VISUAL PROMPT
Art by Sans @ www.deviantart.com/Sanskarans.

Monsters can be heroes too. Write a short story in which a monster saves the day.
Enigmatic
In a world of knights and monsters divided by the south and north poles of magnets, there was a noble knight whose name rang to every rim of the land, honored for his decorum throughout his life. Amnon of Amourosâthey chanted his name so gallantly.
Yet he kept one secret hidden from the public eye, that he befriended the monsters he once captured and ordered to be killed by his sworn lord.
Enigmatic was a creature of hell, he called himself, and people swallowed it. He feasted on the malice and malevolence within him, bringing death and fall to folks who crossed his path. The people credited him for it.
âAmnon of Amouros, youâve held me captive for many years. Whatâs your intention for me? Why not just kill me?â Eventually, the monster bit his corrupt tongue, so thirsty for a sip of Amnonâs blood and tears.
Amnonâs face remained stoic, watching Enigmaâs repressed intent to avenge the misbehavior of locking him like a weakling. Amnon sat on a lounge chair in the corner of the room, which reeked of the smell of foul blood.
âWho did you kill today?â Enigmaâs voice kept pestering him with questions.
âItâs not who I killed, but who I saved,â Amnon answered one of his questions at last, elusively.
âWhatâs wrong with you knights and your obsession with saving someone? I can never relate to it.â The swirling breeze delivered the concealed monstrous thoughts into the distance.
Amnonâs lips curled upward with the disclosure of the speech. That was exactly eight thousand days he had been waiting for this monster to spill his inner question.
So he spoke, âIf you ever tried to save someone, then maybe you could resonate with the idea,â he trailed off, leading the monster to his vision.
One of Amnonâs ambitions was to steer the monsters so they would harbor the light. Enigma was one of the monsters he captured and locked away until it began asking questions that Amnon deemed courteous enough.
Then he would free it and see if it would attack him or cordially strip away its title of monster. Up until recently, there hadnât been a monster that passed his test. All of them were killed on sight when the lock was opened.
_But maybe this one would pass._
âIâve been thinking, whoâs the monster in this situation?â Enigma gave him scrutinizing retorts that were enough to overtake him.
âHowâs that again?â
Enigmaâs tail swung aimlessly while his one big foot handled his see-through body, spouting big chunks of vomit. His quad tetra eyes crooked forward, creating a deformed illusion of fishing hooks. His long tongue stuck out like a railway on the ground.
âAll your riddles of saving and killing, or your twisted words of darkness and light, rebirthâall of that is absurd. Whatâs your opinion of monsters now, I ask? If you think Iâm incapable of distinguishing what is good or bad, youâre simply a fool of a knight.â
No one could have deciphered Amnonâs thoughts at this moment.
âEverything is dubious. If I need to kill someone from your kind or my kind, whom you label as monsters, so I can live, I wonât hesitate. Thatâs the natural thing to do. You humans act so mighty about the values you hold to define yourselves and others, so you can put worth on everyone. Thatâs demented. Youâre not black and white either. You imprison me and shove your words into my mouth about the values you think are right or wrong, without trying to ask me. Do you even hear yourself?â
With a flick of his tail, the block of prison that held him broke apart. He let out a screeching sound that could tear the mightiest knight limb from limb. âIf you want to save anything, you should teach your kind about the aesthetics and mixtures you meet in life instead of following the guidelines of what is worthy and what is not. You are a monster, too.â
With that, the Enigmatic creature swished its wings, crushing everything near it with enraged air, hurling Amnonâs body before leaving with displeased wings.
_Would there ever be a happily ever after? A truce for all and not for one?_
In his final moments, Amnon discovered the midway ending of the bitter knightâs story.
No prison could hold a monster. The monster chose to be captured by his mind and to be free.