The Merlin of Our Heart

"WooHoo!" I said as I threw my cap up in the air. I had just finished getting my bachelor's degree in electronics, with a minor in culinary arts."And now I need a job, damn."  My name is Trent, I'm 25 years old, I have a loving wife and a, 7 year old, daughter. I have a part-time job at a restaurant, as the chief's assistant, more of an errand boy, but it paid good money so I wasn't going to complain.

Before I could leave for the day, I had to throw the trash out back. As I walk out the back door, I see a faded blue circle on the ground."Ok...maybe some kids were just drawing or something" I say, becoming uneasy. As I said that a unicorn started to jump out of the circle, it had a demonic horn tinted orange, its coat was blood red, and its eyes glowed green.

"Hmm, I expected to arrive someplace more populated.  This is good, now I just have to find one." IT SAID, and by the sound of its voice it is a he. I just stand there, as he looks around for something, what it was I had no idea, but when he saw me, he got this creepy, maniac, smile as if I was his lab rat or something."Oh, how convenient, now to test those theories." I tried to run but, suddenly a glass wall appears in front of were I was going.

"H-hey man, just let me go" I say, trying not to fall into hysterics. Suddenly he shot a orange beam at me, as I covered my face with my arms, bracing myself for it, but I felt no pain.

"Hmm, so magic is useless on you, no matter I have this." he said, as he drew a medieval dagger from some kinda dimensional storage.

"W-wow dude you could hurt someone with that." I say, as I look for something to use as a weapon. I saw a old bottle of wine on the ground and reached for it. Suddenly I lunged for the bottle, landed two feet away from him, and slammed the bottle on his horn, shattering it into his eye, and at the base of his horn.

"UGH, BUCK!!!! You will pay for this!" he said as he lunged at me, and with a stabbing motion cut my stomach open.

"OH, SHIT!" I said, trying to keep my guts from spilling out. "Damn, I gotta end this quick." I lunge at him hoping to push him back to where he came from, unfortunately just as he was falling into the portal he grabbed me and dragged me with him. I hit his horn with my hand, this seemed to mess up the destination of the portal, sending us into the void of space.  At least I'm taking him with me I thought to myself as I started to suffocate.  I looked around for him, and saw him leaving through another portal. "DAMN IT GET BACK HERE!" I yell, reaches out trying to grab him.

"Farewell creature, may we never meet again." and just like that he was gone, leaving me to drift alone in space.  Just before losing consciousness, I saw a teal glow in the distance, I always wanted to die peacefully, I guess this is a close as I'm gonna get, I hope Sera and Asuna can live without me, I just want to see them, the last thing I saw was a teal flash of light, and then darkness.

"OH MY GOD! SOMEONE CALL 911! THERE IS A MAN BLEEDING HORRIBLY!" the ambulance arrived quickly, and loaded him up and shipped him to the nearest hospital.

"Quick, we need to stop the bleeding!"

"Who is this man? Does he have any identification on him?"

"It says his name is Trent Light, and he has a wife and daughter."

"Ok get in contact with them and tell them what is going on."

"On it."

Back home

Asuna gets a phone call.  "Yes, who is it? W-What? He is where?" she says with a trembling voice. "Ok thank you for telling us... Yes we'll be right there.  Sera? Come here."

"Yes, mom? What is it?"

"It's your father, he is horribly injured and they don't know if he will live, they wanted us to be there in what might be his final moments." Asuna said, wearing a solemn look.

"W-What? Dad's gonna die?" Sera said while trembling.

"They don't know what will happen, he seems stable now, but it could change at any time, they don't even know how he is still alive. They say he has wounds that could kill a bear."

"Ok."

The two get in the car and drive to the hospital in silence. When they arrive at the hospital, they lost all semblance of self control, ran up to the reception desk, asked for the room that he was in with panicked voices, and rushed up to see if he was ok.

"Where is he?!" Asuna asked in a panicked and desperate voice.

"He's right here, but it appears he is in a coma of some sort."

"Daddy?" Sera asked in a quiet, almost nonexistent voice, as she approached the bed he lay on. Asuna brought a chair over and was sitting next to the bed holding his hand."Please, Please be ok." Asuna said, with tears crawling down her face."Mommy, is daddy gonna be ok?"

"I hope so, Sera, I hope so."

As the weeks pass the two have been visiting every day, hoping that he would awaken soon. Weeks turned into months, and months into years until 2 years had gone by.

I awoke slowly, as I opened my eyes, I could feel someone holding my hand. I looked around wondering where I was. "Wh-Where am I?"

"Oh my head, Sera? Where are you?" I heard someone say, I know that voice

"A-Asuna?"

I could feel someone's gaze locked on me. "Is that you Asuna?"