The Hero's Path II

[DeathScape]

A long, long time ago, even before The Great Depression, before Columbus found America, before Jesus stepped foot onto earth, and even before dinosaurs existed. There were three big towns. They were called Saradomin, Guthix, and Zamorak. Saradomin and Guthix were good friends, but Zamorak was a different story…
Zamarak would always do terrible things to Saradomin and Guthix, but they couldn’t blame the terrible things that happened to them on Zamarak because there was no proof. Zamarak was fall of a lot of hateful people, too, the town was just horrible. Very few would stop to help others.
One day Zamarak went too far. They did something so horrible that is started one of the biggest wars ever, even bigger than World War II…



Let me explain the magic in this world. Wind is the worst element, water is the second worst element, earth is the second best element, and fire is the best element. Here are the normal spells:
Wind Wave, Water Wave, Earth Wave, Fire Wave, Wind Bolt, Water Bolt, Earth Bolt, Fire Bolt, Wind Blast, Water Blast, Earth Blast, Fire Blast, Wind Strike, Water Strike, Earth Strike, and Fire Strike. All of those are in order from worst to best, but of course there are more spells, but those are the sixteen basic spells.
You must have enough runes for each spell. Let’s say if I wanted to use Fire Blast, I would need seven fire runes, five air runes, and one blood rune. Some runes are rarer than others. Air, water, earth, and fire runes are the four basic runes. Then there are the ones used for spells. Mind runes are used for Wave spells, Chaos runes are used for Bolt spells, Death runes are used for Blast spells, and Blood runes are used for Strike spells. There are more than eight runes, but those are used for other spells, like alchemy.
You must be a wizard to access the Strike spells. If you’re a mage, you can’t use them.



Josh was a nice young man who was willing to do anything for Saradomin or Guthix. He was also the strongest person ever. His best friend, Fletcher, was a pretty good ranger, and he was always willing to help Josh on his adventures. Whether it was a giant dragon that needed to be slayed, or just a tiny rat that needed to be extinguished, Fletcher would always help Josh. Alex was the second best fighter ever, but he was a mean man who wanted to be the best. He tried to be the best at everything. He practiced fighting every day, but he never became better than Josh. He actually hated Josh.
And the three of them all lived in Saradomin. Josh of course lived in a big castle because he was such a great fighter, but the others were fine with what they had. Josh not only had the best skills at fighting, the best house, the favoritism of the King, but he always had an incredible girlfriend named Jane.
Jane had long blonde hair, hazel eyes, and a nice white dress she always wore. If Josh ever lost her, he wouldn’t be able to carry on. He couldn’t spend a second without her, so that’s why he decided to marry her. She was captured, and Josh saved her, but Alex betrayed him, and killed them both, well, at least Jane. Josh survived, but was pretty hurt.
At first, Josh, Fletcher, and Alex had to get a sapphire, an emerald, a ruby, a diamond, and a pearl to open a door to where Jane was, or get the key that King Syon had. Even though Josh and Alex hated each other, near the end of their journey, Josh sort of liked Alex, and he thought Alex liked him, but he was obviously wrong. Like I said before, Alex betrayed him, and tried to kill Josh and Jane.
Alex took credit for the whole journey, and said Josh just died in combat. Alex was a big deal to Saradomin after that. Alex was going to be king when King Samuel died, but Alex couldn’t wait that long, he had to be king now. And this is where our story starts…

 

[DeathScape]

It was a late night; everyone was asleep, except one person named Alex. Alex was in the main castle of Saradomin, and he was also in the room next to King Samuel. He got out of bed, and went in the king’s room. He went towards King Samuel’s bed, and bam! He struck him with his sword. King Samuel died. After that, Alex went back to his bed, and waited for morning.



