The Last King

By Ricardo Luken Cruz Gonzalez

As the dark clouds part on a forsaken battlefield and the bodies of monsters and humans alike disappear, a lone man sits on a broken throne of ice and then an alarm clock rings out.

“Ughh what time is it?! OH NO I'm gonna be late for class jeez why did I not set the alarm earlier,” as the boy gets up from his bed he has blond hair and beautiful crimson eyes like rubies in both beauty and color.

“Kalus, wake up, it's time for school!” a woman’s voice exclaims.

“Coming, Mother!” Kalus replies in a hurry. He zooms across the room and changes into his school uniform a vaguely formal bague vest with the symbol of a knight with white armor and golden accents on its chest pouch with letters saying “M.S.U. The Monster Slayer University.”

As he looks himself in the mirror he mumbles, “That dream I had again well I can’t worry about that right now I just need to keep moving forward and become a Slayer for mom and for you sis...” as he remembers the day when it happened a monster raid happened in his city they came from the sewer systems taking his sister and disappearing into a portal which had appeared in front of his eyes and as the memory fades back into his mind he gathers the rest of things such as his backpack and his combat dagger

seeming made of an iron blade and a wooden hilt with signs of damage on the blade. He walks down the stairs to smell food and the sound of sizzling oils a woman with brown hair which is tied into a bun says, “Good morning, thought you were never going to wake up so I decided to just start making breakfast for you, Eggs.” and as she asks this Kalus responds in a content tone,

“Yes, please mother and could I have in a sandwich with some bacon so I can eat it on my way there?” His mother hears this she shoots him a smile and a thumbs up as she gets back to cooking then Kalus sees his stepfather sitting on the couch, “Hey, Alex didn’t think you would visit this early in the morning.” Kalus says with an underlying tone of guilt as the man says, “Oh, Hey Kiddo I came by to drop some stuff off before I go to work but your mom said that I should have some breakfast you know me, I did not eat before leaving!” he exclaimed in a joyous tone.

As the food finishes Klaus takes his sandwich in a hurry exclaiming "Thank you mom and love you!” before quickly running out the door. As his mother sighs she says “What am I going to do with that kid” before Alex gives a chuckle and responds “He is growing up and unlike most kids he knew what he wanted to do a long time ago so you just gotta keep supporting him believe me that helps more than words can describe”. As we cut back to Klaus eating his egg and bacon sandwich as he walks along the sidewalk with nice houses to his right and as he walks across the road a shadow is seen as he looks forward he sees a giant building with a gate that shows M.S.U. “Well

guess I am here time to fulfill my dream to become the strongest slayer and then I will find a way to stop the monster raids” he says with an ambitious look in his eyes then as he puts his hands on the gate a shock goes through his body as he is pushed back “Ow!” he exclaims in pain as he thinks of the reasoning behind this he checks his phone to see the time as 5:10 making him exactly 1 minute late “Oh noooo” as he groans in despair but then he looks around and decides to reach out his hand to his feet and as he chants a unintelligible phrase a blue light covers his feet as he jumps up over the towering gate “Alright hope nobody saw that from the window”. As he makes his way into the building trying to avoid detection from any janitors or teachers roaming the halls as he makes his way to his class in his schedule. As Kalus makes it to the door of his class he takes a deep breath as he opens the door to his new life as a student at M.S.U. to finally become a slayer, a true protector of humanity and to finally be one step closer to ending the waves of monsters. As he opened the door he saw students sitting in their chairs, their heads turned to look at him with a little fix of his posture. He clears his throat and says “Hello, uhm my name is Kalus Vritrov and I am one of your students sir.” and as his professor a man with long dark red hair going down to his waist states “Your late 10 points deducted.” as Klaus stands there in confusion as he says “10 points... deducted?” as the teacher pinches the bridge of his nose he says in annoyance “Yes, points as I was about to explain