Author's note" Hello again! First thing I want to say before I mention
anything is that the two new people in my story name's are Ramza and
Trikal. If you ever played FFT then you know where I got Ramza from but I
wanted to mention Trikal's name because everyone seems to say it wrong.
It's pronounced "Try-kul" if anyone pronounces it "trickle" Then I swear
that I'll beat you senseless with a rubber club covered in flaming
snow.....Doesn't sound harmful (or like it could exist) but it is! (And
does!) You've been warned.....
OH MY GOD!! My epic battle starts on the next chapter!! Ok, well it's official I have some work to do. Now don't expect updates on this for a long LONG time.Maybe a week at max. I need to get this thing just right. In fact, I need it to be perfect. It's the first of my epic battles so it has to be good.
Also, as I post each chapter of my epic battle there will be NO A/Ns in them. I don't want my nonsenses rants to take away from the story. Ok, that's all I have, be back when I have something truly worth reading.
Oh! And some pieces are starting to fall into place....Some things that didn't really have anything to do with each other now have one thing in common, It's pretty easy to find if you just pay attention. Find it and a cookie shall be thine reward.
Ah and yeah....Don't worry about my OS fic. That SHOULD be updating on it's normal routine.
Oh and I know this is a day late. I typed it out yesterday, saved it to my file, left to go do something, and forgot about it. Anyways, my OS update is on this one's heels....
"Good reading equals good times." I'm out
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Nite went back to the table he and Claire were at and sat down, sipping down the last of his water. As he sat there, he was startled as something touched his shoulder. He stood up and turned around to see what it was. Standing next to him was the blonde hair girl from before, Tera if his memory was correct.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I scare you?" She asked after seeing him jump up.
Nite laughed. "Well it seems our paths not only cross but intertwine. Want to have a seat?"
Tera nodded and sat next to him. "So what are you up to?"
"Nothing really, my sister just left and now I have nothing to do."
"That girl with the sword hanging from her shoulder was your sister? Don't you think it's kind of odd that she carries that thing around with her all the time?"
Nite grinned. "Not at all, I do the same thing."
He lifted up his cloak , revealing the concealed katana underneath it.
"Ohhh...." Tera said, slightly blushing from embarrassment.
Nite laughed again. "Don't worry, it's no big deal."
Tera smiled then changed the subject. "So you want to go do something?"
"With you?"
Nite immediately knew that answer came out wrong. Tera slumped down in her chair as Nite quickly jumped up and started correcting his mistake.
"Sorry, I didn't mean that!" He told her while taking her hand and picking her up off her seat. "What I meant to say was that I would love to do something with you. Did that sound better?"
Tera slightly giggled. "Yes it did, nice recovery. I give it a seven and a half."
Nite scratched his head. "Huh?"
"Nothing, don't worry about it. Let's just go." She said, taking him by the arm and pulling him off to the games that were set up around the festival.
~**~
While Vyse was wondering around he saw two people putting on a mini performance. He walked over to see what was going on.
"Hello one and all! I am the great Ramza and to my right is my faithful friend and companion Trikal!" A man said to the audience.
Ramza seemed to have a flair to him, something that naturally collected a crowd. He was wearing a light blue, nicely designed silk shirt with matching pants, only matched by his well kept brown hair and deeply gazing brown eyes. Maybe that's what caught people's attention. Or maybe it was the tone of his voice, like the ringing of bell, saying to come and see their magnificence. No, it could have been his attitude upon the stage, active and lively, never at a lost of words.
But his partner, this Trikal. He was different. Clothing himself in ripped up, faded, and loosely fitting studded leather. He was a quite one, as if he had something to hide. His dark brown hair stretched out in all directions in long, large clumps as a good portion of his bangs fell in front of the right side of his face. His blue eyes had the gaze of mystery to them, they held many feelings in them, most of the fear of being caught, the rest being the boastful ego of still being loose in the world. The only thing they may have persuaded people to think he wasn't some kind of cold- hearted killer was the sly grin on his face. Even though it was small, it still was there. The smile of a smooth talker, knowing what to say to get out of any situation. Looking closer to the group it was almost like Ramza looked like what Trikal felt. This combo was surely something that should be watched with a close eye as their kind appearance was ONLY skin deep....
