More Armada Airships reach Kieran and the others, and begin opening fire on the Palace, hitting some of the higher levels, mounted people come flying from the other side of the palaces grounds, and begin attacking in the ships, and a massive battle begins, just in the nick of time, Orion's friend, Ulysses arrives to help...

"Orion! We're here to help! Magnus managed to contact us, and some other rebels, even Dante Windlass is going to help us fight the Armada!" Ulysses shouts to Orion from his ship. Orion nods and gets onto his ship, flying it straight toward the large blockade of Armada ships. Thousand of wizards because flying dragons, broomsticks, and all sorts of mounts around the Armada blockade casting spells at the ships, several large pirate ships come, bearing the symbol that the pirate Boochbeard has on his ship. Orion drives his ship directly into an Armada ship, and his crew members, Fan Flanders and Bonne Annie followed by Subodai and Sarah Steele raid the ship. Orion see's Dante's ship looming near his own, he can see Dante staring directly towards him.

"Don't think this makes us friends, Underwood! I haven't gotten the chance to beat you to a pulp yet!" Dante shouts from his ship as it passes Orion's. Orion scoffs, and smirks.

"Thats brilliant coming from you, you can't even keep your own crew in check!" Orion snaps back, ramming his ship into another Armada ship as it gets bombarded by a hailstorm of meteor strikes from several pyromancers. Several of the ships Boochbeard had sent explode into fiery balls of ruin as the sink down into the depths of the spiral, Orion gulps, Red Eyes, A Ninja pig from Mooshu who trained Orion approaches him from behind.

"We should board another ship soon, we can let another crew member pilot while we infiltrate." He says sternly.

"Orion, I got back-up already- You can stay hear an pilot." Orion finishes, and jumps off his own ship, landing on a Armada ship below his own, Kieran comes flying in on wings made of fire, and they disappear as Kieran lands on the ship, next to Orion.

"Lets finish these clockworks and get outta here." Kieran says. Kieran runs up to one and slashes it, he throws his sword at another and then shoots a minor flare at one. All the hits seemed to do heavy damage. Orion follows and pulls out a katana, and begins hacking away at the Clockworks, he kicks a few over and shoots them with a sparklock, and keeps and eye on Kieran.

"God there's so many! How the hell does this even work!?" Kieran shouts angrily, Orion shrugs.

"I always figured it was by some random miracle." he replies.

"Yeah, makes some amount of sen-LOOK OUT!" Kieran is interrupted mid-sentence as Aegis dives from somewhere above and lunges at Orion with a dagger, he misses, and almost hits Kieran who shoves Orion out of the way.

"You little snobs are going to die here." Aegis sneers, he lunges at the two more landing a few light cuts, before Kieran swiftly kicks Aegis in the stomache, Orion fires several shots from his sparklock hitting Aegis.

"Damn...you guys are pretty good, but I have some tricks up my sleeve too." he snickers and then teleports away and ends up behind Kieran and throws a knife at him, it hits Kieran in the side of his chest, Kieran shouts in pain, and pulls the knife out, holding the wound.

"D-Damn it!" Kieran falls to his knees, "Ugh...Its a deep one...that's going to leave a scar...for sure."

"Kieran stay back!" Orion swings his sword at Aegis, nearly cutting his nose, but Aegis dodges. Aegis pulls out a rapier, and charges at Orion. Aegis and Orion lock in a deadly sword-fight, moving up and down the deck, mostly cleared or Armada troops, the remaining ones, getting crushed by pieces from other boats falling. Explosions fill the air, along with fire, smoke, and screaming, and gunfire. Orion works as hard as possible to not get himself killed in the process of fighting Aegis, eventually, Orion see's an opening, and lands a hit, Aegis stumbles back, but regains his footing, and pulls out a flintlock, shooting a real projectile at Orion, hitting him in his thigh, Orion shouts in pain, put rams into Aegis, who stumbles down to the ground. Orion is ready to deal the finishing blow before Aegis teleports away, onto a smaller ship, and flies out towards Wizard City. Orion gets on a life boat, and chases him down.

"Y-Yeah...just leave me here...to rot...and die...jerk." Kieran mumbles. Kieran manages to teleport himself back to the Palace, only to be possessively hugged by Olivia.

"What happened!? Are you okay?! Do you need healing?!" she shouts worriedly, not able to get her thoughts together.

"I got a KNIFE thrown into my side, and the wound is really deep. I AM NOT ALRIGHT! OUCH!" Kieran grabs the wound after yelling, "Yeah lets get this taken care off...Orion...he is...chasing after Aegis." Kieran falls to his feet, feeling heavy from blood loss. "Wow...Olivia...you look really good in fives." Kieran, passes out.

Orion chases down Aegis towards Wizard City, for what seems like hours, although its only minutes. Orion has to defeat him before he can cause anymore harm. He knows what he has to do. Orion plans to do what needs to be done in order to save Wizard City. Orion has to kill Aegis, or he is going to kill thousands of more people. Orion reaches Olde Town just as Aegis does. Aegis fires several projectiles at some guards, severely wounding most of them, but killing two. Wizards begin to ready their spells as Orion gets out of his small raft.

"Isn't this just bloody cute?! All'a you think you can fight me? Well. Lets see how that turns out." Aegis throws knives and fires bullets like crazy, hitting entire rows of Wizards. Citizens, Students and fellow Wizards begin hitting the ground, for cover, or because of the wounds, Aegis begins laughing ecstatically, as he wounds and even kills more and more people, he notices a younger wizard is still standing, he managed to pull up a few shield spells in time to shield a large group of people. "Oh..Looky here, we got ourselves a hero?" He approaches the young wizard. He is obviously not a student at Ravenwood yet, and is someones kid. "You wanna know what I do to heroes? I gut them...I skin them...I poach them, and then sell their limbs and organs as souvenirs, collect the pelt, and then hang their skull above my fireplace as a trophy." He pulls out a knife as he gets closer, the kid begins trembling. Orion throwns a rock at Aegis's head, hitting him dead center.

"Yeah, real mature, nothing says 'threatening villain' like fighting someone who can't even spell correctly yet!" Orion shouts, Orion begins firing flurries of sparkshots at Aegis, hitting him several times. Aegis begins shooting at Orion, nearly missing all of the shots, except for a few, they draw their swords once they've reached close quarters, and begin a much more brutal fight. Orion has to win this. If he loses, more people will die, and the Armada will be closer to whatever its sinister goals are.

(End of Chapter Fourteen)