Astral stood there in silence as everyone looked up at him wondering when he would start speaking. All he heard was the deafening silence. Tina took a bite of her apple as the crunch of it woke Astral from his daze. "HELLO EVERYONE!" He shouted out to the top of the roofs as the entire square heard him speak.
"I came here with one idea, goal and dream. All of which I had to rediscover for my own personal freedom. I forgot my past, my children, and who I was and who I am." Astral put his hands on his chest. "Once I met people, I felt a spark to protect." Astral patted Tina's head. "Not only is it a dream to protect those close to me, but those who have no reason to be oppressed. YOU DESERVE FREEDOM!"
"Whoever tells you freedom isn't free or a god given right. You tell them that freedom comes from a mindset. Those who feel free at heart can feel true freedom! Even if that freedom isn't there. Being released from oppression is the biggest first step allowed." He pointed one hand at the castle behind them. "I do not know what fate awaits me when I take your oppressors on, or if I fail what will happen to you. The true rulers and kind hearted kids can show you the way. They have learned from leaders greater than myself." Astral looked around as he heard rhythmic marching closing in on him.
"I may be a man who is haunted by a past. These kids aren't, they are willing to lead you to their dying breaths. I announce to you that they have my full support. Once I leave, go to the place where the humans lost and may we see all your wonderful faces there!" Astral threw his right fist up as guards flanked him from both sides. Astral looked at them as Tina smiled. He wasn't going to harm or kill any of the guards as masses of people started flooding away.
They pointed their spears at him as Astral kept his arms up. About ten heavily armored Hybrids stood in front of him as he clapped his hands together. His shield came from the sky as it slammed down in front of all of them. Astral picked it up as he started to parry their stabs with his hand and his shield.
He gave Tina a nod as he kept them on the back foot. Tina chanted something in the background as they got scared from the use of magic. A giant snowball that was six feet in diameter was held above all of them. Astral grabbed something from his side. A small little stone that he threw into the center of the snowball.
"IGNITE!" Tina shouted from behind Astral as the rock heated to a few thousand degrees. Making the snowball turn into an icy haze that obstructed all of their vision. Tina climbed up onto Astral's back as he jumped up and over all of the guards and to the outer wall of the inner castle. The guards along the wall were on full alert for them as they looked around for any small opening they could find.
A story up from where they were standing was exactly what they were looking for. A small air vent that could fit them both. Astral lifted Tina up as she took off the outer grate. Throwing it behind the two as it clanged on the ground. Tina slipped into the vent as Astral put the grate back on and whispered up to her. "Stay here, I will be back in a minute!" The guards peered over the wall down at the vent as Astral was nowhere to be seen.
Astral found a second vent and crawled into it. Making no noise as he crawled down the vents. He made it to Tina's vent as she smiled at him. "It's a very tight squeeze through here, but keep our voices down and we should be fine." Astral tapped on the vents as he slowly put together a map inside of his head of it all.
They wandered the corridors lost as the vents were far more elaborate than what he even thought to be. 'These were designed this way so the jewels would make it a hard time for infiltrators.' Astral couldn't move forward as his shoulders got lodged. He peeked down the next paths as he couldn't do anything.
Tina poked her finger into the back of his foot as Astral couldn't look back. "Why are you stuck?" Astral rolled his eyes as he got hit by a magical spell from behind. It was Tina as she started to giggle a little bit as she got much larger than Astral.
But Astral got smaller. "Now thats unfair Tina, but it will work. I think I may have found the throne room where they are." Astral marched away as Tina crawled after him. The two made their way through the vents as Astral led them directly above the throne room as the door slammed open.
Angel and James were stopped at the door before they were allowed to enter. "You must halt and enter unarmed." The guards halted them before they entered as James growled at them.
"We never had to in the past what makes this time difference now!" James pointed at the guard in front of the door as three others surround James. Angel slowly drops her knives to the ground as James takes a step back. "I am always unarmed."
"Bullshit, we know how the White Death works, do not fret, the Queens could kill you in an instant." The guards move away from James as he kicks the door open. He marched forward at the chairs as they were filled with four siblings.
"Now I have a question for you four. Why? Why create so much chaos and pain for this world!" James was furious as he pointed at them. "So many quests that we have gone on just for your own personal goals, for no other reason than to find and kill him."