“Awww!” Josh screamed in the main castle of Zamarak. “Where am I?” He got up, but fell back down from pain. “Awww!” He remembered every thing, the whole war, and his girlfriend and best friend were dead. He crawled out of the castle, and saw Fletcher on the ground. “Fletcher!” he shouted. He checked his heart, and happily realized that he was still alive!
“Josh?” Fletcher groaned, with half an eye open. “What happened last night?”
“… Alex betrayed us, we gotta go back to Saradomin and kill him!” Josh exclaimed.
“I can barely feel my legs, I don’t know if I can do that,” Fletcher replied.
“We have to!” Josh cried.
“No. We don’t. You think we do. But. We don’t,” Fletcher admitted.
Was this Fletcher? Josh thought to himself. It can’t be, Fletcher was always so willing to do things with him, even through thick and thin.
Fletcher touched Josh’s arm. “Josh, I’m goinga die…” Fletcher said.
Goinga? Is that even a word? Josh thought to himself. “No, you’re not,” Josh responded.
“Cut the bull shit. You know I am… Bye, Josh,” Alex said, as he let go of Josh.
Maybe I don’t wanna go, Josh thought to himself again. Maybe I don’t wanna go. Maybe I should just stay here, and wait for my death. Maybe I don’t wanna go. Yes. I’m staying here, and waiting to be reunited with my family.
The air got a little colder. Josh felt Fletcher, and knew he had no chance of living. But of all the luck, there, in the middle of the land was a man, standing there with a staff. The man approached Fletcher.
“Heal!” the man shouted, as a bolt of green came out of his staff.
Fletcher got up, alive as ever. He looked at the man, and knew he was the reason he was alive. “Thank you,” Fletcher said. He smiled.
“No need to thank me. I thank you,” the man, who was obviously a wizard, said. “Finish your journey, Josh. Maybe you don’t wanna go, but you have to.” The man paused, and then said, “Go…”



The people were just waking up in Saradomin. Everyone was going crazy because of the king’s death. But Alex tried to control everyone. Alex could see two men in the distance walking towards Saradomin. As they got closer, Alex thought it might be- No, it can’t be, they died, Alex told himself. But as they approached him, Alex knew that it was none other than… Josh and Fletcher. Alex felt sick in his stomach.
“Hi!” Alex exclaimed. “Wow! We’re really lucky you guys survived. This place is going ha-“
“Cut the shit, you tried to kill us,” Josh said.
There was a loud, “Hooooo!” from the town’s people listening.
“Yeah, thanks for shooting an arrow into my heart, and killing my girlfriend, and trying to kill Fletcher,” Josh went on.
“I didn’t try to kill Fletcher,” Alex said.
“Oh yeah, that’s right, but you do deserve to die,” Josh responded.
“What! No!” Alex shouted.
“Oh, and it’s obvious you killed King Samuel to try to become king. Nice job, dip shit,” Josh spat.
Alex blushed. He had seconds to think of what his next act was, and knew he had to beat Josh in a final event for his survival. So he ran, ran as fast as he could. Josh came running towards him, too. Josh was faster, but Alex knew he could beat him. They ran through the woods, and didn’t stop. Alex was running out of breath. He knew he had to stop. So he got out his bow and his arrow that he thought he killed Josh with, and shot it at Josh. Josh stopped, and hid behind a tree. A few more arrows came towards Josh, but they missed.
“Give up!” Josh shouted.
“Never!” Alex yelled.
“If you turn yourself in, I’ll only throw you in jail,” Josh called back.
“No!” Alex screamed. Alex kept shooting arrows at Josh. And Josh knew he had to fire back.
Josh got out his bow and arrows, and fired back. But they all kept missing.
Fletcher came into eye shot in a matter of minutes. “Josh! Come back!” Fletcher shouted.
Alex pointed his arrow towards Fletcher, and shot him.
“Fletcher!” Josh screamed, as he ran towards Fletcher. He checked his heart, and knew he was dead. His heart stopped, which meant there was no way he could come back to life. But Josh wondered how Fletcher survived a twenty story drop, but had no time to think. He then felt a sudden pain in his back, and realized he was shot. Damn! He thought. I should’ve been paying attention. He then began firing at Alex again.

