Chapter 32: Easy Opponents
~Logan's POV
"Logie wake up," I felt someone shake me gently, though their voice a bit blurry. "Mmh, let me sleep," I groaned, pushing said person away as I turned to the other side.
"Logieee," Soon, the shakes became faster and stronger. "Okay, fine. I'm up!" I sat straight, blinking a few times, I find Carlos sitting there rather energetically with James sleeping next to him, Kendall all the way at the other end of the bed.
Wait…
How'd we end up in this position?
I remembered Kendall sleeping next to me.
"Carlos, it's 4 AM," I frowned, seeing him smile apologetically.
"L-Let's go down to the practicing field," He said, climbing over me and off the bed.
"Let me repeat, it's 4 AM," I hissed, snarling at him.
"C'mon," He literally dragged me out of bed. I wanted to whine right then, but I didn't wanna wake up James or Kendall.
I huffed, knowing I had no way to stop Carlos once he's set on doing something. I actually kind of miss sleepy, tired Carlos.
"Do you even know where we're going?" I asked, following Carlos as he descended down the long stairs, seemingly leading me to the main entrance. "I do! James and I went there before," He grinned as a small sphere of light, which I conjured without needing my to summon my magic orb now, hovered in front of us, providing light as we traversed through the castle.
"Here we are," Carlos grinned widely as we stood in front of two tall wooden doors. "C'mon," Carlos pulled me in, closing the door behind him, we stepped right into Harry and Liam practicing in the giant room.
In said room were a few weapon racks, ranging from basic staves to bows, swords, shields and more. There were also dummies ranging from wooden, straw, metal and more. This place was a perfect training range.
"Oh," Carlos said, a bit surprised. Harry and Liam were also surprised, their training immediately halted. I'm surprised, seeing them actually train in their human form and not their werewolf form.
"S-Sorry for interrupting," I quickly apologized as Carlos turned, wanting to leave.
"W-Wait, Carlos, Logie. It's fine. We could train together?" Harry called out, stopping both of us from leaving.
"Okay so… How'd you wanna train?" I asked Carlos, finding a spot away from the two so we wouldn't disturb their session.
"I dunno. I guess… Just blast me with all your spells? I wanna see how strong my new shield is," Carlos shrugged, summoning his shield, which was now a translucent red shield, looking like it was forged straight out of tones of ruby. "Wow…" He marveled at his shield.
I was a bit awed too. It looks like it could be sold for millions of dollars.
"Well uh… Prepare yourself then," I summoned my sphere, which was now a glass sphere with a thousands of visible magic particles inside, forming a large galaxy that filled half of the sphere.
"Ready," Carlos stood, raising his shield.
Shutting my eyes, I focused all my energy into the sphere. Upon opening them, I watched in awe as 6 spheres of different elements conjured in-front of me.
A ball oozing magma, a sphere with a watery ring around it, an orb with lightning zapping out of it, a bright ball of light, some sort of black hole and an earthy ball with vines reaching out.
"Wait, what?" I heard Carlos say before I sent all 6 spheres towards him at once, watching him expand his shield to 3x times its original size.
I've never seen him do that before.
Though he managed to actually block the spheres, his shield looking like it hadn't sustained any damage at all, he was actually knocked quite far back.
"Oww," He groaned, I immediately teleported next to him, kneeling down and checking to see if he was injured. "I-I'm fine," He grins, sitting straight up and watching his shield shrink back to it's original size.
"D-Do another spell! Like, maybe some sort beam spell this time," He grinned excitedly, raising his shield as I teleported away.
"Okay, ready," He confidently said as I once again shut my eyes.
Hopefully soon, I can cast powerful spells without needing to shut my eyes every time.
I managed to summon more elemental spheres, albeit now they're smaller and there's actually 10 of them comprising of different elements.
Raising my hand and pointing my palm at his shield, I watched as all 10 elemental orbs began spinning clockwise around my hand, each glowing their respective colors as they began spinning faster and faster.
Soon, all 10 spheres fired a beam, which I suffered a bit of recoil from, which then combined into a bright, white one. "Whoah!" I heard Carlos exclaim as he was pushed back, the beams actually proving to be a bit strong.
"Wait," He yelled as he was slowly pushed back more and more… Until he wasn't. At one point, he managed to actually push forth this time, mitigating the force of all 10 combined beams, actually moving closer to me.
"Agh!" I retracted my hand, all 10 spheres flying wild, hitting various parts of the room before disappearing. "Whoah!" Liam and Harry dodged a few of the spheres, as did Carlos.
"My hand," I looked at my hand, which was actually red. Like, red after being burned. "Logie!" Carlos came running towards me this time, dropping his shield and holding my hand, quickly retracting his own, "Ow!" he exclaimed.
"Shit that hurts!" I cried, holding my reddened hand, Liam running towards me with a bucket of cold water.
Where'd he even get a bucket of cold water?
No idea.
As soon as I submerged my hand, all the water immediately evaporated, though it did actually cool down my overused hand. I quickly looked around, praying I hadn't damaged the castle…
Thankfully I didn't.
"You okay?" Harry asked, kneeling next to me as he held my now normal hand. It felt a bit weird to have your hand held by one of your boyband crushes.
Oh yeah, I had a major crush on Two Directions. I watched them compete in Z-Factor as solo artists, eventually put together into a group of 5 guys and they were amazing.
