People were standing by as a line of town guards strolled along with a number of them surrounding the seventeen figures cuffed in hands.
The sounds of chains rattling and sliding against the ground were heard, it was these chains were smelted with silver and a certain enchantment to help debilitate the worgens from even attempting to make a move to escape, whether they were even thinking of hurting anyone else.
But thanks to a suggestion from doranda and her partner ondar; the arenian guards who were mostly unfamiliar with dealing against the worgens had considered their advice by having their blacksmiths work on smelting silver steel together with the assistance of an arenian magician in putting an enchantment on the chains and cuffs that we're now latched onto the Worgen leader and his pack's. With these enchanting locks of chains & cuffs, it'll be very hard for the pack leader and his worgens to break out of it even if they were under a full moon.
"Hey, brandor!" Yelled someone.
Looking to see who it was that called him the Spartan remained still as he huffed when seeing a familiar face.
"Ma'am," five said speaking to doranda who soon followed where he was pointing at two individuals.
Vaena and brandor could be seen walking up to the spartan but were immediately stopped by one of the guards until doranda motioned for them to be let through.
"Sister, what has happened?" Vaena said as she walked alongside them.
Doranda sheaths her sword on her left side and gestured for Vaena and her brother to follow. "Just a bunch of Worgen werewolves, they were attempting to kidnap Queen Lager's daughter along with one of her sibling's children, Princess Vasna and Prince Pasco,"
"My that's not good, are any of them alright?" Inquired brandor out of the circumstance the kids might have been in.
"No, not much two of the girls were put to sleep by one of the worgens, and it was a good thing me and ondar had arrived before they were taken away, as for Prince Pasco... Well, I'll have to say that the spartan here had a good sense of hearing, he told me and ondar of the matter that some unknown people he saw were acting very strange until we heard a very loud howl,"
"Thanks to him in offering to go after the other worgens that took the young boy, Prince Pasco came back safe and sound," added Ondar.
Brandor's brow raised at the mention of that name while Vaena was a bit interested in what Five was going to say. "Spartan! I'm assuming that Is your substantial name?"
"No, it is a designation name for something that I and my brothers and sisters were made into," Five said responding to their inquiries.
"So something like a title?" Said brandor.
"Yes, something like that," Answered five.
"Well, as far as I know, I think five would be a better name for you, seeing as how you are the first person I know who prefers to be called after a number," complimented brandor.
"Any news from the queen?" Ondar said asking doranda.
"A guard has already been informed, soon the queen will be meeting us at the palace, and im sure she'll be pleased to hear of the children's state of being," answered Doranda till she noticed Vaena staring at the prisoners.
"What's gonna happen to them?" She said asking
She let out a heavy sigh as she spoke out of somnolence. "Nothing much, well not until Ser Lester and his councils of man and woman decide their fate, and I sure hope they send them to the afterlife, I've had enough problems already!"
Brandor sensing a clear insight that something was wrong with his sister spoke out to her knowing that she must have been dealing with some serious issues. "Are you alright sister, ever since the meeting you had with our mother and father you have been pulled taut as if you got done from a battle,"
"Nothing serious," said Doranda trying to push the subject off but to no avail when her brother just gave her the im not a fool look.
"Are you sure?" Said brandor.
"Fine... It's about Uncle Goran and Auntie Dana," Doranda said to her sibling exasperatedly.
"What about it? I remember our mother and father asked me to go find the kids, surely there's nothing to worry ourselves about our uncle and aunt," Brandor said nonchalantly.
As the two siblings were conversing with one another both the spartan and his AI companion were speaking to each other privately without the other's knowing of it.
"Koa, remember the men in green I've told you about," Deha said to him.
"Yeah, you've told me about them before?" Replied five, he knew that whenever something profoundly or significant to the AI finds she would usually say his actual name to get him to listen in on what she saying.
"Well, I've managed to hack into the satellite that's orbiting vahrian. Although it wasn't very hard due to it being an old one. Though and somehow they've already sent a communication relaying it to some of their agents who are now disguising themselves... And guess where their agents are at,"
"I'm assuming one of them is here in arenian City?" five said catching her in slight amazement at his quick solution.
