Raydom Shiz: Desmond's struggle pt.2!

"Uugh..." Prince Preppre uncomfortably wakes up, he tries to move his arms to scratch his eyes open but he couldn't, it was chained. He tried to raise his legs but they have been chained aswell, he couldn't properly open his eyes and had to struggle to see nothing but blurs. He struggled in his restless attempts to break free, "H-hey! Is anyone there?! I seem to be chained here! I demand to be released or everyone here will be hanged!" Prince Preppre shouted, being unable to see properly see caused him to be a bit stressed, all he could see were the things his tiny gap could make, he turned his head to the left and saw blurry figures, he tries to figure out how many people there were. All he could make in the left side were three people, he turned his head on the other side and counted up to five people only, the rest were too blurred or too dark to count even with the tiny light he couldn't see. He added the current number and could only make up of eight people all in all.

He tried desperately to break free but the chains didn't gave in to his attempts, "L-let me go! Don't you people know who I am?! When my bodyguard comes here, he will find you all and kill all of you!" he threatened. No answers were given and this made Prince Preppre worried, he started sweating like a pig on a slaughterhouse.

He heard footsteps on his left and decided to turn his head to the direction of the noise, when he did turn his head- he recieved a powerful slap to the face, so powerful it actually echoed a few times. Prince Preppre may have shouted from the burning pain on his cheeks and had shed multiple tears, but he can finally open his eyes and see what was around him, he blinked a few times before getting normal vision. After he got slapped in the face, he quickly figured out that he was in a dark cave lighted by not too many posts, the chains are stuck to stalagmites- not stuck but built right inside it, and that most importantly, there are not eight people but instead, hundreds of them everywhere. He stared at everyone, each of them wore the same black robe, he couldn't distinguish who from who.

Prince Preppre then noticed the one who had slapped him, his facial features are almost visible, Prince Preppre could distinguish him, he's very pale. he has dried out skin, dried lips are pale red, nose is full of wrinkles, the rest are hidden by the hood, "W-who are you? W-what do you want to do to me?!" he cried, the man with dried skin said nothing or not even a slight reaction. Prince Preppre was freaking out, but he knew he has to keep struggling, he knows that it'll take time before Mr.Dellon or Desmond could get or find where he is.

Suddenly, Prince Preppre noticed the man with the dried skin looked at him, he could finally distinguish his whole face. His eyes have blue iris, but that wasn't what got him nervous, he could see that his eyes are completely bloodshot, it had so many streaks that you can say the eyes are red instead of white. The ears are full of earrings, from the top to the fatty part, it was painful to look at and it made Prince Preppre shudder from the sight of it, but what scared Prince Preppre the most was the fact that the man with dried skin had some sort of horizontal line on his forehead, he could see that blood started to drip down from it. He couldn't see if it opened or not because he turned his head away to grab something from another hooded man.

Prince Preppre couldn't tell what the line was since he turned his back on him, but before he could notice it, the man with dried skin turned to him quick and raised something in the air, Prince Preppre screamed-- it was a knife... A butter knife smeared with butter, the hooded man had toast on the other hand and he spreaded the butter across the toast before eating it. Crumbles of bread went to Prince Preppre's face and he was uncomfortable about it, the man with dried skin looked at him with his bloodshotted eyes and spoke in the most raspiest voice he has ever heard in his life, "You want some?" even though Prince Preppre knew there was something that made this slightly feel bad, he couldn't decline the offer since his belly started to growl. The man with dried skin snapped his fingers and another robed man with a silver plate filled with two slices of toast, a butter knife, and butter.

Prince Preppre didn't understand what was happening, it was all so sudden. He could feel his left arm being freed from the chains, "Here, you can't eat with no arms" the hooded man said while giving Prince Preppre a toast smeared with butter, he accepts it nicely and ate it immediately. He noticed his arm and legs being released. He got quite confuse, "They captured me, kidnapped me, tied me to chains and suddenly release me just for bread?" he said to himself, he stared at the man with dried skin eating toast.

The bloodshotted man stared back at Mr.Preppre with his bloodshotted eyes, "Tastes good, hmm? I know it's just bread but you gotta eat right, if you want to be a sacrafice" the raspy voiced man said while crunching on the toast, Mr.Preppre immediately jumped out of the altar in fear.

