Xerxes

Untold power

(Angs POV)

It was a mess on the ship with everyone running helter skelter to avoid colliding with the Vladians and magicians. No one had expected them to show up so soon. So many things went through my mind, if they were here it meant the distraction hadn't worked.

Oh I hope the Soldier is okay, I hope the warriors who had stayed back to act as decoys were okay.

I could not stay here anymore, I had to find my brother and if possible get off this ship.

He had a murderous look on his face. He had surely grown, from the little cartographer I had known to the man who stood before me.

I wanted to hold him in my arms and tell him that it would be okay, that it would be over soon, but we all know it would not solve anything. Xerxes was no quitter that's for sure, and he had come so far to think of giving up.

No, he would never do it. Not now, not on this ship. There was nothing he could do, but knowing the young man, he was not going down without a fight, sooner or later a plan would surely resurface.

I had to look for Georgey and find a way out before it was too late.

The ship shook violently at the will of the ocean, with each magician waving their arms around, as the water created vortexes around us.

Within minutes four violent hurricanes had been created with us stuck in the middle.

"GEORGEY!" I screamed when a flame hit the bow of the ship.

Dragons.

They had started raining fire down to the ships below.

A little hand gripped mine, and that was when I saw the monster.

Meridius.

He was scary in person.

I had heard stories of the powerful Magician but never actually seen him.

He put his hands out creating a little ball which shone blue and crackled with lightning.

Georgey held me tighter with his friends gripping my skirt as my heart raced. My little brother was too innocent to go like this, I had to comfort him in some way. Squatting to his level, I hugged him close and told him old stories of how heroes were born during times like these. We would not see tomorrow but hey, there were old heroic tales to put out to him before he joined our parents.

Before we joined our parents.

Xerxes looked back at us with his face melted in pain. He looked around the ship and I did the same, we were the only ones aboard the burning ship, everyone had fled.

The hurricanes had started to close in on us with the masts of the ship burning down to the curtain and the deck.

It was clearly over, there was no one here to save us this time, not the soldier, not the captain, no one.

The lightning ball had started to move into our direction, when he did something crazy.

He began to run towards the ball!

What was wrong with this boy?

Has he gone mad?

"Xerxes, don't do it!" I screamed, but it was no use, for he had stepped off the hull of the ship and jumped towards the ball.

I had no idea what his thoughts or intentions were, but if he was asleep and dreaming, this was one nap he was not going to wake from.

"Xerxes, Nooooooooo!" I screamed again, but he was already in the air and it was not like he could stop himself from hurtling towards the ball of destruction. I watched him get close to the ball and think to myself that it was definitely over... and then something happened.