3rd Task: Maygus Law (Part 3)

3rd Task: Maygus Law
Part 3

Recap:

In part 2 of the 3rd Task, the OC faced off against King Frederic's army. The army was resurrected by snakes, but Gris summoned a beast to assist them in defeating the army for the final time. Nigel managed to beat a group of giant suicide bombers and protected the walls of Camuji Fortress. Franc challenged King Frederic's main forces to a series of one on one fights. Without knowing what the OC wants from him, King Frederic laughed at Franc's proposal and accepted. Part 2 ended with the beginning of the first battle between Lawman Abraham and Titus, the jester. Now for the results...

A loud bang echoes across the battlefield and both Titus and Abraham lunge towards one another. Titus removes two daggers from his boots and swings them at Abraham, but he manages to dodge the attack. He pulls his Glock from his waist and fires three shots. To his surprise, Titus contorts his body avoiding the bullets. He folds his leg over his head and laughs, "You can't hit me."

Titus falls to the ground and rolls towards Abraham he uncoils to strike but isn't fast enough to catch Abraham. Abraham puts some distance between them and fires four shots in the ground, Titus laughs and taunts him, "Firing into the ground won't help."

Titus steps towards Abraham and the ground explodes, as the dirt falls Titus is still standing and unscathed.
Abraham raises his eyebrow, "How'd you survive a direct blast?"
"Who knows?" Titus asks shrugging, he pulls out a third dagger and begins to juggle them.

Abraham steps out of the way as a dagger grazes his cheek.
"You're fast no one has dodged my flying daggers before. Most people can't keep up with them," Titus says as he continues to juggle three knives, "Let's see how long you can last."

Titus's skill with his daggers is impressive, but not enough to match Abraham's quick draw. As Titus throws the knives, Abraham shoots each of them before they can find their mark. Titus tosses his last dagger at Abraham, as the dagger gets closer Abraham spins and fires three shots. The daggers trajectory changes and it's sent flying back towards Titus who dives out of the blades way. Abraham points his gun at Titus's head and says, "Get up!"
Titus rolls away from him and a spike fires from the tip of his shoe, Abraham jumps out of the way, and the spike explodes on contact with a rock.
"So, you're the one that rigged those giants with explosives?" Abraham asks.
"Explosions are fun," Titus says crouching down on all fours, "I'm going to make you go boom too."

Abraham chuckles and is caught off guard by Titus who moves at a different speed than before. He slams the palm of his hand on Abraham's cheek, sending him flying. He slams into the ground, and upon him getting back up, Titus is already behind him. Titus twists his body around Abraham's and puts him in some hold. Abraham is bent backward, and he drops his gun. Titus laughs as he squeezes tighter and watches as Abraham's face starts to turn colors.  Abraham's badge falls from his vest and hits the ground, in the center of the badge an eye opens up. No one notices the badges eye flick back and forth between Abraham and Titus.

