A/N: Been a while since i updated, but here's the next chapter! :D R&R and everything belongs to whoever it belongs to lol
"It's cold as hell up here!" Green complained as he shivered, breathing warm air into his shaking hands to warm them just a bit.
"I think that statement contradicts itself," Conn replied, also shivering, skin a light shade of blue, and glaring at Green.
"Oh, whatever! Look, this is my last mission till I can finally join the Legion. Just help me, please!"
Conn didn't like the fact Green decided to join the Legion. He also disliked the fact he was dragged along on each mission just to heal Green.
"I should make you do this yourself you know," Conn stated as they traveled up the winding path up the mountain.
"Look, to join the Legion I have to get this King Coal guy's surrender in writing. Just heal me so I don't die during the fight, okay?" Green pleaded in a somewhat annoyed tone.
"Fine," Conn replied before looking up to see the open entrance to King Coal's throneroom and yellow horns coming out of the giant igloo.
"I guess we're here," Conn said, teeth chattering.
"I guess so," Green replied, still shaking from the cold. He then stepped toward the entrance with freezing feet, blisters all over from the massive amounts of cold, despite him having on boots. He slowly entered the open doorway to reveal an awe inspiring sight.
King Coal was massive, easily over a hundred feet tall. He wore intricate white armor fit for a king, and a beautiful, sparkling ice crown. His head just missed the ceiling of his ice throneroom. Next to him was a nurse. Probably his. He did look kind of old.
As for his throne, it was made completely of ice, and sat in the center of the large room. Behind the throne were many yellow horns contorting around each other and out of the igloo. Green wondered what they were for exactly.
"King Coal! I come in the name of Da-"
"Yeah yeah, Dage the Evil, blah blah, surrender or face dire consequences, yadda yadda," King Coal replied, a bored expression on his face.
"What?" Green asked dumbfounded.
The king sneered.
"Okay look, Dage sent a crapload of his little legion buddies here to get my written surrender before," King Coal continued with a pissed off look on his face before continuing.
"Basically, I sent him a surrender years ago, after a long ass fight with his most snobby human Legion recruits. I didn't want to fight anyone! I want to live in peace! That's why I'm always in this freakin chair! I'm just chilling! Anyway, more Legionaires still kept coming, so now, I do this," he said as he pointed to the nurse lady.
She then walked up to Green and handed him a paper that said, "I surrender. From, King Coal"
"Now beat it squirt, and don't fall on you're way down," said King Coal, still annoyed.
Green and Conn walked out slowly, still in shock about what just happened.
"You don't have any way to defend yourself at all?" Questioned the now annoyed demon hunter.
"Nope," replied the young cleric.
"Not even a staff?"
"I might have dropped it when I ran through the battlefield, I dunno," the cleric replied in a bored voice, turning back around to the fire she was watching before being rudely interrupted by the demon hunter.
Kaiban sighed. This is exactly how Kaiban remembered her. Somewhat forgetful and a "I'll listen when I feel like it" attention span. What the hell did she and Conn do for three years anyway?
"Hey, what are these?" With that, Kimm pulled two curved daggers out of her bag.
"I thought you said you had no weapons?" Kaiban asked, frown on his face.
"I forgot I had these, okay? Geez," Kimm said as she turned around with a pout, annoyance evident in her voice.
"Alright, whatever. Look dude, this is war, okay? You need to be prepared. I'm a general now so I can't have your back all the time. They'll think something's going on between us if I treat you differently from the other soldiers,"
"Then don't, I can handle myself," replied the girl with attitude in her voice.
"I highly doubt it. Every other soldier here and in the Legion have been through hell and back. They are war veterans and trained killers who don't flinch even when they're closest comrade's die, and, judging from what you've told me, the only thing you've killed are bugs in your room at Yulgar's. You have no chance," Kaiban replied bluntly.
"Well then, what do you suppose I do, huh?" An annoyed Kimm questioned.
A short silence followed.
"Find someone to train you I guess," Kaiban finally said, "Bird Boy and I are going to be busy prepping battle plans and the like for the checkpoint at the Oblivion Gate, and I don't think you like Dilligas all that much, so find someone else,"
"How? Like you said everyone here is dangerous!"
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean everyone here is mean too. There's soldiers of good here right? Find one of them to help you," Kaiban replied.
"Oh, fine!" Kimm said as she walked away with her arms crossed, a pout on her face.
"And I thought I was the most immature out of us three," Kaiban said to himself as he walked the other way.
"Excellent, very excellent..." Dage said as he viewed the note handed to him by Green Warrior.
"Very well, welcome to the Legion young one...hehe from what I've seen so far it shows you are filled with promise. Do not fail me. You may leave," and with that, Dage dismissed Green Warrior and Conn with a flick of his wrist.
As they excited the tent Conn eyed Green. Green looked calm. Too calm. It wasn't natural for someone to be so calm after selling their soul and pledging undying allegiance to an evil entity. What Conn didn't notice however, was that this wasn't calmness, it was just silence.
"Hey Conn..." Green finally spoke after they were halfway to their tent.
"Yeah bro?" Conn replied with a raised brow.
"Now that I'm officially part of the Legion...if we see Kaiban or Kimm on the field, if they're on Nulgath's side...I'll have to kill them," Green whispered the last part out slowly.
Conn suddenly froze, his eyes wide in shock as he realized the predicament they were in.
"We could just ignore them on the battlefield," Conn suggested, shuddering just a little bit.
"But,"
"No buts! We have to!"
"But Conn...What if they attack us?"
Kimm walked through the camp with her head low, kicking a rock as she took her stroll.
"Where am I supposed to find someone who could help train me? Everyone here is busy fighting, dying, or healing!"
As soon as she said that, she heard a loud clatter come from the tent by her.
"I sorry! I sorry!"
She heard as she saw a young boy, a year older than her, stumble backwards out of the tent, landing on his backside.
The boy was tan, a bit scrawny, and had very short hair. He had an accent, but Kimm didn't know where from. Maybe the mountains in the northern islands of Yokai. She couldn't really tell. He was also a few inches shorter than her.
The boy shook his head and looked up, noticing Kimm for the first time. He instantly blushed, which made Kimm smirk just a little bit. She then remembered where she saw him before. The academy at Swordhaven. His name was Leo, or that's how she remembers it.
Before she was able to speak to Leo, she suddenly saw a tall man, a couple years older than Kaiban, come out of the tent.
"Ey, Ulo, clean up the mess you made!"
The man was a knight, on the side of good too. She saw King Alteon's banner on the entrance flaps of the tent. Maybe he had some time off and decided to come here to see what was going on.
"Well, you comin' inside or what?" The knight asked again.
The boy, no longer staring at Kimm, stammered in search of a response.
"Uhm...uh...look! Ober dere!" Leo said as he pointed behind Kimm. Both Kimm and the knight looked before realizing what Leo just did. They turned around once more to see that Leo had disappeared.
"Damn! He got away..." The man said to himself.
"Do you know Ulo?" He asked turning to Kimm.
"I think...I could have sworn his name was Leo though..." She replied, trying to remember whether or not that boy was Leo.
"It is, haha. Ulo is just a nickname," the knight replied.
"Ulo? What does that mean?" Kimm asked, confused.
"I'll tell you later, for now I have to find him," the knight said looking around for anywhere Leo could have hid. "Well, I gotta go get him now. I'm Teej by the way," he said with a smile.
"Kimm," she replied smiling.
"Alright, nice to meet you, see you around!" Teej said as he ran towards the other tents.
Kimm sighed. This army was very interesting.