I guess you could say that my life was full of adventures, fun and happiness full freedom and liberty but then I would be telling you a lie.
It was full of destruction, hate, war and then peace finally it was over we had won I could return home it was then not two weeks into my retirement I learnt I had developed a disease that was incurable with current medicine I now have to deal with the fact that I fought for most of my life for my country only to learn I couldn’t enjoy my retirement that I couldn’t enjoy the peace I so longed for.
Annoyed would be a word for it pissed would put it mildly now someone has come to me on my death bed and offered me an option sign a contract and be cured but I would have to leave everything behind my friends, my brothers and my sweet mother may Gaia rest her soul or I could take the other option and die some time later
“Why me?” I ask
“i have reviewed the history here and though you weren't near the front line for most of the conflict you have proven yourself a valiant soldier in the time you were there” said the woman in a weird dress
As I pour over the contact for any unscrupulous fine print that might be there I say “and what might you want to do with little old me” as I notice the 5-year term on the contact and point to it “you need me for five years what would you be have me do in those five years?”
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The woman stands up straight and says “I would like you to act as a contract bodyguard and your military knowledge will come in handy come now my time is limited, I will grant you four boons on top of your curing”
Damn she’s laying it on pretty thick kind of like a con artist feeling kind if mischievous I start nodding my head and start saying “yes sounds reasonable obviously a great deal you are offering me here I accept this contract” laying the sarcasm on thick as thickened cream
“good” say the woman “all I needed was a verbal agreement was all I needed I got the contract idea from the military recruitment centre it only had the bare minimum on it and its binding” as the contract and the reality around me starts to tear itself asunder burning and screaming as it does
Her voice booms in my mind as she says “this will hurt but it is worth it I'm using the energy from you being erased from that reality to heal you and grant you powers the process of you being summoned by my follower is another matter” as the mind numbing pain settles in wracking ,my body muscles spasming or what left of them anyway “oh I forgot to ask what powers do you want” she says calmly I try to focus enough to think what I want her to give me “self-regeneration and the power to control it as one power , the power of the earth itself the power to bend it to my will soil, metal or stone shall bend to my will, my youth for I have wasted away from the constant struggle of war and lastly minor mastery of magic” as my mind slowly goes dark I hear the woman whisper “In my mind sleep now my child for you gave a lot head of you”