Defence

Defence. (Still tired so you get very descriptive descriptions.)

     "Soldier."

     I stopped and turned. I smiled and nodded at him.

     "Been a while...still don't know your name, so I'll just call you soldier, my names Velger, unless you wish to tell me your name, I can't call you anything else."

     "You aren't Velger."
     "I disagree...I am Velger, why do you think otherwise?"

     "Velger died years ago, if you wanted to impersonate someone you should have picked someone who isn't known."

     "A man can't have the same name as another?"

     "You copied everything...you aren't who you say you are. So who are you, if you tell me the truth you may get a...swifter death."

     "Look I am Velger, I don't know of any other, if there was, then I'm sorry my mother named me this, but she named me Velger, so there."

     "Velger was a mage, a master one, for all I know you killed him and stole his identity, he was killed by a mage over a hundred years ago."

     "I am Velger...not...listen, whatever you think you know it isn't it."

     "You are not Velger, he--"

     "I AM HIM!"

     "You are not!"

     "I AM! Have you heard of the shift?"

     "A potion that makes you immortal?"

     "Why...okay, yes, lets just go with that, I am Velger."

     "The shift is a myth, it doesn't exist. So you're going to have to come up with something else for your defense."

     "The shift...it does exist...listen you don't know what you know. I'm assuming you saw the carvings?"

     "That's why you aren't him, you look nothing like him."

     "With the shift looks change constantly...it's not immortality...you change, you keep the memories, but change everything, I am Velger, but I'm not the same as I was back then."

     "You were worshiped, they thought...no...he was worshiped, you almost got me...I'm reporting this to the king, you'll be tortured for your identity, and then finally executed."

     "I am Velger, the shift make you...well shift...I am the same as he is...different everything, but same memories."

     "That's impossible...the shift is a myth...along with immortality."

     "True, the shift isn't immortality...when you shift everything changes, your mind changes, you forget yourself...sometimes you can hang onto your old mind, I have for instants, always been corrupt, corraptable, except this time, this is the one time I decided to do good, it started with blood, but I think I've made that up...yes I have."

     "How many?"

     "Death's have I had, or...how many lives have I taken this shift?"

     "In total...lives."

      "I...that will take quite a while to remember...I do remember them, but after centuries...well...its hard to remember."

     "So your body changes, and if it's destroyed?"

     "Every atom has to be destroyed."

     "You can't be him then."

     "Fire kills a lot, but not everything, not for the shift, I was burned after my death, because yes I was worshiped, though I didn't want to be, but I was, I was burned, it was painful coming back from that one, everything having to regrow...it is very painful."

     He took a step back. I sensed something, I walked towards the door, I heard the click of a gun, I held my hands up, but kept walking, I looked up and saw lightning flash, I lowered my hands and looked around.

     "Raise your hands...NOW!"

     I looked back and shook my head.

     "Somethings coming."

     "Come back inside, now."

     "Something...ah...an attack."

     Gunfire echoed in the distance, I heard screams, I started walking away but a gun went off behind me, I looked beside me and saw a hole in the ground. I spun around and looked the soldier in the eye, I heard a clatter and looked behind me, a grenade had landed a few feet away.

     "What's going on, why are you shooting at our prize soldier?" a royal advisor asked.

     "Down." I said calmly."

     "Don't you-"

     I jumped onto the granade and was blown away, my right side landed a few feet away, I saw the soldier gathering the royal advisor and another before the shift overtook me.