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Chapter 12: Onwards To Albion
"I think we escaped." Louise says letting out a sigh of relief.
The three have been running for some time now never stopping for anything. They are now climbing a huge staircase up some mountain. "Last I checked, ships float on water. Not air." Yuudai says out loud. "Though I shouldn't be surprised since this world is full of magic."
"What do you mean by, this world?" Louise asks since Wardes didn't hear and she did.
"Like I said before. I am from another world made up of no magic." Yuudai replies. Yuudai's instincts act up again putting the teen on guard. "What is happening now?" Yuudai mutters looking around.
The three make it to the top showing the greatest scene of Yuudai's life. A huge tree probably taller than Tokyo Tower! The scene leaves him speechless in awe and he drops his guard forgetting the feeling he had. He notices a ship coming from one of the branches as if it was on a zip line.
"This is amazing." Yuudai says. His instincts roar at him telling him to do something. He looks up to find the man in the white mask from earlier jump behind her. "Blanc!" Yuudai calls out already pulling out his sword that leaves his hand glowing in the night. "Don't you dare touch her!" Yuudai growls as he grabs her from behind.
Yuudai rushes towards them as the masked man jumps into the air. Wardes uses a wind hammer spell knocking Louise out of his arms down the hill towards her death. Wardes immediately jumps for her like a grebe (it is a real thing, I promise) catching her.
Yuudai stays still with his hair covering his eyes in a shadow. His grip tightens on his sword as the masked man lands on the ground in front of him. "I will kill you. I swear I won't let you off the hook easily!" Yuudai growls in anger not showing his eyes still.
All the masked man does is start chanting a spell. Yuudai rushes at the man slashing at him. The man dodges still chanting. The air starts to chill allowing Yuudai to see his own breathes. Yuudai then jumps backwards a few yards at the same time as the man shoots lightning.
"Watch out, that's Lightning Cloud!" Derflinger advises.
Yuudai braces himself knowing he can't dodge that based on his current power up alone. The lightning hits Derflinger that is blocking it's path to Yuudai. The teen grunts in pain, but holds his ground as the lightning finally goes out. He blinks his eyes as his gun appears out of his other hand. He tries to grab it, but earns a painful shockwave in his body. He then shoots at his body feeling all the pain turn into power.
A dark smirk forms on Yuudai's lips as his hair and eyes turn a light blueish yellow. "Thank you for the power up you bastard." Yuudai thanks looking to him just as a full current of lightning strikes him in the middle of his chest making Yuudai's eyes go white from the excruciating pain.
The poor teen is sent flying back over the mountain. He forces all his will power to shooting at his chest where the pain originated. This only gets rid of the pain of the electricity going through his body still feeling the pain of being hit by the full force of that lightning attack. Wardes uses the fly spell on his slowing his decent onto the ground.
"YUUDAI!" Louise screams breaking away from Wardes running to him as Yuudai falls onto one knee.
The teen with a strange hair color forces out a small chuckle. "This hurts like hell." He says getting to his feet. He goes to fall, but Louise barely catches him as his gun disappears. His hair and eyes also return to normal. The teen struggles to put his sword in his sheath while in Louise's arms.
"Where does it hurt Yuudai?" She asks worrying.
He lifts his shirt showing the top half of his chest all red and in the middle is the reddest and painful part. "I am assuming this isn't going away for some time." Yuudai says. "Damn it! I let my guard down and now I will have this to remind me." Yuudai angrily says.
"Please calm down Yuudai. All that matters is you're alive." Louise tells him hurting inside seeing the ugly bruise he now has.
"That was Lightning Cloud. I don't know how, but you made it out alive when that usually kills it's target." Wardes says gravely. "We need to get to the ship, so try to keep up as best you can."
"Wardes!" Louise scolds.
"I will try my best." Yuudai replies letting Louise let go of him. "Don't worry Blanc. I will be fine." Yuudai says hiding the pain he is feeling.
"You better be fine." She tells him.
Yuudai smiles at her. "Let's get going then."
Later
"That must be the ship." Yuudai says trying his very best to keep up with Wardes and Louise. He is doing much better than what the two expected since he was keeping up with them the whole time.
The trio continue on board the ship meeting a drunk sailor. "What are you three doing? Ship doesn't leave until tomorrow."
Yuudai goes to pull out his sword to threaten the sailor, but Wardes shakes his head. The injured teen reluctantly puts his hands in his pocket. "Where is the captain?" Wardes asks.
"He is asleep. Come back in the morning." The drunken man tells them.
Wardes pulls out his staff and points it at him. "You want a noble to repeat what he just said?"
"A n-noble!" The man runs back into the captain's room.
"Why couldn't I pull out my sword if you got to pull out your staff?" Yuudai questions.
"Because you need to save your energy for now. You're lucky you're doing this good so far." Wardes replies.
"Yes, you have done more than enough for today." Louise tells her familiar.
"I will make sure I get payback next time. Next time I won't let my guard down because of my past victories." Yuudai states. A shockwave of pain burns from his injury making him grab hold off his chest and grit his teeth so that he doesn't cry out in pain.
"I still can't believe you survived that attack." Wardes says noticing Yuudai grab his chest in pain.
"I still gotta keep my promises to Henrietta, so dying would be pathetic." Yuudai tells him giving a pained smirk.
"You are a strange one for sure." Wardes says sighing.
