If this is late, sorry, it is the summer and I lose track of time. Anyway, on too the next chap'.
Natalie's P.O.V
The ringing in my ears had almost stopped. After finishing my new weapons, Scyrus had me train with them. A few clips and some partial deafness later I was a 'marksman' as he said. After that he sparred with me using wooden swords ad iron armor. After he deflected every blow I sent at him, he retaliated and made my helmet ring like a bell.
"as well as throwing blows, one must learn how to take them" was what he said after treating my headache with his glowing pink stone. At this I gave him a blow… between the legs, he dropped to his knees and said "I probably deserved that, we even?" I helped him up.
After this, an alarm came from his satchel. He walked to a glowing glass screen and on it read '[UNKNOWN ENTITY ATTEMPTING TO ENTER FAÇADE HOUSE, EXECUTE?]' scyrus looked at it, pressed a few buttons, and it displayed a skinny man with a roll of paper in his bag. Scyrus pinched the bridge of his nose "let him in" on the screen, the door to the fake house opened and the man stepped in.
We walked to the place where the platform came down and when it reached it reached us, the man stood on it looking terrified of the strange mechanism. This terror was not removed because upon the platform stopping, scyrus pointed his red sword at the man.
"are you the man behind her kidnapping." scyrus' sword was aimed directly for the man's jugular. The man in question vigorously shook his head. Scyrus took a step closer, "then you have thirty seconds to do what you came here to do. If it is rather killing me or kidnapping her, I will cut you in half"
By this point the man had thoroughly pissed himself (I could see it through his pants), but he still answered "I bring a message from Eric Stormhound, the man you seek. He says: 'evidently, you are a very determined man at keeping your property. I believe we can negotiate a price for the creature, my offer is 50 emeralds. If you have not noticed by now, that… thing is of great interest to me. Sincerely yours, Eric Stormhound.',"
scyrus was rummaging through his satchel while the messenger was speaking, but the look in his eyes said that he heard every word. Finally, he pulled out a small red cube with a strange yellow and black symbol. Mounted on it was a metal box with a piece of glass, I could hear the hum of redstone from within it.
"bring that to your fucking master, it will say my message when I want it to" the man took the cube and inched backwards. "now how do I…" he pointed up. Scryus walked past him and punched a button on the wall. The platform began raising and scyrus walked back farther into the base.
"what was that thing you gave him?" I finally spoke after all of this. "a… present" the look in his eyes said otherwise. We walked into a room marked 'security' on a row of marked buttons, scyrus tapped out a code and a moving image appeared on the screen. It depicted the inside of an open saddlebag, the horse it was attached to was being ridden by the messenger.
We waited for a while until the horse stopped and the messenger pulled the cube out of the bag, I saw that the thing that we were seeing was the strange metal box that was mounted on top. The image showed the cube being taken to an old decrepit castle. Once inside the machine showed us an entrance hall and a throne flanked by two guards. The messenger held out the cube and spoke to the man on the throne.
"this is what the man sent back, he said that it would relay his message when it got here." The man in the throne stood up and examined it. He picked it up and carried it to a different room. Back with us, scyrus tapped a few more things on the rows of buttons. "can you hear me Eric." Scyrus spoke into a note block looking device on his device.
On the screen the man flinched a little but kept calm. "greetings, I assume you wish to speak about my offer?" scyrus grimaced "you misunderstood my actions at your prison, and if you were wondering, there were no mercenaries, that carnage was all me. My actions were not some greedy bastard trying to take back his property but a man saving his friend.
"all I know from your sniveling excuses for soldiers is that you want to kill my friend simply because she exists. This is not something we can negotiate, as far as I am concerned, the second you tried to kidnap her, we went to war. And now, I end said war, goodbye."
He pulled a handle out of his pocket and pressed the button on top. Briefly an explposion came from the box then the screen became a selection of black and white spots, along with white noise. "goodbye douchebag."
Nuke… a bit overdone but I guess that is what happens when you fuck with scyrus pyro. (please review)