-Break-
Location: Soarele Blestemat, Boys' room
Φ Spinning from side to side on his bed, the sleeping Dragon with wounds all over his body smiles to himself, as he mutters, "The dragonic warrior, the dominator of hell, the denier of zero, the duller of wrath, Cyrus the Great."
"What a nice dream you are having; it makes me jealous."
Cyrus's eyes open, and to his right on his bed, he sees Zahhak naked, moments away from kissing his eyelid. In an instant, he jumps out of the bed towards one of the walls, and says, "My Prince! W-Why are you naked!"
Rolling onto his back, Zahhak looks up towards the roof and says, "Do I really have to spell it out for you?"
The frightened Dragon quickly checks his body, causing Zahhak to roll around in laughter and say, "You're far too funny, Cyrus. I am merely pulling your tail, as humans say. Your dreams sounded fun, so I merely tried to put myself in a relaxed state."
"Y-Y-You had to try and kiss me for that?"
"Would you deny the blessing that is the lips of royalty?"
Slamming his head into the ground, Cyrus yells, "I WOULD NEVER MY PRINCE! MY FOOLISH ACTIONS CAN ONLY BE ANSWERED WITH MY GUTS SPEWED OUT ON THE FLOOR!"
Cyrus grabs his tail and activates his Legacy on it before bringing it towards his stomach, causing Zahhak to mutter, "Sometimes I am still perplexed that you're his grandson. Fate really can be weird at times."
The tail pierces into Cyrus' stomach, taking Zahhak by surprise, who shouts, "Wait, STOP!!!"
The door to the room kicks open, and walking in is Elia with a nasty glare in her eyes. She locks onto Cyrus and slowly walks over to him with a smile on her face.
Kneeling in front of him, she says, "Hi, Cyrus. Would you be so kind as to explain to me what's going on here?"
Shaking, he says, "I am p-p-p-paying retribution for my s-s-s-sins."
She laughs and then says, "Really? Because to me it looks like you are further injuring the body that I spent the last day repairing? Getting cuts and blisters all over my pretty little fingers due to all those tiny, invisible scales across your skin."
With a cold chill overtaking his senses, he says, "P-P-P-Please don't kill me."
Giggling, she says, "Of course not. A kind person like you can only suffer while you're alive."
Elia grabs his face, and the events she does to him force Zahhak to turn around to avoid the situation. During the slaughter, Avram, poking his head into the horrific sight playing out, says, "I am here to, but I'll wait till you're both finished."
-Break-
Lying on his bed, beaten and battered, Cyrus cowers as he stares at Elia, who sits on Avram's lap getting her head rubbed. She growls at Cyrus, causing Avram to say, "There, there, don't hurt him any more than necessary."
"It was necessary to hurt me?"
"Yes," Elia says, forcing Cyrus to cower under his blanket.
Staring directly at him, Avram says, "To catch you up to speed, it has been around 24 hours since you've been out. Over that time, the majority of Blamator have been arrested, and all those who had their curses rampage are being restored to normal by Iancu and Suzuka, who have been working around the clock."
Elia, with worry across her face, says, "He has barely eaten anything as he tries to lower the pain felt by everyone as quickly as possible; he really should be lying on a bed as well."
Lowering his head, Cyrus says, "I am s-s-s-s-sorry. If I had hand-dle Angra faster, this wouldn't be happenin-."
A shoe smashes into Cyrus's forehead before rebounding into Elia's hand. "You were just as critical during the final battle. Angra would've piled the bodies up hundreds of times more if not for you holding him back. You did a wonderful job."
They both stare at each other for a moment, and then seconds later, tears burst out of Cyrus's eyes, which forces Elia's eyes open as she says, "Cease."
The tears immediately stop falling down his face, causing Avram to say, "Scary. On the note of your battle, I would have you know that Angra has been resealed and locked away far better than before, so you don't need to worry about that."
Zahhak, sitting beside Cyrus in his mind, says, "Dumitra works quickly. Looks like you don't have to fear your body being taken anymore Cyrus."
Cyrus nods his head towards his side, causing Avram to ask, "What are you looking at?"
Panick overtakes Cyrus face for a minute, then his body slumps over with the purple in his hair completely overtaking the black, his eyes both turn red as well, and soon the expression on his face fills with confidence as he jumps up and says, "Of course who he looks at is my great and true self, the one and only 2nd son of the Dragon King of Truth Azi-Dahaka Lux! Though you can just call me Zahhak to make it easier for yourselves?"
Shock reigns on Elia's face, as excitement grows on Avram's. Standing up, he says, "Wait, are you his Legacy?"
"The one and only, Cyrus and I are complete and utter best friends, so I can handle his body whenever I want."
"That means you were alive during the age of Basileia if I've gotten the timelines right. Doesn't that mean you might know of her exploits, like her work, and the location of some of her artefacts?"
Zahak laughs and says, "That depe-." The purple in his hair is overtaken by the black, and Cyrus says, "Ehh, please don't take over my body like that."
Switching back to Zahhak, he says, "It's hard not to, your will is so weak, and submissive that it isn't hard in the slightest to paint over your existence."
Returning to Cyrus, he says, "I worship you, my prince, but I still need to use my body freely, so please control yourself."
