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Chapter 6 - Chapter 6: The Story of the Fallen Castle

Date: Æ1137 3, 11

Knights horses are wandering around. The soldiers inside the castle are pulling the ropes connected to the top of the gate to open the front. The gate is slowly going up.

A lot of people are gathering to see who's coming in. "The king," the people said. The people slowly gather around making a large crowd.

The horses slowly come in with the king riding on it with the knights who are by on his side who are also riding horses.

His daughter is on his left side guarded by another knight. "Give away!" The knight said as they walked in. The King sees that there are a lot of men and women. He hasn't seen any child since he leaves secretly in the castle.

The soldiers who are pulling the ropes are now getting free. The gate is gradually closing, one of the knights stopped. He turned his horse around, he sees that something is outside the gate.

Outside the gate is a small Dark aura that can be seen. The knight ignored and turned back his horse to the position.

"What's wrong?" The king said to his knight.

"Nothing sir..." The knight looked at the kind and said the word and nodded. The King looked back as the horse walked but he saw nothing.

They continue to go back to the castle.

"Dad! I'd like to eat for dinner tonight is a hot cooked chicken with fried rice in it," the kind daughter said.

The King nodded twice to his daughter agreeing to what she said.

"Hey, knight! Go with my daughter make sure report everything when she's done," the kind said. The knight salutes the king and follows the daughter's king.

Her daughter is going back to their house and she's father is going back to the castles thrown.

The king's daughter's name is Elaine. They're going down in their horses. The people around them start giving flowers to her. Elaine walks into the food house. The knights stay outside.

"My king, your people are all outside, and the other nation is on its way to visit your birthday," the king's assistant as she nodded.

The King steps down on his horse. The knights also go down and guide the horse king.

"Gather our finest Chefs in our village, it's gonna be a big one make sure every food is delicious!" The king said in a high voice.

"As you wish my king!" She's assistant said as he bowed to the king and leave. She walks to the main castle inside and goes to she's room to read and write the details.

"My king it's been a long time since we talk," an old woman said.

"My dear it's been a long time Ms. Kanao," the king said.

Both of them talk for a couple of minutes and shake hands. The old woman goes back to his family and the king goes to his castle.

"So! Everything is ready for tonight?" The king asks his assistant. "Yes! My king! The visitors are guarding their own using their finest swordsmans and I believe they will be arriving anytime right now in the gate, I got their message inside an owl," the assistant answered to his king.

"Good!" The king goes back outside the castle to see his daughter. He walks inside and opens the front door. He sees that she's son is with a guy.

The guy quickly get out of his sit and bowed to the king and his daughter quickly stands up. "Well well looks like I'm missing out on something here! Explain your self kid!" The king said as he looks them both.

"Get the guy tied up in the corner," the king said to one of his knights. The knights walk towards the guy hold in their hand tie him up and put him in the corner.

"You know that you need to serve the village after you die right elaine," the king sits down to the chair and talks to Elaine.

"Now who is he?!" The king asks. "He's my favorite person," Elaine answered as she nodded. The King looks at the guy and looked handsome.

"You'd better not betray my daughter or ill cut you to pieces," the king said as he looks at the guy and walks out of the food house. He goes back to his castle and leaves the knights behind him to stay guard of both of them.

Horses are heard by the guards outside, today is the king's birthday. The guards outside the gate stopped the arriving people with the horses. They are carrying weapons. Someone who looked special dropped his horse and walked toward a guard outside the gate. The guards of that special person were watching the guards, that special person has a paper and it looks like an invitational letter was given to the guard.

The guards look at and realize that this guy is a visitor from another nation. The guards quickly signal the guards inside to open the gate.

The looking special guy goes ride back on his horse. They go in.

"My king they now going in our village," one of the knights said to the king. "Gather our knights and tell them to stay guard on these visitors and get them to the castle's foods table," the king said.

The knights bowed to the king and leave. The visitors keep coming and coming. They will be celebrating the king's birthday tonight. They will also ready the sleeping bed house for them all tonight. Their swordsmens will guard them all night.

The king's assistant prepares a food list that gonna be cooked in the food house and gonna be ready inside the food table in the castle.

The king is going to change his outfit. He needs to look cool as possible as a king.

"Is this garments looks fascinating for you my king?" His assistant said.

"I'll be picking one in myself and get here Elaine now! I need my daughter to be looked a princess of my birthday and get her favorite person I need to talk to both of them right now," the king said as he look at the garments. His assistant goes outside and goes to the food house to see talk to Elaine.

Sounds of horses can be heard. "My lord! Are you sure that the king give you an invitational letter?" One of the swordsmen said as they ride in their horses.

"Yes! I and the king are good friends back in the day we just got to meet once a year," the lord said as he smiled.

