Prologue: Where it all ended...and began

You know? I've always wondered...

"THE TIME IS NIGH MY FELLOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!!"

"COME!

WHILE HE'S AT HIS LAST BREATH!!!

How do I get myself into such over the top situations?

"You're surrounded!"

"There's nowhere else to escape!"

"Surrender yourself now! You damned Heretic!"

Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm just plain unlucky or just cursed...maybe both?

*sigh* As the young man with hazel green eyes exasperated through his mouth under his tattared hood.

He scanned around the encirclement of men in black armor of that of a knight, mounted on roided-out horses while holding spears, swords, bows, javelins and even holding tomes.

He estimated somewhere around over 100 of them around his surrounding vicinity in an somewhat open plain.

"Its just not my lucky day today, is it?"

Riddled with deep cuts and burns around his arms, legs, and an arrow or two on his back which were in a very uncomfortable place under his shoulder blades.

Trying to forget the pain on his back he took a second glance around...He notice where he was surrounded at..."Tch a ruined church cemetery...?" he said in a low annoyed voice.

"Is it to your liking? oh dear me, how the mighty have fallen, just look at you"

He then heard a rather pleasant yet unpleasant poised voice within the crowd of black knights as they were moving apart to make way for a hip swaying curved obsidian armored woman with the symbol of a red eye black snake coiled around a golden sword on her chest plate.

"I don't know, this place gives out a rather dreary feeling to me for our second date" I snidely spoke out my opinion.

"Maybe a few well placed lit scented candles could lighten the mood up a bit"

"Re~ally? I'd say it's a rather nice poetic place for a disgusting non-believer such as yourself, Don't you agreed?"

The woman said in a humming tone as she took off her helmet to reveal her gorgeous shoulder length blonde hair and glimmering ruby-like eyes with a smile so sadistic that you'd think she'd gone completely off the bar of her sanity and into madness.

"Meh 45 points out of 100 for unoriginality but, at least you got the mood somewhat down. So, I'll round it up to 50 points"

I spoke out sarcastically with a tired smile but, Out of everyone they could have sent though...it had to be the red-eyed blonde religious freak.

"A~h! Such praise coming from the once renowned champion of the west! I'm honored!"

Seemingly unfazed by his insult, the religious freak continued on with a slight smile.

"Since I've received such high remarks from such an esteem person such as yourself, I shall give you the mercy of her Grace and the Lord above his benevolence One. Last. Chance."

I perked my ears up slightly to listen to how this lunatic was going to preach her words of god, as if giving down a holy divine order.

"Surrender your life willingly to her Grace and Lord and you shall be given a death so glo~rious and magni~ficent that it shall be sung throughout our holy writings for eternity~!"

"AhAhaHahAHaHAHa~"

Cringing inwardly, I knew full well that I wasn't getting out of this one like all the other ones.

So, I gave an answer.

"Sure...why not."

"AHA! I KNEW YOU WOULDN'T-what...?"

"I said let's do this"

I continued on as Ms.Holier than Thou was still too taken back by my answer.

"That is...if your willing to come get me yourself..."

"...or are you too much of a weak willed little church girl to do it on your own?" looking at her with a smug grin.

The hysterical religions woman narrowed her eyes while showing a vein popping out on her forehead out of sheer anger.

Perfect...this is what I was banking on.

The one emotional thing that this dumb broad holds oh so dear...

Was Her fragile Pride.

"Think about it!"

"What could be more magnificent and glorious than to be the one who dealt it herself in the name of her Merciful Grace and Magnanimous Lord?" I egged on.

She showed signs of an angered interest but, was soon returned to an apathetic expression in that split second.

"Are you provoking me or do you take me for a fool?"

I gave a rather stiff expression at the sudden question then raised my right eyebrow.

"A little bit a both?"

Some knights in the ranks couldn't help but cough a little as if trying to cover up a laugh.

"ENOUGH!"

"I WILL NOT BE MADE A MOCKERY OF!"

Silence ensued throughout the whole area with nothing but the sound of thunderstorms closing in.

