Wait

The silence around them thickened until it felt as though they were enclosed in a thick viscous soup. It was so unsettling and heavy that no one dared to even make a single move nor speak up for the whole time. Anyone present at the scene could clearly feel that something big was going to explode very soon. And it would be a blast so powerful that it could make the entire castle tremble, if not the entire city. 

But just as the explosion was about to be set off, a loud sound echoed out from the side, breaking the deafening silence and deflating the tense atmosphere. 

"Damn! I can't believe the two of you went on ahead and are having fun without me!" Azrael landed right behind Gideon, his loud and booming voice filled with excitement, like a child who had finally found his best friends in the middle of an exciting game, and he had jump right into the middle of it.