Last One Standing (On Hold)

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The trio stops when they hear rumbling outside. "Sounds like something started up outside. We must be down in the underground pig pen right now. Let's head out." Hawk suggests. "Underground pig pen? You mean the dungeon?" Seraphina asks the pig. "Yes." The pig replies. "Oh." Elizabeth sighs and then gasps as if remembering something. The younger princess started calling out to her family. "Father?! Margaret?! Where are you?! Father?!" Elizabeth shouts. "Hey, if you keep shouting out loud like that, the guards are gonna come." Hawk tells her.

"Elizabeth?" A woman's voice says, through a door. "Elizabeth? Is that you?" The woman calls once more. "That sounds like Margaret's voice." Elizabeth says and runs to the door. "Big sister! Is that you, Margaret? Tell me. Have you been all right?" She asks with teary eyes. "I'm fine. What about you? Both father and I, we've been worried about you for so long now." Margaret answers, worried about her sister. "I worried you?" Elizabeth asks in disbelief. "I'm fine, Margaret. I'm sorry. It's all my fault. Because of me, Veronica nearly died." She cries.

"Elizabeth. You shouldn't blame yourself so much. Please, it's something she would never wish for. Because I know how deeply she cares about you." Margaret reassures her sister. "Also, it's strange, but..." "I'm sorry, Margaret. We'll talk later. Let's get out of here first." Elizabeth tells her sister, suddenly determined. The mage appears behind him out of nowhere. "Sisters conferring over a prison break? You look so innocent. How did you two manage to leave your cell?" She asks them. "Release my sister this instant!" Elizabeth demands. "You're under the wrong impression." The mage says. "I'll have you know, Princess Margaret entered that cell of her own volition."

"Even I wouldn't believe such a thing." Seraphina chimes in, standing beside Elizabeth. "It's perfectly fine if you don't. Now then, princesses. Allow me to take you somewhere safer." The mage walks up to them, holding her hand out. The princesses backed up. Hawk rams into the mage, throwing her into a wall. "Who dares?" She asks. "Ultra Knockout Blow Forget Meal! By completely masking my presence, I can attack my enemy's blind spots with this hidden technique." Hawk claims. "Anyways, you've been totally ignoring me this entire time, lady. So I'm gonna take you on first." "Thank you, Hawk." Seraphina thanks the pig. "A talking pig? A pig?!" The mage asks. The ground below Hawk glows white.

"Begone!" A beam shoots out of the ground, throwing the princesses into a wall and knocking them out. "How irritating. There's nothing in this world I despise more than pigs. Where did it wander in from?" The mage wonders. "Elizabeth." Margaret says, worried for her sister. The mage picks up the princess and holds her under her arm. "She merely fainted. Oh, that's right." She unlocks the door to Margaret's cell. "As your sweet little sister requested, I've opened the door. Now go wherever your heart desires. That is, if you're prepared to abandon him." She taunts the princess before vanishing with the younger one.

Margaret turns her attention to the other white-haired girl on the floor and kneels beside her. She puts her hands on her shoulders and shakes her awake. "Wake up." She whispers. Seraphina's eyelids flutter, and she opens her eyes. "Come on." Margaret pulls her to sit up. "We need to get out before she comes back." Without a word, Seraphina gets up and follows the princess out of the dungeon. The two girls ran up the staircase until they got to the main area of the castle. "Go this way. You should make it out." Margaret tells the girl. "Thank you. Be careful!" Seraphina waves and follows the path the princess gives her.

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Black and white shoes skid across the paved ground as Seraphina stops. She stares up at the storm cloud, feeling a weird sense of déjà vu. "Is it that knight from the forest?" She mumbles, remembering Gilthunder. "I'm sensing Meliodas' presence." Seraphina breaks out into a sprint and holds her hand out. "Come to me, Divine Scythe!" There's a glint in the sky, and the golden scythe flies into the princess's hand. She channels wind into her feet and speeds off toward Meliodas' presence.