Everyone gazed at Elyenora with wonder in their eyes, her sudden proclamation enamored them. With this, they knew. She had certainly inherited the will of her father, the will of Benulis’ ruler. A will which for them, was the one most desired for inheritance. Immediately they ruptured in a round of applause for her words, if anything, to encourage her on the path she is choosing to follow.
And as she honorably watched them do so, raising her hand to the air for further facilitation of her claim. Mon’Ter couldn’t help but see nothing except pain in her eyes. Even if she’d forced out a smile for the nobility around her, it couldn’t be said to be anything other than a facade to show how ‘strong’ she was. To show she was ready to uphold her words, to send off her father in the proper way. Even if in her mind, she still felt weak over it. Her body could move accordingly. Her voice could thunder powerfully. Her figure could continue to stand tall, and she could continue to grow un
Elyenora halted her stride and stared at the prince whose eyes had gone from crazed to mellow, they weren’t the eyes of someone mad but someone who hated the feelings surging up from within him. Those strikes of red across the whites… Could he have been crying? “What are you talking about…?” Elyenora gulped down on her saliva as she asked, watching Aydian intently for every movement he did. “You’re blind, sister! You’re so blind that it makes me want to hurl!” the prince clenched his fists and ground his teeth. Unimpeded, he waltzed over straight toward the princess. “Hey, wait a minute!” Samuel shot up to intervene, he went in between the two siblings and extended his hand towards Aydian. “Don’t do anything rash-” The back of Aydian’s fist found its mark dead on Samuel’s chin, his body flopped as his head rang like a bell, bringing him to the ground in an instant. Elyenora widened her eyes in shock, but reacted all the same. She hovered her hand over
Aydian stared at the spot where Elyenora and Samuel had vanished from, he grinned, and the memory began to cease. Everything returned once more to the void of memories, the scenery shattered and flickered away like flower petals blown away by the powerful gusts of the outdoors. Mon’Ter and Leonidas stood there, and the chimera contemplated over what he’d just witnessed. “So, that’s how it started? Really…?” Leonidas sighed, “It would seem so, sadly.” “Bloody hell… Why would he do that?” Mon’Ter clenched his fists. “It seemed so weird given how he acted in all the other memories, Elyenora was right to be as confused as she was over it… Ugh… I want to pummel his face into the ground for how he treated them now…” “Don’t go doing that before I talk to him properly, alright?” Leonidas pointed to him. “Fine. But if he dares to claim being our enemy even after that, I’m not listening,” Mon’Ter pointed at him back, almost as if mimicking the old man.<
One final walk across the golden path of streams, one last look at the bubbles of memories that surrounded them. Within them, they could see the images of battle deep within the depths of Lydia’s Caves, they could see the long hallway leading to Finis’ large room, as well as the door that divided the caves from the then corrupt spirit’s soul realm. Mon’Ter could tell by those memory bubbles, this was their destination. They had arrived. “This should be it now,” he said to Leonidas with a meaningful look, cautioning him. “If we are going to be fighting something that came about from That battle, I’d get my guard up if I were you.” Leonidas merely grinned in response until that grin turned to a laugh. “Hahaha! Whatever it is you kiddos fought, I’ve seen worse, don’t worry bout it Laddy!” “Just telling you beforehand,” Mon’Ter shrugged whilst they made their way to the transit point of the pathway, the moment they stepped in the right location, the world
The air surrounding Leonidas began to change, and the glow which emanated from his pupils began to soar in luminosity, it started creating a flaring aura that came out of every pore in his body. The old man grinned gleefully, his grip tightened even more than before, and he could even feel his muscles bulge from underneath his armor.“Let’s get to it, Mon’Ter! I'll force the one of Elyenora away, you can go all out with Samuel's shadow entity!” Leonidas roared as his legs launched him from the dark nothingness of the realms of memories, straight towards Elyenora’s shadow with the intent of killing it.He did not go for a conventional attack, no, instead as he flew towards it with sound shattering speed, he turned his body horizontally and began spinning like a top with his arms outstretched, the scimitars in his hands turned him into a cyclone that would butcher anything in his path.And as the first blade nearly reached its target,
“Wh–What?!” Leonidas bellowed from the far reaches of the branching gold path. Even from that distance, he could see that Mon’Ter must be dead.The shadow entity had torn his arms off, half of the lower part of his torso was also missing and there was only a gaping hole in its place. Even his wings were only at half length at best. And as mentioned before, his face was more or less gone, with only half of his head still there.“Kid!” Leonidas’ eyes shone with a bright hue, he forced out the aura and vigor to once more surround him even if his body couldn’t quite take the pressure and exertion these eyes of his caused. Still, as his skin burned through the pores, he bit his lip and held out through the searing pain.The old knight grasped both his scimitars as tightly as his fingers could latch on, his legs stomped onto the paths and he bolted straight towards the seemingly dead chimera. Within a fraction of a secon
A few moments after their discussion concluded, Mon’Ter screamed out at the top of his lungs. “Dash!”The two of them instantly ran in the direction they were facing, and in that same moment, an insufferable amount of energy landed on the location they’d been in the second prior. Samuel’s shadow entity flew right above them, watching with its abyssal gaze whilst they scurried away from the attack.As Mon’Ter evaded the blast, he found himself sensing another strong sensation of danger shaking his very core up. And in that moment, the entity appeared before him with its hand slightly raised to its chest. Hoving above its palm, in that split second, he could see a tiny sword shaped figure of light. The entity sent that sword of light straight towards Mon’Ter’s chest.He grit his teeth as the blade of light traveled closer and closer to him, Mon’Ter could see it almost in slow motion as it moved towards him with
“Are you two okay?” Elyenora said, looking over them from above with her usual grin.“Ely?!” Mon’Ter stared at her with eyes wider than an open door.“What! Princess Ely, how did you get here?” Leonidas instantly rushed to try and get to his feet.“Ah! Gramps, calm down!” and the princess hurriedly sheathed her rapier and tried to get ahold of the elder. She grabbed him by the sides and attempted to keep him up as he was still quite wobbly from exerting himself so much.Leonidas grasped her by the shoulders as he managed to balance himself, then looked at her straightly so that he could speak with at least a semblance of strength behind his voice. “How can you be telling me to be calm! You’re here! Much less than just being awake and moving around, you even saved our butts! Hahaha! Oh by the gods! You don’t know how happy I am to see you!” he hugged her, tightly as he could, eve
Within due time, all four of them awoke in the room of serenity’s midst. Mon’Ter was the first to rise up, and the first thing his eyes met with was a rather familiar man dressed in quite the lavish clothing attire. “Ah, it seems my tall gold mine has awoken from his slumber!” the man clapped a few times with his hands. “Rise and shine then, up you go,” the pope, George, spoke with a hint of sarcasm to his voice. He seemed to be enjoyed the trade-in goods Mon’Ter had given to him as payment for the spell he’d used to help them. “Tell me, did things proceed as you’d planned?” “I believe so…?” Mon’Ter said, a tad wobbly as he sat up and supported himself with his arms. He glanced at his three comrades who were currently still laying down. Still worrying, he furrowed his brows in silence as he waited for them to move as well. And slowly, Leonidas nudged his eyes open and rose up to a sitting position. Though he looked to be in need of holding his head, as visibl