chapter 3 Scene I Scene I

In a far land, off the coast of Yellowstone, very deep under the snow mountain hidden in the face of men, there was a kingdom which exist very long time ago since the day Arsgard was established.

The name of the kingdom was Alzanny, it was a kingdom that has all manner of creatures living in it.

Most of the living beings that excited there were magical creatures that drew their power from nature.

They're very brutal heartless and merciless, it was a kingdom formed by treacherous queen of chaos, an outcast that takes pleasure in killing anything that comes her way.

Alzanny was once the most respected goddess of the seven maidens of light, she has the power to create and to destroy with lighting and thunder.

She was the first daughter of Ozadaek ruler of the seven realm of virtues.

She was the first in command of the underworld kingdom, she is a sister to the Phoenix god of light. Her downfall created a dispute between the lesser gods and Ozadaek.

She lost her place as the ruler of the seven maidens of light and underworld after been caugt unlawfully taking and possessing humans, making them to do her will.

She is always obsessed with her brother because she was supposed to be given the Phoenix power but Ozadaek confide her with a dark power to rule the underworld after been promoted out of the light maidens because of her dark powers.

She made her brother commit a mortal sin with her which made him lost his power as god of light.

Ozadaek was so furious about this, he wanted to banish his son but the son pleaded for mercy.

He was forgiven but was forced to take a human body, to be born as a human baby as an attornment to his sin.

That was how Erik was born as a human, he made himself known to humans when he was first born to a shepherd living at the green valley.

The enemity between Alzanny and Erik began when Alzanny was casted out of the realm of light because she refused to plead for forgiveness,

She kills and destroys anything that Ozadaek and Erik holds dear to themselves.

It was a very dark day, the day that could define the faith and fate of the people living in Arsgard. It was noon but the sun refused to give out light,

the trees stood still, the bird couldn't maintain their weight in the air because the wings of the sky was weakened by some powerful lightning and rumbling of thunder.

The sky rain brimstone, the fountain of waters flow upward, the rivers turn blood, the ground was very tired of taking another blood as it leaves it to flow like river along the street.

Commotion filled the street of Arsgard as crys tend to wake the ancestors that are far asleep.

Every street was littered with dead corps, every remaining soul run from every nook and cranny of the street trying to hide themselves from the harsh striking of lightning and rumbling of thunder.

Alzanny was very high in the sky with black smoke wrapped over her.

Her eyes was burning like a coal, her hair was very much alive as she use them as a weapon shooting spiky metallic arrow on Erik who was also very high in the sky clothed with white smoke.

It was a very dearing battle between the two gods, many things were damaged but it ended well. Alzanny got defeated and was cast into the far end of the world at the snow mountain.

There, she formed her own world.

She is a master in all type of magic. With her power she created many abominable creatures and invoked many things into life waiting for the day she will hit Arsgard again.

Erik recreated Arsgard, he taught them how to use magic and how to protect themselves from Alzanny because he knew she will return more powerful and fierce than before.

He formed the Witchers and many other powerful material for protection before he died.

Many years have gone by and Arsgard got themselves back and become the most feared Kingdom. All the seven kingdom of the from the north Azard, Ashvill, Azad, Ducan Warriors, Oark land, Elves Kingdom and kingdom of white wolves feared them.

Arsgard has South as the home of warriors.

The southern part of the kingdom was a waste land, a very tasty desert.

Zamorah was the main city of the desert, it has underground fortress which it very impossible for foreigners to overtake during battle.

The west coast being the home of the Witchers, is very unpredictable. It appears to be a thick forest with thousand of tall trees that appears to be growing every day hiding billions of herbs and shrubs ever known to man.

It's a very thick forest with thirty big mountain around it. White smoke never seize to flow round it all the time forming a thick white cloud around it.

The only visible building on the forest was an old and very tall castle holding a very large metallic bell that never seize to ring all the time.

The Eastern part was very much nice to see because it has a natural and serene environment for sight viewing.

It has many rivers flowing through many sections of the green valley where the farmland is situated, fishermen paddle their canoe round the big mountain that has seven waterfall in search of fish.

It was the home of the farmers because it holds the largest scale of farm product that feeds Arsgard and their neighboring kingdom.

The northern part was the commercial city of Arsgard, it was a place for both indigen and non indigen of Arsgard coming to buy and trade their goods.

It also serves as home for half of Arsgard indigens and as well to foreigners who came to work for red rubies.

The Centre of the Kingdom was where the Royal castle was built and it houses only the royal family and the workers.

It's the most guarded place in the kingdom with both magic and physical powers, Erik makes sure he established all these before he died.

The story continued when Alzanny heard that Erik is reborn as a royal prince. She went out creating army, forming ally with other kingdoms whom have been waiting for opportunity to strike Arsgard.

Scene ii

our journey to the West coast has been a hard one to us as we keep running out of our supplies, we meet with many things that delayed our journey.

our horses became tired and very lazy to run nor walk again. The journey that should take only three days is getting more days.

This could be the last night we are going to be spending at the wood. The horses couldn't move further, they stopped making noise as we try to drag them.

Jasmine sugested that we should have rest before we move since we are almost at the witchers coast.

We unsaddled the horses, We sat circling around the fire as it burns raising a cloud of white smoke to the air.

The place become very dark with smoke, hot air filled the place as a heart piercing noise began to echo from every side of the forest.

