"Let me see you try."
After a while, Akalea and Peace finally made it back to the meeting place and saw that most of her companions were there. "Where are the others?" Akalea asks as she arrived beside them, looking for the rest. Akalea couldn't see Marcus, Dawn and Colton. "Where are Marcus, Dawn and Colton?" Akalea asks and everyone but the knights shrugged their shoulders, not knowing where they were. "They might have caught something. They'll probably catch up later." Shawn says and the others nod their heads. "Have you guys seen anything suspicious?" Akalea asks and they shake their heads, no. "Then have you perhaps seen a person in a cloak giving apples to children?" Akalea asks and most of them said no but two did. "I saw one. I thought it didn't look suspicious cause the person was just giving apples to the children." Newt says which Amy added with, "Same here. I saw one too and didn't think much of it."
"So there were two more, huh?" Akalea talks to herself but was loud enough to be heard by everyone else. "What do you mean by that, Aka?" Shawn asks and Akalea looks up at him and to the others. "I found one as well. I kept watch to see what'll happen after and my hunch was right. Those three might have something to do with the children disappearing...." Akalea then begins to tell them what she happened between her and the one she encountered. "So, those three must have done something to the apples that lead to the children's disappearance as well as having the power to erase memories or make people forget?" Kint asks and puts his hand to his chin, thinking while the others were thinking of the possibilities as well.
"Since we know who we should keep an eye on, we gotta find the right time the children will disappear. We'll be grouped into 3 while we scout the area, in case something happens and so we can have each others' backs." Akalea suggests and the others nod their heads. "But what if we get caught?" Dean asks and this made Akalea look at Zeke with a knowing smile. "Zeke here has the power to create." Akalea says and Zeke looks confused then realized he had the power of creation, nodding his head. "Really? Creation power is somewhat rare cause not everyone or anyone can have that power." Troy says and everyone agreed including the knights. "It also takes out a lot of my inner strength." Zeke says cause every time he creates something, a part of his inner force/strength is taken out which leaves him in a weakened state until the inner force/strength is recovered.
"Its okay. I'll help you with that." Akalea reassures Zeke and then faced Kyle. "Does the knights have a headquarter in the town? I would like for us to prepare there." Akalea asks Kyle and he nods his head, after talking with his fellow knights. "I'll guide you there." Kyle says as he nods to his fellow knights and begins to lead the way to their headquarters with Akalea and the others following behind. The town was crowded as usual and for the citizens there, seeing a group of young people being guided by a knight caught their eyes, whispers and gossips forming. Akalea and the others ignored their stares and whispers as they arrive in front of the headquarters. "Let's go in." Kyle says as he opens the double doors and heads in first, waiting for the rest to get in. Once everyone was inside, Kyle closed the doors and went to the stairs after greeting his fellow knights who were resting after changing shifts. Akalea and the others greeted the knights but the knights ignored them and looked away, scorning. The fuck is their problem? Akalea thinks to herself as she and the others follow Kyle up the stairs.
"Before I let you use one of our rooms, you have to meet the chief knight first." Kyle says as he opens the door right in front of the stairs they were at. Akalea and the others head inside the room where they saw a big and chubby man munching on macaroons and cake with tea on the side, sitting in his chair and eating on the table. The room looking more extravagant than the other rooms. "Ahem." Kyle coughs and this grabbed the attention of the chief. The chief looks up and stops munching on his food as he got up, startled to have guests. "What's the meaning of this, Kyle?" The chief says, informally. Aren't the knights suppose to call each other sir or miss even if you're the chief or someone higher? Akalea thinks to herself, recalling what her father told her before about knights.
