Final Fantasy: Ancient Divines

by Diran Jiru

History's dangers return. Bereit and his companions must fend against a rising anomaly that is returning long forgotten dangers.

10. Chapter 10

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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Children, all held at gun point, most crying their eyes out to the fear of death./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit and Fallen had shocked expression from this horrible sight, but it affected Bereit more, because he knew these children. His friends. And there was one person that stood over the masked armed people, a man with deep black hair, blue eyes, and a clean face. His armour was a deep red as well, with a cape on his back and a mechanical weapon by his side, a rapier with a small flame coming out of the edge./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I suggest you drop what you have. Now." The man warned./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen clenched her fist. "Still a hound to my mother, Treu?" Fallen spoke up, standing in front of Bereit./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"1/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"st/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I had no idea if she was trying to prove something, or if she was just defending me, but this wasn't one of these moments where giving the tough act wasn't the right choice./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm loyal to who I choose to be." Treu answered./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"If the gil pleases." Fallen added to his answer. Whoever this man was, it seems Fallen knew him well. "Why are you here?" She asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Iblst's orders. Wait for the arrival of Fallen, and the brown haired fool who travels with her." Treu answered. "And my orders are to capture and detain the fool." He then felt the handle of his sword. "The trip was long, so my patients isn't very high."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen shook her head and pointed her staff at him. "Not a chance! He's my guardian, and I-"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen! Don't..." Bereit interrupted./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen looked at him, with a worried expression./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"If we fight back... the kids die..." Bereit drew his sword, the masked soldiers aiming their guns, but Treu raised his hand, telling them to stop. He wanted to see his next move. What he chose to do./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit then threw his sword to the sand, looking down. "And I'm not gonna be the cause of it." He then walked past her, Fallen grabbing his hand, but Bereit ripped his hand off her grip, leaving Fallen with a sinking feeling in her heart./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit then hung his head low, his hair going over his eyes and put his hands forward. "One life... for the many."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Treu had a small smile on his face. "You have honor, I'll admit." He then put his hand to Bereit's, as Bereit blew up in electricity, falling on Treu's shoulder. He picked him up and turned around. "I suggest you find a replacement. Though... you don't find many like him."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen gripped her staff. "Put him down or... I'll freeze you all!" She threatened. But really, this was her last ditch effort. What else could she do?/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Go ahead and try. It'll mean you are responsible for the deaths of children." Treu pointed out, as the waterfall began to split, and a ship revealed itself, uncloaking itself. It then opened up, showing a steel platform, stopping right at Treu's feet. He walked up, as the children were released, running to Fallen, and all the soldiers followed behind./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Fallen)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen watched as the platform shut in front of her, as she fell to the ground, feeling nothing but defeat. She already lost her first guardian, even after what she said to The Siren, about protecting her guardians. She looked down, her knuckles against the sands./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Miss! You have to save Bereit!" A child said, gently shaking her. "If you don't, who'll be our King!?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen looked at him, with a mixed expression of shock and sad. "King?" She asked, her tone having sadness written all over it./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"For when we play games." Another one explained. "But really, we need him back! Or we won't have food or water anymore!"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Hearing what that child explained, her eyes shot open, now knowing his purpose. Bereit knew her purpose for being a summoner, though she got a new one now, but now she knew his, and it was to provide for these children. She felt like she had a way heavier burden weighted on her shoulders, now that she had to save Bereit... no, she NEEDED to save Bereit./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As of now, you're the sculpture, Fallen. You form the statue as you please." The words echoed in her head. She looked at the kids crowding around her, and smiled. At the very least, she could tell them what she was planning to do. "Don't worry. I'll bring your King back." She said, showing her staff to the children, all of them having expressions of awe. "And with my Summoner powers, I can very well assure you that he we'll be brought back in one piece." He vowed to the children./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm definitely going to have to ask about... al of this later on..." Fallen said to herself, as she then stood up. "Now, it'll take me a while, but I will return with your King."