Chapter 29

Emmitt and Julian were shown to their seats which were about three chairs stretched further out than the two throne chairs but still right under them at the same time close enough to sit near the King and Queens seats they were assuming. Tessa was being shown to her chair when she saw her two men sitting there looking up to smile at her. "You look well sweetheart." Julian said hugging her happy to see she is well. "I feel well thank you. Emmitt are you sure you want to be here seeing this?" Tessandra asked him not knowing how he would really feel seeing his mother dying in front of his eyes. "I will be fine Tess. Trust me on this. She has so much worse things than this coming to her. I don't know who that stranger is in that arena but that is not my mother for what I know that evil bitch slit our real mothers throat." Emmitt spat out.

"Well said." Amal said coming out of nowhere standing behind her shocking everyone. Everyone quickly bowed to him, Tessa did out of respect and just caught up in the moment with everyone else. "Lifting her chin up as well as the rest of her. "Did we not just talk about his my angel?" Amal glared at her in playful warning. "I'm sorry got caught up in the moment with everyone else. It was just a form of respect." She argued as he stared at her. "I'm sorry. I'll work on it." She promised leaving him to smile. "You must leave Emmitt alone love he is fine. He is a man of honor he knows and understand what is to be done with real traitorous murders." He nodded proudly in respect to Emmitt who did the same back. "You and your parents deserve this justice as well as my mother." Amal said taking his hand to rub the back of it on her cheek.

The crowd around them shocked lost in awe as they never seen any type of human empathy emotion to anyone. The care he was showing was never come off him even as a boy. Bless the woman in front of them they all silently to themselves. "You are right. Well good luck to you in their it's not quite a fair fight though don't you think two against one." She questioned him in a statement at the same time. "Trust love they are going to need a lot more than them two to get through to me. Have no fear." He said with a wink. Leaning up to his cheek and placing a quick kiss to it playing her part well. "For luck anyway." She said to him with a slight playful shrug. Making him beam in happiness looking down at her with a small playful nod. "Take her to her chair as he quickly made his way away from the small group of people still looking at her in shock.

As she went to go sit next to her boys the guard gently took her arm and guided her away from them placing her in front of the Queens chair. "I think you took me to the wrong spot there friend." She told Hunter. "No meus Regina this is the only seat you are permitted to have as you are the only who is fitted for it as order of meus Rex." Hunter said with authority and yet still respectful at the same time. "If that is your kings wishes than I will oblige them. I don't want to get you in any trouble. You will stay close though right?" She asked in fake concern that she played well. "I will be right here." He smiled to her. She just nodded and turned down to the middle where Amal was grabbing every ones attention.

"My people we have guessed that honor us here tonight who have agreed to join us and spread our way of life to their own people and bring peace among us all finally uniting us as a whole instead of this never-ending meaningless war. Our fight is almost over after decades we are all almost free the way it should have always been." Amal roared to the audience who were hollering in praise.

"My people we have much to my joyous about however we cannot do so just yet. We have much to be thankful about, but justice is still yet to be had. We have traitors to you and the crown itself. The only form of punishment to be dealt out is a personal challenge to both of the betrayers. A fight to the death. Should either of the treacherous rats be the last one still standing they are free to leave but they may never be welcomed back into these walls by royal decree. No one shall bring them harm unless they should try to come back on our land, or our allies land as well any harboring of them shall be justification of termination of peace and an act of war." He said clearly looking at the three honored guest to make sure the rules were simple as the just slightly nodded.

"Are you two rats aware of the rules. Should you beat me and the other one the winner gets their freedom." Amal teased. "Yes meus Rex." They said in unison Ethan gulping. Eric smiling beyond happy to see his father finally get what he always had coming to him. "Ezrah on your command." Amal shouted. "Ezmena, Ethan you may use any weapon available to you or on your person. You may use any weapon on any other person. It is full range. Do you understand the rules?" "Yes." They again said in unison.

"Began." Ezrah shouted. Amal walking slowly to them taking off his middle shield armor around his waist along the way. Leaving him in the Criss cross leather shaped X type of shirt. Getting closer to both who were now starting to charge him together like any smart opponent would do he takes off his shoulder protection ducking and sliding to the right to dodge both of their sword attempts. Turning quickly to dodge the other back lash of Ezmena's sword. They were both coming strong swinging their swords and daggers. Amal managed to bend their wrist quickly taking the weapon and flinging clear across the arena. Ethan getting to his feet quickly he managed to get a few good jabs in hand-to-hand combat.