"These are students from Abernathy Academy. They wish to help with the children disappearances case and wish to use one of the rooms to prepare, chief Frank." Kyle says as he informs the chief who was glaring at him, Kyle not fazed by the glaring as if he is used to it already. "I don't care if they're from the academy, they'll still be under me if they're knights. Make them leave and fuck off. Don't you see I'm busy?" Frank says, angry and disgusted by the students. This enraged Akalea, arched an eyebrow as she looks at the 'chief', and also enraged the others. Kyle couldn't say anything because he was scared that he'll be scolded again and maybe kicked out. "What would the King say if he sees that this room was so extravagant? That you've been receiving bribes from nobles to handle their crimes yourself and let them go? That you've been abusing your power and been keeping most of the budget that was suppose to be used for the town, for yourself?" Akalea asks looking around the room, seeing valuable and expensive trinkets and things then looks at the chief in the eyes, provoking him.
The chief was left dumbfounded that Akalea spilled his secrets which he thought no one would know any of them when in fact Akalea was just guessing. Akalea said those just to frighten the chief and see what kind of reactions he'll show. Akalea smiled mentally when she and the others saw the chief standing and his hands smacking the table with anger, his food and tea shaking and spilling on the table. "Who do you think you are to defame me as such? You know it's against the law in this kingdom to defame someone! I could bring you behind bars right now!" The chief shouts his words, his face red, overreacting to Akalea's words. "If you say that I was defaming you, shouldn't you be calm and not angry if it really is defamation? If what I said was wrong, why did you slam your hands on the table and your face red as an apple? I didn't really know if they were true or not. I was just saying them because I wanted to see your reaction and I was right. Your reactions betray you, chief Frank." Akalea says with an innocent smile, tilting her head at the chief who was now more dumbfounded than before and realized he fell into a trick.
"No one will believe you." Frank says, gritting his teeth and mentally angry at himself for falling into such stupid tricks. "We'll see about that, chief Frank. Also, instead of munching on those macaroons and cake you have there, you could've tried finding out what happened with the children's disappearances. I guess we'll have to do that, then. Good luck trying to keep that title of Chief, chief. Sooner or later, you'll fall so much, there's no way back up." Akalea says and turns to leave the room with the others trailing behind her as the chief watches them leave. His face beet red, it would come to a point where smoke could come out from his ears due to anger. The chief sat back down angrily, realizing that he did overreact and fell into her trap. "Damn it!" The chief slams his fist on the table as the knight, Kyle, who was left in the office, jump back in fear.
Akalea and the others walk down the stairs after hearing the chief's outburst. "That was smart." Dean says as he puts his palm up for a high five. Akalea high fives him and chuckles after that. "One way to trap a corrupt and stupid person." Akalea says and as they arrive down the stairs, they were met again with the glares and stares from the knights around them. They walk towards the exit, ignoring the eyes of the knights but just before they reached the exit, a man's voice rang out. "Hey, you bunch of idiots." This stopped Akalea and the others in their tracks. Again? Akalea thinks to herself sensing that another trouble is coming. "What brings a bunch of idiots from the academy, who's still wet behind the ears, here to the headquarters of REAL knights?" Akalea and the others turn towards the voice and they could see a tall yet scrawny man in armor. The man, not noticing the instructors within the students, glaring at him. "If you guys are really REAL knights, then why hasn't the problem of the children's disappearances not solved, yet?" Akalea asks, rebutting his words.
This made the man mad at Akalea, knowing fully well that they couldn't solve the problem by themselves, and quiets down except for the other knights who slams their fists on their tables in anger as they got up. "Cat got your tongue?.... What? Just that question, you're going to take action? What small minded and incompetent REAL knights we have here?" Akalea adds fuel to the fire and the knights around them gets ready to pounce. "If you think of wanting to pounce on us, why don't you look at your surroundings, first?" Akalea says as multiple daggers made out of wind pointing at each knights' throat to which the knights noticed, stopping in their tracks. "This is considered a threat to us knights, we'll put you behind bars for this!" The tall yet scrawny man yells at Akalea who smirked at him. "Oh, really? That's what your chief told me earlier but what can he do once he's stripped off of the chief position? Honestly, I don't know how you guys graduated from the academy when this is all you guys can show? Small minds, egotistical and incompetence. I'm only defending me and my companions because the knights seem to want to beat us. Isn't that right, instructors?"
