"Zian are you sure you wanna come along?" Sulphyr asks Zian, as they prepare their bag "Yes! I want to go see what it's like beyond the gates!" Zian replies ecstatic. "Alright, just wear this." Sulphyr tells Zian, giving them a cloak with a hood. "We don't want to draw too much attention, especially with the prince of storms outside their home land." Sulphyr explains. "I know I know." Zian replies, taking the cloak and putting it on "You two ready?" Esper asks "Yeah." Sulphyr replies, getting on their horse. "Then let's go." Esper tells them as they leave.
"Are we missing someone?" Sulphyr asks "Oh no we forgot Alex." Esper replies gasping. "Ah who cares anyway, just Alex." Sulphyr replies. Meanwhile back at the nation of storms. "Where did everyone go?" Alex asks. Hours pass. "Should we camp out nearby?" Zian asks, looking how late it's gotten. "We should." Epser replies as they stop the group. "You know Zian, this would've happened with Alex before we came here." Sulphyr tells them. "How so?" Zian asks. "Well Alex overslept and wouldn't wake up, so I slapped the hell out of him and then we caught the train, well me and Esper did. He almost missed it if he wasn't slow." Sulphyr explains. "Where did you all live anyway?" Zian asks. "A week before we came here we lived in the nation of darkness." Sulphyr replies "What?! You lived in the nation of darkness! The ruler being Lucille, Lord of Darkness and-" Zian replies suddenly getting interrupted. "Lucille, she was the one who gave me the amulet. Think of it as a gift from a lord." Sulphyr explains "Does that explain those lines near your eyes?" Zian asks. "Yeah, although people still don't understand them, they think we are monsters, well they aren't wrong." Sulphyr replies "We get these marks from many beasts, I get mine from a basilisk." Sulphyr adds onto what they said.
"We came here to escape a battle we weren’t meant to get caught in, a war we had to fight in.” Sulphyr replies. “We had to kill people just to live.” Esper adds on. "I hope Luna's okay…" He tells himself. "You wanna continue the ride or you wanna camp out here?" Sulphyr asks Zian. "Let's continue." They reply. "Here Esper" Zian tells him handing him some bread. "It's not much food but it should keep you full." They tell him. "Thank you." He replies.
The group gets on the road and make it to their destination in two hours no less. "We've barely made it into the nation, but we still have a long way to go-" Sulphyr tells then but gets punched in the spine by an ice golem about eight feet tall. "Fucking hell Sulphyr!" Esper yells as he summons his Sickles. "I'll help Sulphyr up." Zian tells him running off to where they are. "Ugh, why does everything happen at once..?" They tell themself. "Sulphyr? Are you good?" Zian tells them. "Yeah, just let me get up." Sulphyr replies, summoning their sword. "Let's go help Esper." They tell Zian. "Got it!" They reply.
"Took you long enough!" Esper yells as they try to hold the golem back with chains made of thunder. "Don't gotta worry about a thing!” Sulphyr yells as they use their sword and begin to use their magic to chip away at it. “Zian! Now!” They yell at Zian, they summon their trident and lung at the head of the golem. “C'mon!” Sulphyr yells. The three get thrown in different directions with Sulphyr ending up in the sky. “I got it!” Sulphyr yells as they have their foot face the head of the golem surrounding it in magic almost as if it were a gauntlet for a foot. “Now!” They yells as they crush the golem, it turns into water.
“How the hell did you do that?!” Esper asks. “It just came to me, as if someone told me to.” They reply. “We shouldn't stop now! Let's hurry!” Zian yells as they run off to the nearby town. “I'll race you.” Sulphyr tells Esper as they begin to propel themself forward with wing magic. “Like hell!” Esper replies creating disks of storm magic and attach them to his shoes. “Keep up!” Zian yells. “How are they so fast?” Sulphyr asks. “It's the light magic, it makes them as light as a feather when they for example, run.” Esper explains. “Got it.” They reply. “Wait.” Zian tells them stopping the two. “Where are the horses?” They ask. “SHI-” Sulphyr yells out.
They get the horses and continue their journey until they reach the main part of the district, where the lord of ice resides. “Can't believe we forgot the horses.” Sulphyr tells them. "Well be glad I remembered." Zian replies. "Uh-huh." Sulphyr tells Zian, they continue walking. "So why are we here?" Zian asks. "To get an ally and to search for answers to Sulphyrs magic." Esper replies, a voice calls out to them. "Who are you three? You don't look like residents here." A gaurd asks them. "We've come from the nation of storms to ask for an ally in a war the lord of darkness Lucille." Zian explains. "And you are?" The gaurd asks. "Zian Costella, prince of the nation of storms." Zian replies. "We've been expecting you.-" The gaurd replies when suddenly alarms go off. "Enemy soldiers arrived! It's on!" Gaurds yell out. "Enemy soldiers?!" Sulphyr yells summoning their sword. "Nation of embers soldiers, they've formed an alliance with the nation's of darkness and riptides." The gaurd replies running off. "Esper you make sure Zian doesn't get hurt, I'll go help." Sulphyr tells them running off behind the soldiers.
Sulphyr helps fend off the soldiers but ends up getting surrounded with a stab wound at their side. "Oh fuck no!" Sulphyr replies as they activate their amulet. "Oh shit." Esper tells Zian as the large blast of magic beams into the sky. "That's not good, whatever is released is not Sulphyr." He tells them. "Well well well well well well well. What do we have here?" Sulphyr? Asks. "Hey! They are the enemies!" Esper yells at Sulphyr? Pointing at the enemy soldiers. "Hmm?" They reply taking a look at the enemies. "They seem boring anyway, time for some fun!" It replies as it takes out a spear made of magic, it wreaks havoc on the enemies leaving nobody to live, after about 20 minutes whatever was in sulphyrs body goes back inside the amulet leaving Sulphyr weak coughing up magic.
"Sulphyr! You okay?" Esper asks running up to them. "My magic has been drained by alot, I need something to eat and maybe a napkin to clean up." They reply still coughing up blood. "Got it." Esper replies as he looks through his bag, he gives Sulphyr what he needs. "You! What was that?!" A gaurd asks "It likes to be called Echo, it's a spirit that's exactly like me and looks like me except it doesn't understand common laws and causes chaos." Sulphyr explains. "If that's the case then I believe the mistress would like to speak to all three of you." The gaurd replies. "Alright just let me recover a bit." They reply, after a bit of rest they go to the courthouse. "So you three have arrived, you've caused some trouble when you arrived you know? Like for example that stunt you pulled with that amulet." The lady sitting at the front of the room tells them. "Yes I know but you were under attack." Sulphyr replies. "I know." She replies. "That's why we're gonna help you in this war." She replies. "My name is Siina" she tells them.
"You should take a break before you leave, after all the ride here must've been exhausting." Siina recommends. "We will don't worry." Zian replies, the group walks out of the courtroom and go to the nearby inn. "Don't care what you all say about the time I'm going to sleep." Sulphyr tells them falling on the bed and sleeping. "Wow they must've been tired huh." Zian tells Esper. "Well I'm gonna go to sleep aswell, night" Esper tells him. "Night." Zian tells him
YOU ARE READING
The Ruined Kingdom
ActionSulphyr Cora, a 21 year old person has the job to protect the prince of the district of Storm, but something seems wrong.
