As Red reached the top of the steps, before him stood a bewildering castle, its height stood atop the highest of points in the world, the sheer size worthy enough of being called a kingdom itself. Its walls made of fine cut grey stone, its windows were as clear as the sky on a summers day, it truly was a marvel to stare at but to Red, this was the worst place on Earth. As he approached the entrance, a guard started to walk towards Red, there were 5 guards around him wearing heavy metal plating armour and were scattered all over the place, still as statues. As the guard approached him, Red's body stiffened as if it was a natural instinct of survival,

"Sir, before entering, I please ask that you hand over all weapons" the guard spoke with a stern tone, his right hand was resting at the hilt of his sword,

Red looked at his sword and then looked at the guard, his eyes sharpened, "I'm sorry, but this never leaves my side, unless I'm sleeping or with a woman" explained Red, even though his eyes looked serious, he had a smile on his face,

The guard took an aggressive post and drew his sword "ARE YOU MOCKING ME?" Screamed the guard, suddenly the 5 guards went from statues to a unified formation, all had their swords drawn and pointed at Red, "I WILL NOT ASK YOU AGAIN".

Out of nowhere, there was an unexpected sound of applaud "Bravo, Bravo, just marvellous. As usual Red, you never fail to entertain me" sad a voice coming from the entrance to the castle "You know, if you carry on like this, one day you're going to get yourself killed and I won't always be there to help you",

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the annoying brat. Are you here to see the Emperor too, or just to lick your dad's boots again?" asked Red with a sarcastic tone,

"Sarcasm is awfully cunning of you Red, I'm actually hurt",

"Well Rios, since you're my knight in shining armour, how about getting these guards to calm down",

At the entrance there stood this white man with black hair and blue eyes, muscular and toned much like Red, he was wearing a long black robe with a dark shirt but no sleeves, dark pants and some knee high black leather boots. Around his neck there was a silver chain with a triangle attached to it. If you were to look at them closely, you could have said that Rios and Red were "cut from the same cloth",

"You heard the man, guards stand down" commanded Rios,

"But sir, what if he...?" asked the guard,

"Stand down, I won't ask you again" ordered Rios, his eyes were focused on the guard, they were giving off an intimidating look,

"Yes sir" grunted the guard, he yielded his sword and straightened his posture,

"Thank you very much" said Red to the guard,

Red looked at Rios and started walking towards him, Rios was looking down at him with a grin on his face. Red looked up at him and made a grin back. As he got close to Rios he stuck out his fist to bump him. Rios stuck his fist out and bumped his, the sound of their knuckles clashing sounded like two blades clashing,

"Good to see you brother" said Red with a smile,

"You too" replied Rios "Did the Emperor summon you?",

"You don't know about it?" asked Red,

"No, everyone at the Round Table is being quiet, no one knows what's going on",

"That's strange..." muttered Red,

A cold breeze swept by the two, they stood still wondering, motionless, puzzled,

"Well let's get going" said Red while bumping Rios on his arm "Something is going on, let's find out what it is",

"Yeah" answered Rios,

The two started walking into the Main Hall of the castle. Before entering they appeared before two great doors, they were made of wood and reinforced with iron plates. Red walked up to the doors and placed his right hand on the handles. He stood there for a moment, silent and still, Rios turned to him and asked,

"Are you okay?",

"What day is it?" replied Red with another question,

"Huh? It's ugh... the seventh of Silver Light",

Red closed his eyes and smiled, he looked up and opened his eyes to the blue sky,

"Finally..." Red spoke with a quiet tone, he looked back down at the doors and with his strength opened the doors with one hand "Guess today is the day",