Akalea says and asks in the end, the instructors walking out from within the students, their arms crossed as they glare at each and every knight. The knights, who seem to recognize the three instructors, begin to tremble and fall to their knees, realizing they fucked up. The scrawny man sees his fellow knights falling to the ground and was confused, making him angry again. "What did you do to them?!" The scrawny man yells at Akalea who shrugs her shoulders. "Shut up! If you continue to say more, we'll be fucked!" The man next to him, who was on the floor, stood up and punches the scrawny man, making him fall to the ground. "Instructors, I apologize for the behaviors of me and my fellow knights. Please forgive our actions!" The man who punched the scrawny man, fell to the floor and kneeled once again as he says those words.
Akalea retracts her power and sighs in disbelief. I gotta talk to uncle and father about this. Akalea thinks to herself, wanting her uncle and father to know that there are some who are incompetent and not worthy to be in whatever category they're in. "I'll make a report about this to the headmaster. He'll surely know how to deal with you lot." Newt says and glares at every knight once more, before he tells the students and the instructors to head out. Once Akalea and the others got out of the headquarters, the knights who were inside, began to breath properly as they try to calm their beating hearts. "Damn it!" The scrawny man on the floor holding his bleeding nose, lets out after realizing what just happened. "Because of you, we're fucked!" The knights assembled together and blames the scrawny man for his actions. The scrawny man, who was one of the strongest within the knights there, glares at the floor and knows that he fucked up.
Akalea and the others got out of the headquarters and head back to the entrance of the town. "I guess we have no choice but to prepare in the woods." Akalea says, Peace nodding in disbelief and the others shrug their shoulders, agreeing with Akalea. Once outside the town, they head into the woods and after walking for a little while, they found a quiet and nice open space to prepare. "This is what you're going to make..." Akalea begins to explain to Zeke on how to create the invisibility and concealing cloak and since they were a lot, it would take more force out of it. "You guys should prepare as well, it's getting dark and that's when we go back and patrol." Akalea says as she positions herself behind Zeke to put her palms on his back to reimburse his inner strength/force to create the cloaks for them all, including the three who weren't there. As Akalea and Zeke were creating the cloaks, everyone else were warming up and preparing themselves as Peace is just quietly watching their surroundings on top of Akalea's head.
The day has fallen and night came. Everyone equipped with the cloaks and ready to go back to the town. "To turn invisible, think about being invisible. To stop being invisible just say, stop. This doesn't make you invisible but also conceals your scent and aura." Akalea instructs and each one of them turns invisible, walking back to the town, oblivious to the eyes of the knights at the gate and the townspeople. The groups of three begin searching and scouting as well as looking for the three who were missing. Avoiding bumping to the townspeople and the targets. A few hours later, the townspeople head back to their homes to prepare for bed while the poor stayed outside doing what they're doing. Akalea and the others pitied the poor as they have no shelter above their heads. Once we're done with this, I'll have a word with uncle and father if its the last thing I do. Akalea thinks to herself with gritted teeth, determined. As the groups of three continue the search, Akalea's group, Shawn, Lisa and Peace, stumbled upon a child who came out of his home, his expression in a daze as if hypnotized. Akalea and her group stop in their tracks as not one, not two but 12 children came out of each of their homes in a dazed state, stopping in front of their homes.
Akalea and her group quickly jumps into an alleyway as they see the cloaked person appearing and the children turning to face the cloaked person. The cloaked person began to walk to a direction where the children followed behind in lines. Akalea and her group silently and swiftly followed behind, not being detected by the cloaked person at all. "Aka, this person is not the same as the one earlier." Peace says telepathically, seeing a dark orange aura on the cloaked person in front of them. Akalea checks and indeed, the cloaked person has dark orange aura instead of the dark red aura from earlier. "The others might've encountered the dark red aura one, I hope they're okay." Akalea says telepathically and Peace agrees with it, worried for the humans for the first time since they're his master's friends.
