Yenna's continuous cries of pain ticked off Dimrose's ears and left his army to his second in command and flew across the Grave. Hale tried to hit him with his longbow but Dimrose effortlessly avoided the arrows and paid him no mind. Yenna noticed Dimrose's coming and shouted at him defiantly.
"This is just between us birdman, don't you dare interfere!"
"How can someone like you, who don't know how to fight like a soldier, defeat someone as well trained as her?" Dimrose told her. Nightingale kept on pursuing Yenna who managed to run away from her.
Why do they keep saying that 'someone like you' to me? Yenna irritably thought and was more irritated by the reality that Twilight is really playing with her.
"Don't you underestimate me!" she shouted towards them and turned her horse around to meet Nightingale who looked really amused.
Yenna went down her horse with the reins in one hand and picked up her gun, reloaded it, and rode back on her horse. She kept firing at Nightingale but she just seemed like she's dancing with her bullets. Well trained huh, she thought. A decade ago she was just like a plain housewife and now she comes back as a soldier and she even looked younger and more beautiful! The thought irritated her more.
"Last chance Yenna, and I'll take you away from her" Dimrose voiced out.
"Fine!" Yenna shouted and threw her hands up. She knows she got no advantage on this kind of fight. If only the Grave doesn't cancel out everything inhuman, she would've won against her in one go.
Before Dimrose could ever take Yenna away, Nightingale bore her curved blade through the other woman's abdomen deeply and pulled it out with a twist.
"You really are stupid. You don't belong in here" Dimrose told Yenna as he flies her across.
"Shut up!"
"Arael, take this woman from me" Dimrose voiced out and it echoed in Arael's ears.
"What happened to her this time?" Arael asked who's walking towards the wide balcony.
"Have you forgotten the King's order that she won't leave until she's retrieved the captured Supremes?" he asked again.
"She's going to die"
"She won't. Let her heal herself. Drop her before the border of the Grave"
Dimrose flew back again and dropped Yenna before the border as he was told but not gently, he looked like he's just dropped some sort of a bag of trash.
She's stronger than any of us when it comes to our abilities, she won't die that easily and we might need her still, Arael thought as he go beneath the castle to welcome the visitors. Sophie and the twins met Arael right after they stepped out of the gate. Odorous mist filled the room making it hard for them to breathe setting Arael aside and Sophie who has been dealing with the miasma at the Valley of Light.
"You're not affected by my mist?" Arael asked surprised of Sophie unaffected.
"Go without me" The twins nodded and went into their gate again.
"Sophie has chosen to deal with a man wearing strange head dress" Rumple reported to Nightingale.
"Be careful, given those the first squads have reported to me, you might face someone who looks like a colourful bird. He's an earth element. He's not easy to deal with given your element" Nightingale warned them through the transmitter.
"I'll think of some way" Dale told Nightingale through the transmitter on Gale's ear.
"Make sure you call for aid. Don't be stubborn"
"Copy" Dale answered.
Before the gate could fully open again, a barrage of huge stone chunks met them that they had to open their gate on another area but every time they do, an attack from the foe keep them from going out.
"He's wearing us down. Let's have our separate gates" Dale said but before they could split their gates, both twins should merge with their twin.
"In the count of three" Grale, the name of Gale and Dale in one body, said. Jester, Rumple and Harley together, nodded and prepared to open their gate.
"In 3 2--"
Grazie got confused when he sensed two gates opening on either of his side but both disappeared just as quickly as he detected them. The room is full of rocks and dusts are floating in mid-air. Grale and Jester took that to their advantage and blew the dust towards Grazie from opposite directions. Dusts screened Grazie's sight but he was able to dodge most of the chunks of rocks that were thrown to him. He leaped up then Grale imprisoned him in a ball of wind and juggled him all over. Jester used the sharp chunks of rock and fired them like bullets from a machine gun.
Grale let go of Grazie and let him fall on the rocky floor. Jester cleared off the dust so they can see who they're dealing with. A colourful bird he is, but those talons depraved him of being human, even those feathers growing on his arms. Grazie was about to get up when they stacked huge rocks on him.
"Don't think you've won yet" Grazie told them then rocks came from under the feet of the two. They quickly jumped off and land again but the attack kept tracing their feet.
"It's totally obvious" Jester said and landed on one of the furniture, so did Grale.
"But we're not backing down too" Grale said and lifted those rocks. Grazie took advantage of it and shot the rocks towards the two of them but they deflected it completely with a strong barrier made of wind.
Above them are Sophie and Arael battling each other, but until the transmitter on her ear got destroyed by the mist. Sophie just stood there stretching her neck from side to side. Arael straightened too but is still on his guard.
"Finally" Sophie said in a snake-like voice and her snake-like eyes darkened.
"What's this?" Arael asked.
"Isn't obvious? My name is Ceto and my father is your king. Can you take me to him?"
"Ceto, the snake from the underworld? What are you doing with the other side all this time?" Arael asked, convinced that the lady he's facing is the real one.
"Knowing their plan, of course. That Belier has been bossing me around and it ticks me off you know"
"You've betrayed—no, you spied on them and waited for this to happen" Arael concluded.
"So, where's my father?"
"As of now, I don't know where his majesty is. And we are not allowed to see him until this is over, whatever the circumstances are"
"Tsk, let's get rid of the kids then" she suggested.
"Grazie can handle them"
"I don't think so"
"Pardon me?"
"Those boys are Jemaux, there's a pair of them actually. Kids they are but they do merge and doing that makes them stronger"
"Grazie can handle them. He's an earth element" Arael pressed on.
"Whatever. It's all up to you" she said and crossed her arms under her bosom.
"And why did you turn up just now?" he asked while wiping his robes clean.
"I was waiting for you to destroy that transmitter on the floor. I won't let her find out that I betrayed them. I'll make them crumble from the inside"
