Chapter 121: Search and a Heart

At night, the gang were currently standing at the top of the castle and ate some ice cream. "This stuff is delicious! Can you give me some more?" Rapunzel had a wide smile on her face.

Ice cream after all will make every woman happy, except the lactose intolerant. "You'll get fat you know?" Ramiel rained on her parade and she froze.

"I-it's fine. It's my birthday after all right?" Her hands trembled, but she kept shoveling ice cream to her face.

They watched the lanterns get released and it was a pretty good sight. "Hmm, maybe I should do these kinds of festivals in Ataraxia later? It looks nice." Ramiel thought of the people back at their hub world.

Rapunzel gasped when she saw the lanterns. The others then noticed a couple releasing the last ones themselves.

"It seems that's our cue. Rapunzel, you ready to see your parents?" Ramiel patted her on the head and she got anxious. "No worries, it's going to be fine. They'll recognize you immediately, I'm sure of it." He smiled at her and she nodded.

They jumped down to the balcony of the castle and the couple were shocked. "Guards! Assassins!" The king immediately shouted out.

"Wait!" The woman stopped her husband as she saw Rapunzel with the long ass blonde hair. "Hi." Rapunzel waved awkwardly.

The queen slowly walked up to her and it was no doubt. Her baby girl that was born that fateful night. Having verdant green eyes like emeralds. And long blonde hair as bright as the sun.

Rapunzel started singing and her hair glowed brightly. The queen immediately hugged her and Aqua was tearing up on the side at the sight.

"It's so emotional." Esdeath raised a brow at her and thought it was pretty generic, but Aqua begs to differ.

"We'll let you talk to them Rapunzel, I'll collect my payment later, toodles." Ramiel teleported with the two and they arrived back at the outskirts of town.

"Why did we go here? We could at least have some accommodations in the castle right?" Aqua was confused.

"When I rummaged through Sora, I got a glimpse of another heart from him and I wanted to do something." Ramiel saw Xion and Roxas' heart.

They were practically artificial hearts because Xion is just a memory and Roxas is a nobody. He analyzed their hearts and got an answer for a question of his for some time now.

Ramiel plunged his hand right at his chest and took out a soul that was inside his lifestream. He concentrated and used the currently limited creation powers of kingdom hearts inside him to create a body.

"Is she?" Esdeath heard stories of one of his greatest works. "Yeah, with enough will. She will be able to inhabit this body and create her own heart." Ramiel dropped the sphere of Mako at the body's chest.

After a few minutes, its heart started beating and she opened her eyes. Her blue eyes stared at him and she hugged him tightly.

"Mein fuhrer, it is good to see you with my own eyes." Bismarck said passionately and he patted her back. "It's nice to see you again as well, Bismarck. Though your rigging isn't made yet." He smiled.

Esdeath felt threatened because she kinda looked like her. Just blonde, and Bismarck obviously means a lot to him.

"W-who is she? Is she one of them!?" Aqua was shocked and Esdeath nodded begrudgingly. "Yes, she's the flagship of his iron blood kriegsmarine. Tch, how am I going to seduce him when she's in the way?"

"Everyone, meet Bismarck. She's the very first battleship I created." Ramiel introduced her and she saluted them stiffly.

"But isn't she human? What do you mean battleship?" Aqua was confused as hell. "Well, she is. But she realized a soul of her own after our many battles." Ramiel nodded and thought it was good to have her back.

"Fuhrer, this might be rude to ask. But without my riggings, I am useless right now." Bismarck advised him to recreate her ship.

"Yeah, and I have just the material here in this universe." Ramiel thought of Orichalum+ that is used to make the Ultima blade. One of the ultimate keyblades.

And he was pretty sure that there are upgraded Mithril as well as Adamantite in kingdom hearts. And he will make her riggings to be truly unstoppable.

Ramiel then looked towards the kingdom. "Is there something wrong?" Esdeath and Bismarck immediately noticed.

"Someone's breaking the party, let me kill her quickly." They travelled to the palace with a teleport and they saw that Rapunzel's kidnapper has her hostage, pointing a knife at her throat.

