Now after King Luca Cole had spent so long inside the tank trying to figure out the special thing about the staff that had made it able to cut off the head of a troll yet was not able to discern any special thing which he could hold on to, he had to come out of the tent as he could also tell that the day was soon passing by and they can not stay there till dusk because the trolls can come out again and this time will wipe all the remaining army. When he came outside, the soldiers were quite ready to move, all they were doing was to wait for an order which they believed would soon come.Then he saw Zach carrying the corpse of Eric which he had thought they had buried as instructed, so went to meet him as he called, causing him to stop and turn around. "Zachary!""Your majesty," He replied as the King came closer."What are you still doing with this body?""My lord, I'm sorry but I can not watch him being buried.""Nobody said you must watch while he is buried. Just hand it over to the
They were approaching the gate of Raychester when they received words from three riders who met them on the way at twilight. When King Luca had asked them what their mission was, one of them said they were coming to get aid for the city of Riverston which was under attack. Then the King looked at the men which he was returning with and those eyes could tell that he was going to need some of them to go with the riders. While he looked at the soldiers he studied to know if they would like to go or not seeing that they were just returning from a fight.As nature may have, there were always going to be those who would want to fight voluntarily. And since would not want to force any of his soldiers, he asked that those who were willing and had the strength to fight should join the riders.To his greatest surprise, about half of them if not more were willing, and since they were close to the gate of their destination, he could not stop them since the war did not get that close to Raychest
Just as they were about to remove everything that was connected to his body, they could hear the monitor beeping, and all eyes turned to see that it had begun to read again, detecting life in his body. Instantly they looked at Eric and could see his eyes open, as he stared at them.So the doctor looked at time again, it was eleven forty, so he immediately, along with the nurses with him resumed the administration of treatment to him, as they fixed back the drip in him and other necessities.Even after this, the doctor confirmed that he is still in a coma but there was quite an improvement that his chances of survival had risen from fifteen percent which it recently dropped to, and was now at a thirty five percent rate. Though the chance was still nothing to celebrate because there was every possibility that it would drop again to an even lower rate than it had risen from. So all he had to do alongside his staff was to monitor him closely to see how it would go.******Back to the roo
Then Zach was now happy that he could remember everything that he forgot. "I'm sorry.""No you don't have to be sorry. I understand. Your world needs my help and I have fulfilled a purpose here before returning home. I understand everything.""Yes you are right.""Last I checked, we were in the field fighting against the trolls, so what happened? Why are we back here in Raychester castle?""The battle ended and the trolls fled." He began to answer the questions he asked. "You killed three trolls all by yourself. You proved to us that you are really a hero as the prophecy said.""So tell me, where is my staff? I should get back into the field as I must defeat these creatures and go back home. The longer I stay here, the lesser my chance of leaving.""No, I don't think that's how it is. Rather, I will say the more your victories the higher your chances of going home.""Then, I need to start gaining those victories so as to leave because my daughter is waiting for me. She wants me to com
Zachary understood why he was asking that question, but Eric did not since he was expecting the King to be happy that the savior of his land and world is not dead."Is that the question you are supposed to be asking? Aren't you supposed to be happy that I am still alive?""I am happy to see you are walking and breathing, but yes, that is the question I am supposed to ask because you were dead, freezing cold for over twenty four hours."Then Eric looked at the three people in the room with surprise. "Wait, there is something you are not telling me. Was that battle with the trolls not in the night breaking this morning?""No Eric. It broke yesterday. You died for more than a day." Zachary answered him.So he was silent for some time now, he then knew the reason for the King's shock was because he would feel the same way if he saw someone rise after being confirmed dead for over twenty four hours.While he was quiet, King Luca asked Zach, "What did you do to him? How did you bring him ba
Since Eric will not answer his questions, he turned to the King and those who were from his world. "Please let us not let this stranger confuse us. I am sure he must have told you something about the staff, so tell me let me know whether it has anything to do with my forging the weapon or if it has not."The King, Zach and Aaron had come to stand with Eric on this aspect and would not tell Bradley what they had noticed about the weapon unless he had told what was used to forge the weapon."Listen Bradley, no one is going to tell you what we observed about the staff until you have told us the source of the ore used to forge the staff." King Luca said and that was the mind of Aaron and Zach. "You don't have to hide anything from us. We get that he is special and for that reason you chose to use a special ore for his weapon for his weapon. Just tell us the source and we will give you the response you are asking for." Aaron added to what the King had said."It is your questions that make