An old man that looks to be in his fifties walks out unhappy at being awake this late. "What do you want?" The captain asks irritably.
"I am the leader of her royal majesty's mage guard, Captain Wardes." Wardes introduces evenly.
The old timer quickly straightens up. "So what service could ship do for you?"
"Take us to Albion."
"Madness!" The old man exclaims.
"Then make it work. We don't have time for your bull crap. The Princess of this land has us doing this mission." Yuudai explains in a calm tone. "And if I have to hurt you to fulfill the promise I made to her then so be it."
"Calm down Yuudai." Wardes tells him looking at the very much frightened ship captain. "Now why can't you take us?"
The man gulps. "B-because we don't have enough wind stones. We only have enough for the shortest trip there."
"Sorry, but what is a wind stone?" Yuudai asks calming himself.
If the boy didn't scare him so much the man would deadpan. Sadly, the man is terrified of ticking the teen off too much. "Wind stones are stones with wind magic inside them. This ship can't fly without them." He explains. "If we had more then we could have gone earlier."
"I can make up for all the wind stones. I am a square class wind mage, so it won't be a problem." Wardes explains.
"Then it won't be a problem, but you will have to pay for the ride." The captain says a bit reluctantly.
"I see. What are you carrying?" Wardes questions.
"Sulfur. It is worth it's weight in gold gold. Nobles seem to have increased it in desperation for security. To have that, gunpowder and firepower are a must." The captain tells him.
"I'd hate to be on the ship if somebody decides to blow the ship sky high." Yuudai says jokingly.
Louise glares at him. "Don't even joke about that. I don't need to add that to my growing list of worries." She tells him sternly.
"Sell it all to me."
Yuudai's eyes widen a small fraction while the captain smiles deviously. "Leave port! Untie anchors! Set sail!"
The sailors mutter insults and unhappy words as they expertly get the ship ready. Wardes walks over to chat with the captain as Louise checks on Yuudai. She lays a hand on his shoulder getting his full attention.
"How is your injury doing?" She asks worrying about her familiar.
Yuudai sighs looking at his shirt that is covering his injury. "Hurts like hell still. It definitely won't be going away anytime soon."
Louise looks at the ground guilty. "I'm sorry Yuudai." She says surprising him that she said his real name. "If you wouldn't have been trying to protect me then you wouldn't even be hurt."
Yuudai chuckles irking her. "No need to feel guilty Blanc. I was too arrogant and I got what was coming to me. Besides, I did promise to protect you to the best of my ability." Yuudai tells her smiling a bit.
She takes her arm away looking away. "I guess you are right. Just don't overestimate yourself again. That's an order."
"As much as I love disobeying you, I won't ever overestimate myself again." He tells her. "I promise."
She smiles a little as Wardes comes on over. "Well we got some bad news." Wardes says getting a groan from Yuudai. "The Albion Royal army near Newcastle is completely surrounded and are fighting an uphill battle."
"Well this isn't good at all. What about the Wales guy? Is he still alive?" Yuudai asks seeming to have asked Louise's question.
"I am not completely sure, but I believe he is."
"Wait, isn't the port taken over by the rebels?" Louise asks remembering that bit of information.
"Unfortunately it is." Wardes replies.
"Then how will we be able to get to Newcastle?" Louise questions wishing she had a decent idea.
"From the way things are going, I would say we fight our way through." Yuudai states unhappily. Wardes nods agreeing with the teen boy. "It won't be fun for me since I officially had a weak spot." He mutters.
"Once we get through all we gotta worry about is travelling in the dark." Wardes tells them.
"So it will be the easiest part of the trip." Yuudai says. "Or the hardest depending on who happens to be lurking."
"Speaking of which, where is your gryphon?" Louise asks.
The man grins then walks to the side of the ship. He whistles loudly that starts some flapping of wings from below the ship. The beast flies up and onto the deck startling some of the sailors. The gryphon looks at Yuudai for a moment.
Yuudai holds up two fingers in a peace sign. "What's up?" The beast lets out a screech as a reply. "Nice to know." Yuudai turns to Wardes. "Why don't we take the gryphon all the way there. It would save so much time."
"It isn't a dragon. It can't fly for that long of a distance." Louise tells him.
Yuudai deadpans. "First of all, that is bull crap. You and your boyfriend over there road it all the way to La Rochelle in one go." He stops to think for a moment. "Though it would make sense that it can't fly all the way there because of the strain already put on it." Yuudai sighs walking over to a hay stack. "Wake me up when we arrive. I need to get some rest."
He then closes his eyes as Louise looks at him worried still. Wardes watches in interest at the strong teen. The gryphon screeches again at the boy. The boy shoots up with a fist up.
"Shut up bird brain!" He exclaims. The gryphon screeches again in a challenge. "Bring it!"
End
And we got this done! It took some time, but I have been working on my other stories finally as well so please forgive me. Definitely isn't easy, but it is fun.
Now that Yuudai has tasted defeat, rather brutally, what do you think will happen? And yes I do know that it originally was meant to be on his wrist, but as far as I know (still reading the book) it doesn't matter, so I thought that it would make an interesting little change.
Next on my list of things to talk about is that if I don't update this for a little bit then it is because I am working on my main story. The Zengaria. Not as popular as this, but it has over 80,000 words that show how much my writing has improved since I started that. But I like this story so I won't quit on it.
I think I finished what I wanted to say, so thanks for reading and have a great day/night/morning!