Hatred

Alessia had a blank expression on her face. She mumbled to herself. "His Greatness? Ex lovers? Relationship to him?"

The girl with the club said to Alessia as her club remained hovering over Alessia's head. "Are you not going to answer me?"

Alessia blank expression remained plastered on her face. She looked at the boy with no armor and then looked back over her left shoulder at the girl with the club. She said to the girl with the club. "Do you like him or something?"

The girl with the club swung her club down on Alessia's head as she yelled out. "And what if I do!"

Alessia immediately disappeared before the club could strike down on her head.

The boy with no armor felt a blade press up against his neck and a girl's chest press up against his back. The boy with no armor thought with disappointment. "She captured me again..."

The boy with dark silver hair and the girl with the club both looked over at the boy with no armor and Alessia who was standing behind him. They both looked at her angrily. The boy with dark silver hair clenched both of his hands tightly into fists and the girl with the club clenched her club tightly in her left hand.

Alessia pressed the sword closer to the neck of the boy with no armor as she said. "Don't even think about it! Stay away from me or I'll slit his throat!"

The boy with dark silver hair and the girl with the club looked both angry and distressed as they looked at Alessia.

The boy with no armor thought fearfully. "She'll slit my throat?! I have to break free somehow. I can't die here! I can't let her kill me." He lurched his head upwards. The sword that was pressed up against his throat dug into his neck. His blood began to drip onto the ground.

Alessia yelled out at the boy. "What are you doing, you fool?! Do you want to die?!"

The boy with no armor felt the stinging pain in his neck as he felt the blade of the sword slice through his flesh. The boy with no armor had a determined expression on his face as he thought. "If it all it takes is a head butt to kill somebody... Then I'll kill you before you can kill me!" He slammed the top of his head into Alessia's mouth. The blade of the sword sliced deeper into his neck. More blood began to spill onto the ground.

Alessia's head lurched backward. Blood began to spill from her mouth. She looked at the boy with no armor angrily as she said. "That hurt dammit! Don't screw with me, kid!" She quickly used the blade of her sword and sliced through the neck of the boy with no armor.

The blood of the boy with no armor splattered onto his clothes and onto the ground beneath him. He began to descend toward the blood covered ground beneath him. He thought as he descended toward the ground. "Why...? Why didn't it work...?"

The girl with the club mumbled to herself. "What did she...?! What did she just do...?!"

The boy with no armor looked over at the boy with dark silver hair and the girl with the club as he descended toward the ground.

Both the boy with dark silver hair and the girl with the club looked distraught as they watched the boy with no armor fall toward the ground.

The girl with the club mumbled to herself. "Did she really just...?!"

The expression of distraught on the dark silver haired boy's face as well as the girl with the club immediately changed into an expression of pure rage as they stared at Alessia.

Alessia watched as the boy with no armor descended toward the ground and mumbled in disbelief. "I did it... I actually did it..."

The boy with no armor looked slightly over to his left and looked at the boy with silver armor who was standing closest to the Eastern side of the stadium.

The boy with silver armor had a horrified expression on his face as he watched the boy with no armor descend toward the ground.

The boy with no armor thought as he stared at the boy with silver armor. "It looks like... this is the end... for me, Brother. Could you tell Sister... that I wasn't able to... keep my promise?"

Alessia said with excitement as she continued to watch the boy with no armor fall toward the ground. "I did it! I actually did it! I completed the mission, Your Highness!"

The boy's vision began to become dark. The boy with no armor thought before everything faded away. "So in the end... it wasn't just Father that hated me... Mother hated me as well..." Everything became dark.

*****

The boy with silver armor looked over at the boy with no armor who had landed face first into the ground. Blood began to pool around the body of the boy with no armor as he laid motionless on the ground. The boy with silver armor thought with a horrified expression on his face. "Is he really... dead...?! But I swore... I swore I would protect him no matter what!" He continued to stare at the boy with no armor as he thought. "Is this all my fault?! Did he die because I didn't do anything to protect him?! I'm such a useless Brother! He was probably expecting me to step in and help him, but I never did!" He looked at the boy with dark silver hair and the girl with the club.

Both the boy with dark silver hair and the girl with the club had rage filled eyes as they looked at the girl with long black hair that held a straight sword in her left hand.

The boy with silver armor looked at the girl with the straight sword and thought. "I remember her. I met her when she first showed up at the castle a week ago. She is Mother's First Guardian."

The First Guardian laughed excitedly as she said. "I won! I killed The Unkillable! To think it was that easy! Are you proud of me, Your Highness? I did what no one else could do!"

The boy with dark silver hair said with an intimidating tone to The First Guardian. "What is so funny?!" He clenched both of his hands by his sides into fists.

The girl with the club said with an intimidating expression on her face. "Hey girlie do you realize what you just did? She grabbed the handle of her club with both her right hand and her left hand. She then said, "Do you realize what you just did to His Greatness?!"

The First Guardian looked at the boy with dark silver hair and the girl with the club and said with irritation. "Huh? What are the two of you going to do? I'm The First Guardian of Her Highness, Alcestis Asuka, who possesses the rank of Third Slasher! What can you two Unranked do against me?"

The boy with silver armor thought with anger. "So in the end Mother is no different than 'him'! He looked over at the man with silver armor, Menelaos, who was sitting in his seat at the second lowest level of the four levels within the Northern part of the stadium and frowned as he thought. "It is always 'his' fault!" He clenched his hands by his sides tightly into fists as he gritted his teeth and thought. "I hate him. I hate everything about him. I hate his Kingdom, his Guardians, and everyone related to him." He looked down at his silver armor and thought. "I hate this armor. And this sword too." He looked at Menelaos with deep hatred in his eyes as he thought. "He is the cause of all misery in this world! Everything is his fault!" He reached up for the hilt of his sword with his left hand as he thought with rage. "I wish I could-!"

The boy with silver armor's thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the sound of yelling.

The boy with silver armor looked over at the source of the sound.

The boy with dark silver hair and the girl with the club both yelled out at the same time. "'What can we do'?! We'll break you into pieces!" The two of them disappeared from where they were standing.