"A little too late for that don't you think?"

I remarked, breaking the silence but blondie did not take too kindly to this cheeky response of mine.

She stepped towards him with a threating glare, stopping far enough and out of reach from him as to stop anything suspicious he had in store.

She unsheathed her blade at an appropriate safe distance and pointed it underneath his chin; right at his throat.

"Say your last words to his Grace and Lord, Heathen" she venomously stated the ultimatum of my life.

(Well shit)

I thought to myself as I slowly moved to sit down on the dirt ground of the cemetery, alerting every soldier around me and even putting the religious sociopath on edge.

Thinking back to everything that happen so far in his life to this point in time...were the memories of his comrades.

(It really was a somewhat eventful life...)

(I wonder how pissed everyone is going be after what I'm about to do...especially the girls)

I lamented to myself while pulling an arrow off my back.

She tensed up from such an action with a half-smiling expression.

"Hmph! Already feeling despair before the end. How pathe-" but was soon cut off.

"Tell this to your Lord and Grace." as I threw the arrow to side and started to say my own piece with a rather haggard breath.

She gave a rather pensive look at what this weak disgusting so called champion had to say in his finally moments of clarity before his death.

"Tell them that..."

As if witnessing her own history in the making, it all became...eerily quiet.

Slowly the soldiers near them perked up their ears to listen to the once glorious Champion at the end of his life.

"...They can shove their moronic mercy up their asses for all I care!"

As if on cue, lighting struck from the sky on top of the church cemetery building, which startled and blinded everyone expect for one person.

*Swish*

*Stab*

The knights around the two had recoiled in shock as the person they saw stabbed was none other than the young man with the hood.

But, what was most shocking to them was that he was standing straight up straight while holding up their commander by the neck with one hand as her blade was impaling him straight through his chest all the way to the hilt.

The religious church girl couldn't help but, freak out and tremble in fear as she gripped the man's arm that was holding her neck and saw something in the man in front of her...something she would soon never forget...

The look of utter Lunacy in his face...grinning from ear to ear...showing his teeth covered in blood...with a vacant sadistic look in his eyes...reveling no light in either eye; no signs of life whatsoever

(So this...Is what a crazed dead man looks like...?)

"Hah~Haah-Urk!"

She couldn't help, but shiver all over her body at the sudden tightening on her neck...

Panting like a bitch in heat with drool running down the corner her mouth...and moaned two words out from her cherried lips to the growing feeling inside of her in a hazy intoxicated expression.

"So...! Heaven~ly...!"

I inched closer passed the side of her face ignoring her idiotic looking expression she had plastered all over and moved towards her ear.

Whispering two syllables that only she could hear...

"Check-mate"

With a quick reflex, the hooded young man grasped the hilt with his other free hand on top of her own hand as she never let go of her sword during the whole ordeal and twisted the blade in his chest creating a loud cracking noise, loud enough for everyone in the vicinity to hear.

"!!!!!"

*********

In a dark forest far from all the commotion.

A group of Two armed men and Four women were in a rush to shaking off there pursuers through the thick dark forest.

"He-y wait! Don'cha think we lost them already?!"

Shouted a freckled blue-eyed girl with white skin and ginger colored hair that reached her back in a double braided style. Along with a few evident bruises and cuts from running through the forest as she was wearing a tattared rangers attire and holding a broken string bow.

"Keep going!"

"We can't let this chance he gave us be in vain!"

"NOW MOVE IT!"

Roared a pale skinned man with slanted sharp light brown eyes and long brown hair tied into a ponytail that seem mangled and ready to let loose at any moment. He was wearing a white withered ripped attired combat robe with a few armorplates shattered while holding a cracked bunker shield hoisted on his left forearm.

"Wha-?! But we can't ju-!" The ranger girl said almost screaming but, was quickly cut off by another.

"DAMN IT!!"

"WE CAN'T JUST LEAVE HIM BEHIND LIKE THAT!!! LET'S GO BACK AN-!"

Yelled another man with dark tan skin and short red hair; who had a scar running down his left greyed out eye.

