Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-31749612-20170813085555/@comment-32773838-20170906000315

I use the flag pole to steady myself and get up on my unsteady feet, using the pole as a makeshift crutch to lean on, the wooden rod sinking in the bloody mud. I look at the Lamia beside me, as I lift the sword and start moving towards her with a limp, the tip of the sword making a line in the mud as it's being dragged behind me.

I stand over the Lamia and let go of the flag, now able to barely stand on my own. I look at the unconsious Lamia on the ground before looking at the two armies. She has long strawberry blond hair tied in a high ponytail with a few bangs left out. She has a small wound on her temple and her forearm, both bleeding a lot.

You're going to be the saviors of the human race.

The words of the Order officer recruiting soldiers in my town.

You will be the heroes that shall vanquish the evil monsters.

Evil monsters? The ones who didn't even try to harm a single human despite being able to do so at all times?

I lift the sword and hold it with both hands, its tip pointed to her head.

-"I am sorry..." I say and stab the sword downwards.

Thump.

-"...but I refuse to kill her!" I raise my voice as I turn to face the Order army, freeing the sword from the mud beside the Lamia's head that I had stabbed it at.

A murmur spreads through the soldiers and the higher officers along with their knights scowl at me.

-"I refuse to hit a benevolent soul to satisfy the thirst of you blasphemous sycophants, who use us soldiers like puppets in your wicked game!" I shout as I raise my sword and fix my stance.

-"Execute the traitor!" one of the officers shouts and a few of the low ranking soldiers comply, coming at me with their swords and spears raised.

I slash at the first one. making a deep gash on his thighs and hitting him on the head with the flat edge of the sword, knocking him out. I take his spear and swing it horizontally, slashing the leather breastplate off the oncoming soldier, who drops his weapon and backs off. I step forwards and knee the next soldier in the groin with my plate covered knee. His eyes turn to show their whites as he falls down like a log, foam coming out of his mouth. The other soldiers see this and stop their advance, choosing to stay out of spear's reach.

Whiissh.

-"Aargh!" I groan as an arrow pierces my leather breastplate and injures my shoulder. "Aarrrgh!" I groan once again as I pull out the arrow and stab the thigh of the soldier who chose to attack me since the arrow hit me, and then knee him on his face as he falls face first towards my legs, and he falls on the mud, spitting blood and teeth.

The other soldiers seeing this turn and flee.

-"Knights, CHARGE!" one of the knights commands the others and they kick their horses and come running towards me.

ROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAARRRRR

An ear shattering roar fills the place, forcing all the people and mamono present to bend forward and cover their ears, while the charging knights are forced to stop their advance as their steeds stood on their hind legs, throwing a lot of them down.

A shadow of massive proportions covers the land suddenly and fierce winds start to blow.

-"DRAGON!" one of the Order soldiers screams as he points above, his face twisted in terror.

All of the people turn to look in the sky. I do so too, and I feel my knees go weak once more, for hundreds of meters above a colossal Dragon whose body exceeds a hundred meters in length is flying over the battlefield, covering the sun with its back.

The Dragon starts to descent towards the battlefield, and his massive legs, taller and thicker than watchtowers touch the ground beside me on both directions, making the earth shake.

After its hind legs hit the ground, the Dragon stood upright and started shrinking in blinding speed, and within ten seconds a man with Dragon wings on his back and wolf ears and tail was standing a few meters between me and the Order army, his back turned to me.

-"It's him!" many cheers and shouts of joy could be heard from the mamono army. "He came to help us!" So he's with them then. I, now freed from the trouble of fighting, turn and lift up the unconscious Lamia and slung one of her arms over my neck to hold her better.

-"So you came here..." the officer commanding the army, General DeRusso says spitefully as he scowls.

-"Indeed, I cannot allow you to slay these innocent, if a bit overly er, loving ladies here" the man says as he turns and gives an once over to the whole mamono army. Then he looks at me and the Lamia and the edges of his mouth rise slightly. I now get a good look on his face. He has somewhat long white hair for a man and a moustache and goatee of the same colour, although he looks as young as I am. His eyes though have a perfectly normal brown colour unlike the rest of his outstanding features. He is wearing black trousers that look like some kind of denim material, and his chest is bare, revealing his lean yet trained body.

He looks at the bodies on the ground and his face turns solemn.

-"I see that you still are the same deceiving fuck as you used to be when I first met you" he says in an ice cold tone as he turns and gives a sidelong glance at the General that is radiating pure killing intent. "But you know something? I ain't an end-all be-all being for nothing" he says and snaps his fingers.

Suddenly all of the bodies in the ground start excluding a faint glow and float of the ground, their wounds disappearing within seconds before the before deceased humans and mamono start opening their eyes and letting out shouts of surprise.

-"N...No way..."

-"Did he just revive them all?"

-"That's not possible!"

Yet, here he is, the once dead corpses now alive, not as undead, but like they were, no, they are.

-"This time, since I was able to bring them back, I will let you go" the man turns and says in a threatening voice to the General and his subordinates, and from what I can see from the side of his face, some kind of black vein like branching lines are forming under his eyes. "But the next time I will show you that immortality has its bad side too..."

The General doesn't reply and phenomenically calmly turns his horse and gallops away, the rest of the officers and knights following him.

The man approaches us and a friendly smile forms on his face.

-"Thank you for protecting Elmina" he says as he looks at the Lamia. "I rushed in as fast as possible when I heard about the skirmish, but if it wasn't for you, I can't say for sure that I would be able to protect her".

-"Thanks..." I say somewhat nervously. "Hey, uh, how did you brought them back?"

He looks at the groups of mamono and soldiers talking, hugging and crying with each other with a serene look on his gaze that makes him look way older than what he must be.

-"To put it bluntly, that's one of the perks of being a transcendental being" he says with a nervous smile. "I'd like to thank you once again. If it hadn't been for your stand, the other soldiers would never have had second thoughts and I would have to use force to stop them. Now I have to go. When Elmina wakes up, could you give her my greetings? Tell her that it's from the Writer; she'll understand" he says as he turns and unfolds his wings to a total width of six meters. "I'm sure that I'll see you soon again, so I guess that it's up until next time" he says over his shoulder before waiving at me and launching on to the air, flying away with a tremendous speed incomparable to the one in his Dragon form from before.

-"Mnn..." the Lamia groans for a bit before her eyelids open and she looks at me. "What happened? Who are you?"

-"The battle is over" I tell her and look around and she mimics me. "My name is Ziel".

-"Elmina" she says with a faint charming smile on her face. "Nice to meet you, Ziel".

-"Elmina, there you are!" a Salamander calls out to our direction. "Come here!"

-"Okay, I'm coming!" she replies in a cheerfully voice. Then she turns to face me. "Thank your help, could you please help me go to my friends over there? I am still a bit dizzy from the hit from before".

-"Sure" I nod and we start moving towards a group consisted of a few soldiers, the aforementioned Salamander, a few Honey Bees and a Hornet. "How is your wound?"

-"It doesn't hurt anymore" she says and I try to find her wounds, but they're gone without a trace, and then I look at my shoulder as the realization hits me; the wounds have been healed. It has to be that man, but when?

We walk side by side as she leans on me as we move towards her friends. I look at her face from time to time sidelongly to avoid being found out. She looks very charming and kind, a woman with which I would like to spend my life together. Maybe I was right to sign up in this expendition after all...