Chapter 26

"You aren't getting away that easy again!" Yuuki said as Leon, Shiro and Stella all lined up before the gate. Micah standing in the sidelines, trying not to get herself killed by Feru...

Valiantly stepping up like the hero he is, Yuuki pointed his sword towards Feru, the blade radiantly shone as the sun glimmered one It's sides, almost like it's the classic 'Sword of the Hero, but of course! It is being held by the guy who's armor glints with chips and trims of gold. Who else but the pop icon of heroism to wield an ancient relic of legend?

"Everyone else and the king have been worried sick about you, we thought demons managed to kidnap you and turn you into one of their slaves!" He screamed as he did the 'I'm gonna shove the sword into the ground, and put both of my hands on it's bottom guard because I look cool' thing whilst I just held tightly onto Feru, just anxiously waiting for him to just suddenly jump off into mach 9...

"But it seems like you are alright! And now we that you're here, there is no way we will allow you to leave freely again!" He then pulled the sword out again and pointed it towards the massive wolf, and the strangest thing happened, he took a long look at the blade and then said: "You're going to kill me? with a toothpick?" everyone gasped and then Shiro screamed: "You bastard! This is the legendary blade of Castille, the blade of which has slain multiple demons of it's time! and multiple dire wolves like you!"

Feru laughed "This? This is the legendary blade of castille? I'm genuinely impressed that humans are capable of creating D-ranked equipment like this..." Yuuki, unable to accept what Feru said, yelled out: "At least we are able to re-create weapon of legend! at least, not without the help of half-elves..." Althought I couldn't really tell, I could see Feru smirk as he says: "Enslaved half-elves?" Yuuki shuddered at the thought "N-no! They willingly helped us! The king said so!" I began to see some weird swirls again, this time surrounding Yuuki...

I could see the conflict, black and white, one trying to over take the other, like a great war in his mind, and conscious. Because if I recall correctly, Magnus the slave trader told me that the new heroic order that Yuuki and everyone made didn't support a lot of businesses, immoral businesses. Such as slavery, illegal logging and mining, and many other examples. So basically, Feru is trying to make Yuuki over think and trying to give him the one thing that the little brat needed ever since he was my classmate, Doubt.

Stella, and Leon, saw what Feru was trying to do and instinctively they charged forward. Weapons drawn and at the ready, saying dumb lines like: "Yuuki! don't listen to what he's saying!" or "He's definitely a demon wolf! That would explain why Sora is not following us!" but that line got my blood boiling, I knew that what they were trying to do as well. And if I fall for it, I could as well get myself into some really deep shit...

Feru must've sensed what I was thinking, and then decided to drop me onto the ground, like he knew what was about to go down if he didn't let me settle things fairly...

He disappeared like the wind, and then reappeared atop one of the rooftops, saying out loud: "Your friends seem to not understand the true meaning of freedom in this world..." He chuckled as he oversaw everyone, from the students to the soldiers frozen in fear and awe at the majesty of Feru...

"In this world, young Sora, all races know this rule. The rule of freedom, the rule of power..." As he tossed me a simplistic looking stick that looked like he just tore it out of a big tree and then decided to put some tape on places that could be where I could be implied to hold...

"You must learn the true law of this world, mortal squire!" He said as I caught the slightly heavy stick and managed to twirl it around before finally getting a proper hold of it, Feru then said one final time: "Arthur and I wanted to spar with you once more, but it seems like you have been given an opportunity by your loving friends..."

My gaze then fixates onto my opponent, the one who had always objected my opinions and my objectives. The one true opponent of the hero, the protector, the inspiration, the protagonist, the ying to the yang, the one who must be and it shall always be...

The villain...

My red pupils meets his blue ones...

"Tch!I don't need someone to tell me that!" I then swing the staff around and then firmly held the staff as Yuuki looked at me, initially with concern, but then faded as he shook his head sideways and then motioned the guards and the party to stand aside and not interfere, as he held his sword with a singular hand...

"Fine! If it has to be this way, so be it!" He said as he charged towards me, and my grip tightens as his sword started glowing with light yellow. It has begun, the first battle between us...

The first clash between the villain and the hero, the clash of ideas, and skill. After all, it is not us who decides who's right, only those who hold that right to judge us, are the historians! As I swung my staff violently and landed a perfect blow to his left shoulder, 'Whoa, I've never even tried using a staff...' I said as I dodge a sword swing, however something blazing hot scorched my back...