The more they followed, they saw that the cloaked person lead the children to a secret passageway in the town where they saw two other cloaked person bringing their own batch of children in dazed states. Akalea and her group were on top of a house, watching the scene in front of them and then, they see their companions doing the same, being on tops of houses, as they see that they stopped being invisible just to wave at Akalea and her group and to tell them that they're there. Akalea stops being invisible and waves at them, signalling that they see them. They turn back invisible and await. "Let's hurry up. I want sacrifice the kids faster so I can have my fun with the ones we captured earlier. Those three looked very tasty." Akalea and the others heard what the middle cloaked person was saying and it was the one with the sultry and potent voice that Akalea encountered earlier.
"They must have captured Dawn, Marcus and Colton." Akalea says telepathically to Peace who nods his head, agreeing. Once the three cloaked people were done talking, they touched something on the town's wall and suddenly, a part of the wall went up to make a hole like a door, heading towards the forest. "Let's go kids." The middle cloaked person says as the kids listened and walked through the wall's door hole, following the left cloaked person out. Once the children and the last two cloaked people got out of the door hole, the hole went back to its place as if there wasn't a hole. Akalea immediately moved to stand on top of the wall, watching the children and the three cloaked people walking towards a direction. "What should we do, now?" Akalea could feel everyone's presence beside her as she calculates what they should do.
"Let's continue to follow them and decide what we'll do then." Akalea says and they move out. Each of them swiftly and smoothly avoiding the targets' sight as they follow. They were heading to a deeper part of the forest as Akalea and the others found a huge cave opening and seeing the three cloaked people and the children heading inside. "Let's go in." Akalea says and with that, they all darted to the cave's entrance and head inside, too. They were met with many cave holes with different directions but luckily, Peace can detect traces of their auras and where they went. They arrived before an open spaced room, they were on the very most top floor while what they're looking at what three floors under them. They see a summoning circle and piles of children's dead bodies, drained off of blood. Akalea and the others whimper in sadness for the dead kids and disgusted by what the targets were doing. They could see blood filling the summoning circle, guessing it were the children's.
"This is horrible. We gotta do something before they drain the blood of the other kids, too." Bach says as he continues to look at the sorry state of the children. "I kno-" Akalea stopped as she sees the three cloaked person and the children appearing near the summoning circle. Akalea seeing the poor, middle and rich children behind the cloaked people. "We should finish fast and summon one of the Archdemon, Blood, as ordered. We got enough kids to fulfill the requirement to summon her. It's kinda sad that we can't taste those three for ourselves. Sacrifice for the greater good for our kind. The one on the right says, sadly, and sighs after saying it. "She might reward us for bringing three fresh men for her to taste, right?" The one on the left asks the one on the middle who was the most silent of the three. "I guess." The sultry and potent voice lets out and Akalea sneered in disgust.
They start to get one child each and started to slit their wrists and let them fall to the ground, their slit wrists facing the summoning circle. Akalea and the others were flabbergasted at what they just saw and couldn't decide on what to do at that moment until someone ran and flew down, landing feet first like a hero. Akalea couldn't just stand there and let it happen. The land made a huge noise which caught the three cloaked people off guard. "Stop what you're doing before I kill you." Akalea's voice boomed through the cave's walls and pathways. Two of the three cloaked people shivered and trembled in fear as the middle one grabbed another kid and slit her wrists, pushing her to the floor right after. With that, Akalea's eyes glowed red with anger but still knows to handle her emotions. She starts to run towards the middle one, her ring turning into her sword and aimed for her neck. The other two jumped away to not get caught up as Akalea and the middle one were fighting each other. Peace still concealed and resting on Akalea's head as she fought.
