Mighty Wanders: Unbalanced

"Round 1, fight!"

Deep outside of our galaxy there lies a planet named, Lunaris. The planet is much unlike earth, where a color mix of pastel pink, blue, and yellow covers the sky. All of its landscapes float with its freshest watered oceans covering the entire floor deep down beneath.

"I don't know if I'm ready yet," whispers a young boy named Meridian Benton. "Don't worry I'm sure you'll win, remember what I taught you." reassures his father, king Nicholai sitting next to him.

Meridian was a 16-year-old boy with dirty blond short hair and green eyes. His hands were sweating and trembling in his seat nervously for this competition. "Calling all contestants to stand in a line near the stage!" The host ordered

"Today I welcome everyone who attends kingdom bayou's second annual Longsword competition!" The king announced. "This will determine who will get into the largest sword Academy on the planet!" Line of teens filled with boys and girls were filled with excitement and determination.

"Prince Meridian Benton you're up first against Oliver Foster!"

His face froze when he looked up at Oliver. He was tall, muscular and looked way older than him. Yet Meridian still had stood grounded. As they both put on their protective headgear, they both gave each other serious glares.

"round 1, fight!"

Oliver instantly started swinging at him with his sword, Merid missed all the hits with his sword unable to try to get a hit. While clashing swords with another the sword accidentally slid up against Merid's sword. He quickly missed it by hitting Oliver on the side. The walls of his side of the battle arena turning red. He had surprisingly won the first round.

"Round 2, fight!"

"I can't lose this upcoming round, I'll crush my dreams", Merid worried to himself.

Oliver returned again dominating Meridian. So he really thinks he would win this round? Meridian was just getting started. He clashed every sword swing against his, eventually hitting Oliver in the ankle while dodging his sword quickly. Oliver fell to the floor grabbing onto his ankle in pain.

The arena now turned green on Merid's side, he was proud of himself but worried when looking at him. Oliver took off his helmet and looked at Meridian. He stared directly into his soul.

"The judges had made their decision..!" Said the Host, "Prince Meridian Benton you are going to the sword academy!"

The crowd clapped and cheered, Meridian was the happiest he had ever been in his life.

He glances at his father and they both smile together.

"Shiloh Benton is next up with Amando Barclay", Shiloh is Meridian's 13-year-old sister. Merid Walked up to her, padding her on the shoulder, and said, " break a leg", Shiloh smiled at him about to walk up to the stage.

She tied her long dark brunette hair, grabbed her protective helmet, and put it on. She was 100 percent prepared for this fight. She held her sword tightly, not letting one finger slip off.

Shiloh gave an excellent performance winning the first round. The second round came along, she stood fierce , but while fighting her opponent he had almost touched her. Her sword-touch detector had malfunctioned on her suit, turning her side red.

"What! That cannot be possible, his sword barely touched me!" she yelled to the host. From out of the crowd a woman with a scarf and glasses hiding her face stood up and complained.

"You heard her, the sword barely touched her! Give them another round!" She yelled furiously.

"How could you have seen it if you're all the way back there?! The child had lost." The king yelled back.

She sat back down to make a call to an unknown number, "Hello, are you sure about this? ", I'm ready, but make it quick...'' She whispered with a small grin on her face.

The competition was over, everyone was on their way out. Meridian was beside his father and sister, Shiloh still seemed to be really disappointed. Merid tried to comfort her,

"It's alright, I believe you, I think they did it on purp-" BOOM, BOOM! Once a peaceful small arena had then turned into pure panic.

Merid's body went back and he had lost his balance. He instantly started to bleed from his left shoulder. He grabbed on his shoulder tightly to slow the bleeding and to ease the pain. The gunshots kept replaying in Merid's head, everything was a blur. His shoulder began to burn with intensity. He looked at his sister, she was frightened. Her eyes widened like she had seen a ghost; Meridian turned to look at it. The king had collapsed bleeding on the ground, Merid's heart sank down into his stomach looking down at him.

Merid with his eyes flooding with tears," Please father don't leave me! Someone call for medical attention!" Meridian pleaded.

"no. It will be too late. leave Lunaris, go with Shiloh. Protect each other for me," dying Nicholai pleads.

Nicholai slowly started to fade-away in Meridian's arms. He hugged his father tight, not letting go. Shiloh looked around for guards, but no one came. Then Shiloh saw scary cartoonish masked men

Until Merid then heard " There they are, get him!" He grabbed Shiloh's arm running off to find a nearest ship dock. Men with masks ran after them shooting at them, they were lucky to have missed every bullet. They ran into guards and pushed them out the way getting outside of the palace.

Meridian began to spot the ship dock almost close to Kingdom Bayou's border. The men with guns were still tailed behind them, Shiloh and Merid's legs began to give. The pain in Merid's shoulder began to worsen.

They finally arrived at the ship dock. Merid and Shiloh climbed on a ship, desperately trying to start it. The masked men had started catching up to them, they fired their guns. With the protective glass of the ship, it protects them from the flying bullets. The men were trying to budge open the spacecraft. Merid panicking, begged Shiloh to start the Spaceship immediately.

Shiloh took a breather as the ship finally started and began to take off. The men slipped and fell off the ship. As they flew away one of the masked men took off his mask.

"I'm gonna hunt you down wherever you're headed. Terminators go after them!" Their leader said. The Terminators went in their ships quickly and took off.

Merid glanced back to find the men were still after them, trying to shoot them down. Shiloh also saw them, she desperately looked around the controls. She clicked random buttons until he came across a canon blast and pressed it. It sends a huge rocket that blows a ship immediately. Shiloh was blown away and fired more at the ships, blowing them to pieces. Shiloh looked away and took a deep breath.

Another unexpected giant spaceship appeared with big missiles flying towards them. Merid spotted a closing wormhole and told Shiloh to travel to it. She pressed and leaned the joystick forward as hard as she could. The wormhole was only seconds away from closing. The spaceship sped and squeezed thru the wormhole, losing the Terminators.

Minutes had passed now, Shiloh finally stables the spaceship on autopilot halfway towards the other side of the universe. Meridian was pale as a vampire, he continued to bleed out, grabbing onto his shoulder. Shiloh gasped and went to the back of the spaceship rushing to find a Medkit."where are we headed to now?" She curiously asked Meridian.

"I'm not certain", Merid murmured.