The Fallen | Risen Book II

Chapter Ninety Four

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Jayce Slade

I stood outside of the Fight Pit arena, we just arrived after a recent attack, and everyone from the Dojo is here, including the Blakwall Knights and the Pirates.

All together in one place.

Maya and Ryder are gone however, both according to Ace and Natasha went after Karma, I should've planned for this, I should've told Ryder and Maya about Karma to prevent them from doing something stupid.

It didn't matter in the long run I suppose, they may be dead, they may only be captured but at the end of the day we have the numbers and we will win this war. Hopefully at the end of it my brother and his fiance are alive.

I saw Kiera standing nearby in the cool morning air of the Fight Pits. A combination of the Dojo's, Sandlocks, Fightpits, Clanless, Blakwall and Pirates people walked on the dirt streets around the arena, we were all getting food rations and Kiera was drinking a cup of water.

"How are you holding up?" I asked walking over to her side.

She nodded. "Fine, just shaking a little, nervous. But I'm fine" Kiera then looked in pain as she threw her hand up to her head, and rubbed her temple.

"You okay?" I asked.

"Headache, been getting them the last couple of days. I'm sure its nothing" Kiera assured me. I breathed in the cold air, while it partly smelled of piss and vomit from some drunk that passed out nearby. It smelled like the Fight Pits all the same.

"Been meaning to ask, what's your plan after this?" Kiera asked.

I shrugged my shoulders, it just occurred to me that I had no plan after this at all.

"Why do you ask?"

"Well, I figured I'll need someone to help me lead this place. I know you want me to lead but-" Kiera stumbled off I think she was losing confidence.

"Kiera, your the best person to run this world. I couldn't do what you do, I'm the type of leader that you ask to make a quick plan because your out of other options, but stability, keeping the peace, doing the best for everyone that's you"

Kiera nodded then looked at me again.

"Thanks, should we go and explain the plan to the others?"

I nodded and turned towards the entrance, letting her lead me inside.

When we walked into the Arena, we found the others waiting for us, Max, Ex, Cyblow, Cassi, Jeff and a few of his higher ranking pirates, Charity and Shaun, Ace and Natasha, they all turned there heads at us when we walked in.

"Hello everyone" I started.

"Are we gonna get a explanation? Why aren't we attacking now?" Carter shouted but Jeff waved his hand up to let me speak.

"We needed a day or two to prepare, to run over the plan once more and to give everyone a chance to rest. Most of us were fighting and we're tired, not everyone was kidnapping and throwing people off of ships" I harshly remarked. I still didn't like the idea of the Pirates standing here.

That at least shut Carter up. Ace looked around in confusion, as did a few others.

"We wanted to talk to everyone about Karma, we are aware of what happened with her and we want everyone to know that we told her to go in and pretend to join the other side to feed us information on the wall, and Major Skeletons plan" Kiera explained.

A large crowd of confused faces looked over at us.

"And you didn't tell us?" Ace asked. "Do you know how many people could've died, Christ Ryder and Maya are in there right now!" he shouted standing up in anger.