Chapter 55
*(Y/N) P.O.V.*
A couple of hours before dawn I woke up to the sound of a trumpet. Unlike yesterday, today I felt exhausted. I got up and exited my tent, I didn't bother taking it down since we may end up staying at this camp for more than a day. I didn't see Noah or Chim anywhere so I went to go get my breakfast alone. A lot of people seemed to avoid Noah, Chim and I. Probably because we're different from them, Noah is the son of herobrine so no surprise they're staying away from him. I've beat everyone who's battled against me and I'm only eleven and Chim has two differently colored eyes and plus the others know he's related to me.
Breakfast was rather silent, a lot of people seemed nervous. You can't blame them though, a lot of us won't be coming back home. After breakfast I went to find my horse since all my armor and weapons were there, once I finally found him I noticed Chim and Noah nearby putting their armor on as well. "Hey guys" I greeted them as I walked towards them.
"Hey how are you doing? Nervous?" Chim asked.
"I'm not too nervous, you?" I responded.
"I'm probably a bit more nervous than you but I think everything will be fine" I nodded at his response and turned to Noah.
"Are you nervous?" I asked.
"No, I'm just tired" he responded yawning. I put on all my armor and put away my weapons in their respective places before heading out with Noah and Chim to find the rest of our group. We found them near our tents planning out what we would be doing. As we approached them Mark continued explaining the plan not even acknowledging the fact that we just got here. I guess he's still upset that he lost to me. Oh well.
"Alright so we're going to wait until the battles already begun and sneak in from the back of the kingdom" Mark began before he was interrupted by Troy.
"The walls are really tall sir, how are we going to be able to get in? There's no way to climb them." He asked.
"These two" he said pointing at Noah and I "are going to teleport us onto the other side with their magic" he explained as quickly as possible finally acknowledging us. "Anyway after that we're going to sneak through the streets to the castle and these two will be teleporting us through the castle wall and into a storage room that our spy has already marked out for us. Once we're in there we'll have to fight through the guards and find the bunker, that's the one thing our spy couldn't find out." Mark finished. "Any questions?" he asked. No one spoke up and he left without another word.
After a bit of silence Chris spoke up "If you two are brother and sister shouldn't you both be able to use magic?" Chris asked, referring to the fact that Mark didn't say he was helping to teleport us.
"I can use magic I just haven't had as much practice as they have" Chim responded. Chris just nodded and we were left in silence once again. Just a bit before dawn Quentin and Ian began ordering groups to travel to the battle field. We followed on horseback and we got there within twenty minutes. Our group stayed back since we'd be sneaking in through the back instead of fighting by the gate to the kingdom. Lots of soldiers were getting into positions ready to attack the Emerald Kingdom once the order was given.
Just as the sun was coming up Quentin and Ian led the charge towards the kingdom, now all we have to do is wait. Our group wasn't the only group staying back, some archers stayed in the trees shooting enemy soldiers off the walls and some medics stood by ready to transport the wounded back to camp via a horse drawn wagon. After about fifteen minutes of fighting Mark motioned for us to follow him on horse. Our group made our way through the forest where we couldn't be seen until we were directly behind the kingdom.
"Alright tie your horses to the trees here so we can get closer to the wall" Mark said quietly. Everyone did as they were told and we all began to make our way to the wall. All of the enemies soldiers were at the front trying to keep us out of their kingdom so no one spotted us. Mark nodded at me and Noah and I prepared to transport us to the other side of the wall. It only took a second since it was such a small distance but nonetheless most of our group didn't seem to be doing so well from the teleportation. Even Mark seemed to be having trouble keeping breakfast down. Once they were ready about five minutes later we headed towards the castle wall. Once again meeting no resistance, on this side of the kingdom things were eerily quiet. As we approached the castle wall Mark motioned for us to stay back for a second to check if the coast was clear.
After a few moments of silence Mark motioned for us to continue but the moment we left our cover a bunch of soldiers jumped down from the roofs in front of us taking all of us by surprise. One of the soldiers charged towards Mark, ready to chop off his head but I intervened. I summoned a silver forcefield in front of Mark and teleported behind the soldier before stabbing him in the stomach. It felt... weird. Despite having trained so much I had never actually killed a person before, but I pushed that aside as I continued to protect my group.
The others had finally drawn their weapons and joined the fight against our attackers. With us all fighting they stood no chance and a few of them ran off towards the castle while the rest laid dead at our feet. "Let's keep moving" Mark insisted after a moment of silence. We made it to the wall without any other attacks and Noah and I quickly teleported everyone to the storage room as we had been told to. The others didn't seem to get as sick this time and we were able to continue without waiting.
"What now" Joyce asked.
"Now we fight our way through the castle and try to find the secret bunker where the king is." Mark responded. "We'll start out together but I want us to split into groups of two after we clear out the majority of the enemy soldiers. Noah and (Y/N) you're together, Chim you're with me, Joyce and Crimson you'll be a group and Chris and Troy you'll also be a group alright?" Mark asked. Everyone nodded and we cautiously left the storage room. Almost immediately we were jumped by a bunch of soldiers coming from all directions.
"STAND BACK" Noah yelled. Everyone did as he said and he summoned a huge wave of fire. The fire spread throughout the castle burning pretty much everything and everyone in the castle.
"Well that was easy" I commented as I stepped out of the room followed by the others.
"Uh..." Mark began "Okay then I guess lets split up and try to find the secret bunker" he finished before walking away. Chim followed him and the rest of us split up and began to search.
