The Shattered Wings Vol.4

            Right when Rein offered his hand to The Woman to help her stand back up. A group of fully armored horsemen stopped their horse not far from them. The horses neighed quite loud it took both Rein and The Woman’s attention. As they both look to the horsemen, a lance was already hurling through the air towards Rein coated in magic that make it look like thunder piercing the air.

Rein leaned back to avoid the flying lance from impaling his head, and ready him self for any attack that might follow. But just in a blink of an eye, the horsemen that were just got off from their horse, suddenly already around him, just halfway from inflicting their attack to Rein. Two on both right and left side, ready to pierce their lance to Rein’s body. One leaping in the air towards Rein, with his sword ready to slash Rein in two. All with magic imbued on their weapon.

Before Rein realized it, The Woman was already in front of him. Using her magic to set the lances launched from both sides off from their course in an instant, not hitting Rein by any inch. Then for some reason the horseman that were about to slash Rein stopped his swing. “Lady Tiana!” shouted by the horseman as he stepped back and sheathed back his sword with his hand still ready on the sword handle. “Stand down men” said Tiana calmly. “the man behind you possesses dark magic, milady! Please step away so we can terminate him immediately!” said the horseman again. Both horsemen with lance was ready to launch another attack on Rein, but then Tiana said “No! The only thing that possessed dark magic is already dead, over there!” as she looked away to where Ukhri body was. Only to found it was nothing but an empty scorched ground.

Rein immediately stood up, standing back to back with Tiana. He tried to form another lightning blade on his palms but failed. As he tried again Ukhri dashed towards him up front with a screeching scream. “ME FIRST!” Screamed Ukhri. But suddenly the horsemen already launching toward Ukhri with their lances pointed to him. And the horseman whose sword was sheathed back was now standing in front of Rein with his sword on the left side of his body, grabbed by both hands, pushed to the ground the tip was a breaking the earth below it.

Ukhri’s dash was stopped by the impale of the two lance horsemen to the upper body, causing Ukhri to spit out dirty blood from his mouth. Followed by a dash by the sword horseman to just a step away from Ukhri, then an upward slash by his electrified sword, and last a horizontal slash on Ukhri’s neck, cutting his whole body in two, and separating his head away.

Rein couldn’t do anything but stared from distance. A reckless shout from behind shocked him. “okay! Now its dead! So stand down!” shouted Tiana to the horsemen. The horsemen sheathed their weapon and cast away their magic and then walked toward Tiana and Rein. “Lady? Are you a royal family member?” asked Rein to Tiana. Tiana turned his head to Rein, not saying a word and then started walking towards the horsemen followed by Rein.

Right after they all grouped up, the horsemen got on their knees. “we received report from Sir Andras that a large number of underlings were spotted near the borders last night!” said the sword horseman to Tiana. Right after, one of the lance horseman flinched and turn his head a bit to the side and said “i’m sensing a large number dark mana far in the forest behind us, we should get back to the castle immediately, sir!”. They stood up and called for their horse. Tiana summoned a wooden horse that climbed out emerging from the earth right after she chanted a spell, a kind of language Rein quite familiar with. The four of them got on their horse, “climb on!” said Tiana to Rein.

Rein climb right up behind Tiana, and the horses start running toward the castle. While on the way, Rein asked Tiana about the spell she was chanting. “if i may ask, what language was that spell you chanted to summon this horse?” asked Rein. “it was a language adopted from the archangels. If you ask how, its a part of the story of the beginning of magic on men i forgot to tell about, it was an archangel, not just an angel.” Answered Tiana. Rein was drowned in thoughts, thinking that what got him down here on the world of men might have been going for longer than he thought it was.

After quite a long ride, they entered a small village, a suburban area of the town they about to enter next. Both the village and the town were quiet, like a ghost town, there were barely lights, only from the torch and street lamp with small fire lit in it. not long after they left the town toward the castle, they stopped in front of a large gatehouse with a deep and wide moat separating in between the Rein’s group and the gatehouse. “Lower the bridge down! Princess Tiana is home!” shouted the sword horsemen to a guard that just got to the top of the bridge with a torch on his hand. The drawbridge lowered down as the guard get back in the gatehouse, providing a way in to the castle ground for the group. And as they entered the courtyard, lines of fully armored guards stood on both sides of the way. Not far have they walked in the courtyard, the earth shook as something landed in front of the already closed bridge, across the moat. They all look towards the gatehouse. A few second of silence took in between all of them.

And then, a large black dragon destroyed the drawbridge to pieces, making a way in for it self.