Six Warriors

The End of the Woods Conflict - (Sam)

The members of Boarders and Phantom Lord were celebrating when they realized they had won the battle, the remaining members of Iron Fist began to surrender, this was at a time when Eric, having recovered a bit with healing potions, also had enough space for some of the warriors fallen from Boarders or Phantom Lord.

"Yooooshi! That's it! We won! I knew it!" Jack celebrated alongside Sam.

"Who would have thought, the impossible actually happened, it's a miracle" laughed Eric.

"Sam, we made it, Sam, we won!" Said Emma suddenly jumping on his back, she looked quite happy and then looked him in the eye, "I was lucky to meet you, thank you so much for bringing your club to help us with this, Iron Fist has been bbullying us for a long time. "

"So I'm glad we got this victory" Sam smiled.

"Yeah," Emma replied and suddenly, without Sam expecting it, she just gave him a brief kiss on the lips, still enough to make the boy's heart race and Jack and Eric laughed and congratulated him. Emma linked arms with Sam, which made him a little embarrassed but happy at the same time.

Little by little, his friends were showing up, Ethan, Miguel, Billy, they were finished, but Eric kept the healing items for the most needy only. Indira, the little creature, seeing that Ethan, Sam and their friends were all happy, seemed to be celebrating too.

"Hey, hey. hey what do you mean, what the hell is this?!" Ethan said, widening his eyes when he saw him with Emma, the two of them still with their arms entwined, "what do you mean? Hey, what do you mean Sam got along? Hey, that's not fair, is it?"

"What's up, man? It's just obvious," Miguel said with a shrug, "I mean, we got into this whole mess because of this in the first place, right?"

"Seriously, that cat-girl was really almost crushing on me" Ethan whined, "if only we weren't enemies, maybe I could ask her out on a date."

"That cat-girl?" Miguel asked making an incredulous expression, "I don't think so, but the girl with the whip did seem interested in you."

For some reason Ethan didn't seem to like it and seemed to shiver. That surprised Sam. He thought Ethan could easily be interested in any girl.

Sam and the others went to where Fenrir was and Arthur, Stanis and Victoria were also there, as well as that vampire girl, Katy or something, what surprised Sam was the fact that she had no injuries, unlike Fenrir, who seemed well finished.

"Damn, was this Gartham really that strong?!" Jack asked in surprise.

"Much more than you can dream of, Fat-Jack!" Arthur growled in response.

"Can't you give him one of those healing potions Eric?" Sam asked.

"Hey, a mere healing potion wouldn't solve this... it's complicated and will get the board's attention, but I think the only way would be to take him to the infirmary."

 It's true, despite helping to heal wounds, the power of those potions was limited, moreover it didn't recover stamina nor did it recover magic power.

But Indira started flying around Fenrir seeming to sing incomprehensible things and after that a kind of shiny dust or glitter started coming out of her paws, which seemed to help heal Fenrir. Fenrir frowned, as if he was about to wake up, but he couldn't, perhaps not strong enough yet. He was also very pale, like the time Gwendy had said that this was the side effect of using too much magic power.

Sam heard some screams, it sounded like a little fight. That guy named Caff came running up and looked scared.

"Guys, some of the Iron Fist members are resisting!" He said desperately "they come here, get this boy!" He pointed to Fenrir.

"Let them come!" Arthur said "I'm done with them!"

And they did come. Some who still resisted, led by a boy named Gron.

"We're not done yet," he roared, "come on you cowards! We're Iron Fist, we can't lose like that to these losers!" A few remaining members felt motivated, which made Gron smile in approval, "Let's go! For the Iron Fist and for Gartham, the Iron Lord!" The resisters roared their approval. However, a quick lunge knocked Gron down, leaving the resisters stunned.

"Hey guys, sorry for being late!" A muscular young man with a flat head, short dark hair, and broad eyebrows smiled.

"You are really late, Marcus," Ethan said, also smiling.

"Give me a discount, I'm breaking dozens of Guardian and Academy rules for this." He laughed again.

...

"Hey guys, so we won?" asked Fenrir starting to wake up.

"Yeah man, we did it!" Arthur responded excitedly.

"You took too much risk, Fenrir," Ethan said with concern, "I'm glad I sent Arthur to see you. Still, you did a good job, it makes me proud." Ethan smiled and Fenrir returned the gesture.

