"How far are we now?"
"Hell if I know?, all was said is that they were supposed to be here?"
"Well I'm not waiting anymore it's getting colder by the second!"
The two that were having this conversation was none other then, Kyra and Ethel these two decided to go out an find the Hervianas together, "I still don't know why Cullen told me to bring you along?, dealing with with a selfish prick like you?"
"Hey!, it's not like I want to hang around with a traitor!?" Kyra yells back, she then was gripped by the front of her dress trying to take Ethel hands off her, till she was yanked towards Ethel "yes I am Traitor but for a very good reason!, I will not have my own people be just a side glance all because of a darn curse!, now if you don't mind!" Ethel glares at Kyra before shoving her to the side. Ethel let's her go walking towards a ship that they had to use for their mission today, Kyra stumbles back then getting she balance back, Kyra grips her hands in anger huffing at Ethel as she walks away with her dignity, "self loathing brat..." Ethel says as he goes back to ship getting ready to seat sail.
With the the ship now in the lake's water Ethel started to go around the lake boarders, Ethel looks around trying to see anything particular he was looking for, as he sailed he noticed that a ship was coming into view, smiling big "well here we are!" Ethel turns the ship so he could get on board with the other ship, "what are you doing?" Kyra looks back to Ethel, "something I was suppose to do when I had the chance" Ethel says as he sets the anchor down. Getting everything set Ethel starts to walk down the plank of wood to enter the ship, Ethel looks around to see if anyone was around seeing that there wasn't, he started to head towards the captain's quarters as Kyra was looking at the ship in discuss, Ethel walks to the door of the captain's room reaching down to open it, with on small swing of the door so he could looked inside the room, a gun went off the bullet soared pass Ethel's head and hitting the door frame. Kyra quickly went behind Ethel's back in fear of getting hit, Ethel looks at the frame before looking over to the culprit who fired at him.
Standing across from Ethel was a red headed man in his 40s drunk off his butt with a well groomed beard, and dressed in white sailer shirt an brown pirate pants an boots, the man was tipping around the room before pulling the gun's trigger again. Kyra screams in fear and gripped Ethel's coat trying to protect herself, Ethel on the other hand didn't move till he pulled his whip out, with lighting speed aiming at the man's gun it quickly shot out of the man's hand towards the floor Ethel disarmed him. Still drunk the man stumbled back towards the ground he went with a thud when hitting the ground, Kyra leans over to see if Ethel killed the man but seeing he was still alive, Kyra smacked Ethel in the back "what the heck!, you said there wasn't going to be anything like this!," Ethel rolls his eyes before pulling Kyra off his coat, walking over to the man, Ethel crouched down an yanks the man up form the ground.
"Get up you waste of time" Ethel when holding the man up as his legs dangled above the ground, "where are they?"
"Huh?"
"The Ceasg where are they!"
"I would like to know as well...wasted 20 years of my life, just to find the dang creatures..." the man leans his head back, "missed my girl's birthday all because of what I did..." the man laughs before slumping to the side, Kyra walks over to see what happened "d-did you kill him?" she looked over to Ethel, "he's alive he's just drank himself into blacking out this man is the main reason we Hervianas have the curse on us..."
"He did?, another Herviana?"
"Form what one single Canessian man did to his wife, and don't get me wrong what the man did deserves it, but everyone suffered from this, he wished to a Ceasg asking the Canessian man to suffer but this guy was never specific on his wish, and now we're in this mess all because of him!" Ethel yells and shakes the man, Kyra quickly try's to stop Ethel for trying to kill the man, "so you have him now is there anything else that want form him?, you have no main reason why you want him still alive?"
"No I don't but Cullen does he wants to know where he could found the Ceasg, to be real with you Cullen needs their life force right now," Ethel says as he sets the man leaning against the front of the Captain's desk, "why not get life force in Valisia he was there originally?" Kyra asked as she it's down on a nearby create, "he was at the beginning till he was caught by your ex fiancée and his friends, and with this Elena girl all going after him he couldn't stay there anymore, after all he was a resident before he was found out," Ethel says while giving a small smirk Kyra glares at him.
"What's so interesting about this Elena girl anyways?, it's not like she that fun to be around with?," Kyra says as she frowns at the thought of Elena, "well I beg to differ after all she's with Alexzander now, that and she can hold her own in a fight?, then again that's what all men want now in days a strong and caring independent woman to be with?" Ethel grins while poking at Kyra's self esteem, Kyra stands up in anger "oh please just because she fights doesn't mean anything!, I've convinced people to do things they would never consider, I had wars start over something so simple!"