"That was awesome," Liam grinned, joining us as I inspected my hand. "Guess I gotta learn my limit," I sighed, a bit bummed that I even have a limit. "Say… Why don't you guys summon your full armor? I mean, our werewolf selves had a bit of an upgrade," Liam shrugged, curiously eyeing our new rings.
I turned towards Carlos and nodded, stepping back from each other 2 steps away, we shut our eyes for a quick moment.
"Transverto," We both whispered.
~3rd Person's POV
Upon whispering Transverto in unison, their bodies began glowing extremely bright. Up to the point where both Harry and Liam had to cover their eyes and turn around, to avoid going blind.
Once the light had died down, signaling the two Ancient Kings had finished transforming, Liam and Harry slowly lowered their arms, opening their eyes…
Their jaws dropped onto the ground.
"Wow," Harry gasped, Liam on the other hand, was speechless.
Carlos stood there in shock, looking at his armor through a nearby mirror. Instead of a simple red metal full plate armor like before, Carlos now donned a rather thick looking armor, made out of what looked like the scales of a red dragon with rubies engraved on his shoulder pads, the back of his gauntlets, his leggings, shoes, and a large on at the middle of his breastplate.
Though it looked like it's supposed to weigh a ton, it felt like feather to Carlos.
In addition to his armor, his shield also changed. It now had dragon-scaled edge, covering its sharp ruby edge. Upon throwing his shield towards a Thaumium dummy, he watched as it set itself ablaze, burning down the strong, Thaumium dummy in a purple fire instead of the usual red one.
"Dude! That thing's made out of Thamium! It's supposed to be indestructible," Harry gasped in awe.
Though what truly took the breath of the three guys, were Logan's armor.
The four of them wore practically the same set of full metal plate armor, except with different colored alloys before.
Now, they wore different armors matching their roles.
Logan donned a long white robe, along with a sash with diamonds encrusted in it. He also had a glowing halo on his head, and a pair of large, magnificent white feathery wings, making him look like a literal angel. Logan also wore a black cloth belt tied around his waist, medium sized diamond encrusted on said belt.
"Wow…" Logan breathed out, seeing himself in a mirror, he had a hard time believing what he was looking at.
His sphere also changed. Now, he had colorful magic shards circling it. Other than around his magic sphere, he had two magic shards circling around his wrists as well, moving counter clockwise on one hand, clockwise on the other.
"Okay, now I'm jealous," Liam frowned, a little bit jealous at the major upgrade these two had. "They're so soft," Harry grinned, feeling Logan's feather wings in his hand, he shut his eyes in content.
"True," Liam did the same, smiling as he marveled at how amazing these two looked right now.
"I wonder how James and Kendall would look?" Carlos hummed, inspecting his shield, watching how the first few rays of the sun rising reflected on the ruby surface of his shield's center made it lookbeautiful.
"Can we pause a bit?" Logan asked, actually a bit burnt out from all the spell casting. Carlos nodded, also slightly poofed, his legs actually hurt from trying to stop him from being blasted backwards.
"We could go watch the sunset," Harry suggested, transforming back to his human form, both he and Liam were slightly panting.
"Ooh, I know a good place," Liam grinned, transforming into his wolf state, gesturing for them to hop onto him since he couldn't speak as a wolf.
Carlos hopped onto Liam, while Logan hopped onto Harry.
Soon, the four of them took off, Harry trailing behind Liam as they both ran past the castle.
Logan and Carlos couldn't help but notice a large, wilting tree in the distance. The thing that caught their attention wasn't the fact that the tree was wilting, but because of how huge the tree was. It stuck out like a sore thumb between all the greener trees around it.
"We're here," Liam stopped near a cliff, with a bridge to the left, leading to a place called 'The Enchanted Lake'.
Carlos climbed off of Liam, the same time Logan climbed off of Harry's back. The four of them sit close to the edge of the cliff, watching in awe as the sun slowly rose.
"Is… Is Kendall gonna be okay if I…" Harry asked slowly, glancing at Logan's hand. "I… don't think so?" Logan shrugged, a bit curious as to what Harry's planning.
With a small smile, Harry reached out, grabbed Logan's palm and gently held it, tangling their fingers together. Logan blushed while Harry cherished the feeling of said boy's soft hand in his own. "You sure Kendall won't murder me for doing this?" Harry asked again.
Chuckling, Logan shook his head.
As they watched the sun rise slowly, showering the horizon with golden light, filling the sky with a red-ish color, peace filled the area. Logan rested his head on Harry's shoulder, while the latter wrapped an arm around Logan's shoulder, pulling him close.
"How'd you even find this place?" Carlos smiled, gently holding Liam's hand as he looked around. "I did a bit of reconning with Zayn when we got here," Liam answered, remembering how they said they wanted to visit the lake with the kings once it was all over, consider it a last trip before leaving Auradon and going back to their world.
~Back at the Castle…
"Mmm… Logie," Kendall reached out to find Logan, smirking once he grabbed what he thought was Logan's crotch. Upon opening his eyes, he found out it was James', who was sound asleep.
"Wait, what?" Kendall immediately sat straight, a bit confused how he ended up on the other end of the bed, on the opposite side of where he fell asleep. He looked around and noticed both Logan and Carlos were gone.
