Somewhere within a forest…
Adventurer: “RUN! They will catch us soon!”
Succubus: “I fear we can’t escape my love…”
Adventurer: “DAMMIT! At least we have to protect our child”
A trap activated and three arrows came flying which impacted on the adventurer’s leg and chest.
Adventurer: “Shit! It seems I won’t be able to continue running”
Succubus: “It’s my fault! You were right but I… I couldn’t do it”
Adventurer: “Now is not the time for that! And Aeltha… I will only say it once. You are the one who was right not me”
Aeltha: “But Dael, if I had done what you said we wouldn’t be in this position!”
Dael: “Shut up! Both of us know that it would have been the same”
Soldiers: “We have found them, kill the three of them!”
Two soldiers advanced with a fast pace but when they were near them Dael killed them with a fast sword movement which could be seen as if it even cut the air.
Dael: “Hahahahaha, two worthless fools less! Aeltha, run with our son, I promise that I will make a stand here and later reunite with you”
Aeltha: “But! You are hurt…”
Dael: “Have I ever told you a lie?! MOVE! You know that I’m an idiot who can’t lie right?
Aeltha: “Very well… I will believe you” She continued to advance through the forest with the child
???: “DAEL! You ungrateful bastard, You should have done what I told you, kill that bastard you call child and that bitch, now I will enjoy tearing you apart, but don’t worry, as my last gift as a friend I will let you reunite with them IN THE OTHER LIFE”
Dael: “SILEAN FUCK OFF, YOU DARE CALL YOURSELF MY FRIEND AFTER WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?!”
Silean: “Because I’m your friend I’m doing this, you should know it! Why are you so blind?”
Dael: “The time of words has ended! I WILL KILL YOU”.
Silean: “You fool, I was always better than you with the sword, at least I will give you the honor of dying by my hand, better than because an unknown soldier”
Dael tried to rush to him but he was slow, hurted and without his best movements, it was a desperate battle in which the only win was earning time, but even that was a foolish hope, when he arrived and did the first movement Silean just evaded the sword strike that he did, then decapitated him with his sword.
Silean: “You idiot, WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!? We were supposed to always help each other!” He couldn’t stop himself from crying.
*Flashback*
There were two childs in a village who were always together, They always talked about what they wanted to do in the future and they always hold one ideal, They should protect justice.
One day a mercenary came to the village and they were interested in him so they wanted to talk to him. The mercenary at first ignored them but…:
Dael: “C’mon we want to hear your stories old man”
Silean: “Yeah yeah, we want to become incredible warriors”
The mercenary lost to their tenacity and asked: “Why do you both want to become a warrior?”
Dael and Silean: “”Because we want to protect justice!””
The mercenary when he heard their words got angry and yelled them: “YOU FOOLS, WHAT IS THE JUSTICE THAT YOU WANT TO PROTECT?”
Both of them were flabbergasted by the actions of the mercenary then he continued “YOU WANTED TO HEAR ONE OF MY STORIES?! THEN SO BE IT”
He started to talk about how he was in a mission to burn a whole village because of an epidemic, about how he was a fire mage and burned every soul with the rest of their team, how the people burned and their screams followed them until this day, how the smoke rising towards the sky could be seen at a distance of two kilometers away and then asked them “WHERE WAS THE JUSTICE THERE!? Sigh, look boys, in that incident alone there were many types of justice, the ones of those who wanted to live but couldn’t, my team which wanted to protect by destruction, even the healers who wanted to find another way. You see, there are as many types of justices as stars are in the sky, what type of justice do you want to protect?”
Both childs couldn’t say anything more and left the man alone.
Later that day…
Silean: “Hey Dael, I have been thinking about what that old man said to us and… If there are as many justices as stars are in the sky then I want that we both today hold a promise, that we will always follow the same star, the one which will represent our justice”
Dael: “Ok, I promise that we will always fight together as brothers!”
At that moment, we didn’t know that our type of justice was different, even more we didn’t had any type of justice, we just thought that we should protect the people of light. OUR PEOPLE.
*End of flashback*
Soldier A: “My lord, we should continue this holy hunt”
Silean: “Wait, what about his body?”
