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Chapter 15 - Chapter fifteen: My Steel against the toad Princess

The mountain lands were crips and strong but full green in the light, the trees were blowing in the air at the sun was scorching hot among the land. Combined with cold snowy areas. It will probably make everyone not wanting to leave their houses except this one

"So, you think you can stop me because I will beat you," the boy said, being impulsive as always and wearing a red jacket, looking at something the water.

"And the only way you can avoid it if you tell me so look up any information on the samurai".

"The samurai never heard of them" in the water of a lake, a being is known as a Kappa said.

"I heard them but they disappeared," another Kappa said.

"Oh man I wish I was a samurai," a Kappa said. "You must be very lucky to search for them"

"That's why I'm here" the boy explained. " You do know where they are".

"Geez I don't know, Kowalski," the Kappa said to another one.

"According to studies, from various points of Altea, instigate that the samurai was born during 32 BBY or 4 ABY at a time that was created. As for right now, I have limited data of the samurai, sorry"

"You know nevermind, I'll find some other way," he said and soon, the boy left this group of idiots and went on his merry way.

After that excursion, The boy cannot believe what the cards are he's been dealt with, after leaving Arus for three days straight and haven't found any clues, what happened to the samurai.

The only hope that the boy now has, Is to keep looking at the Princess Leia area.

"Man if this keeps up I don't know how long I'm going to have to wait for the next few days!"

Suddenly soon, he sees someone in the Daytime, a man was swimming in an idyll pond, wearing a black and white swim trunks. while clothes, a towel, and a float lie on a nearby rock.

"Oh, this feels so good! The water is clean and fresh, the only good thing that is in this world" the man said. It's nice to relax to enjoy life in another world. 

"Hey, what are you doing, I meant what are you doing swimming around," the boy said.

"Just relaxing, like you should be"

"Well I don't feel like relaxing, I mean I looked everywhere for information on the samurai, all I came up with was empty"

The man came out the water, sitting right next to the boy, "don't worry we'll find some information we're not going to find it here" trying to comfort the boy who hates to admit it he's right.

Remember this part, the man named Takashi Shirogane and he supposed to be an ordinary man, a cadet at the Garrison until something extraordinary but scary happened to him, his family used to be guardians of an ancient well that connected the two worlds. He's transported on the planet, Altea. Where he meets all sources of creatures known as daemons, spirits who have the connection to humanity.

Where he met the half-deamon, Keith who sealed in the tree by a young woman named Allura who the guardian and priestess of the quintessence Crystal which is now the target of daemons and it was inside Shiro's body.

Now he's stuck in this world, trying to learn the ways of the samurai in hopes protect the crystal from the hands of the Galra empire who is trying to conquer the planet. Luckily he had Keith with him, along with several other allies that he made along the way. Now he's trying to make his situation the best of his abilities. Traveling around the planet in hopes to find the samurai.

Now, resting on a tree nearby, Keith was this relaxing thing a try but soon that will not last as a shadow flashed past him, heading to the spot where Shiro was swimming, catches his attention. Keith gets off the tree and chases it.

Keith leaps from the tree to find out about the cause, only to find the screams of Shiro.

After Keith actually took his advice. Shiro had to admit it, that he was a tough cookie to break, emotionally drained that is, after an hour of swimming, Shiro decides is time to get out of the pool, suddenly, he notices something, turns around,d and screams.

"What the"

"Ah" the shock of his voice nearly throw Keith off of his game, resulting in him to lands on a rock in the pond and struggles to balance himself.

"I wasn't peeping, honest"

"I know that, but my clothes been stolen"

But Keith didn't even seem to care, with a deep grown "It has the quintessence Crystal with them"

"What"

looks in the direction that Shiro pointing to. The thing that was flashed past Keith just now turns out to be a little white baboon and a white weasel continue sprinting off while whistle is heard in the background.

A young woman along a young girl sits under a tree, with her hand over his mouth, whistling the creatures over to her.

"Here, here…Pan and Seva"

"You know you don't want to blow that whistle" the weasel known as Pan

"True, Pan, but how are we going to find us, plus is it fun, right Elsa"

"Mm! That's nice" Elsa reaches into the bundle of clothes "only we can find something to eat" she said but only to find as she takes out underwear.

