The Rose Warrior

There was once a human that was stripped of her life and those she loved the most, falling into this cursed reality where there was no escape.
Even when she was young, she had to fend for herself. She had no family or friends to protect her, and she was forced into a cruel fight for survival.
Then she met the one she loved the most—someone so different than her yet struggling just the same as she did. They were two lost children who found familiarity in each other.
This gentle familiarity grew into a kind love. It was the two of them against every hardship, yet she never faltered because they were there to hold her hand.
She grew up, she loved and cherished, and she gained.
She let go of the past, she moved on, and she found happiness.
And then she lost it all.
Soon enough, nothing else was left apart from grief and sorrow. Everything was taken away from her in a few minutes. First her companions, then her ideals and inner strength...
The one she loved the most and the child that they left behind – a child that will never grow up to smile for the first time.
Each loss pierced her heart like thorny vines, squeezing her apart and destroying all of her, until there was nothing left but pain.
Pain is like an endless aquarium that suffocates you; no matter how hard one may swim to reach the surface, there is no exit.
She gave up her whole being to save others. No matter how fragile she may have been, she did anything to save the lives of others. Because she knew how painful it was to be trapped in this nightmarish place.
This willingness to protect others sealed her miserable fate. Her selflessness, in the end, was the one that killed her, and yet she did not truly die.
No matter how painful the fangs of those disturbing creatures were, she did not die – she fought. Her heart stopped and then it beat again...
Over and over, her mind fought to keep the flesh alive, because she could not die, no. She had made an oath to live on, for them. She had a mission that she had to fulfill at any cost.
That part of her most beloved that was left in her was filling her with strength. Those powerful memories and ideals were fighting for survival... That is when a soft light of salvation came to offer aid.
A radiant figure that she couldn't see or hear, despite it being weakened saved her from a permanent death. Her flesh fell on the ground, but her consciousness... was alive.
She never understood why she was chosen, why she survived, but she knew that she had to free herself from her temporary inner purgatory. She was trapped within her mind, and only once she could free her soul she would reawaken.
After years and years... of waiting in that endless limbo, where she continued relentlessly to offer aid to wanderers, she met a pale man with a suffering heart. A man that was corrupted by a dark force, who once had a pure heart.
Both of them were fated to a lonely existence. Both of them had nothing left, and yet she awakened something in him. She woke him up from his inner prison of suffering, to find a new purpose.
They had to fight to recover what they had lost, fight to reach a new purpose...and so he was freed from that turmoil. Both of them were free.
There was hope, no matter how much she sacrificed, no matter how much they both lost... It was time to begin once more, a new chapter of life. And with his aid, she too was rescued from her prison.
Now she was reborn anew, with the flesh of a warrior, a warrior that was given a new chance at life by the compassionate Priestess.
Dressed in bloody red armor, and wielding a great sword wrapped in thorns and roses, she lives for the sake of others. To serve one purpose only.
She is the Rose Warrior, once Olivia Bellerose, now ethereal.
Whatever sacrifice it may cost, she will never break her oath, even if she must suffer in yet another purgatory to return back to life once more.
That is what Love is, that is what Sacrifice is.
It's pure determination.
Category:Tales
Category:The Royal Court