Chapter 7

Prisoner of Cerina

Ariaz and company rushed towards the doors of the palace, where Cain was, sitting on the throne, waiting for the return of his guards with Ariaz, but didn't expect that Ariaz would rush through the door with his company. He pointed his long sword at Cain.

"You are not destined to rule Cerina!"

"How is that may I ask?"

"Krystal has not passed on, she is still alive! I can tell!"

"You are right young human thief, or should I say…"

Ariaz felt a swift slash to the back of his pants, behind him a fox tail popped out.

"Half-breed thief."

Bane looked down at Ariaz's tail, he was a human, how could he have a tail if Humans couldn't?

"Ariaz…how?"

Ariaz sighed and looked at it Bane, his face was sad, knowing that his greatest secret had been found out.

"I…have kept many secrets from everyone in the past, about my parents, my mother…she was a vixen, and my father was a human. He was drunk and left my mother in pregnancy. I was born, as a half-breed of Fox and human."

"Well that explains the great speed."

"Yes…but I still hate myself for being like this."

Cain walked down stairs from his throne, holding a staff and his axe.

"I knew about this when I saw you with that purple Vixen, your feet and tail were all I could see, but they were indeed not human parts. So…you are the half-breed, the one who's genes were differed, making you, as they call it, a freak."

Ariaz looked back at Cain with anger, he was called many things: thief, robber, disgusting, worthless human, spendable, flea infested, but when called a freak, the insulter had gone too far.

Ariaz rushed forward and swung his blade at Cain, cutting his chest as it poured blood, Cain placed his paw on the wound, then the blood on the floor floated back into the scar, healing it. Ariaz was amazed and shocked, Cain had completely healed from the assault.

"Being a king has its advantages…being a thief has nothing."

Cain lifted Ariaz by the head and threw him at the wall, cracking the concrete that Ariaz impacted with, his back was in pain as he fell to the floor. He looked up at Cain, using his blade as support to hold himself up. Bane lunged at Cain and tossed him into the air behind him, crashing into the ceiling and onto the ground, Cain floated to his feet and grabbedBane by the head and spun, making a cyclone, then threw him at the wall, crashing through the hard bricks. Cain felt a barrage of arrows strike his back, Blitz never stopped firing, his three quivers contained over five hundred skinny arrows, Cain looked at Blitz and snapped his fingers, setting the arrows ablaze, then he grabbed Blitz's head and plowed him through multiple concrete poles, then he thrust him at the wall, letting him drop to the ground.

"Fools! No can defeat me, I am the ruler of Cerina!"

"Your wrong."

Cain turned to Ariaz, now standing, looking like he never felt pain in the first place, his lips had a small trickle of blood roll down his neck.

"Krystal is the rightful ruler of Cerina, not you."

Cain started to take slow steps towards Ariaz.

"These Cerinians know their ruler, the ruler they know is kind hearted, generous, and an actual royalty!"

Even in the prison cells, Krystal could hear her friends words, a tear rolled down her face.

"They choose her even if you were royalty."

Cain was now in front of Ariaz.

"And you know that, don't you?"

Cain brought his fist to Ariaz's face, plowing him into the wall again, he removed his blood covered fist from Ariaz's cheek, letting him fall to his knees.

"Never speak to your new ruler Half-breed in that tone, or I'll wring your neck and have you torn apart!"

Ariaz tried to look up at Cain, but he was too much in pain to even fight back, Cain was too strong.

"YOU MUSTN'T GIVE UP ARIAZ! I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU! FIGHT BACK!"

Ariaz knew who that voice belonged to, it belonged to Krystal, even in pain, she still had faith in Ariaz, he stood up and stared at Cain, and punched him in the face, launching him across the room.

"I may be a half-breed, but I'm no push over!"

Ariaz rushed forward and sliced the staggering Cain across the face, and kicked him across the ground, bouncing off the stairs. Cain held up his paw, begging for mercy.

"Wait Ariaz…w-we could be partners, we could rule Cerina side by side!"

Ariaz only walked closer to the back stepping Cain.

"Sorry Cain…but there is only one ruler of Cerina, and that's Krystal!"

Ariaz grabbed Cain by the ankle and threw him at the poles in back of him. Cain landed with a loud thud after he was thrown against the wall, dropping from twenty feet in the air.

"Ariaz…please…have mercy!"

"NO ARIAZ! BRING YOUR ANGER DOWN ON HIM! DESTROY HIM!"

Ariaz picked up the staff that belonged to the ruler, giving them power over Cerina, Animate armor guards started walking towards Ariaz, Cain started chuckle.

"You really think you can use that against me, you little burglar?"

Ariaz gripped the staff in his hand tightly, the animate Armors about to bring down their weapons, then the staff glowed, the animate armors put down their weapons, Cain stopped laughing.

"Impossible!"

Bane managed to get back up and enter the prison cells, freeing Carol and Krystal from the cold and dark place. Ariaz looked at the staff with a power hungry look, but then became a normal face as he looked outside the palace doors, many Guards were being attack by animate armors.

"No!"

Cain looked confused, he didn't understand what Ariaz disagreed with.

"I'm not going to be you!"

Ariaz brought the staff up and swung it downward towards the ground.

"NO!"

The staves gem shattered on the floor, Cain's eyes started to bleed, his stomach was starting to rip open, his insides floating out of is body, he yelled in pain, then he glowed a dark glow with a red aura, melting onto the ground, Ariaz looked at the puddle, the heart of Cain was still beating, Ariaz put his foot on top of it and squashed it, blood flying everywhere. Cain's blood, his guts, everything that was apart of him, disappeared from sight, he was dead.

Later that day

"My fellow Cerinians, it seems that the heavens have shined down on me again, a savior had come to this town and dispatched the heathen Cain of the crimson guard. I havetaken back the throne and shall rule from this day forward!"

The crowed cheered, all staring at their queen, holding flags in there paws, some using magic to make fireworks.

"I now thank the saviors for…wait, where'd they go?…WHERES MY STAFF?"

Everyone looked around, then Krystal spotted a figure on the top of the wall: it was Ariaz, holding in his hands the staff Krystal owned.

"THANK YOU GENEROUS HOST!"

Bane, Blitz, Carol, and Ariaz jumped down from the wall and to the haven of thieves, they finally had the ultimate artifact that would make them rich.

Night time

Ariaz snuck out of the haven and back to the town, holding in his hand the real staff, in his pack, replicas of the staff, he sprinted towards the palace when he got inside, climbing up the palace walls to Krystals room, looking at her sleep on her huge bed. He crept in and laid the staff in front of her, giving her a small peck on the cheek.

"Sweet dreams…old friend."

Ariaz crept back to the wall and perched himself on the window, until he heard Krystal awaken behind him, holding her staff in her paws.

"Ariaz?"

"Yeah its me…"

"Thanks."

"No prob."

Krystal fell back asleep, Ariaz saluted her and jumped out the window, grabbing a tree and flinging him over the wall, but holding onto the edge, pulling himself up and running towards the front wall where the gate was. He jumped down and walked to the shore, the moon reflecting the water, shining against his face. Carol walked over and sat down beside her friend.

"It's beautiful isn't it?"

"Yes."

Carol rested against Ariaz, she could never leave Cerina, knowing that the ships weren't allowed to be used by thieves, she was a prisoner to a world that recognized her as a thief, but a human that recognized her as his friend, she never wanted to leave. She wanted to be with Ariaz.

End

A/N: sorry if there wasn't enough action, its just the way I write, I hoped you enjoyed this story.