Stick War: Inamorta and beyond

Chapter 20: Aoks City part 3

4th February 1074, 8.39am

After a much longed good night's rest, recon team has fully energised and ready for anything that is thrown at them... Except for Mark.

"Hey Mark! It's 8.40am! Get up!" Elizabeth shouted at the door of the lazy soldier.

But no respond came from the room.

"Let me handle this." Ace pushed Elizabeth and kicked the door with all his might.

The door slammed open and the room revealed a lazy man sleeping in an awkward position with his head on the floor and his legs on hus bed.

Mark isn't even shaken up by the slamming of the door.

"Hey, dimwit. GET UP!" Ace screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Five more minutes mum." Mark mumbled and turn to the opposite direction of Ace.

Ace angrily flipped Mark and dragged him to the door.

"ARGH! Hey! Put me down! Ace stop!" Mark exclaimed and clumsily waves his arms in the air trying to stop Ace.

"Get up! We're late!" Ace shouted.

"Huh? It's only 7.40am." Mark got up and yawned.

"Nope, it's 8.45am." Elizabeth added.

Mark froze for a while and looked out to the windows. The sun was up way after 7o'clock.

"CRAP! WE'RE LATE!" Mark exclaimed and ran to his backpack and pulled out his order empire soldier uniform.

"Why didn't you guys tell me earlier? You know that the meeting with the queen is 9.10am right?" Mark questioned the prince and the hazelnut haired girl.

The prince rolled his eyes while Elizabeth sighed.

"We were here since 8.30am, trying to wake you up." Elizabeth sighed again at her soldier.

"Okay I'm ready, so where's breakfast?" Mark asked as he finished wearing his boots.

"None, we ate already." Ace said as he walked away.

"Yeah, let's go." Elizabeth added and followed Ace.

"WHAT?! You expect me to go with an empty stomach!?" Mark exclaimed comically.

"Yeah, got a problem? Come on let's meet up with Kim and Grace." The prince said casually, not even caring about Mark's empty stomach.

4th February 1074, 9.01am, outside throne room

Kim and Grace patiently waited for the rest of recon team to meet up. Just when Grace's patience is running out, the team finally caught up.

"You're late!" Grace shouted.

"Sorry, Mark was a handful." Elizabeth apologised.

"I really need a 'handful' of food now." Mark complained.

"Dude, that was lame." The prince insulted.

"Shut up. I'm hungry." Mark returned the insult.

Just before Ace and Marl start an endless argument once again, Kim interrupted them.

"Anyway, Mark finally you got up. That's one good news and hard task taken of." Kim said.

"What was that supposed to mean?" Mark asked angrily.

"Ahem. Anyway, good that you guys made it on time. Let's go, we must persuade Queen Apricot no matter what. The Order Empire depended us!" Kim commanded.