Heroes Of Havalore

Ch.3 Aftermath

                                         Ch.3 Aftermath

"Dammit! It was your fault!" James yells in Tybalt's face who is sitting down in the living room area of the palace

"James, calm down we will find Lady Nala." Aria says trying to calm down James.

"The hell you mean it is my fault. You're the child of prophecy! Your presence brought her here. If it wasn't for you, fifty people wouldn't dead right now! Your mother would be here!" Tybalt screams at James. Tybalt gets up from the couch to stand face to face with James.

Aria steps between the two of them and says, "Fighting isn't going to bring Lady Nala back! Both of you chill the fuck out!" James storms out the room with Aria chasing after him. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to hunt Asareth down," James said in a cold and angered tone.

"I'm going with you," Aria demands.

"Shut up," James commands Aria. "You're not a demigod nor are you on my level in magic or swordsmanship. You're a hindrance."

Aria stands there frozen as James walks out of the palace doors.

Three months later

A huge gash of flames and lightning rips a through a forest. Standing by the crater is James and two hooded tan skinned criminals who are frozen in fear. "You assholes really picked the wrong person to piss off didn't you?" James says in a slightly angered tone. James slams one of the thugs against a tree then growls, "Speak!"

"Okay...okay man, chill out. What do you want to know?" The criminal cries out.

James smiles then says, "I would like to know where your boss is so I can humble him and help him choose a more modest and civil lifestyle."

"Hell no!" Yells the other thug. "He'll fucking murder us!"

James lights his hand on fire and holds his hand dangerously close to the other thugs face and says, "And I'll fucking murder you. So I delightfully ask you where the hell is your boss."

"Oh, my gods. Please don't kill me, I'll take you to him." Cries the thug whose face was starting to singe.

"Pleasure doing business with you fellas. Lead the way." James says in a standoffish tone. The trio starts to navigate their way through the forest. They continue to walk until they reach a small rundown fort with vines and trees wrapped around. "Thanks for bringing me to your base. If I were you I would make myself scarce." James says as he gestures them away.

"Thank you, sir!" The thugs say running away and disappearing into the forest.

"Alright let's do this. This would be a weird place to meet a sibling." James thought to himself. Then he blasts open a huge hole in the wall of the fortress. He walks through the hole and starts to lay waste on the guards. This process continues until a bullet grazes the side of his head leaving a straight line piercing the shaved part of his hair.

"Who in the motherfucking hell has the gall to fucking break into my home!" Yells a young man lurking in the shadows with golden eyes, he couldn't be much older than James.

"Me!" James yells waving to the person walking out of the shadow. "Before you ask my name is James Leone, son of Keriayon"

The young man steps out of the shadows who was a couple inches taller than James to reveal his sun-kissed tan skin, jet black hair that was shaved on the sides and spikey at the top. He was wearing a black jacket with the right sleeve missing revealing his well-toned arm and grey pants that had two-gun holsters with two pistols residing within them strapped around the waist. "Heh, that is kind of funny because I am also the son of Keriayon. My name is Gabriel Areasis."

"Wow, my foreshadowing skills," James said out loud not realizing that he is thinking out loud.

"What!?" Gabriel says twisting his face in confusion. They both begin to regain their composure as Gabriel says, "Soooo, brother of mine what brings you here?"

James points his sword at Gabriel then says, "I've come here to humble you, older brother... wait are you older than me? Hold up, how old are you?"

"I'm nineteen, how old are you?" Gabriel says facepalming himself in disbelief at the situation.

"Oh, so you are older, I'm seventeen. It's quite funny my friend Aria is also nineteen." James says with a sigh of relief. "Hey my birthday is July, twenty-fifth, when is your birthday. So..."

Then Gabriel shoots at James again revealing two pistols with magical runes engraved throughout the dual pistols. James's instinct kicks in as he slashes the two bullets in half. "No more talking. I am going to kick your ass for destroying my home." Gabriel begins to unleash a barrage of magical bullets at James as he tries to deflect the bullets but some of them break through his defense and start to graze him. James jumps back and explodes in an aura of fire and lightning pushing Gabriel back. Within that instant, James lunges at Gabriel at the speed of lightning and swings his blade only to get blocked Gabriel using the butts of his pistols. "You're not half bad!" Gabriel says struggle with James

"Why don't I know about you? Why didn't let the government know?" James asks pushing Gabriel back.

"If you haven't realized our dad is kind of a deadbeat and Demigods who don't have high ranking nobles as a parent they get yanked out of their families arms and sent to the capital! But I guess you wouldn't know anything about that, entitled brat!" Gabriel growls as his eyes begin to blaze red and he erupts into an explosion of fire blasting James through the wall and into forest knocking down multiple trees.

James looks at Gabriel who now has grey gauntlets and metal boots on. Gabriel pistols turn into dual cannons getting ready to blast James. "Holy shit!" James exclaims as Gabriel blasts giant flaming bullets at James. As the shots were fired a golden blade and sheath appear on James's back. He pulls it from the sheath and releases a golden flame that parries the two giant bullets. James's other sword's rune begins to glow with a blinding red light. When the light finally dies down it reveals a red sword with a black outlining and red lightning running off of it. James looks at Gabriel with a smirk then says, "Hey big bro, ready to get your ass handed cutting through his attacks.

"That is bullshit O.P," Gabriel says putting his hands up in a surrendering gesture causing his god slayer armor to disperse.

"Gabriel, holy shit! You're a god-slayer! I have to take you back to my place."