"Alton! Get behind me! Knights close in on the prince, protect the prince!"
Immediately after Salis said this he shoved Alton into the waiting arms of a Knight and was stabbed in the shoulder.
"Chin-hae!!!! Dammit! Chin!"
The knights around the prince were confused as they heard the princes shouts, but something told them that the prince had been calling out to their commander.
None of the knights knew where the commander came from, all anyone could find out was that one of the princes guards had vouched for him and signed him up and brought him to he knights quarters. Seeing Salis's talent it made sense that the crown prince would have brought him in.
But.. was there actually more to there relationship? Why did the prince call there commander by a different name?
Meanwhile Salis was smiling, he was smiling incredibly brightly, something that the knights who saw it had never seen, later on roomers would spread that the commanders smile was more beautiful that even the prettiest woman's.
Even while the sword was going straight through his shoulder Salis was smiling.
"Hahaha! Choi-tae you bastard!Haha-urk cough cough-"
Salis had coughed up dark red blood, the sword in his shoulder seemed to be worse out of all the wounds yet.
Again the knights around the two were even more confused, instiktivly they knew that the one called Choi-tae ment the prince and Chin-hae had ment there commander, but had there commander just called the crown prince by a different name, just as the prince did. And had their Commander just call the crown prince, there empires crown prince, the one who had more authority after the Emperor and Empress a bastard?
Before there questions could be answered Salis was already cutting off the hearts of the assassins, laughing like a maniac the whole time.
It was chilling, raising the hairs on the assassins necks along with the knights who were still fighting off the other assassins.
Salis was a blur of black appearing all over the battlefield his laughter echoing in the court yard, sending chills done anyone's back who heard it.
The sun begin to appear, the sky turning lighter and lighter, when peace was finally restored to the palace,red covered the ground, mirroring the red sky as the sun rose higher and higher. In the middle of the battlefield the crown prince had finally gotten free from the knights circle of protection and was running to Salis.
"Dammit!"
Mean while Salis was doing the exact same thing,
"Choi-tae! Your arm! Damn!Your arm-!"
The knights could only watch in a stunned silence as the next emperor to the empire was kneeling on the blood soaked ground cursing in the most colorful words at their commander who was in turn doing the same while calling each other names none of them had ever heard, acting like a long lost reunion, when they both had been see talking together often.
"Choi, why didn't you say who you were?! Dammit do you know how worried i was when i was run over?! Shit! I didn't want to leave you alone!Fuck!"
Salis shouted confusing the knights further, 'Run over? What?' they all thought
"Chin-hae!How could you just get hit! You know they were trying to kill you'd dammit!Fuck! I personally buried you body! God dammit!"
Suddenly the knights who had gathered froze. It seemed the situation as much more delicate than they thought.
The princes face twisted as he griped Salis shoulders, he voice wavering,
"When i heard what happened and rushed over it was too late! They said you were long gone by the time medics arrived! Fuck!...I-I couldn't sleep well for weeks,"
The princes voice was getting horser the more he talked, "When i read you will i-How could you just leave everything to me? How could you just leave me by myself-.. It was years! And i still pored 2 glasses.. always..always 2 glasses... "
The knights were very lost but they all could hear the pain in the princes voice, what had happened, for the cold stotic crown prince to break down like this? How did they know each other? Why were they calling each other these different names?
"Choi-Choi, I'm sorry, please, Choi-tae please, i left you alone, i'm so sorry, When i woke up i was already here, i didn't know what had happened,-"
Salis voice has weakened as well,
"I- didn't know if you would be sad, i didn't think anyone would care i thought, i thought i was alone, i- felt so guilty. I left you alone, i'm sorry..."
The knights had finally awoke from there confusion when there commanders words were getting weaker and weaker, he was running out of blood, and quickly too.
"Shit! The commander! Someone get the healing potions!"
"Get as many as you can! Call over the alchemist tower head if you have to! Fuck the prince needs it to!"
The commander had collapsed onto the prince and the prince was struggling to keep the both of them upright. The knights approached them and gently took Salis from the princes arms trying to talk the prince into drinking a potion. They all cherished there commander you could argue that they saw him as a brother, they were beyond worried.
They quickly took Salis off to the commanders quarters as the other 7 vice commanders issued orders for cleaning up and gather the unconscious assassins and getting guards to lock them away. The knights supported the crown prince into the Healers room where he promptly lost consciousness, on one of the white beds.
A week passed since the assassins incessant and the castle had a very depressing air. Neither the Crown prince nor the Commander had gotten up. While the emperor had taken control of the situation many were dissatisfied and argued about the fact that the commander had let the soldiers go home and only left a minimal amount on guard. Only for them to be slapped in the face when the papers for the tournament were bright in, signed by all of the percipients that they would have the day off and the castle's defense would be handed over to the mage division and the alchemists. The commander was actually going against the paper when he left guards on duty.