Chapter 5

- "Hey, who are you?" – said a blond boy while seeing a blond little girl with blue eyes wearing a pink dress, playing in the ocean. While remaining standing in the shore

- "How you dare to treat a lady like that! You're supposed to name yourself first". – answer the girl"

The boy no older than years look at her for a moment and then realized that what the girl have said was true; kneel before the girl, making the little girl blush as it was the first time someone have answer that way to her words.

- "Im deeply sorry my lady, my name is Ezel, as I knight I should behave more properly while talking with a lady."

- "No its okay you don't need to bow down. Please get up its embarrassing!"- said the girl with a red face.

- "But you haven't told you your name"- said the boy while smiling at her

- "My name is Pacifica"

After hearing her name, the boys get up and say goodbye, the girl didn't understand why and try to reach him but, when she touch him a crimson flame came from his hand and almost burn her hand. Still the shocks make her fall backwards.

- "Sorry! I still can't control my flames very well. You aren't hurt are you?"

- " No Im fine, it only graze me a little it didn't burn me"

- "Then is guess, I need to go I don't wanna end up hurting you"

- " Its ok I can handle, it wasn't that hot "

- " Please, don't lie I know especially you are vulnerable to fire lady Pacifica"

The girl was shocked, how could he know that? She asked but the boy limited to point his tail that was now on the surface of the ocean. She couldn't help but feel embarrassed before the boy as he has seen her tail, a blue and shiny fish tail that she usually hide with her long dress. While smiling the boy turn back and began to walk away.

- "Come back tomorrow!" – yell the girl

- "Are you sure? But if near I might burn you lady Pacifica"- asked the boy concerned

- "That only happened because I touch you, you only need to come and talk to me, that's all Im asking and don't add lady, Pacifica is just fine."

The boy smiled and promised as he turned back and walk back to his friends. Days passed and the boy keeps going back to the shore at the same time every day. As the days passed the two kids build a strong friendship. She never tried to touch the boy again; the two of them would only talk for hours, about no specific subject. Months passed and some time the boys disappear for a couple of days just to come back with amazing stories for her. Eventually, she got to know the boy friends, they were different from the boy but still each of them give her a warm felling similar to Ezel, so it was easy for her to befriend them and they also like her back and since that time they would come sometimes with the boy and play with her. But as the time passed she saw how the boy began to change, how now he carried two blades in is back and how he now wear an orange armor with the sing of the lion. She had also change she had grown taller and more beautiful yet the fact that she couldn't touch him didn't change. Al least not directly even though the lion has managed to control his flames he still didn't touch her, yet he always did it with the gloves of his armor never with his hands . One day go to the beach and saw her and while she was waving her hand calling him he, instead of going with her, he remained still and said :

- " Sorry Pacifica, but I need to go and I don't know how long will it take me to come back"

- "Ezel? – asked confused the girl."

- "I leaving, sorry- said the knight while turning backwards."

- "Wait!- the knight stop and turn one last time to see the face, now with tears of one of the persons more important to him - At least… at least promise me something"

The knight was confused, what could he do for her? Yet he has no right to complain he was leaving her. He walked towards her and after patting her in the head and wiping her tears he answered.

- " Ok I will"

- "Ezel, please promise me that…"

Ezel woke up; it has been one day since they have begun their journey towards the Dark Zone, he look around him and saw the crippled ship, the wood was all rotten and the mast was broken, he wondered how the ship could move so fast, it had been only a day and they were already in the middle of the Nation of Magallica. He set up and began to wonder about that weird dream he had.

- Weird, why were my flames crimson they have always been gold?- the knight thought while still lying in the floor.

- So what were you dreaming about?- ask Luquier who was sitting next to hism

The paladin jump in surprise, he would have never thought that Luquier of all people would come to bridge of the ship. Ezel didn't like to sleep in his room as it was all rotten like the rest of the ship, instead he preferred the bridge, even tough it was all rotten he could be in peace as he felt the cold breeze of the sea. The only thing that was weird was that Nightmist wasn't there and that the rudder moved on his own, well it was the ship of a Pirate with a crew of undead, what he could expect. Back to the present, he was genuine surprised, because her room was the only part of the ship that was habitable, maybe the Capitan has a soft spot for the girls, maybe he knew that I she a different room she could kill him even if that mean to be left in the middle of the sea.

- This is the first time you asked about my dreams is something wrong?

- YES! - said angry the elf- I get out of my room and step in this rotten bridge to see how you were and I found you smirking and whispering someone's name, I couldn't understand it but Im sure it's wasn't my name!

Ezel sweat dropped did he really do that while sleeping? Yet that dream had brought many memories from his childhood, happy memories. Before he could even said anything Garmore, who for some reason was also sleeping in the bridge, stand up and answer the questions of the dragon tamer.

