The sun began to rise and Kia slowly opened his eyes to Dante getting ready and throwing a handful of fancy clothes at Kia. "Some people showed up from the castle and said we need to wear these to see the royal family." Dante said throwing a white and blue mage cloak over him.
"Well then I guess Tasuta and Cecaco got to the castle okay." Kia said getting up and putting on a slim white and blue coat. "Why didn't I get a cloak like you?"
"I am a mage and you are more seen as the party leader so they found that you should wear a coat instead."
"Sounds fair." Kia said heading to the door with Dante. As they walked out of the door they were greeted by two men. One of them with a white cloak around him with the hood down and the other one wearing chain male with a white cloth sheet covering his right shoulder going half way down his arm.
They both straighten their postures and the one with the sheet covering his right arm looked to Kia and said "You must be Kia we are happy to meet you my name is Denzo and this is my partner Jay. We were sent from the castle to come retrieve you and your party. The ladies have already gotten dressed and are waiting in the first carriage we will be traveling in the second one."
"Sounds great let's get going then." Kia said following Denzo down the stairs into the main lobby of the tavern and out the doors into a tall white carriage with golden trims.
As everyone loaded in Jay looked to the driver and gave him a nod then shut the door and taken a seat at that moment the carriage began to move. "So we heard that you and your party took out a demon general is that true?." Denzo said smiling at Kia waiting to hear about the encounter.
"Uhm ya the general was Elox and to be honest I'm surprised that we were able to deal with him like we did." Kia said giving off a nervous chuckle.
"Well I hope we can see you fight sometime so I can see your strength myself." At that moment Denzo lunged forward with excitement and said "Maybe we can spar with each other."
"Yeah maybe but it would have to be after we deal with what the king called us down here to deal with." Kia said. At that moment the carriage stopped right in front of a massive staircase that lead to giant doors. As Kia looked out the window he saw the girls standing at the base of a huge castle with several towers around it and massive windows all around it.
At that moment Denzo grabbed the carriages door knob and said "Let's get you to the king shall we?".
He swung the door open and led us up the steps to the rest of our party. "It is about time you showed up" Maria said. She was wearing a similar cloak as Dante but had slight female modifications. As Kia's gaze began to lower Maria stepped closer and said "My eyes are up here Kia." Maria said with a giggle.
"You too need to just stop and behave we are at the castle act like you should be here." Lea said turning away frustrated.
"Anyways let's get going" Kia said trying to slip out of the topic. At that moment Jay and Denzo opened the doors and began leading everyone through a massive hallway leading into multiple corridors. They were walking what felt for miles till they came up to another set of big doors where Denzo and Jay stopped on both sides.
"Through here the king and queen wait for you." Denzo said bowing his head and then began walking away. "Till next time" he said waving his hand in the air.
Kia then turn to the big set of doors and began to push them open on the other side of the room there was a man with red and gold clothing sitting on a tall chair next to him was a gorgeous women with long blonde hair and a white dress on the other side of the man there was another seat empty. "You must be Kia it's great to finally meet you you may call me Kazima." He said with a big smile this gorgeous lady next to me is my wife Sakari."
"It is a pleasure to meet all of you." Sakari said with a soft gentle voice.
"Thank you for having us but may I ask why did you summon us king?" Kia said with his head bowed.
"Please call me Kazima and to why you are here you must have heard of the dragon attacks haven't you?"
"Yes we have my home was burnt down by it just a little bit ago. What about it?"
"I apologize about that. The reason why we called upon you was because Mr. Knightly informed me about you defeating Elox a demon lord's general. So he told me that you may be able to deal with the dragon as well." Kazima said, looking at all of them.
"We would love to too for the right price of course." Maria said, staring at the king and queen.
"We will of course pay you, however I would like to discuss that with your leader alone." The king replied.
"I will gladly negotiate with you Kazima sir." Kia then turned to Dante "Can you do me a favor and get us the supplies we may need I would rather start prepping now."
"Will do." with that Dante and the others left the room leaving Kia with the king and queen alone.
"So, sir Kia about the reward I will love to pay you 100 gold for the dragon's head."
That is a lot of gold but I guess being split by all of us that will be fair but still that could greatly work out. "I accept your offer king but why do I feel like there is another reason you kept me here."
The king chuckled and said "Why yes I would like you to come meet my daughter she has been doing some research on the dragon and may have some info for you however she is still not back at the castle. Would you come by tomorrow to see her and please come alone it would be alot better that way."
"I gladly accept sir and I will see you tomorrow then and I will take my leave now." With that Kia bowed and then proceeded out the doors. As he walked along the side of a garden trying to get out of the castle he turned a corner running into a blonde girl with a long white and blue dress on. She fell to the ground dropping her book that was in her hands. "I am so sorry about that I was having trouble finding my way out." Kia said reaching down to pick her up and retrieve her book for her.
"It is fine I can take a small hit like that."She said getting up and grabbing the book from Kia "Anyways if you are trying to get out just go down that corridor and take the next two rightsyou should find the set of doors." She said indicating behind Kia.
"Oh thanks I would have been stuck here for awhile." At that moment Kia saw the sun begin to set. "Oh no I need to get home or my team is going to get really pissed anyways thanks." Kia turned and began running to the way the girl was pointing.
"What a strange man." She said speaking to herself.