| Chapter Fifteen | Tristan Hunt

...I haven't written for this story in so long that I actually forgot who the villain of the story even was. And since it has been so long, I made the chapter a long chapter for you guys to enjoy.

Reminder since it has been a while: Bolded Words are Dragon Tongue speaking

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"Accidents are just plot twists that make our lives more interesting."
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"And why can't Adam come and tell me this himself?" King Max asks Ian. Ian uncrosses his arms.

"Max, you know why. It isn't anything personal, he just has too many bad memories here in Nasia." Ian said trying to cover up for Sky. King Max La'Plume. He is the King of Nasia, a decent good looking guy with dark red hair, a black shirt with a dark red cape and gray pants. He has a golden z charm on a silver chain around his neck and a sword strapped to his side. A crown sitting on his hair as well. King Max is known for being quite reasonable.....well sometimes he can be. He tends to lose his temper a lot, especially when others hurt his friends. Max looks at Ian.

"Of course I'll help but, I want to talk to Adam about this," Max said. Ian and he are in Max's office, his desk is cutter with papers and such. Ian sits in the chair.

"Adam hasn't been himself since Alesa, Max. He got hurt—"

"Oh right. Is he okay? I heard it was pretty bad." Max said. Ian nods.

"He's okay now. Ty's sister healed him, so we own the Kingdom Of Dragons. But they need help from Nasia and Sacura too." Ian said. Max sighed.

"And what exactly do they need from me?" King Max asks.

"Resources. Maybe set up a trading system with them. They are still repairing their damaged Kingdom. So you might not be getting stuff back." Ian said. Max shook his head.

"Ian, I can't. We in the middle of a famine right now, food is hard to grow and with winter just around the corner. I have a Kingdom to feed, I'm sorry but I cannot set a trade with them when I can barely make due with the current trade system we have in place." King Max said. Ian looked away.

"Alright, scratch that for another time in the future. But Tristan Hunt is a real threat. And he is gonna target Ty, and probably Seto since he is a wizard and all." Ian said. Ian looked back at the King. "We could take him but it doesn't hurt to have a backup." Max nods.

"I agree with that and I'll help you all, but I would still like to talk to Adam," Max said. Ian nods.

"I'll tell him that," Ian said.

"You involving Queen Jess?" Max asks. Ian nods.

"Yeah, Jerome and Mitch should be over there right now," Ian said.

"What are the others up to?" Max asks.

"Quentin is waiting outside, Ty is at the Kingdom of Dragons. And Sky, Jason, and Seto should be at the base." Ian said. Max leaned back in his chair.

"How much time do we have before Tristan wakes up?" Max asks.

"Not long," Ian said.

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"Prince Tobias," A voice said. Ty opened his eyes, he was laying on the ground, he shook his head, clearing his vision, he could barely move. He pushed down on his elbows. "Are you listening?!" Ty looked around suddenly getting kicked in the gut and going flying into a tree. Ty cried out in pain, hitting the ground. Ty moved on his hands and knees, his wings limp by his sides. The figure laughed. They lifted their hand towards Ty. "Say goodbye you overgrown lizard." Ty leaned against the tree, his back to them right before he felt something grab his wings and pain suddenly pulsated through him in the unbearable burst from his back making his eyes widen as he gasped. He screamed.

"Tobias!" Ty heard someone yell as his back felt lighter. He looked behind him, seeing the figure smirk and mumble something as their hand glowed. Ty's wings disintegrated, two deep gashed were embedded his back bleeding profusely. Ty's vision becomes blurry, another figure came out accompanied by a purple aura another them, shouting something. Ty felt a spell hit him making the black dots in his vision manifest, taking him over before he hit the ground. But he woke back up seeing a pair of purple eyes staring down at him.

"Tobias? Are you okay?" They ask. 'Seto?' Ty thought. Ty's eyes open, his vision blurred, his back feeling as if it was on fire constantly. He withered in pain, the purple eyes soften. Ty groaned, laying his head back down and gritting his teeth. "Tristan is gone, I knocked him out." Ty felt the burning sensation go, his eyes opened, he looked at them. Ty tried to speak, tried to ask why Seto is here but other words came out of his mouth.

