3: Promises and Oaths

Reyna looked at Avery concerned. "So...what's going to happen to me since I was the chosen prey?"

"There isn't much we can do, once someone is chosen they have to go through with what is placed in front of them. Those whom you have yet to revert back and myself have all agreed that this will be our last game of reapers. We are all stationed in places where we are ready to accept whatever fate you have for us Reyna." Avery said with a sigh

"I see, I must ask...Why were you reapers placed under oath not to kill me? I am not anyone special, I am not loved or cared by my parents. Both of them threw me in here so I'd get killed off so one of my other siblings would get the crown of the kingdom." Reyna asked

Avery sighed out and he took out the piece of paper that all of the reapers signed that glowed a dark blue color in his hands. "What you may think is hate and disgust is actually them wanting you to be stronger. Allow me to read to you what is written here. 'To the reapers of the game, As king and queen of the kingdom of Militia we are well aware that you will kill anyone that is known as prey that will be chosen. We have fear to speculate that our eldest daughter will try to do so to the most gifted young child we have. They are half demon half angel. They are very powerful and we wish to prove to their siblings just why we wish for them to take the crown instead of one of them. But we also know that the half breed will be singled out and will most likely be hated-this paper is a oath to keep whom we wish to have proceed us become the new ruler of our kingdom. They may not be touched or gone after or they will end up dying due to their belief of how we view them. We care deeply for them and only wished to make them stronger by treating them the opposite way.' So you see, we agreed to this since we never had anyone outwardly say that there are any half breeds. You're rare Reyna Militia. We only ever get full bloods here, so knowing that all of us agreed to sign this and we waited to see if the half breed would be amongst those whom were chosen."

"A-And you're okay with not killing me?" Reyna asked confused

"Yeah, I have no reason not to agree to such a thing. Being as it is before being like this I was the eldest of my kin and I was to rule over my own people."

She went up to him with the wand that she had placed in her belt. "You may go back to you people once you wake, rest easy Avery." She said as she used the wand on him.

Avery collapsed and was knocked out on the ground as his cloak vanished from him as it showed that he had a Green shirt on. Reyna sighed out and she placed it back where it was before she looked to Hyun and Julio. "Seems like you two don't need to protect me any longer."

"We're still going to in case one of them slips up." Julio said seriously

"Yeah, we don't trust those assholes." Hyun said with a nod of his head

They went into the room Avery was blocking and saw that in a case was a crown. Reyna shattered the case and she grabbed the crown only to see engraved writing within the crown 'Thee who wears this crown upon thy head controls thy kingdom of dead' Reyna never knew of any kingdom of the dead, but she kept it with her before they went to the last place where the four reapers were waiting for standing in a line. None of them said a word to her-they just stared at her. When she advanced them they would take a step back until they got to the wall behind them. She grabbed the wand that was on her hip and she used it on each one of them one at a time. She then went passed them and went into the room they were guarding to see that it was an armory room.

She ended up having to go hunting for the item, only to find it hiding in a box. As she touched the stick it turned into a dagger that fit perfectly within her hands. She grabbed it and she looked at Julio and Hyun. "We did it! W-We actually got all of the items and changed back all of the reapers!"

"Honestly that was easier than I thought." Hyun stated

"Probably because of who Reyna is. We should find the intercom station and tell everyone to meet up in the auditorium. They still think that they're going to be hunted" Julio stated

She nodded her head and they went building hunting only to see Avery with the two first people she reverted in front of a building. "Going to tell everyone about what you've done Reyna?" Avery asked

She nodded her head. "I am."

"Very well, we will get the other four and meet you at the auditorium." Avery said before the three of them left out

Once she got into the room she went up to the intercom and she pressed the button so her voice would echo throughout the grounds. "Attention everyone. The reapers are no longer-I have reverted all of them and I have all of the items. Please make your way to the auditorium. I repeat, the reapers are no longer. You are safe to roam to the auditorium without being harmed."

Once she started to see people going passed where she was she left out with Hyun and Julio and went into the middle of the auditorium where she saw Avery and the other six past reapers. Once everyone was sitting down Avery projected his voice.

"Morning everyone, I know all of you must be tired and scared. But fear not, you all have been saved a cruel death by Reyna. I do not believe any of you truly knows who Reyna is so allow me to place a bit of light on that subject. As most of you know the kingdom of Militia has rule over ninety five percent of the world after a long war that had happened many centuries ago. After that war ended, the Angels were slaves to the demons that ruled over Militia. But it seems like the King of Militia has made an Angel his wife, in doing so he made a fifty-fifty chance of getting a half breed child." Avery said before he walked up to Reyna and placed a hand on her shoulder. "She's the half breed child that came from the two of them. Her parents knew that her siblings would want her gone due to the fact that she was a half breed-ALL OF YOU TOOK THE NONSENSE WORDS OF A COWARD, just because you didn't know her, you didn't understand just what she was going through. Her siblings wanted her out of the picture so they could be the one to take the throne.."

One of the other ex-reapers continued speaking where Avery had stopped, the male looked just like Avery but a little bit younger. "But it had already been known on a piece of paper all seven of us had signed when those in class 4 were placed that we were not to harm or kill the half breed. It wasn't know what gender the half breed was, but we all agreed since we usually only ever saw those of full blood here. We saw the half breed as an exception since it was very rare to be a half breed in this world. Once Avery, the leader of all of us knew that the prey you all chose to reject and fuck over was the half breed-we all agreed to let the game end without knowing she had already reverted back two of our own. Chase and Ashina were already verted back-so we threw the game for the sake of the oath we had promised the king and queen of Militia." The Male stated

A female then went beside the male that just spoke and continued off where he ended. "Because of us throwing the game-you all got off easy. In total when the game started only twenty of you were killed off in our little game. But our game is done now, this place will be condemn once everyone leaves."

Reyna looked up at Avery. "Avery...how did you all become reapers to begin with?"

"The book of the dead, we opened it and the dark spirits of the book engulfed us." Avery stated

"I see...and why was a crown of the kingdom of the dead placed as a mystical item? How was that supposed to help me?"