We stood up with our swords in our hand as we watch the black smoke turn into black shadows with red vicious eyes.

The fight between us become a very hard one when we realized that we cannot kill any of them because they are just and air.

I could have done something to kill them but I'm still hiding my identity from Clara and her friends. Neil's eyes turned black in a moment, he moved his hand into the air saying some words creating a visible line amongst his hand.

He said some words I don't understand what it means, the word caused brimstone to rain from the dark sky consuming the the shadows.

A very strong wind hit the place immediately after Neil burnt the shadows, a strong whirlwind formed very close to one of the trees in our front.

The wind developed into a very young beautiful woman clothed in black skimpy black leather gown that reveals her thighs, She walked toward us as we stand looking at her in amazement.

"Sojourners, hope I'm not bothering you all, please if I have interrupted your night, I'm sorry"

She moved round the tree laughing, her body moves with the wind that is blowing more faster now.

"if you don't mind I have come to say hello to my little brother Erik, it has been a long time I see him"

My heart pants so hard because I know that I don't have a sister that has magic powers, what is she up to.

"Little brother, come over and say hello to your long lost sister Alzanny, I heard that you came as the crown prince of Arsgard and I have come to pay you a warm visit"

I felt a burning coal inside me as she approaches me. she stopped at Neil's face, she looked at him with a dearing eyes before he moves closer to me.

"Young lady, I don't know what makes you believe that I'm your brother, let me make this clear to you Alzanny, I'm not your brother so don't say such again to me"

She laughed so hard, she flipped her fingers and the burning woods on fire fly up burning more intensed as they move around her.

"Little brother, that will be very rude of you to talk to me in that manner. You can't hide away from me you can hide your identity from them but you can't hide it from me,

How long will you be hiding from me Erik? don't you think it's a time to settle our differences, you pathetic god of light, a demigod that is claiming a to be a god"

I got angry immediately and my body started experiencing a sudden changes, I tried as much as I can to annul the rapid changes but it coming more faster than I can handle it.

"Alzanny Mistress of chaos and abomination, I know what you're here to do but it won't happen"

Neil tried to use his magic to send her back to where she came from but his powers where too small for a sorceress like Alzanny.

Just a flip of her index finger, Neil falls scattering our bag that. Clara rushed to her bows immediately and shot two arrows toward Alzanny.

She was very fast to get over the first shot but very slow to dodge the second. The arrow pierced her abdomen as the end come through her back, she let out a painful scream that shakes the entire forest.

The look on her eye changed, her nails sharpened, her hair changed from the beautiful black blond hair to a living serpents with deadly fangs, she flies toward Clara with a lightning speed, she pulled up the arrow from her abdomen as she gets closer to her.

She aimed at Clara's throat but she gets Erik's chest instead, He just used his body to save Clara from Alzanny.

Erik suddenly changed into the Phoenix god, his resilience illuminates the whole place as he soared into the dark sky.

Alzanny tried to fly up to him but was stroked by a heavy lighting from Erik, she disappeared immediately she touched the ground.

Erik lost his energy as he reaches the ground, he was drenched with his own blood oozing from the place he was stabbed.

The girls were speechless and spell bound about what just happened, no one knew that Erik has such powers. It was Gerald and others who are more familiar with this bounded him up and placed him on a horse and they went off.

Scene iii

I tried as much as I can to get up from the bed I was lying down on but I couldn't because of the pain I feel in my heart. The ray of the morning sun and the scent of a cooked herbs made me feel very unease inside the bamboo house I was in.

I managed to get up from the bed and what I see shows that I'm in a new environment, a strange place and a scary room that has all sort of earthen pots with different designs and all manner of plant growing inside of it.

I saw my jacket hanged at one of the pots there, I took it and was about to move out when a young white haired boy came in.

He stands at the entrance looking at me so sheepishly with his long sword which a bit bigger than him, he moved closer to a wooden box at the right side of the room and sat down.

I was dumbfounded because I was expecting him to be afraid of me but his behavior made me to be afraid of him.

"my name is Jason and it's my pleasure to me you Prince Erik, welcome back to life"

"Who are you and how did you know who I'm, where are my friends and what I'm doing here?"

"You can't shoot at different angles with one arrow, be still if you want to know where you are"

He stood up from where he was sitting and goes close to the door to close them, he came back to sit at the wooden box.

"Prince Erik, you're at the witchers coast, you are at the healing chamber because of the wound you sustained during your fight with Alzanny your sister., if you are interested in knowing where your friends, you get dressed up and I will take you to them"

I stepped out of the healing chamber following Jason like a his shadow as we walk towards an old castle that looks very scary and dark.

We came into the castle, the inside of it looks very impressive than it supposed to be.

We went up to the last floor of the castle where a very large room was, Jason pointed to the door and went off, I tried calling him back but his speed was just amazing.

I opened the door and was surprised to see all my friends in the room discussion. Once they saw me, everywhere became quiet, I know that the ladies are afraid of what happened at the wood last night because the expression on their face as Soo as they see me said it all.

Gerald, Neil, Smith and Carlos came to me hugging and shaking me. I sat at one of the chairs there watching Susan was was avoiding my eyes.

I asked all of them to leave the room that I needed a rest. I asked Susan to stay back because I wanted to settle everything with her.

She sat very far from me trying as much as she could to avoid my eyes. I stood up from the chair and goes closer to her, she was trying not to have a body contact with me.