Climbing off the bed, Kendall stretched and yawned before walking towards the outside area, watching the sun slowly rise.
'Where could they be?' Kendall wondered as he looked over the horizon, seeing the giant tree's leaves now suddenly golden yellow, most of them already fallen off. "What…" He gasped. Just yesterday the leaves were all green and in tact!
After a few more minutes of enjoying the sunrise, Kendall sighed in content, hoping this would all be over soon.
He missed their apartment.
Kendall's train of thought began trailing off, until he spotted two wolves – one green and one red, running towards the castle with Logan and Carlos riding on each wolf. 'There they are," Kendall smiled, a bit bummed he couldn't watch the sunrise with Logan… Though knowing Harry, Liam and Carlos were there with him, he's sure they kept Logan safe.
Logan climbed off of the green wolf and looked up the castle, immediately spotting Kendall on top, looking down on him. With a big grin, Kendall waved at said boy, who grinned back before summoning his armor.
With his jaw dropped, Kendall watched as Logan literally transformed into an angel, sporting two magnificent wings. His eyes trailed Logan as the latter flew up to Kendall, landing on a spot next to him and transforming back.
"Wow…" Kendall breathed out, his brain slowly processing the fact that Logan is, indeed, an angel now. "Let's wake James up. I wanna see what you guys got," Logan smiled, grabbing Kendall's hand and waking up the tall boy, who woke up rather groggily.
Soon, all 12 of them were gathered outside the castle. Ben decided, since quite a lot of his strongest fighters and generals didn't believe about the 'prophecy', they'd have a match. A 2v2 match, with Ben himself and Pup participating.
"First match, Logan and Harry vs Zeke and Thunder," Ben called out, feeling a bit ridiculed by the names of his warriors.
Who names their children Thunder?
"Stay behind me, Loges," Harry stood in-front of said boy.
Logan's still a bit cloudy on what Harry's ability actually is.
"Begin," Ben stepped back, literally everyone else on the Warrior's side waiting anxiously, while everyone else on Ben's side were just waiting to see how Logan and Harry could demolish the two. A fighter and a mage, versus another fighter and a mage.
"Magma Pillar!" Thunder casted, a literal pillar of magma blasting forth from his staff, aimed at Logan. Harry immediately jumped in-front of Logan, the latter immediately shocked, "Haz!" He yelled.
Said tall boy smirked, transforming into his werewolf self just before the pillar had hit. "That all you got?" Harry managed to stop the pillar with one hand, not even feeling any heat.
'Wow… I really did get an upgrade,' Harry thought, remembering how being hit by a mundane fireball alone used to hurt. Now there's literally a magma blast aimed at him and he's not feeling anything.
Once the pillar stopped blasting, Zeke lunged forth at Harry, swinging his sword, which shattered upon making contact with Harry's forearm.
"Buy me time, Haz," Harry heard Logan say, which he assumed telepathically. After seeing the green werewolf nod, Logan shut his eyes and began channeling a spell, a small ball of electric forming in his hand.
Harry, a bit awed at his new speed, managed to stop and absorb all the spells and hits which were originally aimed at a concentrating Logan.
After a few more minutes of concentrating, Logan immediately threw his spell up into the air, watching the small thunder sphere flying up, Logan grabbed Harry and conjured a barrier around him as the sphere expanded into a giant black cloud, with lightning visibly jumping from one spot to another.
Thunder and Zeke immediately gasped as lightning strikes began striking everywhere. Logan had purposefully made the lightning strikes hit everywhere but the two, his main intention was to scare them.
He didn't actually wanna hurt them, since there's no need to.
"Awesome," Logan heard Harry whisper as the lightning strikes died down, the cloud slowly dissipating.
Once the cloud finally disappeared, the their two opponents were visibly down, surrendering. Both of them knew they were way too out of their leagues.
Logan literally leaped onto Harry, hugging the boy tight as they cheered. Harry hugged back as the shorter boy clung onto him, while Logan flashed a huge smile of pride at Kendall, who smiled back while clapping.
"Next up, Kendall and Zayn versus Sam and Aaron," Ben called out, Kendall and Zayn stepping into the field. Kendall summoned his bow and quiver, noticing immediately how the bow was sturdier and more decorated, while the string… It was obviously made out of emerald, but somehow also had the properties of an actual bowstring.
His quiver were also more decorated, with emerald vines wrapped around the base, somehow able to hold way more arrows than it did before – not that Kendall ever ran out of arrows.
"Right… Two archers versus a mage and a shielder?" Kendall frowned, Zayn shook his head as well. "Sorry, they chose you two," Ben placed an arm on Kendall's shoulder, "Show them archers aren't peoples to be messed with," He grinned, wishing both of them good luck as he stepped out of the fighting field.
"Begin," He announced, both sides immediately eyed each other, waiting to see who'd make the first move.
Out of the blue, white scythes made of air conjured all around Kendall and Zayn, surrounding them from every side. Seeing the female mage smirk from a distance, Kendall shut his eyes while Zayn transformed.
Pulling an arrow out from his quiver, Kendall opened his eyes as he pointed at one of the scythes. Charging his bow, he stood still while the scythes began spinning faster and faster, launching themselves at the two.
With one arrow, Kendall managed to take down half of the scythes, simply disrupting the air flow around by launching an arrow which immediately created a zone inside the field, dropping the temperature below freezing degrees, causing some of the scythes to immediately dissipate.