"Don't move! Or I'll end her!" She bluffed and Rapunzel was fearing for her life. "Mother Gothel, you don't have to do this." Rapunzel tried talking her out of it.

"Silence! It was perfect, you'll live there in the tower and I'll live forever! But you ruined it!" She was getting hysterical and Ramiel snorted.

"I'd drop that down if I were you." He squinted his eyes and looked at her coldly. "You... You were the one that broke her out of the tower!" Gothel was seething with rage and hatred.

"Shut up you old hag, dispel." Ramiel snapped his fingers and Rapunzel's magic on her body that kept her young was cancelled.

"No! Nooo! This cannot be!" She started getting older immediately and she dropped her dagger. She fell down from the balcony and Rapunzel ran up to him.

"Ramiel! I was so scared..." She hugged him tightly and he sighed. "She had no power over you, you know? If she kills you, then she will turn to dust due to being an old hag." Ramiel patted her head to calm her down.

"I guess she wasn't able to deduce that from being held at knifepoint." Aqua shrugged and Esdeath was disappointed at her weakness.

"Damn you! This is all your fault! I will kill you!" They heard her voice again and she turned into a heartless after dying.

She became a tree monster with four arms and a tail as legs. Floating in the air, Ramiel was about to send her to the shadow realm, but Rapunzel put her hand on his back.

"I think... I should be the one to do this." Rapunzel felt a strong power in her heart and it gave her courage to do something.

"Flower gleam and glow, let your power shine! Erase the darkness before me and release your light, divine." Her hair shone and rays of light got released.

"Damn girl, that's bright." Ramiel took out some shades as Rapunzel started using solar magic. Her hair floated in the air and spears of light were realized behind her like gates of Babylon.

"You tricked me, but I control my life from now on." Rapunzel raised her hands and willed her magic to strike her.

Dozens of spears stabbed right at Gothel and the beast roared in pain, darkness seeping out of her tree body.

Rapunzel flew to the air and they chased each other around in the sky. "Shouldn't we help her? That's the first time she used her magic. Though it is quite potent." Aqua thought it had the potential to be even stronger than Elsa's magic.

"It is pretty impressive, and that isn't even her final form." Ramiel thought of the moonstone opal. "Let them fight, it will be good experience. Killing your oppressor, no?" Esdeath nodded at her courage.

Ramiel put up a barrier on the town as Gothel summoned a murder of heartless crows from her mouth. They went a beeline for Rapunzel, but she raised her hands and lasers of light struck them down.

Rapunzel cried out and used a solar flash, blinding Gothel. Her hair then tried to bind Gothel and erase her from existence with light.

But Rapunzel wasn't used to it and took too much time, as the heartless escaped her hair's grasp. Gothel wrapped herself around a tower of the castle and bombarded the place with seeds that exploded like grenades and spheres of darkness.

The blonde created her own spheres of light and started throwing it at the enemy. Super heated energy spheres exploded right at Gothel and she roared in pain.

Chains of light bound Gothel's body and Rapunzel was panting from overstraining herself. "You have no control over me anymore!" She shouted out and her hair grew even brighter as it flowed like light.

They turned into lances and stabbed right at Gothel's body. Creating massive holes on her, the light extinguishing the darkness. Rapunzel's power as a princess of heart destroying Gothel.

Rapunzel then fell from the sky and Ramiel caught her. "Hmm, good job. I guess you're a big girl now huh?" Ramiel smiled at her and Rapunzel smiled.

"I'm really tired right now." She felt drained as she used her powers haphazardly. Not really having control over it.

"Then let's get you some rest." Ramiel returned to the castle and they put her in bed.

"Thank you very much, it's because of you that we found our daughter again." The king and queen bowed at him as they heard her story.

"It's fine, we had a transaction really." He shrugged and took the shard of the chi-blade from her. He then remembered that the sunstone where she got her powers from is boundless.

She could be a cosmic entity that has immense power over the sun. The stone's power is said to be boundless. And also have a connection with life.

"Though I can't forgive you for taking something from her." The king squinted his eyes and the queen had a wry smile.

"She had many good things to say about you, like you were a knight in shining armor." The queen explained and Ramiel sighed.

