---Inside the Castle---
[Name: Lived Shidruk ]
[Age: 66]
[Name: San Druk]
[Age: 19]
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Lived and San came before the door, which leads to Alaric himself, with the darkness that was generated from his body, he closed the mouths of the soldiers and filled it with darkness, leading to their deaths.
"So master, isn't killing bad or so according to what you taught me?", Lived Sighed and kicked his butt, "Why don't you learn, don't open up a conversation when we are about to make entrances, just follow, their death is irrelevant since they had killed over millions of people...", San not understanding very well, Lived asked him, "To understand better, if I kill your loved ones, will you spare me because I beg for it?", San with the sternness expression, "No I will kill you, directly off the spot", Lived exhaled and Turned around to open the door.
[DOORS OPEN]
"Welcome to my world, Peasants", welcomed Alaric, the two of them, the instrument started to play, in the Royal room there were women, who played instruments for Alaric, the great Kaiser.
As the music stopped, the doors closed, San and Lived came froth, San start talking, "Peasants?", "Have you seen your face old man, you look like you have been enslaved by a child", Alaric's expression gets aggressive, "Child stay out of things that are beyond your status, let your master talk for us, after all, he is an old friend", San looked with shocked at Lived, taking him by the clothes and shaking him around, "He is your friend and you never tell me that, just when I thought I know you, your identity gets deeper", Lived kicked him, "Idiot, I am me, there are things in the past that unfortunately happened, it was fate after all".
San stood up with a dizzy face, "so something happened between you two?", Lived looked with the Aggressive eyes into his eyes and remembered his past, the past he left behind.
---Flashback of the past---
Lived a child at the age of 7, he woke up to the sound of screams, he felt scared, as he got away from his bed to look out at the window, he saw something terrifying, the land was under attack.
He saw the civilians, the innocent men and women, being killed one by one, slaughtered mercilessly, as he was terrified, he heard a crash at the door, from the floor below him.
He heard screams of men, hearing the terrifying screams, he went to his door that led to down to the stairways, with the shaky legs he walked and the shaky hand opened the door, as he looked to see who is in their house, he looked bodies of 10 to 30 men on the ground, above them stood one man, as the man looked at him, Lived stated with tears, "Father...".
He had a sword of darkness in his hand, he rushed to his son, stroking him and calming him down, "Don't worry everything will be fine, I promise you even if our people don't fight back, I will...", Exhaling, "Who cares about tradition when I am about to lose my baby... see you are going to be fine, I will send you to a place far from here but remember one thing, never use your powers or you will be discovered and papa doesn't want you to be discovered".
Lived with a worried face, slowly started to weep and asked, "Where is mama?", his father with the dark eyes looked at him, as he heard Lived asking about his mother, his wife, he hugged Lived and send him away into a darkness portal, Lived screamed as he fell into the darkness of Abyss, "Daaad....", "Don't worry San I will-".
I could not hear anymore, my father, where is he, I lost him, as my eyes looked around, I only saw darkness, slowly I spaced out, as I shut those eyes of mine, I forget everything and woke up sitting next to a tree, "Father", as I looked around me I saw nobody, how I came here, how I sat there, what happened in the Dark Realm, all of a sudden I saw a kid in my age from far, he was with some kids who looked kinda liked him.
"Hey?", I waved, he and the 3 kids with him came to me, they were two girls and two boys, "Hey, I am Alaric", said the eldest one, who was my age, "I... I am Lived, nice to meet ya".
I thought to myself, I should hide my identity, meaning I should not tell my race, "Did you bring me here?", Alaric answered me, "Yes, I brought you to our tree, it is the largest and most beautiful tree I have ever seen yet, didn't you like it?", "Of course I liked it, I am thankful that you brought me here but I was curious how did I come here?", with a questioned face he said, "As I and my siblings were walking home, you just popped off out of some dark thing".
I was lucky that he was just a child with not much knowledge, I stayed with him, later his family took me in, I told them that my father is coming to get me soon, after weeks of waiting, I got close to Alaric and we decided to sleep on the rooftop that night.