When they came back to the court as they were still discussing the staff and how Bradley Rogers could not discern what was strange about the weapon he had made.Eric Claus, who was getting sick of the continuous talk, had to say. "Please, let's forget talking about this staff. It makes me confused and as though I should stop using it and get a new one.""No, there will be no need for that. You are good with the staff," King Luca said to him. He personally had seen the way he skillfully brought down three orcs, if not four because he was at the verge of killing another before he was knocked away to death."Thank you," he appreciated that the King was willing to draw the talk to a close.Since they had stopped talking about the staff as he had pleaded, he then raised another topic. "So, which city are we marching to next?"King Luca was amazed that he was talking about marching for war again seeing that he had just come back from the land of the dead. For sure he was against this as it
Yet with what had happened, the commander was still certain that Harris would be among his men. "Like I said, he will be within the camp. All we have to do is to gently and carefully find him. If you look around you will see that many of your disbursements to us are still alive and they seem to the set of soldiers more agile to fight.""The men you speak to us about had just finished a battle against trolls before coming here. So do not see them as being as agile as you think.""I already know about that, a commander made it known to me when I was interacting with him."What they were saying was not what Zach was thinking, so he had to cause them digress a little. "Why do you believe he will be alive?""We did not only ask for aid from Raychester castle. Seeing that my men and I had been fighting for two days, we also sent for aid from Warcton fortress and other parts of Palind. Those from Warcton could not come because they were holding back the line to ensure the fortress remained s
On Eric's side, he didn't expect that question to be asked, but since it was asked, he could not answer it, so he simply said. "Don't worry baby, everything will be fine. The police are there to protect you and your aunt Lauren." "From who?" She asked again. "From some very bad people." He answered, in order for her to ask another question, he added. "Can you give your aunt the phone?" "Eric, what's going on?" Lauren asked as soon as he received the phone from Jodie. "I promise I'll explain everything to you when I am bad. Just be rest assured that I am not the one they are protecting you from. It's very complicated but I promise you will understand after I've explained everything to you." "Okay bro." "Please be safe and keep Jodie safe." Eric pleaded as they said goodbye. **** Towards evening the next day, Eric Claus and Chase Stevens were called to the police station by the detective and on their arrival, the detective took them to meet a new prisoner under their custody. "M
It took almost over five hours before the detective in charge of interrogating the suspect came out to meet Eric Claus and Chase Stevens in the police station. "I thought you were asked to leave?" he asked, to my surprise. His question called their attention, so they looked up in shock but without fear since they had committed no offense by staying. "Well," Chase began as he searched for the right words to say that would make the detective understand their reason for not going home as they were asked to. "We just couldn't leave." he said, still unable to find the best words. Eric had to help him out at this point even though he was not totally in support of them staying there for that long. "Were you people able to force the truth out of him? I just can't go home knowing that someone wants me dead and probably why?" That was a good reason to defend and justify their refusal to leave the station and the detective understood quite well so he did have to press further. "Well, you two
“Just before you woke up,” Chase began, “He told Lauren and I that he would be removing you from life support because his test showed that you would never wake up again. But upon coming to see you in the ward, we found you awake, that is to say he has found out that you would be waking up any time soon so he wanted to prevent it from happening. When I asked him how it was possible that someone who he presumed to never wake up again was awake and sound, he said he didn’t know and would do some research that would explain it scientifically. He still has not given any response with the claim that he was still doing his research with some of his colleagues.” Now Eric was getting a clear understanding of something that he never put into consideration before now. It was now clear to him why he had to leave the world of Palind, letting them complete the fight which was supposed to be concluded before his departure. So he had no reason to doubt the words and suspicions of Chase. “In that cas