"Th-this…isn't something to eat!"

"Wel,l you did tell us to find something this is it" the monkey known as Seva, slaps her forehead.

"Hey!" Keith shouted, pops out a nearby bus, hand clenching his fists with Shiro pops out behind him, "Please return my clothes to me!"

"Ah" Elsa shouted, unsheathes her sword, and points it at Shiro and Keith.

"Wh-who are you?! You look suspicious!"

Answering her question, Keith kicks the young woman in the face "That's our line!"

The girl shrieks, raises her arms, and punch Keith on the back, "do you have to be so rough" Shiro said.

"What, I'm not taking any chances".

One minute later, After Shiro got back his clothes back and put them on, turn on the young woman who was sittings under a tree, munching on a bag of potato chips ravenously, alongside her sister, munching on food too from Romelle.

While Pan and Seva were sitting on the women's shoulder, biting into one piece of chip. While Shiro kneels next to them, and while Keith was lies on the curved tree trunk.

"You two really must've been hungry," Shiro said, holds up his hand "Want some tea?"

"Uh-huh!" The young girl said as she takes the tea and sips.

Shiro when reaches into his bag and takes out a bag of food "Want something to eat too, Keith, its food from my world"

"No thanks, I'm not hungry," Keith said however, his flushed face is said he is hungry.

"Okay" Keith gets off the trunk and picks up Shiro's bag to find some food "Well, Shiro, look at all your cool stuff! What's this? Ah, I get it. Torture device."

"That's a toenail clipper" Shiro correct him.

"Oh, okay, okay, sure. Oh! How about this? What does this do?" Keith said, grabbing a book.

"A magazine"

"Oh, and this"Keith, grabbing another thing and clicking it "Oh, I sort of like this. This is amazing".

"You know what? You can keep it."

The woman slaps the empty bag of chips and everybody follows suit.

"Thank you, The dried potatoes were delicious"

"And the food from Aurs was delicious also, thanks, I, I haven't got your name yet"

"My name is Shiro. He's Keith. And

A glowing creature appeared in the front of the girls.

"This is Stats"

"Stats"

The young girls give up a confused look and are these groups, and what they are doing.

Well,l it's nice to meet you, I'm Elsa and this is my sister, Anna. And the little furry animals can you see are our daemon, Pantalaimon or Pan for short and Seva".

"Those are very nice names, they came from a movie"

Elsa coughs in an important manner after during introduction.

"Ahem… Thanks for the food. Me and my sister have an important mission, so we take my leave. Fare thee well".

With that, the girls walk off.

"Hey, that's…"

Unable to notice, Elsa ended up getting flat on a slope from where they were, luckily Anna, Pan and Seva were grabbing onto the surface.

"The ledge…!"

"Sorry we're pretty much Lost," Anna said

"Loss, what you mean loss," Shiro asks her. "What happened did something happened to your Homeland"

"For personal reasons, I cannot say but if you really want to know, something happened to our sister". Anna said.

Elsewhere, back in the mountains, a  village that was small and not very big, it was simple. But from the looks of it, it wasn't, surrounded by a group of villagers, they scattered a group of young men. Tied up in ropes and carry out by somewhere.

"Why are all the boys in the domain being taken there?"

"I heard that none of the girls summoned to the castle have ever returned". Said a Villager as he sees a sobers at a group of boys walk in a line, with their hands tied up.

"Wow, you weren't kidding, your sister has been doing this" Keith said, pops out of a bush with Shiro, Elsa, Anna, Pan, Stats, and Seva.

"Yes, we don't know how it happened but it started with our sister, Astrid". Elsa explain. "It all started long ago, from the moment, she crowns queen, our sister was the oldest. I was born second and Anna third.

"So your sister is the leader of this land, what made her do all this," Shiro said.

"It started with her. After she was crowned queen, a woman came, a blackness of cloth she wore to cover her face, she said she was looking for a  crystal, she claims to give power to the person who will".

"So what else happened"

"Well, My sister will obviously refuse her, or at least where I bought, from the moment she came back, she was a completely different person, her body was covered in bandages, her hands became slimy, it was a scary sight".

"My sister and I had no choice but to leave until we ran into you"

Shiro looked at this story, upon hearing it from Elsa's respective, it became absolutely clear that they desperately needed help from the outside. Normally he would leave and finding the samurai, how is he going to fight this, but they need to do something now.