"Yes, and not only that but get this,"
Before the spartan could ask what she was on about a screen of a voice recorder popped up from the inside of his helmet visor.
"What is this?" Asked five.
"Just listen to it," said Deha.
As the AI finished speaking; voices belonging to two individuals came about. And what five was getting from whoever they were deemed to have been a very serious and unexpected one.
These two people were talking about the situation that they were undertaking from the gate that stood on a place called Alnus Hill, and what the spartan was getting from the conversation between the two of them was that one had reported to his partner about catching sightings of a large armored being in green armor.
Five eyes moved towards to see when this report had come to pass. The time it occurred was in the year 2557... But what his AI partner had gotten from these people in greens was their current time and year was April 26, 1999. Being a little surprised by this turn of event the spartan couldn't help but exerts a small huff in an indication of what he was getting from it, heck he had even started to get more and more information from these people which was of course all thanks to deha...
It was pretty clear to five that the person who saw him was reporting to his officer every little detail of what he'd seen in the city of arenian while disguising himself as one of arenian's citizens, at one point deha even joked about how long it'll take the arenians higher-ups to find out that an Asian man was hiding amongst them.
As the spartan was trekking on through the road he caught sight of a hooded figure, yet he didn't look at the man's way for if he did he would've surely been aware of his cover being blown by him. Thanks to his internal speakers at his helm five were able to listen in on the discussion between the spy and his superior, what five was hearing the officer sounded pretty uncertain of the reports that his man was telling him.
Yet that's when the spartan overheard the spy mentioning to the superior that he'd already sent a picture of him.
As soon as that left the spy's lips the spartan was pondering at the moment whether he should find this person and stop the man from shipping any more pictures of him, but before he did he reconsidered his decision concluding the fact that these people were aware of him.
Five wasn't sure if he should stop the spy for good but when he summed up that the man was not exerting in any bad intentions but was just doing his job he figured to just leave him for he would definitely want to find out as well why a gate was summoned up in the middle of Japan and four other foreign countries...
As the spartan and his company passed by a fairly large multitude of people who were watching the guards and the prisoners strolling onward alongside him and the others, however, It was at that moment the spartan was speaking with deha when out from the corner of his eyes he caught sight of someone, this person that five now saw had on her neck a certain pyramid tattoo with two circles within its triangular shape. How he was able to catch sight of the woman was thanks to his augmentation and years of experience in the field, inside and outside, especially when he can zoom in with the aid of his helmet visor interface.
The woman was dressed in the same outfit as almost every one of the civilians who were standing and cheering on the capture of the worgens. The outfit she wore was a light-tattered brown cloak, and what also made her expose herself to basically anyone who was familiar with u.n.s.c. Weapons was her magnum handgun strapped to her right thigh sheath.
Understanding that the O.N.I. agent wasn't here to cause trouble nor start anything at all but to just spie on arenian and its citizens, for it would've been quite obvious to the spartan that she was also a bit surprised to find out that one of their own was walking amongst the arenians and it's people.
On the other hand, five was familiar with what some ONI agents do to recognize one another in the field of work whether they are In battle or not, and that is what common people would do for fun in their downtime outside of work, it was thanks to this that five learned what a particular group of ODST and MARINES he had worked with were considerate enough to explain to him that before they had converged themselves into working for and with oni people would either have you sticked a literal tattoo of their emblem on you or you earn their trust, for that the spartan chose the second option and immediately they were glad he chose that for they joked about how they were more open about their feelings while spartans on the other hand tend to not have any inch of tattoo inked into their skins saying that it wouldn't really fit in with them...
Everybody's attention was on a woman dressed in a royal outfit befitting a queen, on her sides were two other royals, a king holding his queen's hand to calm her down. On the right of the other woman was a man who when one of the guards sped up to him and slammed a fist to his own chest and began speaking to him and the queen lager.
The queen when hearing what the guard had reported to him thanked the man and allowed the him to pass on by.
Two guards who were standing still in front of the prisoners immediately strengthened themselves and acknowledged the queen lager and two other royals and ser lester with respect when they reached them.
The Queen beamed with great gratitude that she was receiving from the guards and that of the people stood for a moment and waved at them to acknowledge their cheerful presence.
