A new battle between Keireens forces and Reinlas's forces at the new border between their territories after the battle of Tykenheilm has started a few days later, Reinlas is there fighting alongside his men and Ratankira is also there as the battle continues to rage he notices that some war beasts are trying to get to Reinlas.
"Trying to kill him yourself hm?" Ratankira thinks to himself before he notices that whe those ones get the chance they dont attack but are ultimitely killed anyway because of the confusion of battle
Ratankira scoffs.
"Whatever they are trying to do, I will find out" Ratankira thinks to himself
The battle continues on for hours causing many casualties and as Keireens forces begin to lose Ratankira looks around.
"First damn it. RETREAT!" Ratankira shouts causing Reinlas's forces to stop as Ratankira leaves the wounded behind for Reinlas to take as he, the able to leave soldiers and the war beasts leave
Ratankira looks at the war beasts as he walks away with them and he sees some making side glances over to Reinlas and his soldiers.
"Eyes. Forward" Ratankira says and the war beasts eyes snap forward
"Good" Ratankira says
Ratankira along with the other mages teleport everyone back to Pyrehyme the capital city of Keieens kingdom and Ratankira teleported to the castle dungeons with the war beasts.
"To your places beasts" Ratankira says and the war beasts go to their specified areas and Ratankira locks them in their cages
Ratankira goes back upstairs and to the war room and as he walks in Keireen and Onikerm look at him.
"So how'd that go?" Keireen asks
"About as expected, we lost and Tykenheilm seems to have been rebuilt already with even better defences so until thats assessed by more of my spies attacking it to take it back is idiotic at best, suicidal at worst" Ratankira says
"Oooo sounds fun" Onikerm says with a grin
"Shut up, theres something else" Ratankira says
"What?" Keireen asks
"Some of the war beasts were trying to get to Reinlas I had thought maybe they were going to kill him themselves but when they got close enough to attack him they didn't" Ratankira says
"I must not have heard correctly, our war beasts specifically made to kill, didn't attack?" Keireen asks annoyed
"Yes and more than that when I called for retreat as we walked away before teleporting, some of the war beasts looked back towards Reinlas's army not the delantramites though I feel the tykema told them not too as that would have been to obvious" Ratankira says almost proud at that last little bit
"Your ones are always scheming, shouldn't surprise me we made them for that but what are they trying to do specifically?" Keireen asks
"I intend to find out, though as per your orders I wont 'talk' to your or onikerms beasts" Ratankira says
"Then we'll find out ourselves, wont we onikerm?" Keireen says as he looks over to Onikerm
Onikerm gets a big sadistic smile as he grabs a blade.
"Torture time my lovelies" Onikerm says as he teleports to the area the metal monsters are at
"If he makes one of them have faulty metal skin again I swear to the first im going to snap hsi neck" Keireen says as he teleports to the wolf creatures
"Last one died like a bitch because of it so I'm not surprised" Ratankira says to himself as he teleports to the winged creatures
Ratankira looks around at the creatures in their cages and he focuses on a couple of them in one cage at the back of the area and he walks over and kneels down to the cage.
"So how'd you get in there?" Ratankira asks the male creature
"Well used the tricks we've always known shouldnt really surprise you" The creature says
"Oh it doesnt but didn't I tell you to stay in your fucking cage unless ordered otherwise?" Ratankira asks
The creature gulps.
"Y-yes, you did..." The creature says looking down
"Get back to your own cage but after you give me what I ordered you to get" Ratankira says holding his hand out
"We didn't manage to get it, Reinlas's people were better encamped by the time we got their and had better security all watching eachother so if we killed one we'd be screwed and if what we were there to get was taken the place it was at would be obliterated in seconds. The others tried to get it and did get killed in seconds" The creature says a bit scared
"Do I look like I give a fuck? I ordered you to leave and get that fuckign thing and I do not tolerate failure or cowardice so even if you have to use the others as fucking meat shields get that information or I will be tearing your scales off your body one by one for hours and healing you to do it again" Ratankira says
"O-of coarse" The male creature says and he looks at the female in the cage hes in and disappears leaving th area with some others in tow
Ratankira looks at the female that was in the cage the male snuck into.
