I wake up in a jolt sweating. I look around to see I’m in a bed, in a room. It’s mine.
“Thank the Gods, It was just a dream,” I say under my breath as I take a long exhale.
As I look around once again I can see it is my room. I can see the painting of myself, the Large man with the crown who we call king, standing behind me smiling, while his blond beard and hair seemed to glow in the picture, like he was some divine being and his youngest son on the chair opposite me who was smiling as well also having his blonde hair seemingly glowing to a lesser extent as his father. I see my beautiful training gear that’s being worn down, but still somehow retains a lot of its beauty. I also see my sword which is at my foot of my bed as i get up.
I then hear a knocking on at the large doors that exit out to the hallway. I then hear a voice, “Miss Athelina, I’m entering.” A maid then enters my room. She bows before speaking again.
His Majesty Wishes for your presence in the throne room, Miss Athelina,” the maid said bowing once more. I just smiled before grabbing my training gear.
“Tell His Majesty I will be before him in just a moment,” I told the maid. She then bowed again in silence before leaving my room, closing the door behind her.
It wasn’t long before I was walking down the halls in my training gear wearing a imposing red silk red cape. I had to look a bit better for his Majesty, otherwise the other Nobles would start to talk and conspire against me, despite the fact that I am here to save them.
As I walked towards the throne room and stood before the giant doors that were decorated in gold, I saw two people standing in front of the door smiling, next to the guards who were standing stationary near the door, not moving an inch. The two smiling people walked towards me, as I them. On the left I could see my Magic teacher Gilles. He wore his usual robes, but had his hood off showing his spectacular lavender coloured hair. Unlike myself, he did not have to dress extremely nice for the audience as he was his Majesty's Magic consultant. On the right, I saw my swords arts teacher Athena. She was dressed in her shiny Silver plated Armour with her helmet and sword by her side. Her Silver hair glistening as the light hit it.
“LINA,” they both shouted at the same time while waving their arms in the air. They continued doing this as I walked closer, but when they saw that they were doing the same thing, they immediately stopped and looked away from each other in disgust.
“Hi you two, I see you’re still not talking to each other,” I said with a bit of a smirk as I continue to walk towards the giant doors. After saying that the two start to argue with each other about whether magic or Swords and martial arts are better than the other. I just try and zone it out as I continue to walk. As the doors open and I walk in with my two beloved teacher following behind me still arguing we get in front of his Majesty. I then take a knee to show respect to his Majesty who so kindly took me in, even if it was to eventually fight the Demon Lord.
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The two continue arguing before a large booming voice yells, “SILENCE!!!!!” The voice came from the man standing at His Majesty's side.
“YOU ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS MAJESTY, KING LEON, KING OF THE LANDION EMPIRE!!! SHOW SOME RESPECT YOU TWO SIMPLETONS!!!” the man yelled at the top of his voice.
My teachers then immediately shut up and bowed.
“HIS MAJESTY HAS AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE TO THE HERO ATHELINA!!” The man shouted yet again.
I looked up to his Majesty. He was rubbing his ear after hearing a guy just shout right next to him. His Majesty sat in the middle of three Large thrones. One was filled with the youngest son of the kind, who looked similar to that in the picture in my room. Still seemingly glowing though I don’t know how. For some reason it really pissed me off, but I sucked it up.
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His Majesty began to speak.
“While I would have liked it if my Eldest son was here for the occasion, we will just continue,” His Majesty stated before continuing to speak.
“Today we are here to Congratulate and say our farewells to Athelina, our soon to be hero,” His majesty said before the sound of clapping could be heard throughout the throne room. In between the sounds of clapping you could still hear the nobles gossiping to each other.
This unfortunately was a normal thing that happened. Not only was their hero a commoner, but one of the female gender. I bet it annoyed them. The face that my mere presence annoyed them gave me a strange sense of pleasure. Well, then again, they were all dick heads. But I could never completely get mad at them, it was said that all the other heroes in years past had all been of noble birth, even some being in the royal family.
Not long after the room fell silent before his Majesty spoke once again.
“We would like to offer you this sword and armour of the Royal line of heroes,” his Majesty said in which all the nobles looked at his majesty in surprise as a servant wheeled out Golden armour that looked so shiny that it could blind even those without sight. And the sword was sitting next to the armour glistening. Waiting for its next user it tip top shape. Even I was surprised. The sword I can understand, it is the right of all heroes to possess that sword, but the armour. The armour was something that was passed down to the royal heroes. Armour that only Royal heroes or those from the royal family ever wore. Not even heroes of noble birth were given that armour.
It is said that the armour was used by the first king of this land, when he founded this kingdom. All I could do was look at his Majesty in shock, just like the rest of the nobles. It took me a few second before I spoke up.
“Your Majesty, I am humbled by your offer, but i cannot accept the offer of the Royal heroes Armour, it rightfully should be worn, by you or the Princes,” I said in almost pleading tone.
His Majesty just Laughed at my statement before saying, “Nonsense, you are family and besides you're about to go risk your life in order to save all of ours, this is the least we can do.”
All I could do was kneel there in amazement. Despite all the nobles being against, his Majesty always supported me and helped me. He enabled the hero to be trained by the best and made sure they had whatever they needed. As much as he seemed like someone you couldn’t trust or rely on in battle, he was always there to help.
I then smiled and after letting out a small snicker before looking him in his eyes and saying in the most grateful tone I could muster, “I, Athelina Adamaris, Humbly accept this gift from his Majesty Arthur Goldwin, with my entire heart and soul.”
There was a moment of silence before I could hear clapping from my two teacher behind me and then the entire throne room erupted with the sound of hands slapping together begrudgingly by the other nobles.
“Well, why don’t you put it on and show us the power of the hero who will save us all,” his majesty said as the clapping started to die down.
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After a bit of changing into my new armour in a room a bit to the side of the throne room, I once again enter and take a knee in front of his Majesty setting the helmet for the armour on the floor next to me.
Everyone looks astonished and amazed. Even I think I look commanding. I smile at his Majesty and he smiles back.
Just as his Majesty opens his mouth to say something, there is a large explosion in the city square that seemed to shake the ground itself. Everyone tries to balance themselves and after a while it stops, but it is followed by another explosion. His Majesty who is in his throne holding on almost for dear life then yells in a demanding voice, “GO FORTH ATHELINA ADAMARIS, GO FORTH AND FIGHT THE DEMON LORD AND SAVE US, BUT FIRST AS A TEST OF STRENGTH, SHOW US YOU CAN SUBDUE THE THREAT OUTSIDE!!!”
I then proceed to bow once more before running out of the throne room with my teacher right behind me to look outside the window to the town with the ground still shaking and more explosions going off one by one.
As I look around, all I can see are flying demons breathing fire down into the streets and Large behemoth demons running around punching buildings and smashing them to pieces. I look at both my teachers and nod in approval with each other. We then head down the halls towards the town to face this threat.
Just as we begin running a flying demon crashes through the wall of the castle and knocks the three of us out the other end with it.