Chapter 22 the Sacrifice
We appeared back in the Sayis Courtroom. Richard stepped in front of us all.
“Skyrid, assemble your army.”
“Why?”
“We’re gonna go save Jaren.”
“What about the Hall of Sayis Dragons? Who will keep watch over it?”
“Nester and the rest of the council members will keep watch on the Sayis Orb.”
“What’s that?”
“It helps us govern Cithians by being able to see any part of Gailems and every crime that happens, but now how they happened.”
“Alright then. Nester, is anything happening there?”
“Not much. They just seem to be eating. But if you look at the grounds, you can see that the wind is blowing pretty hard, which means a portal is about to appear.”
“ A portal? Can you see where its coming from?”
Nester pressed on the wind on the Sayis orb, but a black screen came up.
“That’s too bad. But, we need to get going. Call us on our communicators if you see anything unusual.”
Nester nodded.
The doors opened. Two officers were holding Kevin’s arms.
“What you here for?”Richard said
“ I came here to give you information about where they’re keeping Jaren and Sade.” Kevin said
“What’s in it for you?”
“My powers coming back.”
“Alright. If you’re information is right and you promise to help us in this war, I'll give you back your powers If you promise to be good too. Now, do you promise?”
“Yes. I need to get my revenge on Furliceo and Drayer! They lied to me! They’re keeping them hostage in the Cemetarian Forest.”
“We’ll see if your right.”
A man came up to us. His brown hair tickled his brownish-yellow eyes in the front, just touching the tops of his ears. A green cloak draped itself about his shoulders, enhancing the wrinkles that lined his aged face.
“Bradley, where’ve you been?”
“I’ve been watching over Siraka. I’ve been trying to to prevent bad things from happening expect for your Father’s kidnapping because it had to happen.”
“What about my mom? She’d be crushed if he left.”
“She tried to help me defeat him. But, Furliceo won in the end.”
Richard came over to the man and looked at him.
“Come on, Bradley. You’re the sacrifice for Jaren.”
“Richard, what’ll happen to Bradley?”
“As the prophecy says, he will die as a martyr for every person who is trapped in the darkness that binds them, Skyrid.”
“Huh? What’d you mean?”
“He means: I will die for the cause of freeing people from their confusion and the darkness that has trapped them in their own transgressions.” Bradley said.
“Die?! But, isn’t there another way?”
“I’m sorry, Skyrid. But no, there isn’t.”
I stood in front of Bradley.
“You’re Kursta’s son, Right?”I said
“Yes. Kursta is my Father.”Bradley said
“Then, can’t you stop all of this?!”
“No. Not without letting Rakif win.”
“Who’s Rakif?”
“He’s my brother. But, he betrayed us in the war in heaven. As a result, he was exiled and became a contentious spirit or the great Tempter as some people say.”
“Wait a second, you’re Kursta’s...”Chaser said.
“As I told Skyrid, yes.”
“I don’t believe it.”
“Why not?”Bradley said
“Kursta’s never done anything for me.”
“He has. He gave you a true friend.”
Chaser folded his arms and rolled his eyes.
“You think that’s a coincidence, don’t you?”
“Yes. Everything is.”
“Not true. Nothing is sheer coincidence. Everything happens for a reason.”Bradley said.
Richard looked at all of us.
“Who’ll stay here and look after the Forest?”
Everyone stood there silent.
“Fine. Nester, you’ll stay and protect this place along with the council members and the Kazakian Warriors ’.”
A army in emerald green samurai armor came into the room that Zeddark was leading.
“Zeddark, change of plans. You’re all staying behind. We’ll call you if we need you.”
“Why?”Zeddark said
“It’ll be better this way. If we come with an army, it’ll start a fight and we can’t handle that right now.”
Chaser, Kevin, Richard, Bradley and I went into the portal. We appeared in front of the Cemetarian Forest. Walking into it, we all followed behind Kevin. As walked through the Forest, we came up to five different pedestals. Kevin turned around and looked at all of us.
“Before you are five different pedestals. Each one has a different colored orb on it and a different carving carved into it.”
“What’re the carvings for?”I said
“They are part of a spell that has been cast on this forest. The spell made the pedestals change their directions and only go to one place. This was to protect the people in these places.”
“Alright. Just get it over with already, Kevin. Which one is it?” Richard said
“It’s the one with a red orb and a symbol of a knife draped in blood.”
Richard walked up to the wooden pedestal with a red orb on top it. He closed his eyes and touched the orb. Breathing in and out, he turned us into clear white orbs as we flew up into a black portal. We appeared in a room full of villains. Each one had a spear beside them, expect Drayer and Nancy. Drayer had a crimson red staff with a black orb on the top and Nancy held a sword at me. Drayer came forward.
“Kill them!”
Chaser stood in front of us.
“Wait! We have the sacrifice for Jaren.”
“Who is it then?”
Bradley stepped forward.
“He’s come! The stupid carpenter’s son has come!Changing the portal’s direction was good for something!”Drayer said.
The other Villains came up to Bradley.
“Don’t just stand there! Bind him to the the surgical table, you fools!”Nancy said.
They wrapped him in chains as he got on the platform. Nancy and Drayer stood in front of him. Nancy was holding a little surgical knife in between her fingers and surgical gloves covered her soft hands. Nancy looked at Bradley.
“You’ve lost, Carpenter's son.”
Nancy silt Bradley’s wrists and took out the power rings. Bradley’s wrists bled. Drayer lifted Jaren into the air as the power rings popped out of his wrists in little orbs. Jaren fell to the ground, unconscious. He handed the rings to Nancy. She made the switch.
“It is fulfilled.” Bradley said.
He closed his eyes and drew his last breath.
“No!”I said
Tears came down my face. Nancy held us back. Drayer looked at the other Villains.
“It’s time to destroy the rising generation of Cithians. To Gailems.”
Drayer opened a half-yellow, half-back portal. He looked at a certain man. This man had a black vest on with a red shirt that had short sleeves that poked out of his vest. A grey hat was on his head and blue jeans were on his legs. His eyes were white, he had no hair, his nose was slanted and crinkled at the end.Wrinkles covered his face.
“Kaen Harkin, make sure they don’t follow us!”
Kaen nodded. He stepped towards us.
“You aren’t gonna go with them!” he said.
Kaen shot a beam of darkness into the air. Drayer and the other Bloodshed Members stepped into the portal.
“Let me handle this! Go now!”
Chaser turned into his warrior form. I took Jaren’s hands. Dragged him to the portal. It closed just as I got in front of it.
“Pedro reopen the portal!”
“I ca
n’t!”
“Why?”
“I’d be breaking a rule.”
“Which one?!”
“No Sayis can reopen a portal after it has already been opened.”