I held her at the shoulder, I can feel how her heart beats very fast, how her body vibrates to my touch and the hot breathe coming from her nostril.

I sat at her left side, raised her face up very close to mine as I look straight to her eyes.

"Susan I'm sorry that I didn't tell you who I was at the first time, I was I afraid that I might loose my friendship with you, please I'm sorry"

"Are you prince Olivar of Arsgard"

I can feel the fear inside of her as she managed to say a word with a cracking voice.

"yes, I'm Olivar the crown prince of Arsgard"

"I suppose so"

She turned around and looked into my eyes with tears all over her face.

"Why did you lie to me?"

I'm sorry was all I have to say as she hugged me so tight, I feel the peace I have never felt before. My hair glows very bright as it grows longer, she felt them with her strong grip on it. She fly's it up allowing them to float in the air, the rays brighten up the whole room. This was actually the first time I felt free to let my hair glow to it's full strength.

The rumbling of my stomach waked her up from my laps. I hide my face from her trying not to scar her again.

My appearance have changed because I'm now very hungry, my eyes was very red and my teeth grew longer than before, she forced my hands off my face.

She knows what my system wanted, she gets up and showed me the base of her neck to suck on, I wanted to say know but she nodded yes to me.

I sank my teeth into her vain and sucked very deep into them as she groan in pain and faints on my bosom.

Scene iv

I know that I have done something that I shouldn't have done and I was very sad about it. I stood behind the open window of the castle watching the vast land of the East that are occupied by mountain and tall trees. It was already dark but I can see the black wood clearly when I look to the thick mountains.

A chilling wind blows along the windows making the frame to quack a bite, I closed the window and walked back to the bed where Susan was sleeping. The deep reddish injury she sustained when trying to hold me down during my awkward moment was still fresh on her neck. I moved closer and stoop a bit low and touched the wound, the pain made her wail from the side she is to another part of the bed.

She open her eyes and sees me looking at her, she tried smiling but she can't.

I looked at her deeply in the eyes, I see that she is a special girl that need care, attention, love and loyalty. she passed through a lot as a teenage girl who lost her parent at the younger age. I see all she passed through for the couple of years I have spent at Zamorah and what she been through at the camp when she was under training.

"Erik, how are you feeling now, are you getting better?"

The question sink my heart and soul. I stared at her in amazement; I parked her hair away from her face and kisses her face.

"I should be the one to ask you that, are you getting better now?"

"yeah, I'm fine just that I have a little pain on my neck."

"How did you get such a deep wound on your neck?"

I know that I was the one that gave her the injury but I don't know how it happened and I would want to know.

"Erik you gave me the wound with your fang"

I looked at my hand and wanted to to ask how but I see dried blood on my hand, I rushed to the mirrow to check myself because anytime this happens, it means that I have drank something.

I got to the mirrow and sure enough, I have sucked blood from Susan because the dried one is still on my mouth.

The floor has blood on them. i realize that I have done something more dangerous than kissing Susan.

I moved back to her. She kept smiling as though nothing has happened, I sat down on one of the seat that's very close to the bed and hold her hand.

"I just realized what I did, Susan I'm very sorry for that"

"You don't need to be okay. how long have I been here?"

"You have spent half of the day here"

She looked at me and tried to get up from the bed but couldn't, she gave it a second try and was able to get up but a step away from the bed, she lost her balance and staggered towards a royal table by the side, I rushed to give support her, I held her so calm to my bosom and lead her back to the bed.

"Susan, you don't have enough strength on you now, you really need to have some rest now"

" Erik no, I want to go back to our own chamber, Clara and others will be worried about me now"

"They won't be because they knew that you are here with me and beside, it's already dark. Spend the night here please".

The room was a very cold one, not because of the chilling breeze that are coming from the thick forest or from the mountains but the silence between Susan and Erik. Susan was lying down on the bed with her face focus on the thousands of image on the room, the images of the heroic witchers who have come and gone.

The biggest picture frame on the room was that of Erik standing on top of a lava monster with a glowing white hair and a blazing eyes.

The most intriguing part of the hug portrait is that when one looked at it much, it appears to be alive and it has a unique resemblance with Oliva the new Erik.

Erik was also carried away with imagination and desire to make Susan know that he loves her and to do this, he have to tell her the truth and gain her trust.

"emmh, Susan I think it's time to be real and truthful with you,

"I never wanted to join the army.

It was never my intention to be a warrior or to come over to Zamorah desert rather, it was at the course of making friends because at the Royal castle and at the neighborhood, I was despised by all except Carlos, Neil, Smith, Gerald and my parent.

Gerald was the commander of the Royal castle guards and a trustworthy person likewise Smith and Neil, they are a well reputable figures and that's why my father entrust me to their hand. Carl was a childhood friend saved from war. They're the once who knows much about me.

I have been told that I'm Erik and I have been reborn to save Arsgard from Alzanny and Harry.

Susan I'm very sorry for not telling you these things for all these years.

I was so afraid of what might happen. I have suffered loneliness for long periods of time and I'm not willing to go back to that emptiness again, that's why I'm willing to keep the secret but now, I have to be truthful with you all even if it means loosing all of you.

I live in the fear of lie and untrustworthy and it kills me slowely, my heart skips a beat anytime I remember that I have been lying to you.....So Susan don't be annoyed with me try to understand my situation and pardon me"

Susan becomes so emotional that she began to shed tears, She stood from the bed and slowely walked to Erik who has buried his face on his palm crying.

