Rants

Need for Humanity

I wrote this because...
of TheOnlyPterydactyl's contest...it's not officially for it but I just couldn't get it out my head to write my other book soooooo....
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In a forgotten forest away from the hustle bustle of most peoples every day worlds lived a lonely man...well not so much man but what was left of one.

After many years of dabbling in sorcery and the darkest of magicks. He had accidentally turned himself into a monster part human, which slowly faded away day by day.

After his banishment from his home by his own brother king Rysdonia due to his...less than moral means of getting things done. He had left the kingdom in favor of a solitary life in a forest...

At first he was pissed and wanted nothing more than revenge on his brother for his banishment but then on one fateful day and an expired ent gone horribly wrong...all he wanted was to see his family one last time before death...

But that was the problem he was immortal now part human (barely) and part something...not human. He knew that very soon in the coming days, weeks if he was lucky, he would lose his humanity altogether.

So he started a journey toward his home kingdom of Thermon in a hopes to just glimpse his family before being forced to live in solitude and watching family after family member die to old age while he lived on. The barely humans name Cardonious.

When he arrived at the great capital of his brothers kingdom the final shreds of his humanity were almost nonexistent. Just a drop really in a pond of monstrosity.

He knew sneaking in to see his brother was going to be hard especially due to his banishment. So he explored looking around for a way in or any event that would allow him to spectate from an audience.

After much searching he found one a amazing opportunity it almost felt like the world wanted him to be there. A parade was tomorrow and it was because it was the kings sons birthday! A perfect opportunity.

He had almost forgotten about little Kimor the 2 year old babe he had seen when he was banished almost 14 years ago. So he found an inn and while looking through the stuff was happy to find a gift he had bought on the birth night of Kimor for when he came of age.

He smiled remembering that night very vividly and then drowned remembering how the reason he was banished was...that deed. No need to worry about it now but he couldn't keep the tears from his eyes even with almost no humanity left he still felt very strongly and wished he could change what he had done that fateful night...

After a fitful night sleep at an inn where he had hidden his features under a black cloak he awoke to the bright morning sun and thought why am I hear? It's pointless...his humanity had disappeared overnight and with it his last drop of sympathy and most of his emotions.

He still attended the parade and gave his gift to the boy but immediately left having completed his humanity final urge and wish he could now live in solitude and peace for all of time. Or so he thought.

Even though his humanity was gone he could still think and do many other human things he just didn't really have morals or other things...so 20 years later when he heard of his brothers untimely death he didn't care.

So now 5 years afterwards he found himself getting bored, when he heard noise in his forest and decided to investigate. What he found was a group of me with many weapons heading toward the capital so he murdered the one in the back first...He had entered his territory and people knew not to walk through this forest after bodies were lost and never found.

Before he got to the rest he found a letter laying next to the persons body made him feel pity and almost - like he was human again. So he froze and just watched as other men got away...while re-reading the letter:

Assassins guild mission:
Kill king Kimor and anyone who gets in your way.
Reward: 50 gold

He sighed when he realized that maybe he still had some humanity left or maybe he was just really bored but he decided to go to the capital and save his nephews life.

When he arrived at the great city of Cistardie. He snuck right into the castle using old passageways and hovered outside of where the king was sleeping. When he saw a guard fall and a shadow move toward the door of the kings bedroom.. he attacked and killed the assassin as easily as the one before.

But now there were 5 more and he didn't have surprise on his side anymore. He tried as hard as he could but couldn't manage to hold them all off and stop them all. As into the fight as he was he didn't hear guards arrive and then he saw him his nephew...

They quickly dispatched the last 2 assassins then turned on him but Kimor yelled stop and all the guards froze in place. Kimor slowly walked towards him and then backpedaled in surprise.

"U-uncle?" He stuttered in shock as he watched his uncle Cardonious bleed out on the floor from his wounds.

His uncle gargled and said in an almost inaudible tone: "I  j-just wanted to feel human one last time."

Kimor shook his head and said: "No uncle please don't say that you are human you always have been...DOCTOR!"

His uncle sighed and shook his head while saying his final words...: "You'll be a great king I'm just a monster now...besides what's more human than dying?"

Then he fell limp dead, all his experiments and gaining "immortality" for naught, killing the kings second born for naught...his life wasted due to his curiosity and stupidity.

Even with his past crimes he was still made a hero and honored for he did, in fact, save the kings life...but the king and his family lost their uncle once again, whom was presumed dead when he didn't come to his brothers funeral, and an official grand funeral was planned.