Zayn, taking advantage of the ridiculous coldness, launched water bubbles right in-front of the remaining scythes. They watched as said bubbles immediately froze, shattering and nullifying the air scythes.
As the bubbles shattered, it created a sort of misty effect around the two, who immediately turned towards their opponents.
The two opponents stood there, intimidated by the sudden change in environment and the ridiculous coldness they're suddenly facing.
"How are they not shivering?" The female mage asked, watching as the two emerged from the icy mist around them, their eyes suddenly changing into that of a predatory eyes gazing at their next meal.
"One shot?" Kendall smirks, summoning his full archer armor, with Zayn nodding with his own smirk.
Pulling out a simple wooden arrow, Kendall charged up his shot, watching said simple arrow glow green as its tips slowly transformed into emerald instead of wood. Zayn on the other hand, conjured a mystical slingshot.
Unlike Kendall, who's restricted to only a bow and an arrow by his armor, Zayn's able to create all sorts of ranged weapons, ranging from slingshots, bows, guns, crossbows and such… Though they usually disappear once he gets out of his black werewolf state.
Letting go of the strings, the ancient archery king watched as said shot flew through the air, breaking through the misty air at high speed, followed up by what looked like a simple pebble shot from Zayn.
Kendall purposefully missed his shot, not actually knowing what his new enhanced arrow would do, he couldn't risk actually shooting the two… And so, the arrow hit the ground, immediately creating large emerald spikes around their opponent.
Zayn's pebbles then split into 10 more stronger ones, hitting said crystal spikes, shattering bits of them, making it look like it's raining emerald sparkles around the enemy, while the ones that weren't reduced to small particles flew forth and actually hit the mage and the shielder, denting his metal shield and ripping part of the mage's robe.
Just like that, their opponent surrendered the same way the first two did, the air around them immediately clearing up, along with the emerald spikes around the enemy.
"He didn't even get to do anything," Logan whispered to Pup, who grinned back at him.
Yeah, that'll show them we're not a force to mess with.
"Wow," Logan breathed out once the air cleared out. First, he was amazed at how Kendall and Zayn were able to create a misty effect around themselves, even though neither of them are mages. Second, he was awed at how Kendall's arrow created huge spikes around the enemy. Though the spikes didn't actually hit any of them, it still trapped them in a small area.
Third, the armor Kendall donned was… Breathtaking.
His quiver looked like it was woven by a mystical weaver, engraved by a professional jeweler and given a few final touches by a legendary blacksmith, as did his bow. His leather boots were a tint of light brown, tucking in his green pants with emerald engraved into his leather belt, along with vines woven into his pants to add detail.
On the top side, he wore a quilted leather cloth, tucked underneath a green shirt a bit lighter than his pants, with long sleeves down to his wrist, which he had two golden bracers on with a single emerald engraved onto each bracer. He also had dark green shoulder pads, though Logan figured they were for aesthetics since they look like they were made of cloth as well.
'It's so light…' Kendall smiled, inspecting his new armor as he walked to where Logan was, a bit glad that his new armor was far lighter than his old metal plate armor, remembering how he actually struggled to move when he first wore it.
"Kendall you we-" Logan couldn't finish his sentence, mainly because he was immediately silenced by Kendall's lips on top of his own. The lightning strikes in their body and what felt like magma running in their blood never ceased, even though they've been together for long, long enough to get out of the 'Honeymoon phase'. Each kiss felt like their first…
"You were awesome too," Kendall grinned, remembering how his wizard fiancé conjured a violent thunderstorm like it was nothing. He was also quite surprised that Harry was able to take on a magma pillar and the enemy's swordsman without getting a single scratch.
James smirks at Tom, knowing it's their turn next, since they secretly took a peek at the list of names Ben held earlier, seeing how they were up after Kendall and Zayn, with Carlos and Liam going up afterward them.
"James and Tom versus… Ark and Smith," Ben sighed, knowing the rest of the names are only gonna get weirder.
Ark isn't even the guy's nickname.
"Begin," Ben said, immediately some sort of barrier formed over the fighting ring, conjured by Tom, knowing the fight's gonna go crazy now that they're up against warlock and a knight.
Tom was a bit skeptical, remembering how a warlock's one rank above a mage, but one rank below a wizard, which means Ark's magic level is almost the same level as Niall's, though compared to Logan, it's a huge landslide of a difference.
They didn't even have time to prepare, a huge whirlwind formed in the middle of the field, threatening to pull in the two, while also risking to pull in the opponent's swordsman. "What's the deal!" Both of them heard Smith yell, glaring at his teammate as he pierced his sword into the ground, using it as a thing to hold on to while the whirlwind grew.
Tom smirked, with one wave of his hand, he placed an enchantment on both himself and James, rendering them immune to the strong winds inside the barrier.
"Out of my way," Ark purposefully pushed his teammate to the side as the whirlwind dissipated, moving forth. James immediately readied his sword, waiting for Ark's next move. Smith, visibly angered and pissed by Ark, threw his sword to the side.
"Tom," James side-eyed his teammate, nodding. "Are you sure James? He's a warlock," Tom exclaimed, understanding that James wants Tom to step back as well so it'd be a fair 1v1 fight.