"It'd probably be on the first floor" Noah said once we were far enough from the other groups.
"Yeah but the question is where" I replied
"Where's the last place you'd expect it to be?" Noah asked me, I thought about it for a second before replying.
"I guess the bathroom" I replied.
"Okay lets search there first then" Noah decided as we began looking around for a bathroom. Eventually we found one and began to search for anything out of place. I searched through the cabinets moving everything incase something was sitting on a pressure plate or something. After finding nothing in the cabinets I began to search the floor for anything loose. As I was searching I heard something click, looking around I realized that Noah had pulled down one of the lights on the wall. Behind it was a small stone button which revealed a secret pathway underground.
"Let me contact Chimney" I said before reaching out to him 'Chim we found it, it's three doors to the right of the entrance on your left' I told him.
'Alright' he responded through his thoughts and we kept an eye on the secret passageway, waiting for the others to show up. After a few minutes everyone was here and we all went down with Mark going first. The stairway was dark making it nearly impossible to see what was ahead of you. We all stayed silent as we crept down the passageway until finally some light began to flood into the passage. Mark signaled for us to stop as he continued forward after checking if it was safe he motioned for us to follow him once again. Once we were all at the bottom we were able to see the obsidian bunker.
"Should we blow through the wall?" Chris asked in a whisper to Mark.
Mark shook his head before responding "It'd take too long, by the time we'd get in they could be long gone."
"Or we could use or magic and blow through in just one go" Noah pointed out.
"You sure that would work?" Mark asked skeptical.
"Yeah if (Y/N), Chim and I all cause powerful explosions at the same time I'm sure we'd be able to blow through it." Noah replied.
"You all use explosive magic?" Crimson asked.
"Well Chim and I use silver magic so we can use all magic types and Noah uses black magic and explosive magic is part of black magic so yeah." I answered.
"Alright then lets stand back" Mark said motioning for everyone else to back up a bit. Noah put up a forcefield around the entire group before signaling to the rest of us to get our magic ready.
"Alright 3, 2, 1" Noah counted down before we unleashed the explosions at the bunker wall bursting it open. The rest of the group rushed in taking out the guards that had been protecting the royal family before Mark rushed forward and pointed the tip of his blade at the Kings throat. The Queen seemed petrified and the two children seemed scared but were also staring at me probably due to my young age. One of them looked to be in their teens while the other seemed to be around my age.
"(Y/N) knock the King and Queen out" Mark ordered. I nodded before using my magic to summon a spell that would do just that but the older of the two children rushed at me with a hidden knife in an attempt to stop me. However, I quickly kicked the blade out of his hand before grabbing it myself and pointing it right back at him. Noah quickly restrained him and I finally knocked the King and Queen out.
Joyce had already tied up the younger of the two children and Mark was working to tie up the King and Queen since they would be executed publicly. As for what would happen to their children I wasn't quite sure. "Let's head back to the camp" Mark ordered picking up the now unconscious King. Chris picked up the Queen and Troy picked up both of their children before we began to head back to camp.
Some of Emerald Kingdom's soldiers were still fighting ours so we had to teleport back outside the wall to get back to camp. The battle was over shortly afterwards and we were free to take over the Kingdom.
~Le Time Skip~
It's been a week since the battle at Emerald Kings and things have been pretty good. One of Dan's trusted friends was allowed to take over as king of Emerald Kingdom though they're still having some trouble with citizens rebelling. As for the King and Queen they're scheduled to be executed publicly at noon. Everyone was busy getting ready for the execution which is happening in just a couple of hours, speaking of which our entire group is supposed to be there as well as we're the ones who captured them. Their children are also forced to be there which in all honesty I'm not sure I agree with. I guess that's the cost of having evil parents though, no one has told me what's happening to them yet, though I'm not sure if I really want to know at this point.
Suddenly I was snapped out of my thoughts by Noah "you alright there?" he asked.
"Yeah I'm fine, just thinking" I replied.
"What are you thinking about" he questioned.
"What do you think's going to happen to their kids?" I questioned.
"I'm not too sure, Dan's a pretty nice guy but it's not like he can just let them go or something. They'd surely want revenge" He replied thoughtfully.
"Yeah, do you want to go train for a bit?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'll get Chim to come too let's go" He replied with a smile. We trained for about an hour and a half before we had to stop to get ready for the execution. I got changed into the uniform for soldiers of the Diamond Kingdom and headed downstairs. Surprisingly Dan was there holding some jackets that matched our uniforms.
"There you are (Y/N), everyone in your group is going to be wearing one of these with the hood up. I'm not sure how they'll feel about seeing someone so young up there" he said handing me a jacket. "Nothing against you of course" he added trying not to offend me.
"I'm not offended Dan everyone thinks it's a bit weird" I responded taking the jacket and putting it on.
"Alright then, you should head outside everyone else is waiting" he said before rushing off somewhere else to do something last second. I headed outside to where the guillotine was set up. The prisoners had not been brought up from the dungeon yet but there were already people crowding around. Surely enough our group was sat on the side of the stage where the execution would take place. Before long Dan came out followed by multiple guards practically dragging the King, Queen and their children to the stage. The crowd cheered as they were forced to climb the stairs onto the stage.
"Hello citizens of The Diamond Kingdom!" Dan began. He was met with cheers of excitement.
"As many of you know we went to war with Emerald Kingdom and were victorious!" The speech dragged on and on but before long it was time for the execution. The King was to go first, I didn't dare look as they were executed. Once it was over we were allowed to go and for the most part the day was rather normal from then on.
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