The End

It's been 5 years since we came here, we had hardship's, but we got over them, we had sad moments, and happy ones, but all of those led to this moment. We are standing face to face the Demon Lord, as they call him in the Kingdoms council, but he's just a crazy guy. He got banished from Athrax, because he fought for the Beastkind, and led a Slave uprising, I don't even despise him, I'd rather say pity, he fought what was right, but that doesn't matter anymore.

According to Takumi's spies there are 50.000 of them on the other side, around 35.000 foot soldiers, 10.000 cavalry and the rest are either wyvern riders, mages, or auxiliary units. It's a great army, I do have to say, but they don't have a strong leadership, we took care of them. The annoying part is that they're united under one flag, while we are consisted into 4 major camps.

We have about 57.000 men on the field, and there are more auxiliary troops in the camp defending it, they're my personal core consisting about 200 cavalry men, and 500 pike men.

Rajeev leads the main bulk of the army of 30.000 foot soldiers, with 10.000 mage hidden amongst them led by Ann, it was my Idea, for the past 3 months we trained are troops to work in a 4 men cell, 2 men with shield and spear in lead for being Tanks , behind them an attack mage as damage dealer, and at last an archer for support. I have to say that the soldiers learned it fast but Raj... he's just annoying sometimes, that's why Ann's there, she's a lot smarter then I thought.

Then there's 15.000 cavalry with us, 8.000 led by Dru, and 7.000 by Takumi who knew that a Samurai is mainly a cavalry unit?! The last 2.000 is led by Hannah, she will lead the adventurers in a flanking maneuver to the Demon Kings body guards, so that then Dru could fight him 1 on 1.

It's a really good set up excluding that the Dwarf's from Murrim hate the Elves and sadly it's mutual, while the Beastkin always free the Athraxian slaves (whom are Beastkin), thus tensions are climbing at an alarming rate. It was a nightmare to set everything up, not even talk about the camp, rather camps... all of them have a different camp, and we couldn't leave them alone, so Takumi was with the Dwarfs, because they made his armor and Katana, so he was grateful, that's the easy part, Raj was furious when I told him that he has to be with the Beastkin, looks like he is a bit racist but whatever, he did a good job there keeping them at bay. Dru and Hannah went to the Athraxian camp as they required a lot more attention because they are the bulk of the army. Then lastly Ann went to the Andranas camp to the Elves, they love to gossip and she just loves the Elves. While all of them were at the camps, I was at the War council in Ironshore harbor, thinking up plans for the Army groups, and listening to reports about the enemy movements and numbers...

As the drums started to play signaling that the enemy made a move I came back to my sense's.

"What's the situation?" I asked the runner. "Looks like that they're getting ready, their groups started to move to our direction." He answered, with a scared look.

"Are you scared? If you're that's good, but please don't start to panic. It's just gonna make problems" I said to him, and he looked at with amazement and asked the stupidest question I could, think about at that moment. "I'm not scared... well I'm but not because the enemy, it's just that Master Raj is a heavy drinker and his tent is close to mine..." He told me while holding the back of his head while laughing. "What's your name?" "It's Dan, Sir Matthew. Dan Stringer" he said without delay. "Good." As I turned away from him to looks at my Generals I started to explain what we'll do "Send the world of attack, the main core should set up on the hill-side, 4.000 of them need to hide on the sides, if possible tell Raj and Ann that choose from those with long ranged precise spells, as we need Air cover. Dru and Takumi can have as much fun on the flanks as they want but do not let them chase after fleeing enemy's and for good sake do NOT let Dru charge into a spear wall again. Choose 100 men from his company to be his Bodyguard, and if needed they'll take him where he needs to be. The adventurers should start make their way with Hannah as well." I told them the plan, well it wasn't necessary because the Generals already knew, but it looked cool. As I looked at the runners in the distance as they took my orders away, I just could think about one thing... Hannah...

~2-3 hours later~

Cheering could be heard from everywhere, the Demon King was defeated, his army is routed, and the Heroes emerged victorious.

Dru killed the Demon King as planned, but not as planned, the Body guards bested the adventurers, and Hannah almost died, Dru enraged almost get himself killed as well if it wasn't the other three, while Ann healed up Hannah. Raj and Takumi took care of the rest of the bodyguards Dru kept the Demon King occupied. At last the 5 of them bested the Demon King. That's the story which was told to the army, in truth the Demon King was back stabbed by one of his last generals, in hopes of mercy as our army closed in on them. Well it doesn't matter, we won, and the 5 heroes were cheered as they should be, heroes. What about me you ask, I was left out as just one of the generals for the army. I was never acknowledged as a hero, the only ones who thanked me were Dan, Hannah, and my core leaders who came to meet me. Later on, in the coming days every nation said that it was Dru the 'Hero King', who came up with the Tactics, and all of the movement orders were thought up by the Company leaders, Raj, Ann, Takumi and Hannah.

After the after party, we finally met someone whom we haven't seen in 5 years, Elmes.

"Congratulations Heroes, you achieved what was asked of you, there's only one question left, what will you do now?" Asked Elmes "You can go back to your own world, or go to another one, or you can stay, what will you choose?"

"We'll stay, we all agreed to this" said Dru, and I just looked at him confused, because what he was saying.

Mat: "All of us, I don't remember anything about this"

Dru: "Ohhh, yeah, um, sorry I thought that Takumi was going to tell you about it."

Takumi: "Ahh, no, it was Raj"

Raj: "Nope, it should have been obvious for him, don't drag me into this"

Mat: "Guys, what are you saying, we wanted to go home, that's why we fought for 5 years hasn't we"

Hannah: "Mat, we love it here, we are acknowledged as heroes, and its not that bad anymore, why can't you be happy about it?"

Mat: "WHAT?!?!? You guys are heroes, I'm not! All this time I was working towards to go back home, I want my simple life without Demons and Magic, you can't be serious!"

Elmes: "So you decided, all of you are going to stay, Good luck, there's no second time this time"

Mat: "Sorry Elmes, not all of them, I'm going home"

Elmes: "Sorry kiddo, it's all of you or neither, Julius has high expectations of you, don't ruin it."

This is how it ended, and after this will start the real fun, not as Heroes, but as Monarch's.