The soldiers run out of the giant room. Seraphine, Ghost, Rinehart and Theodore were the only ones in the giant gym. "What does the expression you guys used mean?" Asked Seraphine. His comrades look at Theodore, he looks around and nods his head. "It's a code, we use it when we find out we are either pawned or have spies and or assassins in our ranks." Theodore sits on a bench and hits hard with his leg on the floor.
Seraphine looks at him and tries to stop him from self harm. Ghost stops her. "Let him do his thing" Seraphine backs away from her master. Theodore eventually breaks that part of the floor. Screamings from outside disturbed them for a moment. Theodore scratches his face, he looks at the place he kicked, picked up the pieces of wood flooring, underneath was a chest.
"What's in there?" Asked Ghost, "a new weapon of destruction?" He continued. Theodore shrug. "Father hid this from everyone, he said if I became lord I'll get it." Everyone gathers around the hole with the chest in it. The chest wasn't locked, it looked rusty, the only thing that wasn't rusty was the sigil of the goddess of victory.
Theodore tries to open the chest, but it doesn't budge. "Care to help?" He asked, Seraphine moves him beside and she pries it open with all her strength. Inside was an envelope, a photo of two newborn children, Theodore's mother and father. Underneath those was a rapier. Theodore's favorite sword, it had the sigil of the goddess of victory and looked pristine.
Theodore grabs the photo and turns it over, he there finds a drive, he grabs it and inserts both the photo and the drive in his inside pockets. "Seraphine, can you open the envelope?"
She opens it and inside was well written paper, she reads some words and gives it to Theodore. "I can't read something like this, master."
Theodore reeds half of it. "I'll read it later." The sword was in a sheath of high quality with a nice belt made out of leather and metal. It has a support where you can hook it in your pants and that will help you keep the rapier in place.
"This is the same rapier my grandfather wanted to give me when I was little, my father wanted to see me wield greatswords or polearms. Conveniently I never could wield a polearm like he did and was stuck with short swords and rapiers." Theodore gets the rapier up and tries to tie it up. "Need help with the belt Seraphine!"
Seraphine doesn't hesitate and goes to help him. Ghost and Rinehart whisper. "Did the gods give Theodore a servant or a housewife, because he did this before." Said Rinehart, "I guess he likes being helped by her, he probably is in love with her too, leave him be or we are next on his dead pool!" Ghost responds, he gives a short laugh.
2 hours later the soldiers, all unharmed, come in with the two requested prisoners. "What is the meaning of this!" Fiona shouts. "We have been caught Princess Leona." Said Ulfric. He looks at Theodore with his eyes filled with tears. The group of 4, Theodore, Rinehart, Seraphine and Ghost approach the prisoners. "The coffee wasn't good, thanks for making it."
Theodore said, smiling.
He gets near the princess, he gets his hand near the pendant and rips it off her neck. "I won't break the merchandise, you I mean Leona." He opens it and sees the king, the former Queen and little Leona about 12 years old at that time. Theodore remembers her from that time. "You see Leona, If you could've hidden this better I would've never found out. Lucky me"
The woman looks down crying. "I am going to die aren't I!" She cried. Theodore gives the pendant to Rinehart. "Keep it close." Theodore goes in front of Ulfric and lowers himself down to face him. "For how long have you worked for my family, Ulfric?" Ulfric looks in Theodore's eyes. "I have worked here since your grandfather hired me."
"And why did you betray us? We Bloodhearths? Was it the money? Was it the treatment? WHAT WAS IT?" Theodore shouts. "I thought you all are gonna die my lord." He said in a shy low tone voice. Theodore punches him with his left hand. "I am not your lord Ulfric!" He punches him again. "I saw you as a father figure, and you just flipped me off and did the worst to me."
Ulfirc looks at him with a nose bleed. "So what's going to happen to me?" Theodore gets up and backs up from him with the difference of half a meter. He pulls up the rapier. "Remember this?" "Lord Roger's rapier, so you found it." He started crying. "God of punishment, please have mercy on me!"
Theodore pokes his head with the rapier and pushes it in. The rapier ends up on the other side. He pulls it out, and Ulfric's body falls on the floor. Theodore grabs a tissue from Ulfric's pockets and cleans the blade. Theodore looks at the princess. "Now what can we do with you?"