The mystical ring of tilemetafora.

IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM...........

Jeremy has chosen not to bother Diana or anybody within the ring anymore. He was hurting about how things was turning out between him and Diana. He now decided to focused more on his personal life, he was now living the life of an introvert as he used to. He spent some of his time everyday to talk to his mom, he uses the rest of the time admiring flowers and waterfall. Sometimes, he did go outside the ring to monitor how Darca was coping with his men.

Diana on her own part was affected the most, Her beef with Jeremy did affect her judgement, she was becoming the shadow of her former self, she couldn't think properly to extent Chance found out. He approached her in initiated a conversation;

"Permit mey queen but I understand that your differences with the kid is eating you up; why don't you talk about it?"

Diana was suprised but she pretended not to understand him;

"what?, I don't know what you're talking about"

Chance walked closer to her and said;

"Don't try to hide it, it's written all over you; you're worried"

Diana tried to dismiss him but he was still adamant on helping her saying;

"I might not be a love expert or have any successful relationship but I know when one is in love and I know you're having difficulty with that relationship. So, I want to help you out not as your subject but as friend"

Diana frowned and replied him that she don't discuss her personal issues. He then replied her back;

"well, don't let your personal issue affect your responsibility to the kingdom".

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The wind dropped Darca and his men outside the castle while Darca passed out immediately. Agar found help and they took Darca inside. He told Lydia of their encounter with Darca's army.

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The Minotaurs were marching to Darca's castle in their numbers, the commander suddenly fell on the ground, all the beast rushed to him only to discover that his wound was bleeding. Zuma being his second in command sat him down while he passed out. The cyclops ordered the blacksmiths among them to mould a metal prosthetic hand with a blade on it.

Cazi woke up after the whole day with a metal blade prosthetic hand. He asked for how long he slept; when he was told, he was mad at his army saying that a it takes two days to get to the castle but they just wasted one day. he ordered that they would take no break or night off till they get to the castle.

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Jeremy sneaked into wastelands; hecwas kinda bored being in the ring, on his way; he saw the army of beast charging into battle. At first, he thought they were coming to fight Ezra but when he checked out their direction; he realized they weren't coming for Ezra but instead; they heads for Darca's. He decided to follow them and find out what they were up to.

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Cazi's armies was charging towards the castle in their numbers, After three days from Darca's arrival; the reached the gate.

Cazi; running towards the castle used his metallic hand to hit a heavy stone which flew across the barricades outside the gate and crashed at the gate. He gave others while the rest of his armies started hauling heavy stones at the gate while the some other armies were destroying the barricades. Agar summoned all the armies and the gathered their ballista and trebuchets. The Minotaurs were launching heavy stones at the game while Agar and their armies was waiting inside.

Suddenly, the gate went down and Agar ordered for the ballista to be fired. Darca's army launched countless arrows on the Minotaurs killing some and injured some others. Cazi threw his hammer up and hauled a heavy stone at the ballista smashing it. Before his hammer could hit the floor; he caught it and hauled it forward which destroyed two ballista and flew back to him. He ordered his men to attacked.

Agar's army were firing with crossbows now, the Minotaur's army dashed forward and started crushing Darca's army. the fight was so intense and Darca's Men were losing. The Minotaurs destroyed Darca's archers and took their crossbows, Agar ordered his men to shield themselves. They all gathered together and formed a huge shield by placing their shields together. The Minotaurs fired their crossbows but Agar's defense was stronger. Cazi hauled his hammer towards Agar's defense and ordered his army to open fire.

The hammer hit their shield breaking their formation while the arrows hit a lot of them. Cazi order his soldier to attacked; they all rushed to Darca's army and started and started killing them before they could form another defence. Agar order his men to retreated, while Agar's army where running; Cazi saw Agar and remembered how he cut off his hand; he charged towards Arga in anger.

One Agar's men dashed towards him and made to slashed him, he spun and stabbed the men with his metal arm, another one charged at him but he smashed his head with his hammer. A cyclops from Agar's army jumped after him; he raised his metal arm in air while the cyclops fell on it's blade. A cyclops stabbed him by his side, he spun immediately and chopped off the head of the cyclops. he charged towards Agar but a troll charged at him while he hit the troll with his hammer at lower jaw sending him away.

Cazi roared and another Minotaur from Darca side roared and charged at him. The Minotaur threw a sword at him, he spun to dodge the sword but his opponent was right in front of him, Darca's Minotaur started hitting his Cazi with an axe but he blocked the axe using his hammer; he then used his armored blade hand to stabbed the Minotaur on the belly. He stood up and saw Agar almost at the entrance of the castle. He knew that he can't get to him from his distance so he picked up the dead Minotaur's axe and hauled it at Agar.

When of Agar's army was trying to get into the castle before they seal the door, he mistakenly ran into the path of the axe and the axe killed him. Cazi roared and dashed towards the entrance but they was sealed before he could reach. He grabbed his hammer and struck it on the door; the door vibrated while a strong wave of energy threw him out crashing him with one of the trebuchets.

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Inside the castle, Agar ran to the attic room and Lydia stopped him; He looked and saw Lydia eating a pheasant. Lydia asked him;

"hold it right there; why are you here?"

Agar asked for her help to defeat Cazi's army. she responded negatively saying that he warned Darca before it all started but he chooses to ignored her. Agar went forward to plead on Darca's behalf saying that Darca must have learnt his lessons. Lydia then answered him;

"Even if I decides to help you, I can't. Darca charged me never to leave the mystical chamber on no condition after that kid broke in sometime ago"

Agar agreed to take responsibility of anything that might happened at the attic once she out there to help defeat the beast. Lydia then asked him if everyone was inside the castle and he responded positively; Lydia then said;

"Do not worry kid, as far as everyone is in the castle; they're all safe. This castle is built to withstand any form of attacks with weapons or magic. We used the strongest magic to protect this castle that no one can get in or out once we sealed our doors".

Agar then asked;

"And we have ourselves trapped in our own homes?; Putting ourselves under siege?; how long do you think we gonna last in here? we have no food".

Lydia also answered him with another question;

"how long do you think those Minotaurs will hit our walls before getting tired? save your strength kiddo".

All these while, Lydia never left her meal.

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Jeremy was watching from a distance; he smirked and said to himself;

"I can't believe a day like this will come; the day almighty Darca will be hiding away from his men trapped in his own home".

He placed to fingers on his forehead and formed a telepathically connection with Zuma.

*****

Zuma was resting at the one of the trebuchets when an idea flashed into his brain as a whisper; He ran to Cazi and said;

"The wall is protected by magic and it can't be touch or pulled down".

Cazi turned and answered him;

"I know that already; I can see it".

He then asked Cazi;

"what's the need of hauling all those stones?; why can't we come with another idea like burning it down".

Cazi asked him why he didn't come with the idea sooner, he turned to his army and ordered;

"gather every woods you see, anything fossil fuel or combustible. He are going to overthrow a castle".

Lydia from the attic heard everything they said and she shouted;

"oh no; we didn't think about that".