Nightmares

Although Seer may have nicely tucked Doremifa into quite a comfy bed, it didn't affect his dreams in the slightest.

"Where am I? Why is everything dark and red?"

"That's quite simple brother, this is your guilt, your rage, your wish for revenge, it can be many things sure but in the end it all leads to wrath doesn't it?"

Doremifa quickly tried to pull out his sword but there was nothing there.

"Are you sure you can be a King? You? Don't make me laugh, clearly, I'm more fit for it."

"FIT OR NOT EVERYONE NEEDS TO RESPECT THE HIERARCHY OF HOW THINGS WORK."

"Hierarchy or not, this was all clearly for the best."

Solatido had white hair and was wearing a simple outfit, his white shirt was tucked into his dark black pants, nothing was out of the ordinary, his hair was short and his eyes were blue.

"YOU BETTER HAND THE THRONE BACK TO ME."

"Or what? Don't you remember the countless times we've fought? You have no magic, so there is nothing you can do to begin with."

Doremifa stopped caring about the conversation he was having and immediately tried to strike his brother down with all his might, whilst this happened, the room glowed greatly and radiated the red color around it, the walls and floor seemed quite fleshy.

But in the end, Solatido just kept on dodging, it looked as if his feet barely even touched the ground after each punch.

"Whatever will I do, oh no. Just give up brother, you're too weak, nor are you the rightful King anymore, deserving of the throne or not this is all just pointless."

"YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THIS, YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO JUST WAIT UNTIL YOU EARNED YOUR POSITION."

"Oh, I earned this, just not the right way, anyways, I've had enough fun with you, bye-bye."

Solatido disappeared in thin air

"I'LL GET MY REVENGE, I'M NOT GOING TO WAIT MUCH LONGER, WHETHER YOU HAVE TO DIE OR NOT THE DECISION IS YOURS."

Doremifa let out his anger by slamming his fists into the ground over and over and over again, each strike shook the room more and more until the room seemed to have had enough, It grew arms and started to drag him into the floor.

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH ME!"

He broke free from the embrace of the room and ripped the red flesh arms apart, but this did not stop them from coming.

After ripping and tearing through them for long enough, the arms eventually won and started to sink him and combine him as part of the room.

This led to him being tied to a chair in a single room with hundreds of eyes around him looking straight at him.

"What the hell are you looking at."

A little while after, another Doremifa appeared, he looked straight at the original and said.

"You know what you've done." And stared at him dead in the eyes.

"Shut up, you don't know what you're talking about."

Another one appeared

"You're not worthy." And repeated the action of the last.

"YES I AM, I WILL BE KING DOREMIFA RULER OF THE SOUND KINGDOM."

This didn't stop them from appearing, more and more would come telling him and reminding him of the actions he had committed.

"You're weak."

"You're terrible."

"No one would want you as King."

"Even Novis would do better."

"Give up."

"You will never be as good as your brother."

"No one cares about you or what you do."

"You're just a pawn."

"You're better off dead."

Solatido then whispered in his ear.

"Do you understand things better now?"

Doremifa did not respond, he was too dreaded and depressed to move at all.

"That's what I thought, now anyways, how about I show you, my new friend."

Seer shyly walked in holding Solatido's hand.

"Hey there Seer, how do you feel about Doremifa now that you truly know him?"

"Well, you seem a lot better Solatido, I feel like I wasted a lot of time on all the stuff I've made for him."

"Right? He can be so useless sometimes, here I have a great solution for this."

"Of course you do, you're so smart and nice, I'm surprised you're even related to this, thing."

Solatido creates a sword out of thin air and hands it to Seer.

"Here, how about you quickly kill him, and then we can have a great time back at my palace?"

"Anything for you Solatido, sorry Doremifa, you simply just weren't enough, at least now you'll be useful, thanks to you I got to meet your amazing brother, see you in the next life."

Seer thrusts his sword straight through Doremifa's heart, causing him to wake up immediately

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Seer immediately went to check up on him.

"IS EVERYTHING ALRIGHT? ARE YOU HURT?"