As Akalea and the middle one were fighting, the two who jumped back starts to prepare to pounce on Akalea to help their fellow companion when Akalea's own companions jumped down and landed in front of the two, their swords aimed at them. "Well, shit." The two cursed and started to summon their demonic beasts to fight Akalea's companions. Akalea's companions were fighting the two cloaked person and their beasts with 80% of their strength since their opponents were strong, especially their summoned demonic beasts. Akalea was using 20% of her strength fighting her opponent, knowing she's strong. "Some of you should take the kids away to somewhere safe and find where Dawn, Marcus and Colton are at!" Akalea instructs as she yells, still fighting her opponent who was struggling to defend herself from Akalea's heavy attacks. Corey, Lisa, Dean and Alice made their way to the kids, dead or alive, taking them away form the fight and out of the cave, thanks to Dean's speed. Troy and Bach made their way to the pathways of the cave in search for Dawn, Marcus and Colton. The three instructors, Shawn, Zachary, Amy and Eve were fending off the four opponents in front of them.
Akalea's opponent looks at Akalea who wasn't even struggling one bit. Was there someone stronger than me in this realm?! NO! I won't accept that! Everything was going perfectly right before you came along and ruined it! Akalea's opponent thinks to herself, getting angry that her plan was ruined. This is the only way. Even if it will take half my blood, too! Akalea's opponent yells in her mind and with everything she got left in her, she pushed Akalea away and ran to the summoning circle, activating it in the process. "No!" Akalea screamed and ran to stop her opponent but she stopped in her tracks to see the summoning circle lighting up in red, taking the blood to which it was filled and now empty. Akalea's companions were still busy fighting off their opponents wherein their opponents were smiling evilly. "You're fucked now! Our lord is coming to get rid of you all!" The opponent on the left says as they were fighting. Akalea's companions were now fighting with all their strength as their numbers were cut short to save the others.
Akalea's opponent succeeded in summoning someone. "Our lord! Please, take revenge for us!" Akalea's opponent yells in happiness, seeing their Lord, who in fact was not happy at all seeing the place roughed up and people fighting. Their lord took the one who summoned her by the neck and slowly drains her blood. "Wait, my lord! Don't do thi-" With that, the blood that remains on her body, was drained up by their lord. "I wasn't supposed to be summoned until the full moon, you idiots!" The lord, an archdemon, says as she lets go of the dead body and looks at her other followers who were busy fighting. "Come." With that word, her followers; body, specifically their necks, flew went unto her hands, their blood being drained as well. Once the two died, the summoned demonic beasts vanished into thin air.
"Now that's more like it. With a half assed summoning like that, no wonder my strength is halved. Tsk. Useless things." The archdemon says as she shakes her head, getting a headache. "Useless? You call these children's lives, USELESS?!" Akalea screams in anger at the archdemon who had no morals nor remorse of what her followers did and what she had ordered. "What a pretty little mouth you have." The archdemon, who's strength was halved earlier, became 80% of strength after draining the blood of her followers, says as she looks down at Akalea, who pointed her sword at her. Akalea looks up at the 8ft tall archdemon woman with eyes that could kill. Akalea's eyes calculating how much strength she needs to exert to defeat this archdemon in front of her. At the least 25% of my strength.... Or maybe 30%. Akalea thinks to herself as she finishes calculating the opponent in front of her. "You guys need to help the others get the kids safe and to find the other thre-" Akalea was cut short when one of her companion spoke up.
"We can help you! We can't leave you her-" Shawn yells and in a split second, a sharp shard of blood was hurtling towards Shawn. Shawn couldn't move in time to avoid or block it. Akalea saw the blood shard and used teleportation power to teleport in front of Shawn, her front facing him as her back was facing the blood shard. The blood shard sinking in deep into Akalea's shoulder once in contact. "Akalea!" Everyone screamed for Akalea who suddenly appeared in front of Shawn and took the blood shard herself. Akalea coughed up blood, covers her mouth. "If you guys continue to stay here, it would make it hard for me to fight while defending you guys." Akalea says and those words hit her companions like a truck, realizing their situation. "I can do this. You guys go and get them and yourselves to safety. I'll meet you back at the town." Akalea says as she turns around and faces the archdemon, who has a wide and sadistic smile on her face, while Akalea pulls the blood shard from her shoulder and throws it at a great speed towards the archdemon's forehead which was futile as the shard melted into liquid blood, the blood sucked into the body of the archdemon.
