"Alex! let's do this"
watching my teammates get ready for the battle which determines the victory or defeat of humanity without a hint of fear and they were proud, proud of the fact that we could be the hero's everyone looks up to and if we fail its all over, its eat or be eaten so we finally reach the Emperor of monsters The Thirteen Headed dragon of Legends after a bitter four years of fighting against the monsters.
"Leviathan wait up for a bit, everyone check your utilities and weapons, This will be our final battle, everyone prepare yourself for death and this will be deciding factor in the war...
FOR HUMANITY!!!"
I gave them one final speech and we head off to the dwelling of the Thirteen Headed dragon
"Capitan, we have scouted the area and there are no monsters around and in the cave"
a short guy come and delivers the report
"good job, go call everyone"
after a few minutes everyone is dressed in full battle armor and come to the gathering spot
"Capitan, everyone is here"
"good, everyone there are no monsters around and in the cave of the Thirteen Headed Dragon, this may be for two reasons, first that the Thirteen Headed Dragon must be proud and arrogant so it must have sent away all the monsters around here elsewhere which results in fighting it alone without obstruction and second reason would be that there is an ambush prepared for us and out scout must not have detected it and it would result in our demise without even fighting the Thirteen Headed Dragon, so I want everyone to remain vigilant and observe the surroundings and alert everyone immediately if there is anything out of blue"
""Yes Capitan""
"good, let's go slay that dragon"
we go in from an small opening at the back end of the cave and quickly enter the cave
"Leviathan observe the dragon's lair from above"
I command Leviathan go move up on to the rocks
I signal everyone to stop
"Leviathan what's the report?"
"The Dragon is currently resting and there are no notable possibilities about an ambush"
"good job, everyone from group one get ready to attack the heart of the dragon and people from group 2 prepare to distract the dragon and do not let it attack the people from group 1 while group 3 is on standby and you will replace the members who are killed from both the groups"
everyone nods their heads and we go near the dragon
"Welcome pests, I was waiting for you"
The Thirteen headed dragon opens its thirteen pair of red eyes and spoke calmly
"Everyone attack, LONG LIVE HUMANITY!!"
since the enemy already knows about our presence it would be useless to sneak attack so we directly jumped into combat
"Puny Humans the biggest mistake your race ever did is to provoke my monster race"
"Shut up!"
I shout at this dragon who has no intension of fighting as equals but instead looking at us with disdain
I take out my bow and start attacking it towards its eyes in order to cut off its vison
PLOP PIAK PUCHI
just a swipe of tail and more than ten people are killed and the flames it was releasing was turning several people into ashes
"ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHAAAAA"
my arrows successfully hit the eyes of dragon and after a few minutes all its thirteen pairs of eyes are blinded and it shouts out of agony and we immediately start our counterattack and attack its heart and finally after an hour of intense fight we were able to successfully kill the dragon, in the end there were only a handful people left
"Leviathan we can go back to our home and live a peaceful life"
"Yeah Alex I will live a peaceful life but unfortunately you will die here"
CLACK
a dagger was stabbed into my heart, I vomit a mouthful of blood
I look at Leviathan, not knowing why he stabbed me?
"Sorry Alex I had to do this, this was an Imperial Order, I am really sorry"
he looks at me with guilt and sobs while replying
"Why?"
I spoke after a lot of difficulty
"you would be known as a hero, people were already starting to worship you as your influence is stronger than the Emperor and with your strength and your followers you can cause a rebellion and hence if we were to succeed in killing the Thirteen Headed Dragon and you survived we were ordered to end your life, Farewell my Brother"
I was thrown in with the Thirteen Headed Dragon and oil was poured upon us and it was lit
I was shouting in my head, what did I do to deserve this? why did it have to end like this?
The Emperor who I admired and respected was the one who ordered to kill me and I was a chess piece in the cruel world of humans and my conscience starts fading away.