Chapter 14

The scream had disrupted the quiet atmosphere of the ball.

Quickly we scrambled up from our seats.

"What was that?! " asked Hyegong, a anxious expression across his face.

"I'm not sure but it's coming from the southern hallway." Quickly, I run towards one of the stairways in the corner, " we can use this to get there faster."

As we ran up the stairs, I looked from the corner of my eyes down on the ballroom, unfortunately, the music had masked it - only barely.

Finally, we had reached the source of the scream.

Kicking open the door, we had come across the scene with the body of a young noble lady, laying in a heap on the floor. Blood could be seen vividly flowing from her neck.

'shit' was exactly what we thinking, quickly we rushed towards her.

Lifting his robes, Hyegong pressed two fingers onto her wrist, checking for a pulse. After what seemed like hours, he sighed.

" Thankfully, the wound didn't injure any major parts so she'll be fine but we'll have stop the bleeding."

I nodded before tearing a piece of the veil and skirt and wrapped it around her neck. It wasn't perfect but it was better than nothing.

"Let's get her out of here quickly." I said, as I lifted one arm over my shoulder.

We would have gotten out of the room had the door not been locked.

"Why isn't it opening!" exclaimed Hyegong as he struggled with the lock.

" I don't know but something tells me that we aren't alone...."

Slowly we turned and found ourselves confronted with quite a number of the masked men.

'Life just sucks, huh.'

I thought as they unsheathed their swords.

(Meanwhile/ Alexander pov)

Okay where the hell is that guy!

Searching around, I could barely see Will at all. All it took was a second and he's out of my sight. Looking around, I couldn't help but sigh, in the end their all the same. So far, I already had like 15 nobles introducing me their daughters, hoping for one of them to marry me.

If it were my way, I would have killed them all, however that would threaten diplomatic relations and most likely cause war. Taking another sip from the grape juice, I thought I could faintly hear a scream.

I was about to follow the sound of the scream when suddenly, a gunshot rang through the air.

In the middle of the ballroom, stood (who was that guy again?) Baron schweiss, an important figure or something as a hole was visibly seen through his chest as blood flowed out. In a matter of seconds, he collapsed on the floor dead.

Screams and shouts were heard immediately as people panicked and guards attempted to calm the guests down.

" YOUR HIGHNESS!"

Running towards me was Alfred , he looked a little disheveled but worry seem to be the main focus.

"Alfred ....."

looking over his shoulder, I could vividly see the (stupid)King and queen being escorted out with the rest of the nobles.

Those damn.....

"EVERYONE BE QUIET!"

Immediately silence reigned upon us, standing on the stage was prince Julius ( I seriously need to get revenge on him). However, I had to admit there was a certain amount of admiration I gave him.

" I know all of you are panicked but please do so in an orderly fashion. Now then, Guards and members of military you will be divided into two groups. The first group will be helping to evacuate all guests, the other group will be helping to patrol the area."

"YES SIR!"

Biting my tongue, I approach him.

"Let me help."

"What?"

" I said to let me help."

Suddenly, a group of masked men entered.

Great it's these guys again.

"Julius! Be careful, their pretty skilled and you can't get any information since their suicidal."

Julius nods briefly before unsheathing his sword ready to attack. The rest of the guards following suit.

" Everyone, ATTACK!"

And so it was, in a matter of minutes a bunch of the masked men were dead.

Using the corner of my sleeve, I wiped some blood from my forehead as I stepped on the last one, geez this one really put up a fight.

"YOUR HIGHNESS!"

Hurrying from across one of the stairs were Will's bodyguards, Maximilian and Claude. They looked worn out and injured , their respective weapons, bloodied.

" What's wrong?" asked Prince Julius as he sheathed his sword, kicking a body aside.

"Its the princess! She's gone!". said Maximilian, panting

"WHAT!"

"And not only but the koun empire's representative too!"

"This is bad if anyone gets wind of this, war might escalate. Quickly find them before it's too late."

"YES SIR!"

And with that, the guards quickly ran around corners, searching for the missing two.

Knowing them, this was going to take too long and most likely more of those assassins will be here. Despite that however, who were those men they don't seem to be from any anti-royalist factions.

" Now if I were Will where would I go..." I mumbled softly as I thought hard.

That's when I remembered, the source of the scream.

" Alfred , let us hurry. I have a good hunch where he would and let's hope he's still alive."

Alfred's eye's widened before following me towards the source of the scream.

Please be safe

( Lukas POV)

f***

As masked men surrounded us, I held onto the poor girl harder. Suddenly, one of the masked men dashed forward, sword ready to pierce us.

However, Hyegong acted swiftly. Pulling out his fan and slashing it against the man. The body crumpling.

"Anyone else."said Hyegong menacingly as he readied himself to attack.

Unfortunately the men were stupid enough to attack, promptly being taken out by Hyegong. I looked around and managed to find myself a old sword from an antique suit of armour.

"This better work."

In random motion, I attacked. It wasn't pretty but honestly I tried. By the time, we had taken them out, Hyegong wasn't really in perfect condition. His shoulder had been slashed and was bleeding profusely.

Just when I thought more were about to arrive, the window flew open and in came a young green haired man, Alexander and Kevin. Knocking out a ton of men.

" Prince Hyegong, your arm!" exclaimed the green haired man as he rushed towards Hyegong, he eyebrows raised worried.

"I'll be fine, Tadao. Though please take care of that young woman laying there, she has a far more serious injury than a simple shoulder wound."

Tadao nodded, before approaching the young woman and checking her pulse.

Alexander and Alfred came to me and were quite worried, I was about to asked about Kevin when my vision started to blur and I passed out.

Not again....

(Somewhere)

Kevin wandered through the halls as he killed the masked men.

"Kevin...."

" Your Majesty."

The empress dowager was by his side, her face grim

" It seems they have attacked again."

"Yes. Unfortunately, the result is still the same as before."

She nods her head before turning back and walking away however not before stopping to say,

" Kevin, you should go to him. Despite not being the same, I can tell that he is someone that you has bring you warmth."

"Your highness."

(another place)

"Say what do you think will happen next?" asked a small figure dressed neatly in military clothes, his vibrant blue eyes illuminating in the darkness of the night as he played around with a dagger, slicing across spider lilies.

"Just do as before. After all, their just simply toys in a playground." The voice had come from a glowing book, floating where the figure was.

" Your right. Though it would have been so much fun, I supposed there are some to be kept later."

The light then died down and the book shut.

Vibrant blue eyes turned a violent red, as the figure dashed across the flowers laughing merrily as a shadow followed behind. A bloody path of flowers lying in his wake.