Garlox quest

Chapter 10; Back to the now.

'I take it that everything has been settled, Lynch?' a voice said from the shadows. 'After all, you're the one for the job.' 'Fear not master, I have not failed you.' Lynch said. 'The boy shall no longer bother us again!' He saluted his master with a Youkan gesture, and kneeled infront of him. 'You did.. What?' The voice seemed calm, and it didn't even had to ask the question, he knew that Lynch had failed his mission either way. 'I did as you asked from me, master.' He lowered his head in shame, he knew that Mex was supposed to be brought to the Youkan country, and lead the army to victory. But instead he had accidentally killed him. 'It's okay.' The voice said. 'You.. Did bring the body now, didn't you?' 'Ofcourse, master.' Lynch stood up, and turned his back at the voice. He was chanting in an ancient Youkan language. He started to levitate, as a purple aura shone throughout his body. His eyes turned white, and his hair started to rise slowly. As the chanting continued, the ground underneath him started to rumble. This was a sign that a dead body was entering the Youkan realm. A portal appeared, and slowly but steady Mex's dead body floated down. Lynch stopped his chanting, and carried the body to the altar. 'You did kill him with the soul dagger, like you were requested?' 'I have... No. I'm afraid not, master.' Lynch kneeled again, after he had put the body on the altar. 'If I had done so, I would be able to split his soul from his mind, but I failed to do so. His mind is now floating somewhere within his soul. The less pleasent news, is that his mind is too strong. As the chosen one, his mind could hold an entire galaxy.' Lynch pressed his fist against the ground, as he was kneeling. He tried to relieve some stress from failing his master. 'I see.' The voice said. 'There... Might be another way, commander.' Mex's body rose from the altar, his arms and legs were spread, only now Lynch had realised what he had done to him.

'You see, a person is never good, and never bad. The mind of a person doesn't respond with either 'this is good for me.' or 'This is good for people around me.' It's all situational. But, there is a part inside the body that is fully evil, and fully good. But what is evil to one, may seem good to another. Does that make sense?' Mex's corpse was slowly rotating in a magical orb, the voice seemed to be studying Mex's body. 'It does, master.' In the eyes of the chosen one, we may appears as evil. But in the eyes of the people of Youka, we are.. Good. We are to decided who is the enemy of the Youkan realm, and who's our ally.' Lynch looked up, and saw that Mex's corps was slowly being pulled to pieces. ''The only difference is our way, Lynch. We may kill someone, where the others might try to befriend. We rob, where the others might borrow. We will concur, where others will fail.' Along with the sound of breaking bones, and a chill over Lynch's back, Mex's body was torn apart. Everything stayed within the orb, it had become a floating ball with organs and flesh. Lynch's eyes narrowed in fear, as he realised that this could have happened to him. 'It's not how we get there, it's when we get there. In war, it isn't about being the most compassionate, or who has made the most ally's, it's about we claiming what is ours, and making a point.' The orb started to shrink, and the gore of mex's body vanished along with the orb. Only a single hair remained to be untouched. 'Ah, this is what I have been looking for.' It seemed like a regular hair at first, but when the voice started to cast a spell, the hair turned pitch black. 'You see, whenever someone thinks about basic things, like love, family, friends, happy thoughts are casted into the atmosphere. However, no one is having only possitive thoughts. Some thoughts are about hate, revenge, jealousy, everything sinful.' The hair started to shake, as if it started to live on it's own. 'These thoughts sometimes are so vivid, so loud.. That they have to escape the brain.. Some remain within our body, only to devour us slowly with guilt. However, sometimes they.. Just seem to go away. The hair is a human dream catcher for sinful thoughts. This hair contains so much evil, so much hate.. That we can use it in our adventage.'

'I'm not sure I know where you are going with this, master.' Lynch had never seen such strong magic. He was affraid, but also impressed. 'I expected no less from a semi-commoner as yourself Lynch. Mex is now within his own mind, probably exploring his own universe. We don't know how strong his mind is, it may contain warriors with strength that no one has ever witnessed, and if he does... That will be a serious problem. So, before Mex finds out that he is killed, and lives inside his own mind, we must destroy that mind. It's his current, and last place of living.' The hair seemed to grow longer, and more hairs would grow out of it, in no time Lynch was looking at a floating wig. But underneath the hair, a skull was slowly growing. It seemed like an entire human skeleton was being grown just from one hair. The skeleton started to gain muscles, and skin. 'This.. This can't be...' The body was growing taller, and didn't fit within the orb anymore. It started to crack, as the newly hatched body pressed it's hand against the walls, and hit them violently. The orb broke, and the human fell on his hand and knee. 'I have been summoned, again?' The human stood up. 'But.. Master.. This is Mex? How is this possible!' Lynch quickly stood up, and started to back away from the human. 'It isn't, Lynch. This is Mex's evil counterpart. He doesn't own good thoughts, he only has sinful thoughts. He can open the portal to Mex's mind. I'm asking you to keep an eye out, and follow his every order. 'With all due respect, master!' Lynch shouted. 'I am a high commander, I'm not taking orders from just anyone!' He put his hand on his sheath, ready to strike down Mex's evil counterpart. 'I am above you, Lynch. And you will take this order!' The altar started to glow red with anger. 'What's up, elf boy? Are you upset that yet someone else is higher on the list? Get used to it. If you are not useful to me, I will make sure you'll hit the bottom of that list! Right beneath your traitor father.' Mex's evil counterpart smirked, one eye being covered with thick black hair, and the other shining a bright, evil red. 'I have the power to kill you with just my little toe, so follow me. And I might keep an eye out for you if times get hard, now.. If you allow me.' The counterpart started to chant a travel spell to the altar. A portal appeared, looking out on the Judge's court of Mex's mind. 'You're lucky that I don't have more time to look for someone better, elf boy.' He stepped through the portal, and thanked the voice. 'Come, we have no time to waste here.'' Lynch hesitated, but he saw no other option than to follow the orders he was given.