Love...a tricky subject to cover...no one knows what causes it, no one knows exactly what it is or how to find it. It can do many things, to an object, to a place...to a person. It can give someone strength that they did not know they had, it can give them knowledge beyond their wildest dreams, it can fill voids, complete what is incomplete and even create life. In the fairy tales you've heard, read and watched, who is it that gets the girl? The hero. What sways the anti-hero to good? Love does, maybe not romantic love but the love for something else, friendship or morals. It can give the hero the strength he needs to take that final step towards the stormy castle on the mountain to face down the tyrant, to protect the weak, to save the one they love, to bring peace to the world.

It can however lead the hero to a path of darkness, corruption and devastation. It can make monsters out of men, make the most honourable and elegant women become a manipulative demoness. Love is not perfect. It, like everything else, needs balance. Harmony and chaos, good and evil, yin and yang...love and heartbreak. A little known fact that you may not know...males cannot get over their mate leave them, it's in their biology. They carry the pain their whole lives, they may get over it sure but they carry that pain forever. Most will move on, love life and find new lovers...But there are those that let the pain consume them, turning even the most pure of heart to heartless monsters out for revenge for those that have wronged them. They become...different, shells of their former selves. They don't care about the feelings of others other than one emotion...sorrow. They want them to know the sorrow they felt. And that's exactly what our fallen hero wants his enemies to feel.

Author's Notes:

That's right folks, two separate storylines with different outcomes to the decisions made in the upcoming chapters, I can't wait to do this