The Fate of the First Hero of Light
The streets of the Capitol.
Zelda is running through the Capitol following a beautiful woman, she has the ears of a hare.
"MJRN PLEASE STOP!" screams Zelda.
"..."
The Viera keeps on running homewards to the Royal House of Dominitus!
"Please Mjrn listen to me!"
The Viera finally stops, she faces Zelda with her back towards her.
"Zeldy let us stop this. You know our friendship will not be accepted..."
"No, I will find a way! Let us be best friends forever!"
Mjrn puts her face in her hands.
"...no...stay...away...from..me..."
"Mjrn what are you saying?"
Zelda rushes towards her.
Mjrn turns around still holding her face in her hands.
"Zeldy I know you only love Estonix." says Mjrn.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?! NO, THAT IS NOT TRUE!"
"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING ZELDA? THAT YOU DO NOT LOVE ME?"
"Mjrn?"
Zelda looks towards her, she lifts up her face from her hands.
Zelda falls over.
Suddenly Mjrn's visage has changed into the most horrible thing Zelda has ever seen!
Zelda sees Estonix dressed in high heels, wearing the revealing traditional dress of the Viera and wearing a hair band with the ears of a hare upon them.
"AAAAAAAEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIII!"
Zelda wakes up swinging her Royal hidden dagger left to right and back again into the air, trying to defeat the diabolical specter that must have given her this horrid nightmare!
"ZELDY WHAT IS WRONG?!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! STAY AWAY! SOMEONE SAVE ME!" Zelda screams a plea towards the heavens.
Zelda feels someone grip her tightly.
Instantly she is calm again.
"This embrace..."
"Zeldy did you have a bad dream?"
Zelda looks towards her best friend smiling at her.
Zelda nods.
"Zeldy you shouldn't drink anymore."
Zelda feels she has a great headache and she immediately remembers of where she is.
She is at the Royal holiday estate and that Mjrn was the one who forced her to drink all of the alchohol!
Zelda sighs and looks at the source of her headache and the cause of her dreams of great distress.
"Mjrn you really are my best..."
BAM
CRASH
SHATTER
Bricks and mortar fly from the walls inside of the Royal holiday estate's grand room.
"EEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIII!" Zelda shrieks out in fear.
Snow from the raging blizzard outside flies into the room from the large hole in the wall.
Two men enter through the hole, one is wearing the formal red fashions of House Dominitus and the other man has a brand new white traditional Parka of the Tulok tribe.
"MJRN MY BELOVED! WHAT IS THE MATTER?" speaks the red dressed man.
"Estonny it was just Zeldy having a bad dream!"
Putting his hand to his head, shaking it side to side, Estonix lets out a sigh of relief.
"So it was just the beast acting the fool as always."
CRASH
The side table Zelda cast to kill Estonix with, lays broken against the wall.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW BEAST?" screams Estonix.
Zelda is up immediately gnashing her teeth together desperately searching around her for something else to murder him with!
"You two really are the bestest of friends! Always playing together!" says Mjrn while playfully slapping Zelda on the shoulder.
"IT IS NOT TRUE!" they shout in unison.
"Estonny let us leave." says Geir.
Zelda notices Geir once more.
Instantly she knows what had happened!
When she had screamed, Geir had heard her plea and rushed to her aid!
"Geir thank you for coming." Zelda says shyly towards her hero.
"Zelda." Geir looks sternly at Zelda.
"Yes, Geir?" asks the worried Zelda.
"Why are you naked?"
SMACK
Zelda hits her hands to her head.
Memories flood into it, actions she had performed when she was pressed by the Viera to consume more and more of the fire wine the Viera is so very fond of!
"THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST! PLEASE HOLY MOTHER SAVE ME!" Zelda shouts out loud in embarrassment.
Sighing loudly Estonix looks at Zelda "acting the fool".
"Dreadfully this is not the first time I had the unfortune of seeing your beastly form's bare nakedness!" says Estonix scowling at Zelda.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" screams the red faced Zelda.
Like a phantom Estonix fades from Zelda's vision.
He disappeared completely she cannot even sense him!
"Where did he go?! Did the Holy Mother hear my prayers? Is he finally dead?"
Unfortunately Estonix reappears in front of her.
He had not moved even an instance?
Zelda wants to ask of how he could achieve this.
