The Eventful Expedition

Page 77 - Through The Wildlands ~ Kya Kingdom Enemy Revealed!

The camera does an overhead view of Keifer, Benny, Alex, Devin riding in the carriage towards the Kingdom. Keifer is using his Ansrit to propel the carriage forwards

Keifer asks, "How much longer do we have?"

Benny says, "We should be there in the afternoon. You can stop pumping Ansrit for now though, you'll need your strength for what's next."

Keifer asks, "Wait what do you mean?"

Devin says, "These parts are where bandits and poachers come for hunting some of the biggest water animals on the planet."

Keifer asks, "Are there tons of bandits and military around here?"

Devin says, "Normally there would be be but since the Kingdom is under attack we won't see any military. Bandits are a different story since they'll have free range to hunt."

Keifer says, "Well hopefully they realize who we are and not try to mess with us."

Alex looks at Benny who's in deep thought and asks, "What's wrong Benny?"

Benny says, "I'm worried about the Kingdom. There hasn't been any news on it and its been two days."

Alex says, "I've been thinking the same. We'll need a good strategy for anyone willing to attack Kya Kingdom and have it held up this long."

As the four travel towards the kingdom we're flashed to the Castle of Kya Kingdom were a fierce stand off between King Escarcha and King Viento vs King Nov

King George Viento; a 49yr old 5'10 brownskinned man with a black lowcut fade and a black goatee. He has a slender build, black eyes, and carries a hilt used to channel his wind energy; says, "He's...incr...edible.."

King Marcus Escarcha ;A 50yr old 6'0 lightskin man with long wavy gray hair to his shoulders. A broad shouldered proud standing man with blue eyes and a sword scar from the bottom of his left cheek to his left eyebrow holding an ice broadsword in his right hand; says, "To take us both on for these last couple days is something amazing."

King Nov; a 6'3 lightskin man with thick black dreads to his shoulders. A broad shouldered ripped man with brown eyes fighting with an ansrit sword in the shape of a crocodile tooth attached to his right arm; he smiles and says, "Don't be so flattering Kings. You all fought my army's and protected the Kingdom well before I arrived. You both also suffer from old age as well!"

King Escarcha smiles and says, "Don't try and flatter us now. It'll make it a bit harder to kill you."

King Nov smiles and says, "Well it doesn't bother me a bit!"

King Nov rushes the two while creating another Ansrit sword with his left arm. He slashes from 1 to 7 with his right hand clashing swords with King Escarcha. He then blocks King Viento's staff attacks with his left arm while knocking King Escarcha back with his right.

King Viento jumps back and rechannels his energy using his hilt to create a wind bow. King Escarcha rushes back as King Viento charges his bow to give him an opening. King Nov clashes swords with King Escarcha once again. The two parry each others attacks leaving no openings.

King Viento patiently waits for his opening as the two duel. It takes a few minutes but once he has it he takes his shot.

The camera follows right behind the arrow as it flies towards King Nov's neck but just before the moment of impact we're flashed back to Keifer and his crew traveling through Kya WildLands

Keifer asks, "Hey what's that?"

The gang looks forward and sees a gigantic tail slither underneath some mud

Alex says, "Seems like a Basilisk. We'll be fine as long as-"

A giant frog bumps into the side of the carriage knocking it over

Keifer stands up and says, "Well that was something huh?"

Devin says, "Guess we just didn't see him." He uses his wind to lift the carriage back into place

As the four start to walk towards it Benny notices something strange in the area. Out the mud a bandit jumps out while swinging his sword at Alex but the attack is blocked by Benny's ice wall. Within the next few seconds the gang is surrounded by 25 men. Their leader walks front and center

Badger; a 5'8 30yr old white man with a dragon tattoo over his left eye. He has a blonde buzzcut, blue eyes and broad shoulders with a muscular build; says, "Looks like the princes have fallen right into our hands. Along with the infamous DeadLocs, looks like we've hit jackpot boys!"

Keifer asks, "Who are you?"

Badger says, "I'm Badger, a man of a 100million bounty, and leader of The Badger Bandits. We're here to capture the princes and Kya Kingdom, but if you get in our way we'll gladly take you in too!"

Alex says to Benny, "What should we do? We'll need our strength for the fight at the capital but it's obvious these guys mean business."

Keifer smiles while powering up his Aerobi and rushes one bandit knocking him out cold. Benny laughs and summons an ice blade and says, "We'll do what we always do!"

Alex rolls his eyes and smiles, he powers his Karu energy and charges into battle.

With a fierce look of anger on his face Badger spikes his Adre to level five and rushes Keifer throwing a right punch ~ Keifer dodges the punch and lands a rib cracking uppercut to Badger's ribs into a left hook to the chin ~ As the hook lands Badger tries to counter with a right hook to the ribs but it's blocked by Keifer ~ As Keifer blocks the punch with his right hand he headbutts Badger causing him to stumble backwards. Keifer then lands a heavy right front kick to Badger's ribs shattering them on impact.

Badger holds his ribs as he falls to one knee. He looks around as his men are being beaten one-by-one by the princes. Keifer walks up to his and says, "Well you had confidence I'll give you that, but I'm worth much more than a 100million at this point."

Badger stares at the ground. He slowly lowers his aura as he submits to Keifer. He says, "I'm sorry please let me and my men go. We'll walk away like nothing ever happened."

Keifer replies, "Ha, nice try but we're no amateurs. You can't trust any bandits in this world."

Badger cracks a slight grin and says "Well I guess I tried." He spikes his Adre to level three and strikes the mud in front of him blinding Keifer.

Within the next second he pulls out a small grenade and tosses it at their carriage. Badger, Keifer and the princes sprint away to escape the explosion while everyone else was caught up in it.

Badger smiles and thinks, *Mission complete.*

Using the explosion as a cover Badger takes off back towards the ocean leaving our heros staring at the carriage in shock

Benny says, "Well this sucks."

Alex asks, "Well what now?"

Keifer says, "Well there's only one thing to do now."

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