"I'm not a knight Rapunzel." He rolled his eyes and Rapunzel got embarrassed. "It's not my fault that you look dashing and you took me out of the tower." Rapunzel quipped.

"Yes, you are wrong. After all, Ramiel is an emperor." Esdeath nodded with self satisfaction and Ramiel sighed at her devotion.

"An emperor!?" The couple gasped. "He's a warlord that controls entire worlds, you wouldn't understand." Esdeath explained haphazardly.

"It's like you're threatening them. Don't worry, Ramiel won't wage war on anyone. At least not here." Aqua tried consoling them, but they got even more nervous.

"Eh, don't be scared. I have no use for your kingdoms, I even helped Elsa. Arendelle is in safe hands now." He shrugged.

"Brother and sister's child? Did Arendelle have a problem!?" The king got worried and he waved him off. "I already told you, they're fine now."

"So, what do we do now? Do we leave and try to find the others?" Aqua was a bit impatient in trying to wake up Ventus.

"I have one more thing to do." Ramiel teleported and he suddenly appeared on a cliff. Where rocks have sprouted and a golden light glowed.

"So this is where it is?" He broke the rocks and inside was a blue stone that had nigh infinite energy like an infinity stone.

"The moonstone opal." Ramiel smirked. The power of the moon that controls death, decay, and destruction. Whoever fuses with is has control over virtually indestructible rocks that can explode with the power of the moon.

He put it in his inventory because it might fuse with him and Ramiel returned to the castle. "I'm back, and I have a neat little surprise for you."

Ramiel took it out of his inventory and made it float right on Rapunzel's chest. "What is this?" She looked at it curiously.

"That, is something that will turn you into something godlike." Ramiel smirked and it melted right into her.

Rapunzel gasped and the powers of life and death combined inside of her as her hair also got a blue glow.

If she mastered her powers, he was pretty sure that Rapunzel will kick anyone's ass in the kingdom hearts universe except Bianca and Schwarz.

"W-what happened?" Rapunzel felt like she was complete for some reason. "Be careful now, you can control death and decay too." He tapped her forehead and gave her a rundown of what she could do with the power of the moon.

"My hair's indestructible now? How will I cut it if I wanted to?" Rapunzel questioned and Ramiel was surprised.

He then laughed and ruffled her hair. "You're worrying about that? You're quite something alright." Ramiel smiled.

"So you turned her into someone that can control life and death?" Aqua went wide eyed and thought Rapunzel was filled with hax.

"Yeah, at the peak of her power. She can look at someone she doesn't like and they'll turn to dust." Ramiel shrugged and Aqua was horrified.

"That's amazing alright." Esdeath thought she'd be formidable. Everyone then had dinner, with Ramiel cooking.

And after their little supper, Ramiel went to Rapunzel. "I have a favor, when we call for you. Can you respond? We'll have a war against the darkness you see." He sat beside her and Rapunzel gasped.

"A war against darkness?" She raised a brow and he nodded. "Yeah, it's pretty soon. And you're quite strong. Not that we need your powers or anything, I just don't like their leader and I want to beat them up real good."

Rapunzel went into deep thought and she stared at him. "Then you're leaving huh?" She frowned and he sighed. "Of course I will, this place isn't where I belong." He explained where they came from and she listened intently.

"Give me a moment, I would like to talk with my parents." She had an idea and went to them for a little conversation.

Ramiel gathered with Aqua and Esdeath, prepared to go to castle oblivion in order to wake up Ventus.

Rapunzel appeared and she had a wide smile on her face. "Let me come with you!" She wanted to come with and they raised a brow.

"Are you sure? You just found your real family you know?" Aqua raised a point and the other two nodded.

"L-let her be, she's an adult now... She can make her own decisions." The king's voice trembled and it was like he was going to cry.

"Don't be too sad, she said she'll visit us often." The queen smiled and nodded at Rapunzel. "Besides, I can just prolong their lives until they're ready to retire." Rapunzel gave a cheeky smile.

"You're already thinking of having centralized power over the kingdom. And misusing your newfound abilities. That's my girl." He gave her a thumbs up.

She giggled and had a praise me look on her face. "Then sure, just turn down the lights yeah?" Esdeath stared at her glowing hair like it was the sun and moon.