He was wearing a rustic colored armor with a few missing armorplates.

The man with a ponytail stopped in his tracks and so did everyone behind him.

A total of 5, including him made 6.

He strode towards the hard headed idiot with red hair, punching him square across his face.

"DID YOU THINK I WANTED TO LET HIM GO ON HIS OWN LIKE THAT!?"

Clenching his trembling fist and reached out to grab him by the collar with one hand pulling him towards him.

"If there was another way...!"

"I would have GLADLY TAKEN IT without a second thought!" He growled loudly with anger.

"..."

the red hair man had no words to refute and just clenched his teeth with an angry expression of helplessness.

"Then I suggest we go back and pull out this foolish human of a man from the hole he has dug himself in"

Responded a purple eyed haughty elven girl with length waist show white hair while holding a half broken staff; posing a ripped purple tight-skin combat dress exposing much of her white milky legs.

Looking straight at eachothers eyes with a type of fierce animosity.

"You heard his orders, WE HAVE T-"

The ponytail man was about to make his point clear and reprimand her but, was soon cut short.

"Oh believe me...I've heard you bark like a dog long enough but, I also remember saying that I don't take orders that I. Logically. Don't. Agree with."

"Are we understood?"

Both ponytail and the elven girl stared at each other with fierce eyes; almost like they were trying to choke the other under pressure.

Then another girl jumped into the mix to stop these two from blowing up.

"Woah hey now! We clearly don't have time for this bullshit right now!"

"It was a Fight or Flight situation and he knew that very well." As she stood in between these two ticking time bombs.

She had a maroon shade of hair reaching her shoulders with tiny curls at the end and a pair of golden eyes while also wearing a muddy stained rouge's armor.

Both of them glare at her but said nothing else.

"Besides..."

Putting a hand on her hip seeming to already have both of their attention on her at the very least.

"He promised that he wouldn't do anything stupid this time and catch up as soon as he can!" Giving them a cheeky smile.

The elven girl and ponytail both kept starting at her when suddenly another spoke up after catching her breath.

"T-hats right! He wouldn't go back on his word and we all know this!"

"We just have to have faith!"

"Believe in him as he believes in us!"

Shouted a young short girl with blonde hair reaching below her waist wearing a torn clerics robe with beaming garnet eyes.

"Fucking hell...when you put it like that..."

The hot blooded red headed idiot seemed to have accepted the situation but, that didn't mean he liked it one bit whatsoever!

"Yer right, why are we even fighin' over this!?"

"We know he's gonna come back!"

"While He may be a lil'rat at times but, he always came through! No matter what!"

The ginger haired ranger reassured herself and everyone around her.

The elven girl and ponytail look at eachother once more as if trying to look for a mutual agreement.

"Hmph"

"Hrmph"

As ponytail loosen his grip on the idiot he just punched not a few moments ago.

Then the rogue girl clapped once in glee at their conclusion.

"Now then, lets hurry up befo-" but before the rogue girl could finish.

A strong light shot upwards towards the dark clouds which caught all 6 of their attention...

Then what soon followed was a series of loud explosions that made the earth beneath them shake tremendously...!

The light subsided...leaving a hole in the dark sky.

As the light shone through that very hole that was created. Rain began to fall as if the heavens were weeping...

It was then they all remembered "His" last words before he left them to cover their escape.

"I'll lure them away while you guys make a run for it! I'll caught up after I'm done!"

"Trust me on this!"

He turned his head around giving his comrades an optimistic grin before shooting off the opposite direction without giving them a chance to stop him. He then spoke in a low soft voice at the last second as he passed everyone.

Just barely enough for everyone to hear him until he completely disappeared into the forest.

"If I'm going down then I might as well go out with a bang, right"

At the time, they all thought the last part was just another one of his cruel grim jokes he'd liked to pull on them...

....

...

..

.

"ARRRRRRRGH!!!!"

*BOOOOM!*

The first to anguish was the red headed idiot slamming his fist full force at nearby tree toppling it over as he stood there; howling in anger.