She knows what had happened!
"GEIR DID YOU ASK HIM TO?"
"Yes, Zelda while I was away on war. I asked Estonix to look after you."
Zelda does not know how to feel of this?
Geir was so concerned for her safety that he had someone stay to look after her!
BUT WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE HIM?
"Thank you Geir..." says the conflicted Zelda.
Estonix scowls at Zelda and greets his wife farewell.
The men move to climb out of the hole they had made.
"GEIR!" Zelda remembers something important.
"Yes, Zelda?"
"Why are you here?"
"We have been looking for news of the Monsieur."
Suddenly Zelda feels immense pressure on her forehead, the hatred that name provokes fuels the pain her head is feeling the aftereffect of her copious consumption of spirits.
She puts her hand to her head.
She still wants to ask Geir of what he had heard.
KABOOOM
Bricks fly again, the blizzards snow fills the room.
Zelda holds her hands out in front of her.
Her last image is of a brick flying towards her.
BAM
Her vision goes dark.
Times pass...
"zeldy"
"..."
"zeldy."
"..."
"Zeldy."
"..."
"ZELDY!"
"WHAT THE HELL IS IT?!" Zelda opens her bloodshot eyes.
"ZELDY WAKE UP! THERE IS TROUBLE!"
"Mjrn what is happening?" Zelda looks around her.
There are many enemies surrounding them.
They are all dressed like jesters bouncing about taunting the party.
Zelda sees Geir and Estonix striking at the jesters.
Geir goes for a horizontal strike.
Swinging with all his might, he hits the enemy.
POP
POP
POP
His blade strikes the enemies jumping about near the first one.
The enemies bursts open and coloured confetti falls from their fake balloon bodies.
Zelda looks at Estonix thrusting his rapier at the enemies.
POP
POP
POP
They burst into small coloured parchment strips again.
"MJRN WHAT IS HAPPENING?" screams the confused Zelda.
"Zeldy the Monsieur has come to attack us."
Zelda grits on her teeth tightly, gnashing them together.
The rage that name elicits is too much!
"WHEN WILL IT FINALLY END?" screams the frustrated Zelda.
Zelda looks towards Geir and Estonix their faces are purple with rage.
Veins are spread upon their foreheads as they do battle with the fake balloon enemies.
The battle continues they exit Royal Estates stately room into the darkness of the night.
The blizzard blows fiercely around them the snow is obstructing Zelda's view.
Zelda closes the outsized traditional parka wrapped around her.
Geir had wrapped her when she fell unconscious.
Geir and Estonix are still battling the balloon jesters the many pops are heard as the constructs burst open time and again.
"BAHAHAHAHA! YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME!" laughs the Monsieur as he jumps around taunting the party.
Suddenly the Monsieur feels weak.
POP
POP
POP
All the magical constructs disappear.
THUD
The Monsieur falls to his knees, painfully he grabs at his throat.
"COUGH"
"COUGH"
Black blood shoots out from his mouth!
"Eh?" the Monsieur seems puzzled at this.
His magics had recovered him when he escaped the torture room!
Why was he bleeding?
"Hahahahahaha! What a fool I am!" Geir started laughing at himself for not noticing sooner.
Geir sheathes his broadsword.
"What is so amusing Warchief?" asks the Monsieur his true evil seen on his face for the first time.
"Estonny please forgive me." Geir speaks to his beloved cousin.
"Hahahaha! I see Claurilly I understand now! Shall we leave then?"
Geir nods to Estonix.
Estonix seethes his rapier taking his fallen red jacket.
Putting on his House's red colours adjusting them, Estonix starts walking towards Geir.
They turn around leaving to travel homewards.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" screams the Monsieur.
Zelda looks perplexed at Geir and Estonix completely ignoring the malicious Monsieur.
"What is going on?" asks Zelda.
Mjrn also notices.
"Come Zeldy let us go."
The Viera starts walking towards the Royal holiday estate.
"I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!" shouts the Monsieur.
Geir and Estonix freeze abruptly in place as if they were turned to stone.
"Forgive me?" asks Geir.
"YES, I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR HURTING HER!" says the Monsieur tears fill his eyes thinking of how the Mademoiselle begged for mercy while she was being tortured and killed time and again next to him.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Geir and Estonix started laughing they fall to the floor.
