Our Reality ( After The Haunted FF~EDITING)

Chapter 20: Unexpected Saviors

( Mia's P.O.V )
He grinned widely.
"Missed me?" 'So that's Armen huh?' I thought in my head. The Emperor grit his teeth and balled his fists. I smirked.
".....I see..." He trailed off angrily. He slowly turned towards me and grinned.
"You......" The mercenary behind me turned around and faced him. He pointed towards me. The smirk on my face left entirely.
'Oh no.' I thought quickly.
"Hold her down.....and kill her........" My eyes widen and the mercenary behind me grabbed me suddenly and put me in a headlock. His arm pressed tightly against my neck, choking me.
"MIA!" I heard Grayson yell. He held a knife to my neck, cutting into my skin. I kicked and trashed around, but he was too strong.
"Sova." I heard from behind me. The mercenary's knife clanged to the ground and his grip loosened. Seconds later, he fell to the ground. He looked as if he was asleep. I looked behind me and saw Armen. I looked at him for a split second before looking at the dictator. His eyes completely turned red and he had the look of a killer. I started to back away, but not after I slowly picked the knife up first. Armen walked in between me and the Emperor lazily. He looked a bit disturbed by the look of the murderers eyes, but didn't look the least bit scared.

"Sova.'' He said simply, and the Emperor was out like a light.
"...wow...it usually takes awhile for it to be effective..." He stated. Everyone was staring at him wide-eyed. He looked around.
"What?"
"Our...lord...you killed him..." One of the archers said with vengeance in their voice.
'Must be a loyal one...' I thought, disappointingly. Aaron sighed loudly.
"What idiots..." I heard him mumble. I looked at Drake and we made eye contact. I gave him a face that said, "what now?" He shrugged slightly. Everyone seemed to be unsure of what to do. We were all still in place, other than us looking at eachother for a couple of moments. After those moments, Aaron sighed again.
"Something has to happen. I'm getting bored." Everyone looked at him.
"Well then what do we do? Our leader is dead!" The same archer said. Armen, Drake, and Aaron face-palmed, and shook their heads in disappointment. A magenta stake appeared in Armen's hand.

"Isn't it obvious? We fight." He announced as he threw the stake and it landed deeply in an archers thigh. The archer yelled in pain and fell, dropping their weapon. Only a few in the room gasped. After that, all the archers aimed their crossbows at Armen, and fired. All while Grayson elbowed roughly both mercenaries holding him down. They both fell back, and one of them dropped their sword. He grabbed it, and stabbed it through his wooden shackles, and the sword traveled outwards from his feet, until the shackles were split. They came off easily and he cut the link on the chains that were locked on his arms, allowing him to be more mobile. One of the archers came on his back and they both dropped to the floor. Grayson then stabbed him in the stomach. I was slowly backing out of the room.

'If I can get out of here, I can get our stuff and weapons.' I thought. I gripped my knife and sprinted out of the room.
'Our stuff should be in the storage, I need to go back to the room where my clothes are too. I can't stand being in this attire. I can steal some stuff from here aswell.' I thought to myself as I kept running. I felt a pain on my arm. I looked down and saw a cut across it. Suddenly, something grabbed my arm and pulled me back, a knife to my throat again. It cut on my recent wound. I averted my eyes and saw a mercenary. More specifically, an empire assassin.

( Drake's P.O.V )
"Mörk Stäf!" I heard Aaron chant. Before he could hit me with the spell, I jumped out of the way and the dark magical sphere hit the mercenaries behind me, knocking them both against the wall. He turned his staff and a blade stuck out of it. He ran towards me with the staff. I held up my arms and covered my face quickly. It stabbed through the gem and the metal of my chain, causing it to open and fall to the floor. I only had one of the chains wrapped around my arm. My arm was stabbed aswell. I held it tightly and choked back a yelp of pain. He raised his staff above my head and tried another attack. I panicked and grabbed the staff before it stabbed me. We both struggled. I soon grabbed and pushed it back towards him, making him almost fall. He regained his footing and grabbed the staff again.