Fantasia

Arc1: Battle of villages

Chapter5:A mission to rescue the sage

Juan and Roné managed to sneak into Sumeria, with the help of Zolu and his father Kura, but a guard is about to enter the room where they are hiding:

"Damn it! we'll be caught!" Roné said in panic.

"No! I have an idea!" Kura said while grabbing the brothers from their collars to toss them in the air.

The guard enters the room, to find that Zolu is giving his father a back massage, with a silly naive expression on both of the father and the son:

"What the hell are you doing?" the guard asked.

"Easy son, can't an old man have his back rubbed by his son?" Kura said.

"Well then hit the road! we are locking the storages immediately" the guard said.

At this moment Juan and Roné were hanging up from an ice chandelier, when Juan noticed that his brother was melting the iced chain with his fist –that he forget to extinguish- while his own hands were getting numb from the low temperature, it was a matter of seconds until they both along with the chandelier fell violently on the guard knocking him out.

"Let's…not do it again!" Roné said while he was tottering to gain balance.

"I'm sure that the other guards heard the crash, you guys should hurry up already" Zolu suggested.

"No, I have a better idea" Juan said while dusting ice shards off his clothing.

Moments later two guards entered the room to check the crash sound, but they found the guard, Kura, and Zolu knocked down on the ground, as if they were beaten:

"The beastmen had escaped! They are heading to the royal room!" Kura said.

And with this the soldier bought the trick easily leaving the room quickly, which made a safe opening to the brothers who were taking cover under the icy floor that has been dug quickly by Roné's fire fist.

"That was some idea bro!" Roné said while shaking his fur to get rid of water.

"Speak for yourself!" Juan said while shivering.

"Kids! Focus! This place will be filled soon with soldiers!" Kura warned the young men, then he pulled a small crystal bottle from his pocket and gave it to Juan saying: "Here keep this with you, make sure your sage drink it when he's freed, now follow me!".

And as instructed by the old fisherman, the boys followed him out of the storage but unlike they've expected they skipped the dungeon were the Sumerians usually keep their prisoners:

"Old man! Where are we going to? The dungeon is there!" Roné said to Kura.

"Didn't you hear what I've said earlier? We need to rescue your leader first, he's the only one capable of defeating lord Ramusus" Kura explained.

"But wasn't he defeated before?!" Juan asked.

"No he wasn't! lord Ramusus used a girl named Yera as a hostage to deceive Luffine!" the old man answered.

"Yera! Yera's there?!" Roné said in anger before changing his path, but he was soon pulled back by Juan and Zolu:

"Idiot! They'll catch you like this!" Zolu said before Juan add: "Brother! Calm down! We'll save her later!", but the enraged young man said: "But she's there! I gotta save her!"

"Enough! Zolu we'll save the villagers, and you two will save the sage." Kura told the three boys.

"Alright!" Roné said trying to calm himself.

And so the young ragon headed toward the dungeon to save the captured beastmen, whereas the other three entered a high tower in the edge of the village.

The tower had a unique conic shape surrounded by a spiral crystal jetting out of a cluster of jagged ice, and the only entrance seems to be a large door locked with some strange lock.

"Hmm the lock seems specially forged, is there any way we can open it?!" Juan asked after examining the door.

"Sonny, when you live with the sea, you may learn many lessons of life" Kura said while tilting his wooden leg before he completes: "But when you work as bartender at the end of your life you learn one thing…" he removed his leg to pull some strange key that resembles to a crab's pincer: "You can get anything by making a soldier drunk" as he grinned lightly.

"Old man! You sure are badass…for a ragon!" Roné expressed his surprise.

And so the three made their way through the mysterious tower, ascending to the top, where they've seen some strange light, and heard two persons talking:

"So this is the legendary Luffine the sage of Ardneria?! How depressing!" the first man said.

Few flashes are seen.

"Calm down big brother! His majesty paid us to investigate him not to kill him!" a deeper voice is heard.

"Don't worry, these flame eaters aren't easy to die" the first man said again.

"The sage!" Juan said in a low voice.

"They are torturing hi…" Kura said.

And before he completed his sentence, Roné jumped at the two man recklessly to be repelled violently to the wall.

"Bastards!" Roné said while trying to stand up, "Release the old man already!" he added igniting in flames.

"But his majesty didn't pay us for babysitting…eh big brother?" the deep voice talked.

And so from the shadows the two men emerged, two ragons they were:

A large ragon, with huge muscular build, and short straight hair, he wears a silver chain mail and tight dark purple pants, he has a noticeable tatoo (resembles to a whale tail with three horizontal lines arranged in parallel at its bottom) on his left shoulder.

Accompanied by a shorter and rather slender ragon, with spiky haircut, smaller eyes, and small light goatee, he wears a sleeveless tight green shirt, with loose blue pants, he has the same tatoo as his brother, but on the right shoulder.

"So old brother…care to torture more people for free?" the large man said.

"Torture?...we may need to kill one of them to make them learn never to interrupt the Zedai brothers when they are working!" the shorter brother said.

"Damn it! he used these two! That's low!" Kura said.

"Who are these guys?!" Juan asked.

"The big one is the young brother Samu, while the shorter one is the old brother Hegi, they were banished by the former sage, because of their continuous law breaking, and they'd almost anything for money! They are mercenaries!" Kura answered.

"Stay behind me!" the old ragon said to Juan as he rushed toward the two brothers, Hegi released a powerful water blast from his clapped hands, but Kura jumped highly evading it, to land a powerful kick on the old brother, but he was too slow to evade a slam received from Samu.

"Kids run! They may kill you!" the injured old man said.

Roné walked toward the two men ignoring Kura's orders: "Run?! Nope! you didn't guess old man! As a beastman I can't run from a battle like this, and as a man I can't see my family gettin' hurt without beating the hell out of guys like you!" said the angered man igniting his fists.

"Hehe…looks like I'll enjoy this…eh big brother?" Samu said while clashing his fists together.

Juan encouraged himself and carried an iron bar he found on the floor next to Kura, and joined his brother: "I'll fight too!" he said, making his brother react positively by saying: "You said you two are the Zedai brothers, well be prepare to be defeated by the Rocux brothers!".

To be continued.