The awaited day of the wedding had finally arrived.
It was now late July, flowers were in full bloom, the fresh, morning light of the mid morning sun beamed down from the clear skies as the people from Camelot and beyond gathered to see a grand wedding.
While normal folks stood outside throwing flower pedals on the path of the magnificent white carriage pulled by four white horses and escorted by many knights. The nobles gathered within the church to welcome the arriving bride as Prince Arthur Pendragon already stood within the grand cathedral awaiting Lilis arrival.
Through the colorful stained glass windows of the cathedral, the see through passionate red, blue and green hues of the glass shined on Art brilliantly. Standing there at the altar his huge frame towered over the nervous priest that was already sweating.
The priest could not hide his nervousness as he fidgeted with his old wrinkly hands. The priest was already old, though his vision had been partially restored as had his skin due to the archbishop who had so kindly given him a taste of the fountain of youth. To him it was like a drug, he wanted more of it, he wanted to be young again and live for eternity, which were things that the archbishop had promised if this plan of theirs worked. If only they could take down these heretics.
However Art didn't show even the faintest sign of nervousness, he merely looked to the entrance and waited in anticipation to see his perfect wife, his princess. For this occasion he had even dressed within his finest of tuxedo's made by none other than the girls in Eden. It was a finely tailored suit of black just like he liked it and the shirt underneath was red, it was so that the blood that was soon to be spilled wouldn't ruin his looks too much. He even remembered to wear black leather gloves just in case his fists got too dirty to be quickly cleaned. The suit was also tight showing off his powerful muscles accumulated over years of hard work and by the grace of his holy core.
The audience though had a mix of expressions, while some minor nobles had merely come to enjoy the event and see their future Queen and King, others weren't so excited or happy being there. The two dukes, the royal family and the loyalist knights were already secretly gritting their teeth, picking out their targets and secretly clenching at their hidden weapons. For within the cathedral there were many poorly hidden traitors for them to dispose off, traitors who just as well were eyeing their own targets of assassination.
Most were nothing but mere mercenaries, easy to spot due to their thuggish looks, the aura's of murderous intent that they were exuding out and most of all their cold demeanors that didn't belong to a wedding. However there were also many pure traitors here in the mix as well, men of minor noble statuses looking to gain higher titles, lands and overall power in this doomed attempt of theirs.
But most worrying of all, even for Art was his family's safety within this cathedral full of so many enemies. For next to them stood Sir Reginald Westshore. He was the Queens personal knight and yet during their investigation of potential traitors it had quickly become apparent that the man was one of the traitors. He originated from the lands of Franchia and it seemed that his heart and loyalties still layed there. The position and lands that he had been granted by the king for his service hadn't been enough it seemed, and most of all he was a devoted follower of the church who did not share any ancestral roots of Imperial origin with the king.
The man had originally gotten his position for his exceptional skill with a sword and his long service to the king. And now he held a cold, unreadable expression on his bearded face, his eyes though betrayed him as Art could easily see the murderous killing intent within them. Already the man was eyeing the Kings head who was in a swords reach of him. Luckily King Uther was no fool and had already prepared for this with a hidden blade of his own.
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Outside the cathedral the crowds could be heard erupting into loud cheers as Lilis carriage arrived. Although soon the cheers turned to shocked ghasps as the door of the carriage opened and Lilis stunning but scandalously dressed self stepped out.
With grace her father helped her off the carriage by holding onto her dainty little hand. Uncaring of the crowds reactions and gasps they walked. And soon as the cathedral doors were opened by two heavily armoured royal guards all ghasped at the sight of her.
Even Art couldn't help but feel at a loss. Quickly all his thoughts of the fight to come washed away, and instead a primal heat within him began to rise. All his instincts screamed out for him to claim her just then and there, his whole self turned fully towards her, ready to take her, for she was the most beautiful thing that he had ever seen, in this life or the one before.
Even though they had done it so many times, even though he knew her body so well, he still couldn't help but smile lustfully at the sight of her, and want to take her before everyone's eyes just so they would know that she was his. It had been his plan to dress her in that scandalous modern wedding dress that showed off more than what was appropriate in this medieval world. He wanted to really piss off the Church by doing this and hopefully get them to act rashly, but now it seemed that it was going to be he who would do something rash. He couldn't help it, she just looked so good, way better than what he could have ever expected.