"WHAT IS SO FUNNY?" screams the crying Monsieur, his Mademoiselle was taken away from the torture room never to be seen again.
Geir and Estonix recover finally they stand up.
"I SAID WHAT IS SO FUNNY?"
"..."
The men leave without responding to him.
Estonix stops putting his hand to his chin trying to recall a memory.
"I remember now. I must apologize to you Monsieur." says Estonix.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" asks the crying Monsieur.
"That woman had enraged me so, I had mistakenly shown my true vindictive nature. Before I finally killed her I told that harlot the truth."
"TRUTH?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN?"
"I told her about you. Where you really come from."
Zelda looks at the Monsieur she imagines if a heart could break like a falling crystal vase.
She had seen it happen in front of her eyes just now.
"NO! WHAT DID YOU TELL HER?"
"Even the strongest worm is still a worm." says the vindictive Estonix smiling at the desperate fiend.
"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? WHAT DID YOU TELL HER?"
"Where you come from."
"I ASKED YOU WHAT YOU TOLD HER?"
"When Claurilly had heard of the Mademoiselle's royal heritage from your accursed world. It was not difficult to understand what had happened."
Since the Monsieur's birth he had always only known hatred and disgust towards everyone and everything.
There was only one person, as long as that one person.
"WHAT DID YOU TELL HER?"
"Did you really think she could ever look at you the same way when she heard you were a lowly born street orphan."
"..."
The one thing he had always known, it doesn't matter how much he could climb, how talented he was, he could never escape this fact.
He could not change his fate.
"Even till the end she did not believe me." the vindictive smile on Estonix's face Zelda knows it all to well.
It is the same as Geir's Grandmother Esdeath.
The Monsieur is silent for the first time in his life.
He has no laughter or a taunt to give, just total despair.
The one thing she should never have learned of.
"...why did it have to be this way..." he whimpers to himself.
"You never had any ambition." says Estonix staring at the defeated Monsieur.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN? OF COURSE I DID! I WANTED TO ESCAPE THAT HELL!"
"You only ever ran away. You never truly sought something else. You are only a worthless coward."
"WHAT COULD YOU EVEN KNOW? YOU ARE JUST LIKE THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE ALWAYS LOOKING DOWN ON ME!"
"In one of the other worlds I had been to on my adventures with Claurilly. People who were born into the peasantry had many times achieved wondrous deeds."
"PEASANTRY?!" screams Zelda shocked looking at the "fools" haughtiness!
"ARE YOU CALLING ME A PEASANT?"
"Those people had accepted their lots in life. They used what little they had to make themselves great. You refused to accept your lot and wanted something that was unobtainable."
"THAT WAS AMBITION! I WANTED TO RISE UP FROM THAT HELL!"
"You strived for something that couldn't be given or earned."
The Monsieur will not listen to this blue blood's condescendingnesses anymore!
He moves to stand up.
"Eh?"
He cannot.
Black blood is running down his nose and out of his ears.
Zelda looks and lets out a sigh of relief.
"So it is finally over."
"NOTHING IS OVER I AM JUST..."
THUD
The Monsieur slumps forwards on the ground.
His face is laying flat on the ground while his behind is in the air.
"..."
Everyone looks at this farcical stance.
Geir had heard something ridiculous once.
"One realizes their true nature at the moment of death."
As if a lighting bolt struck the party, their legs give way and they fall to the ground laughing hysterically at Geir's saying.
Geir's face turns red and he feels embarrassment at this sight!
"STOP LAUGHING!" the Monsieur issues an order.
His authority is denied, yet the order is followed.
Eventually they stop laughing.
Zelda recovers standing up.
She wipes her tears away.
Standing up she looks at the ridiculous Monsieur laying defeated on the ground.
Even though Zelda has never looked at another being with such disdain.
She still feels something in her heart.
"Geir can we not kick him over? Then he does not need to die in such a ridiculous fashion?"
"WHAT?" the Monsieur screams.
"Beast this is why Claurilly is always fighting your wars! There is a difference between mercy and being naïve. He will undoubtedly try to use some ridiculous magics to try and flee from us."
"MERCY?!" screams the disgraced Monsieur.
Memories of his long life flow into the Monsieur's head.
Some of his first memories take form, it is in the form of a word.
Helplessness.
The word he despised the most.
