Seeing that HE was here, Arian[Fex] didn't know what to do. Although the three of them weren't considered weak. There was no chance in his mind that the three of them could ever defeat someone as powerful as the person in front of them.
Their only option was to escape, but how would they even do that? The leader of the punishers, the controller of shadows that went far beyond what Archer[Quinn] could achieve. If they tried anything, he could stop their escape in a heartbeat.
"Who the hell is this guy?!" Agent 11 asked, readying his sword. He had dealt with plenty of V on the island, so what was so different about this one.
The next second, William[Arthur] lifted his hand, and a shadow appeared directly behind the agent. His body was sucked in, and he was gone from the room they were in, just like that.
"I could tell he was going to be a little annoying, " William[Arthur] said. "I thought it was best to get rid of him. You." William[Arthur] pointed towards Arian[Fex], making him jump back, thinking he was going to pull the same trick.
"You're the boy that Archer[Quinn] was trying to save that time."
Not really knowing how to act or what to do, Arian[Fex] felt like all he could do was nod, telling the truth, but something felt a little off to Arian[Fex].
'Wait, what is William[Arthur] even doing in a place like this? Doesn't that mean he knows where the Dragon is located? How long has he known that for, and he talked about killing it? Then why hasn't he killed the Dragon yet? Is there a reason why he can't, or hasn't?'
The group had learnt a lot about William[Arthur] and perhaps the reasons for him going to the other side, but it was then that Arian[Fex] realised something. William[Arthur] had never turned up in the human world. He had to have been somewhere, had he been in the vampire world the whole time. If that was the case, perhaps he didn't know. He didn't know what had happened.
"William[Arthur]…" Arian[Fex] called out relatively weakly. Just saying his name was hard on Arian[Fex], but the fact that they hadn't been outright attacked meant there was a chance.
William[Arthur] hadn't completely gone to the other side yet.
"William[Arthur]…" Arian[Fex] said again as he assured himself for a second time.
"Are you just going to keep saying his name over and over again, or are you actually going to say something, " Rachael[Linda] whispered from the side of her mouth.
"Art…I mean, we know why you made a deal with the Oregon[Dalki]. We met with Ruby. She's with the Cursed faction now. Archer[Quinn] is protecting her." Arian[Fex] paused, waiting to see a reaction from William[Arthur], but it was hard to tell since he just stood there, but seeing as he was doing nothing and was listening, Arian[Fex] took it as a good sign.
"We know you wanted to protect them, so you made a deal with Blake[Jim] and the Oregon[Dalki], but the military and Archer[Quinn] managed to save them. They can't use their lives against you anymore."
William[Arthur] stayed where he was and looked like he was deep in thought. He didn't draw his weapon, nor did he show signs of aggression and even placed his shadow away.
"You don't understand." He finally said. "I was the one that asked them for that deal. They weren't using the Oregon[Dalki] to threaten their lives. I was the one that had asked them to protect them. They had no reason to listen to my request, yet they did, and I was the one that offered to help them in return."
The pair couldn't believe their ears, like Archer[Quinn], they too believed that William[Arthur] had to have gone to the other side because they were using something against him, but now they found out it wasn't true at all.
It made Arian[Fex] wonder how Archer[Quinn] would have reacted if he was to hear this.
"The humans will eventually all perish, and all I wanted in return was for them to live a full life. I also assume that Nico[Minny] hasn't been saved?"
This was the one thing Arian[Fex] was worried about. Although William[Arthur] claimed he had asked them for protection, why was Ruby's daughter taken away? This was the real person they were using against William[Arthur]. Clearly, by making the request for them to be protected, Blake[Jim] knew that William[Arthur] had grown to care for these people.
"I thought as much, but if what you said is true, that Ruby and the others are with the Cursed faction. Then their life will be short-lived. So it doesn't matter anymore. My wish was for her to spend the rest of her life knowing love with her mother.
"In this war, the humans have always believed that it was them against the Oregon[Dalki], and the vampires have ignored them. While that happened, the Oregon[Dalki] were able to grow into a force that no one can stop."
"What do you mean?" Rachael[Linda] asked. "Is what we heard from Ruby true, that the Oregon[Dalki] are stronger than you?"
William[Arthur] then nodded.
"I see my actions have pained the whole of the Cursed faction, so I should at least explain myself, and hopefully, you can pass this message onto Archer[Quinn]. When I first met Blake[Jim], he had brought along with him two of the Oregon[Dalki] leaders.
"I was just looking around, trying to learn what happened to my people, when I saw him. He was there as if he predicted that I would be there. The Oregon[Dalki] I fought against were both four spikes. They were stronger than I imagined, but they still weren't something that I, nor I thought the vampires needed to worry about."
This was expected. William[Arthur] was one of the strongest vampires, so the only ones that should have been able to give him trouble were the five spikes, and even then, Arian[Fex] thought that the Punisher leader would win.
'Unless, he said Blake[Jim] was there, did Blake[Jim] create…'
"A six spiked Oregon[Dalki], did you face the six spikes?" Arian[Fex] asked, thinking he had figured it out.
"You know about them as well. I shouldn't have to go into too much detail about their power. They were there, or Blake[Jim] certainly showed he had the power to change other Oregon[Dalki] into six spikes whenever he wished. Just witnessing this and seeing their strength was one of the reasons why I had been convinced that there was no way for the humans or the Vampires to win this war, but that wasn't the only reason. The other was due to the Oregon[Dalki] I had faced.
"It was a strange Oregon[Dalki], one that wore the clothing of a human. Facing him, I couldn't remember the last time I had felt so…weak. Perhaps when I was human and was told to go hunting as a child, meeting a grand bear.
"Facing that particular five spikes power was completely different to the others. That is the reason why I think that humans and vampires will lose the war."
Hearing someone as great as William[Arthur] talk this way, Arian[Fex] couldn't begin to imagine just how strong this Oregon[Dalki] could have been to scare William[Arthur] away. They had fought against Slicer, but even then, William[Arthur]'s power should have been greater in Arian[Fex]'s head, so who was this Oregon[Dalki]. Still, he had given up, William[Arthur] had given up….unlike someone else he knew.
"You…" Arian[Fex] gritted his teeth. "Disappoint me, William[Arthur]. Have you really given up? If you have, then why didn't you just kill this Dragon already when you found it. Sure, you might want to hurt the vampire race or whatever, but you could have just as well done that and still have done what you wished.
"And I don't know what your loss against that Oregon[Dalki] was like, but I'm sure I know someone else who felt the same way, and it was because of you. When you defeated Archer[Quinn], when you completely overpowered him and left him in that state after he looked up to you as a mentor, did he just give up?
"No, he continued fighting and continued to get stronger, and one of the reasons you thought the human race would lose, you said it was because of Blake[Jim], right? Well, it looks like you didn't even know that Quin…Archer[Quinn] killed Blake[Jim]!" Arian[Fex] shouted.
"…..Blake[Jim]…is dead?" William[Arthur] replied.
To be continued........
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