After that Ser Lester ordered his guardsman to take the prisoners to the underground cell where they'll be held there for the time being.
As the four new arrivals strolled forth they came to a halt when Lady Doranda and Ser Ondar along with brandor and vaena stepped ahead and greeted the three royals and the nobleman.
Meanwhile, the spartan was standing by as he watched eight of them reminiscing in good old talk between one another. The Queen smiled and happily chatted with those in her surroundings until she turned her head towards the elephant in the room, she and Ser Lester then asked for doranda and brandor who the spartan was, so brandor out of respect for his older sister let her have it.
"Uh oh! Here she comes, quick koa, you better act like a nobleman!" Uttered deha.
"As long as you stay quiet," Replied five.
As the queen came forth she had to tilt her head up high at the tall armored figure of the spartan. It was pretty understandable that five was only eight feet tall in armor and the queen could only come at head level in just an inch under his chest armor, thus making her stand at six foot one, which was an estimable height matching some of the unsc female personals.
The Queen put out her hand as she spoke. "Hello there stranger, who might you be?"
understanding what the woman was gearing toward him for the spartan gladly brought up his arm and shook the queen's hand in return although he had to do it lightly so as to not crush it on accident to the point where the guards would try to arrest him.
"I am five," The spartan said responding merely with a simple answer.
Five could see from the looks on the Queen that she was obscured by his name as she then spoke out of curiosity. "I hope you don't mind my manners sir for you are the first person that I happen to meet who calls himself after a number, perhaps you have a name given to you by your birth mother?"
When upon hearing the word mother five couldn't know what to say at the moment but quickly erased that thought from his mind and responded back to the queen. "Never met mine, nor do I know of her,"
Both Queen Lager and Ser Lester glanced at each other and then back to the spartan and then she spoke. "Forgive me, Mr. Five. I did not know that, and please accept my humble apologies,"
"It is alright, no need to feel sorry," Said five.
Deha knew that whenever the word mother was mentioned to Five she would always have to do her best to try and appease him away from it so that he would not dwell too much on that matter. Why she has sometimes thought of this it was because of someone or more specifically a certain doctor advised her to always be aware of Sierra-005 when it comes to the word mother, for five when he was handpicked as one of the spartan two cadets he had asked the doctor to have his mind wipe out every memory of his mother.
When getting that sudden secrecy of information from the doctor before she was handed to five as his partner deha remembered that the doctor told her that she'd understand why once the answer is given to her, but instead the AI went ahead and found it herself and from there deha understood why five when he was a child chose to have the memory of his birthmother be removed from his mind.
Deep down she may have been made from somebody else brain but somehow she couldn't help but feel a sense of sympathy for Five on why he prefers to call himself after a number.
Ser lester stepped up and shook hands with the spartan as he then turned to the other two royals. "Ser, five. I'd like to introduce to you King Kasd and his lovely wife Queen Jassan,"
The two royals came forth and happily greeted the spartan with gratitude and spoke to him out of their sincerity.
"Please to meet you ser five, as you've already known I am King Kasd, and this right here is my beautiful wife jassan. If you don't mind I must say that your armor is quite the sight to look at,"
Queen jassan smiled as she added her words of hellos. "My husband is not alone on that matter ser five, I may be a royal but I grew up in a blacksmithing family, and trust me that armor of yours is unlike anything I've seen,"
"I know that old dwarven friend of ours would've loved to know about how much time and effort this armor was made," said King Kasd.
"Perhaps we can continue this conversation at somewhere ladies and gentlemen, we are holding the line for other visitors who seem too eager to watch the festival event, and I am eager as well to find out how my daughter and her cousins are doing," said Queen Lager.
The two royals looked behind five and from the looks of it lines of travelers were starting to look dissatisfied feeling like that they were holding them back for too long.
"My apologies Your Highness, you are right we should go," said Jassan.
O.N.I. Agent P.O.V.
A woman can be seen strolling by a couple of people, she wasn't in much of a hurry but due to the circumstances at hand, she knew that her commanding officer would be shocked to find out that once one of their own is seen walking alongside with one of the very cities they were sent into to gather information for the conceivable threat of the future.
