"Guards! Welcome the Guardian!" Yells a bald soldier with a spear escorting with a few others surrounding someone who seemed barely able to walk.

Spear gates move down to let the party in as a wall of soldiers stand straight across the long bridge next to the walls that leads from the main land to the dark abyss. The longer they walk their surroundings become pitch black. As they get closer and closer to the huge walls, the fortress reveals itself, it's lit very well considering everything around it is in darkness.

The party gets to the castle as the doors open. They walk into the grand room as a group of four people sit around a table, with the one chair in the center across the doors is empty.

"Eldi, you're finally back, we cannot wait to hear from you." They all stand up as one of them greets the man as he lifts his head.

"He is still Ronan, let us wake him." The bald soldier turns around and signals Ronan to walk towards a mirror. He hesitates at first, but knowing he is at a disadvantage he proceeds and walks up to the mirror.

He sees not only his reflection, but one of his eyes is all black, as the other is all white. He gasps as he sees himself and his surroundings light up in bright white.

He tries to walk away from the light as two soldiers grab him from behind. Ronan starts screaming as all his memories flash before his eyes.

He starts screaming as his vision starts to fade from white to black. He falls on his knees as the two soldiers keep him up as his head is hanging low. He starts to chuckle and slowly stand up.

"Finally, i couldn't wait to be back. It felt like it took forever." He turned his head towards the others as his eyes turned back to normal. He walked to the empty chair and sat down, after him the other four did as well.

"So? How is the rising going?"

"Perfectly according to our plan." Answered Ronan with a smirk. "The Brave Ones acted faster than anticipated though, and they formed a larger group of their own, they are now 'The Hunters of Shadows' or just Hunters."

"I see, well they should not be a problem should they Eldi?"

"We shall see." He answered in an uncertain tone.

"And what about your pupil?" Asked one of them who appeared to have yellow eyes.

"Hmph, i did not get to meet him, Eldingu."

"You didn't? If we will not gain an influence on it we will lose a significant advantage!" Another one of them raised his voice.

"Do i need to remind you who's fault is it?" Eldi looked at the person dead in his eyes.

"It was your brilliant idea!" With that said Eldi appeared behind the one who raised his voice and grabbed him by his neck. He pulled him out of his seat and pushed him on the ground. A flame appeared in his other hand as he threatened the man.

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"Do you intend to blame it on me that they are so hard to reach, Vatn? Was it not your idea?"

"No Eldi, but you had all the opportunities to-" Eldi punched him in his face as his hand was covered in flames. It started sizzling as the flames went out. Eldi stood up and sat back down on his seat.

Vatn slowly sat up as his face appeared undamaged. Eldi took a deep breath and looked at all of them.

"We need to show ourselves, it is the perfect opportunity. We will appear at the Black Hills and advance towards Miria."

"At the Black Hills? Should we not appear closer to the center of the land? Sverdsin will surely not welcome us, neither will the other realms."

"Yes, but i do not think i will need to remind you all our goal, i became Ronan to survey the land, and perhaps start a change, give us an idea of how to reclaim what's ours, but unfortunately Ronan did not live up to my expactations. Still we now have the perfect opportunity."

Eldi sits in regret but then proceeds to look at Eldingu. "How do you think your plan is going? Do you know what is going on?"

"If i would have had a vision you would have known by now. My guess is that it went flawlessly, Gununkanta shall destroy Sverdsin, but they will need a proper leader, the current one will not suffice."

"Then you shall do that and join us later as we move through the land. Now we rest and conserve our strength, and tomorrow we will reclaim the lands." They all stand up and walk out, Eldi walks to his room as well as the others, on the door to his room is a flame carved in it. The other ones are: lightning, water, air and earth. They all lay down to rest and close their eyes.

Meanwhile in Sverdsin, Nerys gets thrown out from the tavern. She stands up and looks back at the keeper.

"Go back and hide in your castle!" With that he shut the door and Nerys covered her head with the hood and walked through the streets towards the next village. As she walked on she heard screams from the woods, she turned towards the sound and ran towards it.

As she got closer to the source of screaming she stumbled upon a corpse of a soldier, she saw a campfire nearby, she picked up a sword and ran towards it.

She saw there a few soldiers from Gununkanta. They all looked at her and pointed "Look, it's the princess! Kill her!" One of them charged at her and swinged his sword. She easily dodged it and stabbed him through his chest cleanly. She pulled her sword out as an arrow flew towards her head. She dodged under it as she rolled towards the next soldier.

He went to stab her down, she parried with ease and punched him in his gut. She then stabbed his throat. She stood up face to face with the last soldier. He held his shield up as she walked calmly towards him. She kicked him strongly as he got pushed back and fell on his back tripping on a log.

She stabbed him as he looked up to her on the ground in fear. A cold sweat flowed down his face as she pulled her sword out of him. "Zillion taught me well after all." She smiled as she walked away. Some of the people from the village ran towards the sounds of battle as to their surprise they saw the once elegant and kind princess, now covered in blood standing next to fresh corpses with a sword in her hand. She glanced over them and walked away back towards the main road.