As soon as first light rose from the morning, they immediately set out to the summit. Their journey up this rocky path was excruciating and blistering. Roth did not realize how long and high this mountain actually was. The scenery had also changed drastically from the bright summer setting to a now harsh Siberian winter. Roth could tell they were getting closer to the summit as the wind was ice cold to the bone. The snow was much thicker and deeper to step in and the sun was nowhere to be seen, only the color grey filled the skies. Katsumi led the way since she was used to traversing through deep snow. Roth was on the rear making sure nothing surprised them while on the gruesome trek. The surrounding area was starting to look familiar to Roth, it wasn't quite the same area, but the features and terrain of the land was very close.
The wind was picking up even more, all they could hear was the constant whistling of the high winds gushing past them. Mina folded her arms trying to stay warm from the constant bombardment of snow and wind. Katsumi barely even flinched from this weather, like it was nothing. Roth had the occasional shiver and trembled but ignored them and pushed on.
"If we make it to the summit and we find nothing, what will be our next plan then?" as Katsumi shouted to the back towards Roth.
"I honestly didn't plan that far ahead to be honest."
"Don't worry Katsumi, if my big brother is right about a hunch, then I trust whatever he has us to do ~brrrrrrrrrrr~" Mina says shaking as a rush of cold follows down her entire spine.
Katsumi nearly bursts out laughing but held her composure to the best of her abilities. She thinks it's extremely adorable and can't help but chuckle at them. Katsumi is glad knowing that the once hopeless scared little girl she knew is now a confident and proud girl. Roth blushes seeing Katsumi laugh at them, but he knows she means all in good fun. He smiles softly and continues to push through the deep snow when -BATHUMP-.
Roth lets out a painful yelp and clutches his chest with both his hands and topples over into the deep snow. Katsumi and Mina turned around quickly and rushed to his aid. They both called out to him in a panic asking to him what is wrong. Roth feels extremely warm all of a sudden to the point of sweating. His chest feels like it's about to burst open. -BATHUMP- his whole body feels like it had just been hit by some unknown force. This feeling feels exactly like the other times when danger is near, but this time it was too unbearable. He looked around trying to see in the distance of the snowy terrain. As soon as he turned toward his left the pain subsided. Soon as he looked away the pain grew more intense until he turned toward that specific direction. He leaped up from the snow floor and tried to rush towards the direction where he felt no pain. As if it were leading him to something. The other two tried to call out towards to slow down but he refused to stop.
He ran as fast as he could until he got towards near the edge of a cliff. Piles of rocks were surrounding the edge like a small wall as he leaned onto them for support. He can see a pathway that led down but just in the distance behind the ridge was a large scale of a mountain, the summit. The other two finally caught up to him almost out of breath of how high above sea level they were.
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"My word... Roth what has gotten into you boy?"
"Look...we're here."
The two looked over the edge to see the summit looming over them. Both were in complete awe on how massive it was. Suddenly a loud screech could be heard zipping over their heads as they ducked down from the large amount of wind that past them from the flying beast's flight path. It was a wyvern, the same type and size that attacked the city of Ezhine. The wyvern continued to fly down the slope not seeing the trio. Roth crawled toward the edge and reached into his pocket and pulled out a small spyglass. Katsumi also pulled a spyglass and pointed at the landing wyvern. The two can see a small camp just barely visible. It was a large circular tent that blended very well with the surrounding snow. Many guards were spread around overlooking the edges of the cliff all in dark animal fur. He aims towards the wyvern and sees that it has a man struggling in its talon.
"Damn it! I wish I knew what they were saying." Roth had an idea that slowly brewed in his mind and think it just might work.
"Place your hand on my shoulder Katsumi."
"What? Why?"
"Just do it alright, I have an idea."
She places her hand on his shoulder, and it glows. With his free hand he reaches into the sky as the wind is coming from the direction of the wyvern. Suddenly voices clear as day can be heard between the two. Using his wind magic he was able to use the sound to travel through the wind towards them.
"Well, well, well. Looks like our little wyvern here has caught our rat."
"OH GOD, PLEASE I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING I SWEAR TO YOU!"
The wyvern tosses the man towards him as he his missing a leg from the knee down. Making the white powder snow into a red mush.
"C'mon don't make this harder than it needs to be. Who did you sell the sanguineous fluid too huh?" He steps directly on his wound.
"OOH GOD! I DIDN'T, I SWEAR TO YOU! I WAS GOING TO SEND THE SHIPMENT WHEN THE WAREHOUSE WAS RANSACKED! I SWEAR TO YOU I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ELSE."
"God you're useless. You really don't know anything?"
"YES! YES I SWEAR PLEASE! PLEASE SPARE ME!"
" Alright... alright, I'll spare you. I'll also make that leg pain stop too."
"Oh thank you... thank heavens thank you I don't know what to-"
The man whistles loudly as he walks away while the other men surround him and watch. The wyvern snarls and growls as it walks towards the bleeding man. The man begs and tries to crawl away leaving the trail of blood but was futile. The wyvern bit into his other leg and tossed him around. The other men watched as they laughed at him. His screams pierced into the snowy sky as he begged them to stop, begging for his mother. The wyvern chomped and chewed until the man was nothing left. They all laughed as the wyvern had its light snack. Roth stopped his wind magic to look away in disgust.
"Big brother Is it really them? The Fidelity?"
"Oh yeah... It's definitely them alright."
"Alright! I'm ready! Let's go kick their butts! I've been dying to fight them after what they have done all this time. Lets go!" Mina poses as she's making fighting moves and punching the air.
Roth takes a moment and looks over the ridge. He sees the wyvern finally taking off towards the summit. The blood stained snow is now hidden from freshly fallen snow as if the gruesome killing never happened. Roth is sick to his stomach and is angry. He needs these blood thirsty psychos to vanish off the face of the earth. With blood boiling and more hate for the Fidelity, he swears to take out every single one in this summit.