 

[DeathScape]

“He got away,” Josh told his friend, Mark. “He killed Fletcher, too. Fletcher is gone… forever! Damn it! No!”
Yup, Josh went to a bar to get drunk to forget about what happened over the last two days.
“Man, that sucks!” Mark exclaimed. “We gotta get that bitch. But hey, did you hear about Zamarak?” Mark questioned Josh, as he took a sip of his beer.
Josh quivered. He hated that word, he remembered his girlfriend, and tried not to cry, but he couldn’t help it. That word reminded Josh of the horrible tragedy. Josh took the beer glass away from his lips and said, “What about Zamarak?”
“They’re starting a new army somewhere! We gotta get these bitches, and get rid of them forever!” Mark exclaimed.
“What ever happened to Guthix?” Josh asked.
“There is no Guthix anymore,” Mark replied. Some went to Saradomin, and some went to Zamarak. So now there are only two real towns.”
“You gotta help me get Alex,” Josh said. “He went to Zamarak, I know it.”
“Well, then you’re going to have to get him because were fighting them today. The king’s order,” Mark told him, sipping his beer.
“King? The king is dead!” Josh exclaimed.
“Yeah, but he has a son, Alex was supposed to take his place, but you know,” Mark said.
“What about me?” Josh asked.
“You really want to be the king?” Mark questioned.
“No, not really,” Josh said. He thought about it for a minute. Being king is kind of boring, so why do all that hard work, when I get as much credit already. He then opened his mouth after another sip of beer and said, “No, I guess not.”
“Yeah, well, I’m gonna jet, see ya!” he called back, as he left the bar.
Josh decided to leave, too. He went outside and sniffed the wonderful air, but he remembered Jane, the girl he loved was killed. The tears rolled down his cheeks, and Josh wiped them away. He had to tell himself that she was gone, and not coming back, or he would never be the same.
“Okay, she’s gone,” he told himself. But that sounded dumb. “I lost Fletcher, too…”
“All soldiers, report to the main castle,” Josh heard the new king’s voice call.
To make his voice that loud he must have shouted really loud, Josh thought to himself. It was a mystery how he got his voice that loud, but maybe he’d figure it out later.
Josh was in the main castle within seconds. There was a large line of army men. Josh was in the first row.
“Hello men,” the new king, King Daniel, said. “We’re going to fight, and killed Zamarak to finally settle this whole… flippy floppy thing. So… I have nothing really to say, except kick their ass!” King Daniel cawed.
There was loud shout, and the doors opened, and the men fled into the battle field as fast as they could. They saw Zamarak approach them after five minutes of running. The fight had begun. Josh wasn’t really interested in killing anyone except Alex. If Alex was dead, Josh was happy. But Josh knew he couldn’t find him in this large crowd. When Josh killed men, they were just in a metal suit, and Josh couldn’t see their face or anything. He looked around to see if he could see what their faces looked like, but there was no luck with that.
“Awww!” a voice towards Josh cried.
Josh could see a man with a sword running towards him. He had no armor on. Josh simply stabbed him, and he was dead in a matter of seconds. A big bolt of fire in the sky came hurdling towards the ground. Josh knew that was made by a catapult, but they weren’t easy to make. Josh ran as fast as he could away from it. He saw his men get pulverize by the huge fire bolt after a matter of seconds. Josh’s rage came back to him, and he went full out. He killed men as fast he could. He was taking on ten at a time! He was unstoppable. No one could beat him. Except… Bam! Josh felt a pain in his arm, and realized he was shot there. He turned around to see Alex.