The Lord and his swordsmens are in a forest. They're almost at the castle. They keep hearing noises around them. The bodyguards are keeping guard at their lord and looking around they might be getting

The guard's outside the castle can see the lords in the distance of the forest. The guards outside the castle signal to the knights inside that the lords are coming and the king expected them to come along every year.

The knights see that there's something in the forest. "Get this message to the king! Say that there's something in the forest and the lord might be in a predicament.

One of the guards ride a horse and came back to the king's castle. He came back. "One of our knights send this message! It needs to report to the king immediately!" The guard shouts one of the knights. The knight outside immediately gets the message and comes to the king running.

The knight knelt as he entered the king's chamber. "Sorry for my haste! My king! One of the guards sent a message outside the castle, saying there was something in the forest and the lord was right there.

The King looks at the message. He deciphers **Alpha Order** to his knights. "Make sure every man and every people in this village is safe! Knights! Get every army we have in case something happens to the lord! Ready the armies and evacuate the people!" The king said in a high voice.

"My king this might be a false alarm! The knight said as he knelt. "We have to make sure! I am the king and I protect and defend for the next generations of my peoples!" The king said in a high voice. The knight stands up and understands the point of the king.

The knight rang a massive bell at the height of the castle. The neighboring areas of the town also rang the huge bell which can still be heard. The Lord heard the bell and he knew it would happen so he speeded up his horse just to enter the castle. The guards were replaced by knights outside the gate. They opened the gate for those who were yet to come. The king put on body armor and went to his daughter.

"We need to get out of here right now get to the castle! Elaine!" The king said to his daughter.

"I won't leave him!" Elaine said to his father as his father hold her in the hand. The knights and guards surrounded the king for his safety.

"My king! The Lord is coming and one of the guards told us that they speed up their horses," the knight said to the king.

"Deploy the archers at the top of the walls and make sure! You hit your shots not last time!" The king said as he walks outside and ordered the knights that get his daughter and the boy inside the castle.

The King rides up a horse and gets to the front gate. The army is all set up and ready for anything. The peoples are also already evacuated. The knights steady up and watch from the top.

"The first lineup of the army move!" The king said in a high voice. The first lineup of the army is a horse with a swordsman that gonna be doing the work outside if something is chasing the lords.

The first army moves outside the castle guarding the lords. The lord's bodyguard thinks to look left right at the reason the bell rang. The lord saw the gate open and swordsmen on their horses coming out. The lord looked to his left as his horse faster and faster. Suddenly a black aura appeared and swept away one of his crew and flew too far. The horse falls to the ground.

The king quickly climbed to the top to see what was going on. He saw someone attack and flew too far. The guards surrounded their lord. One of the bodyguards saw that there was a black aura coming at him, he quickly drew his sword and was able to split the black aura and prevent him from flying quite too far.

"Don't stop! Whatever you do! Don't stop! Get in the castle!" The Lord said to his bodyguards, they're almost there. An unexpected event happened, there was a black lion suddenly appearing to the left of one of the guards facing the lord. The lord was stunned he saw in front of him its bite on the head. The horse suddenly fell causing it to break behind him. The lord flew a bit because of his stupidity, he flew and his bodyguards stopped because the safety of the lord is their priority and the other guards also flew because they were affected by the collision.

"Lord!" One of the guards said. They quickly go to their lord. One of the guards the lord and the other guards and swordsmans pulled out their swords. They see that their lord is bleeding in the head but not that much, he's also unconscious. The bodyguard who is holding him quickly gets him in with the horse. The bodyguard holds his left hand and rides the horse.

The castle's first army finally reaches its guards. They quickly ride in their horses as they go defend their lord.

"Quickly! Get in!" The king shouts to all of them. They see that there's something big inside the forest and it's coming in their way.

The Lord and the bodyguard who is holding him manage to get into the castle and some of the lord's bodyguards.

The King quickly ordered them to help the lord and get them the medics. The other visitors stay out of this and watch from the top.

"Two of our men's are down, the one probably got flew and taken some serious damage but we can't save him now," one of the lords swordsmans said.

They all quickly go into the castle. All of a sudden the forest quickly goes into a quiet place. All of the swordsmens and the bodyguards and the first army got in.

The King ordered the knights to get in close the gate and stay guard all night. The King quickly goes to the lord.

"Get him to the bed and treat him make sure he doesn't die!" The king said as he looked back to the forest.

"Tell Agatsuma hit and the other finest samurai's that somethings bad is gonna happen tonight," the king said to his knights. The knight quickly leaves the king's side and goes to the other part of the village to tell the order.

The Lord is wounded in the head. He quickly got medical attention from the king. They quickly carry him to the castle medical room to see if he's alright.

