Blood Wars
The Blood Battle begins are the Blood Warriors are taken to a huge, labyrinth-like coliseum and there Hiro will have to fight his way out to survive as the rest does the same, but with a mysterious twist which will be revealed later here…
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As Hiro is being restrained by the Royal Guards, Emil then stepped forward, further increasing the tension by speaking his piece and on behalf of Hime.
"Just like Lilliane…I too will not allow my Blood Warrior to participate, but if you may, allow myself or my servants to take her place…"
"Silence! I am angered by this! For that…the battle between Blood Warriors will commence immediately! The Royal Siblings will be denied the chance to place their Flame of Light to their Blood Warrior! Instead of five days…the Blood Warriors will fight within 60 minutes!"
Strangely, the audience cheered while the Royal Siblings, except for Emil and Sylvia, were not pleased with this, and then Gilliam arrived and delivered another bombshell.
"Father…forgive me for being late…I had to search for my own Blood Warriors…and now I've brought them along…so thus I can participate…allow me to introduce them…Rugal Bernstein and Chris…surely there are no rules as to how many blood Warriors I may bring in…"
"Yes…I allow you…"
Gilliam's Blood Warriors, one resembled an adult having German descent, and the other a Japanese-looking 14-year old teen, vaguely as young as Hiro, stood there as the guards are being told by the King to have the factions locked at their rooms, as Hiro, the mermaid girl, Mikasa, Sherwood's three pandas, and Gilliam's two Blood Warriors are being escorted to a huge, coliseum-like labyrinth where the battle will take place within a few minutes from now. Keziah and Sledge attempted to fight their way to get to the Mermaid Girl but stopped as the guards aimed their spears at Emil, and the 3rd elder brother did nothing…for now, though he can see the Memaid Child shedding tears, and he can see why, knowing she's in a severe disadvantage as she is never a fighter and he'll have to bid his time before acting on something.
Hime and Riza were locked inside their room and to their surprise, the window now has cage bars that would prevent them from going out, and things looked bad for them. While Hime is calm, Riza was irritated as she noticed that Reiri isn't here, and figured she sneaked her way out of the commotion, though the 2nd princess was pleased by this which the werewolf warrior is baffled by this, and asked her why.
"How can you smirk at a time like this?"
"Reiri changed into her bat-form to escape the guards…so that she could find a way to get us out…for now we wait…and knowing Hiro…he'll be able to last longer within 60 minutes…"
"But Emil's Blood Warrior…"
"That's my concern right now…she is not a fighter and she'll be targeted first…unless…"
"Unless…?"
The door opened and to the women's surprises, Flandre was thrown in, and she appeared to be battery-drained, as she is motionless. Riza was starting to get uneasy while Hime glanced at the door as it is being closed and could hear it locked. By then the air vent by the ceiling opened and a bat is seen flying with a note attached. Opening it, it was a letter from Reiri and the two women read it which caused them to be alarmed.
"GET UP ON THE AIR VENT NOW! THERE ARE SEVERAL NOOZLES THAT CAN EMIT POISON GA THAT WOULD KILL YOU! THOUGH I DON'T HAVE PROOF AS OF NOW…IT SEEMS THAT YOUR FATHER INTENDS TO KILL YOU ALL, REGARDLESS OF WHO WILL BE THE HEIR TO HIS THRONE."
"Is Reiri being serious or what?"
"Regardless…we better do what she says…"
As Riza lifts Hime up and managed to reached the vent, gases from four corners of the locked room started to spray, and as Hime entered the vent, Riza leaps up and entered as well, and both women crawled away into the air duct as they followed the bat leading them to where Reiri is at the moment, not looking back as the room is now scented with gas which is poisonous.
At the other room, Sledge and Keziah waited until the door opened and saw Emil being thrown in, his head bleeding and unconscious, which Sledge makes a through check on their master and both realized what just happened to him and are suspecting something deep.
"Master Emil's being beaten…but why…?"
"Of course…they knew his psychokinetic powers…so to prevent us from escaping…"
"Keziah…hold him while I check that air vent…"
The harpy warrior flew and opened the shaft, and peeking inside, he can see a passageway and then noticed the top edge of the corners have noozle and grabbed Emil and Keziah, pushing them into the vent, urging them to move.
"The rooms have noozles on it…they're going to spray us with gas!"
As Keziah and Sledge pushed their unconscious master inside the vent, the room was slowly being filled with gas and they moved their way around until they are out of the gas' reach, wondering what fate befall the others.
