The Broken Prince - Chapter 103

“I can help with this.” I spoke. I then grabbed two sticks from the pile and started to rub them together, I saw a faint smoke coming from them which means that I was doing it the right way. Soon enough, a fire was ignited and then it started to stick and made its way to the dry woods. Leo looked at us and saw a trail of smoke peaking towards the air thus he immediately made a dome that contained the smoke and turned them back into plain oxygen.

“The enemy might see that and come here.” He spoke. I was about to open my mouth and acknowledge his actions because even I did not even thought of that which is a shame on my part but then my body froze when I heard Vexxanna and Delvin spoke and when we all turned around, I saw Kaval who had the both of my colleagues trapped in a geo cage. My heart was beating loudly as I stared at my colleagues both unconscious and went to stare at Kaval with wide eyes and an open mouth of disbelief.

“There you are.” He spoke his voice dark and menacing as he looked at the three of us as we stood with our guards raised to the fullest extent. I looked at him feeling very much betrayed but I should have known not to have trust his words. I reminded myself that this is nothing personal but just competition.. If he thinks like that then let me do the same thing then.

I raised my bow at him and then an explosive and poisonous bow generated at the same time making me able to shoot two arrows at the same time.

“Hohoho! Damn Alex, you really are going to fight me with that?” Kaval spoke as if he looked at me with a joke. I just stared at him with a blank expression as my teammates looked at me and was trying to predict my movement. We had planned this that if one of us is captured, me must flee that is if we are outnumbered, but this situation, Kaval is the one that is outnumbered.

“Leo.” I called on him and he immediately got my cue and then got to move.

“Oh, trying to take me down? Let’s see how you will do if you faced the prince of the land.” At this point, I’m just thinking of Kaval as an annoying person because he really is being annoying at the moment.

Leo rose to the air but was not too high up for someone else to see us and join this mini battle that we were having. If ever that happens, then we would have no choice but to flee. A dome of air then enclosed Kaval who looked at me still like I was doing clown things but he was up for the breath of his life. Leo made sure that the geo capsules were not enclosed in the dome along with Kaval before he nodded at me which basically means that he was now only waiting for my command.

“Now.” I spoke. The air inside the dome was now being sucked out and I could see that Kaval was now struggling to breathe as his neck were starting to pop some veins and he was starting to turn purple.

He made an attempt to break the dome but failed to do so as he chose to summon huge boulders of huge cements to which turned into dust as there were no air inside the dome that he was in to act as a binding element.

“Your majesty, we might end up killing him if we continue.” Leo spoke but I just shook my head and motion for him to go on.

“No, Kaval wont die that easily, I know that for sure. Now, Pearl, do your thing.” I commanded. Pearl looked a bit hesitant but still heed my request. She closed her eyes and then pointed her hands towards the air dome. Water then started to fill on the dome and it was filling the small and cramped place fast. It only took a little time before the water went past his head. He continued to bang the dome but his efforts were not even making a scratch on the air dome.

I then hurriedly ran to the geo capsule and generated a new explosive arrow before I pointed and aimed at the capsule. I released it from my finger once I was at a safe distance and sure enough that the capsule exploded and became huge chunks of rocks. Running back towards them, I shook them vigorously and practically screamed their names not because I was thinking that they are dead but because I do not want to kill Kaval. I might have said that he wont die easily but he will die after the span of my easily estimation which I fear is very much near.

I was quite relived when they came to wake and then immediately positioned themself to attack Kaval. They all went behind my back as I again generated two arrows which were both explosive and poisonous. I do not intend to kill him for as the end of the day and at the end of this competition, he is still a good friend of mine despite him acting so annoying and deceiving me with his words of protection but it’s not like I didn’t do the same thing to them as well.

“Now.” I commanded once more and immediately, the air dome disappeared and the water came rushing out making Kaval breathe to which he was able to do quite quickly, see, he does not die or get weak that easily. He looked at us and annoyance was burning in his eyes and right before our eyes, huge spikes of rocks started to emerge to the ground where he stomped his feet at and was going toward us but before the deadly and piercing spikes reached me and my team, the arrow I released a second ago was already a centimeter away from him and once it made contact with him, an explosion was heard and seen. Kaval was slammed to the huge boulder behind him as the spike stopped emerging just right in front of me.

I could vividly see the blood that he coughed out and the burn that he had on his arm. His top clothing was almost shredded into pieces as he laid there without making any movement. I could still sense that he was alive and there were no harmed organs inside him aside from the broken spine which I hope will be healed and the slightly disturbed lungs that was affected by the poison from the arrow, if one wonders how I know such of these things, it is because since I have gotten my powers I also came to possess the ability to assess ones well-being and never thought that it would come to be so handy in this type of situation.

We still were on our guard as we may never know if he is actually faking his concussion and might attack us and it was right of us to be on guard as we were almost sent flying as a burst of wind dawned on us as Apollo landed on the ground bringing so much air force that slammed to the ground which shook the trees and disturbed the flying creatures.

My arrow was aimed at Apolli directly and would take the necessary actions for us to win. It’s all competition and nothing of our personal connection here. Kaval has expressed that through his actions and I have expressed mine, well quite harshly but still. Apollo looked at Kaval before at me. His expression held disbelief and utter shock. I looked at him still with my bow aimed at him.

“Y-You did this to Kaval?” He asked quite perplexed. I felt quite guilty despite telling myself that this is just a competition because no matter how I try not give validation to my feelings as a friend to the both of them, I still feel like I betrayed them but I know that they would understand. We all want to win.

“It was him who threatened us first. He came here with two of my teammates, held captivity on a geo capsule and both were unconscious. Actions were taken Apollo. It’s nothing personal and just competition. I hope you know that. Do what you must to win because if you keep your word of not hurting me, then I will be the one that is going to end up hurting you. The both of you are my friends that is why I’m telling you now to fight with all you have. We all want to win this and make our people proud and I have already taken that path once I stepped in here. Here, you are nothing but a threat to me and my team, I hope you see me that way as well.” I spoke before I signaled Vexxanna to make a portal that will lead us a few kilometers away from here. She is able to summon that but only for a time at a day. A wormhole appeared behind us and my teammates went inside of it immediately leaving me behind.

“Be my enemy Apollo as you are already an enemy to me.”