"Harvey? You...You broke your father's control?" Ty asks. The figure froze, he looked at Ty. Ty could see the exhaustion and sadness laced in their eyes. They looked at his cut up and blood-covered back. Harvey slipped Ty's arm around his neck, he helped Ty to his feet.

"I locked Tristan up. He won't bother you anymore. But—" Ty sees Harvey's tattoos on his arms and chest flash red. Harvey gasps, his eyes shifting red, Harvey fell to his hands and knees, Ty falling to the ground with him.

"Harvey," Ty said. Harvey groaned, his hands gripping his hair as his eyes squeezed shut.

"Nghhhh...g-get away...GET AWAY!" He screamed. Ty flinched, but he couldn't move, his pain and the fact his wings were cut off making his balance way off, to begin with. Harvey grinned all a sudden, his eyes open show orange eyes. Ty looked at him.

"Harvey—" Harvey grabbed Ty, his hand glowing orange, Ty tried to move but his pain is making him barely able to move. But he felt something hit him and his world goes dark.

He jolted awake, sitting up, hands grabbed his arms and tried to calm him down. He panted heavily, staring at the floor

"Shhhh, calm down, Tobias." A voice said. Ty looked at Rosani. She sits down in front of him. "Did you remember anything?" She asked. Ty nodded. She smiled. "What did you remember?"

"H-Harvey...He...He took them..." Ty said. She lets go of his arms.

"Took what?" She asked.

"My memories," Ty said. Her eyes widen. Ty shook his head. "That doesn't make any sense. A spell like that loses it affectedness when the caster dies." She looks away from him.

"Come with me." She said as she got up. Ty watched her walk away.

"Where are we going?" Ty asks. She walks back over to him.

"To see Seto." She said as she grabbed his arm, pulling on it. He gets up, she pulls him.

"Why?"

"Just trust me." She said.

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The Ethereal Heights. A long stretch of mountains, it seals off Verane from the rest of the world. But it also holds an evil, an evil that is waking up. Deep in vast mountains and trees is an entrance. The entrance covered in moss and vines is..opened. A boy, seeming to be around thirteen years old is inside, Halisca Sosius. Dressed in dark clothing, he is not really a fighter but more of a lookout. Halisca tensed up hearing something hit the floor. He stood up, staring at the doorway. He goes over to it, hearing groaning. His eyes widen. He crouched down low to the ground, he peeks inside. He froze seeing a figure inside, upright too. He saw their eyes glowing a dark shade of red.  Halisca pulls away. He gets up to his feet and runs down the hallway. He hears them laugh. A hand grabs his shoulder and yanks him back making him fall backward and hit the floor. Halisca puts his hands on the back of his head. A hand grabs his shirt, yanking him up and slamming him into the wall. His eyes meet with bloodshot ones. 'Tristan.' He thought. Tristan smiled.

"I know you, you're Prince Tobias's friend," Tristan said. Tristan grabs Halisca's throat, squeezing it before Halisca felt his ways of breathing cut off completely. "Tell me where that dragon-born is. And you better tell me now, kid." Tristan mumbles under his breath and Halisca takes a gasp of air.

"H-Harvey--"

"Harvey...Harvey Magi?" Tristan asked. Halisca nodded.

"He's to the north, in an an..an army base," Halisca said. Tristan lets go of Halisca, he grabs his shirt and his eyes glow, Halisca going flying into a wall and collapsing to the ground. Tristan walks out of the entrance. Tristan chuckles, he flies into the air, looking around. He turns to the north, he crosses his arms. He smiles and leans forward, flying north.

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Seto jumped when Brice slammed a book on the table, he turns around to face Brice. Brice having this look of disbelief in his eyes.

"Brice, what's wrong?" Seto asks. Brice points at the books.

"Explain why the nether these dark arts spellbooks are in your handwriting," Brice said. Seto's eyes widen a little, he looks at the books. He opens one, he looks at it.

"I mean...you know how bad my handwriting is--"

"Seto, this is your handwriting. You've deciphered books for me before, but now I have to know. Were your translations true or did you lie to me?" Brice snapped.

"B-Brice..I-I..." Seto started, he looked away, taking a step back.

