-"get back here!" Levitus cries out in fury, but to no evail.

She lays on the ground, Ezra too far away to be hunted and Levitus on her knees, contemplating. Behind her can be heard footsteps, getting ever closer to her. Suddenly a figure casts a shadow behind her, she looks up to find the principle of order looking down at her with a dissapointed look that quickly turns into the look of anger.

-"Lord Imani is looking for you." he speaks coldly.

-"i... Please let me explain!"

-"you will explain it to him once you see him."

They teleport and are once again in the Khapesh palace.

-"please sir... i-i i can explain!"

-"no explanation needed, Azazel, do it."

-"alright, as you wish my Lord."

-"no! Please, forgive me!"

-"there is nothing to forgive, you have disobeyed orders given to you, you hunted Ezra too late, and even when you did arive at the Gaddehara village you still let him escape. How can i forgive you?" says Imani in a calm, soft voice.

-"but-"

-"no buts, you have made mistakes and you will pay for them. Thats how justice works" says a voice in the background, echoing through the room.

-"cut her arm off" imani says

And so Azazel does it. She screams in pain but her screams abruptly stop.

-"please! All i ever wanted was to feel something, some human emotion outside of battle!"

-"you are." says Azazel, - "you're cowering in fear at the thought of death, there is nothing more human than that."

-"wait-" he cuts her in half from the waist down killing her nearly instantly. In that moment, Aisha barges into the room and is shocked at the sight before her. She pulls out the orb from a pouch.

-"now i know what this is used for!" she says to herself as she destroys the orb realising energy that destroys the room and forms a beast of ice resembling a dragon.

The beast roars and attempt to swing at Imani but he destroys its giant claw with a single arm movement.

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-"spacial manipulation: vaccum eviseration." he creates an air vaccum that bends and destroys the dragon, making a rain of blood and flesh.

-"you fucker! Someone will kill you someday for that! And i will make sure that happens!" says Aisha, crying heavily. Taking fast and short breaths of air inbetween her sentences.

-"oh, will you now? Is the reason you say that becouse my principle killed your friend? Principles have a difficult job sweetheart. death is expected, and all of them are throughly prepared for it, i'm sorry you see me as a monster but it was a necessary sacrifice in the greater good of our nation." Imani speaks with a soft tone and a kind gaze looking in Aisha's direction, who is crying on the floor.

-"as a matter of fact, if you want revenge, take it out on Ezra. he defeated her in combat and will most likely return to try and kill me, if you could take him off my back it would be greatly apreciated... Who knows, you might even become a principle~"

-"why would i do that you monster!"

-"becouse, you will get revenge for Levitus and get rewarded for it, not to mention, you would be doing me a great service. Now, stand up, and i will help you be better." he steps closer to Aisha holding his hand out in front of her, she takes his hand and pulls herself up from the floor.

-"i will kill ALL who threatened Levitus. Ezra will die first." she says holding his hand firmly with tears rolling down her face.

The gaddehara forest

Ezra is running at the fastest possible speed in his condition dripping blood and unintentionaly creating a trail as he ran.

The sun is setting behind him, rain seems to be starting, he can smell it in the air. He had grown long tired and needs rest, too far from the village, too far from any close encampment or town. He falls smoothly on the ground into the soil he has been running for hours and it is already well into the night and rain is starting to pour heavily, he needs immediate shelter from the cold and rain or else his life will be cut short. Trying desperetly to stand, he succeeds and limps over to the closest tree, grabbing a branch once getting there.

He sees one final hope of survival, a neighbouring town to the Gaddehara village. He immedietly tries to go to the town, falling multiple times before getting there.

Once there, he enters a tavern full of people of all kinds.

He quickly opens the door and mutters the words "dying... Need, help..." falling unconcious after speaking, everybody in the tavern jumps up from their seats and they all run to help the child.

Ezra wakes up in a strange room, square, with nothing but brick walls surrounding him and a path paved with the same bricks, with the same walls around the path as well except the brick walls around the path have unlit torches on them, emmiting some type of smoke he hasn't seen before.

He walks the path and hears a strange voice in front of him.

-"come Ezra, and i will tell you my secrets" the voice speaks in an eary tone.

He walks to a room, square again, with nothing but brick walls lining it and a sword in the middle.

-"i'm glad you could come."

-"who are you?"

-"i cannot answer that, i will give you insight to your soul, but my name you will find out yourself later." the voice says

-"shadows are my blood, void is my heart. the very being that i am, midnight moon lights up the shining earth. Shade of the king and his people, the bane of a true empire. Remember these words, you may use them someday."

The voice dissapears and two of the four torches light up. After much time, he wakes up inside a clinic with a doctor sitting beside him on the bed.

-"good, you're awake." she gets up to leave.

-"by the way, this healing procedure wasn't cheap. I hope you can pay it off child." Ezra looks on in horror at the doctors words as she leaves the room.

Horrified, he turns around in his bed and goes to sleep to clear his mind.