"That was one big wolf, I cant believe we were out there for so long that the sun came out" Namato said as him and Khatar both entered through the castle wall together.

  "Yeah, I just wish we found out what happened to that lady" Khatar said with a concerned look on his face.

  "She will be just fine, don't worry" Namato said. But as he looked around he was suddenly surrounded by a bunch of knights. all of them had their weapons drawn towards them.

  "But us on the other hand, we are not" Namato said as one of the knights got closer.

  "Namato Ennogai, you are wanted for thievery and the king has requested you be sent to him"

  "I told you not to eat everything in the cafeteria again" Khatar said judgingly.

  "I swear it wasn't me this time"

  "We are not here for that, surprisingly, we are here because you stole Merlin's book last night" the knight said sounding annoyed with them.

  "We weren't even in the castle last night, we were out in the forest looking for a lady" Namato said.

  "That sounds even worse when you say that out loud, but he is telling the truth" Khatar said now getting a bit irritated with the knight.

  "The king just wants a word so please just come with us"

  Some time has passed and now Namato is in chains standing in front of the king sitting on his throne. They are in a giant throne room with 2 guards guarding the giant doors in to the room. The king is a elderly man who wears red robes and a golden crown on his head. The throne room is huge and the throne itself sits on top of stairs that are leading up to it.

  The king with a stern but raspy voice said "Namato Ennogai, I have watched over you because that was the last thing your father asked of me, I have given you many opportunities and shown my grace to you, but stealing Merlin's book, that is something even your father would punish you for, so tell me why you did this and where is it?"

  "My highness, I swear I have never thought of or even considered of doing that, I was with Khatar out in the woods, searching for a lady we saved from a wolf attack all night"

  "Then tell me why there was multiple reports of someone who looked identical to you taking the book and fleeing out in to the woods last night?"

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  "I cant tell you because it wasn't me"

  "You wont give me the truth? Then fine, you will be locked up until you can tell me the truth" Namato starts thinking to himself. What is happening? Why would someone set me up? Who would do this? Then the guards started approaching him. Suddenly one of Khatar's mirror's appeared right next to Namato. Khatar stepped out bleeding from a arrow that impaled him in the stomach.

  "Namato come with me someone is after us" Khatar said with heavy breaths. The kind stood up from his throne. "Khatar if you do this you will be helping a fugitive who has committed the ultimate form of treason, we will be coming for the both of you"

  "Do you really think you can stop me?" Khatar said staring down the king as he grabbed the arrow and pulled it out of himself. The king look frightened for a second, knowing that Khatar was not someone to be messed around with as he took down army's just by himself in the past. Khatar reached out his hand and Namato grabbed on, both of them escaping in to the mirror. The king sat back down on his throne and sighed a sigh of relief. He then thought to himself "I hope that it wasn't him, I don't want to have to tell his father what he did when i meet him in the afterlife" Then a knight entered through the doors.

  "My king, we have troubling news, One of our watchtowers have spotted a massive army moving through the forest, We don't know what race it is yet as they move fast, we are preparing defenses" The knight said sounding scared.

  "Great timing with our two best warriors out of commission" The king said. "Sound the alarms and prepare for anything that comes out of the forest"

  Sometime in the past when Namato gets taken away we see Khatar back at home, sitting at the dining table in his home. The knights already ransacked and searched the place looking for Merlin's book. Khatar feels that something the previous night was not right with that lady they helped. He gets up from his chair and starts surveying around around the rooftops of all the buildings throughout the area by teleporting from each one. He finds nothing. He then goes out in to the forest again and walks around trying to find something from last night. He goes deep in the forest and still nothing. But as he goes to turn back he notices something ion the distance. A horse carriage that is concealed deep in the forest. He gets on one of the trees that is close enough to barely hear words.

  "She took that mans face and now we have the book" He hears a lady talking to someone else. It is clearly a young human woman.

  Then a deep and ominous voice said "Now we wait for her return, also the Denizens will be arriving soon and after they are done, their will be no trace of Khatar and his friend" Khatar then takes a step and a branch snaps. Khatar pauses and then hears a bow being drawn. Suddenly a arrow comes out of no where and lands right in his stomach. Khatar falls out of the tree and groans from the pain. Before he can hit the ground he makes a portal mid air and lands through it, teleporting him to the edge of the forest. He lands on the ground hard, but still manages to pull himself up using a tree. He then hears another arrow heading his way. He thinks to himself it must be some sort of magic, because he teleported hundreds of meters away from that spot. He immediately makes another portal in to the throne room. He needs to get out of here with Namato.