The Tales Of Esmeralda

Chapter 26: "HOW THE FUCK DID THAT NOT WORK?!"

Heracles went straight to Titania. He grabbed her arm and yanked her off of her horse, away from the battle. She fell to the ground with a slight "Oof!" She glared up at Heracles. "So. You want to go at it again?"

"Last time it wasn't much of a fight," Heracles pointed it, readying his club.

Titania stood up slowly, unsheathing her sword. "This time it will be."

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"HOW THE FUCK DID THAT NOT WORK?!" Sebastian yelled as all of the Argonauts ran away from Titania's camp. Nobody answered Sebastian as they ran back to their own camp.

They all panted as soon as thy got into their camp.

Sebastian was the first to speak again, "Like I originally asked...how...the fuck...did that not work?"

Esmeralda shook her head. It was all going so well at first...

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Heracles and Titania had been fighting. At first Heracles was overpowering Titania, pushing her to the ground and sitting on top of her as she struggled to move the club he was trying to put on her neck. Titania struggled and struggled until finally she decided to use her legs. She kneed Heracles below his waist and smirked. Heracles howled as he jumped off of her, crouching on the ground. Titania grabbed Heracles's club and aimed it at him like it was a sword.

"My men outnumber yours," Titania said triumphantly.

Heracles smirked. "Not anymore..."

Titania looked up at the fighting, which showed that quite a few of her men either died or fled. Titania stared out at the battlefield, her eyes slightly wide and her mouth slightly open. She then looked down at Heracles with the same expression. Until she too smirked. "Just you wait..."

A few minutes later Titania had other men flying under her banner approach the battlefield. They immediately started fighting the Argonauts, and eventually the Argonauts had to flee.

Which led to Sebastian's question...

And later, Esmeralda's answer.

"Titania got somebody to join her," Esmeralda said at dinner. "A-another warlord or something... An ally..."

Yolanda frowned. "Well who?! And why?!"

"The why is simple," Sebastian shrugged as he took a bite of his food. "She needed more men. Figured we'd be after her..."

"The who..." Petros thought as he stared somewhere over Sebastian's head. "Now that I'd like to know..."