"And you hid behind those that have more power so you can just survive, real smooth Kyra" Ethel grins before getting shot in the chest, Ethel placed a hand on his chest before looking back at Kyra she was holding the man's gun at Ethel, angry and pissed Kyra held the gun higher "it's not cowardliness when I knowingly can benefit from it, I am always a ahead of my enemies so don't try and tell me other wise!"
"Alright fair enuff..." Ethel says while his body melts into dark sludge, Kyra steps back in fear as she watched the bullet she shot in Ethel hit the ground, Kyra watched on without knowing Ethel had reappeared again next to her, Ethel quickly takes the gun away from her "try not to shot me again, cause I won't be to forgiven if you do it again," Ethel then puts the gun behind his back waste belt an walks away, Kyra sticks her tongue out at Ethel while the man's back was turn.
Kyra walks up to the unconscious man before asking Ethel a question, "why not try and lift the curse yourself and then let Cullen have the Ceasg?"
"It wouldn't solve anything the curse isn't the problem it's what the Canessian did during the curse, Uncle wanted to help but they didn't even tho Uncle wanted a compromise, in the end Uncle was side glance as the Canessian believed he was lying," Ethel pulls then captain's chair closer to the desk so he could read the map better, "you know what...why does Cullen even want to help us anyways?..., it's not like that we're good pals?"
"What about you?, you're here as well?" Ethel says as he looks at Kyra, "I told Cullen where he could find the Witch of the Forest, as long as I get to plan how to deal with Alexzander, Cullen wanted me to span class="Apple-converted-space" /spando it at souls day but please that's just typical, that...and I'm banned from Valisia...But!, me on the other hand have a better idea of dealing with Alexzander," Ethel leans back in his chair interested in what Kyra has in mind "and how are you going to do that?"
"I asked the Witch of the Forest for help so I got Alexzander where I want him, all I need to do is get us alone and it's smooth sailing from there, after that darn blizzard is finally lifted stopped what I was going to originally..." Kyra says as she sits on the captain's desk, "did Cullen ever told you about that the blizzard?, that was definitely not a normal one?"
"Well yes but not the whole details tho he said something about it as distracting the giants, making them think it was the rocks that were the main reason of the blizzard, along side Alexzander who also thought it was as well, so he could get them away at a certain spot?, that was called the Chetrov?" Ethel says this as he scratched his face thinking for a moment.
"...Chetrov is the place where the dark Divine fell?, its safe guarded by two mythical sirins that are messengers of the Divines, Gamayun and Alkonost?, one that speaks the truth while the other speaks lies, there are other sirins but they are just as dangerous those two...," Kyra looks to Ethel before leaning in to whisper something, "do you think Cullen is trying to bring back the dark Divine?"
"I don't think so he's more into getting King Kritis back?, he said that the gem and a vessel or some sorts is the main reason he's doing these evil things?, so he could give off so much magical powers that it can bring the Divines down, Cullen then will still the Divines power of some sorts to use it on what ever he's doing?" When Ethel has said this a thought came through his mind.
Was Cullen trying to become a Divine?
Was Death that hard to over come that even bringing the dead up wasn't enuff for him, he brought him back?, then again he would have to carry a bag of pills to just keep himself alive, and it takes a toll out of Ethel as being dead can hurt like hell if he didn't watch the time on taking his pills, Ethel wasn't paying attention to Kyra as she was talking about tricking Alexzander, she looks over seeing Ethel wasn't looking at her Kyra started to get mad.
"Ethel!"
"Huh?," Ethel looks to Kyra then realized what she just said.
"Wait did you just said that Alexzander is still into you?" Ethel quickly asked this without a second thought, "uhh?, yeah in a way?, I think he's still facing the fact that I'm gone at the same time, he believes remembering old memories can better for a person?, stupid if I have to say making yourself into a emotional roller coaster isn't healthy," Kyra crosses her arms as she looked away but looked back to Ethel, "you're thinking of using me aren't you!" Kyra yells pointing at Ethel in the face, Ethel nods with a evil grin "alright lay it on me...hope to god it's better then this...," Kyra says as she gestures to this whole being on the ship thing.
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At the edge of the Forest stood a thriving village everyone was talking to each other with happy faces, but the bustling village today in a long time had finally come quite, as the people that lived there all stopped to look at a small group walking into the village, all tired and a mess they watched the group head towards the local Tavern. The Tavern's doors swung open everyone that lived in the village turn to see who it was, holding the doors open was LIarm tired and gross along side everyone else in his group, they didn't care that the quite, thoughtful, and reasonable elf friend of theirs was grumpy. After all they to are in the same boat Conner walks to the Tavern owner and ask for a table, "uhh...we only have the bar stools available..."
