Orion and Kieran prepare for combat as they walk back to the worldgate and go to Wizard City, upon entering the worldgate they are greeted by some friends...
"Kieran! What the hell took you so long!?" Kane says running up to them.
"The teachers, they were captured!" Wolf shouts. Kieran looks at both of them and laughs loudly. Kane and Wolf stare at Kieran in confusion.
"Yeah, I know. I told them to get captured." He says laughing, Kane and Wolf look at Kieran as if he were a madman, which at this rate, Orion was starting to think Kieran was a lunatic. He saw him single-handily destroy entire armada fleets, and fight off people he never even met before who by Orion's standards where unpredictable. Kieran clears his throat and looks and Kane and Wolf with a somewhat serious demeanor.
"Listen, I told them to do this so we could destroy the ship from the inside out." Kieran says to them smiling. "It'll be unexpected and no rescue is required." Kieran says walking out of Bartelby with the others.
"There was only one ship. Its leaving. More will be coming at this rate..." Wolf says coldly, looking at the sky.
"Yeah but with the way they'll most likely be coming from, they'll have to get through Nexus City first." Kieran adds to Wolf's comment. Wolf looks at Kieran oddly but remembers almost instantly. Kieran has a large amount of cannons set up at the castles walls. Kieran and the others gather in a small group and Kieran looks at the all.
"Well lets get going to Nexus. I am pretty sure its our best bet anyway." They all pull out their crystal and use it to teleport to Kierans Massive Fantasy Palace, commonly called, "Nexus City" as mentioned.
Upon arriving there they can see its already in chaos, several smaller ships have landed there and are attacking, but, weren't getting to far with their soldiers. Orion notices 3 of his other Crew members, Sarah Steele, Red Eyes, and Fan Flanders where there helping fight. Sarah turns around and begins to shout for Orion when she saw him, but the sound of screaming and explosions make it hard to understand.
"ORION...TELL...OKAY!?" She says, explosions and fighting in the background drowning her out.
"WHAT WAS THAT!?" Orion shouts back. She sighs, and walks over to him.
"I WANTED YOU TO TELL AVERY TO GIVE US A BETTER MAP NEXT TIME! IF HE HAD GIVEN US A BETTER ONE, WE WOULDN'T OF HAD THAT 4 HOUR DELAY IN ZIGAZAG! OKAY!" She shouts to Orion. He stares at her and briefly says, "Kay."
Orion's boat which he had parked there was practically untouched. Orion and Kieran head to the town square to see its pretty much the same shape as they left it, except everyone is running around like crazy beating the crap out of clockworks. Orion notices the small boy Ulric is being harassed by one, he goes to help him, when before he gets there, Ulric smashes the Clockworks face in with a small makeshift mace. Orion backs away and his foot crushes the head of a defeated Clockwork that was still whirring and groaning as it was laying down on the ground.
"Kieran...what are we doing here again?" He says. Kieran pulls out his ruby,
"This," he moves his hands across it and a image begins to appear. Orion knew exactly what Kieran was doing...
Aboard the Prison ship, which was just beginning to pass Nexus City...
"Mmmkay. Mmmkay. Alright. Okay Got it...alright I'll see you in a few hours." A male in black robes says.
"Who was that, Mr. Ashthorn? Was it Kieran?" Professor Greyrose asks politely.
"You bet your glittery wings it was. He says we can go ahead and turn the place inside out now." Malorn says standing up, from the floor. All the teachers of Ravenwood stand up and look around.
"They might of taken our wands...Buuuuuuuttttt They forgot one teacher." Malorn says chuckling. A small, round, bearded man comes running down the stares from the otherside of the Hallway.
"Hullo guys, sorry I'm late. Took me a while to get here." He says giving Malorn a pair of keys.
"Thank you Dworgyn. Yeah you can go back to Nightside now." Malorn says opening the gate that held them captive. Dworgyn nods.
"Oh...Thats right, before I go, nearly forgot, here's your wands back. Goodbye." He waves 'goodbye' and teleports back to the Death School in Nightside.
"By this time they obviously destroyed our gems so, Malorn is the only one that can teleport." Falmea says solemnly.
"Eh. I think I'll have a little fun taking these guys out." Malorn looks at the other teachers. Cyrus steps up and takes his wand.
"Nobody, and I mean nobody locks me up, and makes me fork over my wand, and gets away with it...and then expect me to follow some rules. They want me to conform to their rules. I'll show them. They won't be shown any mercy." He mumbles. He throws out 3 cards and swings his wand over them. A bright, yellow light emits and several Talos's come out from them. Cyrus looks up to them.
"Go and attack the Clockworks. Do what you please, just, please, get them out of my sight." He says rather irritated. The 3 Talos's nod and run down the other halls, and a loud commotion starts from that hall. Falmea walks up and leads them down the hall melting various locks on the cages freeing all the other prisoners.
"Don't you think a few of these guys are in here for good reasons, Ms. Falmea?" Halstrom says to Falmea.
"No. This is a clockwork armada, and everyone knows Clockworks always make the same mistake over and over again. Why do you think every time they blew some kids parents outta the sky, they become the most feared pirates in the spiral?" She jokes. Halstrom looks up ahead and see that there is a locked door with some kind of gear work.
