The fresh smell of blood and grass swept through the nights air like a rose springing to life before the eyes of a young child. Tyrannous Viserys, last of his name rested in a cot within the tent he shared with Tance. His dreams were filled with the memories of watching his brother constantly surpass him in everything he attempted to do, a nightmare when he witnessed the ancestral blade "Red Grace" being passed down to Garland rather than himself. He awoke suddenly to the sound of commotion outside. He immediately stood and dressed himself in his rough-span leather. He left the tent and approached towards the gate, his boots shuffling against the grass, he felt a pull in his chest as a rumble came to his head, a sort of warning of what was to occur. The Viserys clan had long been cursed with a plague known as "The Blood-died Cough" a curse in which it rendered whomever contracted it useless and weak to the family and doomed to die an early grave. The tradition that the Viserys had created was to go down fighting even if they did find themselves part of this curse. He had learnt that his brother had contracted it and planned on going down fighting, explaining the symptoms and sending the blade to Tyrannous before his death.
The unknown and at the same all too famous blade "Red Grace" was a blade forged generations before by what many people call the "First Visery" a blacksmith of the same name as was his had forged this blade and tempered it in the blade of his first born child. Though the story does not end there, the blade had also been fed the blood of the wife of the smith, leaving the second son left to carry the burden of the sword after the smith had passed on. And so it had been a tradition that the second son take on the burden of keeper of the blessed blade, said to be able to cut a man clean in half. The runes within the blade were said to hold the blood of the ancestors and gave the blade a magical power to sing as it was swung depending on the swing and how the warrior felt during the combat. If the blade was every to dull the wielder must reforge the blade and
Tyrannous now held that blade in his hand after his elder brother, the first son had passed away due to the plight of the plague that he now felt tingling in his chest. Tye approached the gate and looked outwards and what he saw only caused his heart to race even faster, causing his blood to begin pumping at such a fast pace that it could only be described as "Blood Lust" he saw his mentor and friend, Tance holding some poor boy against his body and pressing a knife to his throat. A million ideas rushed through Tye's head at once and when Tance turned towards him and screamed, he heard the very shrill in Tance's voice.. was he scared..? Was he confused...? Or was he in a rage..?The only truth was that three armed brothers stood on the other side of his own. Tance, the dubbed "Lost Brother" by Tye himself. He had always searched for someone whom would treat him on an equal field, and Tance was that. Garland had always told Tye he was a weakling and could never live up to the legend placed on his name. But Garland was dead, and Tyrannous still lived.
The events that took placed happened quickly, the words that the men spoke only flew over Tye's head like worthless pieces of paper. His eyes focused on each individual as if trying to read what was going on without hearing the words... the only thing in his ears was the systematic pumping of his heartbeat as it increased and pulsed harder into his chest. He felt it coming he was going to be rendered useless by the same curse that had done away his brother. He heard Tance's words, they had taken away his weapon and shield, in other means it would be nothing, however by Tance's words they were obviously all his brother had left in this realm to live for, without thinking of it he turned towards the commanding officer "Starke" and commanded he give him his weapons, quoting his own family motto "A northerner goes down with a blade in hand." Starke spoke the location within his own tent and Tyrannous quickly moved to retrieve the items, holding his chest as he moved across the field, he just needed to live a little longer, just a little longer to save his friend. Tyrannous said a silent prayer as he took up a second bastard sword and sheathed it on his waist, picking up Tance's axe and shield and bringing it back to the gate, raising it just in time for the bridge to collapse and the boy's life blood to spill freely into the rapids below.
Tyrannous didn't have time to think, he threw the axe and shield into the rapids, hoping they would reach Tance by the time he hit shore, and rushed down the side of the bank as quick as his build could carry him, causing his heart to beat even faster and his lungs to stress harder as he made his way to the bank. He saw Tance then, already up and running and cursed picking up the shield and throwing it towards him, trying to get it to him by screaming out his name "Tance!" Tance had either not heard him, or had not cared for he just continued running. The other "Brothers" made their way across the river one by one until Starke was now standing in front of Tyrannous. He stood there, like a road block. And roared out as he drew the bastard sword from it's sheath and threw it with all his might towards him as he charged. He parried it carelessly, as Tyrannous had guessed and moved towards him. They spoke, if only for a moment before the squire had gotten around Tye and stabbed him through the back of the knee, taking him effortlessly to the ground. His body ached and his heart thudded against his chest and thundered in his ears. He stared at Starke, defiantly and began his speech "Ye.. promised 'im a 'ead days start ye bloody Cravens!" he roared in anger as his heart thundered only more into his ears.
A cold wind blew across bank of the river, the tall grass swaying and bending effortlessly and carelessly with the breeze as they tune of the song had quickly changed, the smell of blood now thick in the air. Tyrannous now half-knelled before Starke, forced into this position by the blade that pinned him to the ground. "Do ye know what treason you've committed Tye?" Starke spoke in a very distasteful voice, emotionless as always in the gaze he gave. "I asked all ye wanted of me... I protected a brother when his own brothers attacked he..." he stared defiantly at Starke as the squire removed "Red Grace" from Tye's waist, dragging it with his scrawny arms towards Starke, he could tell that he had confused him slightly with what he had said, but as always those emotionless eyes showed no mercy nor anger. Tye felt his chest begin to heave, his heart convulsing, now becoming a booming drum over the rest of the world he could no longer hear Starke nor the boy, he couldn't even recall what was being said. The last thing he heard was the long, sad wail of the blade "Red Grace" coming down from the sky to take the last of it's cursed wielder's to a better land. He spoke before the blade had hit him
"I guess, I wasn't as strong as you.. brother.."
The runes that were once filled with sound and wind was now filled with the thick red blood of Tyrannous Viserys, the last of his name. The soul of the last wielder was now free of the pain of the world. The world engulfed by War, Chaos, life, love, and Death.