"Today we will show you the wonderful tricks that can be used with Time Magic!" Ramza said as the crowed 'oooed'
"Now for our first trick. I will teleport a red ball from my palm to the hat in Trikal's hand!"
Trikal showed the hat to the audience so they knew nothing was in it.
"Now watch and be amazed!" Ramza taking the ball and putting it in his right hand. He raised his left hand and cupped it over the other so the ball was now hidden from view. There was a small pause as Ramza's hands seemed to sway from left to right....But they weren't really moving. It was like there was some kind of aura surrounding them. A second later he lifted his hand up and the ball was gone.
Ramza asked Trikal to show the people his hat, he silently agreed and pointed out the same red ball that was now sitting neatly in the center. There was a small round of applause but nothing big. All they did was just move a ball.
Ramza was about to start another trick but and now a worried looking Trikal had to whisper something in his ear.
Ramza looked at Trikal, now just as worried. "Are you serious?"
Trikal nodded.
"Wow, they caught on quicker then we thought....."
He turned his attention back to the crowd. "Um.....I'm terrible sorry ladies and gentlemen but something has arisen and we must cut right to the final act. Once again, I am truly sorry we couldn't show you more."
The crowed was torn between boos and cheers. The boos since it ended so quickly and the cheers for....Well for the same reason....
"Now if you would all just please get as close to the stage as possible we'll perform our last trick."
Everyone walked up to the stage at Ramza's request. Well, everyone except Vyse.
"You too, sir." Ramza said to him.
"No, I'm fine right here thank you."
Ramza glared at Vyse but only for a small moment. His tiny moment of anger went back to his cheerful nature. "Ok, that's fine too."
He turned back to the audience once again. "Ok, just concentrate on my hands and you'll be amazed..."
He drew a circle in the air with his right hand then ran his left one across the center. Next he cupped his hands together like before, causing the waves that had been there before to grow and spread around the crowd. The waves soon covered everyone but Vyse, he was far enough away to not be in it's radius. The waves started to do to the people what they had done to his hands, they became wavy and distorted. The blurred images made Vyse start to blink. The second he did everything disappeared. The people, the stage, the performers. Everything.
Vyse didn't know what was going, how could they be there one second and not the next....But that was just it, they were barely gone for that one second. Within the same moment that everything disappeared, they reappeared. Like they never left to begin with.
The people looked around at each other, just as confused as Vyse.
"Well I guess my trick didn't work, oh well better luck next time, huh?" Ramza began to say to the audience while he and Trikal picked up bags that Vyse had never seen until this moment and run off. Moving unusually fast.
Men in uniforms were chasing after the two as quickly as possible.
"Catch them!" One started to yell. "Those two are the Time Bandits! We've been after them forever! Get them! Now!!"
Vyse laughed....He knew he had seen those two before. His conclusions about them having something to hide was pretty accurate too. He started to walk away from the crowd just as they started to complain that all their Gil and other valuable were missing. Man, a Time Mage and a Thief. What a perfect combo....
~**~
"Hey, how are you two doing?" Bridget asked Ked and K.C. when she finally found them.
"Pretty good!" K.C. answered. "We were just cleaning up, getting ready to head over to the performances and get some get some good seats. You want to come with us a grab a seat, too?"
Bridget nodded her head. "Sure, I might as well."
K.C. smiled. "Ok, great! Follow me!"
K.C. started to run off to the main stage, which wasn't that far away to begin with. After the quick little walk to the stage, Bridget saw the man who was traveling with Nite. K.C. spotted him, too.
"Hey, it's Vyse! Let's go say hi!!" She didn't wait for Bridget to agree, she was already pulling her and Ked in his direction.
"Hiya, Vyse! K.C. yelled to him.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't little K.C. Nice to see you here.
"Tsh, it's nice to see me anywhere....Anyways, this is Bridget. Say hi Bridgy!"
Bridget laughed a bit, then introduced herself. "Hello, Vyse."
"Hello to you too, Miss 'Bridgy.'" He sly-fully said, taking her hand and kissing the back of it.
