[VRMMO] Dead One

"…. So, it is really is you." – said Arthur.

"Yeb… Hello father." – said Mordred as he stood on top of hill.

"…"

"I don't know if you are real or fake one…. But I'm going to ask this question regardless."

"Why?"

"Why did you destroyed Brittain?! Why?! Why did you slaughtered my people?! WHY!?"

"…"

"You didn't checked…. Did you….. YOU FUCKING DIDN'T CHECKED!" – shouted Mordred.

"You fucking idiot!"

"IF YOU HAD CHECKED ANY OF THE CORPSE! ANY OF THE FUCKING CORPSE THAT WE HAD KILLED, YOU WOULD HAVE YOUR ASNWER!"

"THAT IS WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT QUESTINING BEFORE!"

"…"

"Are you asking why I didn't just waited and let the traitors kill my people?" – said Arthur.

"THAT! YOU SEE THAT IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM! FATHER!"

"You believe in the Merlin too much!"

"YOU BELIVE INTO THE SAME BASTARD THAT KILLED MY MOTHER! YOUR WIFE!"

"?!"

"What? What are you talking about?!" – asked alarmed Arthur.

"Excalibur! How do you think it was made?!"

"…"

"With the help of the lady of a lake I forged this blade." – replied Arthur as he stared at his blade.

"Yea, but this is an big fat fucking lie!" - snapped Mordred.

"The lady of a lake you had met was an imposter."

"The false queen of the fairies. Morgan."

"She is the wife and the other half of Merlin."

"You hear me?! The blade wasn't made by you! It was given to you by these two mad creatures!"

"And do you want to know the origin of the blade?! Do you want to know what the Merlin and Morgan did?!"

"ASK THE FUCKING QUSTION AND STOP ACTING LIKE THEIR OBEDIENT PUPPET!"

"ASK FUCKING QUSTIONS! FIND THE REAL TRUTH!"

"HERE IS ONE OF THE PROOF OF THEIR LIES! CALIBURN! I DON'T WIELD AS AN HERO! BUT AS AN SYMBOL OF TRUTH AND THEIR LIES! THAT IS WHY I WIELD THIS BLADE! NOT AN WEAPON! BUT TO REVEAL LIES!"

"AND YOUR WEAPON?! WHAT PURPOSE DOES IT SERV?! WHAT IS THE REASON FOR ITS EXISTENCE?!"

"…."

"Ask…. Ask not as an hero. Not as an king. But ask with greed like any human being."

"Be an human…."

"…"

"What is the origin of the blade?" – Arthur.

"…"

"Erza."

"My mother…. Your wife…. That is Excalibur."

"Erza is the Excalibur."

"…"

"What?" – said confused Arthur.

"YES! ITS YOUR FUCKING WIFE!"

"When you went on the expedition where you lost the sword, Merlin lured your wife and murdered her, before then using her soul and body alongside the remains of the lady of lake in ordered to create this blade!"

"…."

"Erza?" - said Arthur as his hands shaked.

"Fuck! Here! Do you remember this at least?! Do you remember HER gift?!" – said Mordred as he showed the necklace that had the medallion attached to it.

"This is the fucking proof! You don't need to trust me at all! Any form of mind control won't work on you, so fucking take it! Fucking see the truth for yourself!" – shouted Mordred as he threw the medallion towards the Arthur.

…

However, in that very moment, the medallion that the Arthur was wearing had activated.

This medallion was exactly the same as the one that made by Erza and it was the very same that the Merlin destroyed…. But just in case, he replaced the destroyed medallion with an exact copy.

An copy that has its own ability that would be only used in the highest tier emergency.

The teleportation.

"?!"

Suddenly, Mordred fall on the ground, with an big hole in his chest.

"Uff. Are you alright my king? Damn shape shifters! They planted themselves all over the entire kingdom! They even managed to find and devour Mordred body!" – said Merlin as he covered in the injuries approached Modred body.

"M-murder." – said Mordred as he puked out blood.

Mordred swinged his sword, unleashing wave of golden light, but was easily countered by the Merlin barrier.

"…"

(Wait… That golden light….. Its real Caliburn?!) – though Arthur as he realized that the unknown Mordred sword was indeed Caliburn.

(But how!? It couldn't-?!)

Arthur saw the medallion nearby and picked it up without Merlin noticing.

And soon as he picked it up, he heard it.

"Arthur."

The voice he haven't heard in years.

The voice that he would be able to tell no matter the form.

It was an voice of Erza….. And it came from the Exacliburn itself.

He knew it wasn't an illusion or lie. It was reality.

He instantly took action and drove his sword through the Merlin chest.

"?!"

"W-what?!"

"W-why?! M-my- "

"SHUT IT DECEIVER!" – shouter Arthur as he slashed though the Merlin body, cutting it in half, before then stabbing the remains and setting them on fire.

"!"

"Mordred! NO! NO! NO! NO!" – Arthur rushed to his son side, noticing how his body was slowly dying.

