Frensa eyed Ara once before focusing back to Cat.
“Alright… for now I’ll leave the situation as it is so that you twelve don’t have to get involved in this mess” the General stated as the knight left the room.
“There’ve been rumors going around that one of ours is a spy working for Qiryu… if you can help me find who that might be that’d be fantastic” Frensa added immediately after.
“It can’t be one of the zodiacs, you all aren’t involved in this mess”
“Something wrong?” A well-suited man walked up near where Xara was sitting. He had several books in his hand, not that he was going to sit down and read them, rather he started to arrange them in the shelves.
"I'll consider it, after you call a meeting to explain exactly what is going on. And I mean everything. Not just what is going on with the rogue General," Cat decided after a moment of thinking. "Should you need me again, I will be out on the range practicing. And do me a favor, find someone good to fix the armor. I can not do hardly anything while wearing it."
(Oh god THANK YOU)
Xara looked up briefly before looking back down at her book. "People are rather fond of yelling. In libraries. While others are trying to read. I'd like to burn those people to a crisp," she answered flatly.
Frensa nodded.
“I’ll try to find one for ya, might take a while though” he claimed as the door opened on its own.
The man giggled a little as he flipped the books in his hand to arrange them.
“There’re a lot of arguments that take place in the library, most of which I’m the one to take care of” the librarian stated as their badge reflected the sunlight coming through the small window to his side.
“You can call me by two names, I answer to both; Librarian or Reticulum” he said, setting the books down.
"Didn't ask, but thanks," Xara replied drily without looking up.
Cat turned towards the door half expecting someone to be there. She was also turning to leave, she'd had enough of this man and his less than smart decisions.
Draco sighed.
“Unfortunately, you’ll have to fight me but not now obviously” he claimed.
“If it’s working correctly, the speaker inside should be telling you about the capabilities of the armor right?”
"Exactly the issue! It's telling me what it can do but not how to actually use it," she ranted. Something about dragons and staffs? Lata had no idea where that even came from. All her magic was capable of doing was creating something that wasn't really there. And now she was supposed to be able to fight physically with the guy who brought her here? Not to mention he was experienced by a landslide as well.
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"What about you? Where're you from, mister" Quebec eyed the man who, in his eyes, seems a bit crazy and shady. He wasn't worried but he kept looking at Matthew.
The librarian giggled at himself.
“Sorry, I’m just like that” he finished placing the books down on the top shelf and started to arrange the lower one.
“What’re you reading by the way?”
The halls outside Frensa’s meeting room was as silent as can be. Not a single person can be seen, not a sound but the wind can be heard.
Draco sighed and facepalmed himself.
“Alright, I think I can teach you the basics of it since Syzen did tell me that how the powers of the armor are activated are similar to how my magic is activated” he suggested as golden aura surrounded him.
The man turned to Quebec, same vibrating eyes like before.
“The same kingdom you two are from… though I come from the northern forests… anyways… I live nearby here now…” the figure answered, their messy and withered clothing swayed with the wind.
Xara sighed and held up her book, showing him the cover. "Mostly nonsense."
(Tbh I want to throw my book at people who ask that. Omg and if they follow it up with "what's it about?" I'm bouta beat their ass XD)
Cat looked up and down the hall in confusion. "Creepy," she muttered as she began heading down the hall towards the out side again. Plag whapped his tail into her face as she walked. "Thank you, I needed your tail in my face." He purred at her annoyed words.
"Cool, so, are you enjoying the view as I told you yet?" Quebec asked now eyeing Matthew. "I'm sure you have something to say about it, atleast something"
(Sorry, had some irl things to do…)
The librarian nodded as he finished with the arrangement.
“Well I’ll leave you be, if you need me I’ll be—“ an explosion can be heard from outside the palace. The librarian turned immediately towards the deafening sound.
An explosion sound broke the silence in the hallway Cat was in.
“Out there, now!!” A figure called to others as they ran pass the corridor in front of Cat.
A huge yellow and red flame went up near the palace and broke the silence of the forest.
