone is not something that should be done.
The pain my heart feels, is from me being reckless and putting too much trust in another.
The Dark Elf and myself having a Soul Bond...
Also she beats me if I would dare treat her differently. Our relationship could not change, nor would I want it too.
I feel like the first time in my life I have no harbour to go to.
No one to confide in, all alone.
"This is what it means to grow up."
I tell myself, I feel rejuvenated.
Onto the next phase of my life.
I am on an Airship to finalize a business deal in a distant kingdom.
We have many enemies there, I am wearing business attire.
Seated opposite of me is my crying Grandmother, Estonix and Micheal are there comforting her.
The House of Dominitus are going to the House's holiday estate.
The House members I did not kill are still staring at me with disdain.
The many small new House members are constantly pestering me.
Wanting the "Hero" to play with them.
My other cousins try their hardest to bed me!
My mother probably for the first time is looking proud of me.
Telling everyone I am her son.
She is handing out copies of the official statements, my image that was taken for the business registration photos.
Telling them of how successful the business is.
Worse still the people she is telling are so engrossed in the story, eating up every morsel. Telling them of how she was always proud of me!
"Here drink this Uncle Geir."
"Thank you, Octavia."
I gulp down the liqueur in one go.
There is no poison.
I think it is unbelievable, that I would prefer being hated by my House, than receiving positive attention.
At least I can keep the children busy.
"Teela bring everyone here."
"YES, GEIR NII-SAN"
I feel I want to cry, why does she have to be like th...
I clear my mind...
I make many ice spheres with other shapes inside.
I form little ice balls inside, I create many grooves inside the shapes. I twist and turn the ball runs through the ice shape, it falls in the next one, when it hits the core it shatters. A piece of candy falls out of the ice, I give one to the children the sphere, they are transfixed.
Elphonix solves it immediately, the candy falls out. He takes it slowly and dramatically opening the wrapper, finally eating the candy.
Smug little asshole.
I make one so complex and with so many levels, it would melt before he can complete it. I give it to him.
"Apologies that one was to easy Elphonix solve this one instead."
He moves the large sphere a ball as small as a seed rolls through the complex maze.
His smug smile is gone.
The older people are squirming about.
"Teela here hand one to each person."
I stand at the back of the airship, staring to the dunes as the airship moves high through the air above the desert.
I will practice my ice magic, creating many giant shapes of ice in the air.
They start falling on to the sands of the desert.
Before they touch the ground I shatter them into nothingness.
Pyramids, Spheres, Cuboids and Shapeless Shards, the ice shapes fall I shatter them before they destroy the landscape, nothing is left.
I focus all my magical energies.
How large can make it?
The sky is filled a massive block of ice.
It is likely to be larger than the airship in terms of volume.
My ice is crystal clear like that of the finest of glass!
"I finally did it!"
I feel a hand on my shoulder, I turn to look at the person it is my Grandmother! She was giving some of her magical energies to me!
She looks so frail now that she is close to me.
"Geir please everyone makes mistakes, forgive me. I will not be able to live without your support..."
"MY SUPPORT?!"
"Yes, Geir you have always been there. When I thought I could not live anymore and I was so alone. You would comfort me. Even if you would feign that you needed me. That I could make a difference to someone's life. That I could give something to the world and not always be taking from it. Like a beast only eating never giving. Please I could not live without you.."
My Grandmother is sobbing I have her in my arms.
When last did I cry?
My tears fall on her head.
"Yes, Grandmother I will not leave you anymore."
"REALLY!"
"YES, GRAND..UGHH!"
I am rolled in a ball on the floor, my Grandmother kicked me between the legs!
"That is for making me cry Geir! Also how weak are you after all these years! Look!"
She extends her hand, instantaneously the sky is filled.
The mountain of ice dwarfs mine completely. It hits the desert with such force, I hear a sound like a thunderbolt.
THIS IS MY TIME TO SHINE! I WILL NOT LOSE THIS BATTLE!
Before the airship is too far away.
I use all my ice magics to break my Grandmother's ice with a black block of an obsidian crystal.
