I feel like I really screwed the pooch on this one I had so much freedom and I may have messed it up. Im sure I can recover but I was really disappointed in myself.

Chapter 3: The foolish king

"Okay so Is this story true or are you just lying to us to make us fight for you out of sympathy?"

I asked wondering how she would respond.

"T-theres no way she's lying there was anger in her voice when telling the story, nobody can tell a lie that good and fake emotions like that. SHE HAS TO BE TELLING THE TRUTH." Shiro yells at me and when his voice gets louder, tears rush to his eyes.

"Hey, hey I'm just being cautious I don't want to be tricked into fighting on the wrong side, God is a holy symbol of kindness in our would I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of that... please dont cry okay?" I said to Shiro, in a calm and caring voice.

"Well it was a good story, kind of wish I had popcorn not to mention while she was getting all vocal with the story she kept pacing around... her boobs were bouncing everywhere. I kind of want to have her tell us another story that she is so passionate about." Paul said while smiling giddily

The priestess smiles but it's clear she's a bit turned off by the way he acts, she must be smiling because he's a hero and she doesn't want to offend him.

"Geez you're such a pervert Paul, so gross." Anastasia says that while looking at him like he's a beast

"Its okay I was told to dress like this by the head priest, he said the male heroes are more likely to accept the situation if I dress like this, however I tell stories while pacing because I feel strongly about the stories of old." Yui says

"Wow what a stand up guy, making you dress like that... I feel like I would get along well with the guy." Paul says while eyeing Yui.

"Okay so were heroes in name or do we get some type of proof so we can travel around unencumbered?" I say in a sort of joking tone

"Oh right please come with me, I fear we are late and our king hates waiting." Yui starts speed walking towards the door at the end of the hall.

Paul shouts out

"Hey hold on I can't meet royalty like this I need to comb my hair!"

"Hehehe what hair old man you need more hair if you want to comb it" Shiro jokes around while following Yui.

"That's not funny and I was trying to make a joke precisely because it can't be done with hair this short." Paul said and then whispered "Im only 27 I aint that old."

"Don't take him seriously Paul he is just playing around, he is probably really scared being summoned to a world all alone at such a young age." Anastasia says in a sophisticated manner

I look back at the one girl not taking part in any conversation, of course she cant conversate because she's deaf but I feel like I don't want her to become isolated from the group.

however to my surprise when I turned around to look at her I swear she flinched.

However since my vision is blurry I can't really tell if she flinched anyways since Yui's magic that allowed us to translate each other's language, I figured maybe I could communicate by sign language like maybe the translation isn't only vocal, I walked directly to her and she definitely flinched, it was obvious she was scared of me.

I was within reaching distance of her so I could effectively see her hands so I would be able to clearly see the signs she makes.

However when I really looked at her she had beautiful rosy red lips, alluring baby blue eyes, short wavy black hair that reached her neck, clearly visible sexy collar bones, she was really thin which made her neck and arms seem incredibly cute.

"I wonder how I would do this, try to think of a way to signal her with my hands so she will understand..." I try and think of how to communicate with her while I use my hands and unknowingly I communicated with her, however all I communicated was how I was going to communicate with her.

"Okay..." ??? waves her hand in a majestic motion

"Right sorry, just getting used to this, what's your name we didn't have you introduce yourself since you were deaf and I realize that wasn't the right thing to do." I thought about that as I motioned my hands.

"Its cook Coxton. nice to eat you." Cook motioned me with her hands.

"Your name is Cook Coxton? and what do you mean nice to eat me?" I returned the motion with my hands.

Her face turned red and she motioned a quick order of letters.

"B"r"o"o"k"e" "H"o"x"t"o"n" Brooke responded with a scowl on her face like I made fun of her.

"Im sorry I am new to this and C's kind of look like B's and H's it won't happen again I promise." I sincerely motioned my hand with a sorrowful expression on my face.

"So was there an accident which caused you to go deaf or were you born with the disability?" I asked in a curious manner.

"Born" Brooke looks at me with a puzzled face.

"Nothing, I was just curious." I said with a smile.

I gestured her that we should walk faster to catch up with Yui as we fell behind while motioning our hands like idiots, I am definitely referring to myself as I had no idea what I was doing waving my hands around like a fool.

We soon reached the kings door and boy was it awesome gold handles, the frame was made of pure silver, it shined so well you could practically see your reflection perfectly.

The doors swung open and there he was a fat king with his fat chicken leg and his fat steward handing him another.

He motions us to come forward and the High Priestess Yui speaks,

"Oh great king I have brought the Great heroes before you as you commanded and are ready to receive your orders."

"Great, yeah good to see you heroes, I have prepared your weapons and armor and will expect you to complete my mission, and succeed your failure predecessors." Said the fat king as he chowed on his chicken leg.

"What is this mission you spoke of?"

"The *** mission is to *** go kill the angels in *** their city that is closest *** to us, that would be Fyra, it is just past our border ." He takes pauses to eat his food, fat bastard.