"Elsa Please, take us to your village so so we can save your sister."

"Are you sure?" Elsa said, looking at Shiro.

"I am sure"

Upon hearing that, Keith grab Shiro by the shoulder, "Hey, What about our journey to find the samurai and learn how to control your powers, are you sure you can handle this"

"I can figure it out, these people are desperate, we both saw what happened to these boys".

Looking back, Keith heard in the whispers of two other villagers "Just between us, I heard that the lord of the castle has been working for the Galra"

"The Galra, What?!"

Upon eavesdropping to that, Keith discovered that what was causing the present problem was worse, much worse.

Hearing from the people, Keith Wondering of what if, what if Astrid got too much trouble when she first fought if that's the case, could Astrid might have joined the galra. This could be a big problem for both him and Shiro.

In a castle high up in the mountains. In one of the rooms, a being stared out into the darkest areas of the castle. Most of the servants were in their quarters, feasting but this being could not sleep. Not when something so critical was almost in his grasp.

The servant on duty, Tsuyu, approaching the woman's footsteps were tentative as if she might run away at any moment. "My queen," he said, her voice shaky. "We are able to gather more men, I might be able to ask why are you have summoned many of the young village men to the castle… Where are you keeping them?"

Upon hearing that, the Queen drops her bowl and slams on it, turn the remains into a sharp object. She held the blade overhead. Tsuyu closed his eyes.

But it was not the servant the Queen struck. Instead,d he brought down the homemade weapon on everything else around him. Slicing through walls wit precision, tearing them open, slashing holes in the deck floor.

When her fury was spent, the Queen put her blade in the ground "you may not, anything else?"

Tsuyu swallowed, "I was wondering what happened to the princess"

Like fuel touched by a spark, the Queen's rage roared anew. She grabbed Tsuyu's throat and squeezed. "What princesses?"

At nighttime, at the top of the mountain was the castle, which was beautiful as high as it would go that match it's silver appearance.

The group consistent of Shiro, Keith, and the princess, "No mistake about it... This place reeks with the smell of evil". Keith said, even if its appearance was peaceful and beautiful

"Now you know, that's why we must seek help"

"Well I'm sure we'll find any Galra"

"Okay, let's take a leap up there, Things get hairy we're leaving," Shiro said, turning over to the girls.

The two nods, determined. With that out of the way, the group leaps up and headed the castle fence, full speed.

"Remember we're not on the best thing to handle is, Shiro, explain himself. He knew this thing was dangerous and totally they experiences, the last time they endure something full force, Keith ended up getting injured by Twyla, so they got to do this carefully, in hopes of saving Elsa and Anna's sister.

But soon as they arrived at the castle's wall. They discovered that one guard is sitting by a bonfire and he is asleep. Another guard lies on a staircase, snoring.

"All the guards like this" Keith ask Elsa about this scene. "No, not really, all the guards are supposed to be up 24/7"

"Well it's not happening now, looks like we have to avoid fighting for now anyway," Shiro said. Putting his sword back in the sheath, "we should probably bee careful, we still do not know who or is under a hypnotic sleep. Probably everyone here in the castle".

"Elsa is there another way in," Keith said, hopefully, Elsa knows the way so they don't have to fight like crazy again.

"Yes there is a way, follow me" Elsa commanded as she led the group. To a secret entrance close to the grounds

Tsuyu had died or at least she felt that way, she hobbled along her bed, her body ached, bruised, and cut all over. To either side of her rose so uncomfortably, normally her room is small not as huge as the princesses bu homely not the less.

"Hello, Tsu where are you" someone shouting her name, could it be the queen no, it was someone else.

"Who's there," Tsuyu said, slams open a door to look someone trying to contact her.

"Tsu" the being shouted in front of her face.

"Ah" Tsuyu's scream that was so loud it resulted in her falling on the ground. "Oh sorry, I am just glad you're all right,t," Anna said, hugging her back just as tightly.

"Anna, Elsa" Tsuyu reprimanded. Now that she knew that the girls were safe, she was surprised to see them back here, she was hoping that the sisters got away from their sister's madness. Even if she had no idea where they are or where they go.