"Alright we'll take all the bar stools" Conner sighed these words in defeat.
"There's three only available..."
The group groaned when hearing this "okay Foloki gets a seat a long side Timothée, I really don't care I'm just going to sit on the floor and drink a cold pint of root beer."
"4..
"2"
"1"
"8..."
Alexzander didn't really care that he said 8 as he really just wanted to relax, "okay I didn't really say how high but Elena you won so have fun..."
"But mine was the lowest number?"
"Congratulations and you won just take the seat or I'm giving it to LIarm, before he decides to yell at us with literature about how the world sucks, and I don't think we all want to hear that right now..." Conner looks to Elena with a mental drain face, Elena nods slowly taking the seat seeing that all the boys really didn't care.
"What would you like today miss?" The bar tender asked as he walks over to Elena, "what do you have that can solve our little problem here?," Elena points towards the mess of men the bar tender nods seeing what she meant, he then walks off to find what ever he needed. Elena sighs in relief an was a little sad as Mia had to leave their group, Mia had told the group she must leave fearing that Louis, will convince King Samuel that she went rouge. Timothée feeling he was the main reason they were in this situation, gave Mia a letter to hand off to his brother asking him to believe in Mia, as she was the one that watched over him when they traveled through the thick forest.
Unknown to them a familiar person will come and meet them here, as everyone in the Tavern looked to the door when it slammed open, with picture a hanging on the wall near the door had fell to the ground shattering it.
"Hello boys~" Kyra says with a huge smile on her face, but she jumps back when Alexzander and Gabe screamed at her, but stopped when Alexzander leans over to look at Gabe, "why the heck are you screaming?" Alexzander asked Gabe this, "what?, she came out of no where..., any one would scream?"
"Eh fair enuff especially with that face" Alexzander shrugged agreeing to Gabe's comment.
"You almost married this face!" Kyra points towards Alexzander's nose making Alexzander go cross eye to look at it, "it was beautiful in the beginning till you showed you're horrible features," Alexzander says as he stands up patting the dust of his body, Kyra looks at Alexzander with disapproval "even all these years, and you still haven't changed...childish as always."
"No this is childish" Alexzander says as he thrust his hands forward causing Kyra to fall backwards, making her land in a pile of mud with Kyra's dress now covered in such mud, she glares back at Alexzander in anger "how dare you!, do you know how much is worth!"
"Yes!, that's why I shoved you in the first place so I can have the satisfaction, of knowing that I ruin something of yours like you did to me," Alexzander smiles at his old ex who was in beyond words, she remembered him as the one that would help a woman in need, his whole demeanor was off like he was a whole new person. Kyra shifted her eyes around to find the old Alexzander but it wasn't there, "did Mylene put you up to this?, seeing she has a way of convincing people," Kyra says this as she stands up to wipe the mud of her, but she gotten more anger seeing she was only smearing it. The rest of the group came out to see what was going on, along with some of the village people as they all came to watch the scene unfold, "well for one Mylene did as anyone would do in the situation, in seeing the person they care for years brake down into millions of pieces after what their abusive ex did to them!" Alexzander glares at Kyra seeing that she flinched when he said those words to her, he never really talked to her after the whole incident as he never really wanted to, all he saw was her ship leaving the Valisia docks on that day.
"Alexzander Teso-"
"Don't!"
"!" Kyra jumps back when hearing Alexzander yell this out, he...Alexzander never yelled at her...not ever...did she really hurt him?, it was an old teenage love, it wasn't like it was anything special, all love she gotten was never true, Kyra looks up to Alexzander she noticed he was shaking, as he was trying so hard to keep the pain in from looking at her.
"Don't ever use that word on me ever again I am not you're sweetheart, and I'm not going sit hear and listen to you're reasons, or even how you figured out on how you found us of all things, and what ever problem you are having, maybe for once you can do it on your own, I'm not the man that would come to your aid anymore, like you always expect of me but hey maybe this time you can actually do the work, and maybe unthaw that cold dead heart of yours for once...,"
"Ohh...snap..."
Everyone turns to see a little boy that said this, who was standing not far from everyone there.
Alexzander quickly turns around as everyone had the look of shock, Elena had tried to stop Alexzander but he just brushed passed her, heading towards the male bathroom as he went to go open it Alexzander slammed into it, sighing in frustration asking the bar tender for the key.
Alexzander then locked himself in the bathroom seeing this as a way to keep everyone away, Conner placed a hand on Elena's shoulder "I trust you can get him out, we'll handle Kyra so don't worry about her" Elena nods smiling at Conner as a thank you, she slowly goes over to the male bathroom door knocking on it to see if Alexzander would answer, "can I come in?" Elena says as she waited before Alexzander spoke, "I don't think I can..."