"Oh yeah." Rapunzel closed her eyes a bit and turned down the lights, she controlled her hair to braid itself and she had a smug smile on her face.

"Heh, how about that?" She showcased her control and they clapped at her antics, not noticing that they were treating her like a kid.

"Come on, let's go. And don't worry about her, she'll be safe with me." Ramiel nodded at her parents and they were of course still a bit sad. Especially her father.

"I'll bring a new king with me when we return!" Rapunzel shouted out before disappearing into the portal that Ramiel made.

The king did an orz and thought he couldn't even teach her about wolves in sheep's clothing. "Don't worry, he looks trustworthy." The queen consoled him.

"No! He looks like the type that has a lot of wives! I'm so jealou- I mean vexed!" The king cried out. "Hoh? You want to be like him then?" She smiled at him and he got scolded.

At the ocean between, they were travelling around when Ramiel thought that their team was diverse enough for him to do a side project.

"Aqua, Rapunzel here can wake up Ventus when you return his heart. I need to make Bismarck's new ultra super duper op ship." He patted her head and Bismarck saluted

"Thank you very much, fuhrer. Heil Ramiel." She was happy and he nodded at her.

"You'll collect materials?" Esdeath assumed leadership immediately and they'll do their part themselves.

"Yeah, don't forget Aqua. Ventus needs to master his darkness as well, Vanitas already got out of Ventus. And I learned that he isn't a part of him. So he has is own." Ramiel instructed her and he split off the group.

Ramiel cracked his neck and looked at all the asteroids floating around. "Alright, let's get to work shall we? Let's test our little newfound powers."

He clapped and the ocean between worlds trembled. Asteroids and debris for millions of miles started to converge and he prevented them from collapsing into a star.

"Damn, it's that rare?" Ramiel checked the ores inside of them and the magical metals that he noticed were scarce.

From the trillions of tons of material, he could only make enough for his current fleet. Though it is only a small amount of debris for the vast space in the ocean between.

Pinpointing the metals, he took them out telekinetically and removed the impurities. Melting the slag that has an incomparable melting point with the metals.

He absorbed them into his body and began transforming it to biometal. The process gave it immense energy that exhausted him.

"Nice, the ship won't need a power source with this." He wiped some sweat on his brow and thought that it absorbed a ridiculous amount of his energy.

His ships would now be similar to him and can only be damaged by things in the level of beings that can destroy entire star systems with a snap of their fingers.

"Whew, time to shape this then. Ugh, this is going to be difficult as hell. I should've waited for Rapunzel to give me a boost or something." He started shaping Bismarck's ship.

After a few hours, he was still at it and handmade everything. It took a ton of time because the ship was titanic.

And while he was working on the thing, Esdeath visited with Rapunzel. The two's jaws dropped at the sight of the massive construct he was creating and it wasn't even half finished.

"What is that!? That's so cool!" Rapunzel looked at the gigantic batteries that were the size of cities. (pic)

"Heh, do you like it? Amazing right?" He had a smug smile on his face and Esdeath stared at in awe. It was an absolute weapon of mass destruction. And it wasn't even complete yet.

"Good timing, Rapunzel. Give some of your juice." He put her hair around him and Rapunzel nodded, her locks glowed and Ramiel felt supercharged.

"Woah! You've got tons of energy!" He smiled and started getting to work. The forming of the ship went faster and he was able to make quickly create it.

He was sweating heavily with Rapunzel as the ship formed. "Is it done yet!? This is really tiring." Just because her energy was boundless, doesn't mean it wasn't tiring.

"Almost there, just the finishing touches!" Ramiel formed a centralized network to connect to Bismarck. The only thing left is fusing her body to the ship.

He stopped using up energy and they looked at the ship with satisfaction. "Muahahaha! I've done it! She's beautiful." Ramiel had a wide grin on his face.

"That's certainly something." Esdeath was sure that it could be a planetary defense system. It was huge as hell, it was roughly the size of the entire state of New York, just thinner.

"You shall be the first tactical class heavy assault battleship in my arsenal!" Ramiel went up to it and hugged its hull. (pic)

"He's acting a little weird." Rapunzel was baffled by his actions and Esdeath laughed. "Let him be, it's the romance and dream of men to have toys like that."