"Seto, tell me the truth, the consequences won't be as bad if you just tell me the truth," Brice said. Seto looks at Brice, he looked pass Brice. His eyes glowed, he put his hand on the table, he sensed magic users, several of them. Seto looked at Brice.

"You told the Council?" Seto asks. Brice nodded.

"I have to, Seto. That's part of my job. Look, they'll go easy on you if you admit--"

"Brice, you don't understand what you did. You don't. I did use dark magic, a very long time ago but I was forced, it was either submit or die. And.....you telling the Council that has put me on death road." Seto said. Brice moved closer to Seto.

"Seto--" The window suddenly breaks, Seto and Brice both flinched and moved away. Seto felt hands grab him and lift him up into the air. Brice sat up. "Seto!" Seto grabbed the figure's wrist, but he was thrown into a wall. He yelps, falling to the floor. Brice was gonna help, but he was knocked back and hit a bookshelf, he fell too. Seto gets to his feet, staring at the figure.

"Who are you?" He snapped, his eyes glowing.

"Hello, Harvey." They said. Seto's angry instantly vanished. His eyes widen in horror.

"T-Tristan?" Seto asks. Tristan smiled, he grabs Seto, pushing him against the wall. Seto grabbed Tristan's wrist, but Tristan puts a knife against Seto's stomach.

"I wouldn't if I were you," Tristan said. Seto looks at him.

"What do you want?" Seto asks.

"You locked me away for two centuries." Tristan splat.

"You gave me no choice!" Seto yelled.

"You had a choice! A choice to not turn your back on me or your father! But you had to pick that stupid dragon-born Princess!" Tristan yelled.

"Seto!" Seto flinched at that name. Tristan looks behind him. He grinned.

"Well hello Prince Tobias," Tristan said. Seto's eyes widen. Ty looks at Seto and then at Tristan.

"You must be Hunt," Ty said. Tristan nods, he stabs Seto, Seto's eyes widen. Rosani gasps. Tristan grabs Seto's throat. He yanks the knife up, cutting into Seto more.

"I'll deal with you later, right now I have a Prince to kill. So do me a favor, don't die so I can enjoy torturing you to death." Tristan said. Tristan pulled Seto back and pushes him through a window. Rosani gasps.

"Harvey!" She cried as she flew out the window leaving Ty alone. Tristan turns towards Ty.

"You look different," Tristan said. Ty's hands ball into fists, Tristan chuckles. "Ohhh, are you mad I hurt Harvey? He is nothing but a pest, a traitorous and untrustworthy scum." Ty's claws and fangs grow out Tristan looks at them. "Do I need to cut off your wings again?" Ty gritted his teeth. Tristan jumps at Ty, Ty flies backward. Tristan throws a spell at Ty. Ty barely dodges it. A knife flew into Tristan's arm. Ty looks over, seeing Adam at the doorway. Tristan yanked out the knife, he threw it back at Adam, Adam dodged it. Tristan looked at Adam, he chuckled. He raised his hand at Adam.

"How blind are you?" Tristan asked. Adam's sunglasses fly off his face and into Tristan's hand. Adam swore under his breath, rubbing his eyes. Ty looked at Sky, he looks at the torches on the walls. He flapped his wings enough that the lights went out. Tristan flicks his wrist towards Sky, the table flies up towards him. Sky dropped to the floor, the table flying over him and hitting the wall and part of it flying into the hallway. Tristan disappears and grabs Sky.

"Ty!" Sky shouted. Ty lands on his feet behind Tristan, he grabs Tristan, flying into the air, he drops Sky. Sky hits the floor, Ty throws Tristan into a wall. Sky looks over at Brice. Tristan does too, he smiles and the bookshelf beside Brice outlines in red.

"Hold it!" Tristan shouted. Ty stopped, he grabs Sky, stopping him. "Make a move and your friend dies." Sky looks at Ty.

"What did he say?" Sky asks. Ty looks over at Brice. Sky does too. "Oh." Adam looks at Ty, Ty nodded. Ty attacked Tristan, Adam runs over to Brice. He grabs Brice's arm, only to have to bookshelf tip towards them. Sky grabs Brice and falls backward, pulling him out before the tall bookshelf hit the floor. Brice groaned. He woke up, he shook his head, meeting Sky's yellow eyes. He gasped and pushed Sky away instantly.

