The Tale of a Heroes Curse

It was dawn, Rynan Merryton was relaxing in the forest, gathering herbs and other plants for medicinal purposes. Then, when he came back to his village of elves, he saw his father in a chair on the balcony of their house, staring into the vast sky. When he saw his son down below, he smiled at him, but deep inside, he was in sorrow, for he thought of himself as a burden to his son, and because his body was rotting slowly from his toes to his head. It is now near his head, and he is paralyzed from the neck down and cannot move a limb except his head. Rynan greeted his father in a loud shout, "HELLO! FATHER! I AM BACK!" his father also greeted him back with a nod and a smile while struggling to articulate words, "we...we...weel..come back my s..s..son." Rydel Loramaris is the name of his father. He was once a hero, but now retired and crippled with a curse of necrosis. Rydel doesn't know where the curse came from, but he assumes that it came from the evil king that he met when he was a hero and was almost defeated by the evil king. Rydel and his team, which was handpicked by the king who ordered Rydel to defeat the evil king, ran and escaped from there and survived luckily. Rynan walked to the door of their house and opened it. There, he saw Reeve Ivetta, his mother, and asked him, "Did you get the stuff that I ordered you to get in the forest?" Rynan answered, "Yes, ma'am, here's a bag full of herbs and plants for concocting a medicine." "OK! Great, now we concoct a medicine for your father, Rynan," his mother says joyfully. Then they make this potion that will ease the pain that the curse is creating for Rynan's father temporarily, and will slow down the rotting of his body. Rynan and Reeve, the mother of Rynan, finished making the potion, so they went upstairs to go to his father on the balcony, sitting on a chair, and made him drink the potion, and it worked; it stopped the pain that Rydel was feeling, and the necrosis was slowing down. After they helped Rydel drink the medicine, they carried him from his chair to the bed to rest. Reeve, the mother of Rynan, goes down from upstairs to cook food for his family for dinner while he orders Rynan to stay beside his father. Rynan asks his father, "What was it like being a former hero?" his father answered It was fun, from defeating demons, to giants, accepting quests to help and protect the strong, overall, it was fun being a hero. So, why'd you ask?" "Nothing much, I'm just curious and in awe that you were a hero before marrying my mother," Rydel answered with a smile of admiration towards his father. His mother arrives at the door holding a plate and bowls of food. "ALRIGHT! Booyyss we eat." Then they ate inside the bedroom of Rydel, the father of Rynan. When they were finished eating, they went to their respective bedrooms to rest. When Rynan is on his bed lying down, he is contemplating his father's condition, asking himself, "Why did this happen to my father? If I find the one who put a curse on my father, I will have my vengeance and justice for my father." because of his sorrowful heart and anger towards those who put the curse on his father, he fell asleep. The sun is rising, and it is now morning. Rynan got up, went down the stairs, and saw the table full of food for breakfast, but before Rynan sat down at the table, he thought about his father. Then, he filled up a bowl with soup and brought it to his father to eat, and Rynan fed his father the soup. Later that morning, Rynan and Reeve, the mother of Rynan, heard a guttural scream of agony nearby, so they ran towards the sound, and lo and behold, it was Rynan's father screaming in pain because the necrosis was crawling up his head faster than usual. So, Rynan panicked, already thinking of ways to slow down the necrosis, but his father said to his son, "It's ok, my son, this might be my end, but don't be sad, my son. Even if I drink those medicines, it only slows down the inevitable. After I pass away, train diligently, so that you may be picked to become a hero in the future. So, let me rest in peace, my son." Rynan answered while crying, "Yes, father, I will train diligently and be strong enough to defeat the evil king that the previous heroes could not defeat just for you, father." "That's my boy," his father responded proudly, then closed his eyes, and the curse reached the head, and the father became only ashes. Then and there, Rynan vowed to defeat whoever put a curse on his father, and said in a growling rage, "I will kill the man who did this to my father and make him suffer for what he did to my father." Then, he shouted in a fit of rage, "YOU HEAR ME? I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE," and he cried after.