"I'm just glad you're all right, where were you" Tsuyu said, her mind was full of worried.

"Well, we were looking for some help" Anna explained. Pointing over her new friends "oh, oh I didn't know you were getting help"

"Tsuyu, this is Shiro and Keith".

"Hello"

"What's up"

"Well it's nice to meet you, my name is Tsuyu Asui, but everyone calls me Tsu"

"Well it's nice to meet you, Tsu," Shiro said, shaking her hand.

"I know I was kind of worried there for a minute" Tsu explain to Shiro.

"Well, everyone's under a hypnotic sleep. With this much noise, I'm sure the demon will come seeking us out". Keith ignored.

"Keith, I'm sorry about him he can be a little bit rude sometimes but he's is very good"

"That's okay, I wish had a daemon but instead I'm daemonless".

"I don't think it's a bad thing that was really brave what you were trying to do here, being the only one awake," Shiro said complimenting her.

"Well, what's up with the case" Tsu explain "ever since that ever since Astrid had that meeting with that woman, she completely changed… She's been helping the Galra making weapons to help with their armies"

"What, she never does that" Elsa's voice in complete shock.

"Wel,l she is" suddenly the sound of stamping around the corridors. Pan looked ahead, "we should probably get going Astrid out there, and she looks mad.

"We should go, Tsu did you know where the people she captured," Shiro said

"I don't know, she never told me"

"Guess we have to force her way ou,t" Keith said, punching his fists.

"Keith" Shiro shouted as he follows the corridor.

"I found you," Queen Astrid said. Her bandaged face showing off in the darkness.

Keith and Shiro beaked hard at the sight of the biggest, Disturbed person they had ever seen, this had to be her.

"There you are, my queen, I heard you when working for the galra". Keith said renting out his dagger preparing for an attack.

"Very well", The queen sticks out a long tongue and attacks Keith but he managed to dodge and slash away the bandage on the Queen's face. Causing the queen falls back, revealing her face, showing a large toad masquerading as the Queen.

"A toad?!" Shiro acclaim, shocked to see the Queen's true form.

"Astrid, what happened to you" Elsa whispered. Wondering what happened her look like a toad, in fact, she was a toad.

"Sister" Astrid looked at her sister "yeah it's me, Elsa".

"How are you here I thought you disappeared," Astrid said like she was seeing a ghost from the dead.

"No I haven't but if you are still there, your madness has spread all the way to our lands and I was hoping that you could stop it it's you're the only one could"

"I can't, I have to obey her," Astrid said with shock.

"Who, who do you have to obey"

However she did not get a clear answer, instead, she got stabbed when Astrid sticks out his tongue, pierces her shoulder instead.

"Elsa, no"

After that, Astrid left without a Trace, weaving Elsa in pain and falls backward

"Astrid" Anna said, shouting in the outside.

Elsa struggles to from get up, "Astrid".

Shiro rushed towards her, "Don't move! You're badly wounded!"

"Never mind me! You save Astrid"

"I don't think we can, you saw what he did to you," Shiro said, with an expression "how do you know"

"She told me, she's still in there"

Before he could answer, Keith, looking through the hallway, "That disgusting toad! She won't get away!"

"Keith, wait" Shiro shouted as Keith running off to face Astrid the toad.

Running from her enemies, Astrid went to a cavernous area of the castle, at this dark area, it was the place for old abandoned tech, making the perfect place for privacy to converse with the mysterious woman who had visited her before, her hologram shimmered before them on an elevated dais, giant in size but the exact same size of the room.

She stands on a hexagon shape, steepling her spindle fingers, the flesh visible under her robe glowing dark blue translucence, red markings make from her prominent cheekbones down across her lips, nearly reaching her chin, on either side of her face. But most disconcerting was the imbalance her eyes, the peered out from her hood like an eclipse, no irises, no pupils within, Shadow veiled the rest of her, which only reinforced the commanding presence of her voice.

"The machines will be ready in time," the woman said, "this will bring the rebels on their knees, and yet you contact me when existing in the hand".

Astrid lowered her head in deference. "I'm sorry, high priestess Haggar, but I have been-"

"Silence" her voice shook the room, like an Almighty goddess. "Your apologies will not save you, we are here now and that's all that matters now"

Astrid kept quiet, allowing Haggar to do more the talkin, "have you got used of your new powers yet"

"no not yet I have been practicing but I have been practicing on my recovery powers" 

"Only practicing that," Haggar asked.

