Amon took a step back, unable to believe what he was seeing at his feet, he looked up at Ea, who had a wide grimace on his face,

“before I was willing to let you make the choice on your own, but, now that you have irritated me enough, you no longer have a choice”, Ea said,

“what, what do you mean I don’t have a choice”, Amon shouted,

“it’s just as I said, either you comply now, or that particular rumor I spread about you of wanting to take the kings head will become truth, so either join me or you will be to blame for my father’s death”, Ea said, the grin on his face widening,

“why did you do it ?”, amon asked,

“hmm, why ?, you ask”, Ea said,

“the old man began to become spineless a former shell of the great leader my father was, so I determined that he would’ve gotten in my way”, Ea said,

“but don’t get it twisted, this wasn’t a spur of the moment decision, in fact me deciding to kill him was the whole reason I came up with the rumor in the first place”, Ea said,

“hmm, seems that I’ve fallen right into the palm of your hands”, amon said,

“exactly, all along I’ve been setting you up as my perfect little scapegoat, and for as smart as you are you decided to play right into my hands”, Ea said, laughing and gloating,

“maybe it would be best to take your offer, it would spare a lot of bloodshed”, Amon said, gripping his sword in his hand,

“then why don’t you, you could stop the war, make peace with your brother, and go back to living the life you had before, all of it if you just shake my hand”, Ea said, his hand once again outstretched towards Amon, a devilish grin running across his face,

“however Amon I must warn you if you don’t accept my deal, I must do what any good king would do to traitors and put you and any one caught from the rebel army to the sword, it is the only just thing to do afterall”, Ea said,

The large doors burst open pieces of wood flying every where , with the back of one of the elite guards flying towards amon before landing at his heels, with yumi on top of him, her fist slowly retreating out of the hole it made in the armor, yumi stood up pressing her back against amon’s, huffing and panting,

“ I still have three of these idiots to finish off, sadly they are as tough as they look, but it looks like you haven’t even started yet, so what’s the hold up”, yumi asked,

The wall to the side of the palace garden exploded, leaving dust all around, and out of the dust came bard, closely followed by kosh,

As everything settled yumi looked over amon’s shoulder, while bard took notice of the two of them, but at the same time everyone noticed the severed head laying at Amons feet, everyone recognizing it as king alexander,

“AMON WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO”, bard shouted, an expression of utter shock twisted onto his face, his attention fully being trained on his friend,

“wait bard, how is this possible, I’m sure I only saw prince Ea sitting on the throne when the doors opened earlier”, Yumi said, her gaze still fixated on the guards clad in red armor that stood in front of her their weapons at the ready,

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“you rebel scum, you dare defile the king, you dare lay your hand on royalty”, kosh said angered, he proceeded to point his sword at Amon drawing in closer, Bard’s attention falling once again on his opponent, he stepped in front of Kosh’s Sword raising one of his own and crossing it’s path with Kosh’s sword,

“don’t take another step, I see the royal family has broken this dog in thoroughly”, Bard said, his eyes locked in with Kosh’s

“KOSH, stand down”, the prince’s voice rang out, causing silence to fall in the throne room,

“now Amon what is your answer”, ea asked,

Amon looked down at his feet, staring at the decapitated head of the former king, he knew that Prince Ea would stop at nothing to secure the power he wanted, and he also knew if he couldn’t get it he would destroy it, he knelt down picking up the severed head, clutching it by the strands of hair,

“Yumi, he offered to end all of this if I surrender and work under him, he offered to restore things to normal and pull out of the other kingdoms”, Amon said, as tears began to run down his cheeks, the look in his eyes swelling with passion,

“wait…what the hell, why would he…”, yumi began to say,

“but sadly I cant agree to his terms, so if he wins me, you and everyone else will be branded traitors and put to the sword”, amon finished, wiping away the few tears he shed,

“yeah tell me something I don’t know”, yumi replied,

“well here goes, my final gamble, say if we don’t win it was an honor having a friend such as yourself, ”, amon said, throwing the severed head of the king at the feet of Prince Ea,

“Amon save the sappy good byes for when all of us are old and your dying in your own house from a long life lived, we have to win or else everyone on this continent is damned”, Yumi said, smiling from ear to ear as she took a step forward to the three guards she was fighting,

“well I guess your shit out of luck,’ mr. captain of the guard’, you heard the little lady, no dying till I’m a ripe old man”, Bard said, gripping his free sword, preparing for the fight to resume,

“there’s your answer, Ea”, Amon said,

“well I guess I’ll have to do this by force then”, Ea responded,

A loud sound rang out as the glass dome of the roof caved in, with glass shards flying all around, as two bodies flew through hitting the ground harshly,

“for fuck’s sake, how is he getting even harder to take down”, Aster said, looking next to him,

“Polaris get up. No time for a nap”, Aster said, stretching his hand upward as his hammer flew through the shattered glass dome to him,

Polaris rolled over coughing rapidly, as several glass shards stuck out of his arm, and the blood began to trickle down, “ I swear its like Lev’s attack only pissed him off”, Polaris said,

Soon after Barak and levant came through the same way that Polaris and aster did, only this time it was their own choice to do so,

“hey you two get up”, Barak said, as he raised his sword getting ready to defend an incoming attack,

Aluric, stood on top of the broken glass dome, looking down into the throne room, he noticed that everyone who was fighting within the city had been gathered here, he jumped down, landing next to the Prince, as the remains of his golden armor slowly absorbed itself into his skin and his skin returning to the olive brown color it usually is, the golden coloration and the halo slowly faded away also,

“Ea why is the king’s head sitting at your feet”, Aluric asked, As the boys also took notice of the severed head,

“that is a fantastic question, Ask your brother”, Ea said,

“Ask me you’re the one that killed your father”, Amon shouted,

“doesn’t matter to me who killed him, I’m glad he’s dead, he was starting to get in ea’s way and mine”, Aluric said, his face not showing an ounce of sadness or remorse,

“oh shit, didn’t, think the pervy leader had it in him”, Levant said, as the boys stepped back regrouping with amon and yumi, Barak had a wide smirk on his face,

“it wasn’t me”, Amon said, gritting his teeth,

“not to break the silence hear, but, we have three guards behind us, a very big bastard to the side of us, and two people who want us either dead or imprisoned in front of us, we are surrounded”, Aster said,

“yeah no shit”, Levant responded,

“relax aster it seven of us and six of the,”, amon stated,

“usually I’d be inclined to feel better but the four of us have been fighting the red headed bastard and now he has back up”, Aster said,

Amon walked forward letting out a huge sigh, “look we have two choices, win and stop this war or lose and all of our heads roll”, amon said,

“so here’s the plan, Yumi keep those three guards from getting any attacks in from behind us, Bard, keep that big bastard distracted, we don’t need him protecting Ea, You four finish your fight with My little brother, as for the prince he’s mine”, Amon said,

“Sounds like a plan to me, what do you say Aster”, Barak said,

“lets do it, I’ve got nothing better”, Aster said, readying his war hammer,

“ALL RIGHT LET’S GO”, Barak shouted.