Death

The little girl took a look around and when she saw the two she showed a smile on her face.

"Mama!" She ran towards Rebecca and when she got close enough to hug her she reached inside her pants for something concealed but before she was able to pull it out she received a hard punch to her face.

The girl flew a couple meters back but landed on her feet, she was looking down and her hair was covering the features of her face.

"How did you know?" The girl asked, her voice was a little more mature than earlier.

"Something that came out of a dragon can't exactly be powerless, plus if you were a normal baby why were you wearing such strange clothes."

"Hah, if you won't tell me then I will just have to beat it out of you!" The girl's body started to deform and grow larger, her bones were snapping, her her limbs were twitching and her head was being raised.

While the girl's tone was happy and devious, the emotions on her face were those of sadnes, regret, and even madness. Tears were rolling down her face, but her expression soon changed into that of pain as a purple blade struck the back of her knee and cut all the way trough.

Rebecca soon went back to the shadows before a wall of spikes hot the place she was standing on, Arthur tried to attack it but a spike came from a thin air and struck him in the heart. He retreated back and assessed the damage.

'Shit, this isn't good, my heart got penetrated... oh fuck, blood is coming out, a lot of blood, I'm feeling lightheaded... I might faint...' He took a deep breath to calm himself down. 'No, no... I am fine, it doesn't hurt that much so it must be fine... That must be because of the adrenaline actually... I'm fucked, I might actually die.'

"Art, are you ok?" Rebecca yelled at him. Arthur raised his head and saw her going in and out of the shadows while fighting the monster.

"Hahahaha! He's not 'ok', I'll tell you what he is, he's dead, I completely pierced his heart, he doesn't have more than five minutes. Hahahaha" The monster now looked like if a 10 cm thick white elastic cloth was covering a human with tens of arms that were each holding a sword, it's head was the same except for the mouth and eyes, the mouth was stretched from ear to ear, it's teeth were showing, they were very pointy and their edges were ragged and were filled with rotting flesh.

But by far, it's eyes were it's most odd feature, they were completely black with red along the edges and different colored lines that were pointing at the center. They had eyelashes but they were so thin and scarce that you could barely see them. They were looking directly into the hole in Arthur's chest and it sent a shiver down Arthur's spine.

It was the first time he felt actual fear since it all began, life was like a game to him, all he had to do was fight bosses and get stronger, he forgot that there might be secret bosses waiting to be discovered.

But seeing Rebecca still slashing at the monster with attacks that it wasn't even bothered by, Arthur couldn't stand back.

At that moment he heard a quote by Martin Luther king Jr there he lived his life by.

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

This quote got him trough his brother's death, and was the reason he chose to forget about Emma and Ashley instead of adding even more trauma to his sad life, exactly when it started to get good, the world picked him up then threw him back down to earth.

He didn't give in to despair even if he would soon die, even if a part of his brain was telling him to give up, as long as someone cared for him, it would be enough to make him move forward.

And so he did, his whole body was covered in black scales, they made him feel like a god, like his earthly limits were being lifted from his body for a while, in less than a second he reached the white monster and before it even reacted he already made a hole the size of a punch all the way through it.

When the pain finally registered in the monster's brain it screamed it's lungs out and tried to impale Arthur but it could barely cut him.

They were exchanging blows with Arthur being in the as he was making the most damage but the monster's smile grew even larger as it blocked an attack Arthur threw, then another and so on.

"Hah, did you really think you can beat me? You aren't the only one who took lessons from that alien bitch, I spent a whole fucking century studying those moves and all she did was call me a failure! Can you believe it?"

The monster was distracted so Arthur made his hand into the biggest item he could by combining most of his transformations, his hand was the size of a basketball. He teleported it into the monster's face and cut it off but instead of destroying it's brain like he hoped it would, it instead just got absorbed by it his body was greatly healed.

"Hahahahahahaha!" The monster couldn't stop laughing, it wasn't even attacking anymore and Arthur took the chance.

He went behind the monster and used his blade to cut it's head off, when it hit the floor it still looked like a piece of fabric, there was no blood dripping from it.

The body started attacking Arthur and the head grew legs and watched the fight from nearby.

"Hohohoaaah! You really thought you can just kill me like this? You need to try harder than this if yo....!!"

Rebecca appeared out of nowhere and kicked the head as hard as she could, it flew like a football and landed in the ocean below. The body, not being able to see anything now was thrown in by Arthur.

"Nice... *cough* ... save. I don't know what I would without your help..." The lack of blood finally got to Arthur, he could barely stand up so he just lied down as Rebecca kneeled next to him.

She put his hand on her lap and they were looking in each other's eyes, not speaking a word as he closed his eyes and took his last breath.

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