Blue and Wave turned as another shriek rang throughout the city, and yet another beast charged towards them. "Incoming!" Blue Yelled, raising his sword in defense.
Cazador–the beast of health–continued charging forward, and rose to its hind legs when it was close enough to attack. As it swiped down towards Blue and the others, a boom shattered their ears, and Cazador was sent flying harshly to the ground by a fast moving metal ball.
"I got your back, guys!" Mk called from a top the building he was on, his hand cannon held firmly.
Mane nodded up at Mk, and then turned to Cazador's one again moving form. It shook its head, and then looked back at the small group of swordsmen. It hissed, and shuddered, black goo oozing from the spot where it was struck.
"Guys!" Mane yelled out. "This thing must be vulnerable to our attacks, hit it with everything you got!" With that, an array of arrows from Player and Blue and Wave were flying towards Cazador, who turned to them and lashed out its tongue.
It struck Blue in the side, and he began to feel dizzy. Doing his best to ignore the pain, he grabbed the tongue quickly, and felt his health return. The beast, however, shrieked and its flesh crawled; being sapped of its own life.
Blue held on a little while longer, and then released once the beast dropped. He panted, shocked, and failed to notice the power he had felt after fighting Convocar had gone. "Come on.. let's finish this" He said as more of a command.
unknown to the group, the last of the three beasts still stood; Agilidad. This one, however, did not stay to fight. It backed into the shadows, and disappeared.
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Flare broke free from the guards, and flew high over the city. His focus was away from roasting guards alive, and to the castle where they were coming from. Taking a deep breath, and dove straight towards the castle, and did a sudden back flip, releasing a wave of fire onto the out-coming guards of the palace. He landed amongst there fried corpses, and ran towards the main doors.
Back by the city gates, the fight was coming to an end. Between Mane, Lizzy, and Milkshake either destroying or severely wounding the guards, and the swordsmen killing every one of them on sight, the battle was to soon be over.
"Looks like their numbers are thinning" Player observed, raising his bow and shooting at a loner that he was able to catch through his sharp eyesight.
Player nodded at this, and leaped from the rooftops into the streets.
As he landed, he was approached by Blue who held his hand to shake. "Nice work, couldn't have done it without your guys firepower" He praised, shaking Mks hand as he came crashing to the ground as well.
"It's over..isn't it?" the voice of Jessica asked as she, Lizzy, and Milkshake approached the rest of the group.
"Ya.. we finally did it." Mane sighed, his vision still on the sharp lookout for any survivors.
"Mane, Roy..." a voice came from behind the group, sounding almost worried.
Everyone turned to see Flare, standing alone. "What is it?" Roy asked, stepping forward.
"Follow me.. Mane and Roy only" He said flatly, and turned to walk back towards the castle. Mane and Roy looked at each other, and then followed Flare off into the palace, leaving the rest confused.
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Flare led Mane and Roy through the castle, which Mane was fascinated with; as it had been completely repaired since his last time here. he led them through hallway after hallway until they reached a steel door with a melted lock.
"You have an interesting way of opening doors" Roy sighed, and pushed the door open, receiving a smirk from Flare. The three walked into the room, which was pitch black until Flare blew a beam of fire at the far wall, lighting a torch.
As lights flooded through the room, another busted down door could be seen. Mane sighed and shook his head, and the three walked through it. In this room was a staircase that led down,the bottom unable to be seen.
"Hold on tight" Flare ordered, and grabbed both Mane and Roy by their wrists, leaping off the edge of the staircase, straight down. As they neared impact, fire burst from Flare's feet and halted their fall.
Again, they were in a pitch black room, which Flare lit up by lighting another torch. When light flooded this room, one last door could be seen. This one had been casually opened, though. The three walked through the chamber and into the pre-lit final room.
As they entered the room, they quickly took notice that it was in the form of a square, and two of the four walls had bookcases leaning against them.
"So.. it's some old room. What's so important about it?" Mane asked, turning towards Flare.
Flare simply pointed at the left bookshelf, and Mane turned back to it. The books were clean, and new. In fact, there was barely a book among the shelves, mainly scrolls and journals.
Mane reached out for one, and flipped it open. He read aloud: "Journal on Mane." "Why would there be a journal of me in here?" He thought aloud, and read on.
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Mane read on through the journal, astonished as he read a stunningly accurate summary of his adventure's when he was learning his abilities, right down to where they had camped from day to day. "Who could know.." he began to ask, then faintly remembered hearing some rustling among some bushes one night. "Someone was watching me.."
Meanwhile, Roy had been searching though the book shelves as well, and discovered a duel arena scroll that listed the standings of the tournament he had been in.
"Why would anyone have this..?" Roy mumbled under his breath, and kept looking until he found a note, written by Giltrex. It read:
~Dear Derponet,
Everything is going as planned. The chosen one you've had me spying on is coming to my temple, and he has completely fallen for everything. If he succeeds, then the legends are true, and we will finally see the resurrection take place.
Giltrex.
Long live Nar.~
"Nar..." Ray whispered to himself.. trying to think.
"He also has a progress journal of my training." Flare suddenly interrupted. "Only one person ever knew these things, and that was my mentor Blaze. Why would something belonging to him, be here?"
"I don't know.." Mane said, thinking, and then he turned to the empty wall adjacent to the door. "But I'm starting to get an idea." With that, he walked to the wall, and blew, dust pouring off the spot in which he blew.
He could now see a diagonal line, which faded away into the remaining dust. "Flare.." He said, and had to say no more. Flare walked up to the wall, and breathed in, sending a powerful gust of wing like smoke onto the wall, then quickly reabsorbing it.
The word "Nar" could now be plainly seen written on the wall, and the indent of a hand could be seen on the right side.
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Mane walked up to the hand print, and examined it. After staring at it for a few seconds, he slowly moved his hand towards it. He continued to do so even as the indent began morphing to the shape and size of Mane's hand, allowing it to fit perfectly when he touched.
The second he did, the room began to shake, and the 'Nar' wall, began to collapse. The three were even more astonished now, as another wall reading "NCOR" appeared behind the old one.
"Ok, I'm confused. What does all of this mean? Why would the NCOR label be here, as well as a conquerors name and documents on us?Flare asked aloud, knowing he would not get an answer.
~Sometimes.. you must look at things backwards.~ The words of Grazelda echoed in Mane's head. "backwards..." He repeated aloud. "R.O.C.N." He said loudly. he thought for a second. and then turned to Roy. "Give me that letter" He ordered, and Roy obeyed.
Mane took the note, and quickly read over it. "R.O.C.N. ...Resurrection... of Carnelius Nar." Mane said aloud, his heart sinking, and understanding filling his brain.
"The NCOR doesn't exist! It never did!" He began to explain excitedly. "it was all a hoax, a hoax devised by Moka! He must be a worshiper of the deceased conqueror Carnelius Nar.. and needed our combined power to resurrect him!"
"And he was in control of everything this entire time.. Kinoob, Derponet, the attack at the NCOR building, all his doing!" Roy finished for Mane, all three now staring at each other, incredibly shocked.
"Well.. now we know what we have to do" Flare grinned, getting goosebumps from the revelation.