"Alexzander Maxwell Pendragon, I think you can open a bathroom door and let me in to speak with you of all things," Elena frowns before she heard shifting around till the sound of door nob popped and cracking, the door then swingings open on the other side of the door nob was broken in place, "I sort of kind of ruin the door..." Alexzander says as he sits on top of the toilet seat, it was a very small bathroom and also a broom closet...Elena walks in shutting the door behind her, using a broken broom handled keeping the door from swing open to hit them.
"Alexzander I know it's hard to see Kyra again but don't let her get to you..." Elena says as she reaches for his hands intertwining together, "it's not about Kyra..."
"Oh...is it about what she did with you know..."
"Haha...it seems Mylene told you about what she did..." Alexzander smirks at Elena who blushed lightly, "ehh...but it was the only way for me to understand why, you and everyone at Valisia was hostile towards me...," Elena smiles back but she felt Alexzander's hand gripped hers lightly, "I was upset with her for what she did yes but at the same time i new something was wrong and but what I didn't expect was who she did it with..."
"The guard?" Elena didn't really see the importance of that man, after all she thought he was the main reason but thinking about more clearly now, Mylene never said anything particular of the guard but mostly of Kyra, "he..." Alexzander stopped then continuing again "he was a good man a very good man..."
"Alexzander I'm right here I won't judge on what ever your going to say?" Elena takes his hand, and placing it on her cheek she smiles at Alexzander as she felt his thumb rub her cheek, "his name was Zavier he came to the Palace when Mylene and me was just only 8..., he was like a sibling to me just like Mylene was we did everything together, and when we told him that we were all going to adventure, he chose to stay behind say it was his 'duty' as a guard to watch over the Kingdom, he had the look of fear on his face at that time, at first I thought he was just scared..."
Elena didn't say anything knowing where this is going, "...I found them together in my old room...in my own bed...everything was, I don't know how to explain it...it was like my whole world was a lie?"
"I see well I'm right here with you in every step of the way," Elena smiles but she noticed Alexzander wasn't looking to good, Elena heard a knock at the bathroom door before it opened but stop shortly because of the broken broom, seeing It was Conner that was standing there trying to squeeze in the bathroom, it was a very tight squeeze but Conner sat next to Alexzander, "just open the door I know everyone is out there...," Elena was the one that did it as Conner couldn't really do as much, the rest of their group standing there Gabe chuckles nervously felling out of place, "seeing everyone wants to know what happened afterwards..."
"Alexzander, his mother, and his Father were the only ones that knew who truly knows what happened to Kyra at the end, hearing that it was Zavier, you better tell us everything kid..." Foloki asked, hearing that this was serious knowing that it was Zavier that sleep with Kyra.
"Alright...alright... Zavier wasn't killed even tho my father enforced it, but my mother humble and caring with her stubbornness ways, gave Zavier a choice stay in Valisia and be the one known to sleep with the prince's lover, or..." Alexzander stopped for a moment till he continued again "or be executed...,he didn't want ether of them...all he wanted was someone to listen."
Alexzander looked to everyone to confirmed what he did was true,"And I did listen..."
"What?" "Huh?"
Everyone looked at him confused Alexzander listen to the man that sleep with his ex lover, "why?" Elena asked Alexzander this she didn't understand why listen to someone, that ruined the one good thing you had in life it made not sense, "a fair trial i: a fair trail I am to listen everyone's rights even if their not worthy of it," when Alexzander says this Gabe was the one that spoke up, "what did he say?" Gabe asked everyone turn to look over to him, then to Alexzander so he could finish what he had started, "he told me that Kyra said no to me on the marriage in fear of me finding out that she was in loved him, telling Zavier she wanted him far away form me as possible in fear of him getting hurt..., telling him she was faking to be with me cause I was abusing her, and it made everything come together it made sense to me in many ways..."
"Shit...this does make sense" LIarm looks down realizing what Alexzander was trying tell them, Gabe looked over to LIarm in shock as he witnessed LIarm curse, "Divines we were all played...the way Zavier talked to us, the way he ran off when asked him to come along, and the whole fiasco about you wanting him to come along with you alone, Zavier acted like he was going to die..."
"Yeah for that reason I let him walk...no one will ever know, form then on my father and I clashed even more that's was the breaking point of my father with me, he believed it wasn't the right thing but I was the one to decide Zavier fate, we were both victims of a woman that lied to us...and from then on I never knew where Zavier went...," Alexzander leans down holding his hands in his face sighing hard, "I was this close in killing a man over a woman..."