Soldier A: “With all due respect he is a traitor, we should let his body to rot here”
Silean: “I want that two soldiers remain here to bury his body, don’t worry, even if I continued alone I can kill that succubus and her child”
Soldier A: “As you wish my lord”
In another part of the forest
Aeltha: “You liar… why did you had to start lying today!?” She continued to run, crying because she sensed the end of her love. She started to look at her child and said “It’s all because of you! If only, if only you weren’t a male…”
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The succubus race is one of the few neutral races in this world, without ties to the light or shadow empire. The tribe of light had many races as humans, elfs, dwarves, treants, pixies and the messengers of the god of light the angels, within the tribe of darkness there were goblins, kobolds, ogres, orcs, vampires and the messengers of the god of darkness the demons.
The neutral races were ones which don’t follow any god and they were the dragons, succubus and giants races. But there is one point that all of the races have in common, they can only have one type of attribute, the light or the darkness, and at first the people didn’t understand why and asked their respective gods through their messengers. The answer of both of them was the same: “Light is the opposite of darkness, both of them can’t exist in the same body because it will change and chaos will arrive” Even with that answer no one understood until the day that one child came to the world with a mother from the light tribe and a father from the shadow tribe, that child later became the first abomination which devastated a large portion of the world, that zone now is called “the frontier” and not even dust remained, it remained as a signal to the whole world that the tribe of light and the tribe of darkness couldn’t be together and an universal law was created, if another child with both attributes is born then he shall be killed.
With time, that became a conflict, followed by hate and started “the great war”, only the neutral races didn’t take part and it was because they had one special characteristic, even if they had a child with another race, their attribute will always remain in their child. The succubus race only had females as offspring so they had to interact with a lot of races and that was the rule.
But the child of Aeltha was a boy, this meant just one thing, it possessed both attributes and then he should have been sacrificed, even so she and her husband had a big discussion, she opposed it, she didn’t wanted to sacrifice her child. In the end the Dael gave up and they tried to hide it and he asked his sworn brother Silean, who became a lord, for help:
Dael: “Silean you have to help us! He is an innocent child, we shouldn’t follow that law!”
Silean: “YOU FOOL, ARE YOU BLIND!? THAT CHILD WILL BE THE END OF ALL OF US!”
Dael: “HE WONT BE THE END OF ANYONE YOU HEAR ME!? HE IS MY CHILD AND I WILL PROTECT HIM!”
Silean: “NO YOU WONT, I WILL GO TO KILL THAT BITCH WHO MANIPULATED YOU AND THAT BASTARD!”
Dael: “YOU WONT DARE, IF YOU TRY I WILL KILL YOU”
Silean: “VERY WELL, HAVE IT YOUR WAY, I WONT KILL HIM BUT I WANT ALL OF YOU OUT OF HERE TOMORROW AT FIRST HOUR”.
Dael: “Brother… I thank you that even if you don’t want to help us at least I don’t have to fight you… thank you brother”
Silean: “JUST SHUP UP AND LEAVE ME FOR NOW”
Dael left the room and a few minutes later a soldier entered.
Soldier: “My lord, will you let them run away? It could be then end of us!”
Silean: “Of course I won’t, this is all because of that manipulative bitch. I want you to take the special venom “analandrius”, it will seal the magic of that succubus, after that we will kill her and the child without problems. Tomorrow I will take my brother away and I want you to form a unit to do this deed”
Soldier: “But my lord… won’t your brother feel betrayed?”
Silean: “I’m doing this for his own good, if not he will end up dead, even if it kills me I will give him back a bit of sense!”
The plan started well, Aeltha had her magic sealed and Dael was away, but destiny had other plans, Aeltha and the baby were able to run away, but she lost her wings in the process, both of them were destroyed when she jumped out of the window after being hurt by the soldiers, the damage was too much. She ran and arrived where her husband was, they left without any other word.
*Back to the present*
Baby: “Wahhh… wahhhh”
After hearing his cry, Aeltha couldn’t help but to cry even more.
Aeltha: “I’m a fool, you are the only victim in this story…”
Soldier: “She is here! Kill her and that abomination”
Aeltha: “It seems soon I will be with you my love… but first I have to save our child”
She arrived near a river, without any way to continue running. The soldiers soon came and she took a fast decision. She would use life magic, it was the only type that she could use at this moment, but the price was too big, it would consume her life.
She used the life magic with an illusion spell, it would create a mental image of the baby in the minds of all the soldiers here and make the real one invisible. The other advantage of the spell was the two seconds mental stun, she used that time to let the river carry her child, and praying that luck is on his side.
The only thing that remained in that place was the illusion of a baby, which the soldiers burned thinking that it was the real one.
This night another star has fallen, and only hope remains.