Matthew turned in shock when he spotted the explosion. Turning back to Quebec, he noted the figure between the two was gone without a trace.
“Let’s go” he mouthed as the sound of the wave covered the sound of his.
Luc was talking to a book vendor when he saw the explosion. "Stay here, I'm going to go check it out." He told the vendor, racing over toward the noise. He let out his magic in case someone had caused the attack and they needed to be interrogated, his kingdom wasn't known as the Punishment Kingdom for anything.
The locals of the kingdom ran away from the explosion, some in silence, some screaming, and some… didn’t seem to make it. Amidst the flames of the explosion was a shadowy figure. Nothing was to be noted from the figure’s movement other than the fact that wherever the figure pointed their index finger at, there seemed to be an explosion and for longer they hold their finger at a certain point, the bigger the explosion would be. Though… their body looked as if they weren’t doing it willingly and sounds that can only be assumed as cries as be heard from the figure.
Cat turned on her heel and followed whoever had just run past her. Plag was instantly bracing himself on her shoulders so he wouldn't fall off as she ran. The armor she was wearing was slowly being stripped off giving her more speed. She raced out to the field real fast and snatched up the enchanted bow. Strapping it to her back and pulling her other bow out. "Plag stay here," she said, to which Plag replied by hopping off her shoulders and hiding himself in her cloak that still lay on the ground. Then Cat ran towards the town where the explosions could be heard.
Luc watched the person in the middle of the chaos for a moment before getting in close. "What are you doing? Do you need help? What's wrong? Can you stop?" He fired off a round of questions, letting his magic seep into the air around them.
The figure exclaimed a shocked expression before turning towards Lucisan.
“This scent…” the figure muttered, smoke still covering them so that their shadow is the only thing anyone would see “…prince of Candorin… what are you doing here—“ they raised their index finger up at Lucisan as it glowed “—please… leave before I hurt you…” they said the last part while tearing up as the string from his finger fired, sending out a large explosion which hit the building right behind Luc.
Luc ran up to the figure and tackled them, bringing them to the ground and holding their hands still. "You're going to be okay." He muttered to the person, giving a smile. "And you know I don't lie."
The figure was a pale young man, blonde with burnt edges, a green eye and one other eye black with a reversed Selas’ kingdom symbol in it. They were in a black coat with crimson lapels.
“Please your royal highness…” the right index finger of the figure was pointing at the ground as the figure shed a tear “…leave” the explosion right underneath the figure and Lucisan, sending them both upwards.
Syzen smiled at the reaction.
“Indeed, you can try it on if you’d like to, it’s quite light compared to the other armors” he claimed as he gestured to the armor.
There were some things worth noting about the armor; bladed curves that represented fins were on the armor’s arm pads and leg pads, the cape of the armor was a white translucent cloth, and most of the armor’s ‘openings’ had net-like cloth covering them.
"I see a lot of thought has been put into the design of this armor."
Pasha shrugged, shoving his hands into his pockets. He couldn't see himself wearing it, from the outside the armor just didn't appear to suit him at all.
"Are you sure I'm the right person for this? I just don't seem to match the armor…"
Luc took the brunt of the explosion, he, however, still held onto the figure. "I am going to help you godsdamnit." He grunted, arms crossed around the other and not moving. "How can I get it to stop?" His magic seeped into his words, just like his truth serum slipped into the air.
Cat perched herself onto a roof and drew back an arrow. She spotted the fight going down between Luc and whoever was attacking. She took aim, but didn't fire. It looked like Luc was trying to calm them down, and if that was the case she didn't want to be the cause of them not calming down. So she held her position in case the figure over powered Luc.
Syzen nodded in confirmation as he gestured once again at the armor.
“Oh right, I almost forgot” a harpoon like lance came out of the wall.
As the weapon came out, was the same time the explosion sound reached the insides of the palace.
“Only…” the finger of the figure aimed straight at his own hand “…only a knight named Horologium can help me—” the sentence ended immediately after the string of explosion was sent to the figure’s own other hand, releasing themself from Luc’s grasps.