As we lay on the rooftop sleeping, we looked at the sky, since there was no light, I and Alaric, looked at the milky way Galaxy, then Alaric confessed something to me, "Lived, I am gonna tell you a secret, but please don't tell anyone", Alaric was a kind-hearted boy back then, he was easily convinced, he winked at me and told me their family secrets, "I am from the Germanic clan", a shock I got from the answer since I was a Shidruk, all the world hated us for we had the power to generate and manipulate Darkness, making us look like threats to the world but we were kind, the same is with the Germanic clan, they are being enslaved by the Emperors of the world, they fight for their freedom but dealt with, in a matter of a day, they have no right, nothing, we truly are the same.
So I revealed my secret too, "Alaric, I am a Shidruk", my revealing didn't shock him at all, rather he had a satisfied smile, he took me by the clothes and shook me like he was angry at a machine that does not give him his desire.
"Have you heard the news, there was a man in your tribe, he defeated all the bad guys, he almost freed all the land", as he let off my clothes, "...but unfortunately he didn't manage to save them all, the cikrut empire damaged all the land with a big bomb, the news said no one is left...", he looked at me with a sad expression and told me, "...I guess that makes you the last Shidruk, the last son of the Darkness".
His words were some truth but he did not know all my secrets, we Shidruk are only one of the tribes that can use darkness, meaning we are all from the same father but I went along with it.
"Lived I promise once I get older and stronger, with the power that I will unlock in the future, I promise...", he gave me a fist bump, "I promise to rescue the people of our lands and take revenge", I only smiled but never wanted to do anything with revenge, however, I answered him, to make him closer to me, as I gave him a fist bump back, "Let's do that together, Brother".
....
After looking more into the news, it was my father who killed all the soldiers that invaded our land, he managed to kill 600,000 men all by himself, the tears could not stop as I read it all to the end.
My father is my Hero.
*****
---Back into the present---
Alaric sitting on his throne, with the satisfied expression, his mind was interested in the aura that was surrounding San, a golden aura he saw with both of his eyes, "Kid, I must say, to reach that Powerlevel of yours at such a young age is quite impressive, why don't you submit yourself to me, I am a kind and forgiving man, just prove me your loyalty by killing the trashes outsides, I will forgive you for the sins committed against me and welcome you to my ranks".
Alaric had no interest in the Monarchs, despite them having taken care of his whole army, he wanted to take San on his side and kill Lived himself, but Lived the man he is, friends of the past he commented, "Why don't your Elite soldiers take of the trashes, I am sorry I forget that they were killed by the trashes".
Alaric did not respond to his comment, San only looked at Lived with a blank expression, though he did not care and continued, "A disappointment they were, I am glad my student didn't fight them, otherwise it would have been a waste of time".
San with the blank expression, "Master even though I am happy you praise and all but I think you are getting out of the character, "
Lived replied, "you don't seem to be happy!".
With a bright fake smile, something San doesn't usually do, he stated, "I am, believe me".
[CLENCHED MOUTH]
"it's okay, you do not need to try so hard...", as they started to chat, Alaric screamed at them with anger, "Hey...", "Shut up Alaric, 15 years ago, I defeated you for good, I knocked some sense into you back then, or so I thought, it seems I have to do it again but...".
"You broke your promise to me, the promise to be better and do good, so wh-".
Alaric stopped him and loudly said, "Promise...", with clenched teeth and anger, the ladies who played instruments, were sitting and holding instruments, with a no-reaction expression, suddenly fire burned them and they screamed in pain, then Alaric Continued, "It was you who broke your promise first, we were supposed to be my side and help our countries, but you chose justice, your father was a legend and he was right, your people's mind filled with justice and equality...", "...you are a disappointment to your father, my friend".
Lived then responded loudly too, "A promise that was going to destroy thousands, no millions of lives, something I hate and don't like and I am pretty sure my father did not want to see it too, for talking about my father...".
Lived snapped out and released tons of energy, shaking the whole castle, "...I will cut your tongue and throw you into the deepest prison in the realm of darkness".
San standing next to Him, got the chills running down in his spine, he never saw his master being so serious.
To defeat Alaric once and for all Lived had already a plan, but will the Monarchs cooperate with him or not.
....
Reaching the castle, the Monarch boys, Darya, Piling, Pola were following Agir, they saw Agir with this body of his, moving faster than Sound and killing soldiers left and right, blood was covering them, despite them not doing anything.
Piling stated, "Damn he is taking all the fun...", with a devilish smile he told his friends, "...let's kill the Oldman and have all the fun to ourselves".
