\"Zu, it\'s dinner! Hurry up buddy or else I might catch it all!\"
Twelve years old and still young, not worrying about tomorrow as I was practicing my magic in the mercenary camp my father was leading. It was a beautiful day and my father had promised me to take me to the White Castle, the castle of royalty. It was the castle where the leaders and the gods of our realm lived in, my future castle.
It was my goal from day one to achieve the position of god. I would never accept being one in the mass, I was myself and that would be enough to obtain anything I had in mind.
As I turned my back to meet the look of my father and the delicious food, I saw nothing except an empty camp. The mercenary camp was emptied and noone seemed to be here. I jumped to the conclusion that my father and the others had left for the visit of the castle because I was taking too much time. I started to run towards the town where it was located to catch up the others. After a few minutes I finally reached my destination, the great town. Something was wrong, I couldn\'t see anyone.. the streets were empty but everything seemed as if there had been hundreds of people here a few seconds before I arrived. I walked the empty streets with a wish to find someone to guide me to the White Castle.
\'My boy, your friends just passed by.\'
I looked back to see who was speaking with me, it was an old voice, a voice of a woman. She was sitting on a wood chair outside her door, she had some sort of cape which wouldnt allow me to see how she looked.
\"Excuse me my lady, where did they go? I\'m seeking the White Castle.\"
\'Just continue along this street, it\'ll lead you to your so beloved castle.\'
I continued running down the street, I had been waiting for so long to finally see the famous Castle with my own two eyes. All of a sudden, I wasn\'t running on the street anymore. I hadn\'t noticed because of my day dreaming and I was all of a sudden standing on a dark pitch. I didn\'t recognize this, how could\'ve I run off the street like that?.. It was smelly. I turned around and everything was dark and the floor was wet, some weird substance.
\'So you\'ve finally reached the only way to the Castle\'
That voice again, the one I had just heard. Was she following me? I turned around and suddenly she was standing a few meters behind me, she was looking at me.
\"My lady! I must\'ve gone wrong! Please tell me where to get to the others, this place is scary!\"
I was scared of this place, something felt bad about it. The lady was just standing still as if she tried to understand what I had just been asking her for.
\'The others, my boy? What a dumb question for a man like you.\'
What sort of reply was that, now I was getting cold. I just prayed for my father to find me, I didn\'t like the presensce of the lady.
\"My Lady! I\'m only twelve years old! Please help me out of here!\"
I prayed that she would understand me and just simply get me out of here since she seemed to find her way around here.
\'Twelve years old.. Zu, your shape lies sometimes. You are in the shape of twelve year, because the day you looked like this was the day you created your first thought which lead to our realms future.\'
Those words... made me feel sick. Now I started to remember everything.. What was happening? I suddenly remembered my future, about everything I\'ve done.. my entire life.. here I was standing in the shape of the boy I was, twelve years old trying to find the castle.. was I sent back in time?
\'Look around you Zu, this place is a graveyard. The substance under you is blood, what you are standing on is corpses
I looked down, she was right.. I got panicked, there was corpses everywhere.. It was just an enormous amount of dead people under my feet and blood everywhere, I fell down on my knees as if I was about to cry.
\'Look up the sky Zu, what do you see?\'
I looked up, there it was. Up in the sky I could see the White Castle I wanted to reach so bad..
\'Yes, It\'s the White Castle and this is the way you chose to reach it.\'
Everything in my head was turning around, questioning myself when I\'d wake up from this madness. I couldn\'t understand what she was saying or what she wanted to tell me.
\'From the day your father was going to bring you to the castle, you started your plans. Many people followed you during your years, many people died by your soldiers and many of your soldiers had to die. You finally achieved your goal as a god and king of this realm, but the way to the kingdom cost many lives. These are all the lives you sacrificed during your years up to the throne, all of them died by your hands or for your goals.\'
I looked down on the corpses, I had seen some of the people that was lying here before. I could see on their armors that they were wearing the Citadelican brand, the symbol of Zu.
\'Who knew that a dream could be so costy Zu, the corpses all around you is the only way you could chose to achieve the power and the castle. So why don\'t you begin?\'
I was crying, I had the resistance of a twelve years old boy. This was too much, this was hell.. I crawled back over the corpses trying to find the way I came from.
\'Zu, are you going to leave the path now that so many people were sacrificed for your belief? Make your way to the castle.\'
Her voice seemed upset, she didn\'t like seeing me trying to leave.
\"M-my lady.. W-what do you want me to do?\"
\'Drag the corpses, pull the corpses. Make a stair up the castle with the corpses. It\'s the way you chosed back in your real life Zu, it\'s just that it doesn\'t feel like it when you fight with your sword on the battlefield. But it\'s what has to be done to reach the Castle..\'
It was a horrible evening, seeing face after face that had been my friends during the years. Dragging them and making a pile up to the castle. But it was the way had chosen, so many sacrifices for one mans dream..
