Scarlet Rose

Meeting

~~ Aldrich ~~

"Know your places! The other Kings are coming!" They shouted as they rushed into their positions to greet their own King

Then two people entered the hall with their faces and clothes all ragged up. Judging by their appearance it's clear that they've been attacked

"Long time no see Aldrich"

"I'm surprised you accepted the invitation"

Both said as their men give way, leading them to me.

"I hope my presence isn't an annoyance" I said as I gave them a smile

"No, don't worry all the Kings are an annoyance when it comes to power but personally we all don't have a grudge at each other, right Andrew?"
Rosette said as she extended her hand along with Andrew.

"Nice to meet you" Andrew said as I took his hand after giving Rosette a handshake

"Likewise" was all I said and proceeded to the meeting hall

As we all take our seats Aster stood up. "As we all know, we are all here to form an alliance both as Kings and rivals but that was stopped due to an unexpected move from the organization that is the reason for this alliance. Luckily the West who we are not expecting to join came to our aid which the enemy did not know making them fall back but died. While on the other hand the Kings that were on their way here were also attacked resulting to their small bruises now. "

He reported making all the men here avoid eye contact with their King as a sign of shame. I glanced at Andrew and Rosette and not surprisingly they're eying their men, though not with malice but with care if they were badly injured or not

"Not only that we already received a report about our King, apparently when he got attacked earlier he forced them to take him to their hideout to collect some informations but doing it alone will be too hard for him as he figured out who the person behind all of this... Unfortunately we weren't able to ask who he is as the line got cut" Kyler continued

After grasping all the events we finally started to discuss about the alliance which everything went perfectly except for one "before we sign this contract and all, we first want to clarify something... See there's this rumor going around the underworld saying that the current King of the West is not who we think he is, the rumor goes that you are the right hand man of the Real King and that the Real one has been missing for years"

Andrew said as gave me a hard stare "Well Aldrich?"

I couldn't help but give out an amused smile as my excitement fills up my body "and what if its true? What will you do? Fight me?" I stood up and faced him face to face with our nose only inches apart

As I gave out my answer the whole room was full of murmurs while some men were getting ready to stir up trouble as my men reach out for their weapons

My smirk grew bigger as the heat keeps getting intense.... that's it.... just a bit more and some action will finally come. I've been wanting to test the Kings strength for a while now, this might not be the right time to do this but the hell with it, i want some excitement

"Andrew" Rosette said as she pipe her people down and doing the same with the southernians

"Fine, lets talk about this next time... and when that time comes... at least try and hide your fetish of fighting, your smile gives it all away... you sadist" he said as he brush my face away and sat back down and signed the contract

"Well that's just boring" I gave out a sigh and immaturely sat down

"Sire! your true colors are showing!" Izac shouted as he gestured me to fix myself and was frowning

"Don't care! Like I agreed to become a mature man" I stretched my legs and arms as I crossed my feet on the chair and rested my head on my hands

"Besides all the people here already know my true personality whats the point in hiding it?" I continued

I brought out my laptop and started to fiddle with it. I gestured the Kings to bring back their men to their own HQs and the same with mine

"Tell them to rest for the whole day, tomorrow we strike so make Aster, Hazle and Kyler to prepare the things needed for battle. Some of my men will go to each territory and form some bond same will all of your people do, so when we come back the bond will get stronger"

"Lets not focus on that, try and locate the North Kings location so that we can already move were loosing so much time" Andrew came closer to me and took my laptop as he scan through the thing that I've been doing earlier

"Whats making him so hasty?" I asked Rosette but didn't broke my gaze on Andrew

"Hmm, he only acts like this when his people is in danger or something like that if not then probably he's feeling his brothers presence?"

"His brothers presence? He's dead?"

"Mmm" was all her response

"Well that's weird, got a serious brother complex that even he's dead you can still feel him? Well the question is in who is he feeling his presence?" I said to him as I snatch back my laptop from him and specified the location of the North King and threw it back to him.

"Shut it" Andrew gave out a malice voice

"Well how many will we bring with us?" Rose asked as she looked with Andrew in my laptop

Sitting back I closed my eyes and think "Well obviously-"

"Hundreds or thousands?" Andrew cut me

Opening my eyes my smirk came back

"No... only us three"