Taking The Capital Pt. 4

Entering the room at the top of the stairs it appears to be a large throne room with the same basic design as the entrance hall, but with the addition of a beautiful red carpet leading up to a group of three thrones at the other end of the room. In the center was a large golden throne in which sat a human male, he seemed scared. To his left was a slightly smaller silver throne in which sat a woman who looked mostly just annoyed by the presence of Doom and his allies, to the king's right was another silver throne on this one a young woman sat, she seemed excited, but nervous.

In front of them were two figures, the aforementioned King's Bodyguard and Queen's Servant. The King's Bodyguard was a figure wearing heavy steel plate armor, it covered the figure from head to toe, the only sign that anyone was actually inside was a single glowing red eye staring out from the visor of the helmet. It held in its hand a large two handed axe and stood perfectly still, simply waiting. Its stillness was unnatural and intimidating.

The Queen's servant meanwhile was a woman with curly blond hair wielding a simple rapier, a shiny tiara on her head. She was wearing light armor, skimpy would actually be a better descriptor. She had a simple pair of metal plates covering her breasts and a metal pleated short skirt, but otherwise wore nothing showing off a graceful dancer's body. Her eyes were a light blue and she had pink lipstick on and as she spotted Doom looking her over she gave him a wink and blew him a kiss.

Raig speaks, "The Queen's servant is mine... I owe that slut!" he roars and Doom shrugs and turns his attention to the creepy, probably not human creature in the armor. The Queen's Servant meanwhile steps forward and slides a hand up to her chest.

"Oh, Raig, I'm so glad you remember me. Though since you seem to think you have a chance against me now, you must not remember me very well," she says tauntingly as Doom squares up with the bodyguard and Raig moves to oppose the Queen's Servant. Doom stares at the creepy thing in front of him. He tries to think about how he just made a god flee, whatever this creature is, it can't be worse than a god, but no matter how much he tells himself that, it's red eye focused on him, makes him shiver.

The sound of steel on scale fills the room as Raig has begun his fight with the servant. He's morphed into his full dragon form again, ramming into her, but despite her much smaller size, she stops his charge with her sword as if it was nothing. Doom doesn't have time to focus on Raig's fight though as the creature's footsteps echo in front of him and he turns his attention back to his opponent in time to see the creature pouncing at him slamming the axe down at him, a sickly greenish light enveloping the head of the axe. He leaps back avoiding the attack and fires two stone bullets at the creature, they smash against its armor, making it stagger back from the blows, but it otherwise seems unbothered and then it attacks again swinging the axe in frantic arcs. Doom barely avoids it by hastily back stepping. For the first time Doom finds himself wishing he had a weapon.

The creature's swings keep pushing him back and he realizes he'll run out of room soon enough. He needs to find a way to change the momentum of this battle. The bodyguard swings the axe in an upwards strike and he dodges backwards and then the creature moves forward with a downward strike and, in an act of desperation, Doom pushes forward. He feels the axe sink into his shoulder and despite his resistance to physical damage, it hurts quite a bit, but strangely there doesn't seem to be any magical damage. He reaches out and grabs the handle of the axe trying to wrench it from the bodyguard's hands, but they struggle to maintain their grip. The two grapple over the weapon for a bit and then the sickly green glow begins to pass through the weapon into Doom, the bodyguard attempting to harm him with the magic to **** him to let go.

Doom has a hunch though, if he's wrong, he'll die, but if he's right... He lets the magic travel into him and... nothing happens, like he expected, it's **** magic. He's immune. The bodyguard seems shocked as Doom takes it with no effect. Doom releases his grip on the axe with one hand and uses it to stab a clawed finger into the creature's glowing red eye. They make a hellish screeching noise and back away, releasing the axe and letting Doom grab it and then swing it around, cutting their head from their shoulders. Their helmeted head sails through the air and lands on the ground, but the fight isn't over, the creature remains standing, of course now Doom has the axe and he's not afraid of them. All they have left is magic that can't hurt him, at least he hopes.

Doom steps forward and they don't seem to know what to do, which tells him that he's right, they have nothing else. He pushes the armored body over and it collapses to the ground and lies defeated. Doom goes over to the head and lifts it, tearing the helmet off to reveal a deathly pale woman's head. Short black hair falls around her face which contains, one glowing red eye, the other simply an open eye socket, "The king's bodyguard is some kind of undead monster woman?" Doom questions and then suddenly he's distracted by a voice.

"Wow, I'm impressed, I've never seen anyone beat that thing before," the servant speaks and Doom turns to her. Raig is lying on his side, breathing weakly, The Servant is sitting on him and watching Doom with her head in her hands, it's clear she defeated Raig. He's bleeding in a number of places and her rapier is embedded in his side, near where she's sitting.

She yanks the blade out of his flesh and slips off of him, "I guess it's our turn to dance," she says. She was small, easily crushed, but... she had just defeated a transformed dragon in one-on one combat and she didn't seem to have even been injured slightly. Doom lifts the axe he had taken from the undead woman as he prepared to fight, when suddenly Cara was beside him.

