-Break-
Arriving in front of the palace entrance, I kick the large doors into the palace open and shout, “AHMED GET OUT HERE.”
In front of me, I see a horde of soldiers preparing to leave. Seeing this my hair starts to turn blue in embarrassment, with a whimper I say, “I didn’t know so many people would be here.”
On my shoulders, Anto giggles at me, so I say, “Shut up!” Turning to face the soldiers, I walk up to them and say, “Would you be able to tell me where Ahmed is?”
All the soldiers in the room suddenly turn their spears to me, and then one of them says, “Don’t use our king's name so lightly you lying scum.”
I know Anto and Atalanta made a mistake but aren’t they a little too hostile? “I think there must be some mistake, I have come to apologize for the actions of my friends.”
“BE QUIET!! We were told to arrest you on sight, so come peacefully or else.”
Remembering Raqiue I grit my teeth, and say, “I don’t have time for this just let me through.”
The man in front attacks me with his spear and scratches my cheek, then says, “The time for talk is over either come peacefully or come broken.”
After he says, this I say, “This is only going to hurt for a few days.”
The moment I speak he attacks me with his spear again, but I break it and create giant ice spikes all around us.
One of the soldiers in the back screams, “ATTACK!!” So all the soldiers run at me.
To my left, I hear Cyrus move to attack the soldiers in that direction, so I face the soldiers coming from the right. I turn my ice spikes into snow then I create more ice spikes in that direction to ward off the soldiers.
After I finish up the soldiers, I turn my head to the left to see all the other soldiers beaten up. Looking at Cyrus I see he has this strange aura about him today, his concentration today is sharper than his sword.
Jumping on my back, Anto says, “Sorry for not being useful.”
“Your plenty useful in many situations, but for big hordes like this just leave them to me, and the rest of the muscle.”
Walking over to Cyrus, I say, “Let’s split up to find Ahmed and Atalanta. I will go with Anto, while you go alone.”
With confidence leaking out of Cyrus, he says, “Alright.”
As we prepare to go in our separate directions, I say to Cyrus, “Remember, our first goal is to get Ahmed to remove Raqiue's chains, I would prefer to do that through conversation, but if he refuses don’t be afraid to do what you have to.”
Cyrus nods his head in response then we make our way down two separate hallways.
-Break-
As I move through my hallway, I knock out all soldiers I see on the way, and behind me, I make sure to drag all the snow I have created with me. It is rather annoying, but I need to conserve strength, if I hit my limit I am finished.
Anto on my shoulder says, “We haven’t run into any soldiers for a while, aren’t they supposed to be coming from this way?”
“All we can do is keep our guard up.” Seeing something in the distance, I accelerate, but the moment I do I hear a familiar sound, “Lighting!”
Suddenly I see a group of arrows approach me at high speed, so I dodge out of the way. As I dodge I turn my head, and see that the arrows which I dodged had sparks coming off of them.
As I regain my composure, I look in front of me and I see a group of men with large golden rectangle shield set up in a barricade, and behind them is a large staircase leading to a singular door. But on that staircase is a group of soldiers with bows, men and women.
“Orb there is a lot of them.”
“I know.” Still, in the same position, I take all my snow and I clump it all together, then just like a snake I manoeuvre all that snow to crash right into the men with shields, and the moment it hits I will freeze it.
But as I do one of them shouts, “BRACE.” Then all the men hunker down and take the snow directly.
The same voice shouts, “PUSH!” Then all the ice on their shields breaks off.
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“This is going to be annoying.”
On my back, Anto says, “Orb their shields have the same scales as the wonderbeast Cyrus fought.”
“The Tahajalmud.”
Seeing another volley of arrows come at me, I dodge and as I do I get a good whiff of them and say, “Those arrows smell just like the Jackal's horns, they have weaponized the wonderbeasts of Jedidiah.”
As I continue to dodge the arrows, I see women with curved swords jump over the men with shields and they come at me. From the way they move I can tell each one of them is incredibly nimble.
I use snow boost to dash towards them, then using the claws on my legacy I clash with their blades. As I fight then I am cut up all over my body, those weird blades are hard to follow I can’t fully understand their reach, and with Anto on my back dodging in close quarters is a pain.
One of them slices me right at the side of my neck, then says, “This is your punishment for betraying the king's trust. Now die!”
Jumping overhead, her head, I create ice which makes all of them move back, then I say, “I don’t have time to mess with you guys,” As I snow boost towards the men with shields.
I jump onto the walls of the hallway, then I use ice to freeze my legs as I move allowing me to walk on the walls. Moving towards them I see the archer have fired another volley of arrows at me, so I jump from wall to wall as I get close.
