Chapter Two
Border Battle
Vallen kept going through his king's orders, while Lance tried to escape. Then, after hours of traveling, they made it to the Tiberoa border.
"Let me go," Lance yelled, trying to reach his lance, Scorcher.
"As you wish," Vallen said as he let go of Lance.
"Wha–why are you betraying my father's orders, Vallen," Lance wondered.
"I would never betray him," he answered. "Since you were struggling to get out of my hands–which I apologize for grabbing you that way–you didn't hear what King Allen had said."
"Heeeeeyyyyy, wait for meeeee!" said a voice so familiar, that Lance yelled, "Shut up, Alexis! God!"
"What are you doing here, Alexis," Vallen said in a polite voice.
"I heard rumors that Serdio's castle was infiltrated, and that you two had escaped," Alexis said.
"Do you know how my father is," Lance asked.
"Well, do you want the superior news or the terrible news first?"
"Whatever! Just tell me!"
"Okay, the terrible news is that your father was killed. The superior news is that the enemy fled back to their castle, in the Death Frontier."
"Father's dead…"
"Hey, invaders are coming into Tiberoa! Warn the others! Make them retreat, or kill them," a lookout Tiberoan yelled to the other guardian soldiers.
"Aw, great," Alexis whined.
"It's 'Do, or Die'," Vallen said.
"I'd rather 'do', than 'die'," Lance yelled, as he started to pull out Scorcher. Then he ran into the gateway, and threw his lance into a Tiberoan soldier.
"Ugh, my comrades are way more powerful than you," the dieing soldier said, "and they'll send you strait to hell!"
"Well, well, well. It seems like you and your buddy here will be there first," Vallen yelled as he slashed at the soldier who had stabbed him, and his horse. Lance, Alexis, and Vallen were overwhelmed. The soldiers kept coming. Then…
"Sound the alarm! Retreat! They've stayed fighting to long. Allow passage, or get killed, that's your choice," the one injured soldier who had survived an attack yelled.
"Don't worry," said a man with a deep voice, "me and my men will chop their heads off! C'mon boys, kill 'em and send them strait to hell!"
"You're hired, as long as you finish them off," the injured soldier said, as he and the other remaining warriors ran off.
"Say no more, heh," the man said.
"Great, most of them retreated," Alexis said happily.
"Wha–watch your backs, those warriors are from Death Frontier! Wait a moment," Vallen said.
"What is it," Lance asked.
"That leader used to go to war school with me!"
"What," Lance and Alexis yelled together.