The Tainted Prince

It was big, very, very big.

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Every step it took shook the ground, Bradley was quite the site when I first saw him, His golden hair and rough lemony beard made him look like some war god from pagan myth, but he paled in comparison to this beast. The Boar was white, Chalk white, I'd mistake for an Albino if not for its pupils, it had none! it was like.... Ghost eyes! it had Ghost eyes! it's tusks curved wildly, they made loops around themselves, it was almost comical if not for the creatures overall demeanor, the 20m beast roared as it towered us, glaring down as though we were insignificant worms.

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Bradley shot a bolt dead centre of the beasts head, right between it's eyes! The bolt shattered to pieces and the creature squealed in surprise, it quickly turned to anger though, it charged at us in retaliation! "Come here!" Sir George cried, pulling me by the arm to a bush nearby. The beast charged at Bradley, thinking fast he tried grabbing its tusk to slow him down but it was too strong! it knocked him into a tree, breaking it apart! it kept going, it wanted to finish him off!

Cursing under his breath, Vince charged at the beast with his heavy shield in hand, he tried tackling its leg but that merely angered it! it whirled around knocked him back instead. Next was Pedro, he didn't bother coming near the Boar, he simply took out a small object from his pouch, it was a small knife, it floated and started .... multiplying, it multiplying till it reached over a thousand, he pointed a finger at the Boar and they were sent flying towards it.

They all bounced off..... what was this thing's fir made off!? "You can use your Gun now!" Arthur cried, "But you sa-" "I know what I said! hurry up and aim for its eyes!" he barked at me before I could finish, responding to his order I quickly removed my gun from it's holster and fired a couple of rounds at it's eyes, it burst the balls off it's sockets! "WIGPIIIIIIIIIIIIII!?" The Boar squealed, thank goodness, I thought it had no- "Now its ballsack!" without thinking I fire at its ballsack! it made a deafening scream, thrashingabout in pain. Sir George and I look at the beast with pity, Whilst Barnabas howled in laughter and Pedro said some words in a different language. Vince eyed me, was he impressed or astonished at my actions? I couldn't tell over his helmet.

The Boar turned in my direction, it stopped making a sound now, it simply stood in my direction, I couldn't tell it's emotions now, but somehow I knew there was malice in its eyes, it got ready to charge but it stopped, a golden mist appeared in front of it, "Good, you're up now" Vince said, the mist rushed towards the Boar's face, making it's way into its nostrils, it coughed, it spasm and then it fell over and died. The mist came out of the Boar and transformed, first it was a liquid, then solid, then it was Bradley.

"Next time start with that" Sir George said, "You little shit, you don't know how disgusting it feels every time I do it!" Bradley bellowed, wiping away mucus from his Armour, does that happen everytime he uses his ability? Poor man, "Oy, don't look at me like that! I don't need your pity!" he roared at me. I raise my hands in resignation, he didn't want it so I won't give it to him! Arthur studied me for a moment, "That was some good shooting, where'd you learn to aim like that?" Arthur asked, whilst preparing his Pen and jotter.

Well Father thought me of course, he took Cece and I hunting since we 13, we used hunting rifles instead of M-16 obviously, the Kickback of a Kimber Montana felt worse though, it broke my shoulder the first time I used it! so unfair Cece never had that problem! I can't tell them that though, about how I learnt to shoot, that would lead to all sorts of questions I can't tell them, given I'm not from around here. " My father had a friend in the military when I was younger, thought us how guns worked when he was bragging about his past accomplishments" I said, "Strange thing to tell a child" Barnabas chimed, "well he was a strange man haha!" I responded awkwardly, scratching the back of my helmet.

Arthur jotted this down, whilst Vince and Pedro stored the corpse of the Boar and ducks in a strange box, the same type the Rooster woman used. "Well, it doesn't seem like there's anymore surprises, at least I hope..... let's get on with it" Arthur said. He spoke in a strange tongue, different from Pedro's and after a moment, a blue light emerged from the palm of his hands and floated above us. it started darting forward, "This way!" he cried before chasing after it. We went after him, the path ahead was rough and treacherous, every step we took was we found rumbles of old buildings , if it wasn't that, it was the wild bushes, the old rusty weapons or the occasional wondering beast, at least there weren't any more of those White boars around.

The blue light eventually stopped at an entrance, it was an old building but it looked in better shape than the others, it had some plants growing over it but it was mostly in good condition! "This will do!" Barnabas bellowed, with that the light vanished and we made our way inside.

It was.... a sports arena? it had balls and other sporting equipments, maybe it was a gymnasium, I don't know and frankly I don't care all that much! Arthur speaks some words again.... in that strange tongue and pale green light appears in his hand, it looks like an orb with.... vertices, the orb expands until it envelopes the entire building. "Okay its safe to remove now!" Arthur yelled, pressing his belt buckle, the Armour dissapears and Arthur returns back to his plain attires. "No matter how many times I see it, your magic is something else Art" Barbara said also doing the same. We all followed suit and returned to our regular attires.

Why were they all wearing plain looking clothes despite living in an expensive looking district? What was this talk of magic and more importantly "What's the difference between the monsters here and the ones at site 3?" I voiced my last thought, "That's easy, the ones at site 3 are minions of the tainted prince, they obey his commands and attack all who dwell in the sun and stars district" Sir George said. Tainted prince? who the heck is that? as if reading my thoughts, Vince said "do they teach you nothing at your manor? are you not familiar with the take of the tainted prince?" I shake my head, Manor? oh they think I'm a noble because I have a surname, I hope that doesn't come back to bite me in the ass later.

"When the Camen coalition was formed 56 years ago, they shared various techniques and technology in order strengthen their soldiers" Sir George said, "The first method established was mutating the genes of prisoners, a practice they still continue till this day" he continued. Pedro and Barnabas were dissecting some of those monster ducks, I guess that's our dinner for tonight. "Eventually, the Coalition moved their tests from ordinary prisons to a more secured facility, and moved that facility to the three moons of Garland, the place we are today" Sir George said.

"What about the tainted prince?" I asked, "I'm getting there" he reassured me, he took a swig of water from his flask and cleared his throat. "Eventually the super soldiers created from these tests proved useful, they were invaluable in the subjugation of neighboring nations, including the Creen empire" Sir George said, Arthur cursed under his breath and went to a corner in the Gymnasium. "The royals there were compliant, they bent over quickly save one of it's princes, Zachariah, he tried to rally his men against the Camen Coalition but failed spectacularly, he was sent to site 1 shortly after" he said.

"He was put through test after test, his body mutated past the point of control and soon he snapped, he used his new powers to destroy every staff of site 1, had the former warden, Feldman not held him off, he would have taken over site 2 and 3 also" Sir George explained, "But he still attacks site 3, besides isn't this place in ruins already?" I waved around to make my point, "It wasn't always like this, the bastards got desperate and poisoned this entire site in order to hold him off, after all you can only travel to one site at a jump" Bradley said. "Occasionally, the tainted prince is able to create creatures capable of withstanding the poison in site 2 and high enough intelligence to teleport the lesser beasts to site 3, we call those days red night, however they are too weak to do any real damage to site 3" I shuddered at this revelation, I almost died to several of them yesterday and those are the weak ones? I can only imagine what the strong are like.

"Well you don-" "Can you teach me about magic?" I interrupt him, if I want to protect myself better, learning a skill like that would be useful. There was silence for a moment, everyone looks around awkwardly before Arthur breaks the tension with his laughter, "What's so funny?" I asked, I'm a bit annoyed honestly, I'm trying to learn here and he's not helping, "You idiot, Humans can't learn Magic!" he hissed.