The battle of the bloody rock valley part 8

The earth shook with gorges and cracks forming in the valley. Rocks flew high up and as they fell down many soldiers were crushed underneath huge boulders. The fight on the southern front of the battle had turned into an actual hell on earth.

Gadaric still was flat on the ground, with no movement. Many deemed he was just one of many corpses littering the ground.

The knights of the black sun tried their best to survive as the large debris and rocks rained on them. Some knights were strong enough to cut a falling stone in two, but boulders the size of houses were too much, even for the most seasoned knight of the black sun.

Berig was not harmed as his flaming avatar shielded him. When the falling rocks had ceased, the prince thought about what he should do next. He was still alive, and his father had just died. He was now, in a way, the new emperor by way of inheritance. He thought he had to ensure his survival.

He still was though in the battle between Edward and his sister Joan.

"Will you let me go without me having to rip the both of you apart?" Berig asked the Plangent siblings, believing he could still beat them.

"Depends. What are you going to do after? Are you going to leave Rufus and us alone?" Edward asked.

Berig thought about what he would reply and cursed," Fuck it...Lying really isn't my thing."

He then attacked Edward head-on, crashing down the axes the giant flaming avatar held in its four hands. Edward and Joan could dodge the attack and moved to the counter. They both swung their blades right at the torso of the flaming avatar of Berig.

They yelled together as they tried to push their blades through and cut the flaming avatar in two," Joan, give everything you've got!"

"Shut up. You don't think I know that!"

The blades were cutting into the flames as Berig tried to increase the density of flames in preventing them. Finally, though, they could cut the avatar into two. The act caused an explosion as the divinity that powered and created the flaming avatar was released. The siblings were pushed back, but Berig was in the center of the blast.

When the dust had settled, they saw Berig had used all of his divine powers. He was sitting on the dirt, as powerful as any average mortal soldier. Joan and Edward still had some strength left and wandered with swords in hand to finish off the prince.

"Are you able to let this hatred go and move from trying to do any harm to Rufus or any of us? Swear it, and you may live," Joan said as she pointed her sword at the now-defeated prince.

Berig ground his teeth and said," I could lie, but I won't. I swear, I will be an enemy of Rufus and you all for as long as I can live. So it would be better for you to just kill me now...."

Joan prepared to execute Berig, but the prince was saved by an unexpected person. Long black claws ripped the skin off Joan's back, cutting through her armor. Simultaneously a meat cleaver tried to cut off Edward's head, but he was able to block the attack just in time.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Berig asked these mysterious saviors of him.

"Don't complain. You have the luck that Markus sees some use for you," Mona of the black company said and punched Berig so he was knocked out.

"Maybe he just wanted to save you so I could have you for supper. I never had royal blood before. Want to see if it tastes any different from a regular human," Skal, the grey skin warrior that fought for Markus, so he could feast on anything and everything.

Edward and Joan were weak and in no condition to fight, and Mona and Skal were fresh and eager for a fight. The knights of the black sun survivors were ready to protect their lords, but neither were numerous or strong enough to take on either Skal or Mona, let alone both of them.

"Should we kill them?" Skal wondered.

"Markus ordered us not to. But also he told us not to let them live. So how would you interpret that?" Mona said and sharpened her long sword-like nails against each other.

"I say I would do whatever I want," Skal said and prepared to attack.

The curved blade of Skal was stopped by a giant sword held by a knight with fur around his armor. This knight walked partially on all fours, like a dog, and more knights, with similar armor joined in.

"Sorry I am late. Shit kind of started to burn a short while ago," Maxim, the leader of the greyhound knights from the Aurelian kingdom, said.

The greyhound knights joined in to defend Joan and Edward. They saw what was going on and quickly went to help the Planget siblings,

"Skal. We are out of here," Mona explained.

"What the hell are you saying? I ain't going nowhere!" Skal protested.

"Good for me. Won't have to try and chase you. And if you do run. I will go after you. You smell of the winds of pandora, and none other than people like you can be involved in such a disaster as this," Maxim said.

Mona knew who this knight was, as his reputation as a fearsome fighter was known to many in the entire Aesis world. She was currently carrying Berig on her shoulders and could not do that while fighting Maxim. She also saw that Dalai could attack their positions any second.

"Suit yourself. But my job was to retrieve this guy, nothing else. And I will not try my luck now when a god is rampaging in the sky," Mona explained.

Skal cursed and joined Mona in escaping the battle.

"Find Rufus! Save him! I will go after them!" Maxim yelled and gave chase with the grey hound knights.