Two Brothers
Novis with all of his sheer willpower, put all of his strength into drowning his opponent, he received many stab wounds into his side and not only that, the shadowy creatures climbed his body and stabbed his chest, his arms, and even his legs absolutely all over him, but he did not yield, he wanted the battle to end on the spot no matter what.
"JUST GIVE UP ALREADY, STOP RESISTING, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO OR SAY, NO MATTER HOW MANY WOUNDS YOU MAY GIVE ME, NO MATTER WHAT I WILL NOT STOP YOU HEAR ME, I'M ENDING THIS, RIGHT HERE AND NOW."
Novis's core appeared to increase more and more by the second, almost as if it were to reach its limit and burst yet even if that did happen would he even care? The answer was simply no.
After a long and gruesome two minutes, the battle came to an end, Novis was the clear victor, but his wounds were still there, he quickly stopped the bleeding with circular pads of Water that fit perfectly to each wound he had received, and thankfully, the shadow creatures had disappeared.
This was a very painful process but that did not stop him, he knew that in the end, the fool would help him, at least that's what he had believed.
Novis then collapsed because of how much pain he received.
Pandora's Wanderer on the other hand was crawling on the ceiling of the palace, whilst doing so they kept saying.
"Gotta be secret, super super secret. Gotta be secret, super super secret." To themselves over and over again slightly annoying Seer.
Though this was until they stumbled upon a peculiar room, it seemed like a prison cell, but its entrance was more luxurious than the rest of the place.
"Hey, Seer, do you think this is where they're keeping Luce?"
Seer peeked his head out of the coat. "I mean it could be, I have no idea."
Pandora's Wanderer simply walked on in with no care in the world, and upon opening the door many wooden tables can be seen full of notes with many questionable things written on them, like.
"Extinguish the Light let there be Darkness."
"May the world be covered in Darkness."
"DARK DARK DARK DARK DARK DARK DARK."
Overall it was clear that whoever wrote these clearly wasn't sane.
"Seer you can get out now, I think you should research this."
"If you say so."
Seer hopped out of Pandora and started to analyze the notes around him.
Doremifa on the other hand, was being overly cautious analyzing each and every room yet still recognizing them somewhat.
"𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮, 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘐'𝘮 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭."
Doremifa walks up the stairs graciously and opens the giant gold and red-plated door before him.
Instantly before his eyes, in a simple white attire with white hair, Solatido King of the Sound Kingdom stood right before him sitting on his throne.
"Oh brother, It has been so long."
"Yes brother, it has, you've reigned over this country for far too long, I AM THE RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE THRONE, NOW HAND IT OVER."
"Oh please, really? This again? Do you understand how inferior you really are? You're lucky I even somewhat kept you around after finding out you have no magic."
"MAGIC OR NOT I'LL STILL BEAT YOU TO DEATH."
"Such an unsightly monster, oh well so be it, lose again if you want."
Solatido leaps from the throne in the most perfect well-mannered way possible, he does it all whilst bowing before his opponent even on landing.
Doremifa quickly tries to punch him, but just like in his dream he's unable to even land a hit on him.
"Keep dodging, coward."
"Oh, I can fight back if you'd like."
A violin appears from thin air, to which he strums with a bow, a deadly note almost comes alive from the Sound created and starts homing in on Doremifa.
"You may want to fend this one off."
Doremifa smirks and attempts to punch the note with a single punch only for it to explode upon impact radiating a very loud blast-like sound.
"Oh, did you perhaps lose some intelligence whilst you were gone as well?
"Insult me all you want, but I will win this duel."
Solatido simply strums the violin with a bow yet again creating the same note as before, he even bows whilst creating the note showing his utmost elegance.
Doremifa quickly grabs a hold of his guitar and strums it creating a shockwave around him detonating the note instantly.
"A new toy? I know you wouldn't have come up with that yourself that's for sure, maybe one day I'll meet the creator of it, maybe I'll kill them with my own hands too, depends on my mood really, oh well that useless imitation could never beat the original."
The violin disappears and an electric guitar similar to Doremifa's appears in its place, it is quite stylish and mostly purple.
Meanwhile, Seer and Pandora's Wanderer kept looking through the notes.
"Hey, Pandora, come check this out."
"What do you want."
Says Pandora's Wanderer in a scrawny voice with a Patina Green mask.
"I think there is some sort of order here, at the start the notes are somewhat comprehensible but eventually they just seem to be written by someone whose mind has been completely broken. Especially when they repeat Dark over and over again, this seems like some sort of torture chamber."
The mask turns into a Traffic Blue with a magnifying glass in its hand.
"Hmmm, well if what you say is true, then that must mean that somewhere in this room, IS A TRAP DOOR." They say as they stomp their foot
Nothing happens.
"Really Pandora, now's not the time for tha-"
Suddenly the ground collapses beneath them creating a large dust cloud on impact.
"Owww, Pandora? Are you alright?"
"Alright as I'll ever be, Detective Pandora is on the case."
He looks straight at the ground hunched over with their magnifying glass,
"Hm, I see, there seem to have been people here." They twirl their fake mustache.
Eventually, after enough looking around he spots a massive black dot.
"Whatever could this be? I shall stomp it and find out."
A brute of a man screams at the top of his lungs.
"JUST WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU'RE IN THE KING'S PALACE."
"JUST WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU'RE IN THE PRESENCE OF DETECTIVE PANDORA."
They quickly throw a punch straight at the man, knocking him out instantly.
"They call me the strongest right hook of the west you know that?"
After hitting him, they quickly enter a boxing shuffle.
"Watch me go Seer, hoo hoo."
"You're doing great Pandora."
A man walks on in "HEY JEFF, I BROUGHT YOU YOUR SANDWICH FOR YOuuuuuuu, uh, you're not Jeff."
"WRONG, I AM JEFF." They say as they right hook the next guard straight into the jaw having them collapse in a single punch yet again.
"Wait, I'm not Jeff, oh well I guess that settles that then."
"PANDORA LOOK, I DIDN'T REALISE AT FIRST BUT ON THE WALL, CHAINED UP, IT'S LUCE."
"LUCE? THE LUCE? THE ONE AND ONLY?"
On the wall the fool could be seen chained up against it, he looked even more malnourished and had no shirt on only his pants, his mouth and lips seemed extremely dry, but what mattered most was, his eyes were blackened, they were almost pitch black, and he could be seen and heard screaming as if something or someone was chasing him.
"Quickly Panora, let's free him."
"Even if we do free him, he's in no shape to do anything at all."
"I know but, still, I can't see him chained up like that, either."
"I can ask Doctor Pandora if you want some help."
"Sorry but, I don't think they'll be able to do anything here."
"Awww, well I wonder what we should do."
"Well, we either fight Solatido or wait things out."
"That's a tough decision, we don't even know where he could b-"
Two outrageously loud songs started to vibrate throughout the whole Palace.
"Just what is this? Do you know this Seer?"
"Well, It's Doremifa, I guess he started fighting Solatido on his own but no surprise there."
"This seems like a job for, WISE PANDORA."
The mask turns an Iron grey with several Greek philosophers etched onto it.
"What do you require oh young one."
"Should we fight Solatido? Or wait things out."
"Doremifa is fighting him as we speak no?"
"Hmmm I see, THEN WHY ARE YOU STILL SITTING AROUND THEN, GO AHEAD AND HELP YOUR FRIEND JUST WHAT KIND OF PERSON ARE YOU."
The mask goes back to its original form.