"Master Doom... A... Allow me to fight in your stead against this one," she says.

"What? She just took out a dragon, are you sure?" he asked and she shook her head.

"I'm not sure I can win, but... I am sure that you can't. I watched her fight Raig, she's fast. Incredibly fast, Raig was too slow to beat her and while you're faster than Raig you will not be fast enough to beat her... I don't know if I'm fast enough to beat her, but of all your allies I am the one most likely to be able to match her," she explains and The Servant licks her lips, seemingly eager for this opportunity.

"Fine... You fight her. Don't you dare die," Doom states and then blink as Cara nods and steps forward, slipping a dagger out of her belt. He wasn't sure why he said that. He doesn't really care about this woman, if she dies she dies. He chalks it up as simply wanting victory here as he steps back. Doom is still holding the axe and the head still and he moves over to the body and sits on it as he places the head down next to it and lays the axe on his knees.

Cara shifts the dagger in her hand into a reverse grip as she lowers her body, "I'm ready when you are," Cara says and The Servant giggles.

"Oh trust me, you're not ready," she responds and then moves. Cara was right she was fast, one second she was still and the next she was in front of Cara, the rapier stabbing towards Cara's chest, but Cara just about managed to deflect it with the dagger and then lashes out, slicing at her uncovered stomach, but the servant vanishes reappearing further away, just in time for Cara's thrown knife to hit her in the stomach. She gasps and grabs the knife embedded in her soft flesh and pulls it out, "Hah... You sneaky little bitch," she says and then raises the knife and licks her own blood off of the blade.

Again she attacks and Cara only barely manages to deflect a stab towards her head, but this time the Servant doesn't let up, launching a flurry of stabs, Cara does her best to dodge and deflect them, but quite a bit get through, the rapier cutting into her side, her shoulder and only barely missing a stab to the throat, becoming only a nick instead. Cara is struggling, she was also right, she's not fast enough. It's unlikely anyone is fast enough. The Servant is a blur, it almost looks like she's wielding multiple rapiers at once all stabbing towards Cara, but no, there's only one rapier, she's just that fast.

Cara takes a stab to the thigh that makes her cry out and drop to one knee, she unintentionally drops her dagger, but manages to catch the rapier with her hand, stopping it from skewering her face, but at the cost of grievous injury to her hand. The Servant grins sadistically as she starts to push the rapier forward, the blade slicing into Cara's hand as the tip slowly presses towards Cara's face. Cara leans back and then tosses a small vial towards the Servant's face, and she again vanishes reappearing away from Cara, her rapier dripping blood down its length. Doom can see Cara's hand, the flesh of her palm is mutilated and some of her fingers are only barely still attached.

She drops her hand to the ground, collapsing to her knees, breathing heavily, defeated. She lost and she's about to die. Doom starts to stand as the Servant prepares to attack again when suddenly the Servant drops to her knees and raises a hand to her mouth, as she starts to throw up blood, her eyes widening. Cara lets out a weak giggle, "took long enough... Honestly... you would have had me if you weren't such a show off..." Cara states and the Servant gives her a hateful look before coughing up another torrent of blood, her look of hatred turning to one of fear as she looks down at the growing puddle of blood in front of her, "the knife I threw was poisoned, but honestly you took it out pretty quickly, I wasn't sure if enough of the poison got into you, course then you licked the blade," Cara adds and the Servant looks scared, she seems suddenly pitiful as she looks towards the thrones.

"Mistress!" She speaks towards the Queen, sounding almost pleading before her body is wracked by a sudden spasm and she coughs up more blood, the Queen for her part seems just more annoyed that her servant had failed her. The Servant collapses to the ground, face down in the pool of blood as Cara collapses backwards and stares up at the ceiling.

"All yours now, Master..." she says weakly before drifting out of consciousness. Doom stands up and approaches the thrones, the king looks terrified, the princess looks scared now as well, but the Queen merely stares him down imperiously. Doom stands in front of the king, towering over the three of them on their thrones.

"Do any of you want to try and fight? Run? Negotiate?" he asks, but they just stare at him, "Fine then... This place is mine now, get out of my throne," he commands and reaches out grabbing the king and tossing him off the throne and to the floor. He sits down on the throne, it barely fits, but that doesn't matter. He looks to the women on either side of him and speaks, "Take these two and his Royal Highness and bring them to the prison. Also someone find Olivia, we need healers for Cara, Raig and assuming she hasn't already died, we should heal the poisoned woman, she might be useful, also take the undead woman to the prison as well," he commands as he wiggles his butt on the throne enjoying the sensation.

There's still a lot to do, but for the moment at least, he's won. This entire nation is his, well, until he gives it back to Raig, assuming he decides to keep that deal. Maybe Olivia won't be able to heal him, maybe he should make her fail to heal him, he thinks to himself as he basks in his victory.