"Shitty teammate huh?" Tom sighed, hoping to cheer up a fuming Smith, who was leaning against the invisible, albeit solid, barrier Tom created. "Undefeated Warlock among all of us fighters but yeah, serious ego," Smith scowled, watching as the two stood in the middle of the field.
Raising his palm, Ark created an entire army of skeletons, surrounding James as said skeletons stood still.
"Necromancy?!" Ben gasped, remembering how it was a forbidden magic tree in the entire kingdom. "Is… Your friend gonna be okay?" Smith asked, visibly concerned as the man holding a blue sword stood there, surrounded by skeletons holding various weapons, some actually holding shields.
"He'll be fine," Tom smirks, knowing full well James could easily take Ark down with one hit.
James was easily able to take care of most of the skeletons, though what irked me was how more kept rising as he took more down.
While raising skeletons, Ark used a free hand to cast another spell, striking down a large bolt of lightning at James.
Everyone else gasped, including the other werewolves, upon seeing the lightning strike… Though Logan, Carlos and Kendall smirked, knowing how a simple lightning strike wouldn't be able to take James down.
They fought enough monsters and dangerous creatures back in their own world to know each other's strengths and weaknesses.
"Transverto," James whispered before the lightning hit him, a bright blue light immediately blinded Ark, blasting all the skeletons in his vicinity away, knocking Ark off of his balance.
"What the…" Ark squinted as he stood back up, the light coming off of James slowly dying down, revealing a full-armored James.
James sported almost the same dragon-geared armor as Carlos did, except his look somewhat lighter since it wasn't as thick as Carlos' armor was. Icy blue dragon scales, mixed in with what looked like the scales of some sort of underwater dragon, decorated and covered his chestplate, while his leggings were plated with a dark blue metal, along with his shoes.
Sapphires were engraved in his gauntlet, shoes and chest piece, the same way it was engraved on Carlos'. James smirked, readying his upgraded sword, decorated with a sapphire on the hilt, along with more dragon scales while the blade glistened a darker shade of blue than the one he held without his armor.
"Right, let's begin the real fight," James smirked, his eyes turning that into eyes of a predator, his pupil glowing a dark blue tint as the environment suddenly went dark. Or at least it felt like it was going darker for Ark.
Immediately the warlock summoned golems around to protect himself, channeling a red spell that's supposed to home in on his enemy. He released said spell, which immediately targeted James, revealing his position.
Ark initially felt accomplished that he had hit the enemy, until he realized… James wasn't moving. "What…" He turned around, seeing another James. Soon, there were tens of him around, instilling fear in Ark. Said warlock repeatedly sent multiple elemental spells forth, shattering each James into blue dust, only for more and more to appear.
"You should've kept your teammate, magic boy," James deep voice rang through Ark's head. Although it was meant more as a whisper, everyone else actually heard it since the field was so quiet, the spectators anxiously waiting for James' next move.
Logan, Kendall and Carlos were all surprised to see James was able to multiply himself, though his clones aren't able to do anything, it's still a useful ability.
"You would've stood a chance against both of us with Smith," James smirked, seeing how his plan to plant fear in Ark worked.
He could've easily took the man down in one hit if he wanted to, but seeing Ark treat his partner like that earlier pissed him off beyond words.
"Boo," James whispered into Ark's ear from behind, causing the boy to spin around 180 degrees and blast a spell forth, almost hitting Smith and Tom.
Deciding that it was time, James simply hit the back of Ark's head with his gauntlet, immediately rendering the boy unconscious, his clones all disappearing once the battle ended, along with Ark's golems, which pretty much did nothing the entire time James teased Ark since the man was moving far too fast.
"Sorry I couldn't do anything," Tom smiled apologetically, James smiling back, "Without your spell, I would've went flying the first half. They almost got us, not gonna lie," James hugged the shorter boy, who was a bit uncomfortable in the hug because of James' solid and slightly pointy dragon armor.
"You're like, an ice dragon!" Carlos grinned, giving his fiancé a peck on the lips. "That's all I get?" James mockingly frowned, Carlos smirking in response, "You'll see what you get tonight," He grinned, Ben sounding the horn afterwards.
"Lunch break. We'll continue the fight in about 2 hours," Ben announced, immediately everyone dispersed. "Are they seriously your best fighters?" Logan asked, plopping onto the ground as Liam, in his werewolf form, carried over a large picnic basket to them.
"The fights didn't even last an hour," James shrugged as they transformed out of their armored state.
"Tell me about it. They're always so cocky, bout' time we taught them something," Pup smirks, peeking into the picnic basket.
The rest of the hours went by fairly slowly, all 12 of them sitting there and enjoying their lunch, some having small talks, some just enjoying each other's company in complete silence.
Then the time came for the sparring session to continue…
Except they weren't sparring against the warriors anymore.
"Bandits," Ben scowled, seeing the small army of ogres, bandits, lizardmen and such march up the hill to where they were. "Wait… I thought those types of peoples would be on the Isle of the Lost?" Niall curiously pointed at them, Ben shook his head after.
"We can't fit all of them on the Isle of the Lost, the place would be crowded! Only truly evil villains like Maleficent and the Evil Queen deserves to be on the island. These guys don't usually cause that many problems…" Ben's eyes trailed back to the mixed army marching up the hill, their generals walking in-front with smirks.
