Exposure

The Royals in the stadium looked at the Devourer down in the sand pit. A half broken black horn sprouted out of her head. Her body became almost entirely black.

Set placed his left hand on his chin and mumbled to himself. "A Queen?" He laughed mischievously as he said with excitement. "How fascinating! Even with the Anomaly unconscious this Ceremony still manages to entertain me!"

Kambyses thought with surprise and shock. "A Devourer Queen?! This is bad! Nobody down there has the proper equipment to deal with a Queen! She'll transform all of them!" He grabbed the hilt of his katana with his left hand as he stood up from his seat and thought. "So I'll have to be the one to get rid of it!"

Xasius said in an intimidating tone from his seat at the top of the stadium. "What are you doing, Number One?"

The hair on the back of Kambyses's neck stood up on end as soon as Xasius spoke to him.

All of the other Royals in the stadium except Kapaneus looked over at Kambyses which included Aineas, Atreus, and Set.

Krios mumbled to himself as he looked at Kambyses. "What is he doing?!"

Menelaos said quietly to himself as he looked at Kambyses. "What's the point?" He then looked over at the empty seat between him and Alekto and mumbled quietly to himself. "That fool is already down there."

Kambyses turned around and looked up at Xasius as he said. "There is a Queen down there, Father! I have to help them! They don't have the proper equipment to-!"

Xasius said with a cold tone. "Sit down, Number One!"

All of the Royals except Kapaneus stared intently at Kambyses which included Aineas, Atreus, and Set.

Kambyses thought while conflicted. "Dammit!" He said in a respectful tone. "As you command, Father!" He turned around and sat back down in his seat. He looked down at the sand pit. He watched as the Devourer Queen roared and launched both the boy with silver hair and the girl with the club several feet backwards. He thought with unease. "I need to help them! But, if I try to I'd probably die before I even made it to them! What should I do?"

Set suddenly laughed mischievously as he looked down at the sand pit and said. "I understand now, 'Xasius'! Is this why you invited me to come here?" He looked over at Xasius and said with both mischief and excitement. "Everything that has happened so far? Did you plan all of this from the start? First an Anomaly and now a Devourer Queen. Is this your attempt at trying to entertain me? Are you trying to earn my approval, 'Xasius'?" He continued to laugh mischievously.

Xasius remained silent as he sat in his seat.

Kambyses thought with both shock and surprise as he listened to Set speak. "Father planned all of this?! Does Father not realize that without a mask or a helmet all of them are at risk of transforming?! But that wouldn't make any sense! Since Father was the one who required all Royals to wear masks and every Guardian to own a helmet!" He turned his head and looked up at Xasius as he thought with doubt. "Is that really Father?"

The Devourer Queen's monstrous roar echoed across the stadium.

Kambyses turned his head and looked down at the sand pit again.

Down in the sand pit the boy with blonde hair said loudly. "Then I'll make it easy for you!" He stopped walking and raised his left arm backward as he aimed the double tipped spear at The Devourer Queen.

Kambyses thought as he looked at the boy with blonde hair and The Devourer Queen who now hovered in the air above the sand pit. "What is he doing?! Her blood will scatter everywhere!" Before he could open his mouth to say something. He heard Nameless Scarion yell out at the boy with blonde hair.

Nameless Scarion yelled out at the boy with blonde hair. "That's a Queen! Don't throw it, you fool!"

The boy with blonde hair yelled out angrily as he threw the double tipped spear at The Devourer Queen. "Eat this, bitch!"

Kambyses sat at the edge of his seat and thought as the spear flew toward The Devourer Queen. "Dammit! He threw it!"

Nameless Scarion had an angry expression on his face as he yelled out at the boy with blonde hair with rage. "You fool! I said not to throw it!"

The double tipped spear continued to fly toward The Devourer Queen who just hovered in the air and watched as it flew toward her.

*****

The boy with silver armor watched as the double tipped spear flew toward The Devourer Queen.

The boy with blonde hair grabbed both sides of his head with his hands and crouched over the ground as he watched the double tipped spear fly toward the Devourer Queen. He had an expression of both guilt and confusion on his face as he mumbled to himself. "Why?! Why did I throw it?! If that hits her...!"

The boy with silver armor had a worried expression on his face as he thought. "What?! What is he talking about?!"

The Devourer Queen screamed out in pain. Her scream echoed across the stadium.

The boy with silver armor immediately looked over at The Devourer Queen.

The double tipped spear which was previously flying toward The Devourer Queen was now lodged in The Devourer Queen's chest. Her blood flew through the air and then began to rain down on everything below her.

The boy with dark silver hair looked up at the blood that began to fall from the sky and immediately disappeared from where he was previously located.

The boy with silver armor thought while confused. "He disappeared?"

The blood began to fall out of the sky and landed on two people that were closest to The Devourer Queen. It landed on the boy with no armor who laid motionless on the ground and it landed on the girl with the club who had never gotten up off the ground after she had been blasted backward by The Devourer Queen's roar.

The boy with dark silver hair appeared next to the boy with the spear. He said to the boy with the spear. "Don't throw that spear at the Devourer. Her blood is dangerous."

The boy with the spear said while he looked up at The Devourer Queen fearfully. "Do you really think I'm going to try and attack that thing?! I'm not going anywhere near it!"

The boy with silver armor thought with surprise. "Did he just say her blood is dangerous?!" He looked over at the boy with no armor and the girl with the club.

The girl with the club who laid on the ground had blood dripping down the right side of her face onto the ground beneath her. Her entire body began to twitch rapidly.