Abraham chokes, and the eye glares at Titus, the badge sprouts tiny arms and legs and walks over to Abraham's revolver. It picks it up and pulls the trigger, the bullet pierces Titus's shoulder, and he lets go of Abraham. Titus kicks and screams and curses, "What the hell was that?"
Abraham gasps for air, the badge approaches him and kicks him in the head. He grabs his face and groans, "What was that for?"
"Letting me get dirty," the badge says surprisingly. It climbs onto Abraham's chest and fastens itself back on his vest, the eye closes, and the appendages disappear. Abraham gets up and picks up his hat and revolver off the ground. He brushes himself off and asks, "So you aren't bulletproof?"
A smile appears beneath Abraham's hat, and he points his gun at point blank range.
"Go ahead, it won't work," Titus says still writhing in agony.
Abraham pulls the trigger again, and Titus body contorts, and the bullet misses. He starts to laugh, Abraham pulls the trigger again and again and again and still the same results. Titus rolls back onto his feet and starts to approach him, he forgets about Abraham's mines and steps on one. It explodes blowing off his leg, he falls and triggers the other two mines, and his body is obliterated.
King Frederic grips his throne and shouts, "Phoneix! Crush them!"
The tallest man with the cleaver steps forward, and Abraham puts up his hands, "I'm all out of ammo. I'm going to tap out on this fight."
Franc nods to him and says, "That's fair enough. Mineko would you like to engage this behemoth?"
Mineko is sitting with her legs crossed deep in meditation, she opens her eye and gauges the enemy. She closes her eye and doesn't respond, Phoenix removes his clever and wields it like a katana. Mineko opens her eye and smirks at the sight of his stance.
"This should be interesting," She stands up and approaches Phoenix.
"No woman has ever stood before me as an opponent. Your swordsmanship is impeccable, but my skill is light years ahead of anything you can do," Phoenix says.
"We shall see," Mineko says taking her stance, leaving her bokken tucked away.
The loud boom signals the beginning of the second match. Phoenix doesn't waste a second, he lifts his cleaver and brings it down like a samurai, Mineko catches the blade between her hands and absorbs the momentum of the swing by squatting down. She kicks him in the chin with all her might, and to her surprise, he doesn't fall but staggers backward.
"You’re tough," she says.
"You’re strong," he replies rubbing his chin.
He takes his stance again never breaking eye contact with her, and he starts to circle her slowly.
"Your technique, it screams of sword buster," Mineko says watching her opponent.
Phoenix doesn't reply with words in a split second he dashes towards her and swings his cleaver. She takes a step backward and drops to her knee sweeping Phoenix off his feet. He slams to the ground and his murderous instinct doubles. Mineko kicks the ground soaring back putting distance between them immediately.
"Ha, there's no safe distance," King Frederic announces, "This is exciting!"
Mineko watches Phoenix as he lies perfectly still on the ground. The kill vibe emitting from him is intimidating enough to put Mineko on guard.
Suddenly, his body surges forward while spinning with his cleaver. Mineko braces for impact as he comes crashing towards her. Her bokken doesn't even splinter. Instead, the cleaver starts to crack, and he stumbles. He looks and roars at her as he begins to swing his weapon repeatedly. Mineko blocks his attacks with her bokken, and as he turns for the hundredth time, she avoids his attack steps into his massive body and wraps her arms around his waist.
"Phoenix is the heaviest man in my country, there's nothing you can do," King Frederic shouts.

Mineko's black bandages begin to unwind and fall to the floor. As the bandages fall to the ground, the sheer weight of them causes the ground to give. Phoenix tries to free himself from her grip, but it's impossible. Mineko takes a step backward, arching her back and lifting Phoenix off his feet. She spins and manages to slam him on his head, but she doesn't let go instead she goes into a series of suplexes using the momentum. On her ninth slam, she lets go, and Phoenix is rendered unconscious from the attack. Mineko's body is the epitome of muscular perfection, her core clearly being the center of her strength decorated with bulging muscle.

King Frederic sits back and smirks, "The thing about a Phoenix is they tend to rise from the ashes."
Mineko dives out of the way as Phoenix's twirling body hurls past her, unconscious cleaver in hand. He drags the clever mindlessly but wields it with tremendous skill and power. Mineko races towards her bokken but is cut off by Phoenix's cleaver. She pivots and slams her fist into his chest. She can hear the last bit of breath leave his lungs as she sends him flying. She dives for her bokken as he recovers and slams the clever down. The bokken absorbs the shock and bends but doesn't break. She squats down and strikes his chin with the hilt of her bokken. Phoenix's jaw is dislocated instantly and blood splatters from his mouth. The behemoth grabs Mineko by the arm but doesn't have the strength to yank her as he intended to. She jabs him in the chest with her bokken hitting pressure points paralyzingly him. He slumps against her body, his clever clatters to the ground.
"I win," Mineko says tossing Phoenix's body like a rag doll.