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No, WE will bring him back." A familiar voice spoke up. Fallen turned to look where the voices came from, and a smile rose, seeing the familiar ginger, Imbir, and that black pony-tail, Vanessa. "Imbir?! Vanessa!? You're here!"br /br /"We weren't gonna give up on our Summoner that easily." Vanessa said, with a smile./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She was so glad to see them again. It was unnecessary for her to think like this, but she always feared she was too much of a burden for them, but from what Vanessa and Bereit had said about her, she really started thinking they were more than Guardians. Comrades, as she said with The Siren. It really made her think they did it because they cared for her as a person, not what she was. "Thank you, both of you."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So, where to next?" Vanessa asked. "We found you, but now that Bereit's gone, we gotta find out where they took him."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I know where. My mother's personal prison/mythril mine." Fallen answered. "It's far in the ocean, where the biggest mythril mine is."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So, they're taking him in as a slave? That's all kinds of messed up." Vanessa said, crossing her arms./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I know how rough it'll really be for him. I've seen how harsh they're treated there. Fed horrible food, no protection, long hours with little sleep. It's... barbaric." Fallen said, putting her hands together./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Considering how they predicted even this, we're gonna need more than a plan to save Bereit. And from how all these people serve your mother, I'm guessing she has her own private military?" Imbir asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen nodded. "Yes. She does have her own military. But that won't stop me." Fallen said, looking at Imbir. "Though... we will need help. Lots of it."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But where are we gonna get it? It's the four of us against an army." Vanessa explained. "Or... three..."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Four." Zelkova spoke up, appearing where Vanessa and Imbir came from./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen looked at Zelkova, unfamiliar with this newcomer. "Oh, is he a new companion?" Fallen asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Zelkova nodded, and gently bowed, knowing this was Fallen. "Zelkova. It's a pleasure to meet you, Summoner Fallen."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As it is to meet you." She said, with a smile. Her smile then faded, getting to business. "Now, does anybody have an idea who can help us? Anybody?" She asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The group remained silent, none having an answer. Though, Vanessa had an idea, but she was sure they weren't going to like it. Vanessa looked at Fallen, with a bit of a worried expression. "Terror Bringers. My group may be gone, but there's a lot more of them."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Imbir looked at Vanessa. "You sure they'll recognize you?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Chances are, they think I'm dead, but the surprise will surely keep me covered from them thinking I left them." Vanessa explained. "Plus, my charm will be a factor." She boasted./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen couldn't help but laugh. "Well, anything that'll help."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Though, it's gonna be hard to break the news to The Captain. I don't know how he's gonna take it." Imbir said, looking down for a moment./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well, at least we have a lead of where he is, right? He should be glad for that." Zelkova pointed out./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Perhaps... we'll just have to see." Fallen said, nervous of where this could lead. She hoped that The Captain wouldn't get furious and blame her for this. Though, from what she got off him, she didn't see him as the type to do that. But would he?/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"1/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"st/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And this... is where everything when to shit. At least for me./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Bereit)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"His eyes feeling heavy, and feeling cold steel against his cheek, he slowly brought his head up, groaning with a throbbing head./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He's awake, sir? Should we incapacitate him again?" A muffled voice asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No. Too many shocks would damage his organs. Leave him be." The voice of Treu answering./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at where he heard the voices, his vision blurry for a moment. His eye-sight cleared up, as he saw Treu and two other soldiers, but carrying weapons that had blue lights on them, seeing their faces having red light reflecting off their faces from the lights around them. "You woke up at the most convenient time, Bereit." Treu said, as then the two guards picked him up, pulling on his coat, Bereit feeling cuffs around his wrists./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Hey! Watch it!" Bereit snapped./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh I'll watch it alright." The soldier to his left commented./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit furrowed his eyebrows, hearing that strange comment. He then looked at Treu./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Where am I? ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What the hell is going on?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Remain silent./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You'll find out soon enough." Treu answered vaguely./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What the hell is going on? ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Remain silent./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Soon enough." He repeated./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It seemed Bereit wasn't going to get any answers. He then heard a loud rumble outside, it sounding like thunder. Where ever they were, there was a thunderstorm happening./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So, he's the real deal, this guy?" The guard to his left asked Treu./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The one and only." The guard to his right answered for him./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And what exactly do you guys think I am?" Bereit asked, though he fully knew. The ship then made a loud metal grinding noise, and stopped moving. He was then pushed forward by the guards./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Shut up and get ready to work your ass off, Lightning Lord." The guard to his left said./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit felt his heart sink, freezing for a moment. The door came down, as he would see a short and narrow path of rocky terrain, soaked in mud from the rain, that lead to a large, prison, though the inside was yet to be seen. He felt another hard push, as he fell off the platform and landed body first into the dirt, getting dirt all over his chest. He then felt a hard pull on his collar from behind, and pushed forward again. "Hurry up, it's past my break and I need sleep. Not that you'll be getting sleep anytime soon."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit kept walking forward, his heart racing from the fear of what was inside there. Or, what made him worry most was what they planned to do to him, with the fact they knew what he was. Lightning Lord wasn't exactly the right way of calling it, but in his opinion, it was close enough./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Drawing closer to the prison, he could see barbed wires on the edges of the very top, along with spot lights, manual turrets, and guards posted up there. For a moment, he heard a loud scream coming from the inside, however faint over the rumbles of lightning coming their way./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Enjoy the view while you still got it. It'll be the last time you do." The guard to his left threatened./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Taunt. ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Disagree./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Tell him to shut up./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Keep saying stuff like that. It doesn't make you any tougher." Bereit taunted, as he felt the blunt end of their rifle against his back./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Keep walking!" The guard to his left yelled./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You speak of acting tough, yet you won't be for long." Treu spoke up./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And how's that?" Bereit asked, turning his head to him, though his head was turned to look forward by the guard to his left./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You'll see." Treu answered./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit groaned, keeping his eyes locked on the entrance of the prison, seeing it was metal door, with all sorts of gears, and metal mechanical parts all over. It absolutely confused Bereit on how that thing even worked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Colonel Treu, it's good to see you are well." One of the front guards said, putting their hands up to salute him, as did the other./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I have no time for your salutations. Open the door." Treu said./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The guard nodded and walked to the door, as he slid his finger on a pad, in a quick and complicated way, showing it was a pattern of finger movements that opened it. A loud clang could be heard from the door, as gears and parts would move and open, the door stopping for a second and then opening up, Bereit seeing a glow, coming from the inside. He was about to get pushed forward, but he moved on his own. "Yeah, yeah. Don't get your knickers in a twist." He said in an annoyed tone./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Walking forward, he saw where the light came from, this deep hole in the prison. He looked down the hole, to see it was all sorts of shining crystals and people hitting pickaxes against them, along with machines drilling in the walls. "Looks pretty, doesn't it?" One of the guards said, as he pulled him to their side./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I wouldn't call slavery pretty." Bereit disagreed, though he knew what he was talking about./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Too bad you aren't working with them. Though you are going down there." The guard to his right said. He then grabbed him by the collar on the back of his coat, and pushed him down. "Adios!" He shouted, as Bereit fell down the hole, falling down the numerous floors of this mine, seeing all sorts of people, machines, though blurry./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He saw the very bottom of the mine, thinking he was about to hit it, but he heard blasting noises around him and formed a net right under him, as it caught him, and then tightened up, spinning him up and wrapping him around the net, as if a spider did it. Two guards then grabbed him, having the net bring him to them. They brought him to his cell, and threw him right on the chair, the net coming off, but put metal restrains on him, holding his arms and legs./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit could only move his head, as he looked around the room, seeing all sorts of knobs, flashing lights, and cords everywhere. He then heard a click above him, as then a glass ball surrounded him. Blue smoke began to come out of his body, seeing small bolts of lightning coming out of it. His magic was being drained out of his body. But he had enormous amounts of it... maybe that's what they wanted./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked down, at his arms and legs, seeing they were completely restrained, barely able to move./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Vanessa)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What the hell do you mean you