"I won't call that a toy..." Rapunzel shivered when she checked the energy of the ship. It was like a beacon. Shining brightly with nigh infinite energy.

"Guhehehe, I've really outdone myself this time." Ramiel rubbed his face on the hull and thought it looked super awesome.

He then put it in his inventory after giving it a kiss. "Makes you think if he loves it more than his lovers eh?" Esdeath got a bit vexed. The ship got more action than her after all.

"So, how'd it go with Ventus?" Ramiel asked them and Rapunzel had a smug expression on her. "Of course I woke him up."

"Is that so? Good girl, now come on. Let's go back to Aqua." He patted her head and they went to castle oblivion.

They saw Aqua and Ventus talking about what happened to her. "Terra still isn't with us, that bastard Xehanort." Aqua frowned and Ventus patted her on the back.

"Don't worry Aqua, we'll get Terra back." He calmed her down. "Yo, shrimp. What's up? You slept like a baby." Ramiel greeted and Ventus gave a wry smile.

"Apparently so, thank you very much for waking me up." He bowed and they waved it off. "So, Aqua. Have you taught Ventus how to control the darkness? We've been away for quite some time." Ramiel asked her and she shook her head.

"I can't get it out, it's really miniscule." Aqua explained and he nodded. Ramiel raised his hand and gave a healthy dose of darkness right at Ventus and he groaned in pain.

"Don't worry Ven, it's for the greater good." Aqua nodded sagely and Ramiel chuckled. After some time, Ventus sat up and he was slowly getting corrupted by darkness.

"Come on Ven, you can do it. Control it and don't get consumed by it." Aqua cheered him on.

"Rapunzel, help him a bit." Ramiel ordered and she nodded, bathing him with light. Dispelling the darkness a bit.

Ventus huffed and he was able to channel the darkness for a moment which is good enough. "See? You can feel it right? You're much stronger." Aqua smiled and Ventus stared at her.

"Aqua, this isn't right. Didn't master Eraqus teach us as warriors of light?" Ventus frowned and Aqua squinted her eyes.

"That's incorrect, we're humans Ven. We should have a balance of light and darkness in our hearts. That's the way it should be." Aqua tried explaining to him.

"No, you're corrupted Aqua... What happened to you?" Ventus argued back and she frowned. "It seems they've brainwashed you well." She stood up and sighed.

"Ramiel, he's not in his right mind. Eraqus has too much of an impact on him. Send him to Mickey please." Aqua would just show him later and Ramiel thought it was a good choice.

He's just gonna be a pain in the ass if they took him with them. Rambling on about the light or something. So he sent him to Yen Sid's tower.

Aqua was satisfied with just seeing Ventus being alright and her next goal was Terra. She was sure he was going to be there in the keyblade war.

"Okay, so want to see what we were busy with?" Rapunzel was like a kid in a sugar rush.

"Well, what is it?" Aqua raised a brow and thought it was a pretty minor trick because she's not used to magic and other stuff.

"Ramiel, show her our hard work!" Rapunzel had a self satisfied grin on her face. "You just supplied him some energy, you didn't do anything." Esdeath sulked.

"Well you just watched." Rapunzel put out her tongue and Esdeath winced. "If I knew how to help him, I would!" They started arguing and Ramiel ignored them.

He took out his keyblade and split Bismarck's heart. He then went outside with the two and he excitedly showed them the new tactical class battleship that can be used in outer space.

"Heh, observe." He grinned at them smugly and Aqua's jaw almost dropped to the ground. "As expected of you, fuhrer." Bismarck nodded at it excitedly.

"What in the world is that? Are you planning to fight something with that!?" Aqua shouted out in disbelief. It was so huge that she couldn't even see the end of the land where it casts a shadow.

"Like it? This baby can fire rounds that can make planets go boom. And if it uses up its main cannon at the front, well you can imagine what will happen." Ramiel nodded in satisfaction at his creation.

"It can make a planet explode!?" Aqua felt faint at the weapon of planetary genocide. It was simply unreal for her. The thing can end entire worlds with one shot and it can even travel through the void.