She was about to head out into the same path the spartan and other royals took but stopped so for there were a lot of guards around who would react directly out of instinct for the safety of the people they were tasked to protect. Thinking quickly the woman otherwise known amongst her peers as Carley Richards took notes of how those around her conducted themselves normally so she took that and acted as normal as any arenian who walked past the guards.
Before she had started up the stairs Carley had simply hidden her sidearm out from any prying gazes of the people and for some reason she breathed into her own hands in the assessment of what she smelled like, she didn't know why but she did it out of instinct and then began up the stairs.
Coming towards the large door or more likely a significantly oversized wooden gate that was opened widely for the guests to enter through.
Once inside Carley took a surrounding look around the place. Internally she felt like she was standing inside some palace. Onward she strolled forth taking in every scenery of the stunning and attractive area. She remembers walking by long sections of tables where food of different kinds was set on, in one of those many tables were also deserts, some were like of doughnuts yet slightly oversized and they had lots of glaze on them. On her right were many other deserts ones she never heard of nor seen before in her long lifetime.
Hell, she couldn't blame herself for wanting to get a taste of cuisines foods and many of the deserts. With this much food in front of her eyes, it could've fed an entire village and would last the small town she grew up in for almost four weeks. Of course, they would have to eat it away before the covenant showed up and glasses their planet or second leave it to waste and let the mold have it but that is unless they have a fridge to store the food away in, but doubt it is would last that long for almost anyone in her homeworld would finish the dish and leave none behind, after all the planet she came from was a pre insurgent world where the leader in there or more likely a version of the earth's many world country leaders called the president.
Yet thanks to the unsc when after they had dealt with the war they sent an ambassador to their planet as a sign of a peace treaty, but boy, all it took was one mistake from her world ruler, the bastard had first hidden his true color when the man had arrived, and when he did the ruler had the man lived in the planet for two weeks, and after a while the man was never seen walking outside of his motel until later on the second week it was found out by a unsc oni agent that the ruler had the ambassador killed in silence and was using some sort of technology to copy every facial feature of the man.
When word of this got out to the ears of everyone the unsc was angered by the news and so they sent a single fleet to cleanse the planet of hypocrisy and the tyranny of a man who no longer ruled her homeworld with an iron fist.
And mentioning the word hypocrisy in her mind Carley had learned that even the people she worked for were one of the many groups who tend to embody that meaning yet use it in a way that makes people believe they were the good guys, at least for as long as she lives to see it.
While reflecting on the past remembrance of her world and ONI Carley wasn't paying attention in her steps when all of a sudden she bumped into someone that she had hit and both she and the person fell from the opposite side of each other...
Carley couldn't believe she didn't see that coming, im mean for as long as she worked for ONI she had made a simple misstep and had run into someone else. She rubbed her head hoping to rid of the sudden headache she was having, eventually after a while she got up on her feet while grunting to herself.
As Carley fully got her bearings back together she could hear from around her murmurings plus a lot of whisperings as well due to the blunder of a scene she caused on accident.
From the front, Carley saw who the person was and on the inside, she was pitfall at his looks, although without even expressing any expression on her face Carley took to herself and walked towards the man's direction and reached down to give him a helping hand.
"Sorry there, I apologize for my cumbersomeness, I've sometimes forget to watch where im going," spoke Carley.
During her training as an ONI agent it was very important for her to acquaint herself with every situation she would come to face and one of them was acting as a civilian and especially that of greeting them.
*Ugh*
"Sometimes you should also learn to open your eyes where they should be, instead of putting them where foods are at," Responded the man as he rubbed his head.
He didn't see who it was that spoke but once he opened his eyes the man was shocked to see someone like the woman who was standing over him, looking where her hand was he understood the basis of it and accepted her aid, yet as he clasped his hand on hers he was quite surprised when the woman pulled him up with ease without much trouble.
"My condolence, I hope I did not cause you any harm sir," said Carley as she pulled the man up.
When the word sir slipped out of her lips those of the royals and nobles nearby watching when the incident occurred all let out a murmuring chatter with some of them were plainly chatting about what Carley had called the man.
Carley though did not care what the people were saying about her for she had dealt with a lot of worst comments in her world. She dusted off some dust from her cloaked outfit unaware of who was starting her down.
"You know, people tend to greet a king when they see one," Spoke the man.