"I know it's not an ideal situation, I have been improving on it so much". Astrid said, "It may not be the ideal results that you wanted, the rebels will no doubt investigate but the process-"

"Reveal the weapon in the right time and themselves" Haggar interjected.

"My powers are already stronger as they are and if they don't, we've eradicated them".

"Yes, Lord Zarkon will already be please, go" Haggar ordered Astrid. "Continue your preparations and deal with your enemies"

Astrid bowed before the hologram. "Yes,  high priestess" he walked out of the chamber, leaving with a plan behind.

Keith started to dart out the hallway, " you monster, where are you" but it was getting harder to find her as the Castle was a massive, sprawling labyrinth that goes on for miles per miles.

"Damn" Keith, as he slams open another door and more people are sleeping inside. "Is it safe for him to yell like that?" Anna asks Shiro "Well, everyone's under a hypnotic sleep. With this much noise, I'm sure your sister will come seeking us out".

"I can't even find the way," Keith said, "how do you find your way in".

"I don't know, Alderaan is endless of surprise amazes, created over the years by our families. So we're basically going in blind". Anna explain

"We're basically going blind with everything around here," Keith said.

"How did happened," Shiro asks Elsa "I don't know, the only person I know who can transform people is...Haggar"

"Who"

"Haggar, she did this, how should I know about this, I know we're supposed to be peaceful but at least we should be aware of her". Elsa said, frustration about her situation, frustrated her sister, frustration about her kingdom in danger. Making Shiro feel like terrible, how is he going to stop this situation unless.

"Hey you," said Haggar, turn her into a toad, what if we on unmade her"

"Unmade her, but no one was able to reverse, Haggar's magic".

"Well we'll give it a try if it doesn't work out, we might have to kill her"

"That does it, I meant we heard stories about Haggar's magic and what it could do, it can create illusions, transfer,m, and stuff. This one time, she killed a priestess"

"What", Shiro was surprised, maybe that's maybe could that be the reason that Allura had died, suddenly a loud crash is heard them, "what I found something" Keith shouted as he bursts through a door.

"why are you looking where you looking at, waiting for an invitation!"

Stats fluttered around Shiro, getting his attention before drawing theirs to toad-egg like spheres with thousands of men that was barely visible over one of the giant room.

"What...?" Shiro said, breathless.

He and Keith enter the place with Elsa, Anna, and Tsu right behind them. They stopped suddenly on the crest of the room and stars in silence before grabbing each other in shock.

It was a Galra empire crates a big one, deck size, surrounded the Spears, Stats when behind the boys all frightened.

"How can it be?" Anna asked.

Shiro studied the fragment room curiously, noticing that the girls were upset.

"What is this"

"Astrid's office" Anna replied softly, hardly believing it.

The office was dark and horrifying like a scene from the horror movie, the Spears look like someone sick experiment, "I was told by this, Just like toad spawn" Keith said as the group was looking at the sphere which that look like frog eggs with men sealed in them.

"The Madden toad seals the souls of young men mostly boys until they mature, then eats them" Keith points out the eggs which shows boys turning int tadpoles. "And Haggar making her do it,"  Shiro thought, looking at this scene, it was clear now that we're going more threats in this world than the average monsters.

Shiro needed to concentrate on the here and now, "it's got to be something here", he said, refusing to believe they had come this far to find out that all the answers were still hidden. Suddenly, an idea struck him. "Wait there's something on the desk, look around everywhere". He said as he around the desk, while the others search around the room.

Shiro's words pushed into action. He handed over the floors, looking for any sign of Astrid or rather the Madden toad woman.

"Search for a compartment, Every Alderaan Room has one," Elsa said. She suddenly dropped on the ground too with Keith to snoop, hoping to find any signs of a compartment.

"I found one," Shiro said. His fingers went into a small notch near the desk, it clicked and a hatch opened, Keith and the others went to him in anticipation as Shiro reached inside and pulled out a round Glass tube. He uncorked it and removed a roll of parchments that look like blueprints. "What kind of plans are these?".