Darya and Pola walked past him, then Darya stated, "No thanks, he is too valuable for us" and Pola stated, "Without him, you would have died until now".
With the angry expression, he said loudly, "I came out of the Abyss by myself, I was going to cut that son of... my self, but the Oldman...", They ignored him and he angry and powerfully hit the ground.
"I will not tolerate with your disrespect".
Agir stopped with all the killing, as there was none left, he climbed the stairways that lead to the throne and room of the Kaiser, the Monarchs followed him, as they left the ground it burned all the corpses to the Ash, giving them a sense of Agir's justice.
---Back to the Kaiser's Royal room---
San drew out his sword, he got into his stand, releasing a ton of energy to, "San, you Don't have to fight him, I will finish him off and you can-".
San stated loudly, "I am trained for this master, after seven years of training you still don't have faith in me".
Lived felt bad for not showing San, that indeed he is capable but, 'I don't mind him fighting him but the fire earlier was not his original power and his Powerlevel has increased vastly, there is something wrong and we can't barge in without a new plan'.
San didn't hear a reply from his master, just an expression of concern he saw, using the new abilities that he has learned, he stated as he touched the sword from bottom to the top, as he touched, the light of the sun started to glow on it.
"Impressive Brother", something odd for Alaric to state, "I am not your brother, you weird Oldman, I am your opponent, my destiny is to pierce my sword into your heart".
San jumped at Alaric and was about to swing the light of the sun at him, "Tishky xo-", then Alaric in a blink of an eye kicked San and Lived caught him, 'Another power, I knew it he must have done something', Lived does not remember him posses this ability too.
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Alaric standing on his feet, with an annoying expression told them, "Your people always say, everything should be solved by brotherhood, we are all children of mrov, we will come to a friendly agreement".
"Now I ask you, Lived, where are your people, they were wiped out by the very same people, that your people wanted to come in an agreement with, everyone in this world hated your people, but your people always showed kindness".
"I remember everything, how could you still stand up for them, they united and killed your people, simply because you were one of the 3 clans of Tarik".
Clans of Tarik moved San's thoughts but kept quiet, "Do you know, what I say to a world that hates me and my people, I tell them, go to hell, unlike you I strive for great things, these sacrifices will lead us to a generation, where we and we only are the strongest".
"My people above all else".
Alaric after saying all this loudly went back to his throne and sat once again as a king.
With serious eyes and pissed off the face the Kaiser asked Lived, "So, What are you gonna do now, old friend, you still have the chance, I am kind and I forgive, join me to conqueror the world or fight for the pathetic world?".
San had listened to everything, he now understood a little better, the emotions of his teacher, why he never talks about past when he asks him, he now understands the world is not the nice place he always thought it was.
As Lived was left with no decision, San stood and said, "We will change the world with our rules and not yours, because I and my master are the strongest".
Lived kept a close ear as he continued, "After we defeat you the world would know us, as heroes who saved the world from a bad man, they will praise us and we will lead them, to a generation where not only your people are strong but all of Mrovaity, together we are even stronger".
San on the ground, stood up and looked at his master and said with a smile that shined like the Sun, "So please master stand up and fight with me, we will defeat this man and show the world..."
"Show everyone has some good In them, all they lack is the courage, which you and I have, So let's show them and be great examples of good men".
Lived smiled and stood up, stroking San's head, "Now tell me where did the spirit come from, Did it come from the lambs?"
[SMILE]
Alaric asked San, "Good men, he doesn't know does he?", San heard something then he asked, "What do you mea-", he was interrupted by the explosion behind him, taking everyone's attention, as the remaining of the explosion faded away, Agir and the monarchs were standing by the destroyed doors of the Royal room.
"Nice to see, some old faces here", Stated Agir.
Lived as he saw him, snapped back to the real reality, he stood in front of San and covered him with darkness, "Stay back San, this man is dangerous".
San had the feeling he knew the Oldman, then he remembered he stood outside, spectating the fight in front of the castle, for Lived to say he is dangerous and not Alaric, San tried to feel and measure"But master I can't feel anything from him!".
"Well you can't see, what I'd beyond our league", Stated Lived to San, then Alaric laughed and welcomed him, "Welcome old man, I have missed you too".
Agir stepped forth, with his sword in hand, the fire raged around him, "Well said my children now Prepare for your punishments".
The end of chapter 16.