The doctor ran another test on Eric Claus early the next morning to confirm whether he was fully fit to leave the hospital and still his results were positive that he did not see any other reason to keep Eric there in the hospital. So he had to break the good news about his discharge so he could prepare to go home. Towards the evening hours of the day, Chase was there with Lauren and Jodie to pick Eric from the hospital and take home. While Lauren and Jodie were with Eric in the room putting together his stuff for departure, Chase went to see the doctor. After a knock on the office door, he was asked to come in and the doctor was instantly eclipsed with shock. Immediately he saw that it was Chase who had come to his office. He knew they were done with all formalities already and he shouldn’t be there again. “Oh, Mr. Chase, is it you again? Hope all is well?” the doctor said while trying to hide his freight. “Yes,” Chase walked up to the desk and with an eye gesture he asked if he c
When he came into the room Eric was still gusting and laughing with his sister and daughter, Chase did not intend to disrupt that moment knowing how much such a moment felt for the family. “I am happy to see such smiles on your faces,” Chase said, “Permission to share at this moment?” “Sure you are free.” Eric answered with gladness. The fun moment lasted for a couple of hours, until it was getting late, so Lauren had to take Jodie home since they came right from school. “Jodie, I guess we should get going now.” “No, I want to spend more time with my dad.” Jodie refused because she didn’t want that moment to end. She was also scared that her father would go into a coma again. “Come on… you will have the time you want with him, he is not going anywhere. Besides, you haven’t gotten home since you closed from school today and you still have homework and school tomorrow.” Lauren gave her some reasons why they have to go home. Eric was quite happy to hear that Jodie has been going to
Due to the looks on both Lauren and Chase’s face, the doctor could tell what they were thinking but he could not concur with it. “That is not possible.” He opened the door and to his greatest surprise, it was exactly as he had read from the faces of Chase and Lauren, so he froze at the entrance. Seeing the manner in which the doctor became static, Chase and Lauren looked into the room, lo and behold, it was Eric Claus awake and talking to his daughter Jodie Eric. They too could not move for a moment and were short of words to say until Jodie saw them standing static at the door post and said. “Aunt Lauren, look, dad is awake.” “Of course he is…” Lauren replied as he slowly took some steps closer to the bed Eric was lying on. Eric then turned to the door and saw both his boss and the doctor. He was surprised to see Chase Stevens there instead of being in the company. He knew quite well what happened to him and did not need much explanation from them, he only asked one question perta
The monitor attached to Eric Claus began to beep loudly, alerting the nurses and medical personnel nearby to hurriedly come check on him and find out what was the cause of the sudden beeping of the monitor. The first nurse that ran in noticed his temperature was burning beyond normal and it was something beyond her skills so she rushed out to call the doctor in charge of his treatment while another nurse that followed after her tried to stabilize the situation pending the doctor’s arrival. In a few minutes the doctor came in to check on him and saw that it was more than a normal burning for someone in his condition, and something he hasn’t seen before throughout his entire career, but that was not going to prevent from running some quick test on him. The tests were all reporting strange feedback as they stabilized him with an injection to stop the burning. Soon he began to sweat which was still strange to the professionals. “He is dying,” The doctor gave the only explanation he co
After the conversation and argument had come to an end by those words of Eric, the four of them came out of the room to meet General Aaron Gordon, General Morgan Elliot and Prince Reece Cole who were waiting for them outside. “Let’s move out.” King Luca gave the command which they have all been waiting for all these while. Afterwards they got their horses and led the soldiers out of the city of Griffins. Harris had not taken his mind off from what Eric told him, so he was still waiting to hear the outcome of Eric’s discussion with his father. So as they headed for the city of Ironbrook, he rushed forward, coming close to his father and asked in a low tune since he also thought it to be a secret. “Father, how did it go?” Zach’s mind was no longer on that, he did not perceive Harris to keep thinking of that, so he asked back as he looked into his son’s eyes curiously. “How did what go?” Still wanting to keep it a secret, Harris did not answer that question with words but with an ey
After Harris was out of sight, Zachary Hawkins changed the pretentious discussion. “The King will now see you Eric.” “Okay.” Eric said as they both head to meet with King Luca Cole. In a couple of minutes they were in the king’s presence and Eric said. “Your majesty, you asked to speak with me.” “Yes,” Luca turned towards him. “We are ready to move out, so we want to know if you are set.” “Ermmm….” Eric stammered because he had not told the King about his soon departure and as Zach had advised, it was wise for him to tell the king that he would soon be leaving the country Palind back to his world. he struggled to get the right words to break the news he had for Luca but his facial expression already foretold that what he was trying to say was not something pleasant to be heard. “It’s okay, Eric, you can spit it out and stop bordering on how I will take it.” Luca encouraged him to speak and stopped holding his words. With the readiness and willingness of King Luca Cole to hear wh