The Infinite Chronicles
Act 5:Treachery
Last chapter for a month, got stuff to do
Chapter 15
"You sure we won't be seen?" I asked Avalon through my mask. As it turned out, while Avalon had the ability to make incredible clothes, Infinite had the ability to make mechanical items. He made me a mask similar to both Avalon's and his, except mine was red and didn't have horns like Infinite. "Positive, I've studied the entire palace, and I know what routes the guards take on their rounds." he replied. "So when do we get in, we've been waiting here for hours and it's cold out here in the night!" Jess complained. "In about three minutes, the guards will be switching posts and that's our window of opportunity." he said. I was using the masks x-ray vision to locate all our threats, and one in particular interested me.
It was Brandon, Ace's brother. He was relaxing in his room, but he suddenly got up and threw a knife angrily across the wall to someone, or something. "Alright let's move" Avalon instructed. We slid down the cliff wall behind the palace and climbed the walls. No one was there, but we had to move quickly. We jumped down from the wall and scaled the main palace walls. We perched on a window high above the throne room. "The emperor isn't there" I whispered to Avalon. "If I remember correctly, my brother will have a ceremony soon, promoting his rank to Lieutenant as I am now outlawed" Ace butted in. "Steve here!" our little nopon friend showed up behind us. He could climb the wall so we had to attach a rope and carry him.
"Shhh master" Grace scolded him. "Meh meh! Me surprised Grace's green hair and bright red clothes not attract attention" he countered. She paused for a second "Touche.". "Alright there he is" Avalon said, taking back my attention to the audience chamber below. There he was, Brandon in his red armour with his six armed blade next to him, and on the balcony, Emperor Marth and a whole lot more guards. "Let's move" and we clipped some rope to the wall and we jumped through the glass. I like to think I landed in an epic manner, sword ran and scared the guards, well what actually happened is that I screamed as we fell down and the rope held me, but I couldn't get off it and I was hanging about 2 feet off the ground. The guards just started laughing and even Emperor Marth did a little grin. "My my, the little princess can't get off a rope" Brandon teased. Avalon had to cut off the rope before I could stand up. "What is this intrusion may I ask?" the Emperor drawled. Avalon changed into Infinite "Shut it Pseta, we have seen through your lies" he pointed the sword at the Emperor. The Emperor's body began to melt into a green puddle, and from that puddle rose a woman who was unnaturally pale and had red eyes with full white clothing and dark hair. "Well done Aegis" it said in a gravelly voice, yet I could tell this one was female from its voice "but you have done nothing. Guards! Take care of them!" and she vanished. The "guards" also melted but this time in black puddles. "Great so it was all a facade" Ace growled as he pulled his bow.
Infinite tossed me half of the sword "Get ready" and we took a defensive position. The first dragon lunged at us and the fight began. I dodged it and brought my sword down on its neck. Jess and Steve were behind me, blasting our opponents with a mix of fire from Grace and darkness from Zero. Beside me was Ace "Ready to give em hell?" he winked at me and he charged his bow and let loose a flurry of piercing arrows that ripped through the ranks of the black dragons. We broke our defensive circle and went on the offensive. It felt incredible! Having near inhuman strength and slicing through hordes of monsters while knowing your friends had your back. I sliced one, and Infinite jumped from behind my back and finished it. "Hey that was my kill" I complained. He took my sword and combined it.
"Focus, we can complain how much you killed later" he replied, keeping the teeth of a dragon off of him. I rolled my eyes and punched in between the eyes so hard it yelped and rubbed its nose before I took out a knife and planted it between its eyes. Next to me, Ace was swinging his axe, which had transformed from his bow, crushing the skull of any dragon that got close and any of them that stayed back out of his reach were blasted with strikes of lighting from Wildcard. Behind us was Jess, who used her incredible agility to vault over or dodge any attack coming at her before she planted her dual knives into their eyes. Zero was shooting jets of water at us to keep us healed. Meanwhile Steve and Grace were passing their great axe to each other frequently, using attacks that had a great area of effect to sweep entire groups of dragons. Brandon on the other hand, seemed to flee somewhere.