Cyrus starts to breathe in and out heavily as he tries to regain his breath, then says, "You spoke about Suzuka, but where is Orb? He was crying last I heard of him."
"Crying?" Avram says, confused. Pointing over to the bed beside Cyrus's, Avram says, "He has been sleeping like a log alongside you. She had him all snug, covered in his blanket over there."
Elia sighs, then says, "Orb isn't there."
"Huh?"
Cyrus runs over and throws off the blanket, where he sees a giant mass of pillows shaped like a human body underneath the sheets, causing him to scream and say, "ORB!"
Elia stands up, then walks towards the window, throwing it open, and she points, saying, "There."
Cyrus and Avram run towards the window, where they see Orb rushing around with Nightmares rebuilding the castle. Avram palms his face and says, "That little idiot."
The Dragon jumps out of the room and then rushes over towards Orb, and says, "ORB!"
Turning, the young boy holds his arms out and says, "Cyrus, you're awak-."
A fist from Maple slams into the side of his head, which pins him to the ground, then a voice says, "YOU DIRTY DUMBASS!"
Willow, Iancu, and Suzuka all appear, then start to stomp on Orb.
"You really think you can just work yourself to death after all the work I did to save you?"
"I should crush you with a hundred times gravity for making us worry, you damn, dumb, disgusting dog!"
"Do you think it is funny to go against what the doctors recommend for you to do! It's like your brain has never functioned properly a single day in your life. I should rip off your limbs and feed them to you."
The four kids keep stamping away at Orb's face until Cyrus jumps on top of the dog and says, "You're going to kill him at this rate."
Maple, crouching down, says, "Maybe he needs to taste death to actually learn how to behave like a normal human being!"
She raises her fist and prepares to crush his brain, bringing fear to Orb's mind. Yet as her fist descends like a meteor, it is caught, and a powerful voice says, "Death of one's own subjects is the greatest of tragedies; you should refrain from such behaviour."
Turning her head, Maple starts to turn into a blob of worry as her eyes meet Dumitra's. In that same instant, everyone around enters a similar state, with all of the cities of Blestemate around taking a knee.
Looking at Orb, and Cyrus Dumitra says, "Now that the last two needed are awake, we should all finally have a talk."
Location: Soarele Blestemat; Throne Room
As she walks up the steps to her throne with Orlok, Stelara, and the three ministers at her side, Orb, Cyrus, Suzuka, Iancu, Willow, Maple, Elia, Avram, Ivana, Wadim, Gheorghe, Dumnorix, and Abbán stand with all of the Blestadrac guards in the room.
Reaching her throne, she takes a seat, then turns and stares down at everyone, making them all take one knee as they feel the pressure she exudes down onto them.
Each of them, with the exceptions of Dumnorix and Elia, feels a sense of dread, fear and awe as they take glimpses of her exalted figures looking down at all of their heads.
Orb's hair constantly changes colour, before landing on green, making Avram beside him whisper, "You like this, you masochist."
"I am no such thing."
She stamps her feet, forcing the two of them to straighten themselves. Then Orlok says, "Today the 1st Queen of Blestemate, Slayer of Giant, Uniter of the Condemn, Ruler of Wild Lands, Dominator of the Seas, Slaver of the Future, Queen of De-."
Cyrus switched to Zahhak, he stands up and says, "That's a lot of titles. Would you be able to speed it up, or do you need some candy to get you going, little Crybaby Umi!"
Everyone turns to Cyrus, who laughs with all his heart at his little comment; their faces fill with astonishment. Yet their eyes all lose sight of him as a crater appears where he once stood, with the Queen standing over him.
With rage building on her face, she shouts in an uncout manner, "YOU BRAINED LIZARD! HOW DARE YOU INTERUPT MY ANNOUNCEMENT, DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO CREATE SUCH A PRESENCE!"
Moving around in pain, Zahhak says, "It's such a waste of time, you can always put on all the airs you want, but you're the kind of girl who jumped into Gabi's arms whenever a bug crawled on you, balling 'Gabi, I am so scared, please protect m-.'"
A kick from the Queen slams Cyrus in the side of the head, flinging him into the wall, then, grabbing him by the head, she starts shaking him as her face turns bright red, "You forget about that right now! That was over 2000 years ago. I am a much different person now. I don't cry over anything like before."
Zahhak, pointing at the roof, shouts, "TRA-TRA, A SPIDER IS ON YOUR SHOULDER!"
Letting go of Cyrus, she jumps on one leg as she stares at her shoulder, and says, "Ahhh, where!" In a distressed and adorable voice.
She quickly recomposes herself, and with a cocky smile, he says, "Some things never change."
A powerful kick from her leg slams into Cyrus's head, leaving a large crater in the wall, and looking at him, she says, "You're lucky I am grateful to that boy, or I would've killed you by now."
She turns and walks away as Orb, Willow, and Suzuka rush over to a crying Cyrus. Grabbing him, Orb says, "Everything will be okay, so me where it hur-. Ehh, his body is all healed?"
"Don't worry, I made sure any injury inflicted was instantly healed." With the embarrassment building by the moment, she walks over to the bottom step, and says, whilst taking a seat, "Fuck this all. Now let's get this meeting started!"