K.C. put an end to that pretty quick. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Enough of THAT!" K.C. even went as far as to push herself between the two so further actions wouldn't take place. Vyse and Bridget simply laughed as K.C. started to grumble.
"C'mon, Ked....Let's just go find some seats."
Ked agreed to her request and soon enough they were off to find the best seats possible.
"She's defiantly a rambunctious little girl..." Vyse said to Bridget. "So what are you going to be doing after Tera gets done talking to the king?"
"I'm going to take her back to Tilandros so she can get back to what she needs to be doing."
"You know there's going to be a lot of stress on her when she returns? She's got a lot to do if she thinks she can properly rule such a large kingdom like Tilandros as their Queen at such a young age."
"Yes, I agree. But that's why she came here. To get some advice from a reliable source."
"Hmm, that's true....But still, Tilandros is a big place, if she cracks under the pressure then the people of the kingdom will suffer greatly. 'To bring salvation or destruction to a kingdom, thus if the duty of royalty.'"
"That quote you just said. Who's it from?"
"Me, I suppose. Just made it up....Thought it fit the conversation perfectly....Well, I'm out of here. Hope you and Tera have a good life."
"Ok, good bye then....And thank you for this talk."
"Heh, not a problem. It is my job as an advisor to help people, after all."
After said, Vyse walked off allowing Bridget to soak in everything that was just said.
~**~
"Alright, now what do we do?" Nite asked Tera, after finding some ball under some cup for the fifth time in a row.
"Hmmm, well so far you've played two games but I did three so you have to do one more before we stop."
Nite wanted to argue that getting your height and weight guessed by some bald guy was not an official game but he let it slid.
"Ok, have any suggestions on what to do next?" He asked, crossing his arms.
Tera looked around. "Hmm.Oh hey, how about that one over there?"
She pointed at the stand opposite of them.
"Ok, sure. Let's go see what it's about."
They walked up and read the sign, is said. "Test your aim! Try to hit the small red target!"
"How much?" Nite asked the man behind the counter.
"fifteen Gil for three shots."
Nite gave him the money and took the three balls. He grabbed the first one and threw it at the target. The ball went speeding way off to the far right, completely missing the target by miles. Everyone around Nite started to laugh at the horrible show.
"Hey, maybe you should aim a little bit to the left." The man behind the counter told him.
Nite shook his head then picked up another ball, throwing it to the left....Far, FAR to the left, still no where near the target. People were now laughing so hard that some were even on the ground. Even Tera started to giggle at his horrible aim.
"Heh, how about you just close your eyes this time?" The man said, still laughing.
Nite shrugged and did just that. He picked up the last ball, closed his eyes, and threw it hard and fast right out the target, hitting it dead on. Nite was the only one laughing now, everyone else was too busy picking there jaws up off the ground.
"Wow, guess that helped after all. Thanks for the advise." Nite said as he walked away.
"How did you do that?" Tera asked after catching up with him.
"Well first off, I missed my first two so my last one would look better and hitting the target on the last throw was sheer luck."
Tera grinned and shook her head. "You know how to work a crowd, don't you?"
Nite shrugged. "Yeah, guess I do."
Soon enough they both ended up at the same bench they were at before they left.
"So where are you going after this festival thing?" Nite asked her.
"Back to Tilandros, I suppose."
Nite raised an eyebrow. "Wow, you live in Tilandros? That's a pretty swanky place."
Tera smiled. "I more then just live there, I'm the queen."
Nite almost fell off his chair. "You're the queen?! Really?! But you're so young!
"Yeah, I know....I know.....But my mother died when I was very young then my father passed away about a year ago. Since I have no siblings I had to take full control of Tilandros."
"Wow....So how do you like being the queen?"
"Heh, I don't. That responsibility is insane. I didn't know what to do so I came here to talk with my uncle about how to control such a large place with so many people that depend solely on you."
"So who's ruling while you're here?"
"Some Regent named Kedro. I haven't really gotten to know him that well."
Nite scratched his head. "So why don't you just let him rule permanently so you don't have to deal with the pressure?"
She sighed. "I would love to but the people say that they would much rather have me then some no-name Regent."
"Wow, sure sounds like a tough life."
"Yeah, it is...."