"Ow! Brice, it's me!" Sky yelped. Brice looked at Sky.

"Oh, sorry. I'm not used to seeing your eyes." Brice said staring at his golden eyes. Jason ran in, he looked at Sky and Brice.

"Ty needs help!" Jason said right before Ty crashed into the floor. Sky gets up to help, but a plasma ball flies right between the two and hits Tristan in the back making him lost his balance and hit the floor. Jason and Sky turn around seeing Seto standing a few feet away with Rosani's arms around him for support. Sky looks at Seto.

"Knock him out, Seto." Sky said. Rosani looks at Sky.

"He's hurt—" Seto's eyes glowed again, he sees Tristan turn towards him.

"You'll pay for that," Tristan said. Tristan disappears. Seto's eyes look around.

"Sorry, Rosie," Seto said before he pushes her down and gets tackled by Tristan. Tristan pushes Seto up against the wall, Seto grabs his wrist, jumping a little as a knife tried to stab him. Tristan grabs Seto's arm and smiles.

"You trying to be a light mage? You're a dark mage, Harvey. They'll never accept you if they knew your true nature." Tristan said. Ty flew past Sky and Jason, he yanked Tristan off Seto. Ty looks at Tristan.

"Harvey will always be accepted here," Ty said. Tristan chuckled. He looks at Seto and then at the others. He smirks.

"I see. You believe what you will. But you two will be dead by the end of this." Tristan said before he disappears. Rosani gets up, she goes over to Seto. Seto slumps slightly, Rosani puts his arm around her neck. Ty turns from them, looking into the library. He sees Sky pick up his sunglasses. 'Tristan said Sky was going blind. But he never told me about that, ever.' He thought. Ty was gonna talk to Sky, but his sister grabs his arm.

"Tobias, we can take Seto back with us. He needs Asthie." She said. Ty looks at her and nods. Ty looks at Jason.

"Um, Tristan said Sky was going blind. Can you.." Ty trailed off. Jason nods.

"Yeah, I'll ask." He said. Ty smiles and then the three of them leave. Brice does as well. Jason walks over to Sky.

"Broken?" Jason asks. Sky nods.

"Yeah." He said. Sky sits on the floor.

"I've been meaning to ask why you need them? I mean, your eyes aren't that unsettling." Jason said. Sky looks at Jason. Jason sits down beside Sky. Jason looks at Sky's eyes, that's when he notices a bit of light blue in the form of a ring in his eyes. "Wait, that's—" Sky looks away.

"I'm not going blind, I don't think I am at least. I just can't take light as well as you guys can. That's why I always wear these. But they're broken now so..." Sky said looking at them.

"We can get you a new pair, I'll cover your eyes and—" Sky smiled a bit.

"Thanks, Jason but I have an extra on me. I've learned to do that since I use to break them a lot when I was a kid." Sky said.

"Oh, well, you need help? Can I go get them for you? It is the middle of the day, I don't want the sun to hurt your eyes." Jason said. Sky nods.

"Actually that would be helpful if you would. Thanks, Jason." Sky said. Jason smiles.

"No problem. Wait here, I'll be right back." Jason said before he gets up. Jason leaves the meeting hall, he goes to the outskirts, to their home. He runs upstairs to Sky's room. Of course, it isn't organized at all, he sighs. He looks around. 'He would probably keep it in good reach.' Jason thought. He goes over to the desk, he opens a few drawers and finds a pair. He grabs them but stops seeing a picture of two smiling goofy kids standing in front of an orphanage. Jason picked it up and looked at it. Jason smiled a bit, recognizing one of them as Sky and he couldn't recognize the other. He flips the picture over.

The picture was old and was damaged, but Jason was wondering who Barney was. But now that he thought about it, Sky never really said when his birthday was, he just skips the question every time it is asked. Jason puts the picture down. 'Sky hates it when people go through his stuff. But who was Barney?' Jason thought. Jason closes the drawer and stays still, staring at the desk wondering what other secrets he could find. But he stepped back. 'I hate it when people crawl into my life, I shouldn't do that to Adam's life.' He thought. He turned away, closing the door behind him.

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