Prince preppre looked at him with widened eyes, sweating greatfully, he spoke nervously while backing away in fear, "S-sacrafice?! I don't want to be a part of this so called, sacrafi-" but before he could finish his sentence he could feel a sharp object behind him, he turned around. A black hooded man holds a bloody knife...


Meanwhile, Desmond and Mr.Dellon are running through the forest going to the arrow's point of origin. While running, Desmond thought of who Prince Preppre was, nor does he know why he was being called "the" amazing Desmond Arch who was a soldier for a kingdom, even though he can't recall anything from his past about being a knight or whatsoever. He turns his head towards Mr.Dellon and asked, "Hey, so tell me about this Prince guy, I think I forgot his name... Prince Preppre is it? Who's he?" Desmond looked in front of him and back to Mr.Dellon.

Mr.Dellon looked at Desmond, "He is what you just called him, Prince Preppre, he was born to a royal family line, however all of his family members have been murdered and he's now the last one of the Preppre family" Mr.Dellon answered, Desmond looked at Mr.Dellon with a raised eyebrow.

"I see, how do you intend him to revive the family?" Desmond asked, Mr.Dellon stared at the empty forest and sighed.

"He was given a chance to revive his family line by getting himself married to another family line, but getting to where they were was already hard, so we, the servants of the Preppre family had to help poor Prince Preppre" Mr.Dellon explained, "Of course, some risks were given but we were able to overcome it and got Prince Preppre to come in contact with one of it's old historical business partners" Mr.Dellon continued, Desmond immediately stopped and looked at Mr.Dellon with a curious face.

Mr.Dellon stopped aswell, "How did his family turn to ruins? If it was a famous family then shouldn't the guards hsve any security to them?" Desmond asked, Mr.Dellon turned his head towards Desmond.

"The Preppre line wasn't actually powerful... Nor big actually, they were known to be very small yet quick in doing businesses. Even while the proccess is small and quick, the quality of object they can make is incredibly pure and practically flawless, a lot of people were jealous of their ability to easily do a job that takes a lot of people plenty of months to make, the Preppre family line can cut the time to a weekend and can still make it look refined; In fact, almost perfect in terms of quality" Mr.Dellon answered, Desmond was intrigued.

"I can guess you are one of his best guards? Since you were given THE responsibility to take care of him so he can safely go to this... Family I don't know about" Desmond deduced, however Mr.Dellon shook his head.

"Actually, in all seriousness, I am his childhood friend, my name is Martin Dellon Artol jr, I forgot I haven't said my name nor his had I?" Dellon answered, Desmon nodded his head, but he was quite suprised. Seeing the man in front of him to be Prince Preppre's childhood friend, "His name is Orphos Delangito Macapriocho Preppre IV if you wanted to know" Mr.Dellon answered.

"So you were childhood buddies with him? I don't know how to address him, so I just say him or maybe prince?" Desmond couldn't say Preppre and be ok about it, he's trying to say a name that's in a higher position than him, HE is JUST a Farmer!

"Call him Prince Preppre for the common reasons, it'll be easier that way. While were on this topic, I suggest we might aswell go forward while chitchatting" Mr.Dellon suggested, Desmond nodded and they both continued heading forward.

Desmond and Mr.Dellon continued their path towards the original arrow shot point, there were no other clues besides this. But one thing rose from Mr.Dellon's mind that Desmond couldn't grasp, We're heading straight for the arrow's point of origin and they have only released four... Somethings not right here" Mr.Dellon said to himself, Desmond slightly heard him and asked what it was, Mr.Dellon shook his head and replied, 'nothing'

They continued running towards the arrow's point of origin. On the way, Desmond saw something in the corner of his eyes and decided to look for it, "W-wait! Where are you going?! Aren't the arrow standpoints this way?!" Mr.Dellon stopped running and shouted at Desmond, Desmond didn't listen to his words and continued to the direction of the thing he saw, "H-hey! What are you even doing!" Mr.Dellon shouted even louder, Desmond paused and looked at Mr.Dellon.

"Have you noticed how vast the forest is? Why we kept running over a long course of time? And haven't found anything at all?" Desmond questioned his surroundings, Mr.Dellon hasn't thought of his surroundings at least not once, "I don't know anything about it but it's obvious we are in a... What do you call those fake things that look real?" Desmond couldn't remember the word, Mr.Dellon sighed in his disappointment.

