The queen looks on at the Trio of teens before signaling to let them stand up, in their confusion everyone lets them go and begin to leave back to their homes under the queens spell
"What the hell?"
Kaiser looks around only for the queen to be standing walking towards him her face unreadable
"You have a lot of nerve to come back to my land with the damage you caused before"
Kaiser says nothing as Deakon looks at him confused and Zoephelia just crosses her arms.
"But onto other matters, I need your Hel-
Before she could finish Three meteorite like figures smash down onto the platform and among them is Andromeda and The King of the Golden city smiles plastered on their faces
And with a snap of another person's fingers hundreds of The mutations surround the five of them
surrounded by the mutations Kaiser can only look in annoyance as their mission is delving further into chaos and now a new person has shown their face someone he knew the name of but very little about
"Ukzoc….why would he show up now, damn it"
The Queen with her most trusted knight stand by the trio as they've now had to shut up and work together to make it out of the trap.
"How amusing you're all cowering together like rats, But I'm glad. Having the last thorns in my side in one place will make this plan go so much easier "
As Ukzoc walks down the steps towards the group his mutated monsters circling the trio and the queen preparing to strike.
Kaiser and Deakon look at each other and nod then look back at Ukzoc ,Zoephelia her hands tightly gripping her spear itching to attack the dangerous man coming towards them.
"My queen, how are you this fine night? You've been saving many people from the mind control spells lately, it's honestly very annoying you know"
The queen clicks her tongue and her knight charges Ukzoc to create a distraction, Deakon breathes fire into the air,Kaiser empties his water pouch into the fire causing a plume of smoke to appear and cover their escape,Zoephelia grabs the queen and begins to fly off only to get hit with a fireball and burn one of her wings.
"Find a hiding place and we'll meet on the outer banks of the city" Kaiser Yelled out in the confusion
Deakon and Kaiser escape, running through the destroyed buildings and disappearing into the slums
Zoephelia still carrying the queen, looks back at the carnage from before only to see the queens knight get decapitated by the poisoner, his body slumping to the ground as the poisoner's hand cleaved his head his shoulders, the king and Princess kneeling to the man their heads bowed deeply.
After flying for a little bit longer and getting out of their site, Zoephelia and the Queen land.
"Thank you young one i thought we'd all die then,"
Zoephelia just stares at the queen questioning the audacity to ignore how she sent her knight to die like that.
"Are you sure you care for your people? You let that man die for us and for what!!!!"
The queen looks at Zoephelia and only smacks her lips in annoyance, the choice still fresh in her mind she didn't need to be reminded of it, because of her a man died when they all could have made it.
The queen sits down her dress slightly shifting the dirt,
"I know what i did and in the same circumstance id do it again,That knight has served me for 200 years and now his light is snuffed out by a man who can not accept that everyone has a limit"
Zoephelia, still checking their surroundings, begins rummaging through the piles of rubbish on the ground looking for anything to help them in an attempt to meet up with Kaiser and Deakon.
The elven queen just sits there watching Zoephelia as she looks for something, her messy and clumsy search confusing the elf.
"For a celestial being, you are remarkably brash," the queen remarked. "There is no elegance here, no grace—only reckless impulse. It is…"
Zoephelia interrupted her by pulling a set of tattered cloaks and ragged garments from the debris, her expression filled with triumph. Approaching the queen with the find, the intent behind her search became clear.
"If we want to reach those idiots without being captured, we need a disguise," Zoephelia insisted. "Put these on. We must move quickly."
The queen complied, shedding her royal finery for the grime-stained clothing. She cast a final glance at her discarded royal cloak, left to flutter in the wind along the street, before adjusting the coarse shirt and mantle. As she stepped forward, Zoephelia was waiting.
"Are you ready?" Zoephelia asked. "Flying is too risky with the Ukzoc hunting us; we'll have to walk our asses there.
"Lynn," the queen stated firmly.
Zoephelia paused as the woman now known as Lynn brushed past her, the hem of her worn cloak snapping in the breeze.
"ok, Lynn," Zoephelia muttered, following her. "Let's go find those two."
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Meanwhile Kaiser and Deakon, still darting between buildings and rubble are still running from the Poisoners direction, their minds racing with what to do.
Kaiser comes across an intact building boarded up with no signs of life anywhere, he runs up to it and begins to tear the boards covering the door desperate to get in, Deakon jumping down from a rooftop helps him open the door.
The door now closed with the two of them inside. They sit and finally catch their breath after running for so long.
"Well that could have gone better" Deakon says with a smile.
Kaiser just looks at him and begins to laugh, Deakon joins in the laugh as they both laugh at the dumb joke.
"You know I didn't think you could even laugh, with your endless brooding and all."
Kaiser just smirks " its a stress thing but i wont say you didnt get me to laugh, ill give you this one"
The two now sitting across from each begin to think of some semblance of a plan.
"I don't know how far we are from them but I hope Ukzoc doesn't have a trail on either of us, I wasn't expecting him to show up, especially now."
Deakon was thinking about how to find them when it hit him.
"Your shadows you still have them on Zoephelia and i right?" Deakon asked
Kaiser, confused , looks at Deakon weirdly.
"How did you know about that? I planted those when we first met,I thought i hid them, pretty well"
Deakon just smiles at him and shrugs his shoulders.
"You're not as sneaky as you think you know, plus i would have done the same if i could, but right now we need to–
Before he could finish an explosion destroys the house they were in, sending the two of them flying through the walls.
In the air is the princess Andromeda and below her are the mutated people, their skin pulsing purple.
"Oh my oh my I've found two rats how lucky am I"
She draws her weapons and begins a chant as Kaiser and deakon emerge from the rubble, their bodies covered in scars and dirt.
The two groups look at each other before charging towards each other, Kaiser going straight for Andromeda hoping to avenge his loss to her previously, Deakon slams into the monsters ripping them apart instantly, his fangs and claws growing.
"You filthy Demon i will exterminate you this time, hahahahaha"
Kaiser ignores her summoning his shadow sword and swinging for her neck as she swung her swords towards him.
To be continued.