"You bastard Ajedreze! What have you done to me?! Where am-''

She screamed, piercing the would-be Hero's ears, accompanying the pumping blood and his own sharp, jagged breaths. There was a sudden flash and a sound like a clap of thunder, and a huge swirling hole appeared in the sky above them, surrounded in purple smoke. Ajedreze's eternal companion was sucked into it, the rest of the world seemingly unaffected by its presence. One cold, silent minute later, she was gone forever, the sly snake that had made his world shatter. He had done his world a great favour - he turned around, but he only saw the lights of the nearby town beyond the hills and forests.

“Finally, it's over..." he thought aloud, and collapsed to the floor.