Ethan was holding his own taking the blows a lot harder than he was giving them. Until Amal hit him so hard he dropped him to his knees. Tired of dealing with the man in front of him he quickly came up behind and snapped his neck quickly breaking faster than it took to blink. Emmitt, Julian and Tessa sitting up straighter in their chairs almost in shock as fast as he moved the only other people who moved that fast was the blue-eyed demons and there was no way possible that could be. Amal was looking up to Tessandra looking her in the eyes with a slight smirk. His beast was finally starting to show and he needed to make sure he wasn't losing her out of fear just yet. Looking straight into his eyes Tessa sent him a small smile and nod.

Smiling to himself he had her approval he moved quickly out of the way for Ezmena to land her and her sword straight through Ethan's body cutting him clear in half. "You will feel what my two mothers have felt. You slit their throats and tore them to pieces. You slaughtered your friend, your queen. You will pay." Amal told her. "I was doing as meus Rex commanded. I was following the orders of the crown. I took care of the traitors to the crown." She argued back pointing her sword to him. "You failed to come forward when I offered the deal to the people to come forward. You knew the price." He argued pointing his finger back at her.

"Did my son tell you the story of how it happened too while he was selling out his own mother. It was me meus Rex who got him to agree to be a part of all this. It was I who helped in getting your prized possession here after all this time. I was the one who helped Jedikai kill Lalo to get her here in the first place I've been nothing but loyal since I came when you was a boy I have done my duty and I have done it with pride. If this is what I get for it I would still do it all over again for you meus Rex, and meus Regina, because this is the world I believe in, the world I wish to leave behind for my son." Ezmena said as he started to attack Amal. She was something fierce to behold as she fought him it was almost as watching a graceful dance until Amal finally got ahold of her arm.

It took one good tug from the mountain-built man of Amal to have it completely ripped off her body. Her screams echoed loudly into every ones core. Trying to raise her sword with her other arm she quickly swung her leg contacting Amal's face however he caught the other leg before it touched the ground. With another swift tug on the leg opposite of the missing arm he ripped it also from her body. Falling down to the other good leg. He came quickly grabbing the other arm yanking it from her body. As her screams kept going louder he grabbed her last leg yanking it also from her body. She was now lying limbless on the ground. He looked her still in the eyes.

"Your head will still see things minutes after being detached from your body. So I will take your head just so you can see me rip your heart straight from your chest I need you to know how it feels." Amal said tilting his head to her in amusement. Her eyes grew wide. He quickly took her own sword and cut off her head and placed it next to him so she could see as he took his bare head and shoved it through her chest yanking her heart out quickly crushing it in his hands and shoving it in her own my mouth as he dropped her head back on the floor. Emmitt staring down at the sight of his mother's body in pieces. He thought he would be offended. Anger, guilty maybe even staring down at the scene in front of him he felt nothing. Not one thing he wasn't numb he just held no empathy for either of the people scattered in pieces down there he felt nothing.

Amal left quickly and washed himself as he made his way past the cheering crowd. He did not want to get near his beloved angel all bloody. He met the three of them plus his council in the throne room. "Congratulations are in order." Emmitt said holding out his hand Amal took it with a smile. "Thank you friend. You may address me the same way." Amal granted Emmitt who just nodded. "You fought well. Apparently we are not the only ones who should be training but also be trained ourselves." Julian teased shaking his hand as well. Making Amal smile wider. "Thank you. I would gladly offer to train at your convenience." Taking his hand back as the other council man praised him as well as he came up to Tessa.

"What of you my great Chief. Do you have any best wishes of me, or do you hesitate with fear as the true best of a man before you?" Amal asked sadly looking down at her still nervous of her reaction. "I think you fought smart, and brave. The way you move was almost even like watching a graceful dance in a way. You did what was needed of you and it was the law. We have all been there time and time again. I am not scared of you Amal especially when you are just doing your job." She responded to him proudly holding her hand out also. He took it and dragged her to him in a hug. "Oh you are a hugger." She said in surprise as he spun her around in a quick circle in happiness and a loud chuckle. Than putting her down quickly looking her over.