won't help!?" She shouted, in a shocked tone./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The group were back at Holhen, negotiating with one of the big groups of Terror Bringers. Vanessa knew this one was the greatest of them all. They had ranks of who was the biggest and baddest, and who would be better to help with an army, than the greatest of them all? However, it seemed they were having trouble with their proposal./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa... you're asking us to fight a private army. They have something we don't. Top notch tech. All we have is a small variety of explosives and handful of guns." The leader of the group said, it being a surprisingly young man, who had his hair down to his shoulders and eyes that were quite red, from the looks of it, lack of sleep./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But you don't understand! If we don't save him, this could mean the end of the world! We need him!" Vanessa argued./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"From what you said, you only needed to seal the cracks, right? By killing whatever is the big ass monster comes out? So just use your Summoner. You don't need that guy." The young man said, crossing his arms./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen clenched her fists for a moment, hating the fact he said to 'Just use her,' like she was just a weapon./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa looked down. "It's... more than that..." She added, sounding almost embarrassed to mention it. "He's our leader."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The young man scoffed at what she said. He then walked down to the group, as he stood over Vanessa, looking dead straight to her eyes. "Who's the top of the Terror Bringers?" He asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa looked down for a moment, knowing where he was going with this. "You..." She mumbled./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And who are you apart of?" He asked again./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa was about to answer that question, but she then felt Fallen gently push her to the side. "She WAS apart of the Terror Bringers. As of now, she's a Frozen Heart. And my Guardian. You bring harm to her..." She stepped closer. "You better believe I'll deliver back."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The young man raised an eyebrow, not seeming fazed by her threat at all. "You have a Summoner. I'm sure you'll all do fine." He then turned around and walked away./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Wait! There has to be something we can do to convince you! Anything!" Fallen spoke up, hoping they could come to an agreement./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The young man stopped, and looked at her. He breathed deeply through his nose. "Tell you what. We somehow pull this off, and you can't decline this, Vanessa." He said, turning to her and pointing. "We by some miracle get out of this alive, and you get to join my group." He said, as if this was a privilege./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Vanessa felt her heart stop, as soon as he said that. She didn't want to go back. But then again, this was her freedom for the fate of the world. Could she really give that up?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The group fell silent for a moment, waiting for Vanessa to answer./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fine." She said, looking down. She then turned to Fallen, seeing her shocked expression. Though, Fallen could see Vanessa's sad expression. "I'm sorry, Fallen."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But... what about the vow? What about the world? What about your freedom? You're gonna give it all up?" Fallen asked, her tone really showing she didn't want her to leave./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Call it a code I live by." She answered simply./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But Van-"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Just shut it, lollipop." The young man said, the name possibly an insult to her hair colour. "When we finish this, she's coming back to me and that's how it'll be."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen shot a glare at him, but she kept her cool. "Very well..."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Though, remember, that's IF she makes it out of this alive. Or, in that case, all of us." He added./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"For somebody who was going against a private army, and risking the lives of his members, he certainly was showing no fear. Or perhaps, he just had nothing to live for. The answer wasn't clear, since he was a mystery to the others, but Vanessa, she knew what his deal was./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Bereit)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Days have passed, and all Bereit was fed was... he didn't know what the call it. And what was worse, they were terrible portions, along with terrible taste and texture. At this point, he was starving./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He was still in the sphere, seeing his magic coming out of his body, but he was sitting calmly, since he realized there was no point in struggling. He heard his cell door open, as he looked up, to see it was the guard that comes in to give him food. If they could call it that./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Soup's on, thunder boy." The guard said, walking up to him. "And don't give me the whole, I'm not hungry crap. I get it, the food here isn't the best, but you can't complain if you're being fed in the first place."