Arthur couldn’t take it, he couldn’t just sit in class and watch Sarah being taken away from him. Although he told her that he doesn’t love her, he was lying. He was lying to protect her, he didn’t want other people to bully her because of him, he wanted to protect her and be with her. Arthur stood up in the middle of his class, didn’t pay attention to the teacher yelling at him, to come back to his seat, didn’t care about other schoolmates looking at him. He ran out with his backpack on his left shoulder to the school yard, where the new born couple was standing. He saw the imposter holding Sarah in his arms, kissing her sweet pure lips, that haven’t been kissed before. He ran to the imposter and punched him in the face as hard as he could.

-          Arthur? – gasped Sarah.- But I thought you were…. – she looked back at the imposter holding her and yelled from the top of her lungs.

The creature holding her was not Arthur. What they saw was a yellow eyed, red skin creature with sharp horns, about 5 cm long on his head. His whole head was bald, also he had no beard. The smile was frightening, it had sharp teeth like a vicious wolf and a furry tail. His long nails where inside her arms which were bleeding now.

-          Who the fuck are you? Or should I ask, what the fucked are you?! – Arthur shouted at a demonic creature.

-          Well puny human, I am Lord Maximus, leader of the Aalgathus of the demon tribe which is rising to become the leading tribe of the demon realm, and what we need is a human sacrifice which was born in the mid realm, just like you.

Arthur couldn’t hold his anger anymore. He started punching the demon with all his strength, kicking his legs with everything he had, but it seemed it had no effect.

-          Watching you struggle makes me laugh, weakling, now bow before your new master, - and he used a demonic spell on him, without any words spoken, bringing Arthur to his knees, - Now watch me devour your little girlfriend and making her my bride.

“No! NO! NOOOOO!!!”, the words were just sliding through his head, Arthur couldn’t understand what is going on, he tried to break free, but every effort he put up was useless. At that moment, Sarah started smiling.

-          So it finally comes to this….

On these words Maximus started extracting her soul from the body. It went up right to his mouth and was gone. What was left, was just an empty body of Arthurs one and only love. The sight of seeing it was unbearable, Arthur lost conciseness.

When he finally woke up, he was holding an empty body in his left arm, and the tail of the demon in his right arm. He didn’t know what or how it happened, all he knew, he needed help. Though he was lost in his mind because of this incident, the only name came to his mind, the only solution for help he could find was – The Traveller. He looked around. He was still standing in the same school yard but it was dark, the night had already settled in upon the sky.  While holding his love and the tail in his arm he ran back home, turned on his PC, went to the forums that he was the moderator of and found The Travellers profile ID. There was still only one message from him on the forums, but he was his only hope, since he knew about the demon realm. He clicked on PM and started to write a help asking letter.

“Traveller I know this will sound odd, but I need you. You said you knew about travelling through realms. I fought a demon today, he said that he is some kind of a Lord in his realm, by the name of Maximus. Also he has a tribe that tries to conquer the demon realm, I just can’t remember it’s name. Please I need you… I need your help. Please. He stole the soul of the woman I love and I need to get it back. I’m scared. I don’t know what is real now…. Please reply to me. I have lost conciseness when he binded me and made me to kneel before him. When I woke up I found his tail in my right arm and my… my girlfriends body in my left arm, though there was no sign of him. HELP ME! I BEG YOU!

You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.

Arthas”

He looked down from the monitor. His room was still the same. Messy, dusty, but the body of Sarah was in his bed while the tail was on his desk, right by the book he had as a gift from mom. He looked down to his backpack. The photo of him and Sarah was still there, and an unopened envelope too. Arthur opened the envelope and there was a letter.

“ Dear Arthur,

Happy 18th birthday. I wish I could tell you how nervous I am writing this letter to you. I already told you that I loved you since 5th grade, but now it’s 12th and you still don’t love me back. I hope this photo I gave you will remind you of the lovely times we had together, though you saw me as a friend, even though I told you how I told you how I feel about you, but it seems you think it’s just a joke or something. I wish that we could spend much more time together, I wish that everyone would stop looking at you in a bad way, I wish…. I wish to see you smile and tell me that you love me. Please don’t leave me alone after this birthday cause I need you in my life ever since 5th grade and you know why. Don’t want to repeat myself. Oh and by the way, I have a special gift for you today before history class, cause I know how boring you find it to be. Meet me in the school yard today. I will be waiting for you

Lots of love, Sarah”

Arthur finished reading the letter. He started crying. He felt pain and sorrow. “WHY? Why? Why…” went through his head. All he could think about was loosing Sarah for the rest of his life. It was a loss that he would regret for the rest of his life. And at that very moment he heard a signal, that he had received a new PM.

“Hello, Arthas,

Could you tell me your real name, and where you are? Just so happens to be, I have no memory of other realms, but there is still hope. I was always writing a diary, since I forget everything when I travel through realms. The weird part is, I’m the only one in whole history of travellers who looses his memory while travelling. It’s very hard to keep my sanity, but I am willing to help you and I’m not really sure why. Maybe you are the only person, who believes me in this whole messed up world, but how about a meet up? If my locators show correct info, I’ll be by your school in 5 minutes. I’ll fill you up with all information I can and help when we meet up. See you there.

                                                                                                                                                The Traveller”

“So it finally comes to this. I’ll meet him and find out the truth about this world.” Right after reading that message Arthur rushed out of his apartment, and ran as fast as he could to his school. When he finally got there, he saw a normal person around of 23 years old age standing and looking at him, while smoking the same cigarettes as Arthur does. The facial expressions were also almost identical, except for the scars on the face. Even their height was the same. Body build was also almost the same. Arthur just stands and watches him silently. Could it be another demon?