Death…. It was a sad thing….. it was a peaceful thing….
"Thank…. You…. I can…. See the…. Sun…." I muttered to myself as the blood pooled under my body while I looked towards the bright clear sky.
The feeling of grass in my hands and a small creature with wings fluttered over my face while I breathed in the smell of flowers.
I turned to see a blonde haired man as he sat by my side while he looked out at the sea before us.
He seemed…. Sad, but we both knew that he needed to do what needed to be done, the hero needed to slay the monster…. And I was the monster.
I did…. Terrible things in that dark place where my father sacrificed people to me in order to sate my hunger….. hunger that I was ashamed I had to fill with the bodies of the people I killed….
I could feel my life beginning to fade as my body grew cold, but there was something I needed to ask, "Who….. are you…..?"
Hearing that he turned to look at me with a sad look on his face, "My name…. Is Theseus…. Do you have a name?" He asked me after giving me his name.
"….. Theseus... the man whole slayed me….. Minotauros….. isn't my name….." I said feeling distain and disgust at the name that had labeled me as the monster of the Labyrinth.
"I am….. Asterios….. that….. is my name..." I said as I could feel myself growing weaker and weaker by the second.
"Asterios…. I will remember you." He said to me with a nod as I smiled with blood trailing down my lips.
"This world...….. is... beautiful...…" I said my final words before the light faded from my eyes as I slowly passed on from this life into the realm of the dead where Hades would judge me for my sins.
On this day Theseus would slay the Minotaur and in year 9000BC≈ Theseus would return to the Region of Attica and found the City of Athens to become the city's first king.
As for Asterios, even though know to the world as a monster that would be written into his myth Theseus knew that Asterios was no monster at all and gave the lonely monster a burial at sea and let him see the world he couldn't live in this life.
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The Year 1473 of the sea calendar.
*Swish!* *Splish!* *Thunk*
A young boy no more than 5 years old hefted an axe over his shoulder as he killed the last of the enemy soldier before him, blood soaked his face and his black Sclera and piercing red eyes made him less like a small boy but more like a monster.
"Wororororo! Nice work little brother!" A familiar voice laughed out as I turned to look at a boy not much older than me.
He was wielding a metal spiked kanabo, wearing no shirt with a leather vest over his chest a red scarf around his neck as he wore green pants and boots, his head covered in thick wavy hair and a pair of horns protruding from his head.
"Brother….." I said slowly as I pulled the half mask down from my face as I smiled slightly while he grinned and patted my shoulder.
"See! Your a born soldier like me! I know it's been hard but you and me?" He says pointing between the two of us, "We are the best soldiers this country has ever seen!" He said a grin across his lips all while I nodded back in response.
The country we were born into was known as the Vodka Kingdom, was a poor kingdom of the rule of a place known only as the World government, I didn't really understand what that was but maybe it's like what an Empire was like in my old life.
While I didn't leave my Labyrinth in my last life I was told things about the world through my mother who still loved me but couldn't stay long so I had a grasp on some concepts about the world.
Though I still don't like to speak unless I need to or if I'm angry….. people die when I'm angry, but I've learned to control myself and keep calm and I'm less agitated when I'm around people now as well.
"Mmm…. Ma and Da….. they'd be proud of us?" I ask as I don't really remember them since they died not that long after I was born leaving my older brother to look after me at only five years old.
Hearing that Kaido looked down at the ground clearly saddened by what happened to our parents, but the sad look in his face about that day over four years ago faded as he looked at me and nodded.
"Of course they would! If they knew of the boys we have become they would be….. proud of us….." He said though he clenched his fist before looking back at me.
"Aster! No matter what happens, will you follow me through thick and thin?" He asked me with a fiery look in his eyes.
Seeing this I nodded, "Family….. Together…. Always….." As I clasped my hand on his shoulder to which he gave me a bright toothy smile clearly happy with what I just said.
"Good! Now cmon! We have won this war so now the spoils are for us to claim!" He said before turning as I followed right behind him as the fires of war burned around us while the soldiers of the Vodka cheered in triumph for another victory.
I don't take pleasure in war, I prefer being in a land full of peace as beautiful nature, but I also know that these battles and war are necessary for me and my brother to survive as we only get to live even slightly decently by fighting in these wars allowing us to eat real food as a result.
What we were doing…. Was wrong, but the survival of me and my brother is more important to me than anyone else, so if others must suffer because of it…..
Then so be it.
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