What you hold dearest?

Chapter 0:3: Choice of choices

You ran out of the house and into the middle of the town looking around searching for a sign from anyone, it was no use. The surrounding red sky had turned into a ebony black and you began to feel a certain preassure. You closed your eyes as the pressure grew you gasped, it felt like the constantly growing **** on you would break your ribs and crush your insides. When you felt like your paintolerance peaked with the rising pain, you opened your eyes and then you saw it. A barn sized skull it was looking directly at you, into you almost it seemed. "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" A voice so loud everyone on the world should be able to hear you thought. "ANSWER, MORTAL!" Again now a tad more aggressive. "NO!" You yelled. Turning away from the skull to look around you noticed it were only the skull flying infront of you seeming to hold you with a ray that came from below, but unable to look down you just closed your eyes again. "I AM KNOX, THE GOD OF INNER CONFLICT." The voice bellowed so loud it felt like your eardrums might rip. "I CAME TO YOU TO GIVE YOU A CHOICE. I WILL GIVE YOU THE COICE OF SAVING ONE THING AT THE COST OF THE OTHER." You felt like you might faint if the voice would carry on any longer. "SAVE YOUR HOME, TO KEEP YOUR FAMILY AND GO ON TO BECOME THE STRONGEST KNIGHT IN THE ROYAL GUARD, BUT NEVER COME HOME, MARRY, FATHER CHILDREN OF YOUR OWN, VISIT YOUR LOVED ONES AND LIVE IN SOLITUDE, FINDING YOUR END IN BEING BETRAYED BY THE ONE YOU MIGHT CALL VALUABLE THE MOMENT BEFORE YOU FALL. IN SHORT LIVE THE LIE OF NOBILITY AND BRAVERY OF LEGENDS." You tried to listen but it was hard when it had concluded it sentence you felt blood running down your eyes and ears as a consequence of the loudness of the voice. "OR BANISH YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS OF BECOMING A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL GUARD, BANISH YOURSELF FROM YOUR OWN KIN BECOMING A PRESENCE SPITED BY HUMANS. LET YOUR FAMILY AND TOWN DIE AT MY HAND AND LET ME DEVOUR THE EVEN GROUNDS OF YOUR HOME AND ONLY RESCUE ONE SOUL AND BODY CHOSEN BY ME UNEFFECTED BY YOUR BANISHMENTS. MEET MANY KNOWN TO KILL AND BEFRIEND THE ENEMIES OF YOUR RACE AS THEY WILL BECOME CLOSE TO YOU. BUILD COLUMNS TO HELP YOU CARRY YOUR BURDEN."

You opened your eyes again and found your self on the ground panting and as you tried to stand up you started lauging, to think you just had a bad dream and it feeling so real made you want to laugh. It was only at that moment when you realized the blood on your hands and your face as you rubed your eyes and ears. All of what had just happened was REAL?

What was dearer to him, was it this dream of his with no one to share the life with, or was it friendship which you never had besides Abbigail. You noticed that the skull had said you could save your family but never see them again. Friendship or the royal guard?

As you layed there you started crying. How could you live in solitude like that you always needed people around you wether it was Abby or your siblings, but how could you let all the whole town die but one person. Your head feeling ablaze and your emotions and thoughts running in circles as you screamed "I WOULD RATHER BE AN OUTCAST THAN NEVER BE WITH MY LOVED ONES!" You didn't yet know the extend of your decision but uppon finishing your scream white light engulfed you.

Coming to your senses you awoke in the night at the bottom of a huge and thick tree. Sitting up you noticed another body right beside you, a smaller body indeed with ginger hair. It was Abby, you stared at her and tears started pressing against your eyes trying to lash out but you tried to hold them back, only accomplishing to reduce your oncoming rage and sorrow to small sobs of misery.