A young child who appeared around ten years old was busy training in a field with his father who appeared to be in his early forties both dressed in formal clothes signifying that they were royalty was having a hard time keeping up with his dad in terms of swordsmanship complaining ,"Dad, can you at least go easy on me. I'm only ten years old." His bearded father who was wearing a smile on his spoke up ,"Easy. When you grow up, you'll realize that the world isn't so easygoing. Now come on, give me everything you've got." The kid got up from the ground and knew what his father said was true. His father who governed over the entire dimensional plane was one of the few people who he ever trusted and believed. His father would often tell him that life wasn't fair and to be on the better end,one would have to be powerful so as not to picked on not to mention to be a slave to others. He quickly got into his fighting stance and shot towards the strongest person on this plane. To his father , his son was moving so slowly and could easily see his flaws but toned it down to match his pace and exchanged a few moves with him before sending him flying back but not enough to injure him.
He gave a light laugh and complimented
with a beaming smile on his face ,"That's better Martin." Before they could continue with their little spar a woman who was elegantly dresses came over and interrupted ," Vincent! You should go easy on him." She cast a meaningful glare at him before going over to Martin.
"I made your favorite snacks. So take a break and come over." Martin got up with the help of his mother Marylin and went to a part which a blanket had already been laid by a servant and as soon as they sat, they were served by their butler. Martin enjoying the treat ,"Thank you mom. You're the best." She simply beamed with a smile and continued snacking with etiquette unlike Martin who was eating like a ravenous beast but his parents simply laughed and continued to eat until a set of knights came over riding on horses with solemn expressions on their faces arrived.
Their leader briskly walked over to the royal family and made a small bow before whispering something into the king's ear. Vincent's expression took a drastic turn from his earlier happy look to an infuriated one. Marylin noticing this asked with a worried expression on her dainty face ,"What's wrong?" Since seeing Vincent this upset was really rare. Vincent hopped in their royal carriage which had their emblem on it of a slain dragon on it. He responded as they were heading back to the capital with an angry expression ,"Some jester is trying to take over the throne." As they arrived,the king was horrified with the sight he witnessed. All of his royal guards were littered all over the floor with blood still oozing from them. The commander of knights who informed the king earlier told him ,"I've already called in the reinforcements and heroes from the hero guilds to deal with the man who did this."
The king was a little surprised as the best heroes arrived shortly after them. Most of them were highest rankers the guilds could have at their disposal as he could recognize some of them from their conquests with few who could rival him and wondered ,'What kind of monstrosity requires these kinds of forces.' He made a short speech before going in ,"Excuse me." Everyone present fell silent and looked at the king ,"I know that we may have our differences but today we are united to protect the people we love. If we don't kill this man who is an enemy of this kingdom, then the fates of these men on the ground will be the same fate of those we love." The people who were present were psyched and led by their king entered the castle. Martin who was to be under Marylin's watch snuck off to see the battle of his dad and the enemy who came to conquer them.
Marylin realizing that Martin had snuck off started to look for him but couldn't find him. It was then that she realized that Martin had gone to see the fight so she too went in the castle to look for him. Martin had found a spot to watch the fight. It was one of the higher floors overseeing the throne room and shortly after the king and the heroes arrived. Vincent saw not a man but a kid seated on his throne with a nonchalant expression on his face. Looking more closely he realized that he was not of this plane due to his way of clothing and spoke up ,"Is it you who killed my guards ?" Andrew wearing his red and black mask with a touch of gold did not reply and continued to sit there without a care in the world. Irritated by Andrew's behavior, Vincent simply responded, ''Your lack of a response means that you are the one held accountable." But still no reply from Andrew finally made him unable to tolerate his attitude.
He was a king who overlooked the entire plane. Everyone had respect for him everywhere during his reign after conquering the black dragon which constantly terrorised the people and known as a hero. Now there was a kid sitting on his throne without caring about the consequences ignoring him. How could he simply allow this kind of attitude to stand so he decided to put an end to this once and for all. He unsheathed his sword,the same sword which he used to kill the black dragon and pointed it at Andrew ,"Today, you will see the end of my blade." And made his fighting stance. Compared to his spar earlier,he didn't have a smile on his face only a cold resolute expression and before he made his move, Andrew's shadow started to manifest itself and formed a humanoid shape.
It was pitch black and the only thing sticking out of it's body was it's crimson red eyes. One of the male heroes trying to gain favor with the king stepped up and proclaimed ,"How dare you come and sit on the king's throne and think that you are the king. We will have only one king and that is Vincent Vadmore."