Lilis long blonde hair was covered by a pure white vale that flowed down her mostly exposed back, down to the lowest part of her back just above her shapely butt. The white dress left most of her upper body exposed letting everyone see her well toned back, her somewhat trained arms that were only covered from the elbows downward with flowery white gloves that left her slender fingers exposed, her shoulders down to the middle of her big breasts was exposed letting everyone see as they bounced with her every move. Her breasts were only partially covered by the white flowery dresses heart shaped top that left little to the imagination. Even her legs were not fully covered as there was a cut within her dress letting everyone catch glimpses of her shapely legs and the white flowery stockings that covered them.
And so as she stepped down the long rose covered aisle between the seats all eyes were wholly on her now. For a moment all were shocked into silence at the sight of her, totally forgetting that they were supposed to stand up until finally one did, After which quickly all stood up. The loyalists stood up in respect, some women like the princesses stood up in admiration, some believers of the church stood in silent anger at the scandalous sight, but most stood up in complete awe.
Lilis white dress hugged her fit, 143 centimetres tall petite hourglass full figure perfectly, it matched her lover's darker clothes also quite well. And as for Sir Chad and Sir Jack, along with a lot of other young men and even some women they couldn't help but watch in admiration as Lilis heavenly breasts bounced with each and every step. By now her pregnancy and further growth had done wonders to her body making her seem like the embodiment of the Goddess of Fertility herself.
And from the cut in her dress they could all also not help but admire her strong legs that hugged her lacy white stockings and garter so nicely. Even her perfect lips held a light pink lipstick that the men couldn't help but notice, especially as she spun them into a light smile. Although she really didn't need any make up to exaggerate her already immaculate beauty anymore for even now the other gods were probably growing quite jealous of her.
Then her bright deep blue eyes homed in on Arts tall handsome figure and nothing else, and as all went silent then that could hear every click of her white heels that went well with the white dress and the white bouquet of Lili flowers that she had in her hands. The scene was truly quite the bright sight with lots to see and Lili seemingly wasn't ashamed at all to show it.
With every step getting closer and closer to the altar. Art started to feel his self-control beginning to further crumble, he clenched his fists hard so as to try and cause some pain and keep his focus, but it wasn't really working at all for him. But he really couldn't do whatever here, they had a plan here after all and he didn't want to make himself seem like the bad guy by acting too sinfully.
Although by the looks of the priest Art figured that he wouldn't need to wait for long now. The priest was already clenching at the small blade hidden within his long sleeve, he seemed ready to explode in anger at the two heritics before him, especially her who had come to a holy place of worship dressed like a high classed whore.
Lili on the other hand was feeling more nervous unlike anything before. It was not easy for her to hold her smile and walk past so many watching eyes, especially not when she was so exposed. Everyone could totally see her boobs as only the front part around her nipples was the only thing that was covered, other than that they could see the sides and top parts of her boobs clearly and she felt that at any minute now even her light coverings might slip and expose it all. She felt so ashamed, sure the plan was working, she was most definitely managing to provoke the church like this, but still.
Luckily Art had given her a small necklace to at least cover something up top, kind of, oh and some nice earrings as well. But no what was she even thinking about, that wasn't important now at all.
Even as she made her way up the few steps of the altar and came before her soon to be husband, she could feel lives around the city being snuffed out. There was a battle going on in the shadows between her loyalist who were mostly converted to the light, and against them was the traitors to the kingdom who sought to gain power through violence.
She could feel that many had already fallen, loyalists and traitors. She didn't like this, to her even a single loss of life was too much. All of them after all had dreams, some had families, loved ones and now as they fell all these hopes dreams would fade away and many tiers would be shed for the dead. It was so sad to her, just the thought of it and especially as she could sense it happening not too far away from her.
Thinking of it her smile quickly turned to that of sadness as she gazed up at her man. Tiers were already forming in her eyes which Art was quick to brush away with his finger as he whispered sweetly.
"Don't worry it will all be over soon, just trust me."
He said this with such confidence, but she still couldn't help but worry. His plan was risky and relied too much merely on his and his father's brute strength to smash all enemies within the cathedral.
Then suddenly as the priest with all his mental fortitude looked away from Lili, and then to his book to begin the ceremony, Art suddenly cupped Lilis face with his right hand. Lili unconsciously leaned into it, feeling comforted by his touch, but then Art suddenly showed his signature devilish smile, leaned in close and stole her lips into a passionate kiss before everyone's eyes.