“Hello, Josh,” Alex said.
The whole fighting scene had stopped, and was focused on two people; Alex and Josh.
“Hello…” Josh said.
Alex walked around. Josh tried to look strong, but the arrow in his arm hurt really bad. Alex kept walking around, not doing anything, waiting for Josh to attack first.
“So… what’s up?” Alex asked.
This was just stupid. Josh no longer cared if his arm hurt or not, he dashed off towards Alex to fight him. The crowd began shouting. The fight was long and hard. Every attack was blocked. Josh couldn’t believe how could Alex had become.
After ten minutes of fighting, something happened… Josh’s sword was hit away by Alex. Alex had a sword, and Josh didn’t, he was in big trouble. Josh couldn’t believe his life would end like this. But Josh still had one thing, his fists. He punched Alex. Alex’s head went back, and when he lowered his head to the same level as before, Josh could see his noise bleeding. Alex slashed his sword at Josh, but he couldn’t hit him. Josh ran up a log to tear a branch off. It was hard to do with just his hands, but Josh managed to do it.
Alex started to walk up the log to stab Josh. Josh slashed the branch at Alex. Josh hit Alex after three swings, and he fell off the branch. Josh had an advantage. He ran behind the tree to take his sword, and then went back towards Alex to end his life. He raised his sword, but then he was kicked by Alex. Alex got up. So now Alex was standing, and Josh was on the ground. Josh took out his bow and arrows and fired them at Alex. One hit him in the leg, and Josh used that time to get up. After Alex took the arrow out of his leg, he shot towards the tree. Josh didn’t know why he did that, but the reason was because there was a rock on the branch. The arrow hit the rock, and it fell from the tree and hit Josh in the head. It hurt really bad, but Josh couldn’t fall to his knees. Instead he pick up a rock and threw it at Alex. It hit him in the face, and Alex was bleeding even more.
The wind got colder again, or was it just Josh? It took awhile for Alex to recover from the rock being thrown at his face, but he did, and he slashed his sword at Josh again. Josh fought back. The crowd around them went crazy! It went on and on with no stop. Josh did a flip off the tree, and kicked Alex in the head. The Saradomin side cheered. Alex shot an arrow at the tree again, but this time the reason was to hit the angry wasp nest. Alex succeeded. The wasp nest came hurdling down at Josh. Josh ran around in circles as the wasps stung him. After the wasps were out of the way, everyone could see Josh covered in bee stings. His whole face was covered in red poka dots! The Zamarak side laughed. Josh rubbed his face. He could even see some Saradomin men laughing! Josh had to get back at him for this. Josh looked around for a fire. He was lucky, and saw a tree on fire. He went over to it and put his arrow in it. And then he shot it at Alex. It went into Alex’s stomach. Alex fell to the ground. Everyone stopped laughing.
“Damn you, Josh!” Alex shouted.
Then Josh noticed that he wasn’t dieing on the ground, he was rolling around to get the fire off.