"Oliva, you're not coursed by anyone. you're the prince of this kingdom and forever you will be. You shouldn't feel bad about who you're and never lie about your identity.

Always be truthful, a real friend will come and they will stay with you despite how you appear, I thought you were just a magical being but I never knew that you are the crown prince of this kingdom, it's an honor to be in your presence.

Susan bowed before him and immediately Erik grabbed her hand and raised her to her feet. They hugged each other passionately and went to bed.

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The castle hall was a very lucrative one, it was very long and has a long metallic table totally covered with red Vail which has a gold strips at the edge.

It has thousands of golden seat arranged at each side of the banquet table.

The floor has a very shinny marble that reflects the figure of any one that pass through them. The roof was about twenty feet off from the floor and has transparent cover,

each side of the hall has twenty big pillars designed with images of creatures that has been killed by the witchers and the image of the person that kills it, the pillars was painted with golden paints and each has a red candles pined to each side. The end side of the hall has an alter covered with thick and big red blanket.

At the alter, there is a very big chalice containing a burning incense mixed with a black seeds which gives the hall a unique scent. A huge bronze statue of Erik was mounted at the centre of the alter with a big red candles in its hand and a silver necklace with a wolf head on it's neck.

The hall was almost filled to the brim with the witchers. The table have all sort of many food you can ever think of, ranging from cooked, fried, steamed, roasted, grilled, boild and raw.

A lot of drinks were on the table as well. Jasmine, Clara, Susan and Anita are all seated beside Gerald, Carlos, Smith and Neil at the middle of the right side of the hall.

The table has a seat left at the end side of the table. The seat was reserved for Erik who is yet to be seen at the hall.

I felt so weak when I waked up, I rolled from one side of the bed to the other looking for Susan. All my effort to reach her was not going well, I opened my eyes and hi, she was no longer with me,

I immediately got up from the bed and walked toward the door. I opened it hoping to see her or someone else along the corridor but everywhere was quiet and dead. The whole building looks like it has been a decade that somebody lives in it.

A chilling breeze brushed the back of my neck making me feel like someone just passed through me. I immediately turned around but I found no one. I ran back inside and brought my sword with me.

"Who is there?, show yourself and stop playing games with me"

I heard a footsteps behind me, I acted like I heard nothing and allowed whoever it might be to come closer.

When I knew that the person was much close to me, with a great speed I turned, I hold him on his jacket and raised my dagger to strike but I was surprised to see that it was Ward my assistant.

"ooh Ward!!!, I could have killed you, do you want to die?"

" Sorry your majesty, I never meant to scare you"

"you should be careful next time because I will never be afraid to drive this steel into your throat?

"yes your majesty, so can you free my collar?"

" my name is Oliva Hemsworth or Erik okay"

I let go of his cloth as we exchange handshake and moved back to the room.

"Ward, where is everyone? Susan, she slept here last night but I couldn't find her this morning, what's happening?

"Erik, if you really want to know what's going on now, you have to take your bath and dress up and I will take you to where everyone is"

Without wasting much of the time and energy, I rushed to the bathroom, deep myself twice inside the hot water which has red petals of roses on it.

I rushed back to the room and Lo Ward has brought a very impressive black costumes for me to put on.

I immediately get myself dressed up. My lips was very reddish and my blue eye was so bright and still like the sky, my long white hair stretched out to my shoulder.

I wanted to knot it together with a clip but Ward sugested that I should leave it that way.

Ward lead me to a very secret hallow vault which makes its way deep into a dark tunnel which has white big candles on each side of the wall.

I realized that we are going downward, i asked Ward about our movement and he told me that we are going to the underground part of the building.

At this, I made my hair to glow dazzling white and my eye developed a burning ring ball on it.

The brightness of my hair made the whole hallway to bright up.

Not too long, we came to a place that looks like another world, its a broad day at this place, it has a bright sky with a bright sun that shines with a full strength but its rays was very calm,

There is a very beautiful garden at every side of the street with tall trees and water fountain. Millions of people are all dressed up and where going to a well redecorated hall.

All of them has two strips of sword at their back, their code of dressing can make you find it difficult to distinguish between man and a woman. What I'm seeing made me to ask if it was the underground that Ward said that we are going to or should I say that it's an illusion but it looks so real to be considered as an imagination or illusion.

Immediately I stepped at the marbled way that leads to the massive building which looks like a hall, I realized that the people here tend to touch me and some are whispering to each other asking,

"He is so handsome"

"He looks like Erik"

"His blood smells like a royal blood"

"is he the prince?"

"He might be the one we are going to the hall to welcome"

"He is Erik".

I tried not to get distracted by these words but the sharpness of my hearing picks every saying one after another.

I asked Ward to Walk fast and he did, we approached the entrance to the building. The door was a very big one and as though it sees us, it opened up by itself and we walked in.

Immediately Erik and Ward walked inside the hall, all the people that are there stands up to welcome Erik.

Just then, the thick red Vail that was covering the Alter went down by itself revealing two big sword, a silver chain, a two headed silver wolf necklace that becomes alive immediately the Vail goes down and a white leather clothes that has been reserved for so long.

According to the tales of the witchers, that can only happen when someone who could weld the armory comes and no one could use them except ERIK OF ARSGARD THE PHOENIX GOD OF LIGHT, THE TRUE SON OF OZADAEK.

