Chapter 65
(Attack at the castle, Pt 2 of 6)
Narrator Pov:
Earlier in the day, the man had retrieved some things from a carrier. It came from a nearby nation that imported goods from other Continent Sections. He had then hid them in his clothes, careful not to disturb them. He was walking in the castle when he heard Meshu, the Grandmaster, talking.
"It is about time, I want you to head to the waiting room and get the guests of Honor. I will be with his highness," Meshu had said. At that the man followed the knight tasked with getting Hunter, Jake, and Emma. As he did, he placed some of the items.
When he was in the hallway and the man saw his chance. He went and knocked the guy out cold, before cutting his throat, making blood gush into the ground. He carried the man and hid him in a nearby room, then cleaned the blood up. He had walked to the room and knocked.
"Come in," He heard and opened it and tossed what he had gotten. It was a grenade invented by enemy Continent sections, why did he have it? Anyway he then closed the door and ran so he didn't get caught. The Grenade, was not your normal one, it had a explosion radius of fifty feet.
The man did not get away, meaning he could not be questioned. He got caught in the explosion and killed when running away. However, Jake, Hunter, and Emma, the Maid as well, survived. They only survived because the table took most of the heat and the barrier, everything else.
The room they were in was near the outside of the castle, so it didn't collapse much. However, they had been blown through a few walls into the courtyard at the center of the castle. At the time the entire building was going up in flames! The things the man had placed were fire bombs, set to go off at a specific time and burn the place to the ground.
The nobles were running out the front door, having been in a safe location of the building. The reason was, the mans benefactor was there, and he couldn't kill him. They all got in their carriages and went to their mansions over the next hour. Meanwhile the King, Rex, his wife Pakora, their Son and Daughter, Theo and Aaron, along with the Archduke and other important figures were escorted out by Meshu.
On the way, they went through the courtyard to see a shifting table. Meshu and his guards got into a fighting stance as it wasn't supposed to be there. Meshu couldn't tell what it was, as the acrid smell of burning covered it up. But then, a boy, lifted it up and off to the side, as sizzling could be heard from his hands as they burnt from lifting it.
Looking closer Meshu realized it was Jake, and looked below him to see, Hunter, Emma, and the maid, who was his wife surprisingly. He looked at Jake as he turned his head towards him. His eyes were white and his face blank, as he fell downwards. Meshu went and caught him calling some guard over, he had them carry the four people with them.
Rex also wanted to know what had happened and why they were in the courtyard. So he allowed them to come with them, with Meshu's and his children's persuasion. They headed through the rest of the Courtyard, through the castle, and into a Stronghold. Someone had just attacked a Ceremony held by Royalty, and that in and of itself was suggesting a War!
The king with his wife, and some guards along with Meshu, went into the war room due to the attack. Meanwhile, all five kids, the maid, and the rest of the guards, waited in a living room styled area. The maid was laid down on the couch with Emma. The royals were sitting on a couch across from them as the unconscious Hunter lay on the ground. Jake was nearby getting his wounds tended to, as he was the only one with serious injuries.
In the war room, Rex said, "Why did this have to happen today of all days!"
"I don't know, but as you know, if someone figured out where they came from, it could start war. Now while they were hunted by Jones, if they found out about them, it could spark war. They would want their nobles children back, mainly due to their smartness. But, I am wondering what it was that went off? Do you know what it could have been?," Meshu asks Rex.
"It was spoken of recently in the Architect council. Another Continent section was making something akin to a forbidden technology. As you know, Jake the Survivor, forbade the use of advanced weapons. One of them was named the grenade, now only Architect council members know what it looks like, but judging by that first boom, it may have been there. We should ask those kids what they saw, as they seemed to bear the brunt of it," Pakora says.
"Yes, true, though, if they were blown there from their waiting room, how did they survive. Even if they had a Anti-physical barrier, no Beast-kin Wolf can survive that fall. So therefore, what are they really. Meshu, do you have something so say?," Rex asks noticing him stiffening up at the mention of something.
"Well, I know he would not want me to say it, but it was something from a friend of an ancestor of mine. Beast-kin Wolves, yes they cannot survive that fall, but Jake, Emma, and Hunter are not Beast-kin wolves. When I first met them, I smelled it, I also smelled the scent of that friend. They do not want it well known, but the family we knew in Jones only used Boshu as that was thier name, but not their childrens, named after their ancestor who was a Dire wolf and a friend of my ancestor and their friend. They are actually Beast-kin Di—," Meshu cannot finish as was grabbed in a invisible chokehold.