Understanding

Lexie and yourself walk through the many halls of the castle in silence. Both of you quiet as can be just completely lost in your thoughts. Your trance gets broken out of when finally, Lexie breaks the silence, “You're not actually thinking about doing that are you?” Stopping in your tracks, you look into Lexie’s eyes trying to figure out her emotions and her thoughts, just trying to find out anything at all from her. You see love, worry, sadness, but most of all you see something that has been hidden from your sight.

The truth.

That's what you started to see in the reflection of her eyes. The truth was that you have always been someone’s pawn, in the game of kings and queens. You have never had the will to act and for your entire life that has always caused you many problems. After years of struggling and fighting, and going though unimaginable pain. Finally, for the first time, you stop running from the truth. For the first time in your life, you embrace the truth, you accept it. Why shouldn't you just accept the fact that you are a true powerhouse, that you can make your own decisions, that you shouldn't be just another pawn in the game.

You finally understand what must be done as everything that has happened to you is finally hitting full ****. You understand that you have never been strong enough. Not strong enough to save your parents or Claire all those years ago. Not strong enough to save Claire from **** even though you gave it your all. Not strong enough to save Lexie from the capture you just witnessed. Hell, if it wasn't for Rixx she may have lost her hand, if not something more.

Rixx..., you ponder hard, thinking about the man who has taken so much from you but has also helped you. He told you where to find Claire, he has spared your life multiple times and just the other day, he even save the love of your life and unborn child. Why couldn’t you save those that you love? Why couldn’t you protect what matters most to you?

Your mind raced between thoughts. You couldn't really focus correctly as you thought about issue after issue that affected your every day life. The fact is you have never been the best warrior, you have never been the greatest leader. When push comes to shove, the reality of everything is you're just a farm boy, a boy that was **** to grow up fast, a boy that never learned how to take control of your own actions.

With the rage amplifying in your veins, your body pumped the blood through out causing you to fill your entire being with power. You understand what you been doing wrong since day one, you have been running from the truth like that same old scared boy you were many years ago.

With another deep breath, you realize that your greatest strengths and weaknesses were the people you fight for, the people you care about, the people you...love. For the longest time you have always sat in the background, making excuses and allowing other stronger and more well renowned players to choose your path. If you just told Claire to leave with Ashe on that day she was taken from you, maybe they both would have made it out alive. If you stayed a few extra hours in the slums instead of trying to leave immediately, maybe she would have made it out alive. If only you told your sister to shut the fuck up and just stay hidden in the shadows, your sister wouldn't be dead.

The rage built inside you, the anger coursing through your veins, if only you did something. If only you said something. If only you made a choice. A decision. Anything!

For the first time you thought you saw the perfect option. Your entire family was taken from you, you now knew what you needed to do. You didn't want to sit around in the shadows and let other people decide your fate. You no longer wanted to be a pawn in the game full of powerful Kings, Queens and Knights. For the first time in your life, you weren't going to sit idly by and watch as others control your destiny. No longer were you going to be a passenger in the game of life.

Now was your time to shine, now was your time to make a decision, now was your time to take control of your path in life. No longer can you allow these pathetic chumps to guide you, no longer can you afford to allow these other players to decide your path, no longer can you sit by and allow another life to be taken from you.

It's your time...

It's your fight...

It's your destiny...

Today, it changes...

Today, you take control...

Today, your Path of Conquest begins...