Prince Ea looked down at the small force of individuals who stood in the throne room opposing him, he could feel his anger boiling, and his patience growing thin, he looked to his right, there stood his best friend and most trusted confident, Aluic, who was unusually calm and at ease, like a still pond, but one glance at his eyes and Ea could tell, just behind that still expression and calm demeanor was unbridled rage barely being held back,

“I’m really trying to minimize the blood shed here, so I’m willing to ask one more time Amon, are you sure you don’t want to take my offer, think about it, Aluric will ask me to save yumi because he loves her and I will oblige, those four boys if they decide to, can just flee to their homeland leaving you and Bard high and dry, if you really think about it, you allies are all standing on shaky ground but at least they have an out, I’m your only chance at leaving this whole mess unscathed, because with your brother at my side, no one is stopping me”, Ea said,

“what’s the point of offering him a life line, I can testify to how stubborn my brother can be, so stop trying to get him on your side, the only way out for him now is death”, Aluric said, taking a step down the steps of the throne, his eyes trained on his brother, still and unflinching,

“you heard my brother, the only way I’m going to go into that contract with you is if I’m a corpse”, Amon said, pointing his sword towards the prince,

“well I guess we’ve reached an impasse, Aluric he’s all yours”, Ea said,

Aluric smiled as the golden pointed halo appeared over his head once more, he lunged forward towards his brother his hand reared back as he prepared to attack, as his hand rocketed forward it was met with a different person, as barak caught aluric’s fist in his palm,

“don’t think you could go fighting your brother without finishing what you started with us”, Barak said, Levant appearing at Barak’s side, firing two shots from his gun, Aluric used his momentum to swing upwards dodging the bullets,

“not so fast”, Polaris said, catching Aluric mid air as he swung his sword as hard as he could for aluric’s neck, a loud ringing sound filled the room, Aluric’s neck turning the golden striped pattern of the armor he was wearing earlier, the force of the attack sending aluric flying back towards the throne, as he landed the ground beneath him began to swell as a pillar of whitestone shot up in the air along with aluric,

“Levant burn that asshole”, Aster shouted, holding the head of his hammer to the ground,

“don’t gotta tell me twice”, Levant said, stretching his arm out as a stream of flames erupted, racing towards aluric, He smiled,

“you forgot what happened the first time we fought”, Aluric said, his own stream of flames erupted from his arm, however his were a lot more red in color, the two attacks met in the air, the explosion from the attack, shooting upwards, shattering the rest of the glass dome ceiling,

“it seems those four pushed aluric to a new level of strength” Ea said looking up at the explosion,

“don’t forget about me”, Amon’s voice rang out, his sword lunging for Ea’s face where he sat, Ea moved his head slightly to the left, the sword barely missing him, and burying itself into the cushioned seat his head was resting on, Ea smiled, a smile that sent shivers down the spine of Amon, he reached his hand outwards towards Amon’s face, and held onto it tightly, coiling all of the muscles in his body tightly, he rocketed out of his seat, causing amon to lose the grip in his sword and leaving it stuck in the throne, he felt his body being carried in the other direction that he was going in,

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Ea pushed Amon down, pinning him on the ground, Amon held tightly onto Ea’s hand, using all the strength he could gather to try and remove his hand, but it was futile,

“you seem to forgot, Amon, it was not you or your brother who was not to long ago heralded as the strongest in the guild, it was me, had I not found the scroll and realized what my destiny was I would have been the leader of the guild not your brother”, Ea said, reaching his hand backwards, his sword started to shake violently in the ground, as it soon flew into Ea’s hand,

“ahh the ease of having a weapon bounded to you”, Ea said, taking his sword, he swiftly cut an ‘X’ onto Amon’s cheek,

“one down one more to go”

“what was it you said, ahh, I would only make the contract if you were a corpse, well guess again”, Ea shouted,

“over my dead body, asshole”, Yumi shouted, as she threw one of the guards directly the prince, forcing him to jump off of Amon, the guard's limp body bounced on the floor until it rolled to a halt, laying on his back, the helmet was caved in with blood slowly running out of it, Yumi launched herself towards Ea, whipping her body around, sending a kick towards his head, however Ea caught her foot, Yumi throwing caution to the wind, picked her other foot off of the ground kicking Ea in his stomach, or so she thought, Ea dropped his sword catching her other foot, he smiled,

“I applaud the effort, but you should stick to fighting those in your league”, Ea said, Raising both arms into the air he slammed yumi into the floor with all of his might, damaging the white floor beneath her, blood trickling out of her head slowly, Ea looked down at her,

“oh Yumi, you’re the luckiest person in this room, the only reason I’m keeping you alive is because Aluric is still blinded by his love for you, however I know that you won’t so easily forgive him for all of the atrocities he has committed”, Ea said, walking forward, he placed a foot on her chest, slowly pressing down, her face, twisting and contorting, with pain, but her eyes remaining locked with the prince’s,

“he….he was a…..good…person………this is….your……fault”, She struggled to say, feeling the pressure build in her chest,

“get off of her Ea”, Amon shouted loudly, he was back up on his feet, as he lunged towards Ea, who was reveling in the moment of his dominance over yumi, Amon got ahold of the prince tackling him to the ground, amon raised his fist, then quickly buried it in Ea’s face, as he began to repeatedly bash his hand against he prince’s face, but all ea did was smile,

“my liege”, Kosh said, taking a step in the direction of the prince, a look of concern of his face, as he looked on at the prince being beaten on repeatedly, however his vision was soon obscured by the sharp side of Bard’s sword, As he raised his own to block the incoming strike,

“don’t you know its bad manners to get distracted from your opponent in a fight”, Bard said, throwing repeated strikes at Kosh, who was parrying all of them,

“that is only a testament to how mediocre my opponent is”, Kosh answered, swinging his sword down to Bard’s face, only to be met with Bard’ sword once more, Bard pushed upwards, pushing his opponents sword, away from him, as he rapidly spun his large body, connecting to Kosh’s weapon once more, this time knocking it out of his hand, as he spun once more this time aiming for his neck, but Bard felt his sword stop short, he looked around, his sword had shattered the armor on Kosh’s forearm, but it was met with the Black metallic shine of his skin as it began to harden, Bard withdrew his sword swiftly, as he had a pleasant smile on his face,

Kosh looked at his arm, the blade only leaving a shallow cut.