The whole Cathedral gasped, the priest was totally in shock with his mouth agape, Lili tried to pull away out of sheer embarrassment but Art wouldn't let her. Art had seemingly now totally lost control of himself.
Just a moment before his eyes had been wandering around Lilis body, her leg that was showing, her hourglass figure, her belly that held his baby within it, those breasts that were now just ripe and full of her tasty milk, her slender neck, her big teary eyes and finally those juicy lips of hers. Needless to say, she had totally swept away his rational thoughts and now there was only a primal beast within that would do whatever he needed to do to get his prize.
Seeing the two young lovers sloppily doing a passionate french kiss before everyone's eyes, hearing Arts tongue forcing itself within her mouth and the wet noises that these actions caused were too much for the priest. The two had seemingly gone too far, the priest was outraged by them and had come to his breaking point. The priest had most likely agreed with the Archbishop to wait till the ringing of the bells, but before such sin he couldn't just wait any longer.
With gritted teeth he clenched the hidden blade within his sleeve. But just then from one of the high windows close to the ceiling a grunt was heard, and then a cloaked man in black with his throat cut suddenly fell to the center aisle with a hard smack.
Women screamed in horror, men gasped and pulled back, eyes turned upwards and from there a familiar voice to Lili yelled.
"Lili run, its a trap! They intend to kidnap you, run!"
Breaking away from the deep kiss Lilis eyes then turned upwards. And there in the high ceilings small window she could see him looking at her with such worry. Dressed like a true hunter with a bow in hand, or maybe a ranger to be more specific she could immediately recognise him even as most of his face was covered by a cloth. It felt so strange but the sight of him somehow made her feel a bit happy as she called out to him in disbelief.
"Robin, what are you?-"
But before she could finish the priest pulled out his blade as he yelled.
"Death to the heretics! Deus vult, God will's it!"
And with that he sent his blade towards Lilis head uncaring of his orders not to hurt her. Lili could feel the danger, but before she could dodge Arts fist shot out and crashed into the priests old wrinkly face. A bone cracking sound of the priests nose and skull breaking could be heard as he was suddenly sent flying against the back wall where he hit his head splattering blood and brains all around, some stains of blood flying even high enough to reach buff Jesus's crucified feet as he flexed proudly in that large church window.
Seeing this, a moment of quiet disbelief stood over the cathedral. The traitors along with the loyalists hesitated. Until Chad standing at the back wall of the cathedral unsheathed his sword and cut a scarred man's head clean off, blood spurted into the sky as the head went flying off.
And in that quick moment Chad then pulled out his holy cross of light, a cross with an added circle in the center of the cross and a small stone of light hidden at the point where the lines crossed. It was a simple thing, but due to that it was just perfect to be mass produce for all the loyalists. This was also something that Art had come up with and Lili merely produced the stones.
Its glow was not great, but it was distinguishable enough to tell foe from friend in this situation. And so in that moment all loyalists followed Chads example and pulled out their crosses. Then Chad lifted his bloody sword towards the sealing as he yelled fiercely.
"For our God's, for the light! Kill the misguided dogs!"
And with that blades were drawn all around, the traitors yelled their yells to kill heretics and that God will's it, while the loyalists praised the light and then the slaughter began. From above Robin used his bow to take out the enemies of Lili, King Uther pulled out his hidden blade and tackled the traitor Sir Reginald to the ground.
The woman screamed, some ran, many sat still in terror, some hid behind the seats, but Princess Eadlin was quick to pull out her own two daggers, as she then leaped across the benches and rows of people sitting there as she headed off to kill the traitors. Just then a traitorous noble man named Jeff Nordfall stood up dagger in hand yelling.
"Death to the royal family, death to the heretics! For God's glory!"
He seemed ready to kill his fellow church goers but seemed a bit unsure on who to stick his dagger into as enemies were hard to tell from foes. Though his pondering was quickly ended as the Princess jumped against his back and stuck her daggers into his neck.
The force of the Princesses jump knocked Jeff against the church bench in front with a light crash. Eadlin though didn't care and merely stabbed her left dagger deep, stabilised herself by hugging the now mostly dead man tightly, as she then used her right hands dagger to stab and stab, again and again at the man. Blood flew and soon Eadlins beautiful face and short blonde hair were totally covered in blood.