"We heard there was a tournament of power going on here," A rather large female ogre carrying an axe approached Ben. "None of you were even invited," Pup hissed, seemingly unaffected by the sheer size and ugliness of the crowd in front of them.
"What do you even want?" Ben asked, crossing his arms as the leader stepped up to him with a smirk. "We heard the first half already went by. Whichever one of you who haven't fought yet, we'll take them on in a fair 1v1 fight," The large lizardman said.
"Okay so… there's about 6 of us who haven't fought yet," Ben turned towards his friends, seeing the other 6 who haven't fought step forth.
In front of him was Louis, Carlos, Niall and Pup and Liam. "6 of us versus whoever your fighters will be," Ben stated, stepping back to see who they'll be going up against.
Stepping out of the enemy's group were 6 rather odd looking creatures, to say the least. A tall lizardman with orange hair, the same ogre which first spoke to them, the team leader, a small midget with rather large eyes, a floating eye and a merman carrying a spear.
"We'll be your opponents," The leader of the army grinned.
Soon, a large circle, somewhat bigger than the one they had earlier, formed, providing a battle circle for the participants.
"This turned into a small sparring session into an entire tournament," Logan whispered to Harry, who nodded in response. "Watch out for the enemy team, never know who's gonna try and butt in," Liam alerted everyone else in a whisper as Louis and Liam stepped forth, going up against the lizardman and the merman.
"Begin," Ben announced, not even bothering to read out their names.
In the blink of an eye, Liam was sent backwards as soon as the battle started, the lizardman immediately disappearing from sight.
They fought a rather hard battle, with the merman actually using his spear as some sort of staff instead of a melee weapon, sending out ghost-like spearhead projectiles while the lizardman kept landing hits the two couldn't dodge.
"Either it's invisibility, or speed," Louis whispered to Liam as they looked over each other's back, Liam visibly hurt from the hits.
"I've a plan," Liam told Louis, the latter nodding as they kept watch while exchanging words in a hushed voice.
"Alright, I've had enough of this," Liam growled, both of them transforming into their werewolf state. Liam's fist immediately glowed bright red as he punched the ground, causing a huge crater, all four of them immediately fell down.
Though it happened fast, for Louis however, it was as if time moved slowly.
He used Liam as a launching pad, immediately detecting where the orange-haired lizardman was, he launched off of Liam and sent a flying kick towards his opponent, who went flying into the ground as the two landed on their paws.
"That leaves just you and me," Liam growled at the spearman, a bit irked by how he's not even using his spear to its full potential.
"Enough with you," Liam growled. In a quick flash of movements he extended his claws, broke the spear, retracted it and landed a hit on the merman, literally sending him into the ground the same way Louis' kick did to the lizardman.
"Victors: Liam and Louis," Ben smirked as the two crawled out of the crater, the leader of the opponents visibly pissed. Once the unconscious enemies were taken out of the fighting ring, Logan used his magic to reverse the effects of Liam's powerful punch, restoring the dirt and grass, making it look like the punch never happened.
"Up next, Pup and Carlos," Ben smiled at his soulmate, who grinned back with confidence upon stepping into the ring.
"You okay?" Carlos asked, detecting the slight fear imminent in Pup's eyes once realizing they were up against the giant ogre-lady and the small midget.
A huge difference in size…
"It'll be fine, alright? With me around, they won't even be able to touch you," Carlos grinned, Pup gently smiling back at him.
Ben hadn't even announced the beginning of the match, the ogre had already charged forth. In the blink of an eye, she was already ready to deliver a blow aimed at Pup, who stood a few millimeters away from Carlos.
Fortunately, the ancient king was faster.
He transformed, immediately standing in-front of Pup, absorbing the blow. As soon as the ogre's war axe hit Carlos' shield, an intense shockwave caused her recoil, blowing her back as part of her war axe shattered.
A ball of acid was sent towards Carlos, but Pup managed to act fast and summon his wand, producing a wind so powerful, it sent the acid ball back the enemy and knock the small midget off of its feet.
What they hadn't seen coming, was the small blue creature actually multiplying itself into 10 different ones, each one charging up a different colored beam as the ogre started to get back on her feet.
A quick charge led to the gerbils blasting all 10 beams at once which joined up to produce a powerful bright beam, blinding everyone else… Though it was nothing for Carlos, who immediately expanded his shield to absorb all of the beam, without being knocked back even the slightest.
"Heh, Logan's spells are way more powerful," Carlos smirked, Pup a bit shocked that such a bright and powerful looking beam is literally nothing compared to Logan's.
They really are powerful…
"Ragh!" The ogre leaped forth again, ready to land another flying hit with her axe, though this time, Pup literally sent her flying upwards with a boulder spell, shot straight out of his wand out at high speed, it sent her flying so high… She actually produced a small quake upon landing again.
"Now," Carlos grinned, shrinking his shield as the gerbil was visibly panicking, now that it's the only one left.
The ancient king summoned another shield, throwing both at the gerbils, which bounced against themselves, destroying the clones, leaving only one left, which Carlos' shields homed in on and immediately knocked unconscious with one hit.
"Victors: Carlos and Pup," Ben announced, running into the field and gleefully scooping his soulmate into his arm. "So like… You're an ice dragon, and you're a fire dragon," Kendall smirks as James marveled at his soulmate's armor, noticing how it was almost similar to his own.
