Chapter 124 How It Began

The last time the young knight had seen his horse it was all battered with its leg covered in blood, when he found himself in the prison, he thought his brown stallion must have died out there that night but it turns out he wasn't the only one who got saved that night.

"You saved him," Jude said as he approached the horse and placed his hand on its neck.

"Are you sure he's fit enough to run?" He asked as he shifted his gaze to the horse's legs.

"Don't worry I made sure his legs healed fine.",

Jude's reunion with his horse was interrupted by the sound of running horses heading toward them.

"They are coming." Tauriel gasped.

"Then we should get out of here fast."

Tauriel looked up to see that Jude was already on the horse and offering her his hand.

Jude pulled her up on the horse and didn't waste time blasting through the wooden walls.

They were lucky to have left there on time because just a few minutes after leaving there seven elf soldiers who were on their horses arrived there.

The commander of the squad rode his horse into the building and after a while came out with a grim look on his face.

"After them!" He screamed pointing ahead.

Jude and Tauriel were now far away from the soldiers and were approaching the goblin territory now, the same goblin territory that had boundaries with Asaka.

"Do you mind telling me the reason for your foolishness now?" Jude asked as they slowly moved while on the horse.

"Foolishness?"

"Saving me from dying in the hands of the goblins was a different thing, you could have gotten killed today."

"I had already made the plan."

"A plan to become a fugitive, I can see that," Jude said. "Look what I'm trying to say is that was foolish and why would you risk your life for me?"

The horse had come to a halt now as both of them still sat there without saying anything.

"I want to show you something," Tauriel said, jumping down from the horse.

She picked up a stick and started to draw something on the floor, Jude wondered what she wanted to tell him as he climbed down from his horse.

"We weren't always like this with your specie." She said as she finished the drawing of the human beside the elf.

"Humans and elves once lived together in peace."

"Then what happened?" Jude asked.

"The king was always a human and the elves never complained about it because they weren't treated differently despite their differences.

"But after many years, a king rose among the humans, a king who hated elves and wanted all of them wiped out. He began his plan with his men and the elves didn't even know about it.

"On the day he began the execution of his extinction plan, the whole kingdom was in chaos as bodies of elves dropped everywhere on the streets.

"The elves tried to fight back but the king already had everything planned, he hated the elves to the extent that he didn't want any one of them to escape.

"Then how are elves still existing?"

"Humans," Tauriel said. "Although the king had turned the heart of the humans against the elves, there were still humans who didn't agree with the king because they didn't understand his hatred for the elves.

"These humans were the ones who helped some of the elves escape."

Everything was clear to Jude now, the elves hated the humans because of what had happened many years ago but they had never attacked them before because of the few humans who had helped them escape that terrible day.

"After they escaped, they set up their kingdom. The first king of the elves was an elf with a good heart, he didn't see all humans as bad and told the elves to just avoid humans.

"That was the way it was until the present king Ashburn rose to power, he declared his hate for humans and gave orders to capture any human caught in our territory.

Jude was quiet as he took in everything Tauriel had told him so far.

"Then why?" He blurted.

"What?" Tauriel asked.

"Everything you just said now still doesn't explain why you risked your life to save me, you are not even sure I'm a good person."

"I know you're a good person," Tauriel said, pulling closer to him now.

"And you risked your life just because you think I'm a good person, you risked your freedom because of that," Jude said.

He was grateful to Tauriel for saving him but still, it didn't make sense that an elf would risk her life to save a human just because she thought he was a good person.

"You are right, I didn't just do it because I thought you were a good person," Tauriel said leaning closer to him, she felt her heart skip a beat as she did this.

"I did it because I…."

Before she could finish those words two arrows came flying and sticking to the ground beside them.

"Archers." Tauriel gasped as she turned towards the bush on their right.

They were on level ground without any high grounds or trees around them so Jude found it strange for both arrows to have hit the ground instead.

Tauriel immediately pulled out her bow from her back and fitted it with three arrows aiming for the area where the arrows had come from.

Jude didn't pull out his sword but held onto the hilt while keeping his eyes on the bush.

Tauriel kept her bow and arrows there but no other arrow came as something began to move in the bush.

"You've made a big mistake Tauriel."

Revealing himself was someone Tauruel didn't think she would see again after what she did today but it turns out her brother wasn't going to let her go that easily.

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Luis flew across the gymnasium and crashed on the wall and quickly coming after him was Tammy who still had the flaming sword with her.

"Do I look like a fool to you?" She said after stopping in front of him.

Luis didn't look hurt but that fall was quite the painful one.

"I knew convincing you was going to be hard but that's the truth," Luis said.

"Since you won't say anything useful, it would be my pleasure to help the world get rid of a problem like you."

She slashed the sword at him but the Angel wasn't just going to stand there and get killed, since she wouldn't believe his words then he would just have to show her.

The sword was met with a thud sword and Tammy looked at where she had hit to see that Luis' arm was covered with earth.

Luis used that moment to roll out and quickly created a distance between the both of them.

"You have earth ability?" Tammy said as she couldn't comprehend what just happened.

"Yeah, and water too," Luis said and immediately a jetstream of water left his hands and blasted Tammy, blasting her into the dummies set up in the gym.

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Wanted to do two chapters today but I think I've come down with a fever. I managed to do this one after a series of pain in my head.