Sir Reginald fought against the king on the ground, fighting for dominance over the knife that the King tried to push down into the mans right eye. Through gritted teeth the King growled out.
"Fucking traitor!"
While Sir Reginald growled back.
"Fucking heretical bastard!"
Seeing this, Oldman Sir John Bell dressed in his royal heavy armour did his best to dash towards the royal family. Having been posted further away close to the entrance of the cathedral he now had to slaughter his way towards the front where the royal family was. Though his expression quickly became relieved as Sir Reginald let out a pained scream as King Uther pushed his dagger into the mans right eye, slowly pushing down all the way into Reginalds traitorous brain.
The Queen on the other hand having seen this all merely panicked a little and was quick to get down in fear of getting hit by something. Though to the Queens own horror Eadlin had ran off to fight the enemies, while Aileen on the other hand had pulled out a small repeating crossbow from under her dress, which she was now using to kill the traitors closest to them. Aileen even held what seemed like a sadistic grin on her face as she sent bolt after bolt into enemies without a hint of mercy or pity, whitch was quite unladylike in her mother's opinion.
Even the two Dukedoms, the Lionheart's and Westfield's were also fighting against the traitors. Both of the families even wore crosses of light around their necks seemingly having totally discarded their old religion now for a new. To Lilis surprise even her brother Edgar was fighting with a small crossbow in one hand and a dagger in his other hand.
From the cathedrals catacombs men wearing white cloaks with red crosses and wielding swords or daggers came running as they yelled death to the heretics. Seeing them coming from the narrow underground passages Art patted Lili on her head and then charged into the group of men. With his bare fists he smashed their faces, broke bones and dodged their blades with incredible speed.
All around the cathedral blood and guts flew, people died, screams of terror were heard, clashing of blades rang out as men shouted, cursed and killed one another. Blood was everywhere covering the once clean floors of the cathedral in red. The stench of the place was horrible, many people before death released their bladders causing horrible smells to float into Lilis delicate nose. She could even see some men pitifully losing hope, as they then begged for mercy only to be mercilessly then cut down on the spot.
Lili seeing all of it merely stood there on the altar overlooking all the horror. Even looking at it all from her slightly elevated position she found it hard to say who was killing who, and she doubted that even the people fighting really knew. It seemed like a total free for all now, there didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to any of it.
In her past she had admired the army, enjoyed seeing war movies and seeing action on TV. To her and Frank watching those things had been fun, but seeing it now, smelling it and hearing the real horror of it she no longer could see any good in this. This was sad, it was absolutely horrible and yet all she could do was seemingly just watch. She was so powerless, unable to do anything to stop the madness.
And to add to it all, the cathedral bells then rang. The signal was given, and so the slaughter outside began as well. Immediately she could feel countless lives all over Camelot beginning to be snuffed out. To her it was like a room lit by thousands of small candle lights, she could feel and see them disappearing, one after the other. Many souls were leaving this earth and many more were still going to.
And then as she looked at the scene of the cathedrals once beautiful flower peddle cover aisle she suddenly noticed something. From one of the benches a old bearded man stood up, she could see him mumbling something to himself in silence, as he walked to the center of the aisle.
She couldn't understand his words, but she could feel a powerful magical energy gathering within him. And then she could feel the immense feeling of danger that came from him. The feeling of it made her take a step back and want to run. Robin also took note of this and was quick to take aim at the mumbling man as he yelled.
"Lili run, it's a fire Mage his going to explode!"
But as Robin did so the man's gaze suddenly turned to the ceiling and as Robin let loose his arrow, the man's eyes burst a flame. And within that same moment powerful flames bursted out of his hand and eyes engulfing his entire body in a powerful explosion.
To Lili all within that moment went into slow motion. She could see everything so wildly and yet she found it hard to believe. This was her first counter with an actual Mage, and all she saw was him turn himself into some middle Eastern suicide bomber with his magic. Although she could see that he was alive within the flames that were ever expanding outwards.
She could see the people closest to him, some unfortunate nobles that were just mere bystanders to this massacre were now going to die within this explosions. But even before they were engulfed in the flames of the explosion, she could see their skin begin to boil, hair and clothes catch fire, and as the fire hit flesh burned their flesh off of their bodies leaving only bones behind. Even Robin's arrow tip melted as the wooden part of tmit turned to dust. The flames were hot like nothing she had ever before seen and if nothing stopped him then all were going to die here.
