Ch.1 End of a new beginning

Chapter One:

End of a New Beginning

"Eukaperok" or, as I like to refer to this universe, a gangster's paradise. "Eukaperok" is conspicuous like the name comes off.

Ignard is a god from this world who summons people from other planets. My name is Omar Marshall, I was summoned to change the tide in a war against a Demon Army that disrupts his world every thousand years. In those thousand years, a new Demon King arises and causes terror and mayhem across this beautiful but forsaken land.

It is then that he drives out the god, Ignard. Forced out of his own homeland, due to the kryptonite energy that plagues his world. He summons regular average humans to fight in a meaningful war for us. Held against our will, to either die or fight.

In the beginning, however, I was not alone. Instead, I had been one of ten champions picked to help the God of this world and save Eukaperok. For whatever reason, a seventeen-year- old, like me, was asked to bring peace back to Eukaperok. The other nine and I that were spawned into this world worked together in two small groups.

We created a guild known as AFK. "Away and Forsaken from our Kind" is what we came up with. A friendly reminder of who we were and where we came from. The driving motivation of the guild to get everyone home, we also made a priority to help innocent bystanders along the way. Since then, only two of us have remained in this long death march home.

"Gah!" my voice exclaimed to the back of my throat.

My sword struck the Demon King Kaiju. I detested myself, becoming battle- tested or one of those hardened war veterans. I could sense the end of the Demon King's life. Through a lengthy war on the desert lands of the world's capitaI, Elbaronce. The burning crisps and beneath my feet, coiled. Finally, we were nearing the end. All the fighting, all of the loss, and all the sacrifices to reach this point culminated in this killing silhouette.

My hollow spirited voice collapsed in a last gasp. "Finally. It's over..."

My clothes became nothing more than mere tattered rags of my former pants and long gray coat. I did not notice until now or cared to look. My longsword struck the heart of the King, kneeling in defeat. I showed him no mercy.

"I guess my time has finally come to an end, huh? Who would have thought a pathetic human like yourself would do the bidding of a god. And win..." The demon king said as he began to laugh in my face, coughing up his own blood. My only partner who has survived up to this point grabbed my trembling shoulder to let me know he was still alive.

"Magnus!?" I spoke. Magnus Kelly, a young Irishman with a crimson, beard, and hair to match. During our time in this world, he was my shield for my blindside throughout our battles together. My sworn brother in battle, the perfect combination. We trained together and fought together to reach this point. My life was saved by him, the same number of times I had saved his more times than I could count. Our bond is deeper than brothers by blood.

"Go ahead and finish this, Omar , I will go and activate the signal fire so we can finally escape this hell hole," he stated coldly. He turned without another word and walked away to fire off the beacon of victory.

Magnus walked through the quiet battlefield, the winds rushing him towards the signal fire. I turned away while he continued. My eyes rested back on the soulless Demon King and his dying breaths.

"All the lives you've ended, all the friendships you've ended, and all the hopes and dreams you've shattered. It's all been avenged by the piercing of my blade, you bastard!" I yanked his carcass off my blade, which had pierced the Demon King's heart. As I watched the blood pour from his fatal wound, I let out a furious savage roar of victory.

Kaiju's reaction turned out to be the opposite I expected. He should have groveled, begging for mercy. Instead, he laughed at me. "You have escaped death, boy, " the Demon King spat, feeling the last of his life draining away.

"But remember this! And that is that you will carry these war wounds with you for the rest of eternity." His words clung to me, I recognized that I truly would remember this hell I endured when I returned back to my world.

"For me, Kingsman, death is an escape as I will join my brothers and sisters in death. Where shall you go to escape the madness ? Innocents' loss is never retained."

"Tsk."

In blind fury, I slammed my blade back into his bleeding heart, creating another hole into his chest. No time to ponder his taunt, for fatigue and exhaustion removed all rational thought from my mind.

His body slid from the edge of my blade, at my feet, now laid a lifeless corpse. I dropped my long sword with feelings of shock and relief flooding through my body, like a hurricane. I fell onto my knees, gasping for air.

I sat there in the blood- stained sand as the wind blew. The sky was an aura of magenta , and a purple moon had appeared. I could hear the animals finally humming a peaceful, harmonious tune. The stench of battle now faded from around me. I sat on the ground holding my hands together. My hands were drenched in the crimson blood of the Demon King Kaiju.

"Is it finally over?" I asked myself silently in my head while I was physically shivering on the outside. I'm unsure if this panned out to be another sick twisted game.

You know... I think this is the first time my eyes are able to pierce the stars and capture this world's true beauty.

Magnus and I finally won the battle against Kaiju. The demonic energy faded from the Demon King, which brought so many horrors into our once innocent lives. I finally got from my knees, remembering that completing our objective meant we could go home. In joy, I stood up and began to walk away from the graveyard in the smoky desert.

"It's finally over..." I repeated as if I could not believe the words I'd initially uttered.

