Empires: The Next Generation [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 16

Sun's PoV

"You fucking bastard!"

Muffled shouts and insults invaded Sun's foggy mind as she slowly opened her eyes, she was lying in a small stone cell, just big enough for her to fit inside of it, one of the walls was replaced with bars, and was connected to a significantly bigger room. The shouts kept going on and on. After her mind had cleared a bit she could finally recognize the voice behind the shouts.

It was the king of the Lost Empire, and her father, but that's just a small detail.

"Father?" The blonde girl whispered as she walked towards the bars that separated her from the other room.

The shouts stopped almost immediately, "S-Sun?"

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THE CORAL NEWS

THE HEIR OF MEZELEA HAS SADLY PASSED AWAY DUE TO AN UNKNOWN DISEASE.

MEANWHILE, THE GRIMLANDS AND THE CRYSTAL CLIFFS HAVE DECIDED TO EVACUATE THEIR CITIZENS TO A SHARED SAFEHOUSE.

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Autumn's PoV

"We did it!" Ocean excitedly exclaimed when she saw the shore of the dried-up ocean coming in sight, it had been a week or so, the two girls had reluctantly left their camp and had started to make their way toward the Ocean Empire, and now they had finally reached it.

They cautiously climbed down into the dried-up pit and started walking toward the Prisma Palace, Ocean looked around in horror as they passed dead fishes, coral, and seaweed.

Finally, they reached the Ocean Empire, there was just one teeny tiny problem, the place was deserted.

"Hello?" Autumn called as she and Ocean wandered around what once had been a thriving empire, but was now nothing but ruins. She looked at Ocean with a panicked expression, the heir of the Ocean Empire looked back and shrugged.

They decided to enter the Prisma Palace, it took them a while to reach the stairs since they had to climb a lot of rocks that were laid bare since the ocean had dried up, after a few minutes they finally managed to reach the actual staircase and they started to climb it.

"I could really use an elytra right now." Autumn complained while they continued their climb, suddenly, a small sob made them both stand still.

"What was that?" Ocean whispered as she warily looked around her, "It came from the top of the Prisma Palace."

"I-I don't know." Autumn whispered back.

She took a deep breath and continued climbing the staircase, at a much faster pace this time.

Ocean's eyes widened, "What are you doing?!"

Autumn didn't react as she continued her climb, leaving Ocean with no other option but to follow her.

Finally, both of them reached the end of the staircase

A man with cyan hair was sitting on the ground and leaning against the elevator that led to the place where the axolotls were normally held, his legs were pulled up to his chest and his face was hiding behind his hands. His shoulders were violently shaking whilst more and more sobs could be heard.

"Dad?"

Scott's head shot up, his eyes were watery and red from crying, his face showed horror as soon as he saw his daughter and Ocean.

"A-Autumn? N-no, no, no, no!" He hastily climbed back on his feet and started stumbling backwards.

"Dad? What happened-" Autumn asked whilst walking toward the man.

"S-stay back! P-please I don't want to h-hurt y-you."

Another wave of tears.

His eyes frantically moved between Ocean and Autumn, "Tell y-your father I'm s-sorry." He sobbed, it was not clear to who this last sentence was directed.

He looked back at Autumn, "I love you."

Without any warning, he turned around, started running towards the edge,

And jumped.

"DAD!"
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Hi everyone thanks for reading!

So uhm, Scott died. (So did Moss but who cares about him anyways)

Oops.

See you in the next chapter!