It seemed even someone like Luna could look scared shitless. For all her manipulation and games, it amounted to nothing when faced by an angry Dragon. At least that was how the situation would look like to her. Perhaps before Kazius would have been helpless against her ploys until it was too late, but this time she was a puppet in his show from the beginning, not the other way around.
“Leave these people alone! These people are suffering and did not know what they were doing. There is one perpetrator that has caused trouble to people in many settlements… And we will take care of her ourselves. Once she is gone, your troubles will be gone too.” Kazius exclaimed.
“Not good enough… I tire of you vermin.” Vidir growled angrily, fire beginning to accumulate in his mouth as he let out a roar. The signal for Kazius to ‘take him down’.
“I refuse to let you hurt these people!” Kazius exclaimed with a determined look, his words firm. He would move fast with quite the flair. He would use the shadows to move in an instant, appearing right before Vidir through his own shadow. Then darkness would come from it, wrapping around the Dragon’s snout, keeping his mouth closed to stop the fire.
Soon Kazius would have the entire massive being restrained being a bit rough on purpose. After all, Vidir may be cooperating now, but he may get ideas in the future, may as well show him he very much could take him down if need be. That way the Ancient Dragon would never get any ideas.
The show being as convincing as it was, caused the people to look at him in awe. He was ‘protecting’ them after all.
As this all occurred, Luna only grew more unhappy and showed it. “Don’t just fall for-” She began, but the expressions she would get in return were quite the glares. After all, her lies were becoming obvious now that their anger had calmed down.
“Now that I think about it… She really must be a foreigner....Just like he says... Does anyone remember seeing her until a few months ago?”
“I’ve never heard her speak our language even once. She only has spoken Common to us.”
“The Dragon clearly doesn’t know what he was even being accused off… We almost got killed because of her.”
“If the Dragon really set the harvest on fire, we would have seen him… There is no way we would have missed something that big…”
Slowly but surely, the citizens would whisper to each other… And soon, the result of their discussions would show… As their angry looks from before would slowly turn towards Luna. She was cornered.
Lady Sakura seemed relieved at the situation. After all, her innocence was proven and her people were safe. Still, she looked quite disheartened… She likely no longer felt fit to watch over Blossom… As Kazius had intended. She was also comforted by Damon. That was until he let go of her.
Damon would move quickly; the tall Werewolf soon was right in front of her before she could even think of fleeing. Sister or not, it seemed Damon truly had enough. He would not let her escape.
Not this time.
Next thing anyone knew, Damon had grabbed the blue haired woman by the head. His large hand was acting like it was firmly holding a ball. As he held her up by her head. She struggled in his hold, unable to cast anything much less do anything other than dangle helplessly.
“Damon… You… You don’t have to be the one to do that.” Azanor would tell him with a frown, after all. Wicked or not, Luna was his sister. Damon did not need that weight on his conscience. Especially after recovering from his self-worth issues after so long.
“Don’t do anything that will make you sad!” Eve exclaimed, even she was able to read the room it seems.
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With Vidir properly ‘restrained’ Kazius approached as well, “I’ll do it so you don’t have to… You know what will happen if we let her go…” He stated, his expression showing genuine concern for Damon.
After all, his emotions towards his friends and Alice were the little that remained in him. Even as he was, Kazius cared about Damon a lot. After all, he became what he was now out of love for them all.
Damon frowned, his expression darkening. “That is the problem, Kazius… I refuse to let you dirty your hands by yourself. You have already sacrificed a lot to protect us… I refuse to let you shoulder this alone. I won’t be weak anymore.”
Even while struggling to breathe in her current position, Luna could not help but speak up. “You… know… Mom was… right about you…” She would barely manage out with a smug laugh, likely knowing the sort of damage such a statement would do to him.
“Damon…” Alice stated in concern.
But Damon did not listen. Not stopping despite the words from everyone. Instead he would increase the strength behind his grip, blood running down Luna’s nose as her head was squeeze. With a terrible cracking sound could be heard, then her struggles stopped.
Damon stared at her with his one eye, his expression almost unreadable as he dropped her, “Perhaps she was.” He stated simply before walking away, refusing to look at her body again. A rather pained expression on his face, but it was clear he was holding most of his emotions in.
Surprisingly, Lady Sakura would go to him. She would hold one of his hands with both of her own much smaller and delicate ones. “I don’t understand what just happened… But I am sorry… Because I was unable to do my duty… You… You said she was your… Anyway, thank you… For saving me… All of you…” She stated, looking around at everyone with a frown on her face.
“Please… Everyone… We will take care of the food situation… Please return to your homes… I promise you… I will fix things.” Lady Sakura stated with a bow towards the crowd.
The once angry crowd seemed to be shocked to see the Lady they once respected so much, but then turned-on bow in such a way. With the perpetrator dead, they were deflated, hesitantly going home.
Rowan seemed heartbroken to see Lady Sakura in such a state. He cared about the woman a lot and Damon and her definitely looked more than distressed.
With that Sakura looked at Kazius, “Would you please join me in the palace… I have something I would like to talk to all of you about.” She stated, clearly doing her best to conduct herself well with what little pride she had left.
“I think today has been very eventful…For a lot of us… I also need to have a word with the Dragon… Perhaps we can clear up this misunderstanding… We can meet again in an hour.” Kazius stated as he studied his surroundings… Perhaps his plan had worked a little too well. He had also not intended for Damon to be the one to kill Luna. He failed Damon… If only he had gotten his hands dirtier still, Damon wouldn’t have had to dirty his. He had shown Luna too much mercy, that is at least what he believed.
“Perhaps that may be best…” Lady Sakura stated in agreement, “I need to calm down as well.”
The group seemed in agreement, but the cheery Damon was currently quite silent. He seemed to only nod in agreement, not in the mood to talk.
“Wait… You… You got to me first… And you saved me… How about you join me for a drink while we try and calm down… It would help you as well.” Sakura told Damon, keeping her hold on him, looking up at him with a pleading look. Her blue eyes full of sadness.
Damon would have been giddy at such an offer under any other circumstances, but while he did agree… His response was really just a quiet hesitant nod.
“I will look around town and see how the people are doing then.” Rowan stated. He seemed to look at Sakura, perhaps he had intended to comfort her, but ended up deciding to let her and Damon talk alone.
“You and Eve help Rowan, it is too much for him to cover alone.” Kazius told Azanor, wanting to be alone with Vidir and Alice.
“I felt like I didn’t really do anything so I we can make sure to do that.” Azanor agreed.
“Yes sir!” Eve chirped being as giddy as ever as she went off with Azanor.
Once alone, Kazius released Vidir.
“That was more entertaining than anything I’ve ever done… Except for how you handled me. Did you really have to be so rough?” Vidir grumbled as he would transform into his smaller Dragonborn form.
“It was an accident… Sometimes I don’t know my own strength.” Kazius lied.
“I wish Damon has not done that… Everything would have gone well were it not for that… He really have too strong a sense of duty for his own good.” Alice stated in dismay.
“I do really wish he had not done that” Kazius agreed with a frown before glaring down coldly at the corpse of Luna.
“She spent so much of his life tormenting him… And she will continue to do so even while dead… She doesn’t deserve to rest peacefully…” Kazius stated, his tone calm, but hatred dripping out of every word like venom. He would approach the corpse, crouching down
“She will regret not quietly dying… I will find a fitting use for her…” He stated, his tone shifting to a sinister one, his frown turning into a wicked grin as he hand slowly reached out for her.
“She will help Damon one way or another… Whether she likes it or not…”