Vonruil Meets Three Boys

As Vonruil comes out he feels lost. As the time went by Vonruil began to forget about everything. And though it hurt him to be defamed like this, but he still managed to live each day. But he never felt as low as today as he felt on meeting the three boys. Today for the first time he questioned the fact why he was even alive?

Vonruil didn’t realize when he ended up in the forest. Suddenly he felt like letting go of everything. He soon came near the mountain edge. Standing on the edge, it was not the first time for Vonruil, but today the thought of letting go, crossed his mind, which never did. Getting up Vonruil says “It’s time for me to leave and go into the abyss.”

Vonruil folds his hands and closes his eyes. As his hands light up, he places his right hand on his chest’s left side.

As Vonruil was ready to let go of his body, someone pushed him off the cliff. And as Vonruil was falling, he got pulled into a portal hole.

Suddenly Vonruil hears a voice say “So, you finally give up. And, look, someone even helped you die. Great, do you know how long I have been waiting to take your soul?”

“My soul?” Giving out a weak laugh Vonruil says “Living I’m of no use, what’s good my soul after I’m dead?”

“It’s really odd how you living beings feel so lost at a few bad words. Look at me, since the day of my creation, I have never heard a good word about me or for me.” The voice continues saying “But look I still do my job diligently. I take the soul away whenever anyone leaves it. (In a sarcastic tone) What to do, I am Satan after all!”

Hearing the voice, Vonruil turns back and says “What? Why are you here?”

The way Vonruil turned back, Satan said “OH, don’t do that. Don’t you know you have looks that can kill!”

Taking a sigh, Vonruil says “Till now I thought it was only a rumor, but now I know it's true. You really like joking around.”

Smiling Satan says “Well, I am the last living being anyone sees before dying, so why not make it a little fun !”

In a sarcastic tone Vonruil says “ What’s your intention? Do you think your jokes can make a dying person happy and let you take the soul away without you having any guilt.”

“Guilt? And me?” Satan says in a surprised tone “If I felt guilt, millions of souls would be roaming around. Which is exactly why I believe to do my work, one must not have a heart. Want to try it?”

“What?” Vonruil says surprised.

“The Warlord is Good, Satan is bad, but we both know everything.” Satan says in a poetic tone “You gave your dignity fighting Rival, your allies betrayed you, your fiance didn't trust you, the humans, for whom you almost lost your life, want to see you dead and are happy you are banished. Don’t you want to get back at them?

Vonruil says “No.”

Replying, Satan says “No? Vonruil, you weren’t born a loser, why did you have to deal with Rival all alone? Why did your allies betray you? You very well know if they hadn’t betrayed you, you would not have died. (Vonruil gets shocked on hearing Satan say he died) Vonruil, I am the SATAN, how can I not know when someone is dead or he’s been banished, but you didn’t let your soul leave your body cause you knew Rival can come back, and if that happens, you are the only one who can save humanity. Your fiance didn’t let you explain, you were dead, what could you do, but she didn’t listen to you. Did you really deserve all that hate, all of that betrayal? You saved humanity, yet you are the despised one. All of your allies are living a good life and I heard your fiance is going to marry a prince…”

Intervening, Vonruil says “Can you stop calling her my fiance.”

“Oh, I was only trying to motivate you.” Satan says “Ok, it doesn’t matter any more, you are leaving your body, so go leave it. Once I take your soul, whether your allies live a life destroying the humans lives and putting the blame on you, as the good doers, your love, I mean Sky, finds another love, and as for the humanity you died saving, well, they will just become zombies. As once Rival knows you are no longer alive, he will come back and take over. I could give you a chance though. If you don’t want to, then quickly, complete your transition. I'm busy, I have other souls to collect.”

After being quiet for a while Vonruil says “Chance, what chance?”

Smiling wickedly Satan says “Chance to get back what you lost! Show those allies what they lost by betraying you. Show that betraying fiance what she lost, what she’s losing even if she marries a prince, show Rival, no matter what or when, he can’t beat Vonruil, and that humanity for whom you lost your everything for, what they lost on losing you. Take the chance. One pill is all you need.”

Vonruil looks at the pill in Satan’s hand and says “What’s that?”

“This” Satan says “Is a pill that will make your emotions sleep. Your heart will beat, your soul will be with you, but sympathy, love, caring, affection, worrying, such baseless emotions won’t be felt. Only revenge, anger, terror, anguish to get what was truly yours.”

“What’s a being who can’t be passionate, caring or loving?....” Cutting Vonruil’s sentence midway, Satan says “What you just said now, did any of those get you anything? Come on Vonruil, it’s only a pill, the effect will fade away eventually, if you don’t like it, I can give you your emotions back again. But (Vonruil looks at Satan), I also need something in return.”

Still looking at Satan, Vonruil says “What, my soul?”

Smiling Satan says “Well, how I wish, the Enigma Warlord’s soul is a rare soul, but without a soul you can’t survive. You will have a heart, but no feelings, that’s all.”

“What do you mean by that?” Vonruil says confused “If I can’t feel anything, then what’s the point?”

“The pill will stop you from feeling, but you won’t be emotionless. Only they won’t control your mind.” Satan says “I want your emotions. Why, when the right time comes, I’ll let you know. So want to gamble? Take your well deserved revenge and show everyone what they lost betraying you, not trusting you, and turning their backs on you was their life’s biggest mistake.”

As Vonruil looks at the pill in Satan’s hand, the events flash before him, how he was betrayed by his allies, whom he looked up to as friends. His love, whom he had to leave for a girl only for the safety of the humans, the humans for whom he could lay down his life for. In return all he got was hate and curse.

Walking over Vonruil goes over to take the pill. Satan smiles widely as Vonruil picks the pill.

