Chapter 15

Sozen, Tranzarus, Aiko, Kou and Gyou were looking tired.

"Tired already?" Cosmos said

"Dammit.. She's strong" Sozen said

"Yeah... those spells of hers are wasting all my mana" Kou said

"What do we do?" Aiko asked

"This seems to be a problem" Gyou said

"We'll let you live if you give us the divine weapons" Cosmos said

"You're joking. We would never let that!" Sozen shouted

"Then be it then" Cosmos casted another huge fireball.

"I won't be able to block it!" Kou said

"Me too" Gyou said

"Dangit!" Sozen said

"What do we do!?" Tranzarus panicked

The huge fireball flew to them and exploded!

"Ha, that was easy" Cosmos said

She slowly walked to the big hole.

"What!?" She saw nothing "Impossible! The weapons shouldn't have gotten destroyed by the fireball! Only those three! What will I do!?"

"Ma'am" One of her mages said "I sense some magic."

"Magic?" She put the pieces together "Time magic?! Only master mages know about that spell!"

"The magic came from the boy" Her mage said "Not the blue haired, the one carrying a sword"

"His name was Sozen, right? Was he playing with us?" Cosmos said angry "Find them!"

Somewhere else.

They were riding horses, Sozen was passed out.

"Luckily we were able to escape because of Sozen's magic" Gyou said

*Flashback*

The fireball stopped before hitting them.

"What?" Kou looked confused

Sozen fell to the floor.

"Sozen?!" Aiko said worried

"He gave us some time" Tranzarus said "We need to leave as far as we can"

"True" Gyou said "Let's go"

They all hoped in horses and placed Sozen with Tranzarus and rode off.

*End of Flashback*

"We should be very far now" Gyou said

"What should we do?" Aiko asked

"We should return to the kingdom, I have a feeling that they'll attack it" Kou said

"What about Sozen?" Aiko asked worried

"Because of his pell, he used a lot of mana" Gyou said "Time magic require a lot of mana, so he'll be out for a few hours"

"Time magic huh?" Kou said "Quite impressive"

"We have to warn Lily" Tranzarus said

They rode as fast as possible back to Arlest.

They rode through the streets to the palace.

"Stop right there!" A soldier said "State your business"

"We have to speak with the princess!" Aiko said

"The princess?" He realized who they were "Oh! It's you three" He opened the gate. "She's in the throne room"

"Thanks" Kou said

They hopped off their horses and ran to the room.

In the room.

"Bow Hero, you've been acting like a berserk ruler!" Lily said sitting on her father's throne "I can't believe you made people make golden statues of you!"

"I-I'm sorry" Rokuro said

"No sorries!" She shouted "You should feel ashamed!"

The huge door suddenly opened.

"Princess!" Aiko said carrying Sozen.

"Oh you're all back!" Lily said happy "But you look so panicked"

"They're gonna attack the kingdom!" Kou said

"What?!" Lily said suprised "Who will!?"

"Cosmos, The Mage." Gyou said

"She's bringing a whole army of mages with her!" Tranzarus said

"Her!" Lily said suprised "My family fought wars against her family"

"So you can counter it?" Aiko asked worried

"That might be difficult, the last war was fought by my dad. We won but we were left weak" Lily said

"It will be difficult" Gyou said

"When will they attack?" Lily asked

"We don't know, but we're sure that she will attack" Kou said

"Prepare our soldiers!" Lily shouted "And ask the guild for help!"

"Yes ma'am!" A soldier ran off.

"And you" Lily looked at Rokuro "You will help fight Cosmos"

"I will" Rokuro said.

"You can use one of the rooms for Sozen" Lily said "Right now, I have to talk with my father."

"I'll carry him" Tranzarus said

"I'll come with you" Gyou said "You two prepare yourselves"

Aiko and Kou nodded and left while Tranzarus and Gyou carried him to a room.

Sozen was sleeping peacefully in a bed.

"You should stay here" Gyou said

"What? I want to fight!" Tranzarus said

"Protecting your owner is more important" Gyou said "I don't have one, yet"

"Fine.." She said

"He's quite the unique individual" Gyou said "He's the first one that considered himself not a hero"

"Don't you need to prepare to fight?" Tranzarus said

Gyou left the room.

"This is the second time this happened" Tranzarus said "Waiting for you to wake up"

Sozen started sleep talking.

"No.." Sozen said "Leave her alone!"

"A nightmare?" Tranzarus said. She held his hand. "Time to see his dream"

In Sozen's dream.

Tranzarus appeared in a house.

"What's this place?" Tranzarus said "Is this his house?"

*bang!*

"Dont move! Or I'll shoot!"

"Was that a gun?" Tranzarus said "From what Sozen told me, that sound comes from a gun"

She saw a boy on the floor, that was Sozen.

"No! D-dont! That's my son!!" A woman said

"Dont move!" A man said "Is his fault!"

"No!!" The woman said "It's not his fault that we're in debt!"

"We were living okay but then this little brat came and ruined us!" The father said

"D-dad" Sozen said terrifed

"Shut up!" The father said. He pointed the gun to her mom

Sozen stood up and tackled him. "No! I won't let you!"

"Get off me!" Her father said

Sozen grabbed the gun and pulled the trigger.

*bang!*

Sozen dropped the gun, his hand was shaking.

"W-what have Y-you done.... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?" The mom said

"I-I wanted to protect you.." Sozen said

"Get out!" Her mom said "Get out of this house!"

Sozen began crying and ran off the house.

"He shot his father" Tranzarus said

"Yeah, I did"

Tranzarus turned around, Sozen was sitting in the stairs.

"Sozen?" Tranzarus looked suprised

"I still blame myself for everything" Sozen looked at the floor "If I never killed my dad, would have we been happy? If I was never born... would they be okay?"

"If you weren't born?" Tranzarus said

"It's all my fault.. all my fault.." He began crying.

Tranzarus sat down beside him.

"It's not your fault" She said "You wanted to protect your mom"

"But still! If I wasn't born-"

"But you don't know what would have happened!" Tranzarus said

"Would it have been the same?" Sozen said "My father was a drunk and lazy person. He would always get fired and he always blamed me.."

"It's not your fault! It's his!" Tranzarus said

He sighed "Anyways, what are you doing here?"

"What?" Tranzarus asked

"Why are you in my dream?" He asked

"You were having a nightmare" She said "So I tried to help"

"Help? That's new" He said "But I appreciate it, so what's happening outside?"

"There's going to be a fight" She said

"A fight, huh?" Sozen said "You guys should be fine"

"Fine?" She said suprised "We fought her before and we almost lost!"

"Well I know that we they'll win" He said "And if not... the others will take care of it"

"You're talking about Sho?" She asked

"Sho and our friends, including the king" He said "Well then, if you want to stay here I should change my dream"

"No, I'll leave" Tranzarus said "See you when you wake up"

She walked out of the house and reappeared back in the room.

"Will we win?" She asked herself "It will depend on them."

The war will begin in the next chapter.