Chapt 2 Unreachable Star
Hi. This is another songfic about the Hammermaster. This one's about his lament at being a dreamer among a realist people who think of him as a useless idealist.
"Don't you get it Josh?" the angry man said. "There is no right. No one cares anymore. And I don't want to see any have crazed moralists walking around the world arrogantly trying to 'right the wrongs.'"
Josh just stared the dead body of his friend, taking it all in. He hung his head as he felt the weight of his burden.
"I just wanted to... to help..." Josh mumbled, as tears came to his eyes.
"Help what?" the angry man turned again. "He's dead Josh! He's dead because he decided to follow you! What does that tell you? You are a dying breed Josh, best left to die. You are a dreamer. You imagine a world without tyranny, oppression, and evil. But that world will never come, and you know it! Get the romantic ideas out of your head!"
Josh sniffed, and tears rolled down his cheeks.
"You might as well give up now," the man said, before turning, and walking away.
Josh just stood there, and silently began to cry. All he had ever done was try and help the world. Why then did the world reject his help? He was a dreamer, not a realist. Maybe that was why.
To
dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear
with unbearable sorrow
And to run where
the brave dare not go
He fell to his knees and cried his eyes out over his friend's dead body. Sometimes he felt that he was powerless and that his methods never helped improve the world.
To
right the unrightable wrong
And to love pure and chaste from
afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the
unreachable star
Years ago he had sworn before Rauru the Sage of Light that he would fight evil wherever he found it, and strive to protect the dying good in the world.
This
is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No
matter how far
Josh had battled demons across the world, casting them out of the people they tormented and banishing them to the Abyss. He had helped good people to escape from criminals and mobs. But that wasn't enough, was it?
To
fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to
march,
march into hell
For that heavenly cause
Josh then stopped.
"Is it a crime to stand up for what is right?" he shouted up at the sky. "Is it a crime to fight for what is good?"
He stopped, and silence reigned for a second or too. But Josh knew the answer already. And he knew that he had no reason to be ashamed, and that one day he die happy with the knowledge that he had stood up when others had not.
And
I know
If I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my
heart
Will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest
Josh slowly lowered his fallen friend into the ground. He sighed.
'I haven't ever done anything but try and help people.'
Suddenly he became aware of a little boy standing in front of him.
"Hi," the little boy said smiling a toothy smile. "Thanks for helping my father chase away those robbers."
He smiled again. Josh looked on in surprise. He remembered. A bunch of robbers had broken into the man's house and had his family against the wall with knives to their throats. Josh had left his friend for a little while and had saved the family from the robbers in the process. While he was gone his friend had been attacked by a Poe in the graveyard and killed. But Josh had saved the little boy and his family.
And
the world will be
better for this
That one man, scorned
and
covered with scars,
Still strove with his last
ounce of
courage
Josh smiled slightly. "Your welcome."
The boy nodded, and walked away. Josh just watched him walk away. As the child left his doubts, fears, sadness, and guilt all washed away as he remembered exactly why he fought for what he did. He remembered the time he'd fought off demons who were attacking a family. He remembered driving Wolfos out of the Kokiri forest. He remembered exactly what he believed in. Exactly what he strove for.
To
reach the unreachable,
the unreachable,
The unreachable
star
And I'll always dream
The impossible dream
Yes, and
I'll reach
The unreachable star