Glancing up at the man Carley let out a light chuckle as she responded. "Well, you'll have to forgive me, from im from we don't really have one of those,"
The man or king that is smiled Strangely as ge replied to her. "Maybe you and your people are barbarians, but do not take it as an offense, I knew a brother of mine who acted like one,"
"Oh, close one there, I've almost hit you for that one, Your Highness," Carley said bowing mockingly at the king all the while keeping eye contact with the man.
Chuckling to himself the said king wasn't mad nor was he offended by the strange woman's remark especially when he could clearly hear every insult that the people around him were throwing at the poor woman.
Just as Carley was about to make a getaway from the king two guardsmen who were being reported by another one of the nobles came for the ONI agent for the accident she caused and the trouble she did to the king.
The lead guard stepped forth and bowed to the king and presented himself. "Greetings Your Highness, forgive my intrusions. Allow me to introduce myself and that of my fellow guardsman behind me. I am Ser Olrox of a lower rank family house of dane, this here is Shara of House Yarand. Please allow us to escort the young lady from your presence,"
Shara the partner of Ser Olrox stepped forth and bowed to the king and went to Carley and pulled her away from where the ing was. "Young lady, you'll have to come with us, please heed our warning, if not we will have no choice but to apprehend you with force,"
Before the two guards could take the woman away the king brought his arm up in an indication for the two guards to stop. "No need to take the woman away,"
Olrox was surprised by this and spoke. "What! But sire, she had bumped into you, and not only that knocked you down with food stains on your royal clothes,"
"The food was mine, it was I who was eating while walking, not hers. Beside the woman... May know your name lady?"
Not offended being called a lady the Oni agent just simply answered. "My name is Carley,"
Thankful that he has gotten her name as well which makes it easy for him the king spoke to the guards. "Yes, Carley here was not at fault, I was the one who didn't pay attention, it was also I the one who was eating without proper manners, so Carley here is not the one who caused the accident, I ask you two guards to kindly release the girl, im mean the lady,"
The two guards had no choice but to heed the king's orders and did as he asked. Shara took out one of the keyes she had hanging and unlocked the cuff freeing Carley's hand from her discomfort.
"Forgive me ms. Carley. We were just following orders, but please do watch your steps next time," said the guardswoman.
Rubbing her arms Carley wasn't mad at them and nodded their way, after all, she couldn't find a way to be angry at the two for all of this was a misunderstanding.
"So Carley huh, that's a nice name," Spoke the king.
"Yes, it is, maybe this time you can tell me yours since I've already spoiled mine," Responded Carley.
Chuckling to himself the king had to admit, that not many women would outright speak to him in this sort of manner and he was truly intrigued by this strange woman.
"Of course, I am Safran, King Safran of the kingdom of Loira. The second oldest son of the empress herself... There do you like it,"
"Like what," Joked Carley.
"My presentation, I and every one of the royals here had to learn to present ourselves in a courtesy manner,"
"Not bad, although I have to say it's quite rusty in your way," Commented Carley.
"I do not know what you meant by rusty, but I do know how it can happen," Replied Safran.
"Forget about it, it's not really that important, though I must apologize to you for I have to depart from here," said Carley as she wanted to catch up to the spartan and notify him of something important.
"If you do not mind me saying, im heading off to see my sister, perhaps you can join me and see the spartan as well, seeing as how you were following him," said the king.
This caught the oni agent off guard, she didn't know what to do at the moment or whether to kidnap the king and take him somewhere for questioning. Yet she couldn't do that, especially with many eyes around the large palace.
"How do you know that im after him," Asked Carley.
"Please lady Carley, I may be some average royal man but that does not make me a fool, my mother taught me and my siblings to always stay vigilant of our surroundings and watch out for those who would harm us, so your way of spying on the spartan is a little bit obvious,"
Sighing Carley couldn't help but agree with the man, though she had to give it to the man for he was exceptionally good for catching her that easily.
"Fine, I guess I have no choice but to join you," Said Carley.
"Excellent, food," offered Safran.
"Yes," Answered Carley.
FIVE P.O.V.
Standing amongst one of the queen's old colleagues the spartan had to duck his head every so often whenever he had walked through the halls.
