I and with Fiona have managed to get in front of the big door which leads to the Throne Room where the Kings are staying and manage the kingdom. Fiona knocks on the door two times, then we wait for the door to be unlocked. We stood there for a few seconds, looking at the walls and at the interior of this hallway, until the door got opened by the guard, who is pointing a sword at them.
"Identify yourself." says the guard.
"Fiona Lunderberg, knight." responds Fiona to the guard.
"Judah Gremory, squire." I say at the guard.
The guard looked at us for a few seconds, then he let us enter the room, where King Julius is talking with a few people over there. When we got into the interior of the room, the King and with a few people are looking at us as we walk closer to their table they are sitting and discussing.
"Greetings, Majesty!" says Fiona and with me at the same time, doing a small bow.
"Greetings, knight and squire." responds King Julius. "You two have come at the best time. We are talking about the attacking of the second family. We have already got information from a spy maid who has managed to get their changed name."
"The noble families are able to change their names?" asks Fiona surprised.
"Yes." says a man from the table, one wearing a big beard. "I am surprised you have not known this."
"I see…" says Fiona. "Continue, Majesty."
"And we found out their changed name has become Thornosia, and their "secret hideout" is just a small house across the street of their old house. And we managed to capture an information. More specifically, a blonde teenager and a small boy." he looks at Fiona and at me with a weird look. "And these people we have captured are slaves of them, dear ones I might add."
"W-We are going to infiltrate the base dressed as them?" asks Fiona not surprised as me.
"Yes." responds King Julius to Fiona.
"Not surprised." she says.
"Good. Your plan is to infiltrate at the noble family, stay on the roles for a few weeks or months, give us information we need it. When we got enough information about them, and made a concrete plan for invading the family and capturing the families. We will capture them because we think they will be able to give us information about the third family we will fight so far."
"All sounds good." says Fiona to King Julius. "When we will be beginning."
"Tonight. When we will be sending the "real slaves" to them." says King Julius. "We will send you two instead and all you have to do is to work for them, then send us the information we will be needing. If you two are doing the mission correctly you two will get a big amount of money."
"…Okay." says Fiona not being overwhelmed.
"Are you in, kid?" asks a female associate from the table.
"I am in." I respond to the people on the table.
The people are looking at us, they smiled at us because we have accepted this dangerous mission. They considered it dangerous, but later, it wouldn't be looking that dangerous as the time goes by.
***
Later on, Fiona, King Julius, two more associates and I are walking on the underground's hallways, which leads to the Cells I was once held captive because I killed two criminals with my vampire spell, which at the time it was difficult to control. Today I am still struggling to control it, but it shows some progress as the training Derek was showing me a few days ago. But that doesn't matter at a time like this.
King Julius got in the front of the sturdy and hard door that held the Cell room. He just knocked at it three times, then the doors gets opened up from inside. At there, two knights highly dressed in armor, are looking at us, and let us through without any question or warning. We continue to walk on the room, as the candlelight help us see our surrounding.
As we walk, prisoners from the cells are yelling at us, screaming or begging to free them. The King and the other people didn't care about their screams, but I on the other hand, I feel anxious looking at them, but then the fact that they got here because of doing a horrible crime made me relax a bit.
"The hostages are in cell 12." says the King Julius at us as we walk past the cell with the number five. "When we will get at the Cell. Judah Gremory and Fiona Lundeberg will have to take hostages clothes and their memories."
"Memories?" I ask. "How we can do that?"
"By magic, kid." responds an associate with two staffs on his back. "I can send the kid memories to yours. Only his memory. And with this, both of you will be baled to infiltrate in their secret hideout and work as spies for us."
"Sounds sturdy." responds Fiona.
We got to the cell 12, and from there, the King opened the big cell door, and we enter the cell. To our surprise, we see the hostages being restrained by chains at the wall. A thing that not many prisoners from this underground Cell are having it. King Julius are looking at the hostages, who are feeling sad and trembling.
"Please… Don't kill us…" says the woman that look quite similar to Fiona if you are not looking at her carefully. "Please. I have a child in me. Do not kill me. Please."
"Don't be afraid." says King Julius approaching the lady in chains, putting his hand on her head. "We are going to free you from the tyranny of Thornosian's." he left her, and heads outside, and as he got close to us, he said one last thing to us. "You have three weeks limit. Try to get as much of the information as you can. If in three weeks the plan will succeed, we will launch an attack. And not… It will be up to you two to wipe out the family."
"Understood, Majesty!" says Fiona doing a bow as the King Julius left the cell and heads outside this part with the other associate.
"Let's start the operation, now. Shall we?" says the first associate with staff on his back.
The man, raises both of his hands up in the air, he looks at the ceiling and says something in an intelligible language I have never heard of it. It was probably an incantation, or some sort of weird spell I cannot figure out yet. But, the thing lasted only a few moments, after that, his hands get a green aura.
The man stops saying the incantation, he lets the hands a bit down, at the level of his chest. He turns around, and walks in the direction of the woman. The moment the man got close, he touches the woman head with the left hand with green aura, then, he touched with the right the head of the kid, who is feeling tired because of this thing. Then, the man turns around, in our direction, and he walks at us.
When he got to a close distance between us, the man touches our foreheads with the hands with green aura. He uses the left hand of his to touch Fiona's forehead, and as he did that, he uses the right to touch my forehead. Then, he says another intelligible word. No. More like a sentence. After this, I started to see the memories of this young child, and what I saw, made me feel disgusted by the things these savages made him do, and what he was going through at the house he dedicates his entire as slave.
I saw times when he got violently beaten by a group of kids, stripped naked and beaten by a huge man, being taken care by the woman next to him at the cell, and I also saw a vision of him meeting a girl who is wearing, as him, dirty clothes. Then, all I can see now it is the same cell, the associate in front of me with his hands having no more green aura, and the two hostages, still tied at the wall, not saying anything.
"I got their memories." I reply to the associate.
"Good." says the associate, and he looks upon Fiona.
"I also got their memories."
"Excellent. Now, you two should dress their clothes." says the associate. "We will see outside, when we will be planning the delivery."
"Yes." responds Fiona.
The associate leaves us behind, as we walk closer to the bodies of hostages. We take their clothes, and threw ours at them to make them wear something much nicer than the ones they wore. Fiona didn't throw her armor at the woman, she instead threw it outside the cell, together with the big sword and other small knives. I also threw my wand with and dagger since we have to play the roles of the hostages.
After we dressed in their clothes, it was time to leave, but before that, Fiona told the hostages.
"We will make them pay for the sins they have committed to your village and to both of you."
And we left them behind, closing the door, locking it up and leaving the area dressed in their dirty and cut clothes slaves are usually wearing. This is making me feel uncomfortable since this is a big mission for me and the first one where I will be acting as a false me.