Immediately this happened, the witchers get to their knees including his friends whom have been given a clue of who he is.

He was astonished about what is going on and moved further to the oldest one amongst them.

"Sir, you don't need to do this, I should be the one to do this for welcoming me and my friend to your place, please stand up everyone, I'm not use to this and you all are making me feel ashamed of myself"

None of everyone at the hall was willing to stand up and out of anger, he made his way towards the door and just then, the eldest in the hall called him.

"Erik, it's an honor to be at your presence and you deserve to be honored by everyone at this hall, you're a god and a prince as well, please don't go. come back and have your seat. we need to give you back your armor because we don't have much time left your sister Alzanny and Harry has peered up together to get ride of Arsgard".

Erik moved back to them and they exchanged greetings, normal introduction was made

The elderly man called himself Jim. After that, others introduced themselves

and Erik was given back his armory.

After much deliberation, Erik was later introduced to all the people of the witchers coast.

Jim standing with Erik at the top of balcony of the hall shouted to the people standing at the street.

"Ohh you Arsgardian who has been called by virtue and integrity to be part of the witchers family, all of you man and woman,

skilled and unskilled, great and small white haired or black haired, I'm Jim, leader of the witchers. It's an honor for me to stand with proud and integrity to present to you all the person we've been waiting for....for so long, we thought we've lost it till recent days when he came knocking at our door.

we thought he will come as a nobody but he has come as prince.

ladies and gentlemen I present to you Erik of Arsgard. he has come to stay and we most welcome him.

The people cheered each other up as they dance in merriment. Everyone was happy and can now stay strong to face whatever that might happen because the faceless leader has returned.

Scene v

The street of the city was totally in shamble, walls of the street were all painted with blood, corpses were littered in every angle of the royal castle. The painful cry of mothers made the whole area very scary, It will be very hard for you not cry after seeing the mess that has been done on the bodies of about sixty young people leaving at the castle.

It was a painful sight to behold, some bodies were totally teared to shreds, some bodies are very unrecognizable because their heads and vital part were totally eaten up.

No one can give vivid explanation of what really happen the night that this occurred because even the night watchers were all killed and their blood and skin were all separated from their main bodies.

Some of the guards were missing and tracking the drops of blood on the floor, you can vividly see that whatever that has done this wasn't a human but a scavenger and has dragged some bodies away from the royal city to the green valley of the south.

King Hemsworth was at the critical moment ever since he become king at the age of seventeen, the pressure mounted on him was too much for him to bear and was about to lose his kingdom.

He brought more troops from Zamorah down to the castle to strengthen the safety of the royal castle and those living in it.

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The night was very gloomy and dull, a very cold and sensational air kept blowing around the street of the royal castle, The night watchers were all over every nook and cranny of the castle heavily armed camping and waiting for the beast that has ravaged the castle for some recent days ago.

The moon is yet to appear fully well but it's half body shines so bright that it illuminates the whole place.

Everybody waited patiently for the first and second hour of the midnight but nothing happened, The man at the watch tower hit the hug and large metal bell to inform others in their hiding place to come and eat so that they will have the strength to keep the last watch of the night.

Everyone has gathered up together at the front gate to eat when a young little boy started materializing from a dark corner of the wall, one of the guards who was on tope of the tower saw him and shouted

"Halt!!!, who goes there?"

immediately, all other soldiers draw up their sword and turned to the direction at which the boy was coming from.

"Who are you and what are you doing at this place by this time of the night?"

The dark soldier with bald head who has his arrow and bow on his hand firmly set against the boy asked.

The boy did not say anything nor move an inch from the dark.

"Do you mind coming forth from the dark so that we can see your face and probably know how to help you"

The boy moved toward a burning candle at the dark corner of the wall, he smiled and then moved back to the dark.

"Do you think you can help?, you can't help me, yes you can't help me, of course you can't"

The voice was very deep for someone to imagine that it's coming from the young looking boy. what baffles all the soldiers was the kind of sarcastic laughter he gives after each time he says a word.

One of the soldiers got angry and wanted to move to the dark to drag him out but the bald man held him.

"Man slow it down, I see something very different and strange from that boy. He is not an ordinary human, he might be the beast terrorizing the castle."

Silence came over the darkness. All the soldiers girdled themselves and was ready to fight what they haven't seen for the very first time in life. A smooth laughter of a young boy blended with that of an old man came forth from the dark.

"All this preparation for a little person like me? well my name is Roshan, I live

with my parents at the green valley at the south but I was abandoned by them and I have no place to go to and I have come to the castle to be helped".

After saying these words he moved to the burning candle once again and smiled then goes back to the dark again and laughed so hard but this time

it was the voice of a lady that comes forth.

"Nice try but that's not enough, if you want me and my men to believe you, you have to come to the moonlight".

A very deep voice came up again from the the dark.

"you cannot stand me at the moonlight"

He moved out of the dark and goes forth to the moonlight. Something strange happened.

The moon becomes dark red for sometime before changing back to it's bright colors but this time the moon becomes very full. The boy steps ontop of a hug log of wood at the place, raising his face up to the sky, fixing his eyes firmly at the moon, he howled so loudly and suddenly, he started shape shafting into a very firce wolf, a very big, tall and hug beast with razor like talon and a deadly fangs and red eyes.

