Book 4 | Agent 34 and the Last Gem

Chapter 21 | Arrival

Braunick snapped his fingers and conjured up another bounty hunter. Giant bones appeared and swirled around in a circle before coming together and connecting at the joints and becoming one. A giant skeleton stood in front of the irritated king.

Lord Braunick went out of flight and began to tell the bounty hunter his new plans. "Your name is Sir Paor and you are a bounty hunter I hired to catch an old friend of mine since the last one was too incompetent to do the simplest of an assignment,"

"What is the assignment, Lord Braunick," Sir Paor said with no emotion at all.

"I've gotten word that an old friend of mine is still alive," he smiled to himself. "I spotted him during the Battle of the Zena, as I call it, and he was on his way to leaving the island. He helped me overthrow the Old King and helped me ever since. He positioned himself as a spy for me and I never heard any word from him again after my downfall,"

"What is his name,"

"His name?" Braunick started. "His name, as he liked to call himself, was the Deathbringer. Go find him for me and bring him to this very floating castle,"

"I got it," Paor began to walk out of the castle. On his way out, Braunick snapped his fingers again and gave the skeleton the same white glow that Isoma had before he was recycled by Braunick to grow his skeleton army that was training below the castle.

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The boat docked on the sand, stopping with a slide. The five people on the boat climbed off, stretching their limbs and yawning tiredly. They all looked around for where the other people were, confused on how the boat had been burned.

"Where is everyone?" Calvin asked, looking around.

"Maybe deeper in the island?" Ben suggested.

The rest of them agreed that they could be deeper in the island. Ben and Calvin agreed to go look while Cathy stayed with Rose and Carter.

The pair ventured into the jungle, swords raised and their senses on high alert. Stories had been told of the jungles on the island and what it contained. It contained things even more dangerous than the Serphana's Curse.

In fact, the curse isn't a curse at all. It is just a mixture of snake venom and poisonous snake blood from an equally poisonous snake. Marque was one of the few known survivors of the disease after being inflicted by a blade tipped with the curse.

Calvin and Ben were on high alert, on even higher alert for snakes.

"You hear that?" Ben asked the grey human quietly. Both stopped walking so their footsteps wouldn't dull the noise Ben had heard.

Calvin began to hear the sound of construction. The sound of hammers and saws were distant but close by.

"Go to the sound," Calvin said, joy filling him. The two began to ran towards the sound. Upon reaching it, they entered a clearing where a giant building was being constructed. It was the same size as what the Zena used to be on the mainland, a courtyard even more elegant than the last. The building's intricate design had carvings of the main species of Renya on every side, depicting different tribes and battles.

Every part of the building was unique in a way. The main color for it was white, the color being used for the roof and the steps up to the entrance to the giant stone doors with carvings of a singular human, an elf, a dwarf, a dragon, an Ar'gual, and a verom all carved into them. The six main species of Renya.

The courtyard had a statue of a dragon positioned in the middle. The dragon was familiar to Calvin, yet he couldn't place his finger on it.

The back of the building looked to still be in construction, the front half completely finished. However, he didn't know about the inside.

Ar'guals were working gracefully and elegantly on the new building, seeming to have made plans beforehand for everything as half were putting carvings in and the other were constructing it.

Calvin and Ben approached the building quickly, trying to grab the workers' attention. Once he did, they all came running towards them.

"Who are you and how did you find us?" One asked.

"I'm Calvin Evilslayer," The grey human introduced himself to them. "and I'm apart of the Zena—"

"Liar!" One shouted. "It's a demon! See the gray skin?"

The Ar'guals began shouting "Demon!" over and over. Calvin shrunk away from the group and was about to make a dash for the jungle.

"He's not a demon," a singular, deep voice stated.

The Ar'guals moved out of the way and gave a path for the voice to walk to Calvin. Soon, Thad stood at Calvin's chest, looking up to him.

"Hello Calvin," he stated, smiling up at him. "I knew you'd make it,"