“Good to know,” replied Brian nodding his head.
“It’s an honor to serve Mr. Pearlman to help him complete his goal,” spoke General Donavon. “I’m to listen to your orders and help you achieve them.”
“Good,” replied Brian. “Your reputation better be true General. I hear your one of the best generals in the army.”
“That’s true,” replied General Donavon with a nod of his head. Suddenly an arrow shot through the air, hitting General Donavon in the chest.
“Oh really?” asked AJ, while drawing his sword, to General Donavon’s body as it fell off his horse and onto the ground.
“Get ready to attack!” shouted Brain to the troops.
*~*~*
“Don’t die on me,” whispered Lance quickly to Joshua as they rode their horses towards the waiting army.
“You too,” whispered back Joshua following close to Freelance on his borrowed horse.
The rebel group charged at the army from both sides, trapping the army between them.
Joshua tried to stay close to Lance as he cut down the troops whenever they came close enough to his horse. Nevertheless, the chaos soon got to Joshua as he didn’t see as someone step in front of him and stab his horse, causing him to fly over the horse’s head and land on the hard ground.
“Well, well, well,” said a taunting voice with an evil chuckle. “Did you fall down and now you can’t get back up, Princey?”
“That’s Prince Joshua Chasez!” growled Joshua recognizing Nick.
“Not for much longer,” smirked Nick swiping at Joshua with his sword, which the young prince easily blocked.
“You’re right,” agreed Joshua as he blocked another blow. “Soon, I will be King Joshua Chasez and then you and your friends will spend your remaining lives in jail!”
“Not likely,” grunted Nick, swinging at Joshua with his sword.
Easily Joshua dodged the blow and brought his own blade up to clang against the heavy metal of Nick’s sword. Trading blows, Joshua ended up pushing Nick back and was gaining the upper hand when Odessa’s painful cry rang throughout the battlefield.
Taking advantage of the prince’s distraction and concern for his friend, Nick began laying heavy blows against Joshua, wearing him down quickly as Joshua blocked each strike from Nick.
Eventually Nick advances became too much for Joshua and he watched helplessly as a strong blow from Nick sent his sword flying out of his hands and landed a few meters away on the ground.
“Good-bye princey,” sneered Nick having backed Joshua up against a tree.
Lifting up his sword, Nick swung at Joshua’s head, ready to cut it off. However Joshua quickly ducked out of the way and the sword landed harmlessly in the trunk of the tree.
“What the fuck?” asked Nick surprised as he struggled to free his sword. The distraction however was all that Joshua needed to deliver a swift kick to Nick’s stomach.
“Nick!” cried AJ having seen Nick fall to the ground and smash his head against a large boulder while Joshua picked up his sword and raced towards the spot where he had heard Odessa’s screams coming from.
“Nick?” asked AJ making his way quickly over to Nick’s body and he sighed with relief seeing that the younger man was still breathing.
“Kevin!” called AJ seeing that Kevin was the nearest BackAlly Boy to him as he gathered Nick gently in his arms. “Nick’s been hurt! Retreat!”
Kevin nodded his head quickly in response before turning to Howie. “Howie, collect Brian!” he called nodding towards where Brian was currently getting his ass kicked by Lance. “Nick’s badly hurt!”
“Right!” called back Howie before rushing over to where Brain and Lance were fighting.
“Nick’s hurt, we need to leave!” explained Howie quickly after catching Brian as he stumbled backwards from a powerful blow from Lance.
“You haven’t seen the last of me!” panted Brain threateningly to Lance before racing off with Howie to join their other BackAlly Boys members.
“I’m looking forward to it!” called Lance after them before looking around the battlefield seeing dead body from both sides scattered everywhere. Fortunately however, the rebel loses weren’t nearly as bad as those from the army.
Franticly, Lance searched for Joshua, finally finding him kneeing next to Odessa’s body, while Joey, Justin and Chris stood next to him.
Walking quickly up to the small group, Lance heard Odessa whispering to Joshua.
“Lead them to victory,” Lance heard her whisper before closing her eyes as she fell into the endless sleep of death.
“So what happens now?” asked Justin quietly, watching as Joshua hang his head in sadness as knelt next to the now lifeless body.
“Head to the nearest seaside village and hop on the next boat off this continent?” asked Chris hopefully.
“We head to O-Town,” replied Joshua coldly as he rose to his feet. “This ends tonight!”