 

[DeathScape]

The battle ended with Josh and Alex in bruises, but neither were dead. Josh couldn’t believe he let Alex go alive. And on the other minus side, Saradomin had lost more men than Zamarak. Josh couldn’t even go to sleep that night. He kept thinking about more ways to torture Alex, and wondered why he didn’t end up killing him.
After only five hours of sleep, Josh got up, ready for the day. He got dressed and walked to the main castle. When everyone was there, the king announced something very shocking, Josh wasn’t sure if he wanted to do it…



Saradomin and Zamarak were lined up, facing each other. Josh was going to duel Alex. Josh was a little ahead of the soldiers, out so you could have your main focus on him.
“Send your best soldier out,” King Daniel said.
Josh was ready to do it, kill Alex. But King Zathuria didn’t send out Alex, he sent out someone Josh had never seen before.
“Who the **** is this guy!?” Josh asked.
“Send out your best soldier!” King Daniel repeated.
“I never said Alex was my best,” King Zathuria responded.
Maybe this wasn’t just some random guy the king sent out, maybe he was really better than Alex.
“Begin duel,” Josh said.
“Begin duel,” the opponent said.
Josh ran towards the man, and the man slashed his sword at him, but Josh easily stuck in his sword into him. Josh realized this was just random guy the king sent out. The man fell to his knees and died.
“Oh, whatever!” Alex said to King Zathuria. “Zamarak was just embarrassed! I don’t care, I’ll fight him even if I’m hurt!” Alex said it so loud that most people could hear. Alex then walked out a couple of steps, and faced Josh.
“Begin duel,” Josh said.
“Begin duel,” Alex said hastily.
Josh ran towards Alex as if he was going to run and stab him, but instead he threw a knife at him. It went threw Alex’s neck, and he died. Josh felt good, finally, the second best warrior was dead. He took a breathe. Josh looked at the startled faces.
“You know, that wasn’t our best warrior, I’ll let you fight the best right now,” King Zathuria said. And he, King Zathuria, went on the battle floor.
What? Josh thought to himself. Well, you might as well kill this old man. But he wasn’t that old at all, he was the same age as Josh.
“Begin duel,” Josh said.
“Begin duel, King Zathuria said, smiling.
Josh didn’t know what to do; torture him, or just kill him really fast. He decided torturing him would be much more fun, and besides, he was a king. Josh ran towards the king and tried to stab him lightly so he wouldn’t die, but the king grabbed his sword and flung Josh to the ground. Josh was embarrassed. Okay, no more fooling around, Josh told himself, but he wasn’t really fooling around. Josh took out his bow and arrows, and shot at him several times. They all missed. The king finally did an attack. King Zathuria threw a boomerang at Josh. It cut his throat. Blood leaked out. Was Josh going to die?
“Attack!” shouted King Daniel. He interrupted the duel so Josh wouldn’t die. The two sides charged at each other. Two men went over to Josh, took him by the arms, and dragged him back Josh’s home. It was a very long walk.

 

[DeathScape]

