Chapter 15: Unity of Two River

Arriving at Two River City, it was completely guarded by the Silverian Army in which the Risho's father the Mayor of Two River made a lockdown the entire city and most wingers, kobolds and humans had turned into slaves.

"This is awful... how come the entire community of this city had turned into slaves."

"It was all because of Darius." Seed remarked horribly about their wrongdoings.

"Your father, The Mayor of Two River was behind the lockdown when this army has arrived." Melvin arrives to see them and decided to join them. "I also let my right-hand man serving as acting General in my absence. I decided to get back here too."

"Maybe we need to take refuge in one of these towns first. Then, we have to find the other residents of this community of this city." Lene suggested which both noticed her strategy.

"It seems that the princess has a point." Risho said nicely and knows they need to take a separate sides. "We have to separate in two sides as me and your other group needs to get to the Mayor's office. As for the princess, she needs to convince the village chief at the Winger community and finding their hiding spot."

"Perhaps, I might go with the princess, Risho... I must get to the Kobold community as fast as I could and I can't let these knuckleheads to put all of us into slavery." Melvin said decided to join Lene as a convoy."

"All right... we'll look after Risho, your highness." Tougou said as he tells Seed. "And you Seed, you look after the princess."

"Yeah yeah... I got this..." Seed answered in arrogance.

The group separate to get through the town to avoid detection from the Silverian Army, Lene and the group then take refuge at the Rune store owned by the Runemistress Jeane. Sean was surprised to see the Runes they were selling as Seed's Fire Rune begins to resonate on his left hand.

"That's weird... how come your left hand is glowing, red head?" Sean looked at Seed who is confused.

"I had no idea... My Fire Rune just glowed without a reason."

"Tee hee... I can't believe a handsome red headed man from the Highland Army is still alive and kicking."

The runemistress arrive to see them and recognizing Seed as the enemy of the past and Sean drools to see her.

"It seems that this red headed fellow knows this woman is the owner of the Rune shop in Two River." Melvin states and Lene noticed her appearance.

"Hmmm, how come she was still in our age? She even reach from every centuries..."

"I'm Jeane and this young man with you is one of the enemies' that the leader of the Dunan Army was fighting." Jeane finally introduced herself and noticing Seed's Fire Rune is glowing. "Looks like his Fire Rune is resonating itself. I know what it is..."

"What are you talking about, lady?" Seed reacted while raising his brow as Jeane gets the Fire Rune which was displayed on her shop as it glows.

"You know something, young man. This Fire Rune that I carry also glowed like yours. You'll see the results, tee hee..." Jeane smiled as The Fire Rune floats and it went to Seed's own Fire Rune as it fused into one stronger Rune.

Lene and the others were shocked and surprised in a flash of light and Seed didn't want to happen to himself until his left hand is no longer glowed.

"What just happened? Is it because of the two Runes were fused into one?" Melvin said and Jeane reveals it.

"Because of this world, everything is always changing... The Fire Rune that I carry and the young man's own Fire Rune has been fused into a Rage Rune."

"Rage Rune? You mean my Fire Rune is now a Rage Rune..." Seed said remaining confused as Jeane laughs.

"Haha...Despite an enemy like yourself, you have to know that the Rage Rune is the strong version of the Fire Rune. Basically most Elemental Runes were born by the Elemental True Runes I must say."

"Elemental True Runes... Are you saying about these Elemental Runes are from the 27 True Runes?" Lene asked as Jeane explains to them.

"Because I learned that when the Second Fire Bringer War had started by our former comrade who is actually the Gate Keeper's apprentice. The Fire and the Rage Rune were born from the True Fire Rune, The Water and the Flowing Rune were born from the True Water Rune, The Wind and the Cyclone Rune were born from the True Wind Rune, The Earth and the Mother Earth were born from the True Earth Rune and finally The Lightning and Thunder Rune were born from the True Lightning Rune. These True Elemental Runes are one of the 27 True Runes."

"Please tell us about that fused between both Runes?" Melvin asked as Jeane reveals it.

"It was called a Rune Fusion."

The group were surprised when she reveals about the Rune Fusion and Seed was shocked to hear that his Fire Rune and hers were fused into a Rage Rune.

"You see... The Rune Fusion enables the basic elemental Runes such as Fire, Water, Earth, Wind and Lightning to be fused with their respective elemental Runes themselves. What happened today when the Fire Rune that I carry was fused into the young man's own Fire Rune to become a Rage Rune. That's how Rune Fusion works."

Seed realizes that he now carries the Rage Rune on his left hand since it was fused with someone's Fire Rune which it was not attached and he soon thanked her.

"Thanks, lady... So that means, I can use this Rage Rune on my left hand."

"Yes... since this is a Rage Rune, you're no longer to use Flaming Arrows as this ability is used from the Fire Rune." Jeane said and she looked at Lene. "Since this young man is the former enemy and being sided with you, I guess joining with you was nice. I can't wait to see the entire development of your base."

Afterward, they proceed to get through the Winger's community when Seed demonstrates by casting his Rage Rune using Fire Wall to incinerate the soldiers who guarded their path. When they arrived, a Winger who wields a spear who guards the entire community after most of the Silverian Army had captured of their kind.

"Who are those scoundrels...? I'm not gonna let you creepy soldiers to get through."

"Is he threatening us? It's like a pigeon who is enough to guard their own kind." Seed commented which angers the Winger.

"How dare you say that?"

"The red head was right. We came all the way to wipe out these Silverian mongrels done by Lene's no-good half-uncle and all you do is rant into thinking we're the enemies." Sean said as he wields his Tokkosho.

"Grrr...!"

Both then clash with their weapons as Sean demonstrating his skills from his Tokkosho and he angrily tells Seed to move.

