Darkness. That's all I could see through my eyes at that moment; I am dead? This is the world after death? I truly believed my life was already over until I heard a familiar voice.

"Axel! Axel! Come back, Axel! I need you to be with me... Come on Axel! " That voice... I was sure that the voice I was hearing was my dad's voice but I thought this was all part of a dream. Suddenly something slapped me on my face with a lot of strength. My eyes opened quickly.

"Axel... Thank's God... Where the fuck have you been? I have been waiting so long for you. Come on get up fast. " My dad was calm and confident as if this wasn't something new for him. I took a glance around me and all I could see was goblins corpses everywhere, my dad killed all of them with a sword. His sword was a big one and somehow I could feel the power on it.

"We have no time left Axel. I'll carry your friend on the horse, we'll move to Tyr quickly. " Tyr... After hearing that name I could only ask one question. "Mom... Where's mom? " Deep inside me, I didn't want to know the answer. "I don't know Axel... I've been waiting for you since the sun fall but you weren't coming so I went to search for you around the forest. By the time I saw the smoke I had to make a choice and I decided to come here... Just at time to find you and your friend. "

The horse riding heading to Tyr felt like the time was slowed down. My dad was calm as always, seeing him like that made me wonder if all the adventures he told me all these times were true and not the typical story's to entertain a kid.

"Axel, what happened to your friend? " With that question, a lot of flashbacks crossed through my mind remembering the whole scene in the town. "Her dad... " I didn't need to say anything else. "I see... Poor girl. " Even hearing my dad talking like that made me feel like he has been living these experiences all his life.

"Listen to me, Axel... I really think it's too early for you to know about all of this but the situation has come over us. I'll talk to you about everything after I find mom... Just listen to my orders for now, understand?. " I couldn't imagine what was going on but I had to trust dad. "I understand dad. "

We could already see Tyr on the horizon. From what I could see Tyr was in the same conditions as my town. The houses were already burning so I could guess that these goblins who attacked my town were already there.

As soon as we entered Tyr we saw many corpses from goblins and citizens. Unlike my town seems like people on Tyr managed to react at the attack and people defended themselves.

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My grandfather's house was near to the entrance. The house was shattered and outside a woman was waiting there. I could recognize her, she was Tyr's doctor and her name was Laura. As we were neighboring town's she used to come quite often to take a look at us.

My dad stopped the horse and got off quickly to talk with Laura. I could hear them from where I was.

"Laura... I'm glad you're here, give me a report on the situation. "

"Luxor and I could manage to evacuate half of the town. Especially women and kids, some of them decided to fight the goblins as much as they could to win some time for us. "

"What about Helena? And her parents? "

"I couldn't arrive on time, Siegmund... Your wife was already gone and her parents... You know... They don't need old people. "

I was speechless; My mom... Is she gone?

"Siegmund I know you're going to search for her but you know we can't follow you anymore like the old times... Luxor left that life long ago... "

"It's fine, I'll be good at my own Laura. I just need a favor from you... Take these two kids with you. The boy is my little kid and she's a good friend of the family. "

"Sure thing Siegmund. Good luck and be careful... This isn't a normal goblins raid. They seemed to be smart and well prepared. I'm sure there's a leader behind this attack also we spotted two gigantic ones. "

"Thanks, Laura. "

My dad came back to carry me and Martha with him. "Listen, Axel... Your father needs to go and search for your mother okay? Please just go with this woman. She will take care of you and Martha. "

Without noticing, I and Martha were already holding Laura's hands and my father was leaving on his horse. "I'll be right back Axel... Be strong my son! "

As soon as he left another muscular guy with a deep voice appeared from behind. "Laura! Laura! What are you doing? Don't you run like this again without telling me. " Laura answered. "I'm sorry Luxor but I had to come here. " I remembered that name from the talk she just had with my dad. He was Luxor, his husband.

"Who are these kids? Nevermind we need to go right now, take your horse. " At this moment I couldn't even understand anything anymore. My head was so confused... But I had one thing in my mind. Something I had really clear. I wanted to save my mom... I wanted to know where my father was going... All these stories my father told me, they weren't lies. They were hiding something from me that I wanted to know.

Probably at that moment, I made the worst choice I could have ever done. With all my strength I removed my hand from Laura's and started to run heading to the forest. I turned back to see that Laura was following me. "Wait! Where are you going? Just come back here! " No... I didn't want to come back. This was the first time I had something that clear on my mind. I kept running forward while looking side to side. Suddenly, crossing an alley I saw something terrifying. A goblin higher and bigger than the others was waiting on there.

I tripped on a stone on the ground and screamed. "Watch out! Don't come! " It was too late. By the time Laura heard my words, she was already surprised by the gigantic goblin. Without hesitating the goblin smashed her body with his club splashing all her blood on me.

I wanted to vomit, I wanted to cry, I wanted to die and forget all of this but my body reacted all by himself and I kept running forward, soaked in blood.