The Painful Promise

Enidut Pathwarrior told Loren straight as she stared him in the eyes, he smiled then up off the room ceiling.

"I see, so you still want to go through with it."

"Why do I get this feeling you don't want me to do it?"

Loren laughed a little then looked back to her.

"I have no right to get in your way or try to change your mind, I just want to make sure that you can do it so that you're willing to spill that blood."

"I have always been ready since that day my own mother sold me her own daughter. How can such a mother do that."

"A question that any child at your age would have asked with any parents that would hurt them and to get the answer we must become strong to find it ready to face it."

"Yet you're not really doing that Loren, you're going to do the same thing and there's no reason behind it."

Enidut Pathwarrior realizes she just asked him without thinking about his feelings.

"Loren I am sorry, I didn't mean it like that."

"No it's fine, I would be fooling myself to deny that you're right. I plan to kill my father. It is funny isn't it that man never treated me differently even being born from another woman always made me feel like a son instead of an outsider and I plan on killing him."

"Must you really kill your father? It doesn't seem like it's something you want to do."

Loren sadly sighs, taking a moment to himself before speaking again.

"Even if I don't want to do it, I have to, I must pay the price to suffer if I am going to make others feel the same feeling. I am not there yet, but I have to push myself to get there once my army is ready and everything is set to begin."

Loren then walked to the window of Enidut Pathwarrior looking through it at the night sky with his hand behind his back.

"I planned for every little thing, but I must always keep an eye for anything that might interfere with it. Even made a plan for myself, you know what I am talking about don't you."

"Please I don't want to talk about it. None of us did Loren what you made us promise was not easy to do even with how we feel for you."

"I know what I requested from each of you was selfish of me, but I had to ask if that day ever comes true you all know what must be done."

Loren turns to Edit Pathwarrior seeing a single tear coming down her face, he slowly walks up to the girl gently placing a hand on her face, wapping away that tear.

"It hurts to talk about this subject yet you can't be strong physically and not emotionally."

"I know! I know…. It just." Enidut Pathwarrior couldn't control herself; she pushed him away from her.

Yet she didn't stop there, the girl pushed Loren again until his back hit against the wall.

Enidut Pathwarrior then grabs him, slamming him against the wall.

"Do you think it easy! To make such a promise do you." She slammed him again while tears started to fall from her eyes.

Loren could see the pain and sadness he was causing. He no doubt shared this same feeling, but no other he trusted more than them to act on what he asked them.

"How can you do this to us! Make us…" before she can speak anymore Loren embraces her taking her into his arms.

Enidut Pathwarrior buried her face into his chest as he allowed her to cry her heart out.

While that was happening Loren began to think back on that day he made the three of them make that painful promise.

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It was 4 years ago on a lovely night where the night sky was cleared of any clouds and the moon was at full display to shine.

Loren enjoyed looking up at the night sky leaning against a tree as he was far from his home.

Of course he wasn't alone. There was Diloar SwordCarver, Cecelia and Enidut Pathwarrior there.

Each of them were silent, enjoying the quiet night with him, but also waiting for him to speak as Loren was the one who set up this secret meeting between them.

They did find it weird that it was only the three of them as Angelina was not among them.

Loren then stops looking up at the sky and turns to face them.

"I am sure that each one of you is wondering why each of you are here because there is something I am going to ask you which will not be easy for me or for you three."

"What could it be." Cecelia asks as she seems a little concerned.

Enidut Pathwarrior shared that same feeling yet Diloar SwordCarver didn't he was completely quiet awaiting for what Loren could ask them.

Loren takes a deep sad sigh and shows them a series expression.

"You all know what I have planned for the future and what must be done to make it happen. Yet while I walk down that path there is something that I must never allow to happen."

Loren stops to take a moment to himself before speaking again.

"I want to make sure that I don't allow that to happen to allow myself to fall to the darkness of the power, I intend to use and make completely sure of that you three must be the ones to kill me if I ever become that person."

The two girls were caught in a state of shock when Loren asked that, but Diloar SwordCarver stayed the same.

"Are you fucking joking! Loren becuase if you are then thats one fuck up joke right there."

"Enidut Pathwarrior right Please say that it was just a bad joke you just told us."

"You two listen, he is not joking here can't you see that Loren is being series about it."

Diloar SwordCarver tells them as the two girls look at Loren as they see that he is not joking by the look on his face.

"I take it you have thought this carefully though because you wouldn't ask this of us unless you are sure you want this."

"My friend you are right on that, I have thought this though for sometime and decided that it will be you three that will be the ones to kill me if I ever fall into the darkness."

"Nonononono, I will not accept that! How can you think we can do that?" Enidut Pathwarrior was not happy.

"She's right! You were a kind and loving person to us. Why must you ask of this Loren do you not know how this makes us feel."

Loren could see tears starting to fall from the girls eyes as they are hurt from what he asks of them.

He turned to his friend Diloar SwordCarver as he was being quiet with eyes closed.

Loren could tell that he too was being affected by this as well.

"I know that I am causing you pain by asking you this, but please promise me you will do this."

Loren awaited for their response, but each was quite unit one finally broke that silence.

"I promise to do what you ask." Diloar SwordCarver was the one even though it hurt, he will honor Loren.

"Thank you my friend." Loren then turns to Enidut Pathwarrior awaiting for her now to answer.

She tries not to look him in the eye.

"Enidut Pathwarrior, I need to hear you say it please." Loren asks her and she could stay quiet for long.

"Damnit fine! I promise, but you better fucking make sure it never happens you hear me or I will kick your ass if it does."

Loren laughs a little then smiles as he then turns to Cecelia, the last one to answer him.

"I… I don't want to, but if you wish this then, I will do my best, so I as well promise."

"I thank you all as this must not have been such an easy thing to promise, but I only ask because I trust you with my life and know that you will be there by my side as you walk along me on this path."

The girls couldn't handle it anymore and ran up to him hugging Loren while crying.

Loren holds them as they cry trying to calm them down as best as he can through that night.

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Back to the present Loren was now laying in bed with Enidut Pathwarrior holding her.

She finally stops crying as that made her soon fall to sleep and he stares at that sleeping face of hers.

Loren began to remember the times all of them used to sleep together when they were children.

He enjoys those times and sometimes misses them at times.

"Forgive me for causing each of you the pain from my selfish request."