Freedom Planet: The Fire Garnet

Chapter 8: การล้อม (The Siege)

ไม่ระบุ สถานที่ปรักหักพัง, หนองคาย ต่างจังหวัด (Unknown Ruins, Nong Khai Province)

Carol climbed down the steep dark pit, doing her best trying to avoid the water pouring down from the miniature waterfalls created from the monsoon in the jungles. Strange vines hang down from the opening of the cave entrance from up above with glowing flowers on them, most of them blue or purple with white outlines on the edges of the flowers. Completely muddy and soaked from the monsoon floods, Carol followed the slight ringing sound coming from deeper within the cave, as she venture deep into the caverns the ringing sounded closer and closer until coming up to a strange door. Carol looked at it with a burning curiosity wondering what the symbols on that door meant. Without warning, the door opened quickly startling Carol for a moment, then she saw a strange orange orb-like entity down the hidden temple's halls.

Carol: "He-hello?, wha- what are you?"

The orb made a strange ringing sound, apparently responding to Carol's question but in a way Carol was incapable of understanding. Then the orb began moving deeper into the mysterious temple beneath the jungles of Nong Khai, giving Carol the impression it wanted her to follow it. As Carol continued her way walking down halls and going through rooms and passageways following the mysterious orange orb, she began realizing the temple was a lot more than what it initially appeared. The orb then stopped when it reached a small room, it came to a device which looked like nothing that would come from an ancient civilization. The orb made a small electric shock, and in an instant the device activated, it seemed it wanted Carol to touch it. Carol nervously came towards the device as the orb moved aside, it looked like a black metal wrist cuff, with glowing fire designs all over it. The lines of the fire art on the wrist cuff glowed red, as Carol stared at the wrist cuff she felt a burning obsessive passion to wear it, like fire burning through her bloodstream wanting to embrace it. Putting the wrist cuff on her left hand, the wrist cuff locked itself onto her arm.

Carol: "Ugh, my head, uuuuggggghhhhh, AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

Carol felt as if fire burned through her head, when the headache stopped she passed out for a short period of time. When having awakened, Carol realized she knew things she clearly didn't know before.

Carol: "Wha- what happ-, wait... this isn't any kind of temple, it's a buried ship! This wrist cuff... it burned all this stuff into my head!"

Carol gave another look at the wrist cuff, then quickly turned to the orb that approached her. The orb made a ringing sound, yet somehow Carol understood the orb perfectly.

Carol: "I see, so this device allows me to have complete access to the temple, and burns all this knowledge of different skills into my brain."

Carol then realized something...

Carol: "I think I know how to make a compactable motorcycle!"

The orb made another ringing sound.

Carol: "You're right, I gotta save my friends, but we need to find some way to locate where they're at. I think I know what to find that will help me do that."

Carol entered a vault chamber in the strange temple, as the vault door opened with the use of her metal wrist cuff, there were a selection of different ancient weapons that were displayed on the walls, as Carol looked through the selection she saw a pair of black Karambits with orange tiger stripes on it's curved knife blade that caught her eyes.

Carol: *laughs confidently* "Yes, this will do well, I think I can event jump up walls climbing with this thing!"

Carol turned to the orange orb, making another ringing sound Carol understood perfectly, she responded.

Carol: "You saved me from that fall earlier? Thanks, now lets go save my friends!"

สุราษฎร์ธานี พระราชวัง (Surat Thani Palace)

Princess Pakārạng, otherwise known as Coral by her sister and friends as she saw it, tried to settle herself down in her garden to figure out a way to get her friends back. She began discussing the critical matter about the hostage crisis with her loyal Lord Aawut about her captured friends in her palace gardens near her favorite grown batch of Leụ̄xd Mạngkr (Dragons Blood) flowers.

Coral: "Lord Brevon has captured our friends and will inevitably discover the Fire Garnets existence Now not only is our entire nation in grave peril, but all of Avalice is now in great danger. It seems we have no choice, we must request the Royal Magister in Shang Tu to help us."

Aawut: "Then I'll send the messenger to him immediately as you command, though I fear the Royal Magister's forces alone won't be enough, we should also make a request for Mayor Zao of Shang Mu to come to our aid as well. Lord Brevon's forces also has the support of the Uhkaungg Musoe Warlord of Sagaing's military at his disposal. Our military with the Royal Magister's forces won't be enough to stop them."

Coral: "Agreed, but we'll need more than militaries of foreign kingdoms to stop Lord Brevon, Lord Brevon has my friends and sister held captive and we need people who can infiltrate and rescue them."

Lord Aawut: "Fully agreed your majesty, that is why I am hiring the Red Scarve Mercenaries to do that, I have the finances to pay for their hire."

Coral: "Good, contact Messenger Arthit and have him tell both of the Kingdoms that Lord Brevon has returned to Avalice and is holding our heroes captive, he will tell them the nation of Saraburi is going to war against Lord Brevon's forces and needs their assistance to stop them."

Lord Aawut: "As you wish your Majesty."

Lord Aawut bows to the Princess then went to assign the Messenger to alert the other Kingdoms of Lord Brevon's return to Avalice. The Princess rushed to the fire temple in Surat Thani in an attempt to move the Fire Garnet somewhere Lord Brevon's forces can't find it.

วัด ไฟ, สระบุรี (Fire Temple, Saraburi)

Coral rushed into the entrance of the fire temple to retrieve the Fire Garnet from it's chamber room, after entering she put the mystical gemstone into a bag, but before she made her way out of the temple she felt a boom coming from outside the temple.

Coral: "Oh no!, not now!"

Coral rushed out of the chamber room and into the main halls, running with haste out of the fire temple she bared witness to Lord Brevon's warships beginning their assault on the royal city of Surat Thani. Before she could decide how to escape Lord Brevon appeared with his forces surrounding her.

Lord Brevon: *laughs* "Princess Pakārạng, it is such a pleasure to meet you, or should I say Coral? No matter, you must be Carol's twin sister. I have great plans for you!"

Lord Brevon used that same weapon he used on Lilac's friends, knocking her unconscious and taking her into custody along with her friends. With both the Fire Garnet and the Project Horizon now in Lord Brevon's possession, Avalice is now in a very dangerous situation...