Here's a quick chapter for the three of you that reads this book. And an apology for being on hiatus for like the last 2 weeks.
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The howling winds were present, he was dreaming again.
Lucas found himself on a grassy hill, with nothing besides a piece of rock that stood out spontaneously. It didn't look natural, it looked out of place from all the nature around it.
Upon getting closer, Lucas got a better look at the rock, it was no rock, it was a gravestone, an empty gravestone.
Gravestone? Lucas thought. What was his mind trying to tell him?
He walked around the piece, hands on his hip. He was confused. Over the past week, he dreamed of such maniacal and strange things, that something like this didn't really surprise him. In fact, this was too normal, just a gravestone?
Suddenly, the grass around the hill began to decay. Decay so harshly, until nothing was left. The only thing that remained, was the stone.
The hill was gone, he was surrounded by nothing, but despair and the void of absolute silence. He was scared, he wanted to snap out of it, knowing that his love would be holding him nice and tight. He remembered the things that happened last night, the way that he and Ness showed affection toward each other.
Lucas walked towards the empty gravestone, and sat on it.
A streak of light blinded his view, as the dreamed halted to an end. Lucas opened his eyes, to a surrounding he was not familiar with. No longer was he in the warmth of Ness' arms, he was lying on cold concrete, while completely wet. Raindrops soaked him while he felt pain in both of his legs.
"Greetings."
Said a a premature yet wicked voice.
"Welcome home, Lucas."
Lucas looked up, he was surrounded by many things, colorful buildings, shining streetlamps, but most importantly, a robotic spider, that contained a coffin in the middle, and in the coffin, was a man with white hair. His eyes were closed, but his mouth was moving.
"Making this meeting happen was harder than I thought, but we did it anyways." The man said in a taunting tone.
"W-Where am I-I?" Lucas said while standing up. "Wha-"
"Oh don't act foolish now, you know exactly who I am."
"I r-really don't."
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"Oh Well now, let me introduce myself. Some call me other things, but most refer to me as their king. Which is what I want you to refer to me from now. Do you hear me? Come on, you gotta know who your king is."
"K-king?" Lucas quickly remembered the conversation he's had with his friends. He remembered them disliking the name. He remembered the things they had said about the King.
"What do you want from me? Where am I?"
"I had many dreams, about having you as my most proud knight. And today, was the day that dream comes true." The King said, ignoring Lucas' question. "Your family will be proud of you, real proud."
"What did you do to my family?" Lucas questioned. "Answer me!"
"They are safe and happy under my protection, but that won't be the case forever. Oh! And do you want to see them?"
"..."
The King said as two porktroopers came from behind the mech with a man, a man so slender and thin that it might as well just be a pile of bones. No one could recognize the face of the man, besides for Lucas himself.
"DAD!" Lucas screamed in absolute horror. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DAD?"
The troopers quickly took away the man before he could respond to his son.
"Good, good, calm down now you jackass, I have a deal for you-"
"...What is it? Tell me...Please!"
"Oh, slow down, the terms are simple. All you have to do is...Serve me as a commander, achieve noble status, and your family will be yours forever. Easy? Right? I'm am a fair man."
Upon hearing the deal, Lucas instantly realized the situation he was in. The King had the same motives as the people he had met two days ago, the people that kidnapped him. What does he say?
"You wouldn't say no, right? That would not be...optimal for both of us, or your...(Wink Wink) Daddy for that matter."
"I..."
"I am sure you do not want to witness the public hanging of your father, right? I wouldn't want your skinny ass to cry your eyes out."
Lucas heard voices in the back of his head, he heard his brother, he heard his father, he heard his deceased mother, who somehow was also talking to him. All of them were telling him the same thing, to say yes.
Lucas was tempted, yet another side of him remembered the words of his friends, of Link, of Villager, of Ness. Would they be happy?
The King was threatening his father, he knew how much Lucas cared for his family. It hurts Lucas, to be in these types of situations. He never asked for this...
He cannot pick a side...
"Is there another way? Please...Don't hurt him..."
"Take it or leave it. It's seriously not a harsh deal for you. Imagine the food, the rooms, the people you'll command. You won't be such a sissy with all your disgusting friends."
"..."
"This is for your own good. What would your mother think, of you starving and decaying with uneducated swines that robbed and stole. She wouldn't be happy, no no Lucas."
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"..."
"Made your mind yet?"
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Lucas' mind was completely taken over by the terrifying images of his father. He didn't want this to happen to the one's he love. He wants to end this, and there was only one way.
"Maybe just this once..." Lucas said while the King grinned. "...Dad..."
"Haha, good boy, now come-"
"HEY!" A voice came roaring through the sky while a lightning strike passed the horizons of the city.