"You'll serve as example for him" Ratankira says as he opens the cage punches her knocking her out and drags her to a nearby room
Ratankira throws her onto a table where he rips the scales off her causing her to scream in pain and he cuts her tongue out and cuts her wings off and after a few hours she looks unrecognisable and he conjures a giant axe to be able to chop her in half and he brings the body back to the cage throwing her back in as the male returns with a document and hes covered in blood but he drops the document as he sees the female and runs over.
"No!" The male says but Ratankira grabs his face forcing him to look him in the eyes
"Listen here creature, that will happen to you and others if you fail again, so do not fail" Ratankira says as he lets go off the creatures face and walks over to the document and picks it up as he walks out to the area of some more creatures to ask them about why they looked at Reinlas
The male creature continues to look at the remains of the female in the cage and he disappears.
"I can't fucking take living in this forsaken place anymore, I can't get out on my own. Maybe some of the others have had enough as well" The creature thinks to himself as he leaves the room and manages to sneak past Keireen and go into the wolf creature area
The winged creature looks around and sees one of the wolf creature in a cage looking depressed and has a mournful look so he walks over and uses telepathy on it.
"What happened?" The winged creature asks telepathically
"Whose there?" The wolf creature asks
"One of the Tykema, the names Syremai" Syremai says telepathically
"Gave yourselves names huh?" The wolf creature thinks
"We get beat and generally tortured for it but thats why we dont say it openly" Syremai says telepathically
"More similar than we all thought huh? We all call ourselves the Hykra and my name is Kytal" Kytal thinks
"I asked what happened, do you mind telling me?" Syremai asks telepathically
"That bastard Keireen killed my little sister, she was no more than a pup" Kytal thinks and whines out loud laying his head on the ground sadly
"Fucking bastard, Something similar just happened to me and while im angry im going to use it to try and escape but I can't do it alone you and maybe one of the big guys could help" Syremai says telepathically
"To even do that with one of the big ones is one hell of a risk, he would cause so much noise and isn't smart" Kytal thinks
"Yeah but thats where you come in along with your speed" Syremai says telepathically
"So I'm the planner?" Kytal asks in his head
"Pretty much, you and the other 'Hykra' are the smartest of us given all I've seen" Syremai says telepathically
"Well the big ones sound can be reduced if you use magic on them plus due to their height you'd need to anyway to hide him, while it would be loud they could likely destroy a part of the city wall and if you hop on my back and levitate the big one I could run us away quickly as the levitation keeps pace right?" Kytal asks in his head
"Yeah, it does, I'll need to go find one and when Keireen and his bastards leave we can make our escape" Syremai says telepathically
"Then go, the further away from here we get the better" Kytal thinks
Syremai leaves the area and goes into the metal creatures area he can hear onikerm laughing behind a door and the pained shouts of one of the metal creatures the sound causes his body to get defensive making his wings sharpen like a blade and his scales harden for defence. Syremai sneaks around and finds one of the metal creatures more alone at the back and he scans him.
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"Not much of a mind to communicate with but I'll try anyway" Syremai thinks
Syremai uses telepathy on him.
"Hey big guy you hear me?" Syremai asks telepathically
"Who?" The metal creature asks out loud
"Shhh quiet say it in your head big guy. I'm Syremai I'm one of the wing people, understand?" Syremai asks telepathically
The metal creature nods.
"Do you have a name?" Syremai asks telepathically
The metal creature nods.
"Dykrama of Delantramites" Dykrama thinks
"Ok, Dykrama me and one of the wolf people want to leave think you could help?" Syremai asks
Dykrama nods giving a thumbs up to the confusion of the other delantramites who summarily also give thumbs up thinking hes giving it to them in a kind gesture. Syremai facepalms seeing this and uses telepathy on Kytal from where he is.