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Just give the gunk." Bereit said, in an unexcited tone./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The guard walked in and made the bottom of the sphere open up, sliding the food inside. The steel restrains were opened, Bereit's hand being let free to grab the tray. He reached for it, dragging it closer by a finger, and then grabbing it properly. He had a grossed out expression on his face, looking at the gross brown food. It looked like some sort of beans, with a bunch of random things inside it. He just hoped it was food./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Though something else caught his attention. Once he lift the bowl, he saw there was a note underneath it. He raised an eyebrow, as he took it and started to read it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Letter/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm sure you want out of this hell hole as much as we do. Though, freedom is a lock, and you are the key. There's devices out there that are nullifying any magic outside here. We'll figure out a way to get rid of them, and when we do, well, you'll know when we need you. ~An acquaintance./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit got this relieved feeling in his chest, knowing that maybe he could get out of here after all. Under his thumb, he saw an arrow, as he turned the page around, seeing there was more./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Letter/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"P.S, no trace of our contact. Eat the paper. Sorry. ^ ^'/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit sighed, looking forward, seeing there was somebody looking at him, one of the prisoners, a kid. He looked back at the paper and gulped, crunching the paper up. "Well... if it means getting out of here..." And with that thought in mind, he scoffed it in his mouth, having a grossed out taste. He swallowed it whole, and let out a grossed groan. He sighed in relief, and then saw he still had the food he was given to eat. "I'll never complain about normal food again..."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"1/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"st/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The days were just awful after that. They suddenly put something in me, through a needle, and it just made me panic. So much, it was making me release more of my magic. Maybe they wanted to work me out faster. Get me to power those machines. Not only that, but they blindfolded me too. I haven't seen light in so long, plus I think I know why did that too. For more power for their machines. So this is what slavery feels like.../span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit sat still in the chair, feeling his magic drain, and having his eyesight blinded. Though, he could hear the sounds of pickaxes and drills going through rock, and grunting, along with occasional cursing and callouts. It had been like that for 2 days, those being the only noises he heard. He just wanted to hear the normal things again, or just do what he normally did. The jobs, the adventure, helping Fallen with her pilgrimage... he missed that already./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Hey! Get off your asses and work!" A guard shouted, as he walked towards a group of people that were sitting away from the machinery that helped drill deeper down the mine./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Shove it, prick. My leg's messed up. I can't work like this." A man said, having that kid look at it, the one Bereit saw previously./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well, I guess we've got no further use of you." He said, as he then aimed his gun to him, and shot the man straight through the head, blood splattering on the rocky ground./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The people were shocked to watch such a thing happen right in front of them, and so heartlessly./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The guard was then tackled by a burly man, that started to beat him to the ground, as then more guards came down, to apprehend him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It took many, but he was pinned and apprehended, or at least, to Bereit, that's what it sounded like. He heard the sounds of metal boots going higher up in the air, but the he heard a metal cling right by the door, wondering what that sound was./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You never heard what just happened." The voice of the child said, Bereit nodding. He figured this must have been part of the plan. Whatever it was he was doing, he hoped it was almost done. He wanted out as soon as he could./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It was another two days, and he could hear the thundering and raining outside, at least more than usual. He always listened to the details of what was going outside. Despite him being in a sphere, anything outside was heard crystal clear. He was glad he would at least have that./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Listening to the outside, he heard an explosion, sounding like there was a fire out there./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Guards! We've got a busted machine!" One of the men called out. "Call an engineer!"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We'll be right over!" A guard called out, though in an annoyed tone./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Another accident. Like the last guy. He heard a knock on the cell door, jolting a bit. "Get ready. We're gonna head back to surface ground. When we do, we're gonna throw an explosive to signal your turn to get out. Overcharge the machines to cause them to explode, and when they do, high tail it." The kid warned./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But I'm restrained." Bereit pointed out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Your restrains are electrically worked. Fry the machines, it'll fry everything." The kid explained, as he walked away. "Your key is by the cell door. We only have one shot, and many lives. Make each second count." The child then walked away from the cell door./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"His heart was pounding like crazy. He was finally gonna get out. He just hoped they had a ride. But the kid was smart. He must have found a way for all of them to get out. He took a deep breath, and fiddled with his fingers a little, waiting for his 'signal.'