What is love?

Chapter 8

    Princess, that’s all Dimitri kept thinking in his head after that. As he kept looking at the direction of where they went, he started to tear up. Not knowing why he started to cry, he tried to wipe the tears, what if he’ll never see her again. Even though they just met, they got so close and those feelings he kept feeling overwhelmed by, what about them, what if he could never see her again and never able to tell her these odd feelings. He’s never in his years ever felt like this. And now that he met this girl that gave him the urge to protect and care for is gone. As fast as she appeared in his world, she vanished.

After that day, Dimitri didn’t know what to do or what to think about what happened or who she was. But after, he stayed at the town for a few days to help wherever the help was needed.

For a week he helped, but he then got himself to understand that he had to keep going, that he had to go to the gateway. He knew though that going to the gateway is his mission, but he also knew he couldn’t fight them alone.

Thankfully, as he helped he realized that the Royal Guards were still there. What they were doing? Was something he didn’t know nor did he care, but he needed their help.

He went to the camp that they had set up at a field just outside the walls. As he got there, the Royal Guards got up on edge to why someone was coming to them. Before Dimitri got there and the Royal Guards started to use force to back him off the captain of them, Denis, the man they met, recognised Dimitri and had his men stand down.

As Dimitri approached, with a curious voice, Denis began their conversation, “well hello again, Dimitri is it? How can I be of service to you my friend?”
Dimitri, with a determined face, answered without hesitation. “I need you and your men’s help?”

“Oh, is that so. What is it that you need our help with?” he said as he started to grow a smirk on his face.

“I need help with attacking the Hell gateway Northeast of here,” he said with a serious voice.

And realizing that Denis’s face began to turn more not interested and quickly spoke before Denis could, “I know that it sounds crazy, but my job is to stop this disaster and I can’t do it on my own. Especially not against those beasts that await at the Gateway.”

“Well I guess it was about time to head out, there is a convoy that we were going to meet up at the gateway anyway, but i’m glad we have the same goals you can definitely help.”

As Denis finishes he turns to his camp of men and yells out, “alright everyone enough lazing around get your asses up and let's head out!”

“Thank you Denis, but I don’t have a horse to get there,” he says, concerned as Denis turns back to him.

“Ah don’t worry about that, we are leaving four Royal Guards to stand guard here so you can just take one of theirs for the time being.

As Denis finishes he turns to the left and points to four horses that are standing alone. Dimitri quickly gathers his gear that he left behind before they leave him, and as he starts to go back to the camp he saw in the corner of his eye, the Savority. He stopped and stared at the restaurant before he left and looked down in displeasure and continued on. As he got back the Royal Guards were already packed up and ready to head out, but waited for Dimitri to hop on his horse. When he hopped on, a dozen of the Royal Guards started ahead of the group and a few seconds another dozen. When Dimitri got settled down, he looked at Denis and they nodded at each other and the last thirty men as well as the two of them headed on forward.

The Gateway to Hell was not that far from the town, no more than an hour ride. As they all quickly galloped to the Gateway, they began to hear explosions and yelling in the distance in the direction that the gateway was. They quickly galloped to the battle that had begun, the closer they got, the more they noticed the air around started to get hotter and grow a stench that resembles rotting flesh. As they hastily arrived, they saw the convoy just outside the Gateway, surrounded by Royal Guards and Defynors, clashing into one another. They saw catapults shooting oil barrels towards the GateKeepers that were trying to get out of the trench. The group that Dimitri was with rammed their horses, threw a horde of the Defynors and easily crushed dozens within seconds.