"!"

(Shit! Its curse! The curse are spreading through his entire body?!)

(Fuck! He can't even speak! That bastard Merlin!)

"No! No! NO! STAY WITH ME!" – shouted Arthur before moments later… Mordred died in his father arms.

"…"

Mordred was dead… He was killed by the Merlin.

Arthur finally understood, he finally knew truth that everything he believed in, everything he though was real, it was all an lie.

His story.

His achievements.

All lies.

And he would know it all if all he did was ask proper questions. Think for himself, for his own selfish human desire, instead of asking like hero or asking in the name of his people or asking in the name of justice.

Ask like selfish human. It was that simple….. But he never did showed selfish spoiled side…. Because he was an "true hero".

…

He asked his wife, the truth… And she told him everything, from the start to finish while he buries his son.

He hated it.

He hated the fact that everything he knew, everything he believed in, was written story…. And he hated the fact that he wasn't the one that truly did protecting, but it was his wife Erza. She protected him instead other way around and he never noticed it…. He hated himself.

He cursed his name, he cursed the lies, he cursed his incompetence.

He cried like an child.

"…."

"I'm sorry."

"I'm such an failure… As an hero, king, father and husband…. I was just an puppet through my entire life…."

"…No…. It is all my fault." – said Erza.

"The reason why I wanted you pull our Caliburn wasn't for you to become the hero…. I wanted you to fail."

"I believed that the test was impossible."

"I love you and I still do…. But I also knew that if you were to marry me, you could possibly end up dealing with my corruption of my parents…. Its all my fault…. If I just…. If I just said "No", if I didn't gave you this fucking challenge…. None of this would had happened."

"But there would be another one who would be worthy…. Yes?" – asked Arthur.

"So, it doesn't matter if I was the one to pull it or not…. Their chaos would spread…..But what do we do now?"

"Merlin lies dead…. But Morgan… Is she dead?"

"…. We don't know." – replied Erza.

"Many of the enemies you had fought, they were created by Morgan or she took on their form. The first mad king was her first victim as she murdered his wife and took on her form while corrupting his mind and body…. And you know the rest."

"While Merlin played the role of an advisor and mentor, Morgan played the role of the villain, creating monsters or driving beings into insinity , while also using her shapeshifting ability to deceive and control many different beings."

"Honestly, we are not even sure if our current plan would work."

"The reason why nobody knew about her plots and evil was because of her shapeshifting abilities and ability to deceive people with ease thanks to her mind control magic."

"She is also strong…. Honestly, there is an chance that she may had survived the trap and be already on the run."

"…."

"Do you want to hunt her?"

"…"

"No." – replied Arthur.

"If what you said is true, then running around after her may take decades…. And who knows what she will do in meantime?"

"…"

"Erza….. Would you mind dying together?"

"!?"

"W-what are you talking about beloved?!" – asked confused Erza.

"It is as you heard…. We need to die." – said Arthur.

"They turned me into the symbol of the chaos…. I'm the age of chaos."

"As long as live, the age of chaos will never end…. Not only that, but my existence alone will provide her with motivation….. And you…. Do you want to live in this body of yours?"

"You suffered… Way more than me…. I didn't even knew….. It was all my fault…."

"…"

"The decision is yours."

"I need to die. This false "Brittan" needs to burn."

"If this kingdom remains and if I remain, their plans will never end…. But with me and you being completely gone, she won't be able to find another "true hero". The Merlin is also dead, meaning that means they had used before will be impossible and by destroying everything they had made and infested, they will truly lose any means of creating "true hero"."

"…"

"Yes…. This is the only way." – said Erza.

"Do it. End this false chaos and let the people decide their own fate."

"…. Very well." – said Arthur as he stabbed the ground with Exacliburn, before then walking towards the freshly dug grave of his son and picked the Caliburn.

"I will use my entire existence, my entire life, in order to destroy you beloved…. I don't know if it will be painless or hellish….. Are you- "

"Yes. We need to destroy this false chaos." – replied Erza.

"I don't care if you won't destroy me in one strike. I don't care if I will scream in agony. I don't care!"

"I need to die!"

"SO STOP ACTING LIKE AN PUSSY AND JUST DO IT ALREADY!"

"…"

"I'm sorry." – said Arthur as he began engulfing the blade in the golden light while his own body began getting devoured by it, causing it to slowly collapses.

However, even as his body broke apart, he swinged the Caliburn, destroying the Excalibur, killing his wife Erza and finally giving her rest.

After giving her wife the rest, Arthur then used all of his power, his entire remaining existence, to stab himself in the heart and burn his entire existence away, not leaving behind drop of blood…. Expect for the lone blade Caliburn.

This is the story of Erza.

The one who was fake true hero.

The one who was once the knight king.

The one that was once wife of the Arthur Pendragon.

The one who got destroyed and forced to become holy blade.

And the one that met her end by the hands of her beloved.

This is her story.

This is the truth that was hidden.

THE END.