The Advent Of The End

Chapter 17: Contracts

"Hey guys" Zach said, coming back after a long day of hunting Vermites, carrying atleast three baskets worth. "I just saw a beautiful lady exit the door and thought...." A dart flew beside of him, inches from his face.

"Oh" She stood up and put her body against his. "A beautiful lady eh" She reading her darts behind her, holding it to her right arm behind her back. Her jealousy going up and up while her thoughts became full of wicked thoughts of her husband drowning in fire.

He used the opportunity and turned the tables, making her lean across the wall instead of him.

"But not as beautiful as you" He said, closing his mouth against her ear, making her heart beat much more faster while her face turned beet red. She dropped the blowpipe in her back and stared at her husband for a while.

"Great" Pierre said, leaning onto the business "Now, we have hetero and homo" He stood up and went to his room. "What's next? Mono?" He answered, slamming the door behind him.

>:T

After five days...

"Well, what a short week we had ever since" Ezekiel said, fixing up the supplies that he will use for the breach to the warehouse. Health potions, antidotes, needles and daggers stained with Vermite poison. He also worn the black clothes Castriel gave to him for them to camouflage with the dark.

"How time passes really..." Evan replied, stocking up on poison arrows and putting it on his arrow case. Filling up dozens till it is certainly full.

"Just five days ago we were hanging on to our dear lives" He said, a bit of disappointment crept up on his voice.

"Yeah, now that I knew how *STRONG* you are" Evan mockingly said, hinting a bit of sarcasm and teasing Ezekiel ever since he heard the story of how he got one hit and went useless for the entire battle.

"SHUT UP, YOU B******" Ezekiel shouted at him, releasing some pent up anger inside "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN WE NEEDED HELP ANYWAYS?" He asked for the millionth time, never learning on how Evan answers that question.

"Dealing with a whole squad" He said, covering his hand while looking at the ceiling "UNLIKE SOMEONE HERE WHO ALREADY FAINTER LIKE A PRINCESS....."

"STOPPPPPP!!!" He said, punching Evan in the shoulder, but he didn't cared nor he groaned in pain.

"We're going to a battle we don't know if we'll live and I see a two boys flirting with each other" Pierre said, as he opened the door to where the two teenage boys sleep in.

"Don't add into the fire now!" Ezekiel replied, embarrased and regretting on why he ever met Evan in the first place.

"Ahhhh, you compliment me too much" Evan answered, almost hugging Ezekiel at the back as a sort of karma after leaving him be with Miranna.

"GET AWAY YOU CRAZY B******" He shouted, trying to push Evan away, calling him all sorts of names in the process.

"Have fun!" Pierre said, as he closed the door while leaving Ezekiel again to his fate.

"But seriously" Evan said, stopping at the bullying he has been doing at Ezekiel all this time, suddenly becoming serious "How come you trusted me so much after just being with you for a week?".

"I don't know" Ezekiel shrugged "I just felt a brotherly bond on you, as if I had a brother I never had". He looked at Evan seriously "I just hope I wasn't wrong on my part"

Evan raised his arm and clench it into a fist, offering a fistpump. "Bros?" He asked. Ezekiel accepted the offer.

"Bros" He smiled, just as he finished packing up his things.

Then, both of them left the room, knowing that whatever happens after tonight, whatever happens after saving Miranna and this town, is that both of them found a friend they could trust.

>:T

"Oh, Ezekiel, Evan, come over here" Castriel said, urging them to come over the table with Pierre and Zach. When they got closer, they saw a huge layout of the warehouse and some figures, made out of wood, signifying the group. Two were in the front door, while the three were on the windows.

"Let's repeat the plan" She put the two wooden figures at the front and made a somewhat *what would they do* kind of play. "First, Pierre and Zach will cause a distraction at the front doors, attracting most of Avilius's minions attention" She grabbed the three of wooden figures near the window "While the three of us will infiltrate behind the front lines, aiming to save Miranna and try to get out of there" She stared at them seriously in the eye "And if all else fails, we fight to our last breathe". She grabbed a green pigment from the side where the map isn't covering the table. "A green smoke will indicate a signal of success, remember that" Ezekiel put his hand on the table. One by one they put their hands on the table, knowing what it means.

"1"
"2"
"3"
"OPERATION SV" They all shouted, and picked up their own racksacks and headed their way towards the exit.

Towards the warehouse.

>:T

"Sir, they're coming" A guy said, still wearing a white tuxedo, and has blonde hair, kneeling down the floor, along with all of the possessed people.

"Let them come" Avilius replied, still sitting on his throne on top, looking down his minions on top. He clenched the picture much more stronger, excited for a good fight. "And they'll face the wrath of Avilius"

"YES SIR!" They all shouted in favor of their boss, all at the same time.

"This time, I won't ever let you escape" He dropped the crumpled photo down to floor, rolling at the unidentifiable junk until it hit the floor, in front of his thousands of minions.

"Ezekiel Reige"

>:T

"It seems leading them both to each other seems beneficial to me after all" The cloaked man said, standing on top of the tallest building in the area. A bell tower in the middle of the town, at the highest peak is only a spire. He stood at the middle of it, not flinching at the height nor the freezing temperature of the night.

"How I long for this kind of entertainment, as after I recover my strength" The cloak man said, staring at the endless dark sky, stars shimmering down at the town, while the moon shined in its fullest, a full moon. At his right is five people saving the ones they love. In the left is a warehouse full of traps and such, with a boss filled with anger waiting for them. A night where only one group lives, as the one lives, the other dies.

"How I hope to stay to watch" The cloak man said, looking down at the people, enjoying what they thought is a quiet, cheerful night. Not knowing the oncoming dangers they'll face after this night, and the next six months.

"But someone call me from a far, needing my help" He answered to himself, jumping down the spire, into the ground, and slowly melding with the shadow, until no trace was ever seen of a man that ever stood there.

>:T

"Alicia or thousands of lives" Minon said, looking down at her people, enjoying the festive night as always after millenias under his reign. A decision she didn't know what to choose, as forsaking her loved one means forsaking her heart, while forsaking thousands of lives meant forsaking of her duty as queen. She never had that decision, before.....

"Strange, I can't remember" She said to herself, as she busied herself again in work, keeping herself with work to evade the decision of choosing someone over the other.

Something that will change her forever