After a small moment of silence Nite told her that she better go off and find that knight. He himself started to get up and leave.
"Guess I should.....Oh hey, do you think you would like to come sit with us when the show starts?" She asked, hoping he would say yes.
"Na, I'm going to be in the back, if I even decide to watch it. I might go find my sister and see what she's up to."
Tera stood up just as Nite did. "Well, I certainly had fun. Thank you for the pleasant evening." She said to him.
"I had a good time too. Well, guess I'll see you around."
"Yeah....See you around, Nite." Tera sounded a bit saddened but Nite didn't notice, he was already off looking for Claire.
~**~
Ok, Kage. I'll see what I can do," King Arthur said to the Dragoon, "but I can't promise anything."
Kage shook his head. "Do not concern yourself. Your help is welcomed but not needed."
The king sighed. "But I will still help you to the best of my ability. I can't have that man cause any trouble to my dear niece."
"Sire, if his plans succeed, Tera is not the only person we should be worrying about."
One of Arthur's servants came out in and told him that the main performance was bout to begin.
"Ok, I'll be there in a minute."
The servant left and Arthur turned back to Kage. "Are you going to watch the show?"
Kage shrugged. "Perhaps." He said, walking out of the room.
Kaged walked out of the castle and headed to the edge of town, it was quiet....just the way he liked it. But as he stood there he noticed that something wasn't right.
He tried to shake off the feeling but it just wouldn't leave. He heard a rustle in the bushes some yards away from him, his nervousness still running strong, he went to check it out.
As he approached the bush a beast leaped from it without warning and tackled him to the ground. He was quick enough to get the base of his spear into the creature's jaw so it couldn't lock down on him. He quickly rolled to the right and forced the creature on it's back as he impaled his spear into it's head.
Kage got up and looked at the beast. It wasn't a normal animal. It was shaped like some kind of wolf but was larger, and way more ugly....Then it came to Kage. This was a Coor, a Minion. Kage looked around and heard some growls and screeches from the forest in front of him. He heard many growls from the bushes. Something was wrong, terribly wrong. He could sense a large wave of Minions coming right out him. Now he knew it for sure.....The kingdom was under attacked. But how? Minions don't attack in large groups. No, it didn't matter right now, the king was in danger. He turned and ran as fast as he could to find the king and tell him about the ambush....Hopefully it wasn't too late.
OH MY GOD!! My epic battle starts on the next chapter!! Ok, well it's official I have some work to do. Now don't expect updates on this for a long LONG time.Maybe a week at max. I need to get this thing just right. In fact, I need it to be perfect. It's the first of my epic battles so it has to be good.
Also, as I post each chapter of my epic battle there will be NO A/Ns in them. I don't want my nonsenses rants to take away from the story. Ok, that's all I have, be back when I have something truly worth reading.
Oh! And some pieces are starting to fall into place....Some things that didn't really have anything to do with each other now have one thing in common, It's pretty easy to find if you just pay attention. Find it and a cookie shall be thine reward.
Ah and yeah....Don't worry about my OS fic. That SHOULD be updating on it's normal routine.
Oh and I know this is a day late. I typed it out yesterday, saved it to my file, left to go do something, and forgot about it. Anyways, my OS update is on this one's heels....
"Good reading equals good times." I'm out
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Nite went back to the table he and Claire were at and sat down, sipping down the last of his water. As he sat there, he was startled as something touched his shoulder. He stood up and turned around to see what it was. Standing next to him was the blonde hair girl from before, Tera if his memory was correct.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I scare you?" She asked after seeing him jump up.
Nite laughed. "Well it seems our paths not only cross but intertwine. Want to have a seat?"
Tera nodded and sat next to him. "So what are you up to?"
"Nothing really, my sister just left and now I have nothing to do."
"That girl with the sword hanging from her shoulder was your sister? Don't you think it's kind of odd that she carries that thing around with her all the time?"
Nite grinned. "Not at all, I do the same thing."
He lifted up his cloak , revealing the concealed katana underneath it.
"Ohhh...." Tera said, slightly blushing from embarrassment.
Nite laughed again. "Don't worry, it's no big deal."
Tera smiled then changed the subject. "So you want to go do something?"
