"Ey ey keep on moving!" Hawkfrost shouted from behind.

"Says the cripple." Supah snorted. 

"I'll make you a cripple if you ever call me one again." Hawkfrost growled.

"Good one." Lara said and laughed quietly.

"Hey guys." Sorrows who was the first in the group said "This looks like a nice place." She said as she stopped in front of a nice opening. By now all of us knew that this forest is endless but has many openings that repeat randomly. Which each new villain, there are one to three new openings.

"I'm not so sure, this doesn't look familiar." I admitted.

"You think this is a new villain's territory?" Supah asked. I slowly nodded.

"New villain? That sounds exciting." Hawkfrost said.

"You know you can't fight, right?" Sorrows reminded him and Hawkfrost groaned in annoyance.

"Ross, I'm sure nothing that we can't handle won't happen." Sorrows comforted me with kind words and I smiled.

"Besides, Hawkfrost needs to rest." She added and looked at the oldest member of the group. We got him a pair of crutches, or more like two shorter thick branches he  used as a support as he  limped. This was also why he was behind.

"I'm fine!" Hawkfrost argued.

"You might be, but your leg isn't." Lara shook her head. Hawkfrost rolled his eyes and sat down. Angrily.

"Me and Supah are going to get some firewood." Lara said and looked at Sorrows.  Sorrows nodded and sat down next to Hawkfrost and started talking to him about something. I didn't really pay attention as I laid down and ignored them. But it was still too bright to sleep so I opened my eyes and stared at the sky. Night had just begun and the sky was still bright. Bored, I decided to listen to others for a bit.

"Skybrine can't be the creator of this, the creator of this has to be a psychopath." Sorrows said.

"Maybe he is one." Hawkfrost snorted.

"No,no,no, the real Skybrine isn't like that." Lara disagreed "But maybe he has an evil twin or something, that would be so cool!"

Suddenly a shadow flew over us. I recognized dragon wings and tail. I was the only one looking straight into the sky which gave me the best image of it. But of course, everybody else noticed it as well.

"A bird?" Lara asked.

"No, that was too big for a bird. That was a dragon villain." Supah said.

"Then it's The Dragon girl obviously." Hawkfrost said.

"No Hawkfrost, you're wrong. Icee's hair aren't that short." I said, my voice was trembling.

"That is Enderlox."

Everybody got moving. I stood behind everybody, hiding. I didn't want to do this. I couldn't. Not much time passed until Enderlox showed up. He was a lot like Icee, dragon tail, massive wings and skin on arms turned into scales from elbow below.

But unlike Icee, Enderlox looked... Depressed. He didn't look eager about attacking us, was that even his intention?

"What the hell do you want dragon boy?!" Hawkfrost growled.

"I would like to ask for help." Enderlox replied calmly.

"Help?! Survivors don't help villains !"

"Hawkfrost wait." Lara put her hand on Hawkfrost's shoulder, telling him to calm down. She looked at Enderlox.

"Tell us more." Her voice was calm but not kind, rather strict.

"Please don't call me a villain, I'm not... I don't want to be one of them."

"I don't understand, I thought all villains have been manipulated to be evil." Sorrows said.

"All of them." Enderlox said and sighed "All but me."

"I'm the only one who wasn't fully transformed into a villain. To me, this role is like a prison. In fact, all villains are prisoners, but all of them are afraid to show it. Since I'm not a pure villain, I have enough courage inside of me to rebel against her."

He stopped talking for a while and took a deep breath. Nobody said anything, we all waited for him to continue.

"I tried showing them that they're all puppets in her sick game, I tried helping them. And when I get close enough, I can hear their trapped souls crying for help. But they are poisoned, they are sure villains is who they really are."

He stopped talking once again and looked up at us.

"Have you ever experienced death? I have. Seven times. Six times they've killed me because I wanted to help them." His voice started shaking "When I got used to the feeling I tried doing it myself but the reality is that only one can kill me." When he said that he looked me directly in the eyes. Everybody turned around and looked at me as well.

"No, no I can't do it!" I protested "Especially not now, he's still the old Ty!"

"Don't you see? He needs this!" Lara shouted at me. In the moonlight I noticed that she was on the verge of crying but her voice was normal.

"Just do it!" Hawkfrost also shouted.

I covered my face with my hands "I can't! I just can't!" I started crying.

"Ross please... She knows my intentions, she's torturing me... And I can only last that long." Enderlox begged. I knew what he was saying...whoever made him a villain was now forcing him to do his job.

"Oh god..." I sobbed as I picked up a dagger.  I started walking towards him, slowly.

You're doing him a favor Ross...

That was the only thing that kept me going. I stopped in front of him and looked up at him. He looked so much like the old him. I felt tears again as I knew I couldn't do it, I couldn't kill him. He lifted his head up, revealing his neck.

"It'll be quick and less painful for me." he whispered.

"I can't do it! You're my friend!" I cried.

"If I turn into a villain I'll just kill you, do it now." Everybody around me were screaming and encouraging me,no, not encouraging, ordering me to do it. Even Ty himself who had tears on his cheeks now as well, but I wasn't sure if it was because.... she was torturing him or because of something else.

For a few seconds I stopped thinking about everything. I lifted the dagger above my head and buried the blade into his throat. I looked up through my tear covered eyes to see blood running down his neck.

"Thank you." he croaked and collapsed on the ground. His soul left his villain body and I collapsed on my knees right next to him. I hugged him and buried my face into his shoulder.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so fucking sorry." I started crying. I could feel stares all around me and I had no idea, nor did I care what they thought of me "I'm such a coward! Forgive me, I shouldn't have left you, this is all my fault!" I would probably still be screaming apologies if my voice wouldn't become sore. Instead I just continued crying loudly believe for long enough that everybody moved on to whatever they were doing before.