As the warm rising sun fills the kingdom of Andranada a fairy by the name of daisy has just arrived at the castle’s front gate. With two guards who signaled for her to stop. One guard is a lot smaller than the other one, both in height and just overall mass. They approach the small creature who has a white dress on and is about the size of a small hand. The Fairy’s golden hair is bundled, and little sparkles fly off her with every movement. Her wings are about the size of her and almost see through.

  When the guards get close to her, the one that is much smaller than the other asks the fairy with a soft-spoken voice. “What is a fairy doing in these parts?”

  The fairy just looks at them, in confusion and tells them in a not so convincing voice. “I got .... lost” The guard's glance at each other as to see what the other one will say. “So can I squeeze past you guys and get in”

  Then a loud thud can be heard coming from the woods behind them. They all turn to see the trees falling one after another. Massive Figures start approaching from the darkness of the forest. Hundreds of rock golems start appearing and slowly approaching the castle. Every step destroys the ground beneath them. Their dark orange lifeless eyes shock the fairy.

  But before anything can happen, a sound of flapping can be heard from the sky. As the fairy looks up, she sees a massive green dragon with a human on top of it with the most stunning and shining golden armor the fairy has ever seen. The human unsheathes their sword, and it glows blue. The dragon lands on the ground and the human jumps off. “Are you sure you do not need any help? I pulled out my sword and everything to look cool” The human said with a sad voice as the dragon roars at the golems. As he roars, vines come from the ground and tangle around the golems, crushing them into hundreds of little broken rocks. The roaring stops as the small guard approaches the human that was on the dragon.

  The man in golden armor turns to see the guard approaching. “Is that you Alaric, and I assume the other one is Milo-” that is when he notices the fairy. "I believe you wandered a bit too far off your path”

  The fairy bowed down to the man. “King Tristan, I was sent here by the fairy queen to ask for aid, you see a powerful-” The knight named Alaric took off his helmet and hugged Tristan. He has short black hair with a couple of freckles on his cheeks. He looks like he is seventeen but is twenty-four. Tristan does not hug him back.

  “It is nice to see you, my king. We have been waiting for your arrival” That's when he realizes what he is doing and stops hugging the king. The king is taken aback by the random hug. Alaric starts sweating as the king does not know what to do.

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  After a long pause the king bursts into laughter. “That was not the welcome home I was expecting, but glad to have you Sir Alaric. But will you and Milo take our guest to the hero's inn. I have something important to do but I will talk to you later”

  As he gets back on Doldrag the dragon, the fairy tries to stop him from leaving. “Hold on, this information can’t wait!!” But the dragon already takes off and heads toward the forest where all the Golems came from.

  Milo takes off his helmet, and he is beautiful with flowing golden locks and baby blue eyes. “Alaric, why would you hug the king? He is royalty and you could get punished for that”

  With a nervous laughter, Alaric shrugs. “I do not know what went over me, but I just had to hug him. Especially since he has been gone for so long”

  The fairy starts flying towards where the king and dragon went. Alaric follows and yells at the fairy. “Hey, where are you going? He told you to wait at the inn”

  The fairy ignores him and continues to fly, and a golem that somehow survived the dragon's attack appears next to Alaric. The golem swats him away, sending him flying across the field they are in. Milo unsheathes his sword and goes to attack it but proving useless to even make a dent. The golem grabs him and crushes him. He falls to the ground, and the golem turns its sights on the fairy who sits there too scared to move. Alaric, who notices Milo on the ground covered in blood, bursts into a rage and grabs his sword running towards the golem. Only to get smashed by a fist coming straight down on him. Blood spurts everywhere, and the golem walks toward the fairy. But it is stopped when Alaric grabs the foot of the golem.

  Alaric spits blood and smiles. Before the golem attacks him again, Alaric's life flashes through his head. A boy who grew up weak and was bullied for being weak. He tried to do the right thing by becoming a knight to protect people. But his strength just would not allow him to do much to save a rabbit much less a human. He remembers the first time he ever saw the king. Thinking he could be just like him, but knowing deep down it was a fool’s dream. Then it flashes to when Milo, his best friend, and the only other person, to know how much of a good person he turned out to be, first met as kids. Both playing outside and sat in awe seeing the knights one day wanting to be just like them. He remembers his infectious smile and as he begins to prepare himself to take his last breath, a soft woman’s voice can be heard.

  “I see you”

  Right before his eyes close to darkness, he sees a green dragon. It is a bit smaller than Doldrag but still huge. The dragon bites the golem, crushing it. Alaric blinks and when he opens his eyes again, he sees the most beautiful woman kneeling, checking on him. She has green crystal eyes and red flowing hair. She is wearing a green dress and is talking to him. But he cannot hear anything as he closes his eyes and it fades to black.