"With you?"
Nite immediately knew that answer came out wrong. Tera slumped down in her chair as Nite quickly jumped up and started correcting his mistake.
"Sorry, I didn't mean that!" He told her while taking her hand and picking her up off her seat. "What I meant to say was that I would love to do something with you. Did that sound better?"
Tera slightly giggled. "Yes it did, nice recovery. I give it a seven and a half."
Nite scratched his head. "Huh?"
"Nothing, don't worry about it. Let's just go." She said, taking him by the arm and pulling him off to the games that were set up around the festival.
~**~
While Vyse was wondering around he saw two people putting on a mini performance. He walked over to see what was going on.
"Hello one and all! I am the great Ramza and to my right is my faithful friend and companion Trikal!" A man said to the audience.
Ramza seemed to have a flair to him, something that naturally collected a crowd. He was wearing a light blue, nicely designed silk shirt with matching pants, only matched by his well kept brown hair and deeply gazing brown eyes. Maybe that's what caught people's attention. Or maybe it was the tone of his voice, like the ringing of bell, saying to come and see their magnificence. No, it could have been his attitude upon the stage, active and lively, never at a lost of words.
But his partner, this Trikal. He was different. Clothing himself in ripped up, faded, and loosely fitting studded leather. He was a quite one, as if he had something to hide. His dark brown hair stretched out in all directions in long, large clumps as a good portion of his bangs fell in front of the right side of his face. His blue eyes had the gaze of mystery to them, they held many feelings in them, most of the fear of being caught, the rest being the boastful ego of still being loose in the world. The only thing they may have persuaded people to think he wasn't some kind of cold- hearted killer was the sly grin on his face. Even though it was small, it still was there. The smile of a smooth talker, knowing what to say to get out of any situation. Looking closer to the group it was almost like Ramza looked like what Trikal felt. This combo was surely something that should be watched with a close eye as their kind appearance was ONLY skin deep....
"Today we will show you the wonderful tricks that can be used with Time Magic!" Ramza said as the crowed 'oooed'
"Now for our first trick. I will teleport a red ball from my palm to the hat in Trikal's hand!"
Trikal showed the hat to the audience so they knew nothing was in it.
"Now watch and be amazed!" Ramza taking the ball and putting it in his right hand. He raised his left hand and cupped it over the other so the ball was now hidden from view. There was a small pause as Ramza's hands seemed to sway from left to right....But they weren't really moving. It was like there was some kind of aura surrounding them. A second later he lifted his hand up and the ball was gone.
Ramza asked Trikal to show the people his hat, he silently agreed and pointed out the same red ball that was now sitting neatly in the center. There was a small round of applause but nothing big. All they did was just move a ball.
Ramza was about to start another trick but and now a worried looking Trikal had to whisper something in his ear.
Ramza looked at Trikal, now just as worried. "Are you serious?"
Trikal nodded.
"Wow, they caught on quicker then we thought....."
He turned his attention back to the crowd. "Um.....I'm terrible sorry ladies and gentlemen but something has arisen and we must cut right to the final act. Once again, I am truly sorry we couldn't show you more."
The crowed was torn between boos and cheers. The boos since it ended so quickly and the cheers for....Well for the same reason....
"Now if you would all just please get as close to the stage as possible we'll perform our last trick."
Everyone walked up to the stage at Ramza's request. Well, everyone except Vyse.
"You too, sir." Ramza said to him.
"No, I'm fine right here thank you."
Ramza glared at Vyse but only for a small moment. His tiny moment of anger went back to his cheerful nature. "Ok, that's fine too."
He turned back to the audience once again. "Ok, just concentrate on my hands and you'll be amazed..."
He drew a circle in the air with his right hand then ran his left one across the center. Next he cupped his hands together like before, causing the waves that had been there before to grow and spread around the crowd. The waves soon covered everyone but Vyse, he was far enough away to not be in it's radius. The waves started to do to the people what they had done to his hands, they became wavy and distorted. The blurred images made Vyse start to blink. The second he did everything disappeared. The people, the stage, the performers. Everything.
Vyse didn't know what was going, how could they be there one second and not the next....But that was just it, they were barely gone for that one second. Within the same moment that everything disappeared, they reappeared. Like they never left to begin with.
