Legend of The Emerald Sword

[tangletail]

Leo immeidiately felt the crowd's glare fall upon him. With a sigh, he stepped up onto the stage and came closer to the king.  He doesn't remove his mask, but instead slowly shifts down onto one knee in a polite bow, before moving off to join the rest. He most certainly did not feel comfortable bowing to the king, but it was by his word that spared his life for now.

[Luccas Hunter]

The king looks closer at the last name. Mumbling to himself, he announces the last person. "Alexander Carter?"

[Chronic Payne]

Standing on the well watches as one by one the people being called, smirks a grin at Luccas' name getting called and almost not recognizing him in his armor, "Hmph, poor bastard..."

After watching the ones being called up he jumps down thinking it's over and not worth watching the rest placing hands in pockets and makes his way back to the village, "Good luck fools..." then suddenly the crowd goes quite and hears his name called,"Alexander Carter!", freezing in mid step and turns around slowly, "...........WHAT!?!" the crowd starts to yell and celebrate forcing in a kind gesture pushing and patting Alex's back, "No! Wait! I! I didn't sign up!!!", his words being drowned out by the crowds celebration.

The King looking at the name again smiles and claps, "Well then, this is a treat to have the Great Vigilante of Karryon join the chosen few, come now!!!" laughs and continues to clap,

Trying to force his way back is lifted up and sorta crowd surfed towards the stage, "Hey! Let me down!! I didn't sign up!!", words still being drowned out, "Aww... damn it all!!!" is then thrown on stage by the crowd, as they yell and shout, landing and taking a knee hops up and right when the words come out to explain has his arm grabbed and lifted.

"KINGDOM OF KARRYON!!! YOUR NEW HEROES!!!", holding Alex's wrist raises it up high, the crowd goes wild,

Looking around with a confused look on his face, see Luccas shrugs and shakes his head mouthing the words, "I didn't sign up...",

Thinking in his head, "This isn't happening... this isn't happening... this is not happening!!! HOW DID MY NAME GET IN THERE!? Oh this is going to be long day...", tries to smile and sighs... "Listen, my lord... I did-"


Suddenly the bells begin to ring and people begin to turn as a man shouts, "King Gemini!! The heroes have returned!!! AND FOUND A SHARD!!! Over the hill they approach!!"

[Luccas Hunter]

Luccas tries to form words, but just stares at Alex in disbelief. He watches the scene take place, totally stunned. Breaking out of the trance at the sound of the bells though, he quickly walks over to him and talks into his ear. "What are you doing up here?"


King Gemini!! The heroes have returned!!! AND FOUND A SHARD!!! Over the hill they approach!!" Luccas hears, making him turn around to look towards the main gate, in direct view from the square.

"Well then! this is promising news! Captain, take the heroes to the throne room, both new and old. This will be good knowledge for the leaving party." King Gemini orders. a group of soldiers moves toward the small group walking towards town as a second group beings to round us up to take us to the castle.

[Chronic Payne]

Before explaining gets dragged off to the main castle, "Damn it..." lowing his head trying to figure out what is going on, laughs, "Oh this has got to be a joke!" walking and rubbing head, getting looks from the other contestants, "What?"

Henry smirks a laugh, "I would of thought the Vigilante of Karryon would be.... taller?" snickers as the rest laugh.

"Heh, oh so you got jokes huh?" walks along and puts hands behind head, as his tail whips out and feather taps the large bear, his eyes going crossed and falling to his knees holding his manhood, everyone stopping and looking, "You ain't so tall yourself..." continues on past everyone.

[Luccas Hunter]

Luccas grins as the scene unfolds, but quickly becomes stone faced as the returning heroes enter the throne room with the king and five royal guard. "To the door on the left, place it where it fits on the stone slab" King Gemini says quietly to the new heroes. They walk quickly through the door and leaves us alone with the king. He walks slowly to the throne and sits down.


"Greetings heroes, I am glad to see such a promising group. Each of you, please take a knee. one at a time so I may give each of you a blessing." Connor takes a knee in front of the king, looking up at him. The king places a hand on his head and begins his blessing.


