Chapter 7 Encounter with King Seres

Rico just stared on Niffa wondering if her prediction was right.

"Niffa, I'm not sure about that but those memories are just not enough to explain my past."

"You're right Rico, we still need to seek more about your connection from this kingdom of Samari". Rico stared on the logo as he wipe it and sadness just filled his face.

"What's wrong Rico?"

"I don't know… I also can't understand the way I feel every time I saw this logo, I felt like I have an important connection towards it."

Niffa walk upstairs looking around the broken walls. She saw a single room on the left side of the hallway it was the actually the only room left, she go inside and saw a huge painted picture of the king and queen and on the middle was a baby. Their faces are not seen for someone burned it, she should supposed to touch the painting when she saw a reflection of a violet light coming from downstairs. She quickly run downstairs and saw Rico facing a stranger wearing a red cape, Niffa was surprise to see the man's raging red eyes.

"Niffa step back!" Rico shouted.

"I see… you have a friend now don't you Rico" the young man said sarcastically as he smirk in an evil way.

"Shut up Maru! How did you find me?"

"What do you expect from a sorcerer? Well, I'm glad you still remembered my name"

"What do you expect from an ex colleague Maru, I still can't forget how stupid and weak you are in our first day of training I'm glad you still survived until now" Rico tease him as he smirk back in a taunting way.

Maru widened his eyes as he felt angry towards him, Maru quickly attack Rico with his red fire as Rico protect himself with his cape and quickly attack Maru back with his violet fire but Maru avoid it. He has a great skill in speed, Niffa look around as she saw a bunch of evil soldiers wearing red clothes surrounding them.

"Niffa!" Rico shouted as she look at him telling her to fight from the look in his eyes, Niffa bowed in agreement as her worried face change into furious one. She quickly run to attack the soldiers near her as she kick and punch them with such a speed, she started to feel the energy of her power as it sparks through her hand and into her face as her eyes change into a green raging fire. The soldiers felt terrified when they saw Niffa waiting for them to attack her while her body was covered in green fire. Rico and Maru keeps on fighting each other when they look at Niffa in such a godly mode kicking and punching the soldiers with an unusual strength of mankind. Rico look towards Maru who was watching Niffa with amusement on his face, then Rico use his teleportation power to stand behind Maru as he was shocked to see Rico's violet raging eyes almost inch away from him with such a creepy smirk on his face. Maru felt terrified when Rico suddenly grasp his neck from behind and burn him alive while lifting him as he shout in terror. Rico let go of Maru as his burned body almost in a skeletal way fell on the floor, the evil soldiers turned into dust as they disappear one by one in front of Niffa. She look towards Rico staring on the burned corpse with such pity on his face as she walk towards him.

"I don't mean to do this" He suddenly say as his raging eyes turned back into normal.

"Rico…killing lives is out of your league but this is war and they started it." Niffa said as Rico stared on her giving her a look of agreement.

When suddenly they heard a thud sound as they saw something thrown in front of them on the floor, they were terrified when they saw Eris' bloody head.

"You killed one of us, I killed one of you to be fair" said a husky voice approaching them, a huge man appeared from the dark while his red-eyed sorcerers followed him from behind. Niffa remembered the man in which his father fought years ago, she quickly felt the urge to kill him as she clench her fist as it sparks but Rico step forward covering her from behind.

"King Seres… You idiot!" Rico said as he smirk and give Seres a glare.

"I like what you've become Rico… after all the care, attention and love that I gave you am I not the father you are looking for? Huh?" King Seres said as he act in a sad way teasing Rico.

"I never see you as a father, I see you as a monster longing for attention to become the greatest king, but you didn't get what you wanted instead you stole a lot of lives to gain the attention that you want but you can't, that's who you are Seres and you don't deserve to be a king cause you're a murderer!" Rico said as he smirk back without changing the glare on his eyes, then King Seres felt angry from what Rico had said. As his eyes quickly range into a red fire, he seems so powerful that everyone around him step aside from the heat of his power. Niffa was terrified to see such wondrous power, the fire on Seres body was triply powerful from Niffa and Rico's power. Rico felt furious as he let out the raging violet fire in his eyes and in his body, Seres quickly hit Rico but Rico tried to cover himself as he crossed his hand in front, he can feel that Seres power is pushing him as he tried to stand still.

"Niffa! Run!" Rico shouted as Niffa widened her eyes when he saw Rico struggled in fighting through Seres power already pushing him backward.

"Niffa I told you to run! Ahhh!" Rico shouted as he shout in pain while the red fire is near to gobble up the space between Rico's violet fire, but Niffa didn't listen instead the infuriation she felt lead her to attack Seres.

"Aaah!" Niffa shouted as she run towards Seres while the green fire sparks on her body through her hand and quickly punches Seres' body in speed. Rico widened his eyes to see Niffa attacking Seres but the red fire becomes stronger as he push him more. Seres felt the burn in his body as Niffa keeps on punching his body making such slits and burned on his skin, then Seres spot Niffa from her speeding attack as he grasp her neck and lift her up.

"Niffa!" Rico shouted while looking at her as she tried to wiggle from Seres' grasp.

"This is what you did to Maru right?" Seres said as he push Rico farther and tightened the grasp on Niffa's neck as her green power keeps on sparking on her body trying to fight.

"Niffa! No!" Rico keeps on shouting already catching his breath as the red fire gobbled him up, Seres laugh in an evil way while Rico is burning slowly as his nose bleeds. Niffa widened her eyes as she felt the fear to lose him, then she quickly close her eyes as she concentrate on the energy inside her. Seres thought that Niffa was dead as he stop laughing and stared on her. All of a sudden Niffa opened her eyes as it was filled with such green fire energy making her body produce more green fire in such powerful way, Seres felt the hot wind from Niffa's body as he quickly loosen the grasp from her neck. Niffa felt down as she quickly look at Seres frightened eyes from her powerful green eyes, she quickly run towards Rico who was unconscious while his nose was bleeding. To her relief Rico was not burned, she suddenly saw the red fire coming towards them as she quickly raise her hand as her green fire fights with the other fire. She can feel how powerful Seres was but she knew that she can beat him with the green fire she had. Then all of a sudden Niffa saw someone on the stairs near from where she is standing.

It was an old man wearing a white cape while carrying a stick same as the stick that Rico has from their first meeting. She was confuse as he suddenly disappeared from her sight, then to her surprise the old man was standing beside her.

"Huh? Teleportation" Niffa said to herself as she keeps on releasing the green fire, then all of a sudden the old man wave his hand and everything turns white like the bright light they produce in the forest. Niffa can't see anything from the past minutes then she opened her eyes, she was shocked to see that she was in a different place. She look around and realize that she was in a huge house, it was like a library for there are book shelves everywhere.

"Rico!" She gasp as she look around to find him, then she saw the old man covering Rico's wounded hand by a bandage as she approach them.

"He is fine, he is just sleeping…Seres power is strong but your power is stronger" the old man said still concentrating on Rico's wound. Niffa was shocked to hear what the old man had said.

"Who are you?" Niffa ask but the old man look at her and smiled.