Zero felt his body stiffen immediately the blade grazed the prince's neck and Ramses opened his eyes.
"Well since you won't let me sleep in peace..."his brows furrowed and at that instant the knight felt a chill down his body.
The next thing he saw,he was aiming the sword at dark,he moved faster than he could think and almost pierced the sorceror who vanished at the last second.
"What the!_"
"I...I don't have control of my body!"Zero cried out and swung the sword at him again.
The sorceror vanished to escape the Knight's sword and looked behind him as he reappeared,the prince was gone.
Dark blinked again and his eyes confirmed it.
Did he just teleport?
Suddenly the icey floor below them began shaking,tearing apart and the walls crumbling.
"He's_gone!"Zero muttered,he had just regained control of his body."What did I just see?!...a child teleported_"
Zero looked up to see a large of ice coming down for him,he teleported just in time to outside the cave and there dark stood beside him.
With sagged jaws,they both watched the cave crumble triggering an avalanche from afar.
"Did he_did he do this?".
"It would be impossible to find him in this snow,that is if he hasn't returned back to the palace_you will pay for this!"Dark grunted in rage.
"I was just doing you lot a favor!"
"I didn't ask for your help".the sorceror snarled before fading from sight.
Zero swirled around, sniffing while at it.It was no use,the cold would mask his smell even if he was still nearby and the avalanche,there was no time to find him.
"Aaaaarrrrrgghhhh!!"he yelled out in frustration as his knees dropped to the ground cursing his luck.
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Ren heard the sound of the collapsing caves from afar and knew where it was coming from.
The mountains at the border,he wasn't sure what had caused the collapse perhaps from two Semonios in combact but the prince was missing so anything could be a clue to finding him and the icey mountains seemed like a good hideout for
When he appeared at the foot of the collapsed cave, the general sniffed in the cold air, straining his senses but not even his senses could beat the weather.
He placed his hand on the ground and his eyes glowed with a crimson red light.
Ren's soul sight kept searching until he spotted the prince in the snow at close proximity to an avalanche coming down at a great speed while consuming everything in it's part.
He reappeared at the spot to see the prince naked and asleep in the snow.
For a brief moment the general stared at the sight awkward sight before pulling off his cape to quickly wrap around him.
When Ramses opened his eyes he was in the general's arms,in a familiar environment he knew as his father's bed chamber.
Ramses lips pouted and Ren knew what was coming.
A loud cry erupted from him startling the general followed by several bouts as tears freely flowed down his face.
What to do?
Ren had never been so confused in his life,he had never carried a child,let alone a crying one,he had to flee the scene immediately.
He quickly placed Ramses on the bed and turned to leave but stopped when his cries intensified.
Ren drew closer and gently lifted him,he froze when Ramses embraced him,his cries ringing loudly in his ears,his first embrace was by a child and despite his loud cries,Ren felt a warmth he couldnt explain.
He soon found himself moving while gently patting on his back.
"Your majesty...I found him"Ren told Tyran via telepathy.
In a shortwhile Ramses stopped crying.
He checked over his shoulders to find him asleep and the general walked over to the emperor's bed,opened both sides of it's curtains before gently placing him on it and the prince's sword next to him.
Then he stretched out a hand as a warm glow of red mana surrounded him,with his eyes glowing crimson red,he muttered a spell as a magic circle appeared above the prince.
After Ren put down his hand,he watched the emperor come into view.
Tyran ran over to sit on the bed next to his son,gently patting on his hair.
Ren bowed before backing them.
"I casted present a spell to prevent this from happening again"
He shut his eyes regretting not doing so sooner but why blame himself, regretting his actions for the sake of another was unlike him but for some reason,deep down he knew that was how he felt.
"How did you find him?
"Naked in the snow at the western border".
"Naked?!"Tyran touched his son's cold hands before studying the white cape he was wrapped in.
It was the general's.
He wasnt shivering but his extremities were frost bitten,lips chapped with lashes laden with snow,other than that he appeared fine.
"You have my gratitude general...ask what you wish and it shall be granted".
Ren sighed before eying Tyran over his shoulders,his gaze stiff as ever.
"Be the father he would grow up to admire".
"General_I want you to know you...you have my trust, always had".Tyran said and Ren left with a low huff sound.
Tyran healed Ramses's frost bitten hand before climbing into bed next to him and pulling the sheets over.
"King max do call off the search,spread word that he's been found".He told the king via telepathy.
"What!..."King max didn't know when those words escaped his lips nor when he shattered the marble wine cup in his hand.
He had stopped by his bed chamber after meeting with the emperor to console him and had been busy sipping wine while humming a melodious song to himself as he envisioned how the sun the would rise on him today,the emperor kneeling before him, pleading for his son's life, giving up his throne to save him.
The excitement that had surged through him, preventing him from sleeping vanished in an instant.
King Maxmillian cleared his throat.
"o..Ohh your majesty...thank the heavens"he responded,his voice beaming with feigned delight "is he alright?"
"He's asleep...frost bitten but looks fine"Tyran cut in."Although unfortunately am not sure if he can speak that for himself".
The king raised a brow.
You don't say...
But he didn't voice out the words into their conversation,even he couldn't describe how much the child knew at his age but more importantly,how did he escape?,was he rescued?
"That...that is quite true your majesty...i honestly wish he could"He let out a shallow chuckle,the sound brittle and forced,his eyelid twitching from rage on a smiling face.
"I am just so glad he's been found..who could have done such horrible_"The king paused whenTyran disconnected the link.
"Dark!..Dark!"He called out via telepathy before grunting out loud,eyes bulging from the rage burning within him.
"I told you to watch him closely"King max yelled at no one in particular.
"You good for nothing!"
He abruptly got to his feet then upturned the table before him,he picked up the jar of wine and tossed it at the wall,shattering it's contents then Dark appeared in front of him kneeling with one flexed knee,his head bowed low.
"Your Majesty!"
The king immediately summoned a sword in his hand and pointed it at him.