Josh felt his head beat as he rested in his nice, cozy, warm bed. He couldn’t believe the king was that good. But then he realized that he wasn’t, Josh just played torture kill, instead of just trying to kill him. Josh knew he made a fool of himself, and it costs him his neck, and almost his life.
“Good fight,” a voice said.
It was the king, the battle was probably over.
“Sorry,” Josh said.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to say that sarcastically,” King Daniel said. “I meant with Alex.
“Thanks,” Josh replied. “Is the battle over?” he finally asked, after a long pause.
“No,” King Daniel said.
“Can I fight in it?” Josh questioned.
“I guess there will be no point in arguing,” King Daniel said. He smiled, “Go get ‘em!”
So Josh set out to the war zone. It took him about ten minutes to get there. He started fighting. He chopped off someone’s head, and someone else shot the head while it was in the air. Then Josh bumped into someone.
“Mark?” Josh said.
“Hey, let’s split,” Mark said. “Follow me.”
“Okay,” Josh said. So Josh followed Mark into the main castle of Zamarak. They went up a couple of stairs until they reached… a monster. “What the hell is that?” Josh asked with a quiver.
“We gotta take him done,” Mark said. Mark took out his bow and arrow and fired at the giant beast. “Kill the king, I’ll take him down.”
Josh went to the twenty-first floor of the castle and saw the king perched on his chair. They stared at each other for a couple of minutes, then the king hit a button, and the floor broke, and Josh fell through. He landed into a cage. Half of the cage was in the atmosphere, and the other half was in the water. The cage was small, and when he landed in it, it closed. There were six locks on it. Josh looked around to see a key. He reached one of his hands out of the bar, and snatched it. Once he grabbed it, the cage starting rotating left and right. Josh started unlocking the locks. He got five, but then he dropped the key the sixth. This was very bad. The cage was going fast. Josh took out his sword and reached for the key. With a couple of attempts he finally got it. The cage was going way too fast for him to unlock the lock, but he knew he had to. It took him a minute more before he finally unlocked it. When he got out, he was dizzy, so he decided to go to the shore and lay down. He got up after a couple of minutes, and in his distance he could see a boat. He went on the boat. It was very big, and could probably fit over thousands of men.
“Awww!” screamed a voice. The voice came from a crowd of men. The men jumped on the ship, and one started the engine.
Josh didn’t know how many there were, about a thousand, or more! “Mark!” Josh exclaimed, as he looked into the dark eyes of his pal, Mark.
“Hey!” Mark said with a smile. He high fived him.
The two of them talked for hours, but they didn’t know where they were going, or why they were going, but Josh didn’t care, he just knew these men would go someone, whether it was a war zone, or peaceful land with fairies, Josh didn’t care, he just was willing to go anywhere.
The boat entered a deadly storm, and out of the sea came a giant monster.
“Sea monster!” screamed a man.
Everyone screamed, and ran around the ship. Some men started shooting at the gigantic beast.
“Stop!” Josh shouted. “It’s big, but how do you know it’s bad?”
No one listened to Josh, everyone just fired at the giant beast, and the beast struck back. He broke the boat in half, and everyone fell into the water. People started screaming. It was cold, raining, and they had a giant beast after them. The monster started eating people. The monster grabbed Mark, he dangled him in the sky, and Josh watched him.
“Shit, no!” Josh whispered to himself. He went back on the broken ship that started in flames. He went up the string, and up to where the telescope guy viewed on people. He saw the giant monster dangling Mark from the foot. He was going to eat him! Josh thought. Josh jumped out of the telescope viewer area, and grabbed Mark from the giant beast, but they both fell into the water with a big splash, and they both got a horrible bruise on their back from that height that they jumped from.
“Thanks,” Mark said, after he was down conceiving the pain.
“No problem,” Josh said, gasping for breath. Josh started feeling someone or something touch his foot. “Do you feel that?” questioned Josh. He looked down to see sharks around him. “Don’t move, Mark,” Josh whispered.
Mark looked down, and starting shaking in fear.
Blood went around Josh and Mark, and they saw a man being tortured by the sharks. “Kill me! Kill me! Kill me!!!!!!!” he shouted as loud as he could.
Josh decided to take out his sword and stab him, and he did. “Shit…” he said.
“It’s o-o-kay, Josh,” Mark said, still shaking.
There was a loud, annoying sound that came into the crew’s distance. It was Zamarak. This was very bad. They started shooting people with their bows and arrows. And Josh knew they wanted to kill him the most because Josh was a legend, if you killed him you would be famous! But Josh thought they wouldn’t really see him in the dark, stormy night, but that didn’t mean that they still wouldn’t kill him.
The Zamarak warriors started shooting cannons. But just as Zamarak was laughing as Saradomin’s horrible fate, the monster from before was shot, and attacked the ship. The ship split in half, and all the men on it fell off. They started fighting in the water. Some people were struck by lightning, some died from coldness, some were devoured by sharks, some were torn in half by the sea monster, some were killed from Zamarak, some were killed from Saradomin, and some were just so miserable that they took their own life.
Josh was of course owning everyone, but he was worried about Mark, Mark was his friend, and he didn’t want another one of his friends to die. So when ever Mark looked close to be killed, Josh would swim around towards him and kill the Zamarak men. But Josh couldn’t really help him from the other things that caused death in this fearful sea.
“H-Hel-p!” Mark screamed.
Josh looked around to see Mark being pulled down by a shark. Josh couldn’t shoot an arrow under water, and his sword wouldn’t go really fast, but he had to do something. So he swam under water and went near Mark’s foot, and the shark’s mouth. He gouged the shark in the eye, and he went away. Wow, Josh thought, I didn’t think it would be that easy.
“Thanks, man,” Mark said.
“No problem,” Josh said. There was a pause. “I got an idea,” he said. “I know a cave around here, but you have to hold your breath for a long time, I’ll tell you later of where I found this out, but first, tell a couple of men about the cave, but tell them that they must be able to hold their breath for about two minutes,” Josh finished.

