Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-37981206-20190723213858/@comment-40209673-20191109213144

Finally. Here you all are.

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Vix-Edgar

I sat on the edge of my bed in the middle of the night. Thor I can't sleep. I looked at the notebook in my lap picturing Rita. How could she like, let alone love someone like me? She could get anyone she wants! Perfect lyrics.

"But, she loves me, she loves me, 

''Why the hell she love me? ''

When she could have anyone else?” 

Why the hell d'you love me?

'Cause I don't even love myself”

Should I? Yes? No? I don’t know. What else am I supposed to write? I dunno. I smacked my head. hen there was a knock at the door. Who could it be? I called "come in!" and the door eased open. It was miss doom. She walked in and sat right next to me.

"Watcha doin?" She asked, pointing to my notebook.

I quickly flipped it to another page. This will break Aud's bubble if she even has one left. "I'm uh.. working on a song."

Her eyes glittered with hope. "About?" Her voice was an octave higher than usual.

"Rita."

She squeaked. "AH YES PLEASE LET ME HEAR IT!"

I internally smirked and I picked up my guitar and played the short intro. Her expression is going to be priceless, I know it. I took a deep breath, I hadn’t really sung in front of anyone but Rita before. But Aud’s face will make it all worth it.

"Yeah, you don't wanna make this work" ''You just wanna make this worse Want me to listen to you But you don't ever hear my words You don't wanna know my hurt,''"

Her expression went from light and hopeful, then kind of confused and then it fell to dissapointed. I could've sworn I saw some tears in her eyes. I tried my best not to laugh.

"Uh.. uh...." Aud tried to say something. She opened her mouth to say something again, but closed it. "I came here cause we're being invaded again."

I jumped to my feet."Why didn't you start with that?!"

Aud didn't say anything and then ran out the door. Her look was absolutely priceless. I love teasing her. Oh yeah… invasion! I hurriedly grabbed my crossbow and machette. Thor please don't let anyone get killed, I prayed silently running out. There was fire everywhere. Guardians were fighting but we were outnumbered. And to make it worse, there more more waves of people coming in. Oh Thor no...​​​​​​ ''where's Rita? ''I scanned the area but I couldn't find her. I ran, ''how could this happen so quickly? Why didn't I hear this? This is illogical! AM I GOING INSANE?! AM I DYING?! ''I easily shot a man running towards me. Okay the blood going down his forehead isn't going to help my inability to sleep.

We’re all gonna die. We’re gonna die. More people were coming, we could hardly hold

I raised my crossbow again to shoot someone in front of me, but something about him was familiar. He had a perfectly chiseled head and was grinning impishly despite the chaos. His hair was shaven and an auburn brown. His grey eyes sparkled dangerously, as if challenging someone to go and face him. He had a scar on the right of his nose, and two cuts on the left side. Then he locked eyes with me.

"Oh thor no... no no no," I said, tears forming in my eyes. "KAI!!"

Kai's eyes widened and he ran towards me, tacking me in a hug. I nearly fell over but I caught myself. I hadn't seen him in years. I didn't want to cry, but I couldn't help it. Kai had been my best friend since birth.

"Kai, I thought you were dead," I wept.

"I almost did die... but then they saved me," he said, gesturing to the invading army.

"They SAVED you?!?!" I screeched.

"Oh.. I see you are a guardian." Kai said, noticing the emblem on my ring.

"And I see your wearing armor made from rumblehorn hide." I grimaced.

"They told me to. Besides, the dragon would've slottered us all sooner or later, so we had to do something about the raving beast," Kai shrugged.

I blinked twice in a row. How... how could he think like this?! "Dragons aren't like that! I have two dragons and they protect me!"

"From who, the people who protected me?"

"No, the people who killed Grima!"

Kai looked at me with wide eyes. “Wait… they..?..”

Tears fell down my face. “Yes… they captured her along with other innocent and tortured her and probably others, to death.”

“I’m so so sorry Vix I didn’t know,” Kai said, hugging me again, “I didn’t know. They were so nice to me, and I..”

“You can start over, Kai, you can join us and make it right,” I said, putting my hands on his shoulders.

“No…” Kai said, breaking away.