"What did you do with the heroes bodies who died" I asked clenching my fist, I mean sure I didn't know any of these "heroes" but the way this king obviously treated them

"We buried the ones we found in the heroes graveyard we prepared before summoning the first generation of heroes, however the graveyard ran out of room fairly quickly and so we burned the rest and spread their ashes over the heroes graveyard. "

"So how did you know that all the heroes were dead when you didn't collect all their bodies?" I asked curiously

"As soon as we finish talking here, Yui will take you back to the room you were summoned in and you will be drawn to a crystal if you attempt to bind yourself to a crystal that doesnt match you then it will reject you. They shine when they have been bound to an individual, maybe you saw them... anyways when you die the light in the crystals die and that's how we know when to summon more heroes."

"So these crystals are all dead right now? No light in them?" I asked

"Yes, the crystals will remain dormant until you all have been bound to them. The crystals colors identify the traits that best describe you all, Red for Leadership, Blue for Dedication, Yellow for Courage, White for Purity, and Black for strength."

"Oh I see, there has been a lot of disappearances from our world... then I take it they all died."

"Hmm yes, there is only allowed to be 5 heroes in our world at one given time however if one dies we can't resummon the heroes, all the heroes have to die in order to resummon the heroes."

"This has happened over 100 times right? Are the angels really that strong." I asked in an angered voice.

"yes, many fail to return as they significantly underestimate the angels as they think just because they come from another world they are blessed." although most refused to fight so we had to force them and when they still refused we killed them and since the chances of 4 or 3 heroes finishing the mission we had to exterminate the whole team, some resisted but they really were too weak... I don't get it the people from your world are supposed to be significantly stronger than the people in our world."

"Maybe they weren't given weapons or they didn't have any experience." I pointed out a possibility.

"I guess that could be true but we trained them for a week and that should have been more than enough!" The king snorted

"1 week, and that's it you sent them to the angels? and if they were scared or abandoned the mission you hunted them down and killed them?!?!" I shouted back at the king.

Paul and Anastasia grabbed me and whispered, "What are you doing don't yell at the king."

"Watch your tone or I will have your head! you will probably fail like all the others anyways, those useless piles of shit! I fed them and trained them and they couldn't even do anything for me in return!"

Paul and Anastasia hold my left and right arms and look at me with a terrifying glare however it didn't deter me

"I wonder if their failure makes you seem like an impudent king, what kind of asshole king summons somebody from another world to just kill them if they refuse to fight for you!" I shouted back at him

Paul punches me in the stomach but its too late the damage has been done.

"GUARDS SEIZE HIM AND HIS FRIENDS I WILL HAVE HIS HEAD ON A PIKE TO SHOW THE NEW HEROES HOW TO ACT ACCORDINGLY! AND SINCE THE OTHER FOUR WON'T BE ABLE TO COMPLETE THE MISSION ALONE WE WILL CLEANSE THEM AND START THE SUMMONING RITUAL AGAIN!"

The guards grab us and force us to our knees, funny for someone who is supposed to be super strong I feel really weak.

"Stupid Gabriel look at what you've done, apologize now!" Anastasia yells at me

"No I won't apologize I will handle this, The cycle will never end if you kill us now oh impudent king, I promise you if you give us 1 month we will show you how weak the angels are!" I showed resolve and determination in my eyes like I was ready to fight for my last breath.

"You lie, you just want time to run away, and you insulted me you will die here today foolish peasant" The king shouted back at me giving the signal to ready the execution

"Look at me oh great king do I look scared to you? I have fought and killed many! I survived over and over again after every battle and I didn't survive on luck it was skill! I stared death in the face many times and still I am here, Do you see the confidence!" I shouted at the king with no wavering emotion in my eyes.

"Stopppppp! I will postpone your execution for one month, you will take the closest city that the angels own that lies right beyond our borders and its name is Fyra." the fat king spoke

"However I will send one of my greatest knight to follow you and make sure you don't try to run." He had a smile on his face full of contempt hoping I fail.

"Can we go now? there is no time to waste as we now only have a little over 4 weeks to live if we slack off." I said with a voice of urgency.

"Yes, leave my presence now I grow sick of looking at your face! Yui go with them and show them to the crystal and then to their weapons and armor and show them their status window. " the fat king spoke to Yui in a commanding voice

We exit the room and as were walking down the corridor away from the throne room back towards the summoning chambers my legs give out and I fall on my ass.

"Well I managed to buy us 3 weeks, that dumb king doesn't know what he's doing." I say in a relieved tone

"Bam!!!" Anastasia hits me hard enough to make my head spin 3 times.

"I deserved that, but damn you hit harder than I thought you would." I said with a frown on my face

So I barely survive my first run in with the fat king, and now I have a set time limit of 1 month to capture the city of Fyra or we die, well at least I bought us 3 weeks.

I think after I destroy all the Angels I will kill this fat king... did he say status window? IS THIS A GODDAMN GAME!!!

comment honestly I feel like I did bad on this one and so I am really disappointed in myself, comment and let me know if I set my expectations too high or if I really did screw the pooch.

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