When he breath, black smoke issues out from his nostril, he is very dreadful with it's black furs drenched with blood like liquid.

Fear gripped the soldiers as they backed out from the raging beast.

"He is a werewolf, an alpha male, he is very deadly.. retreat, retreat I say, you at the tower fire the warning shot and come down from there immediately".

The werewolf was very agile and fast, he leaped very high to the sky and grabbed the man at the watch tower on the head and reaped his head apart letting a stream of blood float in the sky.

He landed on the ground with the head of the watcher on its fearful mouth, he raised his head at the shinny moon and howled again before he started killing the soldiers in a very fast way, all the arrows shoot at him always bounce back doing no harm to it's body.

Just like a lightning moving with a loud thunder, he pounced on the watchers killing them with an unimaginable slash of its talon and deep bite with its fearful fangs. Blood streamed on the castle terrain making the scene a horrible sight to see.

It didn't take a minute of the time and all the soldiers were lying lifeless on the floor.

Some of the bodies were terribly disfigured, some were headless, some are turned in shreds. Blood was like a stream of water. The beast seeing what he has done bent low to lick the blood to qunch it's tasty throat before going into the street to wreak more havoc but he was interrupted by something else.

There was a man standing at the gate watching him as he lick the blood on the terrain, he was totally dressed up in black, leaving his white dazzling hair to float with the wind.

He has a black mask on his face. The black mask gives his glowing eyes a dreadful appearance.

He has two set of sword striped at his back with a silver chain wrapped on his hand.

The werewolf looked at him and howled loudly at the sky, a pair of thunder rumbled and lightning strike twice.

He moved slowly toward the fearless man standing before him.

"I know you, I perceived you far from here, I never know you will be so quick but I have something for you"

He goes closer to the man in black with cautious move.

"Roshan, I have not come here for words, I have come to end you...you have terrorized this castle for long and it's time to end you".

"Erik, you will never change, always believing that you can kill all you come across"

Roshan placed his sharp paws on a hard terrain and force it hard on the terrace, a spark occurred creating a zig zag line on the floor.

He widen his mouth exposing his bloody fangs.

The Man let the silver chain on his hand roll down, he changed his posture ready to strike.

"Roshan are you trying to scare me with that your cat paws?, sorry to tell you that it ends here for you"

Roshan narrowed his bright yellow eyes at him and breath out a black cloud of smoke.

"you have made a mistake if you believe that you can kill me, you are a demigod and you can't stand me, I advise you to go back to your hiding place"

The man in black developed a ring of fire on his white eyes making it look like a volcano erupting at the middle of the ocean.

He moved toward Roshan aggressively but Roshan backed out quietly.

"don't say that again Roshan"

"oh yes, I will say more and...

A heavy flashing blow landed so hard on face Roshan face making him to fall heavily on the ground, Roshan howled loudly and leaped very fast toward Erik, he flashed his talon on his chest aiming for his throat but Erik jumped away from him and he missed it.

Landing on the ground with his back, anger grow inside of him, he throw himself like a javelin against Erik, Erik moved like an air out of the way.

Erik landed yet another terrible blow on the him, this made the beast to burn with anger and he moved very fast on Erik.

Erik tried to escape him but the wave of Roshan talon was very fast, he gave Erik a slash at the edge of his eyes lid. The pain made Erik to move more speedy toward Roshan,

he draws out his sword and slit Roshan throat and he fell lifeless on the floor.

Erik locked around to see if anyone is watching. Nobody was watching, he check to see if anyone is still alive, it was only the bald man and another blond soldier was alive, he bounded their wound and healed it with magic and disappeared to the dark.

*

The news about what happened to the night watchmen spread across the entire Arsgard, all the soldiers that is deployed to the castle has all lost their life except two men who was saved by someone whom nobody knows.

Even though the bodies of the dead soldiers were immediately cleared up before daybreak to avoid commotion among the people of the royal family yet the mess can't be easily clear because the tower roof was painted with blood.

The body of Roshan which has had some part transformed into human was taken to a dungeon where it was locked up.

King Hemsworth was very happy to see that the beast which has been giving him sleepless night has been killed.. he called the two soldiers whom has survived the deadly wave to come over to the castle and dine with him.

It was never an easy feet to stand a hug werewolf like that and kill it

The king invited them to royal house to thank them for been able to kill the hug beast.

At the topmost part of the castle, a rest triangular room that has red courtain as it's main covering, a majestic tower that has five set of wooden chairs marvelously designed with a well crafted status of a Lion on each legs of the seats.

A long table that runs from one end of the rest room to the other serving both five seats. The table has red cover at the top, this made the whole rest room have a unique and uniform colour.

The rest room made a perfect watch tower to the whole land. It gives a clear sight of the entire kingdom when watching the vast land of Arsgard from there.

Hemsworth and his wife Qwenevail where sitting comfortably at the the wooden chairs enjoying the moment with their little daughter as they eat red berry and beholding the wonderful sight of the entire kingdom.

"Daddy, watching the entire kingdom from this tower is one of the most beautiful and amazing thing I like doing, its so beautiful'.

The little beautiful girl stood up from her seat and walked toward the balcony to have more view of five birds that are flying around a chimney Cap on a house that is very far in the city.

The girl let out a warming smile and goes back to her mother.

"mummy, when will I be allowed to go out of the castle, I'm ten now and I haven't stepped out of this castle, I don't have a friend to play with, please mummy I want to go and make friends outside these walls."

