12 Knights of the West

"Now then, Princess, we will help out your friend over there if you come back to us quietly." The leader of the knights said to Ichina. "Don't worry the Kingdom has a lot of high skilled healers, that 'God' there will be in great hands." The lance thrower says to Ichina, chuckling as she does so. The lance thrower hops down to Azuka, picking up her lance, slouching it over her shoulder with Azuka being at the end of lance. "I'm surprised, he is still alive," the lance thrower says reassuring Ichina and picking her, placing her on her other shoulder. The lance thrower hops back up with the other Knights.

The leader of the four remaining knights looks upon the devastation that was left behind. One of his men were down, an old Giant had died sitting up with their head down. The belongings of the man who brought down his man and his Wanboo. "Gather the human's belongings," he says to the other two Knights. They hop down the valley, one carried Emilia and the other carried his bag. "You three go on ahead to the Kingdom, I'll take care of the mess here." the leader says with remorse in his voice. "Right sir!" All three of the Knights disappear into the forest as the leader stands in silence.

He slowly walks down into the valley toward his fallen man. Once he gets to his comrade, he checks his pulse, he then takes off his helmet and kneels with his own sword plunged into the ground. "You fought well, you will not be forgotten my young one." The leader puts back on his helmet and grabs his sword with one hand, and his fallen comrade's sword with the other. The leader walks back to the top of the valley. He turns around to look back at the valley. He infuses his mana into his comrade's sword, "I only wished I could see your infusion." He throws the sword at his comrade's body, it goes through his body and unleashes a huge explosion. Decimating everything there.

"Hey do you think that this human really killed Junbar," asked the knight carrying Azuka's bag. The lance thrower checks on Azuka at the end of her lance. "He is still somehow alive. If I had to guess he isn't a human. So it could be a possibility." The knight carrying Emilia grits her teeth, "We should just kill him, why are we taking him back with us!" As she says this the leader of the knights catches up to them. "We must follow our duty to the end. Junbar did just that, he fought to the very end," the leader said with sadness.

All of the other knights stop moving to mourn for their fallen comrade. The knight carrying Emilia once again grits her teeth, "He was so young, this was his first mission. I-I-I'll kill that human bastard." She puts down Emilia and unsheathes her sword, "Let go of him Jugann!" Jugann, the lance thrower, releases the mana from her sword, reverting it to a sword. Azuka falls to the ground, "NO!" Ichina yells from Jugann's shoulder. Jugann slouches her sword on the same shoulder as Ichina and almost hits her. "If you try to jump off or do anything against us, I will not hesitate." Jugann says as she glances over at Ichina.

"So, Ju'anna, are you gonna kill this human," Jugann asks. Ju'anna grips her sword tightly, pauses, then begins to swing her sword. "That is enough!" the leader shouts with anger in his voice, freezing all of the Knights, "Are you truly ready to betray our Knight Code for your own revenge. To kill a fighter who isn't even fighting back! Who is wounded!" Ju'anna sheathes her sword and picks up Emilia. "We will see what the King says," she runs up a nearby tree and hops from tree to tree to arrive to the Kingdom faster than the others.

The other Knight carrying Azuka's bag notices Azuka squirming around. "Hey Jugann, I don't remember humans living this long after being pierced by your lance." The three remaining Knights all look at Azuka who coughs up blood and groans. "Hey, didn't he say that he was a God?" the Knight says. The leader checks Azuka's stomach and realizes that it is slowly regenerating. "Jubarai, heal this 'God' now." Jubarai lays Azuka's bag onto the floor and unsheathes his sword. He infuses mana into it and it transforms into syringe.

He walks over to Azuka and impales him with the syringe, "Hey, heal up now." The empty syringe begins to be filed with mana, once filled, Jubarai presses down on the syringe causing all of the mana to go from the syringe into Azuka, healing him in the process. After the syringe empties, Jubarai takes it out of Azuka and reverts it back to a sword, sheathing it in the process. The Knights wait for Azuka to wake up, he doesn't. "Hey, can we just leave now?" The leader picks up Azuka and Jubarai picks up his bag. "We shall go back to the Kingdom now," the leader says, "Princess, are you ready?" The leader directed it toward Ichina who nods her head, relieved that Azuka will live. The Knights dash toward the Kingdom, dodging trees as they go past them.

At the Kingdom, Ju'anna has already arrived. The Kingdom's people cheer her as she walks through the center of the kingdom toward the castle. Usually she would wave at the people as she walked by, but this time she didn't. Before she had greeted them all with eyes of victory and pride, now she greets them all with eyes of fury and vengefulness. The castle doors open as she walks toward them, most of the door keepers afraid of what she might do, open them without conversing. She continues walking as she finally gets to the King's throne room.

She kneels and takes off her helmet in front of the King. "Your majesty, I bring news." The King was the most Giant out of all the Giants. One of the largest Giants alive, with purple, messy, hair. With muscles that could conquer a Kingdom in seconds. "What news do you bring me Knight." Ju'anna stays silent, the King stomps his feet, "What news do you bring me Knight!" Ju'anna finally speaks, "We have successfully retrieved your daughter sire. However Junbar was lost in the retrieval." The King pauses and rubs his eyes, "Junbar, the young prospect, was bested..."

Ju'anna stops herself from speaking more, "BY WHO!" the King screams. Ju'anna avoids eye contact from the King, "By a human sire."