"Illusions, they're called illusions, and if you are correct then we have to find the source of these illusions" Mr.Dellon answered, Desmond nodded and smiled, "I guess we need to find the one responsible for creating this, there has never been a vast forest before" Mr.Dellon said, Desmond nodded once again and took the lead to finding the source.

It took them quite a while before they finally found something; Sadly, it isn't what they wanted to find in a fake world, a huge rocky golem. They immediately stopped on their tracks and pointed their weapon at it, "W-what is that thing?!" Desmond shouted.

Mr.Dellon looked at the golem and hissed at it, "That's a golem, also... Look at the chest" Mr.Dellon pointed, Desmond looked at it's chest and noticed a purple rune on the chest, "It seems this golem was created for the purpose to abrupt the enemies sense of directions, if that was so, then we've been running in circles all this time the moment we passed by the sign" Mr.Dellon deduced, he noticed Desmond charging at it with haste, "D-Desmond! Wait!" Mr.Dellon was suprised, saying Desmond's name in such worry. He just stood there after the shout.

"There's no time to wait! We do this now! I have a daughter to go back to!" Desmond reluctantly charged at the golem. The golem raised it's right arm up in the air and tried to slam it on Desmond, but Desmond was able to roll from the attack. The golem suddenly dragged it's arm towards Desmond, suprising him and hitting him, he was dragged along with the arm; The golem raised it's arm and threw Desmond towards Mr.Dellon, the sword flew away from him, Mr.Dellon was able to grab Desmond before he could touch the ground.

"Are you alright?" Mr.Dellon asked, Desmond regained conscience and shook his head, he glared at the golem and ran to his sword to grab it, "Be careful Desmond! This golem seems to be experienced in fighting!" Mr.Dellon shouted, Desmond was suprised hearing his name, but nonetheless he had to focus on the golem. The golem made it's arms float in mid air, "W-what?! This golem is magical also?!" Mr.Dellon worriedly thought, he could see Desmond charging behind it, "Desmond be careful! That golem can turn around quickly!" Mr.Dellon shouted, he doesn't know whether Desmond actually heard him or he was too busy attacking, neither both since before Desmond could strike the golem; The golem turned around and raised it's arm and smacked desmond flinging him far away, Mr.Dellon gasped.

"Argh! Ah! How do you even fight this thing!" Desmond growled in pain, he quickly rose up and maneuvered around the golem, Mr.Dellon ran close to the fight but couldn't enter it. Yet, Mr.Dellon could clearly see that Desmond's movements are somewhat similiar to a experienced combantant, "Outspeed what you can't outpower!" Desmond shouted as a battlecry, Mr.Dellon could see that Desmond's speed was different than how he remembered him.

Even though Desmond could outpace the golem's turning speed, his sword couldn't penetrate it at all. Mr.Dellon could remember that each living thing has something that keeps them alive, he stood in place and observe the fight, doing nothing but watch Desmond fight the golem
alone. Desmond kept hitting the golem with all his might, clinking and clanking while dodging the golem's hits, "Why can't I scratch him it all?" Desmond thought while running around the golem, he quickly looked around to see what he can use to his advantage. He saw a broken down tree bark, it's on top of a rock and it looks like a giant see-saw, he thought of a plan.

He ran from the golem, "Hey! What are you doing?!" Mr.Dellon shouted, Desmond ignored him and ran towards the broken bark, Mr.Dellon saw the bark and thought of the idea Desmond has. When Desmond finally reached the tree he immediately climbed unto the higher portion which is the bark's higher end, he stood there waiting for an opportunity to jump out of the way. He planned out a simple attack, which was to use the tree bark itself as a huge hammer. What can't be scratched can be blunted. He stood there just waiting for the golem to strike, but as soon as the golem came close to attack-- It did an uppercut, it exactly knew what Desmond was thinking and Mr.Dellon gasped in horror, "D-Desmond!" he shouted.

Desmond flew up in the air and was in a helpless state, the golem followed by jumping up high in the air which amazed Mr.Dellon, "W-what the?" he was suprised, the golem rose both of it's arms higher than Desmond's body and slammed them on him shooting Desmond from the air to the ground. The impact was so poweful it created cracks around him as he landed, Desmond screamed in pain, "D-Desmond!" Mr.Dellon shouted again, the golem landed and it's landing caused Desmond fly up in the air for a few seconds before coming down to the ground uncomfortably.