The mother looked at the father who was also looking back at her, there was a deep silence amongst them though the little girl didn't know what the sudden silence was for but she thought it was all good.

The king dropped the berry he has in his hand and called the little to come over and sit on his laps.

"Yna, I really know that you wanted to go out of the castle even if it's for a few hours.

I and your mother also wanted you to go out and make friends but we can't just allow you to go outside this wall because it's very dangerous, you have many people whom do pretend to love you but are not, many laugh and smile with you but they're angry inside themselves because of you.

You're the Princess of this kingdom and they're things you can't do because of your safety and the security of the royal family, keep calm, one day, you will go round the entire Arsgard with someone that will give anything just to protect you"

The little girl looked at her father in the eye , she smiled and climbed down from her father's laps and breathe out so easily.

"Daddy, I'm the princess of Arsgard, that is not bad. Who is the prince?"

The king smiled at her, draw her closer to his bossom and kissed her forehead.

"The prince traveled to a distance land, he will come back someday"

She loses the soft grip of her father and goes to the mother who seem like she is lost in thought.

"Mummy is the prince my brother?"

The conversation was interrupted immediately a royal guard walked into the the room.

"your majesty, sorry for the interruption, the two surviving night watchers are here to see you as you instructed"

" Let them in"

The queen and her daughter stood up to leave the tower but the king. Called her back before inviting the nearest maiden to take their daughter out.

"My dear, you don't need to leave, stay here with me. let's hear the good news together"

He turned to Yna with a smiling face.

"Princess Yna go and stay with Ivy, I will be with you soon"

"okay Daddy"

She slowly walked to Ivy, a very beautiful woman, a handmaid to Yna, she stoop at the entrance waiting for the little girl to come to her.

"Alex, go and get them here immediately"

The Guard went out and came back with the two men, after some series of introduction, he went back to his post.

"Greetings to your Majesty"

The two watchman bows in honor.

"get up and have your seats"

They sit at the right side of the table, the king and his wife sat at the left side of the table facing the men.

"please do make yourself comfortable"

The queen assured as she call the cook to the table to serve them something to eat.

" First and foremost, I have to say sorry for the fall of some of our able men, it was a heartbreaking moment for me and the entire citizens of Arsgard that those men died while fighting for the safety of this kingdom, I and my family were deeply touched about this lost.

"I king Hemsworth, Ruler of all the four cardinal of Arsgard is making a promise to you and the families of the lost compatriots that I will forever be there whenever they needed help."

The king bent over to the table for some moment before raising his face up to face the watchmen.

It was an awkward moment for the two men because it was the first time of facing the king.

There is a lot of mouth watering dishes on the table inviting the men to come and Savage but the nerves was not there.

The story of what happened the night before the day came up shortly after the men have summoned the courage to eat.

King Hemsworth was not the same as he was when what happened was explained, the queen stood up in shock. her eyes widened and her body shakes in fever.

King Hemsworth moved from the spot he was standing, he walked toward the balcony his daughter was staying before. With his two hands at his back, he moved slowly to the red wall, facing it with his dreadful eye, he get very focused and trying to control his emotions.

At this moment, the queen is already drenched with her own tears. The men became confused but they can't ask what the problem is because being a commoner asking the king question could mean asking for your head on a platter of steel.

The silence at the tower was very intriguing, a drop of pin can echo to the very last room in the castle. The four Conners of the tower immediately reflect and echo a very deep voice that rattles the bone, they was an immediate response of the eye toward the direction the voice was coming from.

The voice sends fear into the men, there was a discomfort in the eyes of the watchers.

"Erik?, Tall, slim, has white hair and a dearing eyes?"

" yes your majesty, I tried all I could to see his face but he has mask on his face"

More silence was in the room, a white bird came flying to the balcony, it has a pice of paper on its red beak. The king made some strange noise with his mouth, the bird came flying to him.

He stretched out his arm allowing the bird to balance on it. The paper falls from the bird mouth landing on the king's palm.

The tiny paper has a strange words and mark on it, sealed with blood. No one else can read or interpret the writing except the King.

He moved slowly to a chair very close to him, the look on his face shows that things are very far from good. The vain on his face traced a visible line on his forehead, he turned pale and his hand shakes violently on the paper, hot sweat went down his chick.

He dropped the paper on the table, with force and anger, he left the tower going straight to his chamber.

A step to his room, he found his little daughter coming up from the stairs, he tried to burry the look on his face as fast as possible because he never wanted the little girl to see how he looks when he is angry.

"Daddy, you don't look normal, what is the problem?

He walked to the girl, he stoop lower to have a good look at the girl.

"Yna.. I'm very fine just that I developed a little headache"

He placed his hand on his forehead head trying to convince Yna who looks at him sheepishly.

"s....or'.ry...dad.., Where is mummy?

"She is coming, keep going up...you will meet her along the stairs to the top tower"

"okay Daddy"

Yna turned to the stairs and run up to meet her mum.

Hemsworth sigh, shakes his head then get up from his kneel.

He went inside his chamber, slam the door and locked himself inside.

He stood before the mirror and watched himself for some moment. He sat at the bed thinking about the message the bird delivered to him.

It was a letter of war and conquest from the kingdom of Ducan Warriors.

He was never expecting this type of challenge when things are all falling apart.

To reject this challenge actually means giving your kingdom over to the Challenger.