"I don't know," Elsa said, glancing at the plans, it looks like plans of some kind of machine. "I think your sister is working on something that evolves with These people," Keith asks her, pointed to them. "But look - this language doesn't look like your sister's handwriting.

Shiro read the words out long. "This machine will sever the magic source from humans, the daemon magic source".

"The magic source" Shiro through, he remembered Twyla needed the people who had a deamon for a project that the Galra needed the people, looking at the Spears, he noticed the boy inside had a daemon. And it's not this him every single boy has a daemon.

"Hey guys I think your sister is involved in something, something that's not very good"

His ears perk when he detects the hurried splat of footfalls approaching outside of the door.

"We have to hide, someone is coming"

Listening to him, Keith and the girls covered over the desk while Shiro dives between the two and grab the tube, ensuring that no one will find out what they're here. The Madden toad appeared, carrying her next victims in eggs.

"Don't worry, Zarkon will have a better use for you, as I did when we completed the first part of the plan"

Shiro sucks in a breath and holds it. "What, plan," he thought, when suddenly,

a human face darts from the murky suspension, against the gooey barrier in front of Shiro's face. The barest of gasps slips from his lips.

"Huh?" the toad woman says.

"What is your problem" Keith admonishes.

"Just shut up," Shiro said out loud, hard

"Is she out there, I'll crush her in one blow!"

"No. We can't do that, this room m is dead-end anyway, sometimes the best move in bad situations is to wait, just remember, patience yields focus."

"Right, gotcha, I really hate that".

The muzzle of the darkness points out between them and her, Shiro prays the darkness is enough to hide them.

Their wish was granted as soon she left, the danger left. "Man that was, close," Anna said. Suddenly something sticks out, it was a tongue from the Madden toad.

"Ahh"

"Finally," Keith said as he brandishes his dagger and leaps at her.

"Die, Toad Demon!" He shouted, however, she burps out a breath of fumes at him.

Causing him to taken aback and falls onto the floor, clenching onto his neck. 

"A miasma! Back away!"

step steps back coughs and puts a hand over their mouth. But leaps in time and slashes his dagger, downwards.

"Total Concentration, Second move,  Pisces"

With that move, Keith sliced the daemon's neck apart with another breathing move.

"You did it!"

"I did, I control another breathing technique"

"Well, you are rescuing a human".

"Why I just sliced her"

However Shiro could answer back, the toad gets up and touches her heavily wounded shoulder. "Spirits! Spirits! Revival me!'

The eggs get behind her, glows and several boys float out of their eggs, flies towards her.

She opens her mouth wide open and devours the spirits. The wound on her neck stops bleeding and closes up. Restoring her head back to her proper place.

"Her wound has healed!" Anna said

"Why that…! How" Keith said in

confusion.

"Keith can do more than one"

"Hahaha" the Madden toad stands up, "you keep stabbing me for all you want! But for each wound, l eat a fresh spirit! To myself alive."

Upon hearing that Shiro wondered

"What t do! How do we stop-her"

Thinking to himself, he was able to something, if the Spears are like eggs, he could, making his mind up, Shiro uses his sword to cut an egg where a boy was sealed in.

"Coughs"

"Hey are you all right"

"Oh yeah, who are you"

"Shiro, what's yours"

"Tony Nobunaga! And this is my Daemon, Sun Wukong"

"No, what are you doing, he's the property of the empire" the toad shouted as she trotters towards them but Tsu slaps the toad on the head with the tube

"I'm sorry, my queen"

The toad Stands back and faints. He wakes and stares in disbelief. "Where am I, what's going on," she said, in a different but gentle voice feels her face and looks around the damage she has caused.

"Is this all my doing?"

"It's too late to play innocent with us," Keith said.

"But that voice… It's the real voice kid kind sister!" Said Elsa.

"I knew it, The real Astrid still lives inside the toad!" Shiro said.

"What a frightening thing I have done! Although I was possessed by a toad spirit, my heart was still human. But lately, even my heart… Kill me!" Astrid somber said.

"Huh?"

"Otherwise, I will end up selling these boys to the witch"

"My queen," Tony said.

"I beg you! Slay me now! So I don't have to leave my kingdom in disarray" Astrid

cries.

"Pretty noble words… I gotta hand it to you, Keith said, branching out his dagger again. "Are you sure you want me to do it because I don't feel like doing this".

