The Five Kings: First Step

Hopian 33 - Rematch

Last chapter, Seric went up to the deck of the ship with Popshot and learned that the woman he and Karia escaped from at Vegahold is extremely strong, and one of "The Four Holidays". Now, after waking up in a strange vault he realizes that Karia and King Metallica are about to pull a big heist.

Seric's P.O.V.

I quickly run out of the vault, hopping over the door on the floor. "Wait, wait, wait. This is all just a big
misunderstand-"

*BANG*

A bullet then flies right past my head, and into the steel room behind me making my ears start to ring.

"Catch the scumbags!" One of her men yell as the vast majority of the Long Sleeved Pirates starts to run towards us.

Before I can react a hand roughly shoves itself over my eyes, and soon after with my currently damaged ears I start to hear a bunch of groaning.

"Hell yeah the flashbang worked, let's keep it moving!" Karia says with a grin as she takes her hand off of my face, starting to run ahead past the stunned bodies to the right of the vault with King Metallica who's already way ahead of us.

"Just what the hell else was in that vault?!" I think to myself as I start to run with no way out of this now, looking at all the damage one tiny flashbang caused.

We continue to run through a part of the dark wooden village in the ship that I haven't seen before, running by a bunch of small brown houses until after passing through an alleyway the trashed arena courtyard we were in just last night is in front of us.

"There they are!" I hear from my left, as another bunch of angry men and women with old fashioned weapons and long sleeved shirts are charging at us from the opposite side of the arena and shooting revolvers.

I quickly dive back into the alleyway, bumping into Karia and King Metallica.

"There's way too many of them! Even if I used my Blessing..." I try to find a solution, but I immediately stop as I don't have it in me to hurt these people who only did good for us.

"Here, keep these safe will ya! I'm about to have some good, old fashioned, last-time fun with my old pals!" King Metallica says as he loudly drops the two giant bags onto the smooth wooden floor, rolling up the sleeves of his robe as he walks out of cover.

I'm about to tell him to stop but with Karia being injured I guess we don't have many more options, so I simply peak out from the alleyway and watch carefully.

"I've been wanting to do this for a while you bastard, now I've finally got a real reason to yeah!?" One of the bigger men say with an accent as they push through the crowd, having light skin and brown hair longer than Karia's, as well as an average sized body with a black long sleeved shirt and pants.

"HEY, it's you Gesheda Williad Heartstruck! It's been a while since we've last done some good old roughhousing!" King Metallica responds seeming unfazed by the giant crowd in front of him, who luckily have stopped shooting.

"You... remembered my full name? Ah who cares yeah, no one backstabs the Long Sleeved Pirate's an' gets away with it!" Gesheda says as he reaches back, ripping off pieces of his hair from the back of his head until he finally stops.

"My. Bad. Hair. Day!" The man cries out with enthusiasm, as the pieces of hair start to wrap around his knuckles, until each of them go around every one of his fingers hardening and sticking out from each one, giving him spiked fists.

"Eek! That looks dangerous!" King Metallica says as he dramatically puts his hands over his face.

"That's right!" The man yells out as he charges at King Metallica from across the arena, with the crowd standing behind him. I guess they trust him a lot.