His body slides to King Frederic's throne, and he begins stomping on his unconscious body, "Stupid, stupid, stupid."
"My king, fear not. I shall avenge my allies and rid you of these pests," the man that initially approached Franc says.
"Nolan! Kill all of them!" King Frederic screams as his face flushes red and sweats beads beneath his crown.
"Nigel," Franc says, and Gris clears her throat.
"I don't think he'll be participating just yet," she says stepping forward and tying up her hair, "I'll defeat the lummox."
"Strong words from a little woman," Nolan says as he twirls the morning star between his fingers with ease.
"Don't dabble, get straight to the killing," King Frederic encourages as the battle is signaled to begin.
Gris doesn't even have a chance to summon her weapon before Nolan's morning star slams into her side crushing her ribs and sending her flying. Gris recovers in mid-air and does a quick dance as she falls, she flips and stops on a dime her three orbs burst from the ground and transform into three golden hatchets. Nolan appears behind her, and she dives out of the way as two of the hatchets clash with his shield. Gris grabs the third and straddles it like a broom and kicks into the sky. The other two blades fly towards her and transform as they soar past her elongating into spears. They change course and launch at Nolan who manages to deflect one of the spears, but the deflected spear begins to spin knocking him off his feet. As he falls, Gris hurls the hatchet from between her legs and is shocked to see Nolan float in midair and catch the hatchet between his fingers.
"How're you using magic?" Gris asks.
Nolan starts to laugh, "You noticed my subtle magic?"
"Subtle? Backdoor magic is something only a high-level teleporter maygus can do. Here you are precise in your step. The only reason you haven't used it is that I've kept my eyes on you," Gris says.
"You've been fighting a long time," Nolan says, he snaps his fingers and his heavy armor falls from his body, and he lifts higher off the ground, "No one has ever noticed my magic so quickly."

Mineko looks to Abraham and Franc and notices their calm but tense demeanor. She asks, "Why are you two so serious?"
"Gris doesn't do well against men with magic. The last time we faced a male maygus your predecessor was killed after he trapped Gris in a bottle. The battle waged on for almost two months after and we couldn't kill him. Gris managed to free herself and used some spell that made her hair white and sealed him away in her stead."
"Oh," Mineko says watching Gris, "Can a maygus kill a maygus?"

"The maygus community is based on thousand-year-old rules created by the first Supreme Council. No maygus shall take the life of another maygus unless their lives are deemed forfeit and are blacklisted. No maygus shall ever tamper with death, love, or creation unless given permission from the Supreme. No maygus can bestow magic on any non-magical being unless consulted with the Supreme. Those are the rules of Maygus," Nigel says approaching with his mop over his shoulder with Lefnard hanging from it.
"Why do you know so much?" Franc asks.
"You ask a lot of questions," Nigel says with a straight face, but starts to laugh and says, "Just kidding, my captain is one of the most powerful Maygus that have ever lived and cherishes the code of the Supreme Council. I'm familiar with it because of her."
"Interesting," Franc says, he turns back to the fight with Gris. Mineko shrugs, Nigel sits on Lefnard, and Abraham starts to disassemble his Glocks.

Gris and Nolan repeatedly clash with their big flashy weapons. Nigel yawns and asks, "Is this all they are going to do?"
"I couldn't agree more with the gimp," King Frederic says, "Kill her already Nolan!"
Gris blocks Nolan's attack and puts him in an armbar. She throws her hand in Frederic's direction, and a golden spear launches towards him. A girl steps in front of Frederic and manifests a blue wall that blocks the attack.
The OC glare at the girl and King Frederic's pompous laugh echoes.
"Throw whatever you want my way, it'll never reach me," he boasts, "As long as my lovely is by my side I'm invincible!"
"Gris, end this please," Franc shouts.
"You better not lose Nolan!"
King Frederic shouts.