"Hold it, Keith! What about the real one?!" Shiro said.

"I agree, there must be a way to sav,e her," Anna said.

"There's no another way, besides she asked me to do this" Keith said

"Yeah but are you willing to go through with it"

"I... I don't know okay, I don't need silly sentimentality!"

"There's always a choice even if it is too late"

While they were arguing, a dark essence covers Astrid "guys" Tony said concerningly.

"Will you stop yapping?! I know what I'm doing"

"Are you sure about that because you clearly are holding out what you should"

"Ah-ah" She laughs as the dark essence that once covered over Astrid has dispersed and now talks in a different tone. "You are going to regret by sparing me", as she explains stands up, starts sticks her tongue out once again.

"Ah, let's get out of, here," Pan said.

"Run" Tony exclaimed

This was a weird day for him, after getting taken. He thought that he was never going to see his family again but luckily fate has other plans.

The terror face group listened and running as the queen totters forwards, making slurping noises in the process.

"See, this is exactly one of the reasons that we get rid of her". Shouted Keith to Shiro as they turned around and took off in a separate direction.

"Please it's your plan is even better than your other plans"

Astrid barreled down a parallel hallway and followed the next group... For her prey. When minutes now fully set, Astrid marched down the next block, hunting for Shiro and Keith.

A hallway away ahead of Astrid, Shiro and Keith ducked between a room, going inside it, they trying to think about their next move.

"This is just great" Keith whispered in a frenzy as he sits down, folds his, arms and sulks like a spoiled brat or angry person in her or his bed.

Shiro tried to clearing his mind and concentrating, but that was kind of tough, with Astrid only one mile away, smashing everything in her path.

"Okay, Isn't there something we can do?!" Shiro said, "it is a toad, she could have an aversion to heat".

"Heat? That's your plan",

"Oh, you got better one" Shiro turns to Keith, "oh wait I forgot, you enjoy killing people".

"Funny choice of word seeing as how I am 'just' an animal Spirit to you."

"Oh, and how quickly I am learning the error of my ways. You know, for someone who knows little much, you clearly holding on what you should have."

"Yeah? What will that be"

Shiro huffs, smiling "you did another breathing technique, is clear that you hold more knowledge than you thought"

"What"

"I meant, when do the Garrison, you would have a  You have a lot of Potential but instead you mince words, and you think that people are giving you more trouble than you worth".

Worth, the word made Keith think back to the time before where Takashi still lived, he felt different. Proud. Special.

"But incredibly talented if you just look. You might be unstoppable with good training and if, no, when he learns how to control his impulses. But needs guidance."

With that, his search to find something to burn while Shiro's words haunted Keith even rethinking his plans, if this wanted to help these people or not- then Keith didn't want to spend it cooped up in this room. Once Shiro went looking to burn Astrid, Keith just hopped off his spot and decided to help.

Shiro had so much on his mind, he couldn't even think about Elsa, Anna, Pan, Seva, and Tony, he didn't even notice the sudden tightness in his chest when Keith came closer to him.

"So if you're going to burn up a toad, fire! something like a large torch?

"Huh?"

Keith was holding a candle in his hands. "Whoa, Good work, Keith". Shiro was relieved, just as soon Astrid lurched closer. She could smell her latest victim's terror in the air.

"It's too small…" Shiro tried to figure out the next plan, what is he going with this little flames. But soon the door behind Keith and Shiro had expended and rose ten feet in the air. Astrid held it there, she glared down upon them like they were flies lying around waiting to get squishy splat.

"I'll gobble both of you! Now" Astrid said, "and once I'm done with you, I start gobbling my traitorous sisters", she unreels her tongue at the two fleeing boys.

Pumping his legs as fast as he could, Shiro looked over his shoulder, he saw the tongue plummeting towards them, he and Keith turn around to the other side of the room, only for Shiro get attacks by Astrid who was acting like a bloodthirsty gorilla.

And soon, her tongue hits Shiro's bag, causing him to fall onto the floor. The contents of his bag spill out.

Astrid laughs smugly. "There you are". Now pursued them, now on four hopping around like a toad but still act bloodthirsty as possible.