The people looked around at each other, just as confused as Vyse.
"Well I guess my trick didn't work, oh well better luck next time, huh?" Ramza began to say to the audience while he and Trikal picked up bags that Vyse had never seen until this moment and run off. Moving unusually fast.
Men in uniforms were chasing after the two as quickly as possible.
"Catch them!" One started to yell. "Those two are the Time Bandits! We've been after them forever! Get them! Now!!"
Vyse laughed....He knew he had seen those two before. His conclusions about them having something to hide was pretty accurate too. He started to walk away from the crowd just as they started to complain that all their Gil and other valuable were missing. Man, a Time Mage and a Thief. What a perfect combo....
~**~
"Hey, how are you two doing?" Bridget asked Ked and K.C. when she finally found them.
"Pretty good!" K.C. answered. "We were just cleaning up, getting ready to head over to the performances and get some get some good seats. You want to come with us a grab a seat, too?"
Bridget nodded her head. "Sure, I might as well."
K.C. smiled. "Ok, great! Follow me!"
K.C. started to run off to the main stage, which wasn't that far away to begin with. After the quick little walk to the stage, Bridget saw the man who was traveling with Nite. K.C. spotted him, too.
"Hey, it's Vyse! Let's go say hi!!" She didn't wait for Bridget to agree, she was already pulling her and Ked in his direction.
"Hiya, Vyse! K.C. yelled to him.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't little K.C. Nice to see you here.
"Tsh, it's nice to see me anywhere....Anyways, this is Bridget. Say hi Bridgy!"
Bridget laughed a bit, then introduced herself. "Hello, Vyse."
"Hello to you too, Miss 'Bridgy.'" He sly-fully said, taking her hand and kissing the back of it.
K.C. put an end to that pretty quick. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Enough of THAT!" K.C. even went as far as to push herself between the two so further actions wouldn't take place. Vyse and Bridget simply laughed as K.C. started to grumble.
"C'mon, Ked....Let's just go find some seats."
Ked agreed to her request and soon enough they were off to find the best seats possible.
"She's defiantly a rambunctious little girl..." Vyse said to Bridget. "So what are you going to be doing after Tera gets done talking to the king?"
"I'm going to take her back to Tilandros so she can get back to what she needs to be doing."
"You know there's going to be a lot of stress on her when she returns? She's got a lot to do if she thinks she can properly rule such a large kingdom like Tilandros as their Queen at such a young age."
"Yes, I agree. But that's why she came here. To get some advice from a reliable source."
"Hmm, that's true....But still, Tilandros is a big place, if she cracks under the pressure then the people of the kingdom will suffer greatly. 'To bring salvation or destruction to a kingdom, thus if the duty of royalty.'"
"That quote you just said. Who's it from?"
"Me, I suppose. Just made it up....Thought it fit the conversation perfectly....Well, I'm out of here. Hope you and Tera have a good life."
"Ok, good bye then....And thank you for this talk."
"Heh, not a problem. It is my job as an advisor to help people, after all."
After said, Vyse walked off allowing Bridget to soak in everything that was just said.
~**~
"Alright, now what do we do?" Nite asked Tera, after finding some ball under some cup for the fifth time in a row.
"Hmmm, well so far you've played two games but I did three so you have to do one more before we stop."
Nite wanted to argue that getting your height and weight guessed by some bald guy was not an official game but he let it slid.
"Ok, have any suggestions on what to do next?" He asked, crossing his arms.
Tera looked around. "Hmm.Oh hey, how about that one over there?"
She pointed at the stand opposite of them.
"Ok, sure. Let's go see what it's about."
They walked up and read the sign, is said. "Test your aim! Try to hit the small red target!"
"How much?" Nite asked the man behind the counter.
"fifteen Gil for three shots."
Nite gave him the money and took the three balls. He grabbed the first one and threw it at the target. The ball went speeding way off to the far right, completely missing the target by miles. Everyone around Nite started to laugh at the horrible show.
"Hey, maybe you should aim a little bit to the left." The man behind the counter told him.