Gris and Nolan clash one more time in midair before landing on the ground.
"It's time we end this," Nolan says panting and smiling, "I enjoyed this battle."
Gris doesn't respond. Instead she does a dance and bows with her hand opened to the sky. Her golden weapons rush to her side and transform into a thin golden wand. She smiles and waves her arm, chains burst from the tip of the wand and creep towards Nolan from all sides. He slams his morning star on the ground and the earth splits. The chains are swallowed by the ground, and Nolan laughs as he stomps and two boulders rise in the air. The rocks begin to take shape, something changes in Gris's demeanor and she roars. The chains multiply by the dozens and invade the walls of the trench Nolan created like creeping vines.
"I can't kill you, but I will bind you to the earth you stand on," Gris says.
Nolan laughs and begins to swing his morning star deflecting the chains, but doesn't notice the chains that coil behind him. He steps backward into the coiling chains, and they immediately seize his legs and work upward towards his torso. Gris approaches with her wand, twisting her wrist, and says, "The chains of Tartarus are at my command, and you have stepped into my snare. Life as you know it will forever be changed. These chains are meant to bind your soul to the earth and give you immortality in its grasp, every day you will be constricted every hour until your lungs are about to burst. Then you'll be revived at dawn to see another day, suffer another day, and do it again and again.”
"The chains of Tartarus are under no maygus control. When you toy with hell magic, you are sent on an express train when you die," Nolan spits as the chains continue to creep up his body covering him, except his face.
"Good thing I get to cheat death once," Gris responds as the chains cover his face and his body is twisted up like a tree. The chains stop moving, and Nolan's face reappears.
His bright green eyes are bloodshot red, and he stares into her silver eyes. He begins to speak in a language only maygus can understand.
"Save the girl. She's no maygus. She's something more. The King is a gross man, and I have only served to protect my family."
Gris responds in the same language, "Why not use your powers against the king?"
Nolan's lip begins to quiver and a tear forms in his eye, Gris reaches to touch his face when suddenly a stone blade tears through the ground and nearly impales her. Nolan starts to laugh, "Lucky, lucky, woman. You managed to dodge my last effort. I concede you win."
Gris begins to speak in the language again, and Nolan stops laughing immediately. She continues in the maygus language, and Nolan shouts, "You wouldn't dare!"
Gris's smile is wicked, and she licks her lips, she turns away from Nolan, and he roars, "You bitch! I hope you die a miserable death. I hope someone burns you at the stake."
Gris stops and whips back around, the tip of her wand unleash a beam of blue light. It slams into Nolan's face, and his eyes and mouth are sewn shut.
King Frederic begins to gag and ultimately vomits behind his chair. The tall, dark skinned woman standing next to him whispers in his ear. He waves her off, and she steps from the elephants back. When she lands the earth quakes, and she smiles, she glares at Gris and approaches the Nolan Chain Tree. She rubs her hands along the chains, and in the maygus language, she says, "These are truly from Tartarus, exquisite. Your magic is impressive, but nowhere near my level of expertise."
"I won't be your opponent," Gris says letting down her long white hair.
"I'll kill all your friends and save you for last," The woman responds.
"You won't see another day," Gris says turning away from the woman. She approaches Nigel and says to him, "Watch yourself, She's a powerful maygus. One wrong move and you will die."
"Got it," Nigel says standing up and walking towards the woman.
"Who do I get to kill first?" She asks.
"I'm Nigel, I don't think you can kill me," he responds.
"Words from half a man," she hisses.
"Fine. I'll give you three chances to kill me if that doesn't work you give up," Nigel says.
"Die!" The woman shouts as a giant snake bursts from the ground and strikes at Nigel.
"I don't wanna," Nigel says smiling as he trips over Lefnard and dodges the attack.

END!


The final contest for Camuji Fortress has begun. Who is this witch? What more can she do with snakes? Nigel's got his hand full on this one. Tune in for the conclusion of the 3rd Task.
Part 4 will be out Friday, March 31.

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3rd Task: King Frederic's Army (Part 2)