Desmond struggled to open one eye only to see the golem head covering the sun, Desmond didn't like the situation he was in, he looked at Mr.Dellon with hopelessness only to see him sighing in disappointment, "So... This is what the Desmond Arch can do? I was expecting for something to happen if I shouted your name, but I guess that's all you can do huh?" Mr.Dellon sassed, Desmond couldn't believe Mr.Dellon was disappointed... Disappointed for what?. Even after the things he has done. He looked up at the Golem with lost faith, the golem raised it's arms and it striked Desmond, Desmond closed his eyes before the attack could hit. For some reason, thought of so many things before the strike: Why was he accused of being "the" Desmond Arch? What made them both so impressed about? He can't think of anything in the past of him being a knight, nor a soldier, nor does he remember ever holding a sword till now, but one things for certain, he doesn't remember any training that allowed him to detect the arrows and block them before it was able to hit Mr.Dellon, nor was his eyesight so accurate to find the golem about to strike him. He has so many things in his mind that he wants to ask, but all of them are nothing compared to what he never wants to happen... Leaving Melissa alone...
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"Pierce through the armor that is unpenetrable! Marieanne, First Shot!" he quickly opened his eyes and saw a bright spear of light going through the golem's arm, it crumbles as the spear went through.

"Marieanne! Second Shot!" Mr.Dellon shouted, he held his rapier like a gun pointing it's tip on the golem's other arm. It released another bright spear towards the golem's other arm, as it passed through the arm it crumbled aswell, "It's time to end this! Golem! Your life ends here!" Mr.Dellon pointed the rapier's tip on the golem's crest, "Third shot! The three shots marker is complete! I vanish thee for eternity!" the rapier's tip started to glow bright, Desmond had to look away but he couldn't. As the rapier's tip grew bigger, the golem immediately charged at him and before it could get any closer, "Now! Marieanne O' mother! I summon thy light to obliterate my foes! Heaven's light, fire!" Mr.Dellon's rapier shot three spears spinning together towards the golem, as it touches the golem, the spears lifted it up on the sky. Desmond watched as the golem was being lifted up in the air. At some point in the sky, Desmond could notice the golem shaking uncontrollably, after a second, it exploded in a great white flash.

Desmond had to close his eyes to avoid eye damage. After the flash, Desmond opened his eyes. When he looked at the sky where the golem was last seen, all he saw where white doves flying away from the scene, he was amazed. He couldn't believe that Mr.Dellon had something like that with him, "Get up, we have broken the illusion and there might be a delay before we can finallyget back on track" Mr.Dellon said, lending a hand to Desmond, he grabbed Mr.Dellon's hand and he was pulled up, "I had my doubts about you, but I guess some were right... Some, I don't mean everything" Mr.Dellon doubted Desmond's abilities, "Forgive me for having to see how you fight, I was just suprised hearing the name Desmond Arch" he apologized.

Desmond looked at him in pain, "Tell me... What does my name have to do with being amazing? I am Desmond Arch but I don't remember anything about being knight, nor being a soldier, nor holding a sword, nor recieved special training cause i've been living my life with Jewls and Melissa! And I promised my wife that i'll watch her and here I am with broken bones!" Desmond shouted, worried anout Melissa even though Mr.Dellon assured of her safety.

Mr.Dellon stared at him and sighed, "Forgive me if I had to put you into this, you had some fight in you but they were not near the Desmond Arch I was looking for, even though you are Desmond Arch" Mr.Dellon said, "I guess the Desmond Arch, Prince Preppre was talking about was--" before Mr.Dellon could finish his sentence, his sight turned static for a second, "W-what the..." Mr.Dellon was suprised, his eyes went static again, "Wait a second, this doesn't happen after an illusion is broken" he blinked his eyes and the static disappeared, along with Desmond.