/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He waited for a few minutes, and heard a small tick outside, and an explosion./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It was his time. He started emitting large amounts of lightning, as he would hear more explosions coming from outside, and the sound of the lights inside his cell overcharging, as he heard them break, and the machines break. The restrains opened, as he shot up and took his blindfold off, to finally be able to see. His vision had already adjusted to the dark, so everything was bright to him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The sphere was gone, as he looked around for that key that the kid left him, but all he saw was an arm, that looked like it came from one of the guards. But he noticed that the cell didn't have a lock, but a pad, that seemed to recognize hand prints. He took the arm, seeing rather than flesh and blood on the inside, it was metal and wires. He shivered for a second, seeing how those guards were so life like, but they were robots all this time. He could only imagine what kind of work it went to make them act so human./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He placed the arm against the pad, it scanning for a moment, and the cell door opened. He ran out, to see the mine was beginning to crumble, massive rocks falling all over. Bereit froze, wondering how he was gonna get out. But he just remembered who he was, or WHAT he was. He charged lightning around his feet, and jumped from boulder to boulder, seeing how absolute chaos was falling around him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Two massive boulders came towards him, as he jumped high up, barely escaping the two that would have crushed him, and then jumped off those, to land on the crumbling surface./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He saw all the prisoners were armed with rifles, seeing there was box of them right next him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Don't just stand there! Help us!" The kid shouted, the prisoners under gunfire. Some of the prisoners were handling the guards from the other directions, so the front was completely left alone, considering they had cover for that./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit saw how there was many on the high up walls of the prison. He looked at his hand, seeing he was emitting electricity. "It's for a good cause..." He whispered to himself. He charged lightning around his feet, and jumped over the wall, summoning a spear of lightning and threw it down on them, causing a large bolt of lightning to crash right on the crowd of guards./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He landed on the other side of the wall, placing his hands on both guards that stood by the entrance, passing large amounts of lightning in their bodies, causing them to explode. Since they were only robots, or as they seemed to be, Bereit figured he didn't need to give them any mercy./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit saw the door was handscan locked. He looked at his hand again, wondering if it was risky to use fire./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Use fire. ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Keep using lightning./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Maybe using fire was faster than trying to blast it open. Charging fire around his hands, he blew fire on the metal door, making the door melt, though slowly. He moved his hands away, as he saw the prisoners run his way./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"This way! We know where they keep their airships!" The kid shouted, telling Bereit the next move./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ready for the next step!" Bereit said./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well, it's more a jump than a step!" The kid corrected, as he immediately jumped off the rocky ledge, falling right into the ocean water./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh lord..." Bereit said, stepping back a bit in fear./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Scared of heights?" One asked him, as everyone else jumped, while some took a few breaths before jumping./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Just not a fan of jumping off rocky terrain into the ocean, where there might be sharp rocks ready to pierce me a new one." Bereit answered./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Don't worry, that Cid kid is smart! There aren't any sharp rocks at the bottom, so we're all clear!" He then jumped off, landing in the water./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Cid, so that was the kid's name. He looked down again, seeing everyone swim with him. Bereit took a deep breath, and just as he was about to jump, he stopped when he heard loud metal stomps coming his way. Before he could turn, he felt a large, metal claw grab him, and was then thrown back to the inside of the prison, falling back first onto the hard ground./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"His head shot up, to see a giant, black mechanical hound coming his way, Bereit jumping back to avoid it's slam./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What horror stood in front of him bared no mouth, but a vent with a glow coming from it, along with steam. It also had to claw arms, but still ran on fours. From it's design, it seemed to only represent a hound, not actually being one./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit slowly walked back, trying to get away from this monstrosity. "You think we didn't expect an escape?" Treu said, coming out of the building of the prison./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And what about the other ones? You're letting them go?" Bereit asked, still backing away from the mechanical hound./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"They'll be dealt with by The Warden himself. However, The Warden's Hound is the one that'll handle you." Treu said, as he stepped forward, out of the building. "Apprehend him!" Treu commanded The Warden's Hound./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It blasted forward to Bereit, Bereit jumping away with his magic. But it immediately turned to his direction, jumping at him