"Yep," Carlos smiled, capturing his lover into a deep kiss.
"Right," Kendall stepped forth as Ben and Niall entered the battlefield, along with the leader and floating eye.
"Begin," Kendall announced.
As soon as he spoke… The giant floating eye opened its lid, immediately rendering Ben and Niall unable to move as their bodies slowly turned into stone. "W-What's happening?" Logan asked, his own body unable to react at all.
"Ben!" Pup cried as the leader lunged forth, shattering his soulmate's stone-turned body into pieces in one hit.
Watching the two immediately get defeated was one thing… But suddenly seeing reality itself crack and shatter was another for everyone in the field.
"I figured that giant eye would do something grand," Niall smirked, hovering above the entire field as his yellow-furred paws glowed. None of them even knew that that wasn't even the real Niall. Once he was able to break the illusion spell the eye placed on them, he clenched his wolf fist, watching in satisfaction as the giant floating organ literally exploded, sending disgusting goop all over the area.
While the lizard leader was distracted by his eye partner exploding into bits, Ben summoned his hammer. With one literal, forceful hit, he sent the leader flying backwards and into his army, immediately killing him.
"You two are not joking around," Logan lifted a brow as the two left the ring, the entire army of weird creatures visibly panicking as their best fighters were easily defeated.
"Had I not anticipated the eye, we'd both be dead by now," Niall explained, telling them how the illusion was a mere distraction. Had he acted slower, the real leader would've actually killed all of them with a powerful poison.
"Huh. Leader of an army and all he could do is rely on illusions and poison?" Logan wondered as the creatures retreated, leaving behind their dead leader while taking the four unconscious fighters with them.
"That was way easier than I anticipated," Ben smiled, Pup still visibly shaken from what the illusion showed him.
"I guess that means we get to take a break now?" Louis popped up, grinning widely and innocently at Ben, who nodded with a smile. "C'mon Haz! I've something to show you," Louis excitedly took off with the tall lad, while Zayn and Tom went their own way, the four ancient kings, Liam and Niall stayed with Ben and Pup.
"Uh, Pup, could you go ahead and contact our friends?" Ben asked. Pup immediately fished out his phone and called the rest of the VKs and AKs, while Ben turned towards the ancient kings and the two wolves.
"What's your plan now?" Liam curiously asked as Ben smiled. "First off, I really wanted to thank you guys. Y-You didn't need to go and fight them but…" He smiled apologetically at Logan.
"Are you kidding!? That was awesome! Plus, we needed someone to test out our upgrades on anyway," Carlos grinned widely, the others silently agreeing with him.
"Right… My plan right now is to literally just fire all of my generals. They've been looking down at me since my coronation. I mean, it's true, my parents still rule Auradon but I'm supposed to take over soon, and if they can't respect me now, God knows what's gonna happen once I'm really the king," Ben shook his head, a bit disappointed at himself.
He's not really fierce like his dad… He sure wished he was though.
"Right. I'm sure my friends would be able to do a better job than those old farts would," Ben smiled.
Logan was about to comment on how they actually wouldn't, seeing as to how they've no military experience but… Who knows, maybe they actually would?
"C'mon Loges," Kendall grinned, taking Logan's hand and escaping into somewhere with him, while James and Carlos wondered off, leaving Ben and Pup alone once Niall and Liam also decided to gallop somewhere else.
"Can't we get an off day or something?" Pup frowned, remembering how the last time they went on a date was… before Ben's coronation. Ben, feeling somewhat guilty, shook his head. "I-I'm so sorry Carlos," He apologized, feeling a bit bad for dragging Pup into all this boring royal business.
"Hey," Pup grinned, lifting his lover's chin up and planting a soft kiss on said boy's lips. "Let's just meet them and get it over with fast, maybe we'd have some extra time left afterwards?" Pup shrugged, taking his soulmate's hand and waltzing into the castle.
~Fast forward to Night time…
"You're not gonna sleep?" Logan asked, stepping out onto the cool open area outside their room as Kendall laid down on one of the large couches set outside. "C'mon, the stars look prettier tonight," Kendall grinned, scooting a bit to the side and making room for Logan.
With a small smile, said boy in Kendall's arms as they enjoyed the beautiful, star filled sky.
Meanwhile, inside…
"Hurry up James," Carlos called out, sprawling on the giant bed while waiting for James to finish brushing his teeth. "You're sleepy already?" James asked, exiting their private bathroom and waltzing towards Carlos, clad in nothing but a pair of Ben's gold and blue boxer briefs.
"Mm," Carlos hummed, licking his lips at the sight of James in nothing but boxer briefs.
"Fine," James smiled gently, laying down onto the bed next to Carlos, expecting said boy to crawl up in his arms like usual… Until he felt Carlos' lips smashed onto his, initiating a heated kiss.
"W-What's the occasion?" James asked, a bit taken back by Carlos' sudden lust. "Happy 4 months anniversary," Carlos winks before lowering his lips slowly, capturing James' rough ones again.
The thought of them dating for 4 months immediately flew out James' head as their tongues battled.
Tongues swished and swirled in their mouths in a heated, passionate kiss. Saliva was exchanged between the two, refusing to give in to the other…
Until Carlos sneakily reaches down and rubs James' cock, prompting the tall boy to moan, giving Carlos full entrance to the boy's mouth. Carlos' tongue immediately probed into the boy's hot mouth, swishing around and exploring every bit as if it was their first kiss, all while their lips melted and moved in perfect sync.