"Hey red head, you go on ahead. This guy need to teach him a lesson."

Seed nods as the group pass through causing the Winger in a berserk state as both continued to clash their weapons. Melvin points out that their village is connected to the Kobold community by getting through the sewers. Once they arrived at the sewers, they noticed several Wingers were hiding as their village chief is present and everyone is scared to see them.

"It's all right... Risho had already arrive as well and we had someone to help us rid of those army."

"General Melvin... is this young lady is a princess from the Silveria Kingdom?"

"Yes..."

The Wingers including the village chief knew Lene is not an enemy and it was all done by her half-uncle and knowing they can trust her.

"The daughter of the King of Silveria Kingdom, please rid of this mess made by your own soldiers. Some of our kind including the kobolds and humans ended up in slavery."

"To be honest, my father is the real King of Silveria Kingdom and he was the one who made the reform Higheast Army to get rid of what Doug have done to us." Lene said telling them and Melvin realizes it was a blood war.

"So it was a blood war after all..."

"It's true... he planned to assassinate my father and usurping the throne as King and this is why his tyranny war had begun. We need to unite this community to stop them. That also includes Darius." Lene said as everyone were horribly shock regarding about the war between family members.

Suddenly, an earthquake rumbles around the sewers and seeing two other Wingers are escaping from a giant rat with long horns and seeing everyone are afraid to see this.

"This giant rat used to live in the sewers. But this time it was black in color." The village chief noticed its appearance which causes a debris. Seed unsheathes his sword and wanted to test more of the Rage Rune he had obtained.

"Lene, I need to test my Rage Rune. Since it was fused with someone's Fire Rune to mine, I want to see how stronger it is..."

"I'm glad we had someone to help us." Lene said as she wields her double-sided tonfas.

Seeing this monster can poison everyone with its poison breath, Seed casts Protection Mist from his Flowing Rune on the Wingers including themselves to avoid contact with its ability and Lene attacks with both punches and kicks and the last blow knocking through the distance. When Lene hits the monster with her explosive tasers, Seed casts Explosion from his Rage Rune and the burst of flames became in full power, incapacitate it. Jeane was following the group as she attempted to aid them by casting her Lightning Rune. To her dismay, the Rune's power had passed it into Seed who raises his sword in a flash of lightning and makes a thunder sword strike on the monster using Thunder Blade, destroying it quickly.

"They killed it!"

"Hey, it's you... the rune owner." Lene said noticing Jeane's appearance as she flirtatiously laughs.

"Well, you got me back there... I'd like to help you dealing with this pest and I noticed my Rune casting had been stolen from the handsome red-headed savage, hee hee..."

"Can't you at least not to call me that? You're freaking me out..." Seed grunted in disappointment.

Back at the Winger's town in Two River City, Sean beats the Winger after a long and hard battle and the Winger noticed the other Winger had informed him that they were safe and they were in the Kobold community.

"You mean they moved to the Kobold town." The Winger then followed his fellow kind as Sean sighs to see him and knowing that Lene and Seed succeeds in convincing the Wingers as he followed them.

At the Kobold community, Seed, Lene and the rest of the group battle the Silverian Army to free the Kobolds from getting enslaved as one of them manage to get rid of the soldiers.

"Melvin, sir... you came back."

Seed then casts Rising Sun from his Rage Rune as he charges himself in flames while forming several fire chakrams to incinerate the soldiers to death and they manage to wipe out the army forcing them to retreat. Everyone including the Wingers and Kobolds are overjoyed that they were free.

"General Melvin..."

"We're glad that you're safe..."

"Don't worry... these people are harmless and they were here to help us rid of the Silverian Army. The princess of the Silveria Kingdom alongside her father are now handling the reformation of the Higheast Army." Melvin said as his right-hand man informs them about Darius.

"Melvin, It seems that Darius made it back here after the infiltration."

"Apparently, Risho was here as well. This hypocrite man is behind the war of the bloodlines and he was the one who usurp both the princess and the king on their respective throne so they decided to make the Higheast Army to stop them."

"Chiefain..."

The winger arrive to see them as Sean follows them in a snoobish manner.

"You're still the snake for brains, Juris. If it wasn't for these humans, we would be harmed inside the sewers. Now is the right time to battle these army of soldiers."

"Uh... so this troublemaking Winger is named Juris, that was a female name." Sean said as he laughs.

"So you must be the princess. My name is Rowan and I'm the right-hand man for General Melvin Barnes." Rowan said finally introduce to them as Seed looked on while sensing their enemy.

"Seems like this vermin is the last one left. We need to unify them to help the Mayor."

Back at the town, Tougou, Renzo and Risho succeeds in rescuing the Mayor which happens to be Risho's father Tensho and they were cornered by Darius and the rest of the Silverian Army.

"Don't try to escape, mayor. You think these people are going to help you now."

"Not this time, you moron."

Darius was surprised to see Seed was there and alongside it was Lene, Sean, Juris, Rowan and most of the community of Two River are about to fight him and his army.

"You think you let your rabble soldiers to put these kobolds into a dog cage especially the Wingers in the bird cage! We're gonna get rid of your nonsense along with the giant vermin."

"What an arrogant man? Get RID of them!"

As the Silverian Army begins to attack as Risho's men begin to fight until the Wingers and Kobolds arrive to battle it out. Darius was surprised when he was overpowered by most of the community as Lene battles him.

"I think it's you and me to face off one-on-one."

"Fair enough... I can't believe you can fight against me, non highness." Darius said as he wields a sword to face her.

Lene looked at both Sean and Seed who assist them to repelled the soldiers as she battles him and she readied her stance with her double-sided tonfas.

"This is a unity of Two River City against you and the rest of the Silverian Army handed by my half-uncle and I can't let you get away with it."

With that, both her and Darius fight.