Crossed

Chapter 15:

"Can I help serve the food?," I look back and see Ardian standing there. "Sure thing," I say," I just have to finish the last things," he nods. "I spoke with the Queen, like you said," he says," she doesn't know. She told me there were three new associates made that night, or at least eight souls led out from the place they got lost in...," he sighs," you have spoken with her today, right?" "I did, but before you ask, no I didn't tell her anything about what you said and asked me," I look at him," if you want to know anything from her, ask her yourself. At this point she's nervous you might dislike her already."

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"Queen Mirialla!?," one of the Dragon Guards flew into the ruins, calling out for her Queen," Oh Archimage Wren?," I look up to her. "Hello Guard Ellian," I say and smile to her," Queen Mirialla isn't here currently, I could take a message for her if you want?," I offer. "Okay," she takes place in front of me," we found the place the Slain's have taken as their hiding. We are observing it and awaiting the order," she says. "Oh, that is great, thank you," I say and get up," I will let her know soon as she returns," she nods to me. "Then I will return to my fellow Guards," Guard Ellian says and she takes back off again.

It didn't take long for the Queen to return, once I felt her energy approaching I put down the research I was looking through and went to where she landed. "Queen Mirialla?," I say immediately getting her attention. "Archimage Wren," she says. "Guard Ellian just stopped by here with news about the Slain's," I say. "What did she say?," she looks worried.

"Where did the Queen fly off to?," Samaranthan walked up to me. "The Dragon Guards found the hiding of the Slain's," I say," she's off to give them orders on what the next steps are." "Oh, so it's about to happen then?," I nod to her and gather some things in my bag. "I don't know how much longer we still have until we have to be ready so I'm going to go find Ardian," I say. "I could also go find him?," she offers," then you can get ready for what you have to do?" I look at her and then nod," okay, thank you." She nods with a smile and then walks off.

"Archimage Wren?," I look back and see Queen Meadow and Guard Fir walking up to me. "Oh hello," I say and stop what I was doing. "I was wondering if you knew where Archimage Ardian and Samaranthan were?," the Queen asks. "I thought Samaranthan was going to find him?," I say," she said she would." "We saw them walk off together a little while ago," Guard Fir says. "Oh?," I stand up straight," well... I mean they did want to talk together... maybe they are just going on a walk until Queen Mirialla returns?"

"Okay, we just hope they are not in trouble," the Queen says, I nod," it has been a while." "I think they are just coming back," Guard Fir says. "How do you- never mind," I say, he nods and we walk to the library. "Do you have everything you need?," Guard Fir asks me. "I think I do, yes," I say and softly pat on my bag," I kept everything in there." He nods and just then Ardian walks into the library followed by Samaranthan.

"Had a nice walk you two?," Queen Meadow asks them. "It was fine," Ardian says and he sits down beside me. "I understand him now," Samaranthan says and she sits on the other end of the table. "Are we really ready to do this?," I ask after a short silence. "We do not really have any other choice than to be," Ardian says. "I meant... do we really have everything we need?," I say," can we open the portal to the Middlegrounds quick enough? Can you really keep it open until we get out again?" "We are sure," Queen Meadow says. "Yes, Samaranthan made us a tool Queen Meadow enchanted with magic from our souls together. That way we can work on keeping it open for a longer time," Guard Fir says," on top of that we will feed our magic into the portal to keep it big enough for the two of you to walk out again." "And I will be there if there is more energy needed," Samaranthan adds," Queen Meadow explained to me how that would work and I am certain I can do it."

I nod slowly before staring at the table again. "You don't have to be nervous," I look up to Queen Meadow," we will ensure your safety, that is a promise we made and are certainly planning on keeping our honour to." "No I know," I say," I just cannot help it, we're getting very close to facing them again..."

The sound of the dragon wings above us makes us pause our conversation and soon three Dragon Guards land inside the library. "Archimage Wren?," we all get up and walk over to them," oh, Queen Meadow," Ellian was leading them," it is so great to see you again." "Likewise Ellian," the Queen says. "What do we do?," Ardian asks Ellian. "We need all of your help down in the town. After the Queen got to us and explained we needed to lead the Slain's near The Residence they escaped our barricades. They fled towards the town and not long after started attacking our folk," Guard Ellian explains. "Okay, we will come with you," Queen Meadow says and we get all on their backs.

The Town's Square was a mess. People were running towards the shops that surrounded it. We jumped onto the ground and looked around to see the Slain's starting to make the Square a ruin also. "We need to act quickly!," we look up to see Queen Mirialla flying above, trying to catch the Slain's attention. "On it!," Ardian and I call up to her before running up to as many of them and trying to get them to focus on us."We need to get them away from the people!," I call out to him. "Let's get them to the forest!," Ardian says, I nod and start leaking some of my magic out to them in hopes it catches...

And sure it did...