The signal fire Magnus built using the weapons of the fallen enemies for the completion showed on the tower burned into the magenta sky. Now lit up blossoming like a phoenix bird, I could see Magnus with his fist raised high in the distance. I could see his smile. The more I got closer to him, the brightened the entire mood of my fractured, battle-weary soul.

The sand quietly blew across the bodies of the fallen until all th at remained was clean and appeared pristine. Changes in the world lightened followed, as if a deep darkness that the Demon King had brought to the land, lifted all the evil and left, into the beautiful aura unfurled in the magenta sky.

"We did it, Brother!" Magnus stated, giving me a thumbs up. Tears of relief stained his cheeks, well as my own.

We ran towards one another like little kids and embraced each other. Overwhelmed by emotion, we could not hold in the tears , from the loss of our comrades, and our joy in completing the mission.

"We did this for all of them. The ones who could not make it here to this very spot we are standing," I said as I continued to pour out all the pain, I endured through my tears with my brother who sobbed with me. For a while, neither of us spoke as the emotions were too raw, too fresh to allow any thought or sound besides our breathing.

"Remember what I promised you?" He exclaimed at last, breaking the revelry of the moment."I would get you back to that blessing of a life you have." He squeezed my shoulder and smiled as he brushed the tears from his cheeks and regained his composure. The people I met here were like family, through all the hardships and obstacles we'd faced. Our guild had each other's back, and now only Magnus and I stood here.

Only the two of us...

The end goal for the group was always to send at least one of us home. I was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Looks like we were able to keep our promise." I said to Magnus , but he had no time to respond as the sky above us started to change.

Magnus and I heard a loud sound from a pulsing blue light that appeared. A door in the sky opened from the light, with two heavenly figures walking out of it casually, as I might have done entering a new room. The taller of the two descended ahead of the other smaller figure; His broad shoulders straightened approaching Magnus and I. Ignored, the God of Eukaperok gave a sigh of relief as the soles of his feet touched the hot sand.

He slowly approached us simultaneously, clapping his hands slowly. "My... My... I can't say I am not impressed. Your will to live is impeccable." He stated as he grabbed both of our shoulders with a smile.

"Well, Overseer Cassie. A promise is a promise, so see to it that these heroes are sent back to their world." He said to our over seer who by then unhooked his face to reveal himself. He has been keeping knowledge and record since the birth of this world. A young, cocky individual who helped us along the way came as a shock to Magnus and me, who had relied on the old man for advice more than one time.

Ignored, he turned his back to us, and more of the surviving soldiers from the war showed up. They began to fill the warzone, and Ignored and the people rejoiced in ann ouncing his return. The people chanted our names, like they looked at us like gods, but we were no gods, just mere mortals wanting to get home. We saved a lot of lives on the way, and some of them stood in the crowd before Magnus and I, but our intention was to leave this world and return home.

Ignored continued to gloat towards the soldiers, who followed in his grace's footsteps. Taking all the credit. "Humans are something, am I correct? I know how to pick the best of the best."

My face grinned as Cassiel walked over to me. "Omar, is something bothering you? Kaiju is finished, and you are moments from returning home," Overseer said in a bewildered voice as he turned to face Magnus and I once more.

"This world... will the war ever end, truly? How many more lives must be spilled? It can not keep going on like this. Can it?" I grumbled. Knowing he worked hard for ignoring the whole time left a bitter taste in my mouth.

"If only it were that simple child. Unfortunately, the way of the demons and common folk could never coexist in this cruel world. That is just how life is, I suppose. Egos are larger than the bigger picture." Cassie muttered.

I sat in a trance for a short stint before holding my tongue from further unnecessary questions. I had been here too long.

And there were more questions than when I first arrived.

Overseer smiled slightly, putting his hands together, asking if we were ready. For a moment, Magnus and I looked at each other hesitating, we realized this might be the last time we saw each other for a long time.

Part of the plans we, as a guild, had made early on was to exchange cell numbers in case we ever managed to make it home. This small hope became a driving force in keeping our minds focused on home and not giving in to the despair of how our numbers were shrinking and the difficulty of the world increased.

"Goodbye, my boys. Do try and live a regular life now." Finally, we were leaving. As the magical light surrounded us, memories of all the pain I went through, the good times I had, and the adventure I went on hit me all at once.

Magnus and I were the sole survivors of our guild and defeated the Demon Army. Even now, it seemed almost unbelievable that this horror was finally over.

"I guess this is it now, I hope you do fine without us, Overseer." Magnus laughed.

"He'll probably be miserable now that the hideout is empty, outside of Zeo." We shared a laugh, and then the light overshadowed us. I could not see at all in the light but only heard the voice of two men.

"Goodbye, my boys!" I recalled it being the voice of the Overseer, and then Ignored followed with a startling phrase. "May we meet again Magnus Kelly and Omar Marshall..."

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