Old Ways

Queen Ariel hated when people compared her to her father. Her blood started to boil red hot. She clenched her hands into fists. Your father probably never told you this but before we were enemies were really good friends." It was our friendship and our knowledge of war tactics that led us to victory over Elric and his founding dragons." Hendrix chuckled. Those were some of the best and worst times of my younger days." Ah, good times." Queen Ariel nodded and stood off the chair she sat on, about to head out towards the door before Hendrix started talking again. " Tell me, how did he die?" Queen Ariel bit her bottom lip and sucked her teeth. " What the hell are you talking about." You know." Everybody knows how my father died." When on an expedition to the Poisoned Land, A.K.A, the land and domain of the founding dragon Poison, he contracted a rare type of disease that caused him to have heart failure. He became sick and died two weeks prior, leaving his throne and his empire to me, his successor." Hendrix crossed his legs and nodded. " I understand." Queen Ariel asked Rozier to open the door. " I understand that you're lying." Queen Ariel was confused. " What?" Tch." Don't play me like I'm a fool." I know the truth." The real reason how and why your father died." In actuality, you poisoned him by dumping a bottle of highly potent sea snake poison into his daily cup of coffee. You didn't want to wait until your father finally gave up the royal throne. You wanted it for yourself so you could change things and kill off all the war veterans from The Golden Age." Personally, I respect that." That is something your father would have done." Whispers filled the throne room. The only person who wasn't whispering was Rozier, who had an incredibly serious expression on his face. Queen Ariel had enough. Ok, ok!!" I killed him!" I killed my father!" Hendrix started clapping. That's what's most important." Honesty." Now that all secrets have been unveiled, we can talk about how we can defeat those dragons." Hendrix was openly taunting Queen Ariel. Queen Ariel nodded at Rozier. Rozier suddenly tossed his spear at Hendrix. Hendrix sighed. He grabbed the spear and snapped it in half. Must we go back to our old ways?" Queen Ariel sucked her teeth. " Bring me his head!" All of Queen Ariel's guards that were in the throne room loaded up their guns and unsheathed their swords. Hendrix stood on his feet and cracked his knuckles. " Well, this is intense."

Two Royal Elven guards ran after Hendrix. Hendrix grabbed them by their necks snapped them, tossing their lifeless bodies to the side. Rozier rushed in front of the other soldiers and punched Hendrix in his face, surprisingly knocking out on his teeth. Hendrix stumbled down to his knee and wiped the blood from his face. " That's a hell of punch you got there." The power of the founding dragon Draco really runs through your veins." Too bad you don't know who to control it." Hendrix stood on his feet and threw a punch after Rozier. Rozier dodged the punch and kicked Hendrix in his face, causing him to smash into a wall. " I don't need that power." I could care less." Hendrix removed his head out of the wall and started coughing. His head was drenched in blood. " Tch." Maybe you're right." Maybe don't need it." If you don't need it there is no reason for you to have it." Am I right?"

Rozier didn't answer. Instead, he grabbed the two pieces of his spear tossed them at Hendrix. One spear went in his stomach, while the other went into his neck. Everyone in the throne room couldn't believe their eyes. Hendrix grabbed the spear out of his neck, causing blood to splatter out on the ground. Hendrix tensed his muscles, causing his wounds to heal up. He started shaking his head. He tore off his cape clenched his hands into fists. " Tch, you done started something you won't be able to finish." You have gotten me riled up." I haven't been riled up since the Golden Age. Hendrix started laughing. He began generating powerful grey energy around his body, which pushed back Rozier into the ceiling. The entire castle started shaking and rumbling. Rozier could feel Hendrix's strength rapidly rising. Hendrix is the king and ruler of The Industrial Elven Empire. He had been there since day one. He wasn't going to let anyone take it from him.