"Neat, right? Now, let's give you your riggings though I still need to use the space stone later to make the cannons and guns to be portable on your person." Ramiel connected the ship to Bismarck's nervous system as well as her heart.

Bismarck stood still for a few minutes and started to boot the system so it could be in her full control. "Wow, this ship is truly a masterpiece. Thank you, fuhrer." She bowed at him and he patted her head.

"Come on! Let's roam around for the next princess of heart!" He called Esdeath and Rapunzel. They boarded the bridge's ship.

Aqua, Esdeath, and Rapunzel looked around in wonder. Seeing advanced tech that they were sure nobody they knew could replicate. Nor ever could for their whole lifetime.

And even if they could, it would take thousands of years to just collect the materials. The price of the thing is certainly priceless.

"This thing is kinda making me nervous. This ship can destroy anything." Aqua trembled just imagining it firing its arsenal on something.

"Private Rapunzel, I don't like how that asteroid looks. Push that big red button!" Ramiel shouted out and sat on the Captain's seat.

"Aye, captain!" Rapunzel saluted and pushed a button. Which was fake, because Bismarck controlled everything.

Magic converged on one of the turrets and it was loaded with one shell. And before Aqua could do anything. The cannon fired with next to no recoil due to dampeners and she saw a bright flash of light that almost blinded her if the bridge didn't have special glass that blocked the light.

Their special shell that was super enhanced with gravity weighed as much as a planetoid. And it can instantly vaporize a planet the size of earth with just a single shell. And it had numerous turrets on it that can fire three at once with pinpoint accuracy.

"Heh, that's just our heavy shell. You'll love our high explosive ones." Ramiel smirked. "Are you crazy!? I won't love it at all." Aqua shouted out and she sighed at his antics.

"You're too stiff Aqua, it was super awesome." Rapunzel took off her shades and Esdeath nodded. "Yeah, it was simply awe inspiring. I would love to see it being used against opponents." Esdeath imagined it.

"Please don't." Aqua massaged her temples and felt a migraine coming. "Don't be so serious, we won't use it on people, right?" Rapunzel looked at him and he didn't respond.

"Right!?" Now Rapunzel was sweating and he just shrugged. "If they're nice, we won't." He assured them and he dodged the question skillfully.

They then entered a world and immediately cloaked their ship. Bismarck ran a scan to find a magic signal that was similar to Ramiel's chi-blade fragments.

"There's none here." Bismarck shook her head and Ramiel groaned, the worlds were separated annoyingly and they have to visit them one by one.

"Okay, this is going to be rage inducing. Let's narrow down the places we should go to." He snapped his fingers and a display appeared in front of him.

The logo of the worlds appeared in front and he immediately crossed out Marvel. Not only is a princess of heart impossible there due to the strict requirements to be one. It was also region locked by Schwarz and Bianca.

"Okay, let's go to this place first." He pointed at a Collab of Disney and Pixar for a movie, Brave.

"Is it an exciting place?" Rapunzel was curious because one of her reasons in leaving with them is to explore the worlds.

"If I would have to describe it... Then it had great potential, but it managed to be so disappointing." Ramiel rolled his eyes and remembered the movie.

The first 15 minutes were good and then it was brother bear. "Though it has some vikings and all that jazz? So maybe we can cosplay and just roll with it." Ramiel shrugged and they entered the world.

Their massive space ship that was like a country floated in the sky as they landed on the ground. "I guess it's gonna be forests again?" Esdeath looked around the area and she sighed, it was getting old.

"Hey, the forests here are beautiful. Ain't that right Pascal?" Rapunzel asked her chameleon and it nodded.

"It might be, but you got to have some variety in your life." Aqua shrugged, thinking of the beach in destiny islands.

"Come on then let's check the surroundings. But not before we change some clothes." Ramiel took out the hide of a behemoth and used its head as an accessory on his head. Like Heracles' nemean lion cape.

He took out another one without its head and tied it around his waist, going topless. Looking like a wild warrior. "How about that ladies?" He put some oil on his muscles and flexed.

They blushed immediately and their womanly instincts were on fire. Aqua fidgeted left and right with Rapunzel and the latter's hair started to shine in excitement.