As Shiro's fatigued muscles head to failure. Shiro grunts and slides back on his toes, his knees buckling. "There Is no escape". Astrid said with a snarl on her face, preparing for an attack but unknowingly.

"Hey, you repulsive toad!" Keith shouted as he lands in front of Shiro, facing her and with his back facing Shiro

"Keith"

"Shiro, I know you want to save her but the time for niceties is over! I'll gonna get it!" Keith let the charge with survival as the first priority. In the few short days since waking up, known Shiro, he had grown fond of the man and wanted to see him live. If any other being could see the actions he's going to take, well Keith would have to deal with those consequences later.

"Niceties? I know…" Shiro turns around and discovered an aerosol can that spilled out of her bag "Spray paint! It'll work… I forgot I have this but this will do"

"I'm gonna get 'im!"

"Keith get down"

"What"

"Keith, do you trust me, do you"

Upon hearing that, he does but what about the toad going to kill them soon. What else is he supposed to do, they got playing they got sick to it. "Of course I trust you but I"

"Keith I know this plan is probably going to go south but if I don't try what's the point"

Keith wanted to believe him so "then do it"

With that Shiro stands up, holding his spray paint in one hand and the candle in the other. he sprays and a torrent of fire bursts at the queen.

Astrid yells in pain, results from her to transforms into a tadpole-like form, and flies off.

"It worked! Keith!"

, "Yeah, I know" Keith slices the flying tadpole into two which dissipates into thin air.

Shiro watched in amazement, the plan was a success. "She almost killed us you know that"

"Yeah I know" Shiro remark and soon the tadpole begins launching itself towards Keith, "Lookout" Shiro shouted as he slices the flying tadpole into two with his samurai sword, which dissipates into thin air.

"Man that was close"

"Shiro! Keith" Anna said in greeting as she emerged from the room, behind her was Elsa and their friends arriving at the room.

"Well done! Astrid is alive! You waited until the toad was driven out! Good work!" Anna said, pointing out the real one lies flat-faced on the floor.

"Sure, despise the fact that she tried to, kill us," said Keith, trying to hide the back from her.

"But you save her, you both did," Elsa said.

Suddenly the queen awakens from her spot with a start from a terrible dream, still sprawled across the hallway floor. The stiffness in her Back had made her feel like she was sleeping on concrete for hours. But She was back to her regular self

"Please tell me that wasn't a dream"

"I wish it was, but it's over now," Keith said

"I'm sorry I wasn't thinking straight," Astrid said

"It's all right we're grateful that you're, okay," Anna said

The next morning over Alderaan under a tree inside the castle grounds. Everyone was having a picnic to celebrate their new heroes, Keith and Shiro.

"I'm going to thank you all for saving us, thanks to you. The witch's spell has been broken and all the men from our nearby villages have been free, I don't know what you should be repaid with. Queen Astrid

"Don't worry, won't happen again not when I'm around" Keith said.

"I know have you been through a lot, but I'm afraid we do need your help to help" Shiro Explain.

"Yes anything, I and my family owned you our lives"

"We're looking for the samurai".

"That's a very difficult search, why do you need to find them" Anna Said

"We have personal business to deal with, them," Keith said

"Well in order to find them you need to the Kitsune"

"The Kitsune"

"Yes, the Kitsune live in the valley, not too far from here, you can leave right next after the party"

"Thank you, Queen Astrid"

Followed the day, the party continue on, Tony, the boy that Shiro saved was pressing all the girls how he saved the day while since his old one was destroyed, Shiro was given a new bag and this one was a Backpack for Hiking and Traveling after the party ended. Shiro and Keith started packing for their trip.

"Hey Keith," Shiro said as he was using his new bag to pack his stuff, things from The Garrison and some new things from Alderaan.

"Yeah what is it"

"I have to thank you"

"Thank me thank me for what"

"For believing in me and for trusting me with the truth

"The truth, what do you mean"

"You know for showing up your potential"

"Shiro I... You don't know me, what you saw was a Luke, I don't have the potential to be a samurai"

"You do, I think you have a lot of potentials, and whatever you decide that potential that's all up to you"

With that said, Shiro left the room, to wonder if that Keith, and what if he did have the potential. But have to wait, Shiro and Keith must continue on their jo, gurney, and thanks to the new information they got to the queen, they had to the Kitsune.