"Go!" Akalea yells again, ready to fight the opponent as her companions were hesitating to move, especially Shawn who stood there stiffly. Shawn begins to move after he snaps out of it, anger in his heart as he pulls the others with him to find the others. "You better meet us after!" Shawn pulls them all as they left, hating themselves for leaving Akalea alone due to not being strong enough. Akalea smiles at her companions as they left while looking at the archdemon in front of her. "I like you... Especially, your blood." The archdemon says, licking her lips remembering the pure taste of Akalea's blood mixed in with hers. Also realizing that she got her full strength just taking in the blood shard with what little blood of Akalea on it. "I got a taste of it because of that blood shard. My name's Blood, one of the archdemons in the Nether Realm. Although I'm not one of the higher ranked demons, I want you so I'm going to make a proposal with yo-" Blood got interrupted by Akalea's sword aiming at her to which Blood avoided. "Quit your yapping and start fighting." Akalea says as she swung her sword again. Blood smirks, thinking Akalea is fun to play with. "You know, you're kinda fun but this ends here. If you could've heard my proposal and agreed, you would've been my right sword." Blood says but in reality, she wanted Akalea to be her blood bank as well as a charger, means Akalea's blood gets her to full strength even if it was little. "But oh, well. Now that I'm summoned, I will wreak havoc until my time here is done." Blood says as she summons her blood spear and emanates her full strength, her body changing itself and into armor made of blood.
"Oooohh, that looks cool." Akalea says which made Blood smile in content, knowing her looks and armor looked awesome and cool. "That's why I wanted you to-" Blood couldn't finish when Akalea lets go 5% of her power, now with 25%. The Akalea with the 20% is way lesser than the Akalea now with 25%. It had a huge difference. Why? Because she simply got stronger than before. Akalea smiles in content, her wounds healing faster thanks to the power of The Light, her sword brimming with vigor, pure white aura pouring out of her body, deadly and controlled. Akalea's eyes filled with excitement and determination to defeat Blood with this much strength as she knows Blood is not the strongest of the demon kind, better yet, the Nether Realm demon kind. "I knew you were different from those earlier. You're much more fun than I thought!" After Blood says this with much excitement as Akalea, Blood charges towards Akalea first to deal the first blow. With that, a battle of strength emerged as the cave they were inside in, begins to collapse slowly. While they were busy fighting, Shawn and the others divided themselves, one group to help the kids and the other to help find the three guys. With the help of the others, the kids were brought to safety and they found the three guys in different cave holes, bringing them to where the others and the kids were at.
Akalea, who is both fighting and also checking her surroundings with the power of Locate/Location, wherein it shows a map of where she is at and little dots signifying a life or lives. As she dealt a blow to Blood, who got hit pretty badly on the shoulder due to the blow, Akalea sees on the map that everyone else are far away from them and were safe. "Thank goodness." Akalea sighs in relief just as Blood backs off gripping her shoulder, stumbling on a rock and falling on her butt. "What do you mean by saying that?" Blood asks as she heaves air in and out of her mouth, nearly exhausted as she looks at Akalea who never broke a sweat nor looks tired. "Oh, it means I can go all out with my strength now." Akalea says with a smile as she looks at Blood, who looks confused as fuck. "You mean, you were toying with me the whole time?!" Blood exclaims as she looks at Akalea, who rubs the back of her neck, not saying anything which confirmed what Blood asked. Akalea indeed was going easy on Blood with her strength of 25% to which she didn't go all out with that 25%, yet.