"Little bastard! you think he's the only one you're facing!" As Shiro slashed a fiery sword behind me, wait...

"Hey! Why the fuck are you intervening?!" I said as I dodged another swing and hopped back 5 ft. away from that nuisance and Yuuki. "Shiro! This is a duel! I already said that you shoul-" Shiro spat in front of me, and then said: "He's got a massive demon beast for a familiar, Yuuki! We've already lost that fight, we might as well try and beat the ones that can be beat!" He said as his flaming sword forms into an orb, and then winds himself up like he's trying to do his winning pitch...

And indeed, he threw the ball of fire towards me while screaming "Fire ball!", I was already sweating and my muscles were already beginning to fail me, and these were the cons of being a magic-specializations, person. I was about to accept whatever fate had in store but then all of a sudden, like an angel descended down from the heavens above. My slave lands in-front of me, right before swiftly unsheathing the sword I made, and slashing the 'Fire ball' away from me and back towards Shiro, in which he swiftly dodges along with Yuuki...

"H-hey! I thought he was fighting for his freedom! No double teaming!" Shiro said blatantly, as if he himself did not attempt to burn me alive with a flaming sword. Me and my slave looked at him with disgust, as she helped me up she took a striking stance and says: "I shall see if this mage truly has the potential to duel you, master..." as she charge and slashed away several fire balls being fired away at max speed, and Shiro began panicking as Leon stepped in, and swung his axe "Your charge ends her, Beast wom-" She jump-kicks Leon in the face turning him prone in under a second.

The Guards were simply speechless, however I couldn't do much thinking over the fact me and Yuuki were already in a heated combat scenario. However, right before he could overwhelm me even further, I tried to make sure that he couldn't cut me down with that blade! It's only natural to try and avoid the shiny, glowing part of the magical blade to prevent an arm or a leg from being separated from their original body.

I kept my posture and my stance steady, the staff was starting to feel heavy, and my swings started getting even heavier. I parried another incoming hit from Yuuki, by hitting his hand with the staff, constantly being disarmed and having to dodge my attacks whenever he did so. And from this fight alone, I could see that Yuuki really didn't receive any kind of specialized training, although he has the resolve he doesn't really have the skill to even make me seriously try. Yuuki then pulls his sword back and hung it on his left, and I've seen enough mangas to know that he's about to pull off a secret move, and like I anticipated, he screamed: "Holy slash!" and sliced forward.

Nothing happened...

"W-what?!" He exclaimed, like he wasn't expecting for nothing to happen. And I too, was underwhelmed by what happened. I did expect a strong attack to come out and cut me in half, but for some reason nothing happened. But I then thought that this outcome was worse, because there were only two factors, one is where Yuuki ultimately failed, and the other, is that someone stopped him. And as I thought of it, both my slave and Feru's ears perk up, as if they sensed something powerful coming, and I was probably gonna be part of that. Then out of thin air, metallic chains appeared zooming in on me at the speed of light, my slave then stopped battling Shiro and cuts through the chains, dissipating into thin smoke at the moment my slave's blade touched them.

"Insolent wench! you dare defy me?" A voice called out from behind the heroes, and there stood the person that I least expected out of all. A blonde-haired girl in pure white clothes, her gleaming bands of gold making small jingling sounds from afar, and in her hand was a crystal orb. It's Inner refraction giving off a faint light. I remembered her...

"Princess..." I grumbled underneath my breath

"You! Wolf! You shall stand down in the name of her highness! Lady Aura of the Castille Empire!" A knight in a white, full-plate exclaimed towards Feru. Although Feru wasn't really concerned with them rather, he was concerned about another figure standing alongside the princess...

She was really short, about as short as I am, which is 4'9 ft., Her sleek long black hair reached all the way down towards her waists, she wore a long, black lab coat with initials "LA-091" on her coat's left-side, shoulder. She had something in her mouth, something that resembled a stick but one end was covered in a brownish color. She wore strange, yet familiar glasses. She had something in her hands, and I regret ever looking in that direction.

She pulled out a gun and then silently, pulled the trigger, as something came flying towards Feru. He couldn't jump away in time, and a small dart hits his lower hind leg. He then falls onto the ground, unconscious. Which came as a big shock, then the last thing I saw was the fall of my slave, as my eyelids closed...

"Damn it..."