Those of the royals and nobles alike were in awe of the giant when he passed by them. Back in the UNSC space he and his brothers and sisters were used to the stares, and the way the people and military personnel were always entrapped by the appearance of the spartans. Even those of the new generations like the Spartan 4's were awestruck by their predecessor's sights, and why they were created was pretty understandable, some of them who were once insurgents were glad that the covenant happened for they didn't know what would've happened if the spartans were sent to deal with them.
"You think they'll be alright?" Asked deha.
"Yeah, the two girls only have a minor wound, the boy on the other hand has a few scratches for trying to escape from that wolfman thing," uttered Five.
"I've gone through some of Earth's history, and from what I've gotten, these creatures such as Griffin's basilisks and wolfman as you said, do not exist in our reality but except for this world of vahrian, they're all just nothing but fantasies, some were written for stories to keep us all comfortable from either boredom and others... I even remember some of the spartan 4's speaking about their favorite books, I think it was called Harry Potter, basically, a kid with lightning on his forehead who was meant to save the world from some guy called Goldemort,"
"When was that book made in?" Said five asking since he had nothing to do at the moment he decided to have a conversation with deha.
"Hmmm, hold on oops! Never mind, originally the first book was written in 1990 before the 21st century, whereas the author by the name J.K. Rowling. Started writing more of her book series, and I've gotta say, it's pretty interesting especially since there are a couple of movies made from it," said Deha as she and five were taking in every information about the Harry Potter franchise.
"I remember Kelly-087, she loved reading some of the books in one of Infinity's libraries, Lord of the Rings was one of her favorite ones," commented Five.
"And what about you, I know a couple of books you read during your free time," said Deha.
"If you already know then what's the point of asking me," responded Five.
"Just asking, anyway, do you think the master chief has a favorite book?" Deha asked.
"Sun Tzu, if there's anything that involves war and simple quote then john would've picked it up for his free time to read," replied Five.
"Hello, ser five," Spoke someone.
Uncrossing his arm he stood forth and responded. "Yes,"
"Can you come here please," said Ser lester.
Walking over to the man the spartan went and stood next to him whereas the Queen Lager and her two other friends were next to her side.
Looking at where the man was pointing at the Spartan could see that it was a symbol of some sort.
"May I ask you a question," said lester.
"Sure, it's fine," Responded five.
"When you've fought the worgens and saved the prince from them, you mentioned something about this symbol flashing white, am I right?" Inquired the man.
Confused about what this was about the spartan figured that it had something to do with what happened when he went and stopped one of the worgens from trying to kidnap the prince named Pasco.
"You'll have to be more specific on this matter sir," Asked five.
Sighing to himself the lord reached into his pocket and pulled out an emblem similar to that of the one that was lying on the table.
"This emblem im holding it is one that was made centuries ago, the one you got from one of the worgens you've subdued was a copy, it was made to signify a united clan between one of the werewolf clans and that of the Worgen packs that now are in custody," explained ser lester.
"So from what im getting here, it's that these beast nations have something to do with an attempted kidnap of that boy?" Said five earning a few gasps from those around him.
A man who was dressed in noble attire stepped in between those close to him and spoke. "He is a prince, son of one of the empress's daughters, you will dress him as your Highness, or else you will face treason... Do you, a barbarian not have any manner!"
Turning his head at where the man was standing the spartan simply answered without much concern of the nobleman's words. "Yes, I do have manners, anything else you wanna let out?"
"Ser Harold, it is alright, let the stranger speak," Said the queen lager.
"As as you wish my queen, forgive me, im just worried for my lord state," Replied the man.
"You'll have to forgive him for his manner, he is a good man and was there for Prince Pasco as his teacher. He's like an uncle to my nephew," the queen said apologizing on behalf of the man.
"It's alright, I understand... You were saying something about this emblem ser lester?" Five said asking as ge turned his attention back to him.
"Yes, as I was saying, the emblem you see here is of the original one, it was made by the first beast king of vahrian, now on the one, the one that the Spartan took from the captured worgen was created by a leader of a group of rebels pack, in the aftermath of the second great war, the man wanted to steal the blood of the beast king for his own purpose of forming an army for his own deeds, we don't know why he did it but I figured he took his blood when the beast king had returned from the second great war," Said the man.
