My not so much fairy tale

Preparing for war

I’m met with so much silence that it started to frighten me. “So, what do you think?” I ask in a hurry. “Will you do it? He really needs our help!!!” I pleaded. They all 

looked at each other and nodded their heads at each

other. “Yes.” my father says. “We will do it, we’ll help you and your Erlking, but only this once. If we do help you though, you have to promise to never come back. You can never step on this land. It will no longer be your home.” He says to me, Okay if that is the price to pay, then I will do it. If I am allowed to come back once a year to visit my mother's grave.” I negotiate. “ Alright, but I’m only doing this for her.” He agrees. “ We will head out at first light tomorrow, if you have a problem with that you can get over it. Now I’m going to bed, and If you are going to drink don’t come along. Does that make sense to everyone?” I say in a tone that says don’t mess with me. “Yes” they say in a dreadful tone. Probably because it means that they can’t drink. I head up to bed, and I have the same nightmare as before, except my mother is wailing “ Why weren’t you there to stop them, Why did you let them beat me to death.” I wake up in a cold sweat, crying over my mother's death. I get up to see that it is five fifty-nine, and I go wake up my father and my siblings. As we all pack our backpacks with weapons and food I realize that I’ll miss this place, but It doesn’t matter. I can’t live here anymore, It reminds me too much of what I once had. It reminds me that it doesn’t matter what you look like or how old you are because we all die, and everyone else dies with us. “ Alright, I will lead so that we can go to the land I am talking about.” I say. We walk quietly most of the time, only talking when my brothers are telling a bad joke, trying to ease the tension. It is almost noon when I see the Erlking on the untouched land. I get to him and say “Hi, I brought my father and my siblings, we can go to war now.” I  say  cheerfully, wanting to take out the anger of losing my mother out on something or on someone. "Alright, we have to go south of here. I have already scouted the area. I did it when you were gone.” He explained when I had a questioning look on my face.

 “They have about one thousand twenty-one hundred people in their tribe.” He continues. “ We will refuel with food, and sleep. Then we will go and attack and get revenge on the people that killed my family.” He says with happiness. As I settle down for the night, I realize that there is about to be a war on each side of the mountain. I had a wonderful dream that night. It was of me killing my father and my brothers, and saving my mother. I had no nightmare that night. All I had was a dream come true. “Wake up, they are invading us!” my youngest brother yells at me. “They must have seen us coming! Is everyone else up.” I question him. “Yes everyone is up, we have to get the weapons ready.” He practically yells. “Alright, let's get ready for war.” I say excitedly,not being able to contain my excitement of being able to kill people and get away with it. As I fought for my life beside my brothers,I realized that we’ll make it. We’ll get revenge for the Erlking. My father is dropping the enemy like he drinks alcohol, and trust me that's a lot. My brothers are the same way. I can tell that they’re having fun just by the looks on their faces. Looks like they're more like me than I thought. I can feel the sweat pouring down my face as I fight the guy in front of me. I can tell that he has an extensive amount of fighting skills. It's either that or I am lacking in fighting.  I fight harder than I have ever fought in my life, and it pays off. I killed him. I move on to the next person. We are way outnumbered, but I’m still really confident that we will win. I finish that guy off, and look around,and I see that there are more guys coming and coming. It’s like they never stop. I fight and I fight but my adrenaline runs out, and I feel exhausted. We haven’t even made a dent in the soldiers I realize. I look at my father and my brothers and realize that they feel the same way as me, so I keep fighting as hard as I can. I won't stop until I’m dead. The sweat pouring down my face is starting to blind me. I push past that inconvenience,and keep on fighting until I hear the deafening cry of my youngest brother dying. I stop and mourn his death for a kilo-second, and get back to fighting the guy I’m on now. It’s starting to be dark when I hear more of my brothers dying, and then It was finally just me and my father. We stood back to back. Ready to face the world with each other.The Erlking was nowhere to be seen. We fight and fight and fight, but eventually my father is killed and I am the only one left. The Erlking steps out of the shadow that he was hiding in, and says.

“Do you see their king? Do you realize now that I fooled you? That I made you think that you would win. I got your hopes up, and then crushed them by killing everyone you loved, or rather didn’t love. You never loved your siblings or your father. You took pleasure in hearing them cry out as we killed them. I knew what you felt. Know I’m going to kill you with the same pleasure that you had when your family died.” I shake with the knowledge that he tricked me. He tricked us. It was my fault that my family got killed. I was the one to trust him, and now I’m the one that got my family killed. At least I get to die, and not have to live with the guilt of leading my family into a trap. When he captures me he tortures me brutally, stabbing me in places that won’t kill me. He keeps doing this for days including other things. Then on the fifteenth day of having to go through with this, he kills me. He kills me slowly and painfully letting all the knights stab me. They did this over and over again not letting up.Just having everyone stand over me, stabbing me and stabbing me. “I’m sorry mom. I didn't get revenge. I failed you all, and I let the family die. ” Were my last words. I see her. I can see my mother. I can finally be with her. The circumstances of me being with her aren’t that great, but still I see her. Wait there isn’t a light. So does that mean that she isn’t dead, but why is she here? Is she working with them? I see her go up to the Erlking and kiss him. My mom just kissed the enemy. “My sweet sweet boy. You weren’t supposed to be caught up in this. You were supposed to go home, and tell your father and your brothers about this place. Then they would come and die. We would kill them. Then,we would get you, and live happily ever after. The Erlking is your real father. I’m sorry it had to turn out this way.” She says with tears in her eyes,as she plunged the dagger in my heart. It hurts so much. I can feel the blood draining out of me. If that doesn't kill me the starvation and dehydration will.