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Chapter 12 - The fallen king Haland - Promises

Waking up the next morning refreshed Haland looks over to his wife with a curious look to see if the gray cat is still sleeping on her lap. Looking, its still curled up in a ball still leaking pink mana with its long tail up in the air. Being this deep in the western woods meant every animal or monster is going to have some sort of mana so it still was not surprising to him. Walking out of the small shelter was the sunlight after a long night of sleep, the blazing yellow sun in the small clearing the thick pines left for them. All around was just miles and miles of tree's and rivers they traversed. "This is the spot, we are far enough and deep enough in they would never look for us here." Haland walks over to the shelter and grabs the sword. He knew there was one thing he had to do first before anything, if this is where they are going to be living for the foreseeable future, He wants Draxor to be with him every step of the way.

*Meow!* The cat comes out of the tent seemingly whining to him. Walking over and rubbing against his leg like any other cat would. It also seems it was not leaking any more mana out. "How do you survive out here little one?" The more he thought about it, the more he realized how a small animal like a cat survives out here all alone. Ignoring it he started his journey...The next couple weeks was the same process. It was almost enjoyable though, they have never felt so free before. At one point they went out and hunted a deer with a sword! He threw the sword with some of his fire mana behind it and pierced straight through its heart. At one point when they were gutting it the cat started to come around more and more, they started to even share there precious deer meet with it.

The natural lake water feeling amazing and there was even a cliff they jumped off of. "Man I love this so much...lets just stay like this forever Haland." Maria put her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes to fall asleep to the cold breeze on them. Although Haland sighed and thought about his old friend's revenge while hugging her. "Yes for now lets settle." He will never forget the pain he felt when Draxor got stabbed. He will get his revenge at some point, it has plagued his mind the last couple weeks. But looking at the view and the massive boulder with the cat sleeping on top of it got him to uncloud his mind and think about the present. Thoughts started to wonder about the cat, every now and then the cat would emit some other type of mana, it was NOT normal. Why has there not been any other magical creatures? Why is there no mana in this area but the cat? He had to get to the bottom of this mystery, he could not feel safe until its figured out. Haland reaches his hand out to pet the cat, but this time he try's to send a small amount of mana into it. 

"Come here kitty." Small red mana goes in but nothing happens but the cat shivering a little bit. Looking at it suspiciously he looks away until it jolts up in the air and runs out of the cabin.

"Maria stay back!" Haland grabs his sword as the sound of horses galloping to them gets louder and eventually stops. The 15 horses were standing tall all with iron armor on them. "The kings crest." Smirking he realizes Arlo's was to scared to come himself. I mean since then he has recovered most of his strength, he could kill Arlo's right now and his 5 guards. "Tell Arlo's this for me! Were you really that much of a pussy not to come here yourself? Where is your Spine? The kingdom will fall under such a greedy coward!" Screaming he preps his weapon and gets into his fighting stance. Foot forward, sword pointing towards his enemy, mana getting infused in the sword, and his chest pointing out. "To bad he sends his royal guard to do dirty work" 

"Silence! We have been ordered to find you and kill you Haland and that's what we shall do!" Vixor smiling at the though of spreading blood his sword gets unsheathed. His glowing red and golden armor shining in the light blinding his fellow soldiers behind him. "Get hi-" Frozen in place all of a sudden he looks around with his eyes which seemed to be the only part of his body that can move. Seeing his sword getting drained of all of the mana in it was the only thing he could really see though in the moment. Fear clouded his face when he realized what was happening. He knew when the tracker got planted on them they were going to go far. They were just not expecting this far but they were many miles in the Enchanted forest called Zylak. They killed many minor and average beasts to get to where there at. 

Walking out of Maria's hands and into the opening where the horses were Insidious sat down and licked her paw for a second. "Wow to think thee was a creature with so much darkness in their soul to take a step in my domain." Getting up and walking forward a head goes flying and lands in front of Vixor's horse he was on. Red blood sprays all over the horse and the iron armor turns a ruby colored instead. Mouth open and eyes wide, the sight terrifies him even more while still being frozen.

"Let me tell you this pitiful human" Insidious teleports to sit on his horses head and stare at him eye to eye. "You come in my territory again and I promise you everyone you love will see the same fate as the poor soldiers behind you did." Insidious starts walking back toward Haland who was left out of being frozen but was still frozen in fear. 

Vixor looks to both sides of him to see the lifeless bodies of his guards pooling blood on the dirty ground. He did not want to die yet. Fear clouded him farther when he saw the mana in the area. Not one, not two, but all four mana types were emitting from this cat rapidly flying all over the place around them. It may of seemed like a mess of mana but he knew the cat had control of even the mana from their body's cells. He knew this from the feeling of his mana getting sucked from his body into the cats mana pool. Then he yanked himself froward on accident which also caused the horse to slip on the blood a little. His adrenaline kicked in and he kicked the horse to run back towards the kingdom. Only a select few people he could think of can fight that monster and none of them are part of the Zylis Kingdom. The horse stumbling over another human head that was sneakily put on the horse cause him to scream. As he approached the kingdom passing out he screamed "Don't chase them!!' and fell passed out covered in blood and broken legs which he never figured out. 

"what are you" Haland manages to whisper this and that caught the cats attention. It tilts its head in confusion like a dog. 

"What do you mean what am I? I'm a cat. And your my friend." Insidious has been lonely since the hero's passing. It has learned to enjoy interaction with other creatures it deems worthy. "besides how can I leave such a white soul to die?" Looking away it walks back into the tent to fall asleep on the also sleeping Maria it put to sleep with a spell. 

Looking up Haland see's a scene straight out of the worst battlefields. 4 heads on the ground with blood pools all around them and all over himself. Lifeless body's fallen off their horse to the dirty ground for nothing. He did no feel sad for them...They all already tried to kill him anyway why would he feel sad? Recognizing the one who helped kill Draxor he smiled. Revenge has never felt as it did, crying he lifted his friends swords. "one down, 10 to go" He also walked back to the tent after witnessing Vixor run away in fear. His mind was set in stone, he wants to destroy that kingdom then rebuild it again, to start a new age of humanity which has fallen so low. Even if he has to kill for it. 

The cat woke up and touched him with her paw. "Promise me you will stay with me for longer. Please." It's voice is quiet now. Haland sense incredible loneliness and sadness from the cats voice. It is pleading with him in its own was. "Then promise me and my family protection and help" Haland puts his hand on the paw it lifted up. "Done, Thank you King Haland." Both fell asleep shortly after as it started to storm on the outside. 

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Authors note - Turns out I did not press publish, that's on me, but as of right now like I said before I'm back on schedule so One to Two chapters every 2 weeks. (depends on how busy school work is) 

I'm always looking for tips please comment if you have any idea on how I can improve my writing.