A Fallen Hero, an Apprentice Lost
Thursday, August 7, 2008
So I decided to write a story. Humor me and read it.
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A young apprentice is taken by a teacher at birth. The apprentice studies the way of his master for years, and raises him to the status of a god. Years go by, and the apprentice seperates from his master to learn lessons himself, but returns on occasion to feed off the knowledge and experience of his master. His master teaches him lessons of life, love, trust, and death. Truly the lessons of a good man. He preaches honestly and morality, but above all, he teaches lessons of loyalty.
Now, the master is a complicated man, but is never questions by his young apprentice, for his apprentice places all of his trust and faith in his master. No matter what anyone else says of the master, the apprentice not only stays by his side, but he defends him as well puting his own name on the line for the good of his master.
The master's many lessons build up over decades in the mind of the apprentice, who, by then, has come to form a strong-willed character of high moral standing, believing that all people have the power of good. The power that his teacher has mastered.
The apprentice begins a journey on his own. A journey that will forever change his life. This journey is the journey of love, and the journey of spirituality. The apprentice takes his journey in stride, and along the way, developes beyond the teachings of his master, but always living off of the core values he was taught. Through his journey, he sees much horror, much pain, and much torture, but never strays from the path of his virtues. He hears of men who kill, men who steal, men who destroy, and men who seduce. But these stories are distant, and the virtues of a good man will forever ring true through the heart of the apprentice.
The apprentice hears of a particular man, abusing innocent people. The apprentice fears how this could affect people close to him, but still waits as a patient and logical man does. Waits until information builds a logical conclusion. He learns more of this man, this psychic destroyer, an innocence devourer, and an emotion twister. He hears stories of destruction that roots to the core of the victim's souls to the extent that they can't even recognize themselves anymore. The apprentice, however, waits.
One day the apprentice hears of a friend under attack by this monster of a man. The apprentice decides there is no time for waiting anymore. He approaches the situation to learn more, and more, and more. This friend never saw the attack coming, for the monster knew how to stalk his prey. He knew how to attack without any trace. He knew how to hide in plain site, like most monsters do.
The apprentice, feeling bad for his friend, searches for information on the matter beyond what he has recived, yet his master is no where to be found. He searches day and night for his once loyal master, but finds no trace of him.
By the lack of better judgement, the apprentice approaches the lair of the monster to discover anything at all that wasn't already obvious. And what he found.....
Well....
What he found was that his master, the one he raised on a pedestal to the position of a god, had actually been the beast all along.
But how?.....
How could a good man go so bad?.....
The answer was that the apprentice, indeed, had been the apprentice of the monster, as well as his biggest defender. The apprentice, in his own mind, was as guilty as the beast that he so willingly aided in his ventures.
The moral of the story is:
The closer to heaven that a person is put....
The longer and harder is the fall to hell....
The only question to remain is, how many people must fall before them?
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