again./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit boosted himself up, and summoned a spear of lightning, and threw it right at The Warden's Hound, sending it crashing down./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit landed on his feet, on the wall of the prison. He looked down, seeing Cid and the prisoners were swimming towards the cave that held the airships. If The Warden's Hound was this big and fast, he needed to stop it fast. Who knows what the actual Warden is like./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He looked back, to see The Warden's Hound jumping and grabbing him with the arms, and throwing him back down, Bereit hitting the ground and recoiling off it. It then jumped towards him, but Bereit coated his hand in lighting, and hit it right under it's chin, and launched it high up, though it put his hand in immense pain. It then hit Bereit that the head is where it's weakness was. It must have been an engine of some sort./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He summoned another spear, and brought his hand out, to aim his throw. He watched as The Warden's Hound fixed it's self in the air and came his way. Bereit brought his arm back and threw it, piercing his head, and through the body. He jumped back and avoided the body hitting him, as it was completely broken, unable to move./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at Treu, seeing his shocked expression. Bereit then jumped back onto the wall, seeing the entrance to the cave. He looked back at Treu for a moment, seeing he was making his way to the cave from the inside. Without a breath or a thought, Bereit jumped right off, crossing his arms and pushing his legs down, he landed in the water, falling right into the stormy waters./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"As he swam back out, he realized that his right hand was broken. His index and middle fingers were broken, his finger bent the other way, and he could feel bones in his hands were shattered. It hurt like hell, but he didn't feel it before, other than when he punched The Warden's Hound. He guessed it was the adrenaline./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He heard gunfire and screaming coming from the cave, as he saw one prisoner being punched right into the wall, and being left there. The Warden was a robot as well, in a huge suit of mechanical armour./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Warden approached Cid, as Cid was shooting at it's face, but it had bulletproof glass./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit swam as fast as he could, and climbed up the ledge, seeing the array of airships they had, along with the realization that it was a full hangar in here. He quickly counted up to 10 airships./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Cid was cornered by The Warden, but The Warden felt a shock right on his back, knocking him forward. He turned around and looked at Bereit, seeing his electrical state, though it was beginning to fade. "You want some!? Come get some!" Bereit called out, taking it's attention./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Warden ran towards him, his heavy metal feet slamming against the ground. He swung his arm towards him, but Bereit ducked under it, and jumped back. "I'll buy you time! Get to an airship ready for take off!" Bereit instructed to Cid./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Umm, who made the plan here!?" Cid pointed out, as he ran to one of the airships, as did some of the remaining prisoners, two of them carrying injured prisoners./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The Warden grabbed a barrel next to him, and threw it his way, Bereit jumping away and shooting bolts of lightning his way. But The Warden opened his palm, as a small flame could be seen, and he spew fire right on the barrel, as it exploded in a fiery blast./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit jumped covered his face from the fire, and looked back, as he then saw The Warden jumping right at him. Bereit crouched, avoiding the grapple he was going for, and shot lightning at him, launching The Warden back, though only a little./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit noticed his magic was growing weaker. He was using too much. He looked at The Warden, seeing he was still standing tall. "Cid! Hurry up! I'm running out of time!"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Cid made it to the pilot seat, as he reached in his pocket to pull out a keycard, and swiped it on the slide. A green light flashed, and he could hear the engines starting up. He flipped some switches and pressed buttons, and the airship began to float, from turbines activating. He adjusted himself to go in the middle of the hangar, ready to fly out./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit saw it was ready to go. But he had to keep The Warden from stopping it. Using all of his last might, he charged another lightning spear, turned to The Warden, and jumped right at him, and ran the spear right through his head, watching as The Warden fell to the ground, no noise coming from it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit was breathing heavily, being exhausted so much he felt like he was gonna pass out. He turned to the airship and jumped on top of it. And with that, the airship flew forward, flying right out the hangar./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit was hanging on tightly, then he heard a metal thud behind him, seeing Treu landed on the ship, wielding his flaming rapier. "You have not outlived your usefulness to us, Child of Ramuh!" Treu shouted, as he aimed his rapier to him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit stood up, his hair flailing on his face, holding his broken hand. Bereit felt like his body was about to collapse. He was sore all over, and in pain. "Don't... call me that..." Bereit said, exhausted./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Treu put his weapon down, and threw him a sword he had in his other hand, Bereit catching it./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at it, and back at Treu./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I