Nite shook his head then picked up another ball, throwing it to the left....Far, FAR to the left, still no where near the target. People were now laughing so hard that some were even on the ground. Even Tera started to giggle at his horrible aim.
"Heh, how about you just close your eyes this time?" The man said, still laughing.
Nite shrugged and did just that. He picked up the last ball, closed his eyes, and threw it hard and fast right out the target, hitting it dead on. Nite was the only one laughing now, everyone else was too busy picking there jaws up off the ground.
"Wow, guess that helped after all. Thanks for the advise." Nite said as he walked away.
"How did you do that?" Tera asked after catching up with him.
"Well first off, I missed my first two so my last one would look better and hitting the target on the last throw was sheer luck."
Tera grinned and shook her head. "You know how to work a crowd, don't you?"
Nite shrugged. "Yeah, guess I do."
Soon enough they both ended up at the same bench they were at before they left.
"So where are you going after this festival thing?" Nite asked her.
"Back to Tilandros, I suppose."
Nite raised an eyebrow. "Wow, you live in Tilandros? That's a pretty swanky place."
Tera smiled. "I more then just live there, I'm the queen."
Nite almost fell off his chair. "You're the queen?! Really?! But you're so young!
"Yeah, I know....I know.....But my mother died when I was very young then my father passed away about a year ago. Since I have no siblings I had to take full control of Tilandros."
"Wow....So how do you like being the queen?"
"Heh, I don't. That responsibility is insane. I didn't know what to do so I came here to talk with my uncle about how to control such a large place with so many people that depend solely on you."
"So who's ruling while you're here?"
"Some Regent named Kedro. I haven't really gotten to know him that well."
Nite scratched his head. "So why don't you just let him rule permanently so you don't have to deal with the pressure?"
She sighed. "I would love to but the people say that they would much rather have me then some no-name Regent."
"Wow, sure sounds like a tough life."
"Yeah, it is...."
After a small moment of silence Nite told her that she better go off and find that knight. He himself started to get up and leave.
"Guess I should.....Oh hey, do you think you would like to come sit with us when the show starts?" She asked, hoping he would say yes.
"Na, I'm going to be in the back, if I even decide to watch it. I might go find my sister and see what she's up to."
Tera stood up just as Nite did. "Well, I certainly had fun. Thank you for the pleasant evening." She said to him.
"I had a good time too. Well, guess I'll see you around."
"Yeah....See you around, Nite." Tera sounded a bit saddened but Nite didn't notice, he was already off looking for Claire.
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Ok, Kage. I'll see what I can do," King Arthur said to the Dragoon, "but I can't promise anything."
Kage shook his head. "Do not concern yourself. Your help is welcomed but not needed."
The king sighed. "But I will still help you to the best of my ability. I can't have that man cause any trouble to my dear niece."
"Sire, if his plans succeed, Tera is not the only person we should be worrying about."
One of Arthur's servants came out in and told him that the main performance was bout to begin.
"Ok, I'll be there in a minute."
The servant left and Arthur turned back to Kage. "Are you going to watch the show?"
Kage shrugged. "Perhaps." He said, walking out of the room.
Kaged walked out of the castle and headed to the edge of town, it was quiet....just the way he liked it. But as he stood there he noticed that something wasn't right.
He tried to shake off the feeling but it just wouldn't leave. He heard a rustle in the bushes some yards away from him, his nervousness still running strong, he went to check it out.
As he approached the bush a beast leaped from it without warning and tackled him to the ground. He was quick enough to get the base of his spear into the creature's jaw so it couldn't lock down on him. He quickly rolled to the right and forced the creature on it's back as he impaled his spear into it's head.
Kage got up and looked at the beast. It wasn't a normal animal. It was shaped like some kind of wolf but was larger, and way more ugly....Then it came to Kage. This was a Coor, a Minion. Kage looked around and heard some growls and screeches from the forest in front of him. He heard many growls from the bushes. Something was wrong, terribly wrong. He could sense a large wave of Minions coming right out him. Now he knew it for sure.....The kingdom was under attacked. But how? Minions don't attack in large groups. No, it didn't matter right now, the king was in danger. He turned and ran as fast as he could to find the king and tell him about the ambush....Hopefully it wasn't too late.