Five Heroes
2. Bitter Memories

When Nico started to stick out his hand the darkness around me began to disappear like we arrived somewhere, the sunlight immediately shone on my face.

My eyes scanned the surrounding area with a slight glare due to the intense light change, "We're up to Piter" Nico told me, smiling.

We arrived at a kingdom I looked around me carefully and noticed all the buildings here were in the cave like they were deliberately hollowing out mountains for shelter.

Suddenly someone approached us and said "Hay Nico".

Nico looked at the peria for a while and said.

"Hay Andre, long time no see you" replied Nico

"Hahaha Nico how can I meet you, while you rarely visit yourself"

"Sorry andre, I've had business lately, I feel guilty for visiting less often."

"Yes Nico don't feel guilty like that."

"Sorry Nico can you explain who he is, honestly I'm not comfortable looking at his sword that started to burn the area behind him"

Huh...

Unknowingly the shape of the tip of my sword had burned the grass around my feet but why did I not realize it, I tried to extinguish the fire but it was not extinguished.

"Hay friend before you get acquainted you can hand over your sword to me, I want to see it," Andre said to me.

Without a second thought for fear that I would burn the area I showed Andre my sword, as Andre held the sword he shouted.

"Aaaaaahhhhhh, my hands are on fire, man," but quickly Andre's hands were covered with stones like gloves, I thought Andre would be angry but he was just grinning at me.

"Nico why didn't you tell me he was the same as you?"

"You didn't ask" replied Nico.

Hearing Nico Andre's reply replied with a friendly smile.

"Andre can you take me to see the king at this time, there's something important that I need to talk to the king about" Nico spoke with a serious expression now.

Hearing that quickly Andre nodded and led the two of us towards a building that looked like a large cave.

"Hay man, I'm Andre, what's your name?" Andre asked while extending his hand to me.

"I'm a pitcher" I replied as I returned Andre's hand and we shook hands.

"OK Piter may I keep your sword for a while, there are things I must do."

I looked at Nico and he just shook his head as I shook my head and said "well Andre", with Andre's spirit bringing my sword into a room.

"The king is inside, this morning he is still not busy, please you two meet him, I have business with this sword, and Piter for the grass you have burned is not a big deal" Andre explained.

Piiikk, he plucked his finger and I watched the ground whose grass had been burning rotate changing position with new soil and new grass seeds.

"Hahaha,, don't think about it" he said, pointing out what he had done.

Nico and I entered the palace room, unlike me it seems Nico has even visited here often, this is evidenced when he and Andre were so close and he knew the way to the king's throne, he said, the palace guards also did not consider him a threat instead looking at him with a smile.

Nico and I arrived in the singasana room this room was separated by a door made of gold and diamond stones, then Nico opened the door and a person who was quite old, and he was very old, with a large body as well as a slightly brown skin looking at us from his singa, he was Alex the king of the land kingdom.

Nico walked up to him, when he was almost nearing the Singasana, Nico bowed, I did the same thing, of course it was a way of honoring a king.

Nico said, "King, there was a coup that took place in the fire kingdom last night, the perpetrator of the coup was none other than my brother Zeon he was working with Moris".

At that time the king who was sitting from the singah there began to look agitated.

Nico goes on to explain the events of last night and he begins to discuss the prophecy fourteen years ago when the voice of a god rang out from the sky, signaled to the humans of the five kingdoms that the birth of the legendary hero was complete and the destruction of the world a few more years would be stopped.

The king nodded and held his jangot while hearing Nico's explanation, after which he stood up and said, "have you met Andre?"

"His Majesty" we answered simultaneously.

"Nico, Piter, come to the palace room at noon and invite Andre to come with us.

"Okay king" we said.

"For now the guards show them their rooms and rest you".

We were taken into a room by a soldier as the king ordered him to show us a room, when I laid my body on the bed I began to sleep, it's natural for me because my tiredness and sadness have certainly not gone away considering the events of last night.

"Are you not sleeping Nico?" I asked her

"Not Piter, I still have important business to do" Nico told me, after which he disappeared behind the shadows leaving me alone in the silence that began to make the drowsiness of the curse increase, unconsciously I finally fell asleep.

Meanwhile, Nico who came out of the palace with his shadow power approached Andre in Andre's blacksmith room, "Excuse me Andre may I come in?"

"Oh is that you Nico, please come in Nico" Andre said Nico.

In the room Andre was busy making something, Nico knew what Andre was doing he had done the same for himself.

At that time Nico was ten years old he pulled out a sword he met not far from his palace but it made him out of control.

Half of the world feels like eternal darkness will appear with Nico's father's swift to make Nico faint, his father realizes the cause of Nico out of control is the sword of the god of death.

Then his father took him and the sword to the land kingdom, considering that at that time Andre was an easy child who held a god weapon in the form of a shield.

The scabbard of the god weapon is only made by those who hold the shield weapon because only the shred of the god's shield can withstand the power of the god's weapon.

At that time Andre was thirteen years old, seeing the sword brought by the king of darkness, Andre quickly made a sword sheath for the sword that was pulled out by Nico.

Because of that incident Nico was close to the land kingdom, but that is only the story of the current past of the new king of the kingdom of darkness that his own brother has now overthrown his father in the same way that Moris has done to his brother.

But when Nico returned to his kingdom he saw many bodies lying on the ground, with a slight panic she ran towards the palace and she witnessed that the old man she had slaughtered she only saw her brother crying hugging the bodies of his parents while covered in blood.

"What happened brother?" asked Nico with a trembling voice.

"Oh my sister, where has my sister been?, when you went our family was attacked by the warriors of the kingdom of fire"

Hearing the words of his brother at once also Nico wrath, darkness out of his body thousands of creatures from the underworld appeared ranging from large to small skeletons, zombies, undead, and a Cerberus.