 

[DeathScape]

So Mark and Josh told a bunch of people about the cave. After awhile they finally went. It was a long swim indeed, and some people were eaten by sharks on the way, and some Zamarak warriors came just to go after Josh, but some Zamarak people went just to stay alive. They finally reached the cave after about two minutes. Not even half the men made it, only fifteen were left. Josh looked around to find Mark. He wasn’t there. Josh was about to scream, but then Mark came up in the cave. So there were sixteen left.
“Mark!” Josh screamed, as he hugged him.
“Don’t be going gay on me,” Mark said, smiling.
The sixteen men went on the rocky shore and took a breath, but that breath wasn’t long…
“Hello!” I don’t know if even half of you wimps deserve to live,” said a man.
“Oh yeah, forgot about that part,” Josh said.
“Here’s what you gotta do,” the man said. “Just hit that target, and if you do you survive, but if you don’t… you’ll be scalped! Pretty sucky death, too! I mean, just think about it, us scraping your head until we hit the brain, that is a lot of pain, horrible pain,” the man finished.
“Let’s just get this over with,” Josh said.
“Oh yes, well, here’s the target,” the man said, pointing to a red target on the stone wall.
“Shit, I’m gonna lose, I suck at range,” Mark whispered to Josh.
The first fifteen went, and only one was scalped. Then it was Mark’s turn. Mark took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and shot the arrow.
“Miss!” the man said. “Better luck next time, but wait, there won’t be a next time, you’re going to rot in Hell, or if you were a good boy, which I totally I doubt, you’ll go to that nice place with clouds, and some hot chicks, too, but I’m sorry again, I made up the hot chick part, but it is wicked awesome, I mean with all that cool st-“
“Shut the **** up,” Mark said. “Jeez, I would rather be scalped.”
“Oh yes! The scalping of your brain, ha ha, okay, let’s do this thing!” the man exclaimed. The last man was very sad, very sad indeed, cried the whole time, but you’re a big strong man, right? I bet you won’t cry like a little wimp, but enough chitty chat, let’s do this thang!”
“No! I won’t let you take me friend, I’ve lost two, too many!” Josh snapped.
“Very bad indeed, now you must fight my army of a thousand, yes, a thousand men versus fiftee-“
Just then a man came through the tunnel of the cave. He spat water and said, “What’d I miss?”
“Sixteen!” the man cried! “Come, come, I’ll tell you all about the game, yes, the wonderful game.
So the man explained the target game after two seconds he got of the water.
“What?” the Zamarak warrior said. “Oh, never mind, I was thinking of something in my head. The Zamarak warrior looked at Josh, he was pointing at the man, and the Zamarak warrior knew what to do. The Zamarak warrior shot the man, and he fell to the ground… and died. The Zamarak warrior kicked him once for an unknown reason.
“Thanks,” Josh said, “You saved my friend’s life.
“No problem… Josh,” the Zamarak warrior said.
“How’d you know my name!?” Josh questioned. “Oh wait, I’m famous, right.
“Yeah, my name’s Nick,” the Zamarak warrior said, shaking Josh’s hand.
“Pleasure to meet you,” Josh said, “I’m- Oh wait, you know who I am, I forgot… again… sorry.”
“Well, we’re sort of no where!” one of the sixteen men exclaimed! Where do we go from here?” he asked.
“Calm down, there’s a secret passage way back to the cit… ies,” Josh said.
After a couple of more chatter, the group went through the long tunnel to reach Saradomin and Zamarak. There were twelve Saradomin warriors, but only four Zamarak warriors, but they all seemed to get along really well. There were no fights, just a good long talk as they made their way home.
“Ahhh! Were here,” Josh said, as he looked at the plains of the wonderful cities.
“Yup, it’s good to be back,” Mark said.
And just as they all were breathing in the nice air, the main castle of Zamarak collapsed. It fell to the ground. The four Zamarak warriors rushed to Zamarak, and the four Saradomin warriors rushed to Saradomin.
Josh ran into the main castle of Saradomin and shouted right in King Daniel’s face, “Let’s make peace with Zamarak!”
“What?” King Daniel questioned.
“I want peace with them,” Josh admitted.
King Daniel scratched his beard. “Well… I don’t see why you would.”
“It’s the king, damn it, we need to say something, just make up something, like a duel! Yes! A duel, say we want to duel, and we’ll make the announcement there!” Josh exclaimed.
“Well I don’t kn-“
“Just do it!” Josh snapped.



