Anonym & Switch, Obtaining Power to Retaliate Chapter 40

Chapter 40

Residence (3)

11 Months later

 

Switch had been very busy this year. He, along with Presley, volunteered to help the Empress with the Rain Clan at first, then ended up helping the rest of the Murkcloud continent.

As he fixed up a recent problem just outside of the Rain Clan, at a river side town, he felt a disturbance within the magical barrier that he had put up around the Emperor's quarters.

Smiling for the first time in months, he looked up towards where the Emperor's quarters would be, from where he was. The little runt has finally come out! He hadn’t seen her once this entire time. Feeling like if he saw, she would probably get mad at him for not leaving her alone!

So, he had missed her but found other things to do, to attempt to occupy his mind with something else…

When he had openly asked the Empress to be of help, she had freely smiled at him and nodded. He had then been somewhat of a loyal subject since, becoming a very popular citizen of the people in the Rain Clan. He was even more popular than the current Emperor!

He had gone to help clean the town, fix houses, fix the poor and homeless. Everyone had a house now and food. He would talk to people without work and give them specific jobs that they would be happy to do.

This job now, it could have become a problem in the future, if left unattended, so he had come to help. The water could have become either contaminated or flood the area, so he had fixed the problem, even making a slightly higher edge to the river, just in case.

 

Quickly finis.h.i.+ng and saying goodbye to the residents there, he teleported back to the palace to search for Anonym. He hadn’t been back to the palace in a couple of days, as he had travelled all over the Murkcloud continent, with a few jobs in hand. It was really quite a normal routine for him now.

What he saw really made him stop breathing for a moment. The palace was in ruins and people's dead bodies were found scattered around the place.

Instantly, he teleported to the Emperor's quarters, to find that the place was knocked over, fallen bricks everywhere...

Where was she?

He didn't find a body in the room, even her treasures were gone. But what he found in a corner, was blood, it was a decent amount of blood that made his heart stop. To bleed to that degree could be life threatening!

What in the world happened here!?

He ran around the palace to find anyone that was still alive, but found no one. It had really only been a short time since the disturbance, but no one in the close proximity could be found…

 

Racing out of the palace, he pulled up the first person he saw and asked them what was going on.

They s.h.i.+vered and didn't look at him in the eye.

"Tell me!"

The person looked at him and then away again, "During the night...Everyone died in the palace…During the night. Even the Emp…Empress. When dusked arrived, we saw that they were using any means necessary to get to a part in the palace. Their force was strong that we didn't dare...Didn't dare to stop them! They told us that the palace was off limits…That we wouldn’t get hurt if…"

They started to whimper and apologize, they all had become very loyal to the new Emperor and late Empress, but...How could they have done anything against the people who could do that much damage!

Presley...Switch tried to think of where Presley was right now. In the last year, Presley had become very well known, he started off by flying people around to help make them happy. As time went on, he ended up helping with long distance trades within the Murkcloud continent...What was he doing when this happened? Was he possibly taken too?

Switch panicked even more. This wasn't the first time, that something like this happened to him...

Trying to calm down, he sat on the palace stairs and tried to think. What could he do? What could he do? Why did this happen!?

Breathing in and out for awhile, he then stood up and got out his staff. Then he disappeared.