The Frank

The monster was having fun with me, while my every swing was just worse and lighter. It has to have an influence, as other monsters just let me be, so I could keep him entertained until the battle would be over. I couldn’t know what was going on there, but felt just terribly. I was really trying, but in my head there was a thought that maybe it was time for me to give up. After all, I was nothing more than a human. So even my enemy got bored and stopped pushing me away, because my attacks were nothing more than a mosquito’s bite for it. I just wanted to stop, I have already lived for so long. Even when they were people I had to fight for, maybe they would be fine without me. I didn’t have any strength to look back to find out what was going on, but I hoped that somehow we would win. I couldn’t be sure what kind of skills that one monster had, for sure it was the most evolved one I have met so far. If it was possible that it could control the rest, having its focus on me maybe was helping each other.

The ground was calling me to lay down and just stop trying, telling you have done enough. And I really wanted to follow it, being on my knees, resting my head on Frank. Why am I so tired? Why can’t I fight anymore? Why am I losing? I looked the monster in the eyes, all I found there was “Is it really all you got?”. Suddenly I felt like someone was helping me stand up. I looked up disorientated, that face looked familiar, but it didn’t belong to Rob.

“I can’t believe my son was so obsessed with someone like this.” He said disapprovingly.

“Are you Rob’s father?” I whispered surprised. “Why are you helping me?”

“Because I saw what happened and I saw Rob taking part in the battle, so I can’t put him and myself in any danger. We have a chance, but we need to get rid of the one here.” He looked at the monster, who was just observing us, without much interest, as it was asking if any fun would start soon. “You have killed a lot of them today, but should a hero be better than this? Do I really need to help you?”

“Is that how you are trying to motivate you?”

“I am trying to make you do the last thing, you have a sword, so it would be easier for you to kill it, while I will be distracting him with magic.” The elf was getting nervous that I was too stupid to understand right away what was on his mind. The monsters yawned bored and scratched its leg.

“Still why, you couldn’t just let me be. I think I wouldn't survive it anyhow.”

“Oh.” He smiled kindly. “I count on that, but Rob has only eyes on you, so at least I want him to remember you doing a great thing, so the process of grief would be easier for him.”

I realised he was a type that would never understand that what they were trying to do was just wrong, but he wanted to seem better than he actually was. However if his help would help me finish this and make us win I was ready to take it. Somehow his words motivated me, because even though I have never told Rob what I was feeling, I didn’t want to die anymore, so I could do it later, but he didn’t have to know that. And I didn’t care about the result, but I had to do this one more thing.

The monster finally put some effort into our fight, but still didn’t feel in danger, even though Rob’s father was a powerful mage, and his distractions must have been more painful than my last attacks. Spell after spell was thrown from the stick with a glass sphere on the top of it, but the monster was on guard. It was hard to actually get closer to the area where its core should be.

“We are not making any progress!” He commented. “I can’t keep going on like this forever so be a good hero and finally kill it!”

“I am trying!”

“Not enough!”

The anger started to grow in me. I was really trying my best, my whole life and there would always be someone to tell you that’s not enough. I took part in the battle, barely standing on my feet, exhausted and wounded. And we were in this place because of their stupid great plan. I was betrayed and made to live in despair for over a century. I was hated and my name was destroyed, while I was being innocent. My parents couldn’t die in their home like they have always wanted to, next to the sea, they loved so much. They had to run away, just for being my family. I missed so many things and… and…

I looked at the monster once again and before my eyes for a blink of an eye I saw Ned’s face, when I realised I wasn’t the only tragic hero here. Both Ed and Rob were torn apart between their two different backgrounds. That must have been especially hard for Maddie’s son, now the orphan. He also didn’t seem to enjoy the king’s heroes squad, so made to probably be part of it. Conflicted, tied to his responsibilities as a prince, a hero, maybe never able to decide about himself, like his mother always made complaints about it. He was doing what he didn’t want to, while Rob couldn’t even get a chance,and yet he was trying so hard. And I knew their fathers actions would be haunting them forever, but for sure it would be easier if the battle would be over. So I had to make that one final blow, if not for myself, then for them for the world so they could make their dreams come true, and for little Ma’ob to grow up in.

“Last one, all you got.” I said to Rob's father.

He nodded, understanding my intentions and took a deep breath to put all of his strength into the fire spell. The monster was finally surprised, so run under his pawn, which he tried to use to stop the fire coming from the sphere constantly. It let me get close enough to his abdomen, but any of my swings couldn’t reach the core. I was so desperate. Why is it not working?! The fire was getting weaker, I knew that the moment the monster would push me away, I won’t get close again. There it is! I saw a glimpse of it, through the wound I made so far. It was just hidden deep.

Why is it silent again? Without thinking I pushed Frank into the wound, but still it wasn’t enough. Then I was in the air, the flight seemed to take forever until I hit the ground. But before I fell I saw that the move monster made to push me away also pushed the sword deeper into the monster’s flesh. It was shocked too, when it turned into mud. It was over, I could close my eyes too.