I'm just a puppet

While running away I could hear horses chasing after me and as I escaped the town I was in I entered the woods where horses cannot easily sprint to and there I stayed of a while as I hid.

I hated myself for everything that just happened because I made everything worse. The worst part was that I could not bring myself to just get killed by the knights who knew very well I deserve it.

"Well Red we finally meet"

Said a tall figure coming towards me, it was a face I recognised. The slave that I met when I saved Viollette.

"You-"

"First of all explanations are in order so let me start from the beginning. You were always meant to save my daughter Red, I made it happen along with you living your breezy old town and travel the continent and finally reach Euphilia where you will inevitably feel pity for Viollette "

" What? I don't understand! "

" Think back to the very beginning Red, what was it that made you leave? Was it the pressence of a certain figure who made you question your lifestyle? "

" h.. How do you know that? Who are you? "

" Oh my apologies, I am Baron Silverwrite and I suppose you have met my son Prince? "

" I don't understand what any of this means! Everything I've done was your plan? How? "

" You never did know what Viollette's magic is did you? It's the ability to bend the very fabric of time and space, I come from a not so distant future where the continent goes to war that will lead to the end of the world"

"Start making sense!!"

"You see I used to be the king of Regara and everything was fine until one day Euphilia attacked us with an unimaginable ally, The Dragons and we would have been annihilated but Sandeith had a trick up their sleeves as well and they made a contract with Demons and the world became a battle field of the two otherworldly powers and my world was destroyed, however before that Viollette's power was activated and she saved me alone and brought me to the boundaries of reality"

I had to pause trying to listen of what he had to say.

"In the boundaries of reality I managed to see one thousand timelines, all ending in the same way. With the Demons defeating the Dragons ten years after the extinction of humanity. But on the one thousandth timeline something changed upon the arrival of one Red Preage, an entity destiny deemed irrelevant but through his actions caused utter chaos in the stories of people who in other timelines were to live relevant stories. I knew then what I was going to do! I have been given a map to creating a timeline so utterly ridiculous that no one could predict what happens next, an antagonist side character if you may and I have shaped everything to what occurred in the timeline and I only need to change one thing to end the armagedon"

"So the fall of your dynasty, your son looking for you, everyone from your kingdom becoming slaves, and the murder of the merchant, everything that happened to me was all your orchestration?"

He looked at me genuinely and spoke.

"Yes"

"Your fucking with me right? Everything you just said is utter bull! Viollette bending time, me being a side character to your sick story and everything you just said is a lie! It's not true! I made my own destiny!"

"I can promise you I tell no lies, you've witnessed Viollette's power already when you've met a person from another timeline"

"Alister"

Barron nodded.

This man named Barron I couldn't bring myself to believe but I trust Alister and his words resonated to me and I knew it wasn't a lie.

"You should be happy Red, you really are significant and for once in your pathetic life you didn't mess everything up. You can leave everything to me now you have changed so many people's story after all I can't have you changing anyone else's. You are done"

"I became relevant? I'm done?..... What happens now?"

"Now is the part where you offer your own life after having so many other killed in your place that is and after that I will fix everything and restore the balance. The chaos you have created gave place for the peace I will make so from the bottom of my heart thank you and after this war I'll see to it that the power of Dragons and Demons remain hidden. "

I was led on by this man to do everything he wanted me to do, he made me think everything that popped in my mind, he made me do everything I did! I was never the hero who saved Viollette because I saw her needing help, I saved her because Barron made me. Everything that led to my life was meaningless! I give up, I don't care anymore just kill me now Barron.

From behind him he took out a knife and I just simply stuck my neck out not even putting any fight, I mean I'm just a character of this sick man's story who killed his own father, abandoned his son and made his own daughter a slave and left her life to me and Alister, there is no use in fighting this man of the destiny that always meant for me to be dispensable once I have said my piece and did my role.

"5 years I have searched for you hoping you had some good reason why you left and now that I have heard it I'm not satisfied father"

From behind us spoke a young man who had silver hair and a glowing sword. The man I've dreamt of becoming and who's father used that to make me change the future. Prince Silverwrite walked toward us with his cocky smile and cocksure stance.

"You! What are you doing here?!"

Barron looked so surprised as he looked at his son who he used as a pawn.

"Some reunion isn't it father? Well Red you always seem to be present in significant times for me aren't you"

To add to the chaos marching of soldiers was heard closing in on us as Barron and Prince looked at each other with the intensity of a son seeing his father who abandoned him and a father who abandoned his son for a greater cause.

Morals or peace which is more important? The two look at each other with that thought in mind defending what they thought is right. I mean isn't that what we all seek? Being true and finding the good inside us and living better lives? Everyone is the good guy in their story after all which made me think of what the hell I was thinking? I never lived for my morals nor for a greater cause because I was too busy trying to become someone relevant and now that I am I realize I should have chosen a better way to live my life than trying to justify that I deserve to live it.

Barron quickly ran towards me trying to kill me before it's too late but Prince stopped him.

"This time it's the right thing to do just to run away Red"

Prince said as he covered me from his paranoid father.

I did as he said and ran. But instead of running away I ran towards the enemy and did what I would never have done, not because I was trying to escape Barron's control but because I was going to create the peace he wanted but with me in it along with my friends and without causing a war. Was such a thing possible? Who knows, if the great writer of destinies didn't even know what to do with me then neither should I but that's fine I'll try to create a better timeline still.