The Blade That Carved Time

Chapter Six: To Start A War

Sanctum growled as he entered the dungeons. He stormed up to a cell and had the guards open the door. He entered and there was a brown badger sitting there in torn robes. "Thou art a fraud, fortune teller! Thou promised the Time Lord would obey me!" The badger simply looked at him. "Thou has not lied to you, you simply misunderstood. I never promised thou would obey. I said thou will have to learn. You art the fool, prince." Sanctum growled at the word 'prince'. "Thou are a hag! Never call me prince, I am king!" The badger chuckled to herself. "Thy sees no queen therefore thou are prince in a foolish king's power." Sanctum reached for his armour latch. "Kill me and thous fate is sealed by time. Dost thou wish to know of his greatest warriors?" Sanctum became intrigued by her words. "Scourge and the fox boy's father?" Sanctum asked to which she nodded. "A Chaosian echidna killed the boy's father and the boy killed him. The second in command, Scourge, was also killed by the boy. Pushed off a balcony in the Sol region." Sanctum growled but now he knew where Francis ran off to. "I no longer need thou today, badger." As he went to the cell door she simply chuckled. "Why dost thou laugh?" Sanctum asked not turning to her. "Thou art truly foolish. If thou attacks Sol to find the boy thou will surely be found dead. If thou should send troops none shall return alive." The badger said, her cold lifeless stare directed at the floor. "Thy can not just sit idle, badger." Sanctum replied over his shoulder. "Then maybe thou should put use that draconic girl." Sanctum looked at the badger and said nothing as he left the cell going to the girl the badger mentioned in a nearby cell. The wolf girl sat holding her knees in one arm and played a game of one person tic-tac-toe on the floor with a rock. "You." Sanctum said entering the cell. The wolf growled lightly then yelped slightly when he made her stand. "I'll cut thou a deal. Thous freedom for a single fox boy to be delivered to me alive. Either unconscious or not does not make a difference." The wolf scoffed at him. "And thou will be welcome in thy kingdom, Draconic shape shifter." When he called her bluff of a disguise the girl looked at him and looked away. "Thou aren't afraid thy will run away from you?" She asked and all he did was raise his hand to her. "King Sanctum of Anarchia." She looked at his gesture and shook his hand. "Artemis..." They stopped shaking hands and Sanctum walked to the cell door. She stood where she was and he turned to her. "Well, come now." He said and she followed him watching his movement. "What dost thou want with this fox boy?" Artemis asked him curious. "He is important to this war. He has powers over time itself. His sword he wields can only be held by him unless picked up by a special tapestry or being a family member to the smith who forged it." Sanctum explained and Artemis remembered smelling the scent of a fox boy when she snuck into the castle. She wondered if he was the boy she heard Sanctum talking to. He led her to the village. "His house is just outside of the village maybe start there for his scent." Artemis nods walking off to the house outside the village.

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After she got his scent, Artemis went to the Sol kingdom. She looked around for hours until she saw a fox boy with the queen of the Sol kingdom. She walked over. "Art thou aware of one they call the Time Lord?" Artemis asked and Blaze looked at Francis who looked back. "That would be me." Artemis grabbed Francis by the head smashing it against a rock brick wall to render him unconscious. "Francis!" Blaze yelled holding him on her knees. "Sorry, your majesty but I'll be taking him." Artemis reached for Francis and Blaze snapped upper cutting Artemis's jaw causing her to fall back. "Thou will not touch him!" Blaze yelled. "Bad move, your highness." Artemis stood tackling Blaze to the ground. She punched Blaze and then Blaze shoved her claws into Artemis's side. Artemis growled kneeing Blaze. Towns folk began to see and pulled Artemis off of the feline queen as knights started to show up. Artemis growled grabbing Francis by his tunic and threw him over her shoulder. "Let him go, wolf!" Blaze cried out at Artemis. Guards closed in around her as Artemis drew a dagger putting it to Francis's neck. "If thou does not want him dead you will allow me to leave with him and his sword." Artemis said as thoughts of her pack's safety made her tear up. "I shan't let you." Blaze said and a guard knocked Artemis out from behind. Francis woke in a lot of pain. His head was bruised and throbbing. He stood and walked over to Blaze but that's all he could do before passing out on the ground.

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Francis felt cold as he fell into the darkness of his mind. He could hear a faint ticking sound from somewhere in the darkness then came a voice. "Yer weak, pardner. We shall lend you our strength." Then two more one of which sounded like a evil, sinister version of it's original counterpart. The nice one spoke first. "You have to keep living." Then the darker one. "If you die we all die. I don't know about you but I have nothing to protect if you die here because of a head injury." Finally there was a female voice. "We have to help him." A ball of light had formed around Francis. All the voice began to speak at once. "As time flows so do we. If we were to die so would time. This is a Time Lord oath to order. Francis the hero of the split timeline. Rise!" Francis woke in a cold sweat only to find himself in Blaze's bed in the dead of night with Blaze fast asleep beside him. he had a bandage wrapped around his head but he felt no pain. He looked at Blaze then to the balcony. "A Time Lord's oath to order? Hero of the timeline split? Who were those voices?" These questions swarmed Francis's mind as he laid back down pulling blaze close.