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As Octavius walked back to the Roman Empire, he realized what a fool he had been abandoning his empire. He wondered if they were still mad at him. As he climbed into the empire, he was once again confronted by his army.
"You dare show your face here," one of them acknowledged.
"Yes to say..." Octavius started to say but was cut off.
"We don't want to hear your apologizes. You are still going to pay for abandoning us," another one cut in.
Just as they were about to attack him, Jedidiah ran in front of Octavius.
The empire stopped.
"Out of the way you barbarian," one of them ordered.
"No. You leave Octavius alone," Jedidiah demanded.
"Why? He abandoned us. He deserves what he is going to get," one of them stated.
"Listen I know for the past few days or something Octavius has been forgetting you and me. But he was in love and he couldn't help it. Now we all would have done the same thing if it was us. Now he lost the girl he loved because he didn't tell her he was small. So if you still wanna attack him, you'll have to go through me. Because he is my best friend and I won't let you hurt him," Jedidiah explained.
Octavius was shocked. Even after all the stuff he has done, Jedidiah was still willing to put his own butt on the line for him. He watched as the army kept themselves back and then lowered their weapons. Octavius told them he was sorry and then gave them some work to do. Then he turned to Jedidiah.
"Thanks for what you did Jed. You really didn't have to do that," Octavius told him.
"Yes I did. Look I'm sorry for everything I did," Jed apologized.
"Don't worry about it," Octavius reassured.
They shook hands, and ended up hugging.