Revenge
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Ch. 2 – Warning
*~*~*~* Eriol's POV:
"Are you two all right?" I burst into Arnor's room when I heard the loud explosion.
"Yeah. We're fine! I think it came from the back gate." Tomoyo was quickly dressing our son, Arnor, for the upcoming trip.
After being reassured that they were both safe, I ran outside, around to the back gardens. Once there, I could tell that Tomoyo was correct in her guess that it was from the back gate.
Running quickly, I arrived at the site of the explosion in about ten minutes and instantly began questioning those already there, "What happened?"
"I don't know, sir! Everything was just fine one minute, and the next there was a loud explosion, out of no-where and now this!" He pointed to a fire that was quickly being drowned, "We have almost got it out, sire." The man bowed and ran off to help finish dousing the fire.
I turned my back, satisfied that things were going to be fine for the few days that we were going to be gone. Then I heard the servants scream and yell in horror. Spinning around, I saw that the flame was no longer just a regular flame; it was now snow-white and had the face of a man in its midst. The face of Ispep.
*~*~*~* Efil's POV:
"Those two will have to fix it this time!" I mumbled as I climbed into the carriage with my wife and son.
"Not before we leave, right?" Ados' eyes were large and ready to fill with water.
"I don't know." I finished stuffing the traveling bags in their compartments, "It'll depend on how much damage there is."
"Stop trying to blame this on me! You know you're the one who blew up the damn gate!" Arukas and Loire were on their way over.
When they saw us, they both called out, "There's a fire! Fire at the front gate!"
"Then put it out!" I yelled back to them.
"We tried! We can't! It just won't go out!" They both looked genuinely frightened, "And we didn't do it this time!" They yelled at the same time.
Sincerely shocked, they always admit who did it, I jumped out and started toward the front gate on foot.
"Ados, you stay here with Loire and Arukas!" I heard Arianllyn say before hearing her quick, light footsteps following me.
Running through the center of the garden instead of around it, I arrived at the front gate in only a couple minutes with Arianllyn right behind. We instantly began helping the growing number of gardeners, servants and knights get water to douse the flames as quickly as possible.
About five minutes later, when we almost had the fire out, it began to glow a bright white. Following a compulsion, I looked into the heart of the fire and was the face that had haunted my dreams for the last five years; the face of my father, best known as Ispep.
*~*~*~* Syaoran's POV:
Handing Rhun over to Sakura, I ran as quickly as I could to the stables. When I got there, the stable hands were already getting all of the animals out of reach of the fire and to safety and hauling water to the flames.
Running up and taking the horses from a young lad, I asked, "How did this happen? Who started the fire?"
"I don't know, your majesty! You'd have to ask someone else. I wasn't over here when it started!"
"Thanks!" I ran the horses to where the other horses were being taken.
There, I ran into and asked the man who always would help me prepare my horse for riding and asked him what had happened.
"Your Majesty." He made a quick bow, "All I know is that suddenly the entire barn was on fire. No one knows who started it or even how it started, but we also haven't really had a chance to check into it yet. If you'll excuse me, my lord." He ran back to the barn.
By the time I made it back, the fire was almost out and completely away from the barn.
It was now at a post about twenty feet from the barn and was just about to be put out when it burst into a ten foot high, white flame.
"What the?!" I gasped when it did that. When it did that, it also developed a familiar face in its center, the face of my most hated enemy; Ispep.
*~*~*~* Diov's POV:
"What was that?" Sage's eyes were about to pop out of her head. Bolting through the still open door, she tore down the hall, towards the nearest exit.
Following in her path of destruction, I tried to calm her, to little avail, "Sage! Calm down!"
Stopping to spin on me, she responded, "Diov! I don't have the damn time to calm down! I have to get wherever that explosion came from and fix whatever damage there is before the others get here!!!" She spun back around and stormed off down the hall.
Deciding not to get in her way at the moment, I took another route to the site of the explosion. When I got there a few minutes later, Sage was just storming up.
"What happened?" She grabbed one of the men.
"I don't know, your highness! It just exploded!"
Letting the man go, she glared at the fire as if that would make it disappear and everything just fine. Unfortunately it didn't. After just watching it for a second, glaring, she bolted into action and started using her powers to help as much as she could.
Walking up to her, I added the little bit of power I had to moving more water to the fire.
As soon as it was almost out, it suddenly shot up into towering white flames with the image of a man in the center. Ispep!
*~*~*~* Third Person POV:
Making his way quickly back to his home of the past five years, Ispep was excited, but at the same time apprehensive. Five years had passed since he had been sent to this hellish dimension and he was ready to leave.
After securing his door, he rushed across the room and began calling up a fire that would open a way for him to talk to those in the other world, at the other end of the opening between the dimensions.
Upon seeing the faces of all his hated foes, he began, "I see that you are all here. How wonderful!"
When he started talking, everyone assumed a defensive position.
He laughed before continuing, "I just thought that all of you would like to know that in two days, five years after being sealed in this damn place to the day, I will be back! And I will have my revenge!" Ispep dissipated his fire, laughing hysterically. With the absence of Ispep's magic, all the other flames died instantaneously.
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End of Ch. 2
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