"Got one of them to help, hes called Dykrama" Syremai says telepathically
"Alright good" Kytal thinks
"Now we just wait" Syremai says telepathically as he leaves and appears in what appears to be his actual cage in the Tykema area
Syremai can see the female tykema who was used as an example for him by Ratankira and now that hes out of sight and earshot from the others he cries putting his head in his arms trying to not look at her.
"Goodbye Eirompit..." Syremai whispers to himself as he begins to wait out the hours
Hours later...
Ratankira, Keireen and Onikerm have left to all go to sleep. Syremai senses as much and gets up getting out of his cage and disappears, sneaking into the Hykra area and he appears next to the cage Kytals in.
"Lets go" Syremai says as he unlocks the cage
Kytal looks at him then at another Hykra in the cage whos noticeably bigger than Kytal and has some serious battle scars.
"Grinamar. Do you want to come with us?" Kytal asks
"No Kytal, you should leave and hopefully bring aid to get the rest of us, in the meantime I will help keep everyones spirits up and help them keep faith in escaping forever" Grinamar says
Kytal nods and he gets up and walks out the cage.
"Ok lets go, we need to get dykrama but you NEED and I cannot stress it enough you NEED to use magic to levitate him or keep his weight right as to make sure he doesnt cause both quakes as he steps and sounds due to his metallic nature" Kytal says
"Right gotcha, I also need to help us all disappear right?" Syremai asks
"Yes, the harder we are to detect in all ways the better" Kytal says
Syremai nods and he makes them both disappear and they sneak out of the Hykra area and sneak past the guards into the Delantramite area and over to Dykrama. Syremai makes them both appear.
"Hey big guy, ready to help get us out of here?" Syremai asks
Dykrama nods and stands up, syremai uses his magic to make himself, kytal and Dykrama disappear and levitates Dykrama slightly enough for him to walk normally but he doesnt make sound or put weight on the ground to cause quakes.
"Ok so far so good, what now?" Syremai asks
"We need to get through the city and to the city walls Dykrama here can punch the wall taking it down, can't you big guy?" Kytal asks in a nice way
"Yes, punch wall, fun destruction" Dykrama says as quietly as he can
"Good, then syremai you get on my back levitate dykrama more and I run us to freedom" Kytal says
"Alright" Syremai says as he walks out with them they begin to sneak through the halls up towards door into the castle so they can leave through the castle
"Ok guarded as per usual" Syremai thinks to himself as he pets kytals head to indicate to stop and syremai flies at the guards and chops their heads off with hsi sharpened wings
Kytal runs over with as little noise as possible and dykrama comes over with no noise whatsoever and they begin to sneak through the castle but stop when they hear Ratankira and the others in one room.
"I thought they were supposed to be asleep" Kytal thinks
"I thought they were! They seem to be planning something its the war room, been in there before for Ratankira" Syremai says to kytal telepathically
They sneak past the room but Ratankiras eyes peer over to the door, he walks over and opens the door.
"Someone there?" Ratankira asks as he looks around
"No ones passed by sir!" One of the guards says
"If I was asking you I'd have fucking asked you by name soldier" Ratankira says and he closes the door again
"Ok that was too close" Syremai says telepathically
"We're the kind of invisible the Tykema are, can he see us like that?" Kytal thinks
"Yes he can, while its an ability we have from birth or when we were made it can be taught, he got us to teach him when he was acting nice rather than the torturous dick he is now" Syremai says telepathically
"He can't sense us like this then right?" Kytal thinks
"Not sticking around to find out" Syremai says telepathically as he grabs a dagger and throws it through a window far down the hall, the guards notice and walk over to check it out while Syremai, Kytal and Dykrama leave through the front door to the castle
They manage to sneak through the city having to kill some guards and get to the wall.
"Dykrama do your thing" Syremai says telepathically
"My thing?" Dykrama thinks confused
"Punch the wall!" Syremai shouts telepathically to him
"Oh right" Dykrama thinks as he holds his arm back and punches the city wall the entire section comes crashing down and Syremais magic drops as he climbs onto kytal and levitates Dykrama more
Ratankira, Onikerm and Keireen teleport on top of the non crumbled part of the wall and see Syremai, Kytal and Dykrama.