Blood was now contemplating whether to finish the fight or not as she looks at Akalea getting ready to strike. "Wait!" Blood says after seeing Akalea lunging at her and the blade just a few inches away from her neck. Akalea stopped the moment Blood said 'wait' and looks at her with one eyebrow up. "What?" Akalea asks, the blade still near Bloods throat, Blood gulped as she looks at the blade then at Akalea. "I'll swear my allegiance to you. It's better to have more allies than enemies, you know?" Blood says truthfully, not wanting to die plus she wasn't that strong of a archdemon at all as she was the weakest among the Archdemons so she thought it was a waste of her life to end it here. Akalea looks into Blood's eyes and could tell Blood was telling the truth. "Hm." Akalea pulls her sword back and makes the sword back into the ring. "Then, you won't refuse a blood bond with me, am I right?" Akalea asks and Blood shakes her head, indicating she won't. "Well, then." Akalea says and a sharp rock that was next to her, slitting her palm to create a wound and Blood sees this, kneeling to the ground as she grips her wounded shoulder.
With Blood's height of 8ft, her chest was nearly at the same height with Akalea's so it wasn't hard for Akalea to put her wounded palm on Blood's chest where the heart is at. Since Blood is made of blood itself, Akalea didn't make Blood wound herself and the made the blood bond easier to do. As the blood bond commenced, a trickle of power coming from Akalea's body and from Blood's body began running towards where Akalea's palm and Blood's chest are at. A light emits in between the palm and chest indicating that the blood bond has formed and once the light died down, Akalea removed her palm off of Blood's chest, the wound on her palm healing itself. Akalea looks at Blood, who has her eyes closed as if feeling something. Blood could feel raw and powerful blood in her own blood and knew that it was a small portion of Akalea's blood in her due to the blood bond. Blood felt more powerful than before, her strength at 100%, the wound of her shoulder healed and then, she opens her eyes looking at Akalea, who's looking back at her. "I swear my allegiance to my Liege. I will do anything you command and will do it without hesitation. I thank my Liege for giving me a new life look forward to." Blood says as she lowers her head in a bow.
"You don't have to call me my Liege. It feels weird." Akalea says as she shivers being called Liege as she is not used to it. "I will do as you say. What should I call you?" Blood asks and Akalea replies with, "You can just call me Akalea or Aka." Blood nods her head and stood up, forgetting she was 8ft tall and Akalea was shorter than her. Akalea noticed this and thought of an idea. "Can you change into a human form? It'll be troublesome if people see an Archdemon like yourself made of blood." Akalea says and blood nods her head, realizing it as so. Blood closed her eyes and imagined her human form and with that, her armor and spear turn back to liquid blood, her blood body turning to liquid blood, twirling around like a tornado and finally Blood into her human form. Dark red hair, brown skin, height of 5'6, black fitted clothes which Akalea wondered where that came from, dark red eyes and slim figure. "You're human form is as pretty as your Archdemon form." Akalea compliments as she nods her head, looking at Blood, who blushed from the compliment cause ever since she became an Archdemon and was also the weakest, she never got a compliment from her own kind. So, Blood was thankful for Akalea's compliment. "Thank you, Akalea." Blood says as she bows her head. "Okay, let's talk more later once we go back to the academy. Let's go. We got a lot of explanation to do once we go back to the others." Akalea says as she and Blood head out of the cave.
"Don't even think about not getting a punishment for what happened for the last two weeks just because you're under me, now. Those children's lives were precious." Akalea says, stern and angry. Blood nods her head, ready to receive her punishment knowing what had happened was because of her and she admits to it. "Yes, Akalea." Blood says as they continue to head outside. Akalea and Blood started to run where the others are after they got out of the cave. After a little while of running, Akalea and Blood saw everyone at the town's entrance. Families hugging their children and siblings, dead or alive, while crying their hearts out, especially the ones whose children had died. Akalea sees Blood's head down as they walked towards everyone at the entrance, regretting what she had done just so she can get stronger, not realizing how much damage it would cause to innocent people. "Aka!" Shawn, who notices Akalea first, ran towards her and engulfed her in a tight hug. Akalea chuckles and hugs Shawn back. Due to Shawn yelling, the rest of Akalea's companions who were tending to Dawn, Marcus and Colton, who woke up minutes ago, looked to where Shawn was running to and saw Akalea as well. "Akalea!" They run towards Akalea, leaving behind Dawn, Marcus and Colton who were on the floor sitting down, still unaware of what has happened earlier.