He went infront of the king and said ,''Do not worry, I will have this trick of his gone in a matter of seconds." His body started to emit a dazzling aura around it a manifested a sword made of light and said ,"I've dealt with the likes of you." He lunged forward and made a stab on the shadow in the head but instead of dissipating, it stood there and looked at him and a slashing sound was heard. Instead of the shadow dissipating as they had expected, they saw the head of the hero fall to the ground. The king was nervous as he couldn't even the shadow's movements. The shadow stepped over the corpse and spoke in a groggy and deep voice ,"I'm here to speak on behalf of his grace since he cannot bother himself with such insolent pests."
He continued ,"My purpose here today is simple. To accept my proposal of being my colony. Any form of refusal will result in your immediate deaths." And went silent, simply looking on the confused king and his subjects. The king couldn't believe what he was hearing. A person whom he didn't know just showed up and claimed to threaten him to hand over his kingdom. There was no way he would approve of this as he knew what he would face when he was under someone else's command. He trained day and night so as to be the strongest person on this plane and not to face any form of discrimination and enjoy a sweet and peaceful life and what did fate have in-store for him ,a person who threatened his existence and mocked his hard work. His commander spoke up in a clear voice ,"This kingdom will not give in so easily. We will fight even if it's the last thing we do." The shadow continued to look at the king waiting for his answer. Vincent finally spoke up ,"What he said is true. We will fight even if it's the last thing we do."
The shadow asked ,"Are you sure this is the choice you want to choose ?" Vincent with the rest of the heroes backing him up "Yes." Andrew who was seated opened his hand and a feather materialized. It was pitch black and he simply threw it at them but as it approached them it started to turn and change to form a dragon similar to the one on the emblem. The dragon looked at the audience infront of him but ignored them and looked at Andrew and made a bow before asking it's orders. Andrew conveyed them telepathically and the dragon flew through the roof and went to the people and started to cause terror and slaughter. The king ordered his knights to go and help the people including his commander and so they left. The king finally looked at the kid who sat at the throne with a devil laughing and lunged at him. Everything that he built was slowly falling apart because of him. He would have gotten closer but something stopped him. He was perplexed and looked down to notice that his legs were cut off by the shadow. The other heroes seeing this attacked the shadow but it simply absorbed their attacks and after they had exhausted themselves, their heads fell on the ground one by one. For them it didn't matter who they were or what level of power they had, they all faces the shadow's blade and in a matter of seconds, the king was the only one left.
The shadow then suddenly started to walk away from them and appeared where Martin was hiding. The kid realizing how bad the situation was tried to run and Marylin suddenly appeared and shielded him. The shadow looked at Vincent and said ,"Do it. For them." Vincent who was on the ground was devastated by what he saw. He couldn't even protect himself and now his wife and son were about to be murdered right infront of him. He already understood the disparity and futility of trying to maintain his status. A deafening roar was heard as the dragon came back without a single scratch on it. It's mouth was reeking with blood and it's eyes hungry on the king who lay helpless on the ground. It then retched out a piece of a knights armor and Vincent realized that it was his commander's. This was the last blow he needed to give in because his family's death was certain and no one would save him so he said it just as the shadow was about to cut of Marylin's neck off ,"Fine,I accept." The shadow halted it's movements and looked at Vincent who was lying on the ground, helpless ,"I will be a part of your colony just let my family live." Before true power Vincent was truly helpless. Andrew who was seated on Vincent's throne stood up and slowly walked to Vincent. He could see hatred in his eyes but he didn't care, manifested his blood and shot it into Vincent's chest and Martin seeing this went to his father's body who was slowly dying from the excessive blood loss. He brandished his wooden sword and aimed it at Andrew claiming to take his life.
Andrew let out a small laughter and suspended Martin in the air slowly choking him to death. Vincent witnessing this tried to beg him to stop but he passed away making Marylin devastated. She begged on her knees to spare his son and to her surprise, Martin was let go chocking, trying to grasp for air. The king who lay lifeless on the ground coughed up blood and was surprised to be alive even though he died. He saw Andrew snap his fingers and all the people who lay dead on the court come back to life. He went on the dragon and his eyes glinting to red for split second revived everybody who was killed and after that everybody who had died to the shadow were surprised that they were alive and fearful of it but it simply went to Andrew and dematerialized going back to being his shadow. The king finally realized that defeating Andrew was simply unrealistic and Andrew gestured for him to get on the dragon and he did without hesitation. Opening a rift in space, Andrew left with the king going back to the council finally content that he was done with this shitty task.