"Four months, huh?" James breathed out once the kiss broke, both of them panting madly. "It's not fair that I'm the only one naked here," James smirked, tugging at Carlos' white sleeveless shirt.
Carlos smirked, then took off his shirt completely, grabbing James' hand. "I'm all yours," Carlos' devilish side emerged, purposefully placing James' hand on his chest, slowly trailing it down. "I'm all yours to touch, James. To kiss… To take," He growled into said boy's ears, feeling accomplished once he heard a light groan from the large boy.
James was about to pull down Carlos' boxer briefs, until Carlos' hands stopped him. "James," Carlos smiled gently. "Let me do all the work tonight," Carlos whispered, tangling their fingers as he slowly lowered his lips to James' ears.
"Just lay there, enjoy," Carlos whispered, slowly lowering his head, leaving kisses down James' neck before finally finding the perfect spot. He bit down, hearing a loud moan from James as the boy squirmed. Once he let go, a rather large mark was formed over the spot. Carlos smirked in satisfaction after leaving a mark on James' neck, claiming the tall boy as his.
Soon, he began moving down south again, leaving even more kisses down the muscular boy's chest, before eventually nipping on one of his sensitive nipples, his teeth gently grazing the little nub, while his tongue flicked over it once it was erect.
"C-Carlos, fuck," James breathed out, his eyes shut tight as he was sent to pleasure heaven by Carlos' mouth. All while teasing James' nipples with his lips, Carlos' two hands worked their magic in his cock. One of them massaging the shaft through his boxers, the others teasingly rubbing his head slowly.
James' body felt like it was gonna explode from all this pleasure. It's been weeks since they've even touched each other's cock.
"James," Carlos calls out in a seductive voice, adding a little moan once James' hand found their way on his ass, giving it a light squeeze. "I can't fucking wait to eat this," James smirks, looking down at his fiancé.
Carlos smirked again, now his head travelling down south, giving James' abs equal attention with his tongue, licking through the crevice, purposefully grinding on his fiancé slowly.
Soon, Carlos felt that James had enough teasing. With one swift movement, he pulled down Ben's gold and blue boxer briefs, almost ripping it in the process, watching with satisfaction and maximum lust as James' large cock sprang out.
It took all his willpower to not just ride it right there, without lube.
Lowering his head, Carlos' tongue flicked James' balls gently, watching as the boy squirmed again and moaned loudly, not even caring about who was listening to them.
"Carlos," He moaned out. Each moan fueling the fire in Carlos.
While Carlos' hand gently massaged his balls, his tongue swished over the boy's cock head, picking up a slightly salty taste of his precum while teasingly licking around the head, his other hand gently teasing James' nipples.
"Oh god," James moaned, arching his body up slightly in pure pleasure.
Carlos smirked before taking in James' cock head entirely. He missed feeling James' large cock in his mouth, so now… He's relishing ever fucking second of it.
Slowly, he moved down, taking more and more of James' monstrous cock in his mouth, stopping once the entire thing was in to let his mouth adjust. After a few seconds, he lets out a small hum, the vibrations created from the hum sent James' mind into a frenzy, his body arching up again in response, literally hitting the back of Carlos' throat.
Carlos managed to control his gag, pulling James' monster cock out of his mouth, he found himself engulfing it again after a few seconds.
Soon, a slow and painful foreplay for James turned into a fast and heavenly blowjob from Carlos. The shorter boy bobbed up and down fast, his cheeks collapsing inwards. "F-Fuck Carlos," James breathed out, feeling like he was on the edge of pure pleasure.
"CARLOS!" James moaned so loud, it was literally a yell by then as he came, ropes of cum shooting into Carlos' mouth, which the boy happily swallowed. Weeks of building up led to 6 shots, Carlos smirking as he enjoyed the salty taste of James' semen.
As James slowly flew down from heaven, his chest rising and collapsing rather fast, Carlos strutted towards the bathroom, cleaning up his mouth.
Once he was inside though, he had to masturbate to get rid of the problem underneath. The image of James sucking his cock was enough to send him over the edge within 5 minutes.
"C-Carlos," James breathed out as the shorter boy approached him, his own dick limp. "L-Let me," James asked, hoping to return the favor. Though seeing how tired the large boy was, Carlos simply smiled gently. "Some other time, alright babe?" Carlos answered, climbing into James' arm and curling up, pulling the comforter over their naked bodies.
"Happy 4 month anniversary," Carlos smiled, gently kissing James' cheek. "Sorry for… forgetting," James answered apologetically, sleep slowly taking over. "It's fine," Carlos shut his eyes, taking in the scent of his James, even though the large boy wasn't wearing any cologne.
While the two were busy in the bedroom, Kendall and Logan had somehow fallen asleep on the couches outside, Kendall praying that it doesn't rain while they're asleep before he shut his eyes earlier.
~Meanwhile…
"Right. Grand Chest done, now all they need to do is find the entrance…" A girl, sitting on a bed in one of the medieval houses in the town of Auradon, sighed. She flipped her silky black hair, decorated with a streak of red hair.
"I just hope they're ready," She frowned, shutting her book before going to be.