King Daniel stood on the high balcony of the main castle of Saradomin as he was about to give his speech on peace. Josh was next to him. Zamarak and Saradomin were facing opposite sides of course again.
King Daniel stood, but didn’t know what words to say. “Let’s have some peace!” King Daniel shouted.
The crowd laughed.
“You’re being powered by your king, join us, we’ll start a new, a new city… with no wars or anything,” Josh told the crowd, but he also had no good words.
“Tell the men to attack,” King Zathuria told the commander of Zamarak.
The commander nodded and shouted, “Fight!”
“Oh no,” Josh whispered to himself. He rushed down the stairs and down to the war zone. He had no choice but to fight, so he did, but he felt bad about it. And he was sad when he met eye contact with Nick. He had to kill him. They stared at each other for a second. The Josh noticed the crowd wasn’t fighting, instead they were watching Josh and Nick duel. Josh realized that Nick was probably an awesome warrior, probably the best now.
The crowd chanted, “Fight, fight, fight.”
Both Nick and Josh walked around in circles. Nick finally threw down his sword and took off his helmet. “No,” he said, staring at the crowd. “I won’t fight, and I won’t be forced to kill my friend. I want to live in peace. Come on, Josh, let’s go to the other half of the world, to Iban!” Nick exclaimed.
Josh put his hand around Nick’s shoulder. “I’d be delighted… Not in a gay way,” he said, smiling.
The crowd watched the two leave for their journey around the world, to the city of Iban, where there is one city- not two separate cities- where there is no war, just peace.
“What! No! This can’t’ be happening,” King Zathuria exclaimed.
“But it is,” King Daniel said.
“I demand you to fight!” King Zathuria said.
“No,” said a man. He put away his sword and took off his helmet, we’re one city now.”
Then another man did the same, and another, and another, until everyone decided it was one city. The crowd started chanting, “One city! One city! One city! One city!”
“Come on, Zathuria,” King Daniel said, “You can live in our town.
“No, I’m leaving, I’ll get you scumbags one day with a totally different army,” King Zathuria told the crowd. So King Zathuria left, but he had no idea where he was going.
“This is great!” King Daniel exclaimed. “What should we call it?”
“How about… Zammington!” Mark shouted.
“Yeah!” It’s named after Joshua Sython Zamington!” King Daniel replied. “Oh shit, where is Josh?”
“He said he was leaving for a new tow- Oh, damn it!” Mark shouted.
“Get him!” King Daniel said.
So Mark ran off to get Josh and the man named Nick. He dragged them back after fifteen minutes. “I got ‘em!” Mark exclaimed with a smile.
“Mark, we’ve decided we don’t like Zamarak anymore! War! War! War!” King Daniel chanted.
The Saradomin warriors also started chanting, “War! War! War!”
“You brought me back for this?” Josh questioned.
“What?” Mark said. “What happened.
“Ahhh! We’re just playing with ya!” King Daniel said.
Mark fake laughed, and same with the whole crowd except some were real laughs.
“Let’s go start our democracy!” Josh said.
“Yeah!” the crowd shouted. “Democracy! Democracy! Democracy!” the crowd chanted.
“Okay, you really gotta stop doing that,” Josh said.
And everyone walked to the castle to start a new life, and they lived happily every after… Or did they?