3rd Task: King Frederic's Army
Part 2

The great sun, Bellcrone begins to peek from beneath the eastern mountains casting a shadow over Camuji Fortress. The fortress seems desolate on the surface as the only movement is what the wind blows. Gris is kicking her legs off the edge of the wall with a Sanctuary Bunny sitting in her lap the triangular window floats behind her.
"Bellcrone is coming up Gris," the bunny says looking up to her, "Are you guys sure about this plan?"
"Are you worried about me Perfect?" Gris asks playfully
"It's Fect, and of course I'm concerned about you. You'll be closing off our back home. If something were to happen to my swarm is abandoned here."
"Hm, well at least your honest," Gris says, "I'll be fine, how many of these have we made it through?
"Enough," Fect says rolling his eyes, his ears begin to twitch.
"What can you hear?" Gris asks excitedly, as she throws her arm in the air.
 Fect closes his eyes, his voice changes and he begins to say, "My soldiers, you have endured the cruelty of the Bazz Mountains. You have lost your brethren, even your children on this journey. Today, we stand before our goal, the treasure of Bazz Mountains, Camuji Fortress!" The soldiers respond with a roar, and the King continues, "Today, we will storm through the front doors of the fortress and declare the kingdom mine! Raid the Camuji Fortress kill all the men, take the women, and enslave the children! On this day, you will claim Camuji Fortress the territory of King Frederic XCVII."
Suddenly, the ground rumbles with the response of the army as King Frederic finishes his speech. Gris smiles and whispers, "It's show time!"
Almost instantaneously the rest of the Outside Counsel appear beside her standing on the wall. In the distance, a large blue tent glows at the armies flank.
Fect looks up at her, she hugs him, and he whistles. Thousands of Sanctuary bunnies of various colors pour from the triangle window and surge into the Fortress like a waterfall. Gris stands up and does a quick dance, the gold balls transform into a massive halberd. Nigel looks to her and clears his throat. Gris shrugs and replies, "I was inspired."
Together they step off the wall and land in front of the heavy metal doors of Camuji Fortress. In the distance, the army kicks up a dust cloud as they approach full of rage and excitement. The five members of the Outside Counsel calmly await their arrival. As the sun lifts higher in the sky the first soldier's approach, Mineko huffs, and with a quick thrust from her hip, a shockwave ensues obliterating them.
"I hate fodder," Abraham says, "Let's make a game of it."
"I'm listening," Gris says with an evil grin on her face.
"Good, whoever reaches the big blue tent first is the leader for the next Task."
Franc turns to him, and shrugs, "I think it's fair. Good luck everyone."
With that Franc disappears, and his voice booms over the cries of the soldiers, "Is anyone else going to participate?"
Gris's halberd splits in two and transforms into twin swords, and she joins the fray. Mineko seems to teleport, and Abraham looks to Nigel.
"Only way to win is to move forward," Abraham says, he takes out his revolver and points it towards the sky and pulls the trigger. There's a loud explosion and bullets rain down from the heavens stealing cutting down soldiers.
Abraham runs toward the nearest group of troops and engages them with a barrage of bullets that send them flying backward.

Nigel looks around and doesn't find anything to put in Lefnard, he drops his scarf in the bucket and uses it to climb over the wall again. He finds Abraham's safety bullets on the ground outside the remaining half of the castle. He puts them in his pocket when he sees Ian sneaking out of a building dragging a Gatling gun on wheels.
"What ya doing?" Nigel asks, and Ian nearly leaps out of his skin at the sound of his voice. He lets a sigh of relief out when he turns to find Nigel.
"I was going to support you guys. I know you said you guys could handle this, but I can't hide while someone else defends my home," Ian says tapping the gun.
"Where are the bullets?" Nigel asks pointing at the Gatling gun.
"Oh," Ian looks at the weapon and then smiles, "I don't know."
"I figured that. What else you got?"
Ian opens the door of the building to reveal an armory of discarded weapons, Nigel's eye's sparkle.
"This is going to be fun," Nigel says, as a mischevious smile etches across his lips.

Meanwhile, on the battlefield, the rest of the Outside Counsel engage several of the enemies troops. Gris's twin blades decapitate two giants, and she dives headfirst into the fray with the other soldiers. Her movements are deliberate and apparently lethal as soldiers who clash with her collapse almost instantly. A large round soldier charges towards her clad in armor too small for his body. He squeals with two swords raised over his head. Gris smiles and waves her hands in his direction. Her gold blades zig zag through the fodder soldiers and soar towards the fat man. She's impressed when he manages to deflect the blades. As he gets closer to her Gris sticks her tongue out and does another dance the gold swords swirl into the Halberd. She bows and the Halberd splits the man in half.  She sighs and looks for more opponents.

Franc stands as still as a statue as soldiers surround him, a giant approaches him clad in armor wielding a massive shield and a sword. The soldiers cheer as the giant bangs the shield with his sword, he takes his stance and dances around for a few seconds before launching at Franc. The giant unleashes a barrage of slashes on Franc kicking up a dust cloud around him. The giant stumbles backward out of breath, as the dust subsides Franc is erect, unscathed and ticking. He lifts his arm over his head, and everything stops, as time begins again Franc is standing behind the giant. The giant's arms are liberated from his body, and his knees buckle. Franc spins around and slashes the monster in half. The soldiers around charge as the giant's torso collapses, Franc sighs. He can see the tent in the distance and continues to make his way.