While Esdeath licked her lips and was feeling submissive and breedable. "Okay, time to put you guys in silk." He made them some silk dresses and Esdeath moved around a bit with annoyance, clearly uncomfortable with it.

"Can't I wear some pants or something? And the top part is horrible, it's so tight that it'll definitely rip when I swing my weapon." Esdeath complained and Ramiel snorted.

"Who do you think I am? I'm the myth, the legend, move around more dynamically." He ordered and Esdeath practiced her stances, nodding at the stretchiness.

"It's super stretchy and breathable." Aqua waved her arms around and thought it felt nice.

"Hehe, isn't this how Scandinavian nobles look like? Am I a princess of the north now then?" Rapunzel twirled around and was satisfied at her dress that had the symbol of the sun and moon behind.

Ramiel nodded in satisfaction at his work once again and they travelled to the nearest place where there is a congregation of people.

There was a hill and a small castle up top, so they made their way. Hearing a lively meeting inside, too lively even.

"Are they brawling inside?" Aqua raised a brow as she heard them smacking each other and furniture getting tossed around.

"That's what you'd expect in a place like this." Ramiel shrugged and he kicked down the wooden door.

Their sudden entrance made the fighting stop and everyone stared at them. Especially, Ramiel. They could feel their hair stand on end at his presence and his glowing eyes behind his behemoth headpiece added to his wild and dangerous feeling.

"Is this DunBroch, wee lads?" Ramiel spoke in a Scottish accent. "Aye, sir." A burly, ginger man affirmed. But Ramiel was still a head taller than him and they all stared at his shredded muscles, all backing away a bit. Thinking that he must be some unparalleled warrior that came to fight or something.

"Dun't be afraid lads, U'm not 'ere for a scrap. Just checking the place oot." Ramiel raised his head so they can see his face and he smiled at them.

"Whatcha mean afraid!? We ain't afraid of yoo!" A blonde guy with ridiculous pigtails was of course not happy with his ego being damaged. "Aye? Esdeath, show him he should be then." Esdeath cracked her neck and grinned widely.

"A-ahem... Where were we? Please do not fight, we are currently in a diplomatic meeting, please." A woman in a green dress practically begged as her eyes and voice trembled while she spoke.

"Elinor, dear. Do you know him?" The ginger man asked with a frown. "I don't, and I'm sure everybody doesn't want to find out, Fergus." The woman can feel it in her body, they were dangerous as hell.

And Rapunzel's glowing and flowing locks made them more mysterious. "Ramiel, does everyone here have a funny accent? It's kinda cute." Rapunzel chuckled and he nodded. He then looked at the queen and shrugged.

"Sure, we'll just observe what you're doing yeah? As I said, we didn't come here to fight anyway." They took a spot on a corner and watched. With Ramiel giving a nod to them to continue.

"Okay, thank you. As you know, it's customary tradition that the first born of the lords in our nation will compete for the princess' hand in marriage. Proving their strength and skill through arms and the games." Elinor announced, sighing in relief that the visitors won't cause any trouble.

"Isn't she quite composed? Already continuing her speech." Esdeath nodded at her strong will. The others agreed with a nod and watched on in curiosity, leaning in for what's the next interesting thing she would say.

"The custom also says that the princess will choose the game where the suitors will compete." The young girl beside the king that currently looked like a dumpling due to her headdress opened her eyes wide. "Firstborn..."

She was just watching everything in the sidelines with a frown earlier and now she smiled. "I can get out of this marriage with that. Archery! I want to, I mean, them to compete in archery." She got stared at by everyone in the hall and she calmed herself down, concocting a plan in her head.

"The princess, Merida has spoken! Let the games begin!" Fergus stood up on his peg leg and shouted out. "Hmmm, interesting." Ramiel smirked and his low voice made the hall quiet immediately after their celebratory shouts.

He stood up and smiled. "I want to participate in those little games, after all. I am an emperor. First born too, isn't that convenient? That makes me qualified yeah?" Nobody disagreed and they all just nodded. Not really doubting that he's a conqueror, his aura just screamed warlord.

"If there are no c-complaints. Then let the games begin." Elinor announced without her dignified voice and everybody prepared for it.

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