With all his might the Monsieur tries to move his broken body.
"UUUUGGGGGHHHH!"
He tries to twist his body and move his muscles, he cannot feel his appendages anymore!
"Claurilly you would not happen to have one of those "cellular devices" the commoners are so fond of in the other Dwarven realm. This humorous scene would seem to be worthy of documentation. We could take one of those "selfies" the peasants do so enjoy to amuse themselves with in that realm?" asks the vindictive Estonix mockingly, yet with full intent.
"Forgive me Estonny I believe mine to be at my home."
"I understand Claurilly how unfortunate." he sighs in dissapointment.
The Monsieur is crying laying on the ground face first they are mocking him.
BAM
THUD
The Monsieur lands awkwardly on his side.
Zelda kicked him over.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" the Monsieur screams.
"..."
There is total silence.
"I ASKED YOU WHAT YOU ARE..."
"..."
Everyone has left.
The blizzard has stopped.
Snow falls gently on the pathetic Monsieur.
As his body starts to fall apart bit by bit, the magics he stored have been completely spent.
He screams into the darkness of the night, shouting threats, expletives and promises that will never be kept.
Alone and in misery the Monsieur Pantomimer fades into the eternal darkness for the last time.
Somewhere warmer...
"ACHOO!"
Zelda sneezes in the stately room of the Royal holiday estate.
"Zeldy you should always wear your clothes. Otherwise you will get ill." says the beautiful woman with the ears of a hare.
"...ugh..."
Zelda looks at the adorable Viera smiling at her.
She was the cause of her nakedness!
"Mjrn we will be leaving now." Estonix greets his beautiful wife farewell.
Before he can leave.
His wife jumps to him locking her legs around him!
She kisses him many times on the face and mouth!
Estonix struggles to stay standing through this barrage of kisses throwing him off balance.
"PLEASE MJRN! WE TALKED ABOUT THIS!"
While still leg locked around her husband the Viera stops and puts her hand to her cheek.
"What was that about again?" she tries to recall the memory.
Zelda smiles looking at her best friend's forgetfulness.
"Zelda."
"Yes, Geir?"
"I am proud of you."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" says Zelda her face is immediately red!
"I am proud of you."
"No, Geir I had heard you I was just shocked that is all."
"I see farewell." Geir turns to exit the room.
"Stop Geir!"
"Zelda?"
"What do you mean you are proud of me?"
"Zelda as the Warchief and a member of House Dominitus I will never show weakness or mercy to any enemy of my tribe or House."
"Geir I do not understand?"
"Zelda that you would show mercy to the Monsieur speaks of your kind heart."
"MERCY!? I just kicked him over?"
"You wanted him to die with dignity."
"..." Zelda does not know how to respond.
"If someone had shown him mercy when he was young. Maybe his life could have been..." Geir speculates on a past that could have been different.
CRASH
The wall that was frozen closed breaks open.
A tall woman in a traditional blood splattered parka enters the room.
"THE MONSIEUR!?" Geir's Grandmother screams.
"GODDAMMIT?! WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING? WHERE IS HE?" screams Geir veins are spread upon his forehead.
His speculations of how the Monsieur could possibly have led a noble life if he had met a kind person like Zelda when he was young, disappears like mist before the sun as his rage and anger waves those thoughts away never to be returned again!
"ESTONNY!" evil energy pools out of Geir.
"CLAURILLY LET US GO!" Estonix gingerly puts his wife down while moving to exit the room.
"GEIR, ESTONIX WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING NOW?" screams the desperate Esdeath at her grandson and beloved grandnephew moving to leave through the hole she had made!
"WE ARE GOING TO MURDER THE MONSIEUR! GET OUT OF MY WAY GRANDMOTHER!"
Geir's Grandmother moves in front of them stretching out her arms.
"NO, STOP DO NOT!" she screams desperately begging for them to stop.
Begging them to spare the Monsieur Pantomimer's life!
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING NOW?" screams the infuriated Geir.
Esdeath opens her bloodied parka, her many tools of torture are revealed.
Spikes, needles, blades, sharpened chains and tools used for medical procedures.
RATTLE
CLANG
Some fall to the ground.
"I NEVER ONCE TORTURED THE MONSIEUR!"
SMACK
Zelda hits both her hands to her head while hearing this ridiculous statement!
Finish.