"Are you okay? What happened? Did you defeat the archdemo- Who is this?" Everyone was asking the same question until they noticed Blood, her head down, next to Akalea. "This is Blood, the Archdemon earlier." Akalea said bluntly and puts her hand up signaling them to stop what they were going to do because her companions got in their stances the moment Akalea mentioned Blood. "What?!" Her companions yell as they look at Blood with their glare. "Stop, guys. She's under me now. We made a blood bond, so she's tied to me." Akalea explains and her companions cautiously stood straight, still looking at Blood as they listen to Akalea. "But that doesn't mean she won't be receiving punishment. I'll give her a proper one once everything dies down." Akalea says as she looks at everyone else at the entrance at the end of her sentence. "We should explain to the townspeople about what happened. We should also tell them that I defeated the Archdemon that the abductors were trying to summon with their children's blood." Akalea says as she walks towards the townspeople with Blood following behind her. "But wouldn't that be lying to them? That the Archdemon was defeated when she's right behind you?"
Kint asks, wanting an answer to which Akalea was thinking about it for a while, too. Ever since they got out of the cave. "If I did defeat Blood and killed her, it wouldn't give much justice to the family of the deceased children and the children abducted. Wouldn't it be better for Blood to make up for her crimes the right way instead of just killing her?" Akalea says after thinking and her companions understood what she meant. "Alright. We'll go with your plan for now. But if she acts up..." Newt says and the others agreed. "Then, I'll be the one to take care of it." Akalea says, seriously. Blood listening to their conversation, understanding them completely and quietly. Akalea and her companions arrive in front of the family of the children and the knights guarding the entrance. "I am Akalea Knight. A student of the Abernathy Academy. I am happy to inform you that the person that had done these atrocities have been defeated. I am also disheartened and I apologize for the late actions to the families that have their children already passed as well as the families whose children were also abducted." Akalea kneels and bows her head, apologizing to everyone in the stead of the incompetent knights of the town.
"We also apologize for our incompetence of taking action and dealing with the kidnaping so late!" The knights at the entrance ran to where Akalea was at and kneeled as well as they exclaim these words. After hearing what Akalea said and saw that she kneeled in their stead when it was suppose to be them whose suppose to be saying those words. They felt guilty and realized their wrongs and incompetence as knights who were suppose to help and protect the townspeople. Akalea was shocked to see the knights kneeling beside her. She hid the smile that wanted to come out, thinking that there were still good knights among the idiot ones. Akalea and the knights kneeled and had their heads down as the townspeople looking at them with their bloodshot eyes due to crying.
Blood couldn't stand it as she was standing there with her head down, her hands turning to fists, her nails digging into her skin, hating herself of what she caused. Blood walks to where Akalea and the knights were at and kneeled in front of them.
"I apologize for what my actions have caused and took innocents lives. For I am the Archdemon, Blood and I am here to take my punishment!"
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Hey, guys! I managed to finished this chapter on time like I said two weeks ago! I apologize for the late update of chapter. I was also not feeling well because I became sick but I'm becoming fine now since I've been taking my meds to get better. I hope you guys are well and hope you guys are safe!
I think the lesson here is to know your responsibilities and know what actions you did or will do will cause so you gotta think twice before doing and saying something. You also gotta take responsibility of your words and actions if it caused harm to other people and yourself.
I'll see you on the next chapter guys! I'm not sure if I can update next week since I'll be busy again but I'll try my best. If I can't update next week then it'll be next next week. Thank you guys for reading my book! I appreciate a lot! <3
-Aki