"So what exactly is it that this worgen packs wanted with the prince, or does it have something to do with him that's so special?" Said five as he could sense the Queen giving him a look,"
The queen lager herself spoke up catching everybody's attention. "Yes actually, I believe it is because of the blood of the empress, you see my mother was of the last descendent of the full-blooded acumen, after the king had died which was her father, those who sought to steal his blood focused their attention on the empress ever since she was a young girl... But the empress tended to be quite dangerous for them, even on her own, and the only way they could get her blood was them going after her children,"
"Hmmm, assuming that's why they were after the kids, and if you don't mind me asking your highness, what exactly would happen if they took a blood from this empress's children and grandchildren?" Said five a bit curious about the matter.
From his side, five saw Ser Lester and the queen glancing at one another and he knew that maybe these two knew something he didn't.
"Should we tell him Queen Lager?" Said lester.
"Yes, you see, my mother has lived for a very long time, much more than that of an average human, but her being an offspring of a full-blooded acumen those hiding in the dark and plain sight tend to try and steal their blood for longevity or more precisely, they'll use hers and that of her descendent blood to imbue it with their own and make them live for as long as they want," the queen said Explicating the motive behind these people.
"That explains the reason why the guards are always on edge around people," uttered Deha.
"Agreed," Added five.
"Then my queen, I suggest we have four guardsmen stand guard outside of your nephew and niece's room, just a precaution," Ser lester said looking at Lager.
King Kasd stepped forth and spoke in worry for he knew of the importance of the kids, especially since those who might still be among arenian were buying their time. "I'll have one of my spies try and find out about any more of those who wish to get their hands on the kids,"
Queen Lager smiled as she breathed in a sigh of relief for the aid and care from her long-time friends, she was very appreciative of them and could count on their care for her family's safety and not hers, the reason was that she could take care of herself but the kids was another matter.
"Thank you, the three of you I am truly honored to have friends like y'all who support me, but yes do what you must think is right... But King Kasd, for what you said, I believe you should have two spies going out, trust me they'll need one another to protect each other's back," Offered queen lager.
"Of course," replied Kasd.
Before they were about to wrap things up the door from behind them slammed open and the queen lager's brother entered, from behind him the spartan saw a woman the same one he saw spying on him, the oni agent.
"Brother, must you be so thrashing and rude to bother people on an important meeting!" Lager said with a frown on her face.
"Sorry sis, forgive me, I did not intend on bringing the bad out of you all, but I believe I should have been joining you all in this meeting," said the Safran.
"You are always the same Safran," Kasd said as he and almost everyone started packing up.
"Oh I see you guys are leaving already, good, 'cause I hate long meetings, allow me and my friend here to join you," said the man.
"Alright, but keep your mouth shut," said the queen lager with a low yet quiet stern voice.
Bringing his hand up and in front of his lips, Safran made an invisible zipper and mockingly closed his lips.
"Hello Safran, it is good to see you, old friend," Brandor said greeting the king.
"Brandor! Good to see you as well old friend, im sorry about what happened to your home, I've never thought those raiders would attack your village," Said Safran.
"Thank you, my king, if it wasn't for the spartan here, im not sure if my wife and kids would've made it out alive," said brandor.
Glancing at the green-armored being as he looked him over, Safran had to admit that the imperative cataphract of the armor and how less hard the spartan makes it look when he is walking in it. "I must say spartan, your story of going around saving a few villages from raider's attack, has thrived over the lands and ears of the nearby kingdoms... Regardless of all of that, I thank you for being there,"
As the five and the others were rolling on by a guard of that of the queen lager sped up next to her and leaned in to whisper something into her ear.
"My queen,"
"Not now guardsman, was in a hurry to find our seats to watch my daughter's upcoming fight," Lager said denying the man but instead the guard budged through one of the other guards.
"No, Your Highness, there's something you need to hear,"
"Alright, go on, tell me," said the queen lager a little frustrated.
A single name was said and those who knew who it was the guard meant by immediately stopped when they heard it. The Spartan and that of the oni agent even had to halt in their steps and wait for they both wondered who this person was that made the people cease walking.
"Morgana, and she's here,"
...Until Next Readers...