Chapter 5:
I made a promise
A week passed by, everything was going well. Kuro is now learning how to master his octopus armour, Tomoka is improving with her powers of elemental emotions and her boyfriend is paying a lot of things for her sisters ( Tomoka was starting to regret accepting his love, now it looks like she's with him because of his money despite him getting the gifts for them.) And after the inspection, Kuro is looking for ways to form alliance with the kingdom of Armonon, a kingdom powered by music.
But three weeks later, the maids were preparing a huge feast at the Royal dinning hall. Kuro was confused, the alliance discussion was in a week, so what is this for? Kuro stopped them and asked them questions.
Kuro: what is going on here?
Maid 1: aren't you aware? The princess of Eglatine is coming back!!!
Kuro: WHAT?!?! The Queen had a daughter?
Maid 3: oh didn't she tell you? Her daughter went of to study at the University for royals. And now, she's returning home.
Maid 2: if you are really seeing the Queen, you would've have known that.
Kuro stood there confused, a week after the Queen and him reconciled, he made her promise him that she'll be more open to him, and since then, they became good friends. So why would she hide her daughter existence from him, or worse, if she has a child, an heir to the throne, why ask him to be a king? Kuro didn't know much of the kingdom of Eglatine as much as he thought he does, now, he's confused on whether he'll still rule or the princess will take over.
The princess arrived in her royal vehicle, Tomoka was present that day. The people welcomed her with cheers, but she stopped them saying "why didn't anyone tell me that my mother was dead?" And then she started mourning, and the people joined her and she refused to talk to Kuro. After three days of sadness the princess went to see Kuro:
Princess Elaine: so you're the new ruler of Eglatine?
Kuro: yes I am but you can call me Kuro.
Princess Elaine: nice to meet you Kuro, I hope we get along.
Kuro: same here but aren't you angry at me for ruling instead of you?
Princess Elaine: it's my mother will, I'll help you as much as I can.
The 2 royals got along and even became good friends. But Kuro couldn't help but think that something was off.
The day to discuss about forming an alliance with the kingdom of Armonon has come, Kuro, Tomoka and 3 of the Queens royal guards that became he's own: Paul with the power of panther, Felix with the power of fox and Isadora with the power of Deer. They were on their way to Armonon when Olivia their spy with the power of an owl told them that the Kingdom is surrounded by soldiers, waiting to wedge war against them:
Tomoka: I thought that you sent them a peace Treaty, why do they want to fight you?
Felix: I don't know, but we should return and bring soldiers to fight.
Kuro: that was not the plan but we have no choice.
But back at home, the soldiers were all sick, and Sana is there curing all of them :
Sana: I'll get a lot of money today, Tomoka, let's go shopping this night.
Tomoka: sure why not.
Kuro: how is this possible?! Someone is sabotaging us!!
Isadora: so what do we do about the alliance?
Primrose: Scandal!! Scandal!!! We checked the cctv footage, it's a guard from Armonon that poisoned the guards food.
Paul: this means war!
Tomoka: but how can we fight a whole army? We are only 5 of us.
Kuro: something isn't adding up, let's fight but, we won't kill them.
Felix and Tomoka: you know disarming is harder than killing right?
Kuro: right, but let's not wedge a war ruinning every chance we have to form an alliance.
Isodora: that true, but it's going to be very hard.
Kuro: we can do this trust me. "CRUSH THE BONES, KING OF THE THALASSIC BEAST EMPOWER ME".
So the 5 brave heroes went to fight the soldiers. With the emotion of anger, Tomoka used force to push them backwards. The soldiers all shouted causing and strong wave to push them back, Kuro used four of his eight octopus legs to hold them. They all put up a good fight with some soldiers while Kuro used his octopus legs to do the sleeper hold on most of the soldiers, making them unconscious. The soldiers annoying music made it difficult for the guards to concentrate, so Tomoka used the emotion of surprise to make electric shock, striking down the remaining one's.
Kuro: good job, now let's go and face the king.
Paul: you go and meet him with Isodora, the three of us will fight the soldiers s that stand on your way.
Kuro: good idea.
So Kuro switched from the octopus armour to the lion armour to get there faster with Isadora by his side.
Tomoka: I have an idea, it's risky though.
Felix: well fighting all this people on our own is risky so, what's your plan?
Tomoka: with the emotion of happiness, I can create a powerful light but, I'll have to quickly switch to the emotion of fear to create little darkness for you two to see the guards and attack them while they're blind.
Paul: the risk is that you have never done that before right?
Tomoka: right.
Felix: well that's the best option we have.
Paul: what are you afraid of Tomoka?
Tomoka: many things but my mom is a good example.
Felix: Or Kuro getting married to someone else?
Tomoka: wh wh what?!?! Nno no, not at all.
Felix: oh come on, I can tell that you like him right?
Tomoka: no I don..
Paul: do your plan, I'll use your mother to strike fear into you.
Tomoka: OK
More soldiers arrived, Tomoka used the emotion of happiness to cause a bright light, making it hard for anyone to see anything. But instead of using her mother like he said, Paul told Felix "did you know that Kuro intends to marry princess Elaine?" Tomoka was mortified she screamed "WHAT???" The emotion of fear was too much, so the whole kingdom was covered in shadow instead of it being only for they're eyes. So now they had to do the opposite of their plan, giving light to their eyes so that only they can see the soldiers to attack them.
On Kuro's side, they reached the Kings castle and Isadora fought their way in.
Kuro: why did you choose war? What have we done to you?
King: you sent us a letter declaring war against us!!
Kuro: Huh?! I sent a peac..
Kuro froze, he remembered asking princess Elaine to send the message of forming an alliance.
Kuro: so you didn't send guards to poison our soldiers food?
King: no, why would I? I fight my enemies face to face. Now you've killed almost all of my soldiers!!
Kuro: they are all alive, we just wanted to know what went wrong. Is it possible to still talk about forming an alliance?
King: I'll think about it, come back tomorrow.
Kuro: thank you for your understanding my lord.
With that they all left to go home and Tomoka returned back to Thesaurussia with Sana to go shopping.
Kuro was furious, he went to confront princess Elaine about it.
Kuro: what have you done?!
Princess Elaine: who me? Nothing. what's the matter?
Kuro: I asked you to send a message for alliance instead you declared war!!!
Princess Elaine: oh Kuro why would I do such a thing? I gave the letter to a guard his name is Kevin. This is what he looks like.
Kuro: isn't he the same guard that was supposed to be the Armonon guard that poisoned the soldiers food?
Princess Elaine: I guess he's one of those who opposed the idea of forming an alliance.
Kuro: oh he's going to jail for that. I'm sorry for falsely accusing you Elaine.
Princess Elaine: it's okay sweetie, you should learn to trust me though, imagine all the things we can do together Kuro.
The next day, Kuro announced that the princess and him are together. Some were happy, others were suspicious of her, Felix was laughing at Paul for predicting it and Tomoka fear became a reality.
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