"YOUR NOT FUCKING ESCAPING!!!" Keireen shouts pissed
Kytal begins to run faster than anyone else thats not a hykra can catch up with and syremai has to use hsi wings to hold on as well or he'd fall off while Dykrama levitates along at the same speed.
"SOMEOME FUCKING CATCH THEM!!!" Keireen shouts and the soldiers attempt to use their speed magic to catch up but they aren't getting anywhere close
Some kind of conjured soldier thats not spectral but made of mist runs out of the city and explodes, mist shooting out of it chasing after Kytal and the other two.
"Red eyes!" Dykrama shouts
"What!?" Syremai shouts confused and he turns hsi head looking at the mist chasing them and theirs two glowing red eyes in the mist staring them down as the mist gains on them and a scythe comes flying out of the mist thankfully hitting Dykrama who shrugs off the attack
The scythe flies back into the mist as it keeps chasing them while a demonic dragon-ish roar erupts from the mist.
"That is fucking terrifying!" Kytal shouts
"Yeah it is!" Syremai shouts as he grabs some bombs and throws them back words but the msit expands covering the bombs slowing it down but as the bombs go off the red eyes disappear
"Gone?" Dykrama asks confused
"I dont fucking know!" Syremai shouts
The eyes appear again in the mist as the mist starts moving towards them again
"Red eyes back" Dykrama says
"FUCK!" Kytal shouts as he runs even faster, they see the border and Reinlas's forces behind Keireens forces
Kytal jumps over Keireens forces to the confusion of the soldiers and jump over Reinlas's forces to their confusion as well but they begin to attack both the three war beasts and Keireens forces assuming this is an attack. The mist encompasses the battlefield and while no one can see into the mist the screams are terrifying and reinlas's forces move back and the mist dissipates.
"Is it gone?!" Kytal asks
Syremai looks back.
"Seems like it" Syremai says
"Good" Kytal says as he slows down
"We're in Reinlas's kingdom don't slow down" Syremai says
"I'm fucking tired I've not had to run that far in one run" Kytal says
"Oh fair enough, stop I'll get us to the valley, from there we can find a cave to camp in before we continue on to some place safer" Syremai says
Kytal stops and Syremai gets off him and picks him up and flaps his wings as he starts to fly up and he then flies towards the valley while levitating Dykrama along with them.
"Quick question why didn't I just fly us this way?" Syremai asks
"I run faster than you can fly, plus in the air we're an easier target be it from magic or barrage of arrows" Kytal says
"Oh right, that makes sense" Syremai says
After about half a days more travel they get to the valley and Syremai flies down into it scanning for a cave and he flies into it putting Kytal down and letting Dykrama down as well. Syremai uses fire magic to make a campfire.
"Even though this is not exactly the best situation we are free now at least" Syremai says
"Indeed" Kytal says as he curls up close to the fire
Dykrama nods.
"You alright Dykrama? We didn't really address it but that scythe did it hurt?" Syremai asks
"Felt it" Dykrama says
"I'll assume that means your relativly fine" Syremai says
"Scratched" Dykrama says as he points to his chest where the metal has been scratched
"Huh fair enough then" Syremai says
They hear a deep growl from the cave entrance, Kytals head pops up and he sees a poison claw and he bark aggressively at it causing it to run.
"He didn't expect another wolf like creature to bark at him" Kytal says
"Oh ok?" Syremai says as he lays down
"Dykrama can you keep watch for danger?" Kytal asks
"Yes" Dykrama says as he looks out the cave
"Thanks" Both Kytal and Syremai say as they fall asleep though they dont realise that during the night dykrama fell asleep aswell causing poison claws to return and attack all three with their claws poisoning them
Dykramas metal skin wouldnt be penetrated by their claws but woke up when Kytal yelped in pain and then howled due to ther pain as well and syremai woke up screaming in pain and his eyes turned more lizard like as he launches himself onto the poison claws and starts tearing them apart alongside Kytal. Dykrama grabs some of them and rips them in half.
