Oops, I forgot about Lady Flurin... How 'bout this, she's not in Caloria right now cause of some meeting so there's no real person in charge of Caloria right now...
Yay! Now, on with the story.
I slowly opened my eyes, afraid of what I might see. I was slightly surprised that I had stopped the ax, with my strength, it was almost unbelievable.
"Sampson?..." I heard Joseph ask from behind me.
"You can't die yet, you still have a little brother to protect..." I strained myself to say since it was taking a huge mount of effort on my part to keep the heavy axe from coming down.
"You traitor! How dare you help this low-life scum!" I heard the person who had spoken out to the crowd earlier say to me.
"You're the scum! He's just a kid!" I said back to him even though I couldn't see him.
"You little brat!" I heard him say, followed by the sound of a sword being unsheathed.
I gulped and looked over my shoulder to see the instigator walking towards me. He lifted his sword, I closed my eyes to wait for the impact, but instead I heard another clang of metal against metal. I opened my eyes to see Kristin standing there with her own sword defending me. Although for some reason, her hair was purple.
"Kristin!" I said in relief.
"Who's she?" Joseph asked.
"Let's save the introductions for later and get out of here!" Kristin said with a slightly irritated voice. She immediatly grabbed her opponents sword with her bare hand and kicked him in the stomache, making him release his sword and fall off the platform. She dropped his sword on the platform and cut Joseph's ropes in one swift movement.
"Thanks." Joseph said.
She nodded her head, than kicked the executioner in the stomache, making him stumble back and fall off the platform too.
"What about his ax?!" I asked as I looked over the edge of the platform, afraid it had hit some people.
"It's right there." Kristin said jabbing her thumb in the direction of where the ax was lying on the platform. I let out a sigh of relief, then asked, "How are we gonna get out of here?"
"I can take you to safety, but I can carry only one person at a time." Kristin replied while glancing at Joseph.
"Take Joseph first." I ordered.
"But you're-" Kristin started.
"I am but a lowly pickpocket whom I know you will come back for. Isn't that right, sister?" I interrupted her. I mentally slapped myself, I was getting too caught up in this fake identity thing. Then again, if I wasn't, she would've probably killed Wolfram.
Kristin just stared at me for a moment, then sighed and said, "Fine, but don't let anyone get on top of the platform with you, you have the advantage up here and you'll lose it if anyone gets up here."
I nodded. She sighed, then turned and picked Joseph up bridal style. "I'll be right back, I promise you I will." She said right before she jumped high into the air and in the direction of the closest rooftops. How can she jump that high? I mentally asked myself. Skill. Her voice rang through my mind. I hate it when she does that. I was snapped back to reality by the sound of footsteps on the stairs leading to the top of the platform. I immediatly stood at the top of them and pointed my sword down at anyone who would try to get up. A line of guards were ascending the stairs. "What have I gotten into now?" I mumbled to myself. When the first guard got near me, I used my height advantage (cause of the stairs) to knock him backwards, then it turned into a line of human dominos. "That was unexpected." I said to myself. One of the guards looked to their left, then said something to the other guards and they immediatly started rushing down the stairs. Something in the back of my mind was telling me I should do the same. I wondered why a second, until I saw a lion of fire catching the support beams of the platform and stairs on fire. My stomache twisted and I was at a loss for words. Wolfram had summoned a fire lion, to kill me.
"Wolfram! Get rid of the lion!" I yelled down.
"Why should I?" Wolfram asked. "You stole my money, and you won't even tell me who you are!" Wolfrm yelled at me.
I thought for a moment. If I tell him who I am, Kristin will kill him. If I don't, he'll kill me... Wait a moment! Before I could think anymore, I yelled down a slight hint for Wolfram, "I'm not a wimp! Stop calling me that!" Even though He was down on the ground, and I was on the two to three sttory tall platform, I saw hiis eyes widen. I saw his lips form the word, "Yuuri?" but no sound came out. I stared at him a second, then covered my face as the fire flared up in front of me. I stumbled back, back onto the top of the platform and saw that the top, too, was starting to catch fire. The fire was starting to go in the direction of where Wolfram was as he tried to absorb it, but it was too late, the support beams were already weakened and the platform was starting to wobble. Thankfully, everyone near the platform had left when it caught fire. The fire was out, but the platform was starting to fall. I felt the ground suddenly go out from beneath me. I closed my eyes and wited for the impending 'splat', but it never came. I slowly opened my eyes and saw I was still two to three stories off the ground with a pile of burnt rumble beneath me. "Eh?!" I exclaimed. Then I realized, I was being held by some one. I turned my head to see Kristin with and exasperated look on her face.
"I said I'd come back for you, didn't I?" Kristin asked.
I nodded, then asked, "How are we-"
"In the air?" Kristin finished for me. I nodded. She motioned with her head behind her and to her left. I followed where she was gesturing to and my eyes widened in shock was a giant white bat wing that was attached to Kristin's back came into view. I frantically searched with my eyes for a skell-i-bone, but saw none.
"Bring him down here now!" An angry voice yelled from below. I turned my head and saw Wolfram, with his sword drawn, below.
"My my, it seems Wolfram knows who you are. What do you think I should do about that?" Kristin asked with an evil grin.
"Don't!" I yelled at her, "He figured it out on his own, I didn't tell him!"
Kristin glared at me, but I didn't look away as a way to say, 'I won't do what you say anymore if you kill him.'
Kristin sighed and said, "Fine. But it seems we won't be able to use Sampson anymore."
All the sudden, I felt strong gusts of wind as Kristin started to flap her wings faster. We were starting to head in a direction a little ways off from the hotel. I was curious as to why, but then Kristin said, "If we go directly there, they'll know where to find us."
"Stop reading my mind." I said to her.
"No promises." She replied. After a while of flying, she landed in a slightly cramped alley-way and her wings got bruised and scratched on the walls on the way down. She set me down (Since she was carrying me bridal-style) then rubbed her shoulder.
"Never again am I landing in a cramped space." She said to herself.
"I'll ask about the wings later, but for now, we need to hide them." I said to her.
"I know that!" She hissed at me. She then turned side-ways and outstretched her wings. I started hearing a sickening sound as her wings slowly started compressing themselves back into her back. When they were completely back in, the only evidence they were ever out was a slightly torn shirt and some blood on her back. She pulled a shirt out of a bag she was carrying and wore it on top of the one she was wearing now.
"Okay, we need to change our hair and you need to change your eyes." She said to me. That's when I realized her eyes were the same blood red with slit pupils.
"Why didn't you change your eyes?" I asked her.
"Because the eyedrops don't work on me." She said. She pulled the banged up tin out of her pocket and that's when I reached in my pocket to see if it was the same one, it was.
"How did you?!" I started.
"You dropped it in the alley near the sword-fighting grounds." She stated.
She took out the clear pill and ate it, then took out the brown one and handed it to me, along with the yellow drops. I quickly ate the pill and dropped in the eye-drops as a guard ran past the entrance of the alley.
"Have either of you seen a boy with blond hair and purple eyes? It's rumored he's the kidnapped demon king!" The gyard asked in a hurried voice.
"The rumor's obviously false. If he was the real demon king, why wouldn't he tell someone?" Kristin asked casually.
The guard seemed to ponder this a moment, then said, "By Shinou, you're right! If you see him, kill him!" the guard quickly ran off to spread te news.
"Great, now he wants to kill me." I said aloud.
"No, he wants to kill sampson, you're Ryan." Kristin said.
"Oh shut up." I said as this whole thing was starting to irritate the heck out of me.