"Lloyd."
"Yes, his name is Lloyd."
Everyone looks at Princess Vita and she walks over to Lloyd.
"Lloyd is a Duke from the Kingdom of Niloris."
"Didn't that kingdom fall like 2 years ago?"
Lloyd grabs his book that was on his desk and starts to walk towards the others.
"Yes it did, but that doesn't matter right now. What matters now is that you all must recruit the other heroes that will save the world from the empire."
Tristen looked at Lloyd with a confused face.
"Heroes?"
"Yes, heroes. You know what you guys are. Well for the most bit."
Lloyd walks over to the corner of the room, and starts to pour him some tea. Then look at the others.
"You guys want some, other than Madison."
Everyone looked at Madison, as Madison was lost on how Lloyd knew that he wanted some tea.
"Yeah, I would like some?"
Icibis looks back at Lloyd and spoke.
"So, do you have the power to read minds or something?"
Lloyd takes a sip, then points a finger up before answering Icibis.
"Saying reading minds is an understatement, think of more like I have the knowledge of the world and everything else also."
Tristen crossed his arms and closed his eyes.
"He means he knows everything and how this war will end. Or am I wrong, Lloyd?"
Tristen opens his eyes and looks at Lloyd with a serious look, as Lloyd looks back, then opens the book in his hand before speaking.
"Yes and no."
"Yes and no? What does that mean?"
"Lloyd only knows so much that he can't share everything with us."
As Princess Vita steps up to Tristen.
"I understand you would like to know everything but we need to take our time on this. Okay, Tristen?"
"Yes, my lady."
"And that goes for everyone else. We must put our trust into Lloyd, he helped us in the latest battle, he can help us in future ones."
"Only the ones that don't involve that one man."
Princess Vita turns and looks at Lloyd.
"What do you mean?"
Lloyd reads his book in his hand as he starts to speak.
"That one man that was almost successful in capturing you, has an ability, no wait I mean a curse that can stop me from even seeing things around him."
"That makes no sense."
"But I think he is on to something."
The others looked at Madison as he spoke.
"When I shot him with Rainbow Arrow, yes I hit him but Rainbow Arrow had to change its way to hit over 2 thousand times in order to hit that man."
"What are you saying, Madison?"
"What I am saying is that over 2 thousand things that my Rainbow Arrow has copied over the years. Wouldn't even hit that man."
"That is impossible."
"You can say that, but you can also say that it is unimaginable, what he is about to do."
Lloyd puts the book down on the table and looks at the others.
"Follow me, there is something you must see."
They look at each other, then follow Lloyd out the door and down the hallway for a bit, before they turn right and go up some stairs as Lloyd starts to talk again.
"Tristen, do tell me. Have you ever heard of the rejected one?"
Everyone looks at each other not knowing what Lloyd is talking about, but Tristen looks straight at Lloyd and speaks.
"Are you talking about the story of the Welshock that betrayed the Clan and was killed for his crimes?"
Lloyd nods.
"Not exactly but close. See the rejected one was from the same story, but from the part that was not told."
"What do you mean?"
"See the one that betrayed your clan, did betray the clan but not for power or anything like that, but for love."
They get to the top of the stairs and see lots of doors on each side with painting between each door, as Lloyd continues to talk.
"The Welshock fell in love with a creature, I guess you can say."
"You guess?"
Tristen gets mad, and grabs his sword, as Icibis stops him.
"Tristen, don't do something that you will regret."
"I will not let him tell lies."
"Oh, it is not a lie. If you let me finish, you will finally understand."
Tristen lets go of the sword as Icibis backs away from him. Princess Vita looks at Tristen with a smile.
"Just let him talk, Tristen."
"Yes my lady."
Tristen looks at Lloyd with a serious stare.
"The creature was the most beautiful thing the Welshock has ever seen, and after years of them loving each other, that had a child."
"That's outrageous."
"Tristen."
Lloyd looks back at Tristen, that is have a moment.
"The child looked human but had the power of both the Welshock's and the creature's. But with that both the Welshock and creature know that their child will be hunted and killed for its own existence."
"So what happened to it?"
"Rose, let him finish and he will tell us."
"Sorry."
"It is all good. The child was cursed by both its mother and father, but the curse was so strong that it killed the father and almost the mother to even put the curse on the child."
"Why would anyone do that?"
"You mean, what was the curse that they cursed their own child with?"
"The name of the curse is unknown."
"So you don't know everything then."
"I do know everything, that is why I know that man has a curse that is very similar to the curse that I am talking about."
"Are you saying that man is from the Welshock Clan?"
"No, I am just saying that. That man has a curse that stops anything from working, even things that can even go past reality and rules of this world."
"That is kinda scary."
Yes, it is. And that is why."
The group gets to the end of the hallway of doors, as they walk up to two big giant white doors that Lloyd opens.
"You all will get him to join our side."
As Lloyd opens the doors, everyone can see that the two giant doors lead to a lost kingdom that is in the middle of nowhere, but somewhere.
"What. Where are we?"
This is my kingdom, well I say it is mine but more like Princess Vita's new kingdom, called Beroenix."
Princess Vita looks over the kingdom and can see off in the distance a flower field, as she speaks in a quiet voice.
"Kingdom of Beroenix. It sounds beautiful, and it looks beautiful."
"Oh, stop it princess. You flatter me too much."
Tristen gives Lloyd a death stare. Tristen slowly pulls his sword out.l and whispers.
"I will show you some flattering Lloyd, just come here."
Tristen starts to walk but gets nowhere, because Icibis is holding him back.
"Now, now Tristen. No need to get out of line."
Reinhard looks around and sees how nice the kingdom looks and all the land around.
"So, where is this place located at. North, South, or maybe East?"
Lloyd looks at Reinhart.
"Try everywhere but nowhere."
Reinhart looks at Lloyd with a face that is lost and confused. As Rose starts to look around, then starts to panic a little. Madison looks at Rose with a confused face.
"Rose what are you doing?"
Rose looks at Madison.
"Where is Maria? Why is she not here?"
Madison looks away for a second and remembers what happened.
"I am sorry Rose. It is my fault."
"What do you mean?"
Rose grabs Madison by the shirt.
"What do you mean?"
"When I was fighting that girl, she swapped places with Maria, and I don't know where she is."
Icibis looks over at Rose and Madison.
"Can you not see her with your eye?"
"No, Madison eye only works if he has seen the place or been there before."
Everything looks at Lloyd and he stands on the edge of the cliff that they are on, as Lloyd turns and looks at everyone.
"To save your friend Maria, you must go to the Kingdom of Zusian, and there you will find her and the ones that will do whatever they can to take Princess Vita from us."
"I would like to see them get past me first."
Tristen takes out his sword and puts it in the ground.
"Yes you might be right, but the two you just fought will not hesitate to take you out first."
Icibis taps Tristen on the back and walks past him, and speaks to Lloyd.
"So, what should we do then?"
"Well, now that is quite simple."
Lloyd smiles and holds out his hand, as light starts to come out of Lloyd's hand as a book is created from the light. The book opens in Lloyd's hand, as Lloyd looks at the ground.
"So who is ready to get this party started?"