Maya, Harley, Ace, and Burberry all sat around the dwindling fire as Maya finished explaining what was going on. "So what your saying is the same guy who branded me and sent me on this journey and who was literally JUST here, gave you an amulet at the masquerade which was your brothers and you then went home just like after Oxglen to try and find out more. Except this time, at home there was a group of like four people, including the red haired guy, who then left all except one, a woman with white hair and she told you about your brother and helped you these past few days to find out where he is?" Ace asked. "Pretty much yeah." Maya said.
"Where is he?" Ace asked. "Well the woman said he was in a massive castle named, Haerton Hold. Which is…" Maya said. "The crimson thorn base?" Ace asked. "Yes." Maya said. "Well it's not every day you get to sneak into a maximum security castle and steal a captive brother so, as they say, there's a time for everything."
"What I see is the red haired one is leading you while the white haired one is leading Maya. Perhaps they're on the same side or rivals? Burberry asked. "Well we can all agree that from how little we've seen the male of the duo, is that he is very powerful. He is hiding it with the best goddamn cloaking spell I've ever felt but still, a massive power that rivals even the three kings is still visible." Harley said.
"The three kings should know about this." Ace said. "I'm not the person to go snitching on someone just because of who they are but he…. He has some dark power." "I'm sorry if I sound stupid here but uhhh… who are the three kings?" Maya asked. "You really don't know who they are?" Burberry asked. Maya nodded nope.
"They three kings are the kings who settled the first three kingdoms. Hearth, Hildian, and Aukhovaria. The kings passed away but their power all went to their heirs and down the family line for a few generations. King Malfrey reigns over Hearth, Heymeri reigns Aukhovaria, and Reiner reigns over Hildian. These sons keep the title of three kings because their great, great grandfathers were so respected. In one on one combat they are insanely good but when they team up they are the most respected, and feared, fighters in all the eight kingdoms." Harley said. "How do you know these things?" Maya asked. "I trained under Malfrey's leading mage." Harley said. "How!?" Maya asked. "When you're desperate. You do things that others wouldn't. I stole a few royal papers and changed the names and they planted them back and in a week I was called to the castle and received training." Harley said.
"Is that how you could tell the sisters spell?" Ace asked. "Yes and with the man's power. Imagine an pebble completely covered with….. moss. That is a shitty example but imagine that was his power. Even though it would be easy to peel off the moss, imagine his being hard steel and me just using my hands. I only opened the tiniest bit of hole in his reserves and that much power was shown. He has much much much more." Harley said. "You do know I'm listening right?" A voice spoke.
Everyone looked up to see the man standing on the vertically tree trunk, any other mortal should have fallen but he was walking on it as if it was the floor. "How do you even..?" Ace asked. "I wouldn't worry on me. If I was you I would worry about the fact that that skeleton is coming back right now so I would kinda run." Asura said shrugging. "What! Shit everyone grab you stuff we need to go!" Ace said jumping up.
Everyone scrambled to get their things and Maya jumped on her bike while everyone else got on the war horses. They all quickly tried to get as far away from the campsite. A white haired woman walked from behind the tree and sat down in Burberry's seat. "Why do you always have to ruin a bonding moment?" Priscilla asked. "Well I'm sorry I'm not made of sugar. Am I not sweet enough for you?" Asura asked. "Well why'd you do it?" Priscilla asked. "Well they're spending so much time just sitting around. It's getting boring. I had to get them moving." Asura said sitting down next to Priscilla. "Is he really coming?" Priscilla asked. "Course not." Asura said taking a bite of a lemon cake.
Maya had set her bike to auto pilot and set it at the same speed as the horses while she looked at the map to try and find the valley where the hold would be. "It's at least a thirty-minute ride to the north east." Maya said. She got off her bike and she jumped on the same horse Ace was on because the rumble bike would give them off. They rode with the horses until they came across a massive sprawling valley and in the center was a large castle with an insane amount of security. The massive castle had high walls with guards patrolling them and with searchlights. The massive castle had large amounts of Thorn members entering and some exiting for smoke breaks. "Looks like an initiation." Burberry said.
They all crawled on their stomachs up to the edge of the cliff to examine the castle and come up with a plan. "Holy. Fucking. Shit." Ace said. "Ditto." Burberry said. "Okay I've got a plan. Burberry and Harley will sit up here and watch for anything if something goes wrong. Maya and I will sneak in, hopefully knock out a group of guards, disguise ourselves, then we'll go into the cells and find her brother." Ace said.
"Are you sure you can handle that?" Harley asked. "Trust me. If something goes wrong, We'll get out of there faster than you can get flustered." Ace said with a chuckle. "We'll watch from here." Burberry said. "Maya, let's go." Ace said.