The density of the crystal hits the ice mountain like a glass vase breaking, the ice underneath my crystal is dispelled outwards from my crystal dropping down upon it.
I feel weak, my vision fades.
I wake up surrounded by my naked or barely clothed cousins, poorly pretending to be worried about the state of my health.
Their intent is instantly clear!
I rush towards the door, it is frozen shut from the other side.
I have no magics left, I cannot open it.
Naked bodies rush to me.
My body moves so slowly. Finally I am in the cloak room.
"Claurilles it is me Athena do not be alarmed. I will just hit you on the head till you are unconscious. I have potions that improves male fertility. Just surrender now. We just need your seed that is all."
DAMMIT ATHENA! She is well known for her promiscuous lifestyle! Not that I am one to talk.
The Dark Elf will kill all these girls if that were to happen.
The cloak rooms door handle has been broken in half.
It is being pulled violently from the other side.
I can barely fit two fingers on the reach that is left.
I am so tired.
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?!
Finally I have recovered.
I entered the shower and froze the water around me increasing the thickness of the ice.
Not being able to break through, my cousins gave up.
I am at the air lounge...
Disappointed women walk about.
I buy 6 bottles of alcohol and consume them in only a few moments.
At last I feel more relaxed. I find a secluded place I talk to my beautiful wife. She is so angry I imagine her purple face. I tell her of my Grandmother she is so relieved.
"GEIR NII-SAN!" my sister shouts.
Why is she like the...
I will have to defuse that situation, it cannot go on like this forever.
I enter the throne room.
Even though Zelda is impeccable in dress as always, she seems unkept.
"Zelda we should solve this quagmire."
"GEIR! I mean, HOW DARE YOU!" she runs to me, hugs me and starts to cry.
Zelda, the two fools, the Dark Elf and myself are seated at our round table.
I look at the table with all the gaffs in the wood and burn marks, from where we had tried to kill each other many times before.
"Prepare a press release."
"YOU SCOUNDREL WE CANNOT TRUST YOU! THE HUMILATIONS HER MAJESTY HAS SUFFERED, FROM YOUR SLANDERS! IT HAS DAMAGED HER ROYAL REPUTATION!"
"Yes, I can not trust a word of what you say!" scowls the Fire Mage.
"Please everyone let us try to be friends again."
"Zelda we were, never friends."
"Geir what do you mean?"
"Sure we could have been comrades. But if I were to be in a battle with a rival tribe about to be slain. You would not aid me."
"Geir of course I would!"
"Zelda I live in the darkness. The tribes we face have grounds for revenge, their families were massacred by my tribe. Their rage is justified will you still aid me then?"
"Geir I..."
"Zelda, Knight and Fire Mage you only take from me you never give to me."
"PREPOSTUROUS! ON OUR QUESTS EACH OF US GIVES AS MUCH AS THE OTHER!"
"It is your quests, not mine."
"Then why help us? If it does not concern you?" asks the Fire Mage.
"I have the power to be able to assist the people of the land."
"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING FIEND?"
"Geir what do you mean with all this?" asks a confused Zelda.
"You fight for what people think of you, I fight for the people even though they hate me."
"..."
"Geir please explain."
"Zelda on our quest. You protected a little "child" not for its safety but because you thought it would be too cruel to harm it. You even entertained its lies."
"WHO WOULD NOT BELIEVE A CHILD CALLING OUT FOR HELP?"
"Believing in that hellhole, that a child would be unmolested and that it would be protected by an army of the beasts?"
"Still Geir what does this have to do..." the annoying Fire Mage speaks.
I stand up from the table, I am leaving.
I do not have time for their bullshit.
"Please Sir..., Sir... leave so I may talk to Geir alone."
Zelda is trying to stop me, hanging onto my arm.
"Geir you have a plan? Please tell me how will you save me from this dilemma I am in?"
"How grim is the situation?"
"There might be an uprising soon if we do not change the publics perceptions. Geir will you give me time to properly apologize later?"
"Let us climb out from the depths first, then if successful you can thank me."
Finish.