Ch8: terror from above. Hey guys and girls. Sorry about the mix up with the last two chapters. And for the lateness, I've been slacking off and I hope this will make up for it.

It had been 2 days since the attempt on Emily's life. Trellis and her were both training with Leon for the next possible battle. They stayed more focused on the training than anything else. Emily was training alone one morning and her stone started to glow.

(Someone's been busy. When are you going to get this over with and kill the king.) he said as she stopped.

'I don't have to listen to you, I only listen to friends and family, and you're neither.' She thought back.

(Fine, have fun training.) he said as the voice disappeared. She continued training. She was focused on only 1 thing, and that was protecting her family from another attack. She couldn't take any chances. She couldn't lose anyone else.

-flashback-

The car started to slide down the snowy cliff. Emily's mom kept pulling her husbands hand.

"Honey...let go." He said.

"NO!"she said scared out of her mind.

"You have to take care of the kids." He said.

"NO, DAVID!" She said as their hands parted and the car slid off the cliff. Emily stood there shocked as her mom cried.

-flashback end-

She broke from the distraction and returned to training. That's when Trellis walked up.

"Hey, Emily." He said as she smiled.

"Hey, Trellis." She said as she walked over and kissed him.

"So, you've been training a lot, so I was thinking we could go to dinner tonight and relax." He said

"Sure, I could use a brake. Leon keeps me on a 10 hour training schedule." She said putting her staff back in her sling. They walked until they reached the dining district. They got their food to go and went to a special place for the guardian council. The were walking to it when a figure jumped a roof top. Trellis turned and saw that it was Krasis. He still pushed him back and Emily got her staff out and pointed it at him.

"How long have you been following us?" She asked waiting impatiently.

"I was only here to give you a warning. The elf king is preparing a massive attack on Ceilis." He said. Their eyes widened.

"Okay...how long do we have?" She asked.

"2 days I think. I'll be here to help you guys though." He said. Emily backed off and helped him up.

"Alright Krasis, say you are telling the truth, then what do we do?" She asked

"Get the citizens in the lower caverns and surprise attack the elf ground forces. That will help even out their forces." He said as Emily looked at Trellis. He shrugged.

"Alright. Well go with your plan." She said, he nodded and left into the shadows. They continued on for their meal and went to their destination: the rain forest falls of Ceilis. They sat and ate.

"So, Leon keeps you on a huge schedule huh?" He asked.

"Yeah, I guess it's the only thing to keep my mind off of my family getting hurt here. When my dad died, I wouldn't let anything happen to them." She said.

"I know, if anything happened to you I would never forgive myself." He said she blushed.

"Thanks Trellis, I love you." She said kissing him.

"I love you, too." He said kissing her back. They hugged and smiled lovingly.

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It had been two days and the elf ships were going to come in any minute. Everyone was in the lower cabins and Emily and Trellis were ready to fight. They were waiting for many hours, suddenly, the nose of a ship came out from the clouds. But it wasn't just the fleet that Krasis had mentioned, instead it was the entire gulfen armada. They were shocked at the death machines they were looking at, but they didn't back down. They used their stones and jumped towards the ships slicing them into pieces. They took down two, only 1,000 more to go. That's when a figure emerged from the destroyed ship, he jumped and worst of all he had a stone. He stood in front of them, standing there quiet and with his face covered. He removed it and they saw something they couldn't believe. It was max.

"M-max, how did you survive?!" She asked shocked.

"Oh...heh heh heh...you'd like to know wouldn't you, well I'll tell you." He said with a devilish smile.

-flashback-

Max and Vigo were battling on a gulfen ship. They were clashing with their stones as the ship fell apart from all of the intended and uncontrollable energy. They were evenly matched and were causing more damage than anything. Max got out his sword. And slashed Vigo in the stomach. He ceased his attack as Vigo fell to the ground, he turned and started to leave, but a green energy grabbed his leg. It was Vigo's, he was badly wounded, but refused to give up. That's when an alarm went off.

[engine core meltdown in 10, 9, 8, 7,6.] max tried to escape, but Vigo was determined to end it.

[3, 2, 1] and the ship exploded leaving Vigo and max flying. Max had badly injured, losing an arm. He was bleeding, a lot. Vigo on the other hand had died on the assent down. Max fell un conscious and the Ceilis guard examined him, they decided to leave him there and went back to Ceilis, that was a big mistake. Three elf warriors found him and brought him to a secret gulfen lab. They performed surgery and gave him a new arm, he opened his eyes and scowled.

-flashback end-

Both of them looked shocked with eyes wide. Max proved it by showing them the arm. It was mechanical, similar to the ones on the Silas house. He smiled.

"I've been waiting to test it's functions out, oh, I know. I'll test it on you." he said as the two got into their battle stances, and they charged.