"W-what?! This doesn't happen after an illusion was broken at all! What's happening?!" Mr.Dellon was perturbed, his vision started to turn static again, "W-what the... How is this happening... Unless..." Mr.Dellon looked around but all he could see were statics, he suddenly started hearing a growing groan. He looked everywhere in fear, "W-who's doing all of this?!" Mr.Dellon started to freak out, the continuous groaning got louder and louder. Mr.Dellon span around in rapid succession, looking around his static world more times than he could count, he couldn't take it anymore, the growing moan got louder and closer to him... Everything went black

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It's turning evening soon, workers are cleaning up while a little girl is still inside the breadshop. Melissa is seen munching on something while holding a bread with a bite mark around the edge, her pouted face shows unamusement, "Sigh... It's about to get dark soon, I wonder what daddy got himself into... I'm worried, I hope mommy is also worried to..." she looked at the darkening sky and sniffled, "Daddy... Where are you..." she slightly sheds a tear.

A red haired female worker notices Melissa and comes near her, her hair length expands up to her neck level, her eyes are brimming blue, and her smiling lips are very optimistic,"Hey! You still gonna wait for your father? I can keep you company if you want, my name is Rihanna, Rihanna Gittleo but you can call me Rihann if you like" Rihanna happily chatted, Melissa immediately noticed Rihanna's upbeat personality and looked at her in a suprised way, "Hmm? What's with the look? Do I have something in my face? Alright, who put something on my face, I know cause this girl is looking at me strangely!" Rihanna shouted, all the workers looked at her with worried faces.

"Chillax, Rihanna, no one looked at you strangely, you just suprised the little girl that's all" a brown haired worker replied, his hair is a clean cut, he has rose red eyes and a small smirky smile, "You can chill kid, Rihann here will be an annoyance to you, trust me" he said while rubbing his fist on Rihann's head, she wasn't happy about him teasing her like that. She removed his hand from her head and looked at him unamused with pouted lips.

"Cobalt! You know I don't annoy customers, especially not kids, I can take the kids being suprised but I don't think they can be annoyed" she sadly said, losing her optimism, Cobalt smirked at her.

"Oh yeah, better be careful kid I heard she likes little girl's pant-" he couldn't speak because he was being strangled by Rihanna pulling his neck-tie.

"I said I can't annoy them! And I don't steal little girl's panties! That's you dummy!" Rihanna emotionally bursted, looking a bit angry while pulling the neck-tie of Cobalt. Melissa giggled at the two and the both of them looked at each other laughing, the other workers smiled at the three.

"You two are so cute together, are you two a couple?" Melissa optimistically said, the two stopped laughing but their faces are frozen in happiness. It took three seconds before Rihanna punched Cobalt in the face knocking him out, the worker's smile turned worried.

"Haha, I won't be partnered to a man like him, never, just... No way! Haha!" Rihanna laughed, Cobalt suddenly woke up and stood upright and placed his right foot in-front of his left and pointed at Rihanna.

"Yeah right, I won't be a couple to this hag till I die!" Cobalt growled, Rihanna just snapped. She turned to Cobalt with a scary face, scaring him completely.

"H-hag? Y-you called me... HAG??!!" Rihanna angrily shouted, she grabbed his body and threw him on the ground, "Y-you... YOU!" Rihanna pointed at Cobalt with intense fury, the workers had to get them seperated. The workers grabbed Rihanna and the others pulled Cobalt away, "L-let me go! He started it! He said I grab little girl's panties! I don't do that! Let me go let me go let me go!" Rihanna struggled but they wont let her, Cobalt regained his form and looked at Rihanna with a black eye and irritating smork.

"Yeah that's right! I called you hag! Say whatever you like you ha-" he stopped when he noticed Melissa tugging on his co-worker's shirt telling them to let her go, that they did but Rihanna didn't go bursting off on him. He saw that Melissa was able to tame her rage just by holding her hand, guiding her to Cobalt.

"Can't you two just stop fighting? Here, holding hands can be a sign of peace! My dad always told me to hold hands with people that are angry!" Melissa smiled with glee, Rihanna looked away from Cobalt but Cobalt quietly hissed while looking at her.

"A-alright, I guess we won't be angry on each other..." Rihanna sheepishly said, Cobalt could see her cheeks blushing, this caused himself to look away and blush also. Cobalt raised his hand towards Rihanna, Rihanna noticed it and grabbed his hand, they shook their hands and looked each other with a smile. The workers sighed and smiled, Melissa was proud of what she did.

"Daddy I did it! I was able to help someone without the need of money!" Melissa turned around and quietly giggled, Cobalt and Rihanna looked at her and to each other to giggle.