"Angels hear my--" Is all that is heard as the king falls to the floor, a knife sticking out of his back. The royal guard pull out their sword, but three of the five begin attacking the other two, shouting "For the Democians!" The two guards fall as they begins coming towards the new heroes. Shinji mutters a few words and a large flash appears, stunning the guards.


"Quickly, through the door back here, before they get out of the spell!" Hanna shouts and runs toward the door and yanks it open as the older heroes enter the throne room, returning from placing the shards. Taking in the scene, the pull out their weapons. "They killed the King!" one shouts as they begin to come into the room. "LET'S GO!" Hannah shouts again. Connor and Shinji begin moving for the back door. Luccas hesitates, hearing the voice in his head speak again. "You better go, those heroes look angry enough to kill." He begins running for the back door.

[tangletail]

Leo's head slowly tilted as he watched the king fall so suddenly. A small grimace had crossed his expression behind the mask. He wasn't a stranger to such killings, but he knew who ever see's this may believe that the group are the assassins. His head slowly turned to see the old Hero's arrive and he lets out a low groan.

 
“Ah... once again wrong place at the wrong time,” the feline grumbled. He quickly reached out to Luccas to grab him by the arm and sling him in front of himself towards the door, and then gave him a shove to get him moving.

 
“Go go go,” the feline hissed repetitively after breaking out in a dead sprint, speeding through the door while he drew a dagger to defend himself, “We are scape goats now.”

[Chronic Payne]

With a look of horror and infinite rage flows through his body, watching as King Gemini falls over while the bloody dagger stuck in his back, suddenly to Alex everything just slows down to a stop and he is child again,


(Flash back)
Standing over his adopted fathers grave via funeral, feeling the kings hand on his head looks up and sees him looking down with a smile, wiping away his tears and sniffling like most kids do, opens his eyes to the king handing him a red bandanna being the same his adopted father wore, "He wanted me to give this to you, and for me to watch you as my own." tying it around his arm hugs the king burring his face and cries again feeling the king kneel and hug him back.


(Back to Present)
Returning to the present things start to gain speed and return to normal as the kings lifeless body hits the ground, and the other chosen run away, looking towards the king's body Alex's grinds his teeth and clinches his fist, heart races and body twitches and without hesitation snaps giving an almost primal roar grabbing one of the disguised Democian by his helmet with both hands and literally crushing it on his head slowly, he's scream of pain and suffering echo through the halls and he squirms about trying desperately to get free, as blood is coughed up and his eyes bleed he dies with a loud snap from his neck.


An almost evil and bone chilling grin spreads across Alex's face, dropping the dead Democian turns and shuffles over to the other one who had taken a step back and fallen now crawling backwards from witnessing what he saw as the other walks back dropping his weapon and trembles from fear, "Guards!!! GUARDS!!!" Alex looking up sees the approaching Royal knights, shaking his head grunts and points at the downed Democian, "Don't think you will live long... your deaths wont be so quick!"


Turning about stops at the passage opening, and gives a glance at the kings body and punches the wall leaving a small cratered hole, "Damn it all!" and proceeds to follow after the others.

[Luccas Hunter]

The group proceeds through the tunnel that eventually opens out into a small cave with a steep drop and a pool of water as the only exit besides the way we came from. "I hope none of you guys are scared of heights." Connor remarked as he jumped down, landing in the water with a loud splash. "You know, this is a really a bad idea, jumping down like this, you know what I am saying?" Shinji said, looking down at Connor and back up at us. "Oh shut it and go already" Hanna said as she pushes him down, quickly following.

"Well, I guess we should go, they are going to be here soon" Luccas jumps down, sinking quickly in the water because of the armor. Moving quickly to one side, he climbs out of the water, his armor leaking it as he look up at the cave he jumped out of.

[Chronic Payne]

(Nixon what the heck are you doing? this is the dead one... I'm working on the restart character chart thread...)