Elsewhere, Sherwood was already inside the vent after Reiri's familial came and gave her the warning and with Francesca drained of her batteries, she is on her own and began to crawl her way around, wondering if Hime also made their way out, though she is also concerned for her three Blood Warriors and Emil though she started to suspect something…her father's tirade aimed at Hiro, Hime and Emil, yet he did nothing to Sylvia and Gilliam, so she wondered if everything here is a set-up or not, and so her hopes of getting answers lie in finding Hime and Riza.
At the coliseum, Hiro and the Mermaid Girl are at separate areas as the audience cheered on as the King of Monsters dropped the white handkerchief to the floor, signaling the beginning among Blood Warriors. As the match began, the mermaid girl was the first to feel pressure as Mikasa found her first and attempted to slay her, which the little girl avoided and began to ran, her face streaked with tears, though Mikasa was not holding back as she knew that she can't afford to let herself get caught by the King's watchful eye as she continued to go after the mermaid girl.
Meanwhile Hiro looked around his way to find a way out, ad as he came across a corner, he saw Rugal singlehandedly threw the three pandas down, and he opted to bypass them and keep going, his thoughts are on Hime and wondered why her father slapped her so hard over the fact that Hime is suspected to have a relationship with her Blood Warrior.
"Why do I get the feeling that HIme, Sherwood and Emil's father is a phony…? The way he slapped her…this doesn't look like a neutral ruler to me…huh? The mermaid girl!"
Hiro found the Mermaid Girl being cornered and grabbed Mikasa by her hair and threw her back, while picking up the little girl by his arms, calming her down, seeing her terrified even though she is a Blood Warrior of Emil.
"Shh…it's okay…we'll get out of here…huh? Ahhh!"
As Hiro was about to move, Mikasa impaled him with her weapons and blood spilled out, though his wounds healed, something went bad, as he was starting to feel weak as his flame of Life was beginning to fizzle, and Mikasa felt the same, as she too was starting to weaken and became a bit meek, falling down on the ground. Though he would take the opportunity to either kill her and/or escape, Hiro couldn't bring himself to and carried Mikasa on his back with the Mermaid Girl leading.
Going back, Ryu-Ryu, Chou-Chou and Can-Can are slowly falling as their Flame of Lights were beginning to weaken and this gives Rugal the better edge and began beating them up until something odd took place. Gilliam was there, unlike Hime and the others who were supposed to be locked up and gave his Blood Warrior an order.
"Forget them for now…kill the boy Hiro Hiriyumi…he is the most dangerous!"
Nodding, Rugal left the three pandas behind in order to find Hiro, whose orders is to kill him.
At the passageway of the air vent, Sherwood finally meet up with Hime and Emil's group after 20 minutes of travelling and with Emil now awake, the three siblings and their servants followed the bat which leads them to the backyard of the castle, and as they all got out, they noticed something that is definitely not right. Reiri is there standing and as the three factions huddled, the teen vampire offered them her insights.
Reiri: "It seems that all this time it is a set up…from the moment we came here…I couldn't sense the aura of your father…ns that the audiences inside the castle…they're not…life-like…"
Hime: "Just my thoughts exactly.
Riza: "So you're saying that this whole thing's a set up?"
Reiri: "That's what my little spy told me so far…still waiting for the rest to come back with news…"
Keziah: "Now how do we save our Blood Warriors…if you think that the king is a phony…how do we sneak our way back inside?"
Emil: "Sledge…Keziah…go with Lilliane and Sherwood and find a way to save the Blood Warriors….I'm staying behind."
As everyone's reactions were a "?", Gilliam's other Blood Warrior, Chris, shows up, and then changes for, becoming Orochi, and Emil began to use his psychokinesis to combat the intruder as the rest reluctantly went back inside the castle to find Hiro and the others. With Lilianne leading, the others glanced at Emil as he fights off Orochi as the others made their way back inside.
To Be Continued...
Though the battle between Blood Warriors gets half screen time, the flow of the story gets underway, and it appears that the whole thing may be a set up as the other siblings are being gassed off, not knowing that Hime, Sherwood and Emil escaped, though it is not yet known what happened to Gilliam and Sylvia.
Hiro now has to bust his butt off protecting the Mermaid Girl as Rugal is making hard work for Sherwood's pandas, and Mikasa gets a little help, though this would be a risk for our teen hero…
Preview:
As Hime and her troops sneak their way back inside the castle grounds, Sylvia makes an appearance as she makes an interesting discovery as she too is making her way around…