A campaign of 200 soldiers clad in armor from head to toe charge towards Abraham, his bullets ricochet off the armor, he sighs and empties all his clips. He can hear the soldiers booming footsteps as they approach like a battering ram. Abraham starts to laugh and presses a button on the bottom of his revolver, a black bullet falls out, and he loads it into the chamber and pulls the trigger. The shot soars into the air and begins to expand, it transforms into a rocket and begins to plummet back to the earth. As the soldiers clad in armor approach Abraham, he disappears, and the rocket falls directly over them exploding on impact.

Abraham grabs Mineko's face and kisses her cheek as she dashes out of the shockwaves reach with him in her arms. She throws him in the air and from her hip she unsheaths her bokken. She cuts down a group of soldiers while running between the legs of a giant. A giant catches Abraham's body and hurls him at the wall of Camuji Fortress. Abraham is , and he by Lefnard's bandanna arm and slides to the ground.
"Nice catch Nigel," Abraham shouts
"Yeah, whatever, you messed up my grand comeback," Nigel drops several weapons into Lefnard and a massive arm comprised of several weapons lifts in the air from the top of Camuji Fortress's wall.
Lefnard points his cannon index finger towards the blue tent, and Nigel shouts, "Fire!"
Bullets and cannonballs fire from every part of the arm, riddling the battlefield with holes and explosions. The tent unfolds and becomes a heavy blue curtain that absorbs the attack. A billow of smoke rises in the air from the arm, as the smoke clears on the battlefield three golden shields protect Gris, Franc, and Mineko. Nigel waves at them and shouts, "Sorry guys!"
Abraham looks up at Nigel and raises his thick eyebrow, starts to laugh and shake his head.  A rustling sound ripples through the bodies scattered across the field followed by a loud hiss. The soldiers and Giants bodies begin to stir as the hissing subsides. Nigel leaps off the wall and is caught by Lefnard and placed gently on the ground. Abraham tilts his head at Lefnard and the hand waves.
The soldiers begin to rise, riddled with holes, gashes, and other mortal wounds. The giant Franc severed in half stands again with a snake binding the two halves.
"Now that's interesting," Gris says to herself before she starts to dance and the shields launch into the air and transform into her giant golden sword. She cuts down the giant, and the snake pulls him back together, Gris raises her eyebrow and whistles the sword is at her side in a split second. Franc and Mineko begin to make their way towards Gris. They cut down the soldiers that stand before them, but only for them to rise again. Nigel and Abraham stand back to back mowing down the soldiers with bullets, but they continue to rise. Abraham grabs Nigel and says, "Throw us towards the others." Lefnard scoops them up and throws them towards Mineko and the others. When they land, the bucket soars over the battlefield dumping the contents out. It lands next to Nigel with a thud. The dead soldiers surround the O.C as they stand back to back.
"So, what do we do?" Nigel asks
"We need a plan," Franc says, everyone touches Franc as he stops time.
"This is cool, It's like a timeout," Nigel says poking pushing soldiers over.
"It looks like necromancy." Nigel says, "These guys are dead."
"No witch chances Anitabin," Gris says.
"What's Anitabin?" Nigel asks
"We don't have time for explanations," Gris says, "This isn't necromancy, the snakes are manipulating the bodies."
"You brought it up," Nigel says, and everyone just looks at him.
"How can we defeat the snakes?" Abraham asks.
"We'll scare them out," Franc says blood stains the clock mask.
"You're holding too long," Gris says slamming her hand into Franc's chest.
Time suddenly begins again, and the soldiers advance. Gris starts to dance in the middle of the members of the OC. Her gold swords melt, and the three balls burrow into the ground successively. As Gris continues to dance she claps her hands five times, does a front flip and the ground starts to rumble. The OC leap in unison as a giant honey badger, the size of a lion, burst from the soil. The honeybadger starts to shake, and a silver dust begins to fill the air. The silver dust covers the badger in a silver armor, and it roars.
It's massive claws glisten in the sunlight as it sniffs the air. It starts to hiss at the soldiers around it. A soldier approaches and the badger jabs him with his claw removing the snake instantly and slurping it like a noodle. The badger lunges into the crowd of snake driven soldiers and Giants and rips them to pieces. The OC land in front of the blue curtain, in the distance they see a group of giants run from the badger and race towards the wall of Camuji Fortress. The first giant slams into the wall and explodes on impact.
The wall cracks and a chunk falls off.
Nigel shouts, "I got it!"
He takes off his peg leg and drops it in Lefnard. A wooden arm erupts from the bucket, and Nigel grabs onto Lefnard's handle and rides his bucket towards the giants.  Nigel scoops his mop up from the battlefield and drops a thick mop string in Lefnard. The thick braided mop strings launch forward like tentacles tripping up the giants causing them to fall and explode. Nigel leaps off Lefnard and onto a giant's shoulder. He pulls the giant's ear, and it turns towards three other giants. He flips off his shoulder as the giants collide and explode. Nigel is caught by Lefnard and shielded from the blast. Only five giants remain, and they are all too far apart to attack at once. Nigel quickly scans the battlefield to figure out a way to stop the giant;s. He throws his arm up in frustration and Lefnard launches into the sky, dumping its contents out. Nigel watches as Lefnard lands upside down on top of the wall. There's a low grumbling coming from the wall, and Nigel gets closer to it pressing his ear against it. The Giants get closer, and Nigel turns around, five giant left arms made of stone bursts from the wall. Nigel opens and closes all 5 of his fists and punches all the giant's simultaneously causing a massive explosion that sends him flying into the wall. As the debris clears, the wall is still standing unscathed and without its five arms. Nigel is unconscious at the foot of the wall with Lefnard covering his head.