"It is true than you feel well right. Just as he said good as new?" "Yup all better. Rest will always be a main factor in medicine." She held open her hands in surrender. Emmitt is she truly well?" He asked not taking his eyes off her. "Yes friend just as promised." Emmitt said in a more of a curious tone looking at Julian real quick who was also wondering where this was going. "I will never withhold information from you Tessandra." Amal said looking down to her. "Emmitt stay close." Amal said again not looking away from her eyes. Making her nerves start up.

"I am aware of this since I got here." She said squinting her eyes to him lightly. "I did something that may cause you and even Julian some distress. I could not come to you with this decision because like you said it is our law. Your people on the ship pledged loyalty to us long ago. They are also traitors to the crown I cannot challenge thousands of people I cannot even reach from here." Amal said looking away real quick taking a breath and looking into her eyes.

"I have had the ship up there rigged to do many things the first thing was to detached the children's ward and bring it down to Atheo safely." Amal said letting Tessa and Julian breathe a little better not liking where this was going. "The next thing I did was contact them about their crimes against us. They admitted to them fully. Kylie was even proud of herself she wanted you dead Tessa she wanted to claim Julian for herself and get your place she's always been jealous of you. She even got her position because she laid with your uncle Ethan. She and the council members planned your entire demise."

"They admitted to everything in Ethan's journals. They were going to take all the work we have done here. Travel across the world and start over making everyone a controllable army they had power over. They were going to activate everyone her with a special virus and command all the tentoria you call them to implode and the blue-eyed demons also your terms to wage war on everyone even themselves. Ethan's journals said they wanted us to all kill ourselves basically and start fresh on another part of the world. Somewhere near the old African region." Amal said as Drek'kon handed her his journal to show her the truth.

Grabbing her hand to her mouth she couldn't believe it. "They admitted to all of it. Since we have no treaty with you yet in stone we had to make a move against them. They needed to pay for their betrayal to not only us but to all of the people they were about to infect so we agreed the only thing to do was the death penalty. We had bombs set all over the ship and in places that when activated would blow up so bad everything would just be ash if one was to push the button. I cut off all power to the escape pods, I used the last bit of their power to push them through to the area of the world they were going to go and I pushed the button. I pushed just before I walked into that arena and ended the last two traitors left of the crown." Amal said looking down at her as tears filled her eyes and her hand barely left her mouth.

"So they're all dead! Everyone we ever knew or grew up with who is not at Atheo is Dead?" Julian yelled out in a choking voice to Amal. Hunter about to go drop him to his knees until Amal raised his hand. "He has every right to talk to me this way. They both do they need to go through these emotions of grief." Amal warned to everyone around them. Tessa starring at him tears falling down her face.

"They are not all dead. The children for birth to eighteen will be at Atleo's gates in two days tomorrow morning you may send word to them in the mountain and let them know to prepare for their arrival. Tessa I did what I had to no matter how much you hate me now for it. It is the law and must have been carried out. Tessa they left you and your family here even Julian and everyone in Atheo all your new friends they left everyone here including you to die. They wanted us to slaughter each other like livestock Tessandra we couldn't let them do it. I couldn't let that happen to our people. I couldn't let that happen to you." He said reaching out touching her cheek.

"It's not like we had a lot of choices here my love. It's not like they would willing come down here and receive their punishment from all the tribes they were willing to sacrifice. All the children here the elderly think of everyone who can't defend themselves, they wouldn't have stood a chance. We did not sink to that level we save their offspring even when we would have never been given that option. I mean honestly Tessandra what would have had me do?"

"How would you feel if the enemy came barging through the walls falling on top of us all around trying to take us on where we felt the safest piling on us fighting us waging war here on our land?" Amal asked her as she looked him deeply in the eye blinking. "MEUS REX! MESU REX!" A warrior came rushing in tripping and almost falling on his way in. "WHAT?!" "Warriors, thousands of warriors have infiltrated in the mountain all over the place even outside in the work areas. They are fighting we are being slowly outnumbered meus Rex." "Well I guess we are about to find out what happens when the enemy comes knocking at the door Amal." Tessa said looking at Amal and the rest of his men.