Zamorah was reported to have been attacked by vampires. Half of the soldiers were brutally slain.

The survivors are yet to recover from the mysterious disease inflicted on them by the vampires.

Some have lost the ability to fight because they were miserably disfigured by the vampires.

Some whom were bitten by the vampires are gradually hibernating into the abomination they were fighting.

Hemsworth was totally helpless as he stand watching the huge frame of the castle hanged at the wall.

The frame starts to shake. No one was there except the king who was standing before the magnificent frame.

He thought it was just an imagination. The frame can't just move without anybody touching it, his mind tried to calm him down but the frame started shaking so violently that it lost its hook and fell on the terrace and broke in pieces, He rushed his sword that is at the edge of his bed.

Surprisingly, the sword went up to the air under an invisible power, the sword slashed itself toward the king aiming for his throat but he was sharp enough to dodge the sword, he took a dagger from his belt and stand to defend himself from the ranging slashes of the sword.

The clinging of the sword becomes so engaged that all the property in the chamber was absolutely destroyed.

Suddenly, the sword falls on the floor and everywhere became quiet.

Hemsworth kept looking around with his dagger on his hand.

"Show your face...stop playing like a child, show yourself and I will feed your flesh to my dogs"

A piercing laughter from no where echoes in the room. The golden flower jar at the table goes up by itself and fall breaking in three.

"You're a coward, show yourself and stand Hemsworth, the king that rules the vast land of Arsgard, The king that stands as a tower of terror to both humans and magical creatures, show me who you're"

The laughter comes back again whispering some things to the king's ear, He waved his dagger to his side hoping to have killed the person but he cut his bed cover.

the laughter becomes very deep now, a dark shadow flow round him and disappeared to the air.

"Hemsworth, Earthly father to my brother Erik, I have come to say hi to you"

"I don't talk to weak vessels who finds pleasure in hiding in the dark shadows, if you're here to talk with me appear and let us talk"

"Well Hemsworth, I find pleasure in the dark shadows because it's my home and if you don't mind, my name is Alzanny the Scarlett witch, an elder sister to your Son."

"If that's all you have to say, please be fast and go back to your place because you don't have place here"

" Of course I have a place in anywhere I want even in your soul, I have come to warn and tell you to be prepared for war are coming and I can't wait to reap your head and that of my useless brother apart"

"Till then Alzanny, I can't wait to have your head as my wine cup soon"

Immediately, Alzanny walked through the wall and stand before Hemsworth looking very deep into his eyes.

"l love your courage, I hope to see it in you at the battlefield, I will go now but before that I will give you something"

She snapped her finger and disappear from the room.

Not long enough, a hard knock came to his door and it was the voice of his wife, he rushed to the door and opened it.

"What's the matter, why are you crying?"

She looked at the room and what she saw was not good.

"Your majesty, what happened here?"

"it's a long story okay, I will need to sit down and explain it to you, so what's happening, why are you crying?.

"There was a fire outbreak again at the green valley and most of the farmland has been burnt to ashes, many are dead and some are badly injured"

He moved instantly down to the royal horse garden, he amount on one with his ten men well armed as they ride to the South.

It was a horrible tale and a blinding incidents that has been going on at Arsgard. The defense of the kingdom crippled and the farmland burns red with sulphur. Uncountable deaths all day. Corps litered all over the street of Arsgard, diseases that can't be cured with magic a d herbals inflict and killed quoter of the kingdom.

Zamorah desert becomes a home for all manners of unclean creatures after Cyrus and Sarpowasky lost their life fighting vampires. Those that escaped the wave runs out of Zamorah and came to live at the Green valley and at the Royal city which was the only secured part of Arsgard.

Those who tried to run to the East coast for protection are all eaten up at the wood.

All the magnificent empires built at the kingdom becomes empty and ruined. The survivors built a very tall and heavy wall which connects the surviving cities of the green valley to the royal city.

The wall was so tall that you can see the whole land of Arsgard and the neighboring kingdom when you're on the top.

The wall has thirty thousand magically controled metallic bow at the top, sitting twelve feet's away from each other. The arrow fires and kill anything from outside the wall that comes near to it from fourteen miles away.

There's thousands of arsenals at every space between the bows fully loaded with tons of fireballs.

Another wall stands out, it's very much taller than the wall. Built very close to the black gate, it has a very huge warning bell hanged beneath it, It was a watch tower that can contain five soldiers.

At the feet of the wall, they built a very strong and defensive underground houses for the soldiers watching the city.

The entire city inside the wall was protected by a white cloud casted by a white witch living in the castle.

Peace of mind came back to the survivors but they live in fear of what might happen someday.

King Hemsworth was at his royal office writing, signing some papers and discussing with the high men of intelligence of the kingdom on how to make Arsgard great again.

Hemsworth was sitting on his royal throne with a paper and a writing feather on his hand, other four men clothed in a soldiers costumes and long swords lying at the table in front of them.

Hemsworth signed the last paper. He dropped the paper on the table and the feather on an ink jet, he pull off his golden crown which has some emerald on the seven spiky edge of it on the table, he cleared his cracking voice.

"My honourable men of valor, I say thank you for standing strong to defend Arsgard at this moment, it has been an easy feat but together, I believe we will make Arsgard great again' I believe that we all know that we are not fighting Ducan Warriors alone but also some abominable creatures brought to live by magic. We need to stand strong and defend each other in any angle we can"