“What? Why?” I said, shocked. Kai isn’t like this. “You don’t understand. They… it’s a life contract, Vix, if… if I leave they’ll…” Kai faltered.

“No you can hide we’ll defeat them!” I said.

“BIRDBRAIN!!!” Shouted a loud booming voice.

Kai looked over, and saw a man with an eyepatch and a brass arm. He had scars all over his face and wore a cape made from zippleback hide. “Uh… sir…”

The man raised a dismissive hand. “I don’t want to hear it. You have the chance for a promotion.”

I mouthed “no.”

“And you simply have to kill that guardian.” He pointed his crossbow at me.

“Kai no,”

Kai looked, wide eyed, from the man to me. “Vix, I…”

“Kai no,” I said, putting my hands out as if to block something.

“Do it birdbrain, you’ve been working at this for years,” Said the man.

“I… I can’t…” Kai stuttered, looking at me helplessly.

“Yes you can,” said the man, “you’ve killed countless dragons! A measly little child won’t be that hard.”

“But sir…” Kai faltered.

“Well if you can’t then,” he raised his crossbow NO and NO shot Kai right in the back.

“NNOOOO!!!” I screamed.

For a bit, in my head, I imagined Mr. Baardson and my dad. Little me, sitting, crying, being hugged by Grima, her shielding me. “HOW DARE YOU!” I yelled at him, “HOW DARE YOU!!!!”

“Oh so you’re a friend?” Snickered the eyepatched man.

“YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT!” I yelled. Not another one, no please, thor no. 

“Sure I will,” the man laughed.

“AAAGH!” I screamed, running towards him, my machete ready.

I swung at him, nearly cutting one of his legs off. He did nothing but wince. This guy must be used to pain. I swung upwards, but he blocked it easily.

“YOU KILL YOUR OWN MEN, YOU, YOU, YOU EVIL MADMAN!!!” I yelled in his face, swinging blindly, cutting at everything I could reach.

''Why is this man letting himself be killed? ''I stabbed him in the chest, and he grinned at me though while being in extreme pain. He choked out some last words, “this isn’t the end.”

I ran back down to Kai. Please, please don’t go. I  ripped off the ends of my sleeves, and tied them to the tip of the arrow that had punctured Kai’s shoulder. The wound doesn’t look fatal. I picked him up, leaning him against my shoulder and I dragged him back to my hut. I opened the door, and laid him down gently on the bed.

“Stay here Kai, you’ll be safe soon,” I said, patting him on the shoulder.

A loud CRASH made me jump and I turned around, machete in hand, but saw the relieved face of Rita. But she had broken my door down… She ran and hugged me.

“Are you okay?” She asked, looking me over.

“Um…” I looked back at Kai.

“Who…?...” she asked, “is he dead? Knocked out?”

“My… friend,” I sighed.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but she couldn’t get herself to. “I’m sorry Vix. Is he okay?”

I whipped around, tore off Kai’s glove, and put my two fingers on his wrist. I sighed in relief.

“There’s a pulse.”

“Um, Vix, the thing is, we’re… I’m just… scared,” she said looking into my eyes. “there’s so many of them, and more coming I don’t know if we can-“

I was thinking the same thing, but we can’t stop trying. “Rita, I know it looks hard but we can’t give up hope because we ARE the hope. People are depending on us for their lives. And I will protect you, I promise.” I put my hand on her shoulder and kissed her on the cheek.

“We hardly got over the last one and then they surprise attack us, I don’t think we’re ready,” Rita sighed. “I want to believe that we can, Vix, but there’s so much happening…”

“I know, I know. But we have to put forth our best effort, go all out, all in and never ever give up. I wanted to be a guardian since I was little because I wanted to protect people. And after my dad was killed by them, I had an even stronger urge to do that. On one of the missions, I saw innocent families and kids and I knew I had done the right thing. We need to protect them. We knew the risks of being a guardian. I know that if I die I can die peacefully knowing I helped others,” I said. “and I understand. I’m… I’m still scared too.”

''Thor, Vix, you sound like a preacher. ''

“Thanks,” she said as she hugged me.

“Of course,” I smiled.

I put a hand on Kai’s shoulder and whispered, “I’ll be back, just you wait.”

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MWAHA hope y’all likethed it!