The King is with them. Middle of the day, the knights are staying in their post and staying on guard.

The King is with the first visitor. They quickly deployed owls to the other villages that got the invitation. To prevent saving their own lives.

A giant circled boulder is coming towards the walls of the castle. The knights are surprised and the king.

The wall was broken and its guards flew too far. The king quickly ordered the firing of their bows into the forest. So many casualties in an instant and also lost one of the foundations of their castle is gone.

"Men's! Don't lose hope we will stand no matter what! Help each other to victory!" The king said to his knights and swordsmens.

They see so many black auras are coming out of the forest, they don't have time to just ask for help from another nation, "fire!" the king fires their special weapons at the black auras. The special weapon is the magic bows. When you got hit by this bow you will decay.

They fire their arrows at the black aura but it didn't do anything much. Some of them decayed.

"King! It's an entire region of the army!" Terrified said of the knight as he knelt and drop his sword.

"You coward! We will defend this castle as long as I stand! I will live for my people and the next generations! Now you will fight with me or not!?" The King said to his knights.

The knights became more aggressive and brave because of the king's speech. All of them shout. Another boulder is coming.

It hit the wall again but the gate remains standing. The walls are already perforated and there are too many opponents outside.

Their army is only in the hundreds against thousands of dark auras. The whole army of the king rushed. It is led by the king.

Swordsman came out and so the archers fired the dark auras of fire arrows. The king is in league with the knights left-right the massacre and fights with swords the dark aura was able to clear out half of the army.

Gradually as the dark aura entered the castle the king remained standing with his fortified knights. There was an overwhelming aura the king saw in the distance.

It suddenly disappeared and was able to cut off the king's head with no difficulty with a katana. The king knelt and fell it saw his daughter, his daughter rushed with the sword but it was also killed.

His knights were dumbfounded and rushed thoughtlessly, one by one a very strong dark aura killed the knights.

The castle falls apart. The people got slain the castle broke down leaving the banner behind. The Dark aura's slain the people the children the older ones leaving nothing behind but blood.

The other nations visit the castle with their finest swordsmans but it was too late.

"We see nothing but dead bodies," one of swordsmen's reporting to the heads of one of the main villages.

Agatsuma hit visit the castle with the last knight of the castle. "You're the last knight! This is not a false alarm!" Agatsuma Hit said furiously.

The knight kneel as he cried. The other swordsmans of the village begin searching for some evidence of what massacre happened to this castle.

"What a tragedy! They couldn't do anything else this castle only holds a hundred men's through decades," one of the swordsmens said to Agatsuma Hit.

They see the king's body. They walk towards it. They sensed an extraordinary aura. They quickly stopped. Agatsuma Hit is sensing a lot of Dark aurae everywhere.

"Quickly! We need to leave! They're still here!" Agatsuma said as he hurried out. A Dark aura can be seen, one of their swordsmans got flashed out and flew bunched of meters away. Agatsuma Hit sees that there are a lot of them and there are only five of them own. They can't beat them.

An explosion occurred in their front. They all jumped to the big trees and quickly get out. But one of their swordsmans got stabbed while jumping and didn't make it up.

Agatsuma Hit quickly goes back to the main big nations but some of them didn't make it.

"How many casualties?" One of the heads of the village said as he sits down in his chair.

He punched the table of the heads of the village. He was furious at the fact that his village had no action about what had happened.

"The enemy is Darks ... Dark mobs they killed a whole place so we don't know anything about it and we can't believe it, and we don't want you to go their especially that we found out that there is a Shira, Dark Shira if called," the said the heads of the village as he looked at Agatsuma Hit.

Agatsuma leaves the village with other 4 people. They leave the village leaving no traces behind. The other villages got intel from the castle that is not a dead castle that no one holds and talks about.

"The rumors are true, they're starting a great war in the north, they destroyed an entire region, and the castle is well destroyed, we don't have enough description about anything," one of the heads of the village said in the underground facility of their village.

The other heads talk about the upcoming great danger. They quickly deployed swordsmans in the other destroyed region, castle, and the other parts of the north.

Their finest swordsmans never came back. Leaving only emergency teleported messages. The heads of the villages trained a lot of swordsmans.

"The fallen castle is the main reason why we build these armies, the king is right since the start the something is rising from an unknown part of this world," one of the heads of the village said to his other heads and the generals.

"The king is brave, he fights till the end for his people, the mighty sword of the king in there is still hidden through ages, even a Shira or a Dark Shira can't hold that much power," the General answered.

"We will start renovating the village with the help of that man! We will not fall till the end as long as our men's stands!" The head of the village said.

The different nations hold their post outside the village to keep everything safe for their community and families. The knights are no longer available.