Nico was ready to counterattack, his brother could only watch as Nico's strength none of the dark palaces could defeat the power of his death god, his brother,

But because Nico is a special human being who carries out the task of creating peace he certainly has great strength and also a heart that is more noble than other manusuia.

"All this is wrong, aaaaaaaggggggrrrrrrhhhhh" with annoyed and emotion Nico shouted

Ummmmmmmm....

The atmosphere turned dark like night instantly.

But it didn't last long Nico began to calm down, the living creatures of the underworld began to disappear from Zeon's sight, and the darkness that occurred began to disappear slowly.

"I'm sorry Nico I can't protect our parents" Zeon said.

Nico just shut up and disappeared from the face of Zeon in his mind Nico had to kill the man who had done such a heinous thing to his parents, life must be avenged with life.

But when Nico was about to arrive at the kingdom of fire a man from where to draw his hand, "Nico calm down a little not necessarily what you do is right"

Nico thrashed and fought back but in vain as if he was crushed by a large rock he felt a heavy burden, "Who are you?, let go of me, what is your business?"

"It's Nico Andre your friend, your best friend"

Hearing that Nico stopped fighting and he started crying, "Andre my friend, my family has been killed how can I calm down?"

"I know Nico I watched from the ground and heard your conversation with Zeon from the vibration of the ground, when I felt you unleashed your power I immediately ran after you" Andre explained to Nico.

"Well Andre I admit I was out of control for a moment, but at this time I am in complete self-control I will kill the king from the shadows no one will realize" nico.

"Nico don't be rash first, let's ask the spirit what happened, because I know the spirit never lied to you" Andre proposed

Hearing that Nico initially opposed Andre's idea, because it would drain a lot of his energy, but eventually he agreed.

He began to call out the spirits of his parents, before long their spirits also appeared.

"Dad mother what happened??" Nico asked while crying.

Andre sees two white fogs flying around Nico but none of them can listen to just whistling sounds.

But unlike Nico, of course, he can interact with them.

"Nico your brother Zeon has planned something to depose me from my throne"

"He did cooperate with Moris the younger brother of the king of the fire kingdom, but the fire king did not know it" Nico's mother chimed in.

"It looks like he's trying to plan for the eleven-year-old prince Piter to be killed by you" his mother explained

"Why do you do that, the reason he overthrew you for the singasana I can understand from your teen has shown such a bad attitude, he is a man who is crazy for power".

"Nico, Andre and Piter are God's chosen people, remember when you were three when you heard the god say that the child who was destined to end the world's chaos was born, all of them, it coincided with the birthday of Piter", his father explained to him.

Nico was surprised that his brother indirectly wanted to overthrow all kingdoms by killing all the chosen humans, but why didn't he kill me when I was a kid?, with the astonishment that Nico looked at his parents.

As if to know what Nico meant, both of his parents said "Nico when you were little your brother wasn't old enough and powerful enough to fight your father, and he didn't have greedy intentions at the time either, your brother's greed began to show when he was training with the teacher who taught him skeletons, without us realizing your brother could call Reya, Reya was one of the skeletons who had self-awareness, and the cleverness he started instigating your brother to rule the whole world, that's our recklessness, please save your brother Nico"

Nico just cried to hear everything and Andre tried to calm him by stroking his shoulders, even though he did not hear anything while the whistling sound of fencing but he could feel the sadness of the look on Nico's face.

"Nico the world will be in darkness, some time, so take care of three heroes besides you and Andre, save your brother, and don't let Zeon bring down the fire kingdom". Like getting a heavy burden from his parents, Nico was given a very heavy task.

Guarding the other heroes from his brother's evil intentions kills them, Zeon regains consciousness and is not swallowed up by the cataclysm, and prevents the destruction of the fire kingdom.

Not long after that his parents disappeared from Nico's view, from the beginning they could not last long because it was just a spirit, 'may you be accepted by the side of the god', Nico prayed for his parents.

Nico wiped his tears at the departure of his parents, he insisted he would watch over his brother and carry out the trust of his parents.

"I'm going back to Andre there's something I'm going to do" Nico said.

"Thank God you've calmed down, Nico, if you need help telling me" andre replied.

They separated, since then both Andre and Nico have only met a few times they met just to discuss something, Nico had only been watching her brother from behind the shadows and of course her brother could not notice it.

Recalling those memories without him realizing his tears falling the incident felt new to him when he witnessed how tragically the Piter family was killed, he directly failed to carry out one of his duties, this made his sadness even more intense, but he was determined in his heart so as not to fail again.

"Finished it" cried Andre

"Hahaha now this weapon will not burn anything anymore" Andre said proudly without him realizing Nico was shedding his tears.

"Sorry Nico I didn't realize you were sad, don't remember that incident again I'm sorry to think you and Piter have experienced such a tragedy and I can't imagine if it happened to me either" Andre said, hugging Nico.

Who would not have remembered the incident when his brother Zeon separated him from his father and mother, then again he opened those bitter memories when he killed his parents, he failed to carry out the duties of his parents.

"It's okay Andre I've been able to accept everything, actually I'm here because there's other Andre business". Nico says.

Actually Nico did not cry sobbing - he only shed tears but still for Andre his friend was crying.

"Well Nico I already knew I accidentally eavesdropped from here through the resistant vibration that the king is inviting us to meet because something important has happened, to be honest I already felt that it was not good when you brought Piter the prince of fire here", Andre replied to Nico.

Then they prepared to meet the king, because I was still asleep they both visited my room to wake me up so that I could prepare too, because it was very unlikely to make the king wait for us to arrive.