Found You

"TING!"

What was that? Vorbuk jumped in surprise from the random sound that went off in his head. His eyes started to dart around to check his surroundings. There was nothing unusual around him. The sound had been similar to the sound of someone striking metal, but there was nothing around him.

The street was covered in local people from Dradel kingdom that were doing their business without any form of alarm. He was starting to get the feeling that he was the only one that had heard the random noise. It felt very strange to him, but there was nothing he could do about it if he had no idea where it came from. In his mind he started to wonder if he had just imagined it.

[ Mission Available ]

What? Mission? Vorbuk thought to himself as he could heard god's voice resounding in the back of his mind. It had been a while since the last time the voice had called out to him.

[ Mission Activated ]

[ Mission: Bodygaurd

Details: Keep Crown Prince Leo alive from incoming assassination. ]

Well that is very blunt! What do you think I've been doing anyways? Vorbuk snorted at the details that the voice was portraying to him. In his mind if someone attacked them he would help defend the group regardless of whether or not the god's voice asked him to. In a way the fact that the god's voice spoke out to him about avoiding assassination made his heart lurch at the thought.

He glanced around the area and could see the others talking across the street. Turning his head was the sight of Leo standing beside him. Everything around him felt normal as always and there did not seem to be anything to worry about at the moment. After a while of observing he started to get a strange feeling in his gut. It was like his instincts were starting to scream out that something was closing in on him.

"Killing intent?" Vorbuk accidentally sent the question towards Leo without realizing it until he had already spoken.

"What? Where?" Leo glanced down at Vorbuk before looking around.

"I don't know, but I can clearly feel someone with the aura like we are being watched by someone who wants to kill us... There is so much rage coming from them!" Vorbuk was almost started by the amount of power behind the intent to kill that he could feel coming from somewhere around them. He could not pin point where the feeling was coming from, however.

A strange look flashed upon Leo's face. The crown prince pulled out his sword and swiftly dashed away from where they were standing. His figure disappearing into an alley to make it way out of the public. The motion almost started Vorbuk for a moment before he quickly gathered his thoughts and ran after Leo.

"What are you doing?" Vorbuk shouted at Leo from behind as he caught up to him.

"Clearly, I am leading him away from the people in town. Whoever it is do you really think they would just over look the fact that a bunch of people were on the street around us?" Leo glanced over at the wolf for a moment as they quickly made their way just outside of the town.

"Well... Probably not, but you could have warned me before just running off without warning!" Vorbuk snorted at him in frustration.

After coming to a complete stop they both started looking around. The aura started to fill the hair so heavily around them that even Leo could fill the huge intent the person had to kill him. Leo had to hold himself back from shuddering at the power behind it. His eyes were scanning the area to try and catch a glimpse at who was targeting him, but everything around them was silent.

"I finally caught up with you." A calm and cold voice suddenly broke the silence as a figure started to approach them from behind slowly causing Leo to turn around and find the man behind it.

"You..?" Leo was surprised to see the elf man standing there with such a cold gaze.

The elf's long dark hair was blowing in the wind as he slowly unsheathed his sword from his waist. His light green eyes were like daggers as his gaze never left the sight of the crown prince that stood before him. There was so much rage coming from his eyes that it caused Leo to freeze where he stood for a moment before coming back to his senses again. The crown prince could not recall when he had made an enemy of the man.

"Did I do something to you?" The hand that was holding his sword pulled against his chest as his other hand was placed against his mouth as his face showed a heavy look of pondering to recall what he had done to the elf. He could easily recall driving the elf mad to get him to leave them alone in the past when he was following them around, but other than that he was drawing a blank.

The sight of the young crown prince struggling to figure out the reason behind his rage only fueled Vulen's rage even more. He could feel his temple throbbing from how enraged he felt. Leo had no idea that he was the general of the ice queen, but the site before him was still driving him mad. It almost felt like the prince was trying to mock him while at the same time he felt like the prince was not taking him seriously at all.

"Nope. I can't think of anything!" Crown prince Leo gave an awkward smile and shrugged at the elf.

Vulen's face twitched like crazy as he sneered at the prince. He could not take it anymore and suddenly he raised his sword and dashed across the ground towards Leo.

"TIIINNNGGGG!"

The colliding of the swords rang throughout the air.

"TING!" "TING!" "TING!"

Vulen repeatedly swung his sword at the prince only to find himself repeatedly blocked by the prince's sword. He could feel his rage boiling more at every attack that was fended off. The general was boiling over with determination to take the crown prince's life. At the moment he didn't even hold a care if he fell in battle himself as long as he could drag the crown prince down with him.