Seeing he is hesitant, Satan says “What’s the matter? Second thoughts?”

Vonruil picks the pill. Seeing Vonruil pick the pill, Satan says “Good, remember your emotions are physically mine, in return I grant you your life back, take your revenge and especially on the allies who betrayed you.”

Just then Vonruil wakes up on the mountain. As he gets up, he looks around and can see no one. Just then he remembers his deal with Satan and begins to talk to himself “Was that a dream (Suddenly remembering), no I was pushed by someone and my heart almost stopped beating, then the portal…It was real. (As Vonruil lifts his hand to move his hairs from his face, he notices a tattoo) What’s this? A seal tattoo? That means I did trade my emotions for my revenge with Satan.”

Just then a group of men walk by talking about Vonruil. One of them says “You know though Vonruil saved us, he betrayed his allies, if it wasn’t for them, we would have been dead.”

Another one says “Yes, in the beginning I thought he was good, but I’m amazed to know what an evil he was. He left his allies and joined Rival. But now the allies are also troubling us. Looks like the betrayal they faced from Vonruil is being vented on us.”

“Oh, I heard Xania is getting married to a prince.” Another one says “I'm happy for her, at least she’s not marrying that loser Vonruil.”

As the group was speaking rudely about Vonruil, for the first time he didn’t feel anything. Sadness, feeling of being left behind. Instead what he did, he never thought he would do. He struck the ground and made it rain on them and left them. Seeing the untimely rain, the men began to get worried.

One of them says “Rain? What? Damn my crops will be destroyed. Guys, I have to go back.” Another one says “Let's go back. We might get lost if we can’t find the track back.”

Hearing this Vonruil stops the rain and then says “So, this is what Satan meant by having less emotions. So, I will be an emotional fool, just not to the level of going out of my reach to help others. Actually, it feels nice, I didn’t get hurt and vented my feelings as well.”

Soon Vonruil reaches back home and sees the boys are sleeping but since Vonruil made it rain, the boys were shivering.

Vonruil goes over to the closet and removes two blankets and drapes them on the boys.

Satan was watching Vonruil’s every move from his hideout and says “Vonruil, no matter what you do or take, you can’t stop caring or loving. Cause if you do, then you would not be Vonruil. Now, you may not understand what’s going on, but you will soon. I’ll be back.”

As Vonruil sees the boys are sound asleep, he goes to a corner and sleeps on the ground. After a while a boy wakes up and sees Vonruil is sleeping on the floor with no pillow or blanket. The boy goes back to his friends and takes a pillow and a blanket from the boys and comes and slowly places the pillow below Vonruil’s head and then drapes the blanket.

Seeing him, one of the boys says “Hey, be careful, he’s Vonruil…” The boy who was placing the pillow says “I know, how many humans have purple eyes, I knew the moment I saw his eyes. If he wasn’t Vonruil, he wouldn’t have taken us in.”

“But, why did his eyes look so empty?” The first boy asks

Just then they see Vonruil stir, so one boy says “Hey, let’s go to sleep, let’s not disturb him.”

In the morning Vonruil wakes up to the smell of pancakes. He sits up and sees one of the boys is making pancakes as the other is hanging the clothes and the other is setting the table.

The table guy sees Vonruil is up and says “Morning, My name is Morris, he’s Sam and he’s Peter.”

Just as Vonruil was going to tell his name is Jason, Peter says “We know, you’re Vonruil but for everyone else you call you’re a human. So, don’t worry, we won’t let your cover down. And it’s only us three, we don’t have any family or friends, so don’t worry.”

Adding in Peter says “Ah, so what’s your human name?”

Replying, Vonruil says “Jason.”

Smiling Peter says “Great, then we’ll call you brother from now on.”

Confused Vonruil says “Brother?”

Sam says “You are the elder one , so it won’t be nice calling you, who’s also our saviour by his name, so we decided to add ‘brother’ to your name.”

“Elder, like what you guys are two or three years younger to me,” Vonruil says in a pissed off tone “Yet you make it sound like I’m a hundred years old.”

Peter says smiling “Brother Vonruil, me mean in respect.”

Getting up Vonruil says “It’s daylight now, you can go back to your homes. Though you are free to come anytime.”

Peter whispers into Sam’s ear “Home? But we live under the bridge.”

Sam says “Shush, that’s our botheration. We can’t impose ourselves on him, let’s go, Morris, let’s go.”

Picking up his towel and fresh clothes Vonruil says “Who was setting the table?”

Morris says “It was me, anything missing?”

Vonruil says “No, I have only one plate. It’s best if you buy some more and whatever you need.”

As Vonruil goes to the bathroom, Morris looks at the table and sees Peter and Sam look in confusion as well. Then suddenly smiling he says “He’s allowed us to stay! I set one plate as there weren’t any more. He said to buy more!”

Sam says “He also said we can come anytime.”

Getting happy Peter says “What? I thought we have a home now.”

Sam says “See I told you whatever they all say is rubbish, Vonruil is the best.”

As Vonruil comes over and sits, looking at the boys “Ok, what’s the problem?”

Morris says “Brother, sorry Peter thought you meant we can stay here from now on, but don’t worry….”

“First, tell me who you are, brothers?” Vonruil asks in a curious tone

Replying, Sam says “Well, not blood related, but we three are brothers, well since we all lost our families and started taking care of eachother. A few weeks after Rival was history. Your ally Ethor, he said you told him to take us to a safe place so we, our families and other people went along. But the place he took us was not an expected place. The elders got separated from the young. Most of us tried to escape. (with a sad face) some of us lost our families and some like us three, managed to escape and since then we’ve been living under a bridge, well in the night at least. Day time we can’t as the patrol team will capture us and take us back to that hell.”