Celestra's Royal island resort; Tywin, Erik and Astrid sat at a table covered in so many different kinds of exotic cuisines and sea food, they all wore light shirts and shorts and were amazed by what this place had to offer, a bunch of other guests also sat at the other tables in the resort restaurant, every one seemed to be having fun, three empty seats were by their table as Verner, Skylar and Cedar were absent "This place is WILD!!!" Erik commended as he munched on a grilled lobster tail, Tywin just calmly ate his meal while Astrid was playing with hers, she used a fork to shoot an oyster into Tywin's face, making him to spill a spoonful over his shirt, she and Erik laughed and almost choked, and Tywin didn't find that really funny at all He looked at both of them with disgust, playing around like children while he was just trying to enjoy a decent meal, he was starting to believe Verner was the only other sane person in this squad of theirs, he hated Verner earlier but these t
Valdrik and Zaltar; black night number six, stood on the roof of a guest house in the resort, it was almost five o clock in the morning and the sun would be up in an hour, but they had to take this chance of theirs, they had come to abduct Princess Skylar and were well prepared for the operation After Zaltar's extremely lucky escape from Malachar's annihilation of the black nights, he knew he had to do something to ensure that Malachar still felt he was useful to him, Bane had saved his life that day in the throne room by managing to convince Malachar to spare the remaining black nights and Zaltar knew he had to prove his worth to Malachar after that. He decided to team up with Valdrik in this quest to capture the light bearer and bring her to Malachar, Valdrik on the other hand was very pleased that he had managed to find Skylar before Belzara did, and when he eventually got her and handed her over to his father, Belzara would be put to death just like they agreed, and his revenge w
The residents of the resort all scattered in different directions, each of them running for their lives as hundreds of feral devils appeared out of no where and began to slaughter every human in sight, the red flames that burned the buildings were extremely hot and spreading very fast. Valdrik and Zaltar watched all the chaos going on from the top of the building they stood on, waiting for the hunters to show up, and they did in no time. Astrid used her water hex arts; living spring pillars to create huge water eruptions from the ground, she gradually flooded the resort but the red flames were extremely difficult to quench, even when doused with so much water "It's pointless, this flames aren't normal" Astrid said, feeling very frustrated, Tywin and Erik stood behind her, "I can't control them either, the flames are made of dark energy, my fire hex arts won't work on it" Tywin added, Erik put in his knuckle braces and the metal spread and covered his arms; "We have to find Cedar, ma
"Dark magic arts; cold blood assassination" Zaltar joined his hands together and formed the shape of a gun, his grey blood droplets that filled the air all joined together and shot at Tywin in a high pressure laser stream "Shit!!" Tywin exclaimed and used his flame sword to block the blood laser, it scattered into droplets again, "ASTRID!!, ERIK!!, protect Skylar!!, I'll hold him off!!" "Not today" Zaltar responded, he dashed towards Tywin and used his metal blood to form two daggers "Fire hex arts: Flame projection!!"Tywin sent a wave of fire towards Zaltar which he casually dodged by spinning over it, he shot his laser again, but not at Tywin this time, it went straight to Skylar's face and was too fast for her to react. Erik jumped in and shielded her, using his metal coated arms to block, Tywin slashed at Zaltar multiple times but he blocked all the strikes with his fists much to the surprise of Tywin, he had used his blood to fortify his arms, almost the same way Erik uses hi
Tywin, Astrid and Erik could only stand and watch as a huge beast devil burst out of the building rubble behind Skylar and gobble her up in a split second, they watched as it gulped her down it's throat, "Skylar...no..." Erik stuttered, all of them were extremely horrified, the beast returned their gaze for some seconds before running off to wherever it came from "WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?!!!" Tywin screamed, he drew his sword and tried to chase after it but so many more beast devils gathered around them, growling and barking, they were completely surrounded, whoever was releasing these devils was definitely making a coordinated attack "Astrid!!!, run after that thing, see if we can get Skylar back, I don't think it wanted to kill her!!!" Tywin commanded, Astrid nodded affirmatively and ran after it, killing two devils that tried to stop her, the rest focused in Tywin and Erik, gradually creeping closer to the boys "Erik, it's just you and me now, we have to kill these o
"Dark magic arts; crimson death wheel""Thunder flash spear... RELEASE!!" Valdrik and Verner blasted themselves to each other, propelled by their red flames and thunder hex art, Verner went for Valdrik's neck with his blade which Valdrik blocked with his fist, Verner's sword split Valdrik's arm into two down to his elbow then he twisted to blade and slashed the arm off from there. Valdrik lunged his other arm with was covered in red flames at Verner but he bent slightly to dodge the blow, Verner spun around him sharply and tried to behead him from behind when he got blasted away by a wave of red flames "You're pretty fast I'll give you that, I really thought I'd take you out with that one, I guess this wouldn't be as easy as I thought" Valdrik stated, his arm that cut in half grew back completely "I've gotten a good grasp of your attack speed, I should be able to destroy you from now on." Verner grinned and dashed towards him again, he slashed at Valdrik ferociously and Valdrik bl
Valdrik stood still and really considered the stakes here, he knew very well that his plan to capture Skylar today was very implausible as time was not on his side, the sun would be up in any minute from now and he'd be doomed, Zaltar and the monsters that he sent after the princess had not given any signal till now, he already began to assume that they were dead, the odds were all stacked against him but he knew that if this operation was botched he would never get a chance like this again. He slammed his fist into his palm and summoned a ring of red flames around himself, Cedar smiled gleefully and spun his sickles; "So this is how you want it to be huh?!!""Dark magic arts; Crimson death wheel!!!" Valdrik launched himself with his red flames towards Cedar, he had to finish this battle as soon as possible or it would be over for him, this fight was all or nothing, Cedar ran towards him as well and swung his sickles at him, Valdrik was wading them all off with his flame covered fi
Guardian society disaster management and paramedics arrived at the resort as the sun rose fully, they had a base at one end of the island as they do in every major residential area in Celestra to help survivors and bring medical support after battles with devils like these, the resort was in total shambles and all that was left was ash and wreckage of the destroyed buildings and facilities. Verner, Skylar and the other interns gathered around Cedar as he got his wounds treated and bandaged then placed in a stretcher. Tywin, Astrid and Erik also got their injuries tied up as well, Zaltar's cold blood attacks took a huge toll on them but it not nearly as bad as Cedar who might never be able to fight again. Cedar took one last glance at each of his students "Verner, Tywin, Erik... you..." he said as he couldn't remember Astrid's name, "The four of you should take Skylar and head to the port, this island is no longer safe for any of you, or anyone at all, I sent my pigeon to HQ last