No she couldn't let it be like so, she had to act. And with this single though she dug deep within her own core and shot out all the power that she possibly could. For Lili making this decision had taken less than a second and yet in that time eight were already dead.
And in that instant her own white magic burst out and engulfed the entire cathedral in its brilliant white holy light. Immediately flames were seemingly buried within the holy light. And all faithful within the light were nearly instantly healed and made well. The fire raged onwards, but as it burned the believers clothes and flesh, their flesh came back almost as fast as it left.
None could see within the light, but all could feel the source of the hellish flames. And as fast as it all had happened Chad was quick to yell out.
"Kill that fire Mage now!"
And as if on command Sir Jack Bell and Sir John Bell who were the most fateful of the followers present here, both men then charged toward the red flames uncaring for their own safety. Within the light they could only see they could only see the outlines of the many long disintegrating benches and dead skeletal people, but it was enough for the two.
With the great speed of their enhanced pure bodies that had bathed within Lilis lights in Eden for so long, the two dashed down the aisle towards the fire Mage. And as they did the heat hit them, their armour melted, excruciating pain came as their skins boiled and peeled to uncover the bones beneath. Quickly their swords became nothing but melted steel on the ground as their now bony hands reached out to grab at the mage.
Their vision had already left them as their skulls began to show, death seemed certain and yet they went on. The holy crosses that they had worn were gone, but the stones still remained, now I'm bedded within their boiling chests.
They couldn't see, but by sheer feeling of the ever increasing heat and the loss of all feeling that then followed they knew that they were only but few meters away now. And then, all of a sudden bang of someone falling from high above was heard, and then a pained yell followed, after which the heat suddenly disappeared.
Both men then stopped, their, mean, skin, vision and everything slowly came back and as Lilis light suddenly disappeared as well. The two naked men then could see another naked man laying atop the still clothed fire Mage.
Robin was the naked man's name, if they could remember correctly from Lilis earlier words. But their stunned admiration was quickly pushed aside as old Man Sit John jumped on tip of the dazed Mage and snapped his neck.
For the pain the Mage had caused them and the danger such individuals paused, he could not be left to utter out even a single words more. And so the threat as quickly as it had come, it had gone, and along with it most of the traitors had been burned away as well.
Now only skeletons of the dead, naked loyalist knights, and the majority of people who weren't naked remained within the cathedral. Many nobles, and knights along with all Lilis loved ones had made it.
Though the sight of it brought her relief, she did not smile for the dead were many and more were still to come. In exhaustion Lilis knees buckled from under her, as she fell to her knees.
Robin was alive and thanks to him a great threat had been averted. She honestly couldn't have kept her knights alive against those flames, and so she was quite glad to see that Robin had managed to just perfectly toss his own body on top of that mage. Though now all of Robins clothes were totally gone, and the same went for many of the knights as well. Luckily her girls were by now pretty good at making clothes, so getting these men dressed wouldn't be a problem at all.
Smiling at her own thought lightly, Lili then heard Art coming out of the catacombs. Glancing at him she could see his entire body covered in blood and guts, but no wounds it seemed, or then he had merely healed them all away already.
And though this seemed like the perfect moment to cheer for victory or hold a speech, Art merely came to stand next to Lilo as he barked out his next commands.
"Don't stop men, the battle still rages on out there! So catch you're breath quick, her up, get armed and get going! There are still treacherous bastards out there that need killing! Now move!"
And with that men quickly scrambled to their feet and began heading outside to meet the enemy again. Some took clothes off of the dead along with their weapons after which they too rushed outside and King Uther along with the Dukes were quick to do so as well.
Only the children and women stayed along with Art who crouched down next to Lili and said.
"Good job Lili, you saved a lot of lives today. Although it is quite worrying to see that the enemy actually managed to bring a Mage to the fight here. Even if it was merely a rogue Mage in search of some easy coin. But no matter, take you're time Lili, catch you're breath, I will head outside and deal with the rest now. Though if you wish to come, stay far behind. You cannot let any harm come to yourself now Lili, after all you're not the only one that is dependant on you to stay safe now."
As Art said this he looked to her belly where the baby was. Indeed while she held amazing healing powers she didn't know what would happen if the baby was to be hurt and she most definitely wasn't going to go try and see.
However as she watched Art go, a heavy feeling came upon her. She could feel a lot more enemies coming. And not just any enemies, but powerful ones like the mage that had died here.