Suddenly I hear the sound of projectiles from behind me, so I dodge to the floor and as I do I peek behind to see that daggers were being thrown at me by the women. “Tch.”
Still, even though I am back on the floor I am still close to the shields so I can just run straight towards them. Snowboosting in their direction I hear the man in the centre scream, “BREAK!!!”
Then in the centre of all of their shields, holes open up, and moments later I see spherical objects shoot out of their shields directly at me. Immediately I make a barrier of ice, but then explosions go off in front of me, sending me flying behind the nimble swordswomen.
My ears are killing me. As I grasp for breath my mind tries to make sense of what just happened; that explosive force it had to be gunpower, I always wanted to see it just not in this circumst-.
Before I can even finish my thought the sword of the nimble woman is already at my neck. Quickly, I dodge away but I am cut indirectly on my stomach. Then I realize all the swordswomen have surrounded me at all sides and are coming towards me.
There unrelenting I can’t even find a second to catch my breath. Shit my body is still rocked from those explosives, I need to finish this quickly.
Over at the staircase, I hear one man shout as he slams his shield into the ground, “WHO ARE WE!?”
Slamming their shields into the ground, all the other men shout, “THE BLADES OF JEDIDIAH!”
“AND WHAT IS OUR PURPOSE!?”
“TO DEFEND JEDIDIAH!!”
“FROM WHO!?
“THOSE WHO WISH IT HARM!?”
“SO ALL THOSE WHO WISH IT HARM WILL BE!?”
“DESTROYED!!!”
Shut the hell up; my ears are already about to burst. One of the women in my moment of distraction swings her blade next to my eye, so I jump back but when I do I realize that all the other women are swinging their blades right next to my neck.
They caught me off guard I need to make ice now, no I won’t make it in time!
Suddenly I see that my environment has changed, and then I hear Anto say, “Orb I only have two daggers left, I don’t know how much help I will be.”
“Don’t worry you have already done enough.” Facing the soldiers I say, “Nimble swords women who hunt me relentlessly, incredibly hard shields that can fire explosives at me and archers who can keep up the pressure no matter where I am.”
Dodging another volley of arrows, I say, “The best way to deal with a long list of things to do is to take them on one by one.”
Snowboosting past the women, I create a thick wall of ice blocking the soldiers from assisting. The moment I do this one of the men yells, “BREAK!!”
I only have a little time to deal with these women, so let’s get started. Beneath my feet, I create snow which covers the floor for me and the women. Then I move towards them and as they do the same towards me, I convert the snow into ice and seal their movements.
As fast as I can I kick the women in their chins to knock them unconscious, but some of them are strong enough to break out of my ice and move towards me.
“Prepare to die, invader!”
“Sorry, but I have too many promises to keep.” When they approach me, I make a small field of snow beneath my feet, and as they approach me I turn that snow into ice spikes to break up their formation.
In this moment of confusion, I knock more of them unconscious. When the remaining ones regain themselves and come back to attack me, I turn all the ice on the floor into snow which knocks them off balance, then again I snowboost around and knock them unconscious.
Dodging away I realize there is only one left, the talkative leader. “No more support from your friends.”
“I alone am enough to kill you!”
Entering an exchange with her, I am cut up as I try to dodge her sword. The movements of that curved blade are too weird.
“Continue to struggle in vain intruder!!”
The explosions are getting closer I need to finish this up right now. I can’t keep up with her movements, so I got to think of another way to beat her, she is too fast in close quarters to create any ice and she isn’t going to let me out of her range. So, all I can do is analyse her moves.
Focus, focus, there must be an opening somewhere. I found it. She keeps repeating the same vertical slash towards my stomach, it seems she is trying to expand my stomach wound and make me bleed out. All I have to do is wait for her to do that slash from the left again, I can beat her.
After 5 seconds she goes for the same attack yet again, so I use my left knee and elbow to trap her blade and then I freeze it breaking the blade into pieces. The moment I do this she is shocked, but almost as if out of instinct she starts to back away.
The moment my left foot touches the ground I use snow boost to propel it right next to the temple of her head, then I slam my foot into it and knock her into the ground.
Immediately, I turn all my snow around me into snow then I rush towards the other soldiers.
Name: Tarina Grandslam
Age: 38
Birthday: 19th Pisces
Hair: Purple
Eyes: Pink
Height: 167 cm
Description: The wife of Yamal Grandslam, and daughter of a prostitute. She was taken in by her father to be sold for her beauty, due to this she was often mistreated and never had much love in her life. But one day that changed, and from then on she continued to spread love and happiness with every action she takes to the point where many consider her to be headstrong.