(Remake) World Jumpers: Thus The World Jumpers Fought There

Chapter 12 - Breakdown

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( Summary )

Zorzal gets his ass handed to him, Keith shows off his psychotic side, Noriko gets saved from slavery, and the Flame Dragon returns from the dead... Can it get anymore worst than that?

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(Cue World Jumpers x GATE OP 2: Sekai wo Koete)

Noriko wakes up, her head on someone's lap and hugging a bushy tail like it was a pillow. She also had a white coat wrapped around her like a blanket. She looks around and sees the person whom she was sleeping on look out the window of what appears to be a military chopper. She then tries to recall everything that's happened before all of this happened.

< 10 hours ago | Imperial Palace >

Noriko's vision was blurry, misty from the tears on her eyes. The pain on her neck finally ceased as she felt the other slaves with her whimpering, all of them except Tyuule. She could feel one of them holding her hand for comfort, she tried to return it but she was too tired.

That was when she and the others heard the roar of an angry man, followed by "Prince Zorzal!" and something impacting against flesh then something small tacking on the floor. It was followed by a loud thud against stone and someone groaning in pain.

She then hears swords being unsheathed and... were those guns being readied? She opens her eyes as wide as she can before she sees him, her savior. He was a blonde haired boy, almost as old as her if not older than a year or so.

"Are you okay?" he asked with a gentle voice like a charming prince that has finally come to save her from this nightmare. She nods, tears welling in her eyes.

She watches as he materializes a white coat out of thin air and covers her before doing the same with the other slaves. He helps her up to a sitting position before she finally gets a good look at him. He was a demi-human with fox features, his armor resembled that belonging to a prince.

"Sir Keith, what are you doing?" she heard someone exclaim in disbelief in the Special Region language. Then the blonde's soft expression turns grim, like cold fury. She watches as he stands tall, blades connected to his arms by chains fall next to his legs before he speaks in a cold tone, "Do not address me as a friend, princess. As of right now, you're not speaking to me as a friend. You're speaking to someone who wants a damn explanation."

She looked around and saw everyone in the room looking in shock and surprise while another had their weapon drawn. It was an assassin in some kind of sci-fi armor that belongs somewhere in a sci-fi movie. "Fenix, help these girls up and remove their collars. And princess, I'm not asking for answers. I'm demanding them."

"You hit me..." she heard Zorzal mutter before he shouted, "You bastard! How dare you hit me, the prince!" "What insolence!" one of Zorzal's men shouts, "Raising a hand against His Majesty, the prince is a grave crime!" "You and your family will be put to death!" "You won't leave this place alive!"

There was an eerie silence before laughter came from her savior. It started as chuckles, then giggles, laughter afterwards, and finally descending to the kind of laughter that befits someone who was a maniac. It was an unnerving, mad laughter that brought chills down her spine and down everyone else's. He spun and faced Zorzal's men, who stood by the door.