Betrayal 1

"I choose to leave. I can't make anyone else believe in my words if I don't believe in them myself. And I fully believe we as a race are capable of more than just hurdling together chief" he said with a straight face into the eyes of his father who had a look of disappointment on his face. He hoped just this time maybe his son would come back to his senses. Just this time his son would choose the right thing. Just this time he would choose his old man over his dream. But maybe that was not meant to be. 

"Very well then you may go tomorrow. Tonight we feast in the name of my son" the chief spoke, raising his wine high up as everyone cheered. Everyone except three people. The girl who had been serving the king his wine. A much bulky and buff looking man who was sitting one seat away from the chief and Carus himself. 

During the same night the whole village set up a giant campfire at the center of the village right under the box that had appeared a few days ago. The smoke moved right through the box going up as the numbers on it kept changing. Everyone laughed and danced around the fire. There was music and the sound of drums around the village center. People drinking beer together and laughing. Even the normally tense village chief laughed with everyone else. It was a time everyone enjoyed. 

Everyone except a few. The buff man named Radus. He was the next in line to become the chief of the giants. He was the current leader of the town guards and after Carus he was the one closest to the chief. Albeit he had no interest in the development of the giants and their people, he only seeked power for himself and why won't he. Being an orphan as a kid he was left to fend off for himself. The village did not have an orphanage so those who were left without parents were either taken in by someone or had to survive on their own.

They stole and worked and anything they could honestly to survive. As a kid he stole many times as many times he was caught and punished. His back still had countless marks from those torchers. Why did he have to go through all that? He was just a fucking kid who wanted to not die to starvation. Was being alive too much to ask for? Radus thought as the old memories flooded his mind he washed them down with a whole jug of beer as he sighed.

 Carus that bastard always had everything ever since he was a kid and he was idiot enough to reject it all. But Radus would be better, he wasn't someone who would throw away stuff. He would take everything and make sure that he would be the only one who gets it all in the end. 

Suddenly the village chief who was drinking out of a cup given to him by his own son started coughing. He coughed uncontrollably until he ended up coughing blood meanwhile a small smirk appeared on Radus's face.

Meanwhile Much further away on the edge of a waterfall outside the village, Carus and the girl who had served his father the wine during the meeting. She was someone who he had known since childhood. Even though as kids they weren't the closest aa he grew up and took the position of leader of hunters the two grew close together, very close one can say. As right now he sat near the cliff of the waterfall watching the moon with her

"Rena im..not sure. I am not even sure if what I am doing is the right thing. Ever since I was a kid I have been trying to follow my dream but am not sure even if it's gonna work out. What if i fail what if i dad is right what if in the end i-"

She placed her finger on his lips to quiet him down and calm him from all the stress that had been building in his mind. "You have done everything you could for your dream. Ever since a kid you went against everyone just for the sake of your dream and your ideas gave us a new way of thinking. Listen to me carus you are different, different from the rest of us. You are made for bigger things and i think you are the only one who can guide us to something more. Make us giants more than just us. Yes you are different, your ideas are different but it's a good different. And don't lose hope in yourself. If there are days where you think you cant believe in yourself remember that i always believe in you. So believe in me who believes in you okay?"

She consoled him as her voice almost worked like a bandage on every tension that had been cracking carus apart. Her words knew just how to fix him so he just smiled and nodded. But suddenly he heard noises coming from the village…panicked noises. He grew worried as he was not sure what was going on. He got up instantly letting go of rena's hand

"Somethings wrong in the village we nee-" just then he felt a sharp pain in his back but before he could turn around to see what it was. He saw Radus walking towards the cliff where he and Rena sat at. "Goodbye carus" he heard in Rena's voice from behind him as his body with a hole in his back from Rena's knife was thrown down the waterfall to his inevitable end.