At the opposite end of the battlefield, the rest of the O.C watch Nigel's display of sheer awesomeness. The field is littered with the bodies of soldiers, on top of a mound, the honey badger lies on its back with a swollen belly in a comatose state. King Frederic applauds Nigel's ability and catches everyone's attention.
He smiles greedily at them and asks, "How much do they pay you for your services?"
Franc scoffs, and a large man steps forward equal in height to Frac, King Frederic clears his throat. The man stands down, and Franc says, "Our abilities happen to be in the favor of Camuji Fortress. They are not our employers, we have no allegiance to the people here."
King Frederic bursts into laughter and asks, "Then why? Why stand in my way?"
"You have something we want," Franc says approaching King Frederic's throne he stops time and has a chance to analyze the Kings guard. The largest man has a cleaver behind his back, the man that approached him is reaching for his morning star, a smaller man dressed as a jester has daggers, and the woman's eyes glow green. Time resumes, and Franc immediately bows, King Frederic's guards back down instantly.
"Ain't that something," King Frederic says, "You're standing in front of something I want."
"Let's make a wager," Franc says, King Frederic's eyebrows raise.
"What kind of wager?" He asks.
"A battle, my team versus your guard.," Franc replies.
The King bursts into laughter and says, "You want to face off against my personal guard? Do you have any idea who I am?"
"King Frederic," Gris chimes, the king's guard glares at her, and she smiles uneasily.
"I am King Frederic XCVII, of the Frederic Empire. My armies have conquered entire continents in Titanluxe, you all standing before me is naught but a hill to trample. You may have taken out my soldiers, my Giants, them revived as zombies even. But to say you can defeat my guard. That is insulting. I accept your challenge," King Frederic says.
"What about the wager?" Franc asks.
"I want Camuji Fortress, that's all that matters. My guard will decimate your team, and we'll use your long corpse to build a staircase," King Frederic says bursting into laughter. His guard laughs with him.
"One on one matches, you pick your fighter, and I'll pick my mine. The first one to submit or become immobile is the loser."
The king laughs even harder and says, "This guy is cracking me up, Titus rip 'em to pieces."
The jester with the daggers steps forward he licks his lips and glares at Mineko and Gris. His hair falls to his shoulders in greasy curls, and his outfit is unsightly ill-fitting.
"I'll make this quick for you, Abraham, you're up."
Abraham tilts his hat and steps forward, Titus sighs and asks, "Can I kill him sir? I want to play with the girls."
"Of course you can. I want to use the bodies to decorate the entrance  of Frederic Fortress."
Titus starts to laugh maniacally and turns to Abraham. He tilts his hat and smiles at Titus, he wiggles his fingers next to the hilt of his revolver. There's a loud bang signaling the beginning of the battle, Titus lunges, and Abraham pulls out his gun.

END!

The battle for Camuji Fortress is truly about to begin. Stay tuned for part 3 of the 3rd Task.

Release date: March 17, 2017, God Willing.