Rios looked at him with a confused look. The doors slowly opened making a creaking sound as they did so. Red and Rios looked inside, the hall was enormous, there were six marble pillars standing at the left and right sides, the wooden floor was a wine red colour, all around them there were massive windows stretching from the floor to the ceiling. At the end of the hall there was a half moon shaped table with a huge throne in the middle, along the sides of the table there were other chairs smaller in size towards the end of the table. On them there sat men and women alike, wearing all kinds of different armour, at the centre sat an old but huge man, wearing ruby coloured armour, he had a dark wrinkled face, his hair and beard reached down to his lap. He had faded but intimidating green eyes, a battle scar imprinted over his left eye, this was the Emperor. Red and Rios walked up to the middle of the table and stopped. Their eyes were scanning the area, their bodies stiff, their faces looked alerted. All Of the sudden the Emperor slowly rises out of his throne and with a spoke with a deadly voice ,

"Hello Red it's been a while since I've seen you within these walls",

"Well you know why" stated Red,

"Yes I guess I do. Well I don't want to waste time so let's get this over with, guards",

In a flash Red was surrounded, twenty men were all around Red blades and spears pointed at his head,

"WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS?" shouted Rios,

"Be quiet Rios, this doesn't concern you, now step back" answered the Emperor,

Red quickly drew his sword but it quickly went flying, three guards hurried and held him down, Red was on his knees, his head bowed looking at the floor,

"Red, did I ever tell you how Kings Rose came to flourish?" asked the Emperor,

"I don't believe you did" grunted Red while struggling to get free,

"It was the start of time, year zero if you'd like. A certain pair of Gods decided to give birth to a child together. Their new born baby boy was a marvellous sight, truly wonderful. Now you know already that the twelve Gods are not allowed to mate due to their race, so this boy was a sin, a taboo, forbidden. Seeing as the other ten didn't like this at all, they imprisoned the two Gods, however, before they were captured, they were able to send down their new born to Rive, to our world. One of the Gods called King's Rose came down and built a dungeon so that when the baby was found it could be imprisoned in total darkness till the end of time. On top of the dungeon they built King's Rose, the city you know today" while the Emperor was talking, the room was silent and still, Red was on his knees, Rios was motionless in shock "As the times went buy people settled in without any knowledge of the dungeon, life grew, communities created, an empire arose. The first Emperor to rule this land was none other than Empress Adrianne, she then built other cities around King's Rose to make the Human Empire what it is today. On the first millennia something extraordinary happened, the boy which none could have found, appeared out of his own" Red all of the sudden stopped, he closed his eyes and remained still "He arose onto the surface after a thousand years. Now since he was a child of Gods, he still looked young, in fact by his age records claim he looked ten. The boy was then treated and taken care off by the Emperor at the time and after a while he was relocated to the city...",

"....Stonehess" said Red, his face was in shock, his body was shaking, hundreds of years of information flooded his mind,

"You do remember",

Rios just stood there, words gathered in his mind but he did not speak, looking at his brother, he could not believe the words that were being spoken "Wait that's not possible, we're brothers, Red isn't a God" Rios blurted,

The Emperor turned to Rios "You can quit the lies now Rios, the time has come" these words came out like knives to Rios and Red,

Everyone was still, not a single movement was made. Rios was in panic looking at Red who was totally blank with an emotionless face,

"Well we've wasted enough time, guards kill him and remove Rios from the room" ordered the Emperor,

All of the sudden Red's and Rios' bodies moved like an instinct, Red quickly jumped back and escaped the grasp of the guards that were holding him, he drew his sword and pointed the blade at the Emperor,

"Why? Why do you want me dead?" asked Red with an angered tone,

"Because you're an abnormality, you're a thorn in a system, you are unnecessary. While I do admit Red, you are an amazing soldier, in fact if I could I would have kept you alive but you see, the Gods have ordered me to kill you and I can't defy a God, I'll end up dead" answered the Emperor "It's a shame, you had so much potential, an immortal soldier...",

Red stood still, his head was lowered,

"Red?" Rios said while looking at the person he feared the most. He knew, all the memories were fake, all the smiles were lies,

Red raised his head, he stared at the Emperor with eyes of murder intent. His face announced danger to anyone who could see him "You know you're right, you will end up dead, but it won't be by their hands..." after these words left Red's mouth he dashed towards the Emperor, he was faster than anything seen before. All of the sudden the Emperor was in striking range, he raised his sword the highest it could reach and with the might of his forgotten past, he struck at the Emperor,