Doremifa grabbed his shirt.

"YOU BETTER NOT LEAVE ME ALRIGHT? YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? IF ANYONE IS BETTER, SUPERIOR, OR HOWEVER AMAZINGLY STRONG THEY ARE, YOU BETTER STAY WITH ME YOU GOT THIS? YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU GENIUS STUPID PRODIGY PERFECT GINGER BOY."

"OF COURSE DOREMIFA, OF COURSE, DON'T WORRY."

He lets go of him and starts to regain his thoughts.

"Did you have a bad dream buddy?"

"Yeah, it wasn't very pleasant, but it's fine it's just a dream."

"Well, if it makes you feel any better, we've been making some good progress on what's been happening around here."

"Oh really? Anything interesting?"

"Sort of, Luce says that the people seemed to be infected, or something similar, he's been needing to cover most of his face and his hair now which is a little weird."

"Do they know him or something?"

"He says it's his first time being here, so unless they heard of him from another Kingdom, then I have no idea."

"So what's with the infection? How does he know all of this?"

"As per usual he's leaving a bit of information out, probably for our sake or his own, but it's related to their memory somehow."

"Maybe that's why no one recognizes me or remembers me."

"Could be."

"So where is everyone now?"

"Well, the Wanderer is staying here since they don't feel too well, Luce and Novis are out trying to learn more about the Kingdom."

"Have I been sleeping for too long?"

"You have been for about six hours, it's currently nighttime."

"Hmmm, I would like to go and help and all but, I'm not in the right headspace at the moment."

"You've done enough Doremifa, let's just learn a little more about what's going on, and then we'll talk to your brother alright?"

"Yeah, sounds good enough for me."

"Perfect."

Meanwhile, Novis and the fool are out skirmishing the areas.

"Hey Luce, are you really sure something is wrong with these people? They look pretty normal to me."

"Doubting me for once huh, that's new."

"Obviously not, I'm more curious how you got to that conclusion."

"This is well, quite personal really, but since you are who you are and you're quite close to me, I'll explain it a little."

"Thanks."

"Within my lifetime I've faced many foes, Gods, mortals you get the gist, but there was one particular one that stood out the most, he had a magic no one had ever seen before or even heard of, almost as if he was meant to fight me particularly. Point being is, he could do terrible things, memory loss being one of them."

"So how do you know it's him?"

"I doubt that it is him, but there's a good chance he's related to all of this, I'm usually targeted by him which would make sense as to why all these people hate me after seeing my magic. Also, he would sometimes give people his power for ridiculous and outrageous deals."

"Well, If he is mixed in all this, then the more we bring to fight the better no?"

"I guess, but I wouldn't want more casualties involved in this."

"We're all strong Luce don't you worry."

"You're not wrong, anyways I think most of them are entering that church over there, let's follow."

They both drop from the rooftops and land safely without making too much sound.

Upon entering the church most people seem to be wearing dark black clothes, a man can be seen playing an organ whilst a priest is preaching.

"It seems as if the prophecy has come true after all, he who is called, Luce, has finally come to destroy our Kingdom, this man can be seen throughout history destroying and ruining all types of Kingdoms, and we have reports coming in that recently the Ice Kingdom has started rebuilding after it was demolished and brought down by a cloaked man similar to the one we are speaking about, if anyone sees a young average height blonde blue eyed man, do not trust his lies, do not seek his knowledge, and whatever you do, never try to befriend him, if anyone is seen committing any of these actions they are to be executed on the spot, this man brings nothing but calamity upon anyone he's near for he is cursed, cursed with everything and nothing at the same time."

Novis whispers.

"I think they might hate me just as much now."

"Don't you start believing them."

"Oh lighten up, like I would trust these guys."

"Now bring the sacrifice, what day is it again today?"

"It is Saturday Father."

"Right, Pomeranian Saturday how could I forget, bring out the dog then, its blood shall and death shall alleviate our Lord."

"Are they? Killing a dog?"

"It seems so Novis, wanna do something about it?"

"What do you think? Of course I do."