*thud*

"But he promise'd...th-ere's no way he...just like that...? How could you lil'mouse...why!"

The second to fall was the double braided ranger as she fell on her knees stretching her hand out limply towards the direction of the light in the sky with tears swelling in her eyes.

"...why...how...you...you promised us...!"

Then it was the blonde cleric...who seemed like her soul was taken out of her body as she fell like a doll on her knees and started mumbling incoherently as if praying.

she then soon went quiet, mindlessly staring at the sky.

*Thack!*

"THAT FUCKIN' DUMBASS!"

*Thack!*

"I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE DRAG HIS ASS WITH US!!!"

*Thack*

"YOU SON OF BITCH!"

*Thack*

"WHY DID I LET YOU GO!...WHY?!"

"...I thought that you!..finally trusted us...trusted me"

The rogue couldn't believe he lied to her...to them!...only venting her anger by kicking a nearby tree; leaving deep dents in it.

Ponytail couldn't say a word...he knew the possibilities of what could have happened when they all came here but, he just...never wanted to face the reality of it all.

He felt cowardly for thinking the way he did! Turning his head while lowering it to the side and gritting his teeth while tightening his fist to the point of digging his nails in till he drew blood.

"If only-!" He shouted within his mind endlessly...[IF ONLY I WASN'T SUCH A DAMNED COWARD...! I COULD HAVE..! I MIGHT HAVE-...!!!]

"I refuse..."

Is when ponytail snap back to reality after hearing her.

"I simply refuse to believe that he's gone..."

The final one...was the elven girl.

She tremble with anger but, within her was...pure unrelenting rage.

"There's no possible way that he's gone! preposterous!"

Walking towards the direction of the explosion with urgency in her foot steps.

"...and I will only believe it with my own eyes."

In a quiet rage, she quick picked up her pace with an tense vacate stare.

"HEY! YOU CAN'T JUS-" as ponytail pulled her by the shoulder to stop her...

*PAK!*

He was meet with a resounding slap across his face putting him in a daze.

"Don't you ever touch me! Because of you he's..." She demonically shouted in a seething rage with eyes that seemed to be on the verge of tears.

Seeing his idiotic dumbfoundedness across his face, she felt that it was enough to make her point come across to the dafted coward she thought; turning around she saw two people blocking her way.

It was the red head idiot and the cheeky mouthed rogue.

"Move aside."

Speaking with a calming rage that would trick anyone into thinking she was composed...but she was far from it.

"Hell No!"

"Absolutely not."

She lowered her head.

"Why..."

"Why won't you let me go to him..."

"CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I HAVE TO FIND HIM!?!?!"

"SO WHY ARE GETTING IN MY WAY!?!"

She finally broke into hysteria...

"YOU HAVE TO MOVE NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!"

"HE NEEDS MY HELP!!!"

"OUR HELP!!!

"CAN'T YOU SEE?!" looking at them with a anger pained look on her face.

They both became startled by her emotional state only knowing her for her calm demeanor and arrogant attitude but, ultimately shook their heads at her.

"Going now won't make a damn difference anymore..I know that no matter how much I want to run and look for the bastard...!" The red head tried to finish his thought.

"He wouldn't want us to throw our lives away for him. Despite his own hypocrisy of selfishly doing exactly just that with his own damn life!" The rogue girl chimed in, despondent about the whole situation. But, they were soon met with an outburst of magical energy.

At the source of all the abundants of magical energy was one person hanging her head low; Directing all of it towards the ones blocking her way.

"If you won't understand...then you'll leave me no choi-!"

*Thunk*

She fell short and collapsed but, not due to her emotional hysteria nor magic going haywire, but by a swift blunt hit to the back of her head by someone's hand.

"Take the other two with us and let's go.We might have attracted unwanted attention by now, I'll carry her"

It was ponytail.

The other two nodded with fatigued faces from having so much strong magical energy directed towards them; they preceded to carry the other two girls.

As ponytail whisper while he carried the elven girl

"Thank you for making me realize my indecisiveness...I'll make sure it never happens again."

All she could muster was a faint mumble...

"Zac..."