"Katy, are you okay?" Fenrir asked the vampire girl.

"Better than I'm used to," she replied smiling, "that Gartham attack took a little longer to regenerate than I'm used to, but nothing as serious."

"You are a vampire girl after all," he replied smiling.

Sam heard a laugh that sounded more like the roar of thunder. He looked where he was coming from and his heart almost jumped out. It was Gartham, all bloodyy and bruised and dirty and sweaty. He was crawling along, but he still looked furious and frightening. He took a few more steps and then dropped to his knees on the floor.

"Damn sons of guun!" He roared "you bastards defeated me!"

By this time, Fenrir was already sitting on the grass, but still pretty worn out.

"I can't understand" he said, with his usual old expression "what's the reason for all this anger?"

"You have courage to ask! You betrayed my trust, you went out spreading that we had mercy on you, you went out saying we were scared. And worst of all, you told the council everything, you're rotten. I told you not to involve the council!"

"What the hell are you talking about? I didn't do any of that. You're going to explain everything to me, you owe me this."

But just then Mike and those guys, Paul and Pablo showed up, they were alarmed.

"Guys, it's the council! The Student Council is coming! The disciplinary committee itself!"

"My Iron Lord, is the Council!" Said one of the Iron Fist guys to the wounded Gartham. "The Prince of Night is among them, boss! What are we going to do?" The boy looked desperate and in quoting that 'Prince of Night', Gartham looked quite fearful.

Gartham snarled and screamed in anger, then looked at Fenrir and pointed at him.

"See?! That's what we're talking about! You crap, cowards!"

"Fenrir is time for our escape plan" Miguel said, "Mike has already prepared everything, we have to go now."

"What about them? What will happen?" Fenrir asked referring to Gartham and his men.

"A serious punishment for a fight like that," Katy said, "probably an expulsion."

"Mike, do you think you could buy us more time?"

"Well... I only had a limited number of escape items and illusion items, it would be difficult and..."

"These guys have to go with us. Do you think it's possible?"

"Okay, fooling a few more council fops? Right, why not? It's going to be a lot of fun."

"Ethan, do you think you can ask Indira to heal Gartham?"

"W...what?!" Ethan looked surprised.

"Do you think you can?"

"W-well, yes, but..."

"Right" Fenrir gave a slight smile, "it's time to get out of here."

...

Mike had a few illusion items strategically scattered through the woods, all to aid the battle, but it turned out to be an escape from the dreaded Student Council. He knew some secret passages from the academy grounds, but even more impressive, he had an item that CREATED passages, Sam didn't really know how it worked, but it was impressive and it was called Rabbit Hole.

"You helped us," Gartham said to Fenrir, after they had already fled the council and were now near the abandoned places of the academy, "why?"

"Because I still think this was all a misunderstanding, but you guys did deserve a beating," Fenrir said, "now explain to me what you meant by that before."

"Okay" Gartham replied still annoyed, "the same day you visited my club, later Monique and two other council members showed up to us. club. They searched our headquarters and found nothing unusual. So the girl said it was expected from the club that was chased away by rookie newbies, and that everyone was talking and making fun of it. Having council members chase us in the place you suggested for battle helps me feel that distrust."

"Monique" Fenrir said in a tired sigh "look man I don't know how to make you believe it, but I don't get along with her. I wouldn't never go on her and talk about a problem I was going through, never ever.

"It's true" Jack confirmed "you can ask anyone, Monique hates my friend here."

"Now I understand that we were made for a fool." Gartham said with a serious expression, "the girl doesn't like unofficial clubs, so if we broke up with each other it would be good for her." Gartham punched the ground "Damn, I was being dumb! I'm going to end the council, even if it costs me expulsion!"

"Calm down, Gartham" Fenrir asked, "you don't need to do anything desperate. I have a much better idea."

"And what idea would that be?" Gartham looked interested, and Fenrir curled his lips in a cynical smile.

"Monique wanted our clubs to do away with each other."

"So what? Spit it out!"

"So what better idea than keeping our clubs active? Better yet, in alliance. An alliance between our clubs, what do you say?"

Gartham smiled, seeming to like the idea.

"You have won a battle against us, so we still owe you a tribute, I have enough honor to shoulder my debts. But yes, very well. Allies then." Then Gartham and Fenrir shook hands.