"I got this," He proclaims. He swings his wand back and fourth a few times before a giant wave appears behind him, taking a shape similar to that of a serpent like man with a trident and completely wiping the door clean off its hinges when it hits it. Several clockworks run down the stairs and start shooting at them, Malorn throws a card and a Deer Knight comes out of it. Without hesitation is begins lashing out at the clockworks like crazy and the teachers walk past it normally. Several more come carrying frostlocks, and aim at the teachers again. Greyrose floats in front of the group.
"Can't we talk this out, dearies? We needn't fight all the time." She says modestly. They aim at her head and fire, but before the shots where able to hit her, she turns them back towards the clockworks and morphs them into evil snowman which chase the clockworks down the hall before finally slashing them to bits and melting. Falmea decides to not even wait for the next group and just summons an Efreet.
"Hey if any of those nasty clockworks come over here, please, be a darling and obliterate them for me?" She says slyly. The Efreet nods and readies its sword laughing evilly as the door opens and a large hoard comes in. They walk down several other hallways before making it to the main deck of the boat.
"Alright we are nearly out of this mess." Malorn says. He looks around and see's several hoards of clockworks running towards them. "Oh crap...thats not good." He mutters.
"Now now, we needn't swear yet." Moolinda says walking by Malorn. She swings her fan gently across her length and a huge wind filled with leaves and a green aura fill the air, the wood on the ship shoots up into the air in several spots making 6 large pillars. A roar echos from the air, and Several forest lords come out of the Aura.
"If you would all be so kind. Can you smash those mean robots into nice collectible pieces?" She says politely, as the Forest Lords are already smashing the Clockworks. They all walk toward a lifeboat and see none other then Olivia and Morgan sitting in them.
"Hi. I wanna blow this up. We'll be back. Take this boat. Bye." Morgan says followed by Olivia, the two jump out of the boat and run down the destroyed hallways. They pass the Efreet who is happily hacking and slashing at Armada troops.
"I don't get those guys, they seem to happy about destruction." Morgan says hypocritically.
"And you don't? You're the one that wants to blow this sky-high." Olivia says. Morgan looks at Olivia grinning
"Hey so do you!" She laughs. They run down into the ships engine room which is guarded by two large clockworks.
"Thats...new.." Morgan says slightly worried, she pulls out her sparklock and begins firing at them but it doesn't work. She is just about ready to go into hand to hand combat before Olivia cuts in.
"Hey watch this!" Morgan looks at the two clockworks, and notices that a scald card is stuck to their foreheads from Olivia's bow.
"How did you..." Morgan says unable to finish her sentence as the two clockworks explode, startling her.
"Oh they're treasure cards. Nothing special." She says happily. Olivia walks around the engine and secretly places a bunch of immolate and other fire treasure cards under it.
"Hey, maybe we should go, I think this is going to sink soon." Olivia says.
"A-Alright...We aren't destroying it? Bummer." Morgan frowns but sighs.
"It's for the best. I wouldn't want to leave Orion like that." She says. Morgan teleports out and most likely to Orion. Olivia walks back over to the cards, swings her hand over them and runs down the hall as fast as possible.
"Okay I think they might've fizzled." She frowns. Then, they all activate causing a huge explosion, as the fire from the explosion and the spell immolate come hurdling toward Olivia, her eyes widen and she begins to sprint down the hallway like crazy. "SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT! BAD IDEA! BAD IDEA! I AM SUCH A FREAKING IDIOT! WHY DID I DO THAT!" She says sprinting down the hall, just when she passes some escape prisoners who were pretty creepy looking, she uses her crystal and teleport to Morgan just before she gets incinerated by the explosion as the creepy dudes did.
Meanwhile back at Kierans Location, shortly after Morgan got back..
Kieran is watching as the ship begins exploding.
"Kieran! Did Olivia come back yet!?" Morgan shouts worriedly.
"No..She didn't. Why?" he says.
"She was still on that ship!" Morgan shouts point at it. Kieran turns around and is about to call Cloud to take him there as fast as possible before it completely explodes. Kieran stops in his tracks and falls to his knee's looking at the ship. He doesn't know what to do. Just as he is about to bury his face in his palms, he feels someone tap his back. He looks up, and see's none other than Olivia.
"Hi there! Did you miss me?" She says with a extremely big smile. Kieran stares at her, as if he had mixed emotions at the moment.
"Olivia...Sometimes...I want to just kick you in the face...and others I just want to give you a big hug."
Kieran growls, holding back laughter.
"Is...this one of those moments where you wanna hug me?" Olivia says sweetly.
"No...Right now I wanna something more then hug you." Kieran says getting closer to her, also sounding slightly agitated.
"Whoa, Kieran, Keep it clean." Orion jokes.
"Oh nonononononononono. Its not like that. Right now at the moment I want to cut her hair very short and dye it pink as punishment for scaring me like that." He says with a devilish smirk. Olivia smacks the top of his head.
"No! Don't do that! I hate pink!" She says. Kieran stands up and looks around.
"Well. That definitely wasn't the last one." He says, looking out at the distance, seeing more ships heading directly to them.
(End of Thirteenth Chapter)