My home.
It was a silent night, just like now, just like then. Standing firm against the approaching wave of destruction, all of the Brights were standing between opposing forces and the mansion, the place where the survivors hid. Yet there was one Bright who did not join them, he was left behind. Did they leave me because the duty of protecting the innocent belong only to the real Bright knights, or did they believe I would get in their way?
They told me to remain with the survivors, but I did not. I took Fervour and ran outside, towards the enemy. Disregarding every nerve in my body as it screamed at me, telling me to go back or I will die, I ran full-force towards the frontline and I fought. I did the thing I had always trained for and I wanted to prove that even I can do it, that even someone like me can be a knight. I wanted to prove to them that I could be strong too, but I also wanted to prove to myself that no matter what obstacles were in my way I could keep on walking towards my dreams. I had to prove that even someone as worthless as me could be strong enough to fight for haven.
But I could not. There was nothing I could do. His sheer power destroyed me, threw me aside. And then I watched as he killed everyone. I helplessly watched. Why did I go there? In the end, I only got in the way. And so, he killed them all. Because of me. They all died because of me. My mother, who never was my real mother, my father, who never was my real father, my sister too. I watched it all while I, myself, was dying. I, Aegis Bright, was dying. But I never was a real Bright.
So in the end, they all died because of me, a stranger. A nameless noone thought he could be a hero and because of his unreachable dreams and ideals everyone died, while he survived only to ignorantly deny the futility of his own existence.
A killer who dreamed of being a hero. Such nonsense. Who am I to even think that? There is only one thing I deserve. I need to bear the punishment for my sins. I, without a doubt, must die.
I should die, I have got to die, I will die. Die die die die die. DIE !
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The knight woke up. Drenched in sweat, he shot up. His heavy panting blending with the strong nightly breeze, Aegis looked around himself. There was no fire there, nor were there the dying screams he had heard.
"...This nightmare... I thought I left it behind with the memories."
But that was not the same nightmare he started having after that night. It was different.
"...I should... die...? That's not right. I chose to live... I have to live." - he spoke to himself, as if to remove the foreign uneasiness that was born in his heart.
"Where am I?"
Having calmed down, Aegis looked around once more. He was standing on a flat, paved floor, but he was not inside a building. There were stone stairs some 30 metres away, leading down to the base of the hill where a silent village laid sleeping. Behind him there was an ancient-looking building complex which appeared mostly abandoned.
"A temple? Yes... this was where I came to search for information."
Feeling the absolute silence, he wondered. - "Did I come here with someone else?"
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