"FUCK!!! THIS HURTS SO FUCKING MUCH!" Kytal and Syremai both shout
"Sorry, fell asleep" Dykrama says as he picks them both up
"We need help but I can't use magic without hurting myself more and dying faster from this poison" Syremai says as he grits his teeth at the pain
"Syremai we need to get to Reinholm" Kytal says
"We'll be killed and even if we weren't we can't take Dykrama because He's too slow without being levitated" Syremai says
"True" Dykrama says
Kytal whines at the pain he feels.
"Dykrama can you stay here till we get back?" Kytal asks
"Sure" Dykrama says as he puts them down
Kytal yelps and holds up a paw.
"They claws my paw, I can't run like this" Kytal says
"I'll fly us, they clawed my chest so I should be able to fly us there relativly normally" Syremai says as he picks up Kytal and flies out the cave and towards Reinholm as fast as possible
After a few hours Reinholm is insight and arrows begin coming their way and arrows hit syremais wings causing them to both come crashing down and soldiers run over blades drawn pointed at them as they law on the ground bleeding. Reinlas teleports there.
"Odd... what are they doing here? This obviously?" Reinlas asks one of the soldiers
"Brother..." Kytal and Syremai say their voices eerily close to that of Farenhales as they say it before they fall unconcious
Reinlas's head snaps to their direction and he walks over and kneels down to them.
"Poison claw venom coming from a couple of wounds, someone get a healer that has the antidote and start healing them" Reinlas says
"Of coarse!" One soldier shouts as he runs away and soon after returns with a healer who gives syremai and kytal the antidote and starts healing them both taking the arrows out of syremais wings as well with teleportation
Reinlas grabs onto the healer, kytal and syremai and teleports to a room in the castle with them and aids in healing kytal and syremai as well till they wake up a few hours later. As their eyes slowly open they see Reinlas and instantly panic jumping back. Reinlas draws kylorn from his scabbard.
"Give me a straight answer, why the hell did you call me brother and sound like Farenhale? I know you have fragments of his soul but why the hell did you call me brother?" Reinlas asks deathly serious in his tone
"We don't kn-" Syremai and Kytal get cut off as memories flood through their heads
These memories are not of their own lives they are of another's life.
"Well being is king is fun an' all but I think you'd be the better one as king because of your aptitude for your magic and you care for the people more than I do and you're a hell of a fighter" Kytal says almost like hes i a trace from what hes seen
"A sad tale it seems we must do something for them try and identify them they may have things that survived the burning. We must also bury them" Syremai also says in a similar fashion
"Those are things farenhale has said in the past... what the hell is going on here?" Reinlas asks his eyes darkening as the anger and confusion start to get to him
"We dont know" Kytal and Syremai say
"My best guess is that coming into contact with you our souls may have resonated in the way they used to as Farenhale? Especially when we were closer to death earlier hence the brother comment..." Kytal says with an intrigued tone
"Fucking hell..." Reinlas says as he falls to his knees
"I've been thinking of you and the rest of you war beasts as just abominations and now I see you not only can talk but have some of his fucking memories!?" Reinlas shouts as a tear runs down his face
Kytal walks over to him as well as Syremai almost instinctively.
"We're sorry about everything, hell we didn't know this could happen let alone be here in the first place for it to happen" Kytal and Syremai say
"Why did you come here? Keireen send you? To taunt me?" Reinlas asks
"We actually escaped from Keireens kingdom with another... OH FUCK DYKRAMA!" Syremai shouts
"Who?" Reinlas asks
"One of the delantramites, the metal war beasts you'd know them better as" Kytal says
Reinlas teleports to the valley and finds Dykrama and grabs him teleporting back with him.
"Ok I have no idea what to really believe abotu all this but until I have it figured out you can stay here in the castle but under constant watch understood?" Reinlas says
"Yes" Kytal, Syremai and Dykrama say
"Good" Reinlas says as he walks out of the room and just walks away from the room having no idea what to say...