don't strike at the vulnerable. I will duel fairly." He placed one hand behind his back, and brought his hand up. "En garde!" He shouted, as he then ran at him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit was right handed, but his hand broken, so he had no choice. He held the sword with his left hand, and parried the up coming swing from Treu./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Treu then brought down his sword, swinging around over and under himself, Bereit blocking three strikes, however each knocked him back./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit slashed at Treu, but he moved his head back, and slashed his knee, making Bereit stagger. Treu then kicked him down, and walked up to him, aiming his rapier to him./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit shot his head up, seeing he was approaching./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"One of the prisoners were aware of what was going on above, and went to Cid. "Cid! Bereit and that Colonel are on the roof! We need to help Bereit!" One of the prisoners informed./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Cid heard the situation, and thought of a way to help. He reached for a device that activated the megaphone on the airship, and reached for the head set that was used to speak through it. "Bereit! Hang on tight!" He called out./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit heard what was told of him. The ship then tipped to the side, as Treu lost his balance, falling to his side. They both started to slip off the airship, but they both caught a ledge on the airship, near the turbines. He held on to the ledge, focusing on that so much the sword slipped out of his hand, reaching out for a moment, but the sword fell in the water./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He looked at Treu, seeing he was hanging on a leg too. He looked down at the water, scared of falling in it. He could only imagine what horrors was in there./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The airship was flying straight, Bereit and Treu climbing back on the top. He then stood up, still breathing heavily, and having no sword./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Treu sighed. "I see you lost the sword."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked down. "Sword or not... I'm not going down without a fight." He then stood in a fighting stance, having both fists up, though his right hand was broken./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Treu sighed, and swiped his rapier, making the flames go away, then sheathed his weapon. "I do not attack a vulnerable man. We will cross paths again. And when we do, it will be a duel to the death."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And how will you get out?" Bereit asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Drop me off where ever you go. I'll find my way." Tieu said./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Just then, Bereit saw an airship from the corner of his eye, seeing it was The Titan. His airship. He could hear his name being called out. He then looked at Tieu, and nodded. "Alright. I'll remember that."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He then walked to the windshield where Cid was. "Cid! There's an airship approaching us, but it's my crew! Turn to it and I'll jump!" Bereit said to /br /"Alright then! By the way, Bereit, this couldn't have happened without you! We'll follow your airship and lay low with you! Where are you heading?!"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at his airship, and then back at Cid./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Split up./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Stay together. ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We'll stay together! We're heading to Ozean!" Bereit answered, despite having Tieu know where his home his./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Cid nodded. "Alright! I'm bringing you to your airship!" Cid said, as he turned it to the airship, and flew right beside The Titan./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit looked at his friends cheering for him, happy to see him alive. Bereit smiled back, and watched as the airship drew close. He then jumped right on it, but fell right on the ground, shoulder first./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen gasped at the sight of his broken hand, and body in it's horrid state. "Bereit! Are you okay!? What did they do to you!?" She asked, in a complete panicked tone of voice./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit shook his head slowly, exhaustedly. "I did this... to myself..." He breathed heavily. "Take us to Ozean... the ship is filled with prisoners... they're good people..." He said, looking at the /br /Fallen nodded. "Okay. Just, stay awake. Don't die!"br /br /"I'm not dying... I'm just... I need some shut eye..." Bereit slowly closed his eyes./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen then saw Tieu on the airship. "And him? He's suppose to come with us?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He'll... find his way..." Bereit said./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Everything was coming to her so fast. Bereit's horrid condition, Tieu coming along, and the fact that her mother would be after them by now, because of all of this. Fallen started to breath too quickly, as she then felt Vanessa's hands on her shoulders. "Fallen! It's okay! He just needs rest! Let's take him home! He'll recover and get time to relax if we take him home!" Vanessa said, hoping that would calm her down./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen started to slow her breathing, pausing every few breaths. She then slowly nodded. "Okay... okay." So this was the cruelty her mother could manage. Or perhaps, this was only a taste. She was starting to grow afraid, of the idea of confronting her. But, she would have to... eventually./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Save your game up to this point?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yes/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No/span/span/p