- Well we are in the nation she belongs to its not, unusual for you to remember her, after all it's been almost 2 years since you last meet her.

Luquier didn't care where were them, or what have happen in the past of Ezel, because even though they have meet as kids, they didn't saw each other during many years as the two of them lived in different nations. But was one word that make her eyes widen and feel a mix of fear and anger in her chest.

- "HER"? - asked the elf making Ezel shiver in fear.

- Well how to put it, if you're Ezel current master we could say that she was Ezel first master. – said the wolf while getting up and going back inside the ship.

- Garmore, you bast… - before he could finish he could feel how an ominous aura began to grow in Luquier.

But to his surprise Luquier didn't yell, she didn't get up and hit him like he tough she would. Instead she leaned closer, and put his head on his chest.

- You're my servant and a servant can't have secrets from his master.

- Luquier? – She was weird, so much that he even forgot to object against the servant thing.

- Please tell me, who is "her"?

- Sigh, her name is Pacifica I meet her a few days after I met you while I was send to train with the rest of the young paladins to the borders by the legendary knight Majestic Lord Blaster.

- Why did you stop seeing her? – asked while still resting her head in his chest.

- I was send to another part of the frontiers of the Sanctuary with Garmore and the rest. – said the knight while maintaining a serious expression.

- What is her to you know?

- She is still a very important person to me, and someone I need to fulfill a promise with.

Suddenly a couple of arms circle Luquier waist while she felt how the knight kissed her in the head. She couldn't help but to hug him back, no matter how many times he do it, his embrace always felt warm and full affection.

- You're jealous aren't you? Asked the lion while smiling at her.

- That's ridiculous, you're my servant it's obvious that you're already mine.

They remained like that for a while, before something came like flying and fell in the ocean near the ship. Suddenly the ship stopped, and for the first time since the trip began Nightmist came out of his room as well as the rest of the paladins and even Sarah. As the Capitan began to ask what had happened, a tornado came from the seas aiming at the pirate, who dodge it. While everyone was getting ready to defend the ship instead of a horde of enemies, a man in a white suit with blue hair jumped into the ship while carrying something. The man looked tired and his suit was full of cuts when the five knights looked at what was he carrying they were surprised. Yet Nightmist didn't notice that and just run towards the man to cut him out for one simple reason, he has entered his ship without permission. Yet before he could do anything a black hand stopped was Vortimer, who grabbed the arm with the sword with one while pointing his halberd to the pirate's neck.

- What are you doing black paladin, as the Capitan I have the right to punish anyone who dares to enter my ship without my consent. - said the pirate when he saw the tip of the blade coming near him.

- I couldn't care less about your rules and about that man but, neither of us are gonna let you do something that can hurt an old friend.

- What at you talking about? – Suddenly he realized Vortimer and the other four paladins were looking at him with serious expressions.

The pirate low his sword and ask for an explanation, the knight's didn't say anything and Ezel walk towards the man and introduce himself, the man was surprised and show

everyone what the five knights have already recognize, in his right arm were a girl with golden hair wearing in a pink dress with a ruby in shape of a hearth in the middle. The knight grit his teeth after seeing the girl was also wounded, not so much as the man but his pink dress was now stain by red. The man handed the girl to the knight and smile at him before passing out. The knight hold the girl tightly and with such care as he thought that she would break and at the same time furious expression was draw in his and the other four knights faces. Luquier couldn't help but feel uneasy, sure she felt bad for the girl but the five of them were acting quite weird, those were the same toughs Vivian and Dindrane, as they never had seen them like that. Not being able to endure the silence Luquier asked what everyone wanted to know.

- Who is that girl?

- It's Pacifica. – said Pellinore while walking right next to Ezel.

- Nightmist, I assume you have a medic in this ship don't you? – asked the lion.

- I do, she lives in the not rotten part of this ship, near Luquier room. But tell me why should I help them, whatever happened to them has nothing to do with me.

The lion turn towards the pirate and do something no one imagine he would do and that make Luquier uneasy to grow more and more in his chest. He bow before the pirate and asked again the pirate for his help. The pirate was surprised by this and called the medic to the bridge, from nowhere a woman with brown hair and wearing only a top and short came while tying up a blue bandana in her head. She looked at both Pacifica and the man and asked the paladins to bring them to her room. The knight obeyed and Sagramore carried the man while Ezel carried Pacifica princess style.

They were surprised when the room of the woman was actually like a clinic, there were beds and anything needed to treat any wounds. The knights leaved the two there and decided to wait for the medic to finish treating them. Ezel finally let himself relax as he sat in front of the door with a worried expression. Luquier looked at this and didn't know how to act, for one side It pained her to see him suffer yet it bothers her that he worries so much about another girl. But when she got closer to him he hold her hand, and so she decided to forget about it for the time and just sat next to him.