FInally, we ended all of them, green dragon blood stained the once magnificent red carpet and corpses were piled high on the floor. "Come out Pseta" Infinite said before launching several arcs of dark energy to the balcony. It hit a once invisible Pseta who was furious. "Fine!" she snapped "Now feel the true power of a Dragon Aspect!" she snapped her fingers, which I didn't think was possible with dragon claws but she managed. The audience chamber around us fell apart and we were in a void of swirling green winds. Pseta grew bigger until she was the size of our vessel. She roared in challenge as she swept her now giant hands to smack us. We all dodged and returned fire, but it only seemed to annoy her, rather than do any damage. She blasted us with a beam of ice, encasing us all in ice. I struggled to free myself from the icy prison. My friends were all not having any luck as well.
"This is the end for you Aegis!" she roared and came down with her mouth open to swallow us all. But before she could reach us , the area around Infinite began to turn purple. This bubble expanded quickly, enveloping the entire room. I suddenly felt really heavy and there was tingling in my ears. Pseta became glued to the ground "What is this!" she tried to yell, but her mouth wouldn't open so it was muffled. The ice around Infinite shattered, and he walked over to her. His eyes and gold parts of his armour were glowing intensely "Did you forget my ability? Or did mother not tell you?" he sneered. I was horrified how he was treating her. He summoned the sword from my hand and it flew to his. He plunged it between her eyes and she started disappearing into white ether dust and the room returned to normal.
"What the hell was that?" I yelled at him. "Why'd you treat her that way.". "She was our enemy, I treated her the way I should" he replied adamantly "But what was that?" Ace folded his arms. "I have the ability to manipulate the gravity around me, the amount of gravity around her was so great she couldn't move" he explained. "We should find the Emperor now, if he's still alive.". We climbed onto the balcony, and began searching. We eventually ended up in the Emperor's room. In it was a rather large bed, with a large portrait of him riding a horse and some wardrobes and a bathroom. We searched around the room, finding nothing. Ace was staring intently at the picture "Somethings wrong with the picture" he announced. We gathered around it "Me see nothing wrong with picture" Steve said. "The picture was him riding a horse with a sword, in this picture he has no sword." he explained. Infinite took it off the wall and stared at it. He closed his eyes and his core crystal and golden parts of his armour began to glow. The picture shook and flew out of his hands and faced downwards.
Out of it came a man with blue hair and eyes, about 20 with white royal clothing. "Your majesty!" Ace rushed to his side. "What happened?" he groaned rubbing his head. Ace helped him up and he looked at us "Intruders! Guards!" he called. "Calm down your majesty" Jess bowed "We are here to help you.". He relaxed a bit "So what happened?" "Well it's a long story your majesty" "Please, call me Marth" he cut me off. "Uh ok Marth, here's what happened.". We told him our story and Pseta, with Jess or Infinite butting in. "So you are the Aegis?" the Emperor eyed him. "Indeed, but do not fear, I have no intention of burning you and your palace down." Infinite said. I punched him "Be more polite!" "I was!" he protested. The Emperor just laughed "Oh the new driver will keep him in check that's good, now how may I assist you?". "Well we are seeking passage to the End zone, and I think Regeum has a specific item that can help us" Infinite said. The Emperor nodded gravely "Very well, you know where you need to go, but at least stay here for a day, it is the least I can do.". "Thank you your majesty" I bowed and we retreated.
It was already starting to get light as dawn was breaking. "Shouldn't we do something about this mess?" I gestured to the corpses as we passed the audience chamber. "Sure," Infinite said. He snapped his fingers and a small dark sphere appeared in his hands. I could feel its pull, "You can summon a blackhole?".He ignored my question, the blackhole sucked up all the corpses. "Nothing I can do about the carpet" he said to me. I called Atlas through the mask and told him to bring our vessel to the main dock once more. I heard Steve's stomach growl, and we all turned around. He was embarrassed and his cheeks were red "Sorry me just hungry" "No need to be sorry Steve" I laughed and I kneeled to ruffle his hair "Let's go find a place to eat.".
