Trigger Warning: Mentions of Blood
"Nash, are you fucking kidding me?" Ashleah blurted out with her brows both furrowed, her forehead was creased to its limits, heart was beating loudly. To be honest it felt like her heart was in some kind of a race track, her hands was tightly intertwined with Nash's. "Come on, Nash! Answer me, gosh. Shit please, I am so scared."
"Do not fret, I am here beside you. Ashleah please do calm down and think. Never let your emotions overcome what you are feeling right now." Nash tried his best to calm himself down for he knew that nothing good will happen if ever he panics like Ashleah, so yes. He did his best to calm himself down. "HELLO!" He shouts, trying to ask for help since Ashleah was now currently having panic attacks.
"N-Nash.." She felt her knees slowly losing its power to stand up, as she quickly fell unto the ground on her knees, sobbing. "N-No, this cannot happen! Why is this happening to us?! Did we fail our task!?"
"That is impossible, no one has died for now. Why are we going to fail our mission? We have not done anything wrong ever since we came here. Why?-" Nash suddenly froze on the spot the moment Ashleah started using her powers, as this white with light purple flames encircled the Princess, it was used as their light for the mean time. "Hold on tightly to me, Ash."
"Of course, do you really think that I will let you go? Plus, where are we? We were on our way to go to my Father's office, are we not?" Ashleah blurts out, looking around the spacious black hole that had no ends. "HELLOOO!! GAB!! KIAN!! PRESCOTT!!" She had her eyes closed while screaming their names, she thought that Prescott will appear beside them the moment she screams his name but–There was no signs of Prescott which made her panic even more.
"Ashleah, I think that no one can hear us from here. But why? This has never happened before." His voice was shaking yet he tried and did his best to compose himself so that he won't cause anymore damage to Ashleah who was having a breakdown. "Come on, Ashleah. Use your powers so we can get out of here, think Ashleah. It is not me who has powers."
It felt like she was snapped in back to reality, as her sobs slowly slowed and quieted down, she stood up and took another breath using the bright light from the flames around her as their light within the dark hole they were in. With that, they were silently walking around the pitch black hole they were in, it really felt like it was an unending journey.
"What is that? No, it's who.." Her voice was trembling with her finger pointing at someone who was on the floor. Nash who quickly ran to see if the person was okay but the moment his hands were placed on the body and turned it towards them, they both gasped loudly.
"What happened to him?" Both said in sync with their eyes trembling, breathing suddenly became unstable as they continued to look at Rowen's dead body was in pool of blood. Ashleah shook her head, trying to think of reasons why this must happen to Rowen since no one caught him.
Ashleah who was about to use her powers on Rowen, having thoughts that she might revive him froze on the spot the moment the pitch black hole suddenly had light as they heard this hysterical laugh from someone. Thump, Thump, Thump. Their hearts beating loudly as the both of the wandered their eyes around the room, still hearing the pit of laughter from someone unknown to them.
"No, this is not our intention!" She whispered to herself, Ashleah quickly pulled Nash away thinking that someone may attack them the moment they make their guards down, and surely it will kill them without anyone knowing who it was. "Nash, you do have your sword with you, right?-"
BANG! She could not even finish when a black flaming ambush came rushing to them but the good thing was she was fast enough to make a shield for them. Nash who quickly grabs and slides his sword, with purple and black flames coming out of it.
"My, I am very delighted that I have made the both of you tremble in fear by seeing the man you thought that got away is dead, do you wish to be like him?" Her eyes went purple the moment she heard those words, with both of her palms opened widely flames coming out of it, she smirked. "Oh? Trying to act like you are strong are you not?"
"I am not acting like I was strong because I am indeed strong and the fact that I have Nash beside me, can you really fight us?" She scoffed sarcastically even though she knew deep inside of her heart that she was trembling in fear yet if she ever did let her emotions overcome the situation then it will their loss not the unknown man who they were fighting.
"Let us see." With that another random ambush came rushing to them, this time both looked at each other and nodded their heads, running away to different directions, Ashleah felt her heels were giving her a hard time from moving which made her remove it while using her powers to rip her gown apart into something where she can run and jump too.
Nash on the other side slashes the attack from the unknown man into half as it turned into black dust, slowly fading away from his sight. "Do you seriously think that we would give up just like that? I do know that we are not that skilled nor had trainings for situations such as like this ever since but I believe that we can kill you, right here right now."
"My, what refreshing words coming from the one and only Duke Deoncan. But, how can you kill me when you cannot even see me?" He yet again started laughing that gave them shivers down their spine but Ashleah quickly used it as an opportunity to suddenly start ambushing the unknown man who they cannot see.
"FOOLS!" He laughed yet again and Ashleah had her eyes burning with flames, hair was floating up in the air. Nash quickly ran and swings his sword and smiled the moment he saw how the black wall around them got slashed in between.
"Ash–" He looks at her over his shoulder and nodded his head, from a far away distance shoots the wall beside Nash and breaks it in half, seeing a man who has champagne blonde hair that was moving with the same direction of the sweetyet deadly breeze of the wind.
"Well you look at that, I did not expect that you will find me that quickly Princess Izel and Duke Deoncan." The man blurted out while he pats his clothes taking off the dust on it.
"Please do stop looking down on us, it is not like we cannot fight you. Who are you and where are we?" Ashleah blurted out with her glaring eyes looking at the man.
And suddenly, he was gone in a flash and was now holding Nash's neck tightly receiving a groan from Nash, as he tries to slash the man's hand he held Nash's hand and stopped him from doing so.
"Get away from him!"
"Oh my, are you not sure of what I am doing now? it is–PAYBACK TIME."