A few hours passed and the doctor came out and said that the two of them were alright; the man had many cuts in all his body that even though they weren't so deep they had poison in it. The girl didn't have many cuts and the blood was mostly from the man yet she has also been affected by the poison still the female doctor name Rouge had manage to neutralize the poison. The group entered and the ladies became surprised when they saw a girl in a bathtub, the girls get closer and asked why she was in there, the knights answer in unison "Because she is a siren" as it wasn't a big deal. The girls couldn't help but ask the knights all kind of questions. As the knights tried to explain who Pacifica was to the girls Ezel kneel before the bathtub and smile, she was alright this time at least he hadn't been too late.

Somewhere else, four shadow were sitting in a rock in middle of the sea, one of them the biggest one, could saw the ship and how the mermaid and the man had survived.

- So the two of them survived. – said another shadow.

- The presence of the paladins is also a concern, they could ruin our plan. - said a third shadow.

- It doesn't matter, we will just annihilate them. - said the big shadow.

As the three were discussing a man with purple long hair, wearing a white silk shirt and blue pants with large black boots appear behind them with a creepy smile.

- Don't worry, I know how to beat the, we just need to cut the head, that lion, and I will break that paladin. So we can continue with Lord Reiji plans and begin the invasion of the nation of Magallica. The kingdom of the mermaids, the Bermuda Triangle would be the first to fall!

- So Terror, how are you planning to "break him" that lion manage to fight equally with our lord. – asked the big shadow

- I have my methods. So first could you two do me a favor.- said Terror turning to the third and fourth shadow.- can you destroy that ship?- said while pointing to the horizon with a big smile.

The fourth shadow step forward, it was a giant reptile man with a furious expression and a red gem in his head. The demon wear two red gloves and a cloth around his waist, the other shadow didn't say anything he just put his hand in the ground and many rock began to rise from the bottom of the sea, the lizard man didn't need any more he began to run through the path of rocks. The demons didn't believe he would succeed but he didn't need to.

At the same time, the siren began to wake up, all her memories were blurry she just remembered a slash and the blood around her, she began to look around and her eye widen when she saw him. The boy who she many years ago, the boy who cared about her, the boy she couldn't touch and the boy who left her. But the last didn't matter, she was happy; she wanted to see him she wanted to be with him. Ezel become happier when the siren wake up, but he didn't expect that after seeing him the first thing she would do would be to hug him and rest her head in his chest. The lion fell to floor with the siren on top of him. as he tried to get up he feel his chest get wet, she was crying.

- Im so happy, I really wanted to see you again Ezel!

- Pacifica.- said the lion

Suddenly someone lift the siren and throw her back into the bathtub, it was Luquier who now was looking with an angry expression at the siren who had dared to hug his property and the knight who had left himself be hugged by another woman.

- What do you think you're doing, stopping such a romantic encounter between Ezel and me! – yell Pacifica

- I couldn't care less you brat! That idiot is my servant so he belongs to me! – said the dragon tamer

- I been with him longer that you, he is mine you old hag.

- I couldn't care less; he has already accepted being my servant so he is mine.

- I never accepted such thing and can you both stopped fighting?

- SHUT UP! – Both yell at the knight who couldn't help but sigh in defeat.

As the two keep fighting, Vortimer feel something wasn't right; he looked around and realized that the other four have also noticed. He looked at Ezel as telling he would go to the bridge and investigate it, Ezel nodded and keep watching how the two girls keep fighting. Vortimer smirked, that was a fun show but there were more serious business. As the knight began to walk up the stairs to the bridge the green beast was getting closer, the path ended one kilometer before reaching the ship, the demon didn't mind and when the path ended he just make a big jump, trying to break the ship with the strength of his landing but as he began to gain altitude a black halberd pierce him in the right shoulder and make him fall back to the path of rocks. The demons was surprised that had actually hurt he looked up and saw a black knight with dragon wings flying over his head and the demon couldn't help but smirk this was going to be fun.

- Did you really think it was going to be this easy?- said the knight as he rise his hand and the halberd return to him – Who are you?

- Ba… Basilisk – roar the demon still in the ground.

The demon didn't answer, he just get up and make him a sing that he could come at him when he wanted to. The knight looked down, and with a little anger from that sing he dive towards the demon. As the battle begun the demons know as Terror smile, who was now watching from far away smile everything was according to plan. Soon the paladins would fall into the deepest despair.


so si Vortimer vs Basilisk and the fight in magallica begins. next chapter you would see the new powers i have given Vortimer and who are the three shadows . Please review.