108 sp05 02 14, The Fifth and the Hidden City (1/2)
The Fifth
and
The Hidden City
A Guild Request, Flash Back: Few weeks have passed after the tragic. The guild receives huge honor of their accomplishment. And the child prince specially awards Jaino on his deeds. Although the syndicate is still roaming with their illegal business. At least the soldiers and the Area Generals carry out more awareness and strictness onto their security for the civilians' safety. The Exceptional General in tasked with pursuing the syndicates of illegal selling of sorse blood products manages to rescue more sorses and arrest suspects. They even have hidden the confiscated products, in respect for the sacrifices...
Intro—
Morning comes...
From the Wide Arena of Jelfyr then heading northwest, the prince's selected people to chase after the underworld—
Dogel and his army. Sammuel Larigan and his members: (Sharron's reliever) Mefany Emerald and (Sammuel's follower) Jerome Zabital. The fat man (the Fifth Exceptional General). Mike and his client the nobleman.
—arrive in the area, in front of the forest. A forest that also domains northwest part of Mount Ma Eling and northeast part of its neighboring mountain.
After receiving concrete details from their scouts, along with their pathfinders, Dogel leads the group inside the dark creepy forest ofArillia. Howls of wolves echo from faraway and the group of flying huge bats move freely from tree to tree — this has confirmed by a fange, a soldier who reports to Dogel.
Commanding everyone to make haste, Dogel and the group arrive in the area, home of violet bell-like flowers.
”Are we going in the right way?” has asked by Dogel to a pathfinder. ”We can't afford to fight those two groups of monsters at once. Those bats might have hypnotic cry and the wolves could be the rumored immune to some binding skills and have speed faster than us.”
”Sire, our destination is near. We just have to ascend on that slope.”
Dogel speaks loud to his men, ”Everyone, let's continue.”
A sudden, ”Argh!” a cry from one of his men captures everyone attention. That man speaks loud, ”Mate, why have you... slashed... me...” He falls to the ground. Some soldiers go near to help the man bleeding.Then a soldier approaches the man, the attacker. He questions,
”Hey, why did you attack our ally? If you two have disputed to each other, do it after our work and settle it by words.” The man, being question, swings his sword. Sound of metal clashing halts as Mefany Emerald blocks the attack by her sword.”Hey, hey, mate, what are you doing? Why attacked me mate? I only advised you to be more considerate,” has asked by the man to the attacker.
Mefany Emerald apprises, ”This man can't understand and hear you. He's out of his senses.”
One of the soldiers points his hand to the bell-like flower. ”I've seen him touch that violet flower.” After he smelled his finger, he suddenly attacked his mate.”
With her sword, Mefany lifts up the soldier's sword. After reaching behind the back of that soldier, she then heavy smashes the man's nape that puts his conscious to sleep.Dogel announces, ”No one dare touch and smell the pollen of flowers in our surrounding! No one dare!”
Another soldier loudly cries in pain. He grabs the sword on his stomach stabbed by his companion. Another soldier throws that attacker slamming into the ground. Sound of metal clashing attracts everyone attention as another soldier depends himself from an ally's attack.
Dogel's group turns into chaos as they engage their out of sense allies. To Dogel, a soldier reports to him as the huge bats from the trees are flying revolving above them.
Considering the possibility of the wolves lying in waiting for their group to split, he yells aloud, ”Sammuel shall lead one group to depend us against the beast. I shall lead to repel the pollen and deal with the hypnotized allies.”
”I shall lead the other group,” has requested by the fifth exceptional general, ”to continue the search of our enemy.”
”About that matter, I have Sammuel decide.”
To each person, Sammuel selects and speaks, ”Soldier, Mefany, Jerome, Mike, and Mr. Brigan — go ahead.”
”How about the fifth?” has asked by Dogel.
”As for him, we have some issue to discuss.”
The fifth exceptional general reacts, Tch. Shit, have they know about it already?
—End of Intro
In a wide hall of the old temple, Martinis Digs an elite of the underworld orders his men to leave the place. Alone in the place, he sits at the wide two-steps-stairs. He drinks the jar of water and places it down in the ground.
”The kingdom gains their grand victory, huh?
”I guess. It's time for my last stand. A satisfying moment on my life will about to come. Despite my name won't be carved in the history. Still, this is a choice that must be done.” He has stood and waited for the five people to arrive from the entrance of the forest.
A distance from him, he listens at the woman who loudly speaks, ”So it seems, I have to fight you again. This time, I'll pierce this sword to your gut.”
Jerome whispers to Mefany, ”Be careful. This might be a trap. He might not be alone.”
Martinis replies, ”Young girl, you may have talent with the sword, but you're to early to beat me in the lead, considering I won't fight you using my psychic.”
Mefany runs. To Martinis, she slashes consecutively her sword.
The attacked person parries them all. He then moves to the right side. And suddenly, a slash of the sword comes down and fails to hit him — an attack comes from Jerome Zabital.
Jerome follows up his attack, a horizontal slash of the sword. Yet, it's parried by the sword (vertically facing down) held by Martinis digs. Two at once..? and they're both good.
Having the granted opening, Mefany stabs her sword aiming at Martinis back.Metal sound resonances once as her sword flies away from her hand — this event widens the eyes of Martinis and the nobleman. Tears flow from the nobleman's eyes.
A well groomed woman—yet full off scars on her recovering arms, legs and face —has repelled Mefany's attack. She then kicks Mefany's stomach.
Mefany groans and thinks, I can't hold her with my psychic. Holding her stomach, she then falls and sits on the ground.
”Why are you here?” has asked by Martinis to the woman. That woman just shakes her head sideways.
Jerome attacks her with the sword. Mike blocks the attack by his sword. Jerome speaks, ”What are you doing, you traitor?”
”I too is a bit confuse,” has said by Mike, ”I need clarification.” To the woman, he speaks, ”Are you Ann Jie Brigan?”
The woman nods. —that makes the nobleman thinks, At last, I found you my cousin.
”Jerome, Mefany, lay down your sword. I'll be having a conversation with them.”