The companion got so drunk that they couldn’t see a finger in front of them so they all slept at the inn. Jareth slept in the pig farm behind the inn sleeping with one swine. He dreams and right now he is in that alley where his friend Paul lost his life. He is again a small boy staring at the mauled remains of his dear friend. Then, scared to face his past, he started running away and fell into the sewers where he saw his friend Daz standing, with a slit neck, staring not at Jareth, but at his soul. He starts apologizing to Daz for killing him when suddenly Daz punches him and he falls into the sewers’s water. When he got up he wasn't in the sewers anymore but in the mud in front of the gallows. There were 10 people on the gallows and all of them had blurred faces except Micheal, Clint and Carmen. Jareth started crying out of guilt and pain of leaving his friends when suddenly he heard a distant voice calling him. He starts waking up but something is wrong, he can see that someone is staring at him and it's not one of his friends but a girl. He wakes up fully and sees that he is indeed not dreaming. “How are you feeling?” asked the unknown girl. Jareth, mesmerized by her beauty, started stuttering and he forgot how to form a sentence. “You drank pretty good last night so that must be the reason why you act like this. Come, let me take you to the kitchen to eat something before you go.” said the unknown girl. “Y-yeah sure” said Jareth. He just can’t take his eyes off her, he is really into this girl. They went into the kitchen where Drevid was sleeping on the floor. Jareth kicked him to wake up. “Wake up, you drunk” said Jareth knowing full well he drank twice as much as Drevid. “Sorry, I didn’t get what your name was?” Jareth asked the girl. “Well I didn’t tell you but my name is Theodora” said Theodora. “Wow, such a pretty na- I mean nice to meet you Theodora” said Jareth. “Nice to meet you too, ?” said Theodora waiting for Jareth to say his name and it took him a moment to realise that. “Oh, my name is Rook, Jareth Rook.” said Jareth. “Well then, nice to meet you, Jareth Rook” said Theodora. “Will you two stop talking already! My head is spinning so fucking much right now!” yelled Drevid. “Where are the others?” asked Jareth. “How the fuck should I know” answered Drevid in a half alive state. “I can answer you that question. The big broad guy with black hair is sleeping on one table. The other guy, I think you called him George, is in front of the inn sleeping on the fence and the last one is sitting on one of the tables, already drinking again.” said Theodora. “Thank you, Theodora” said Jareth with a smile so big, even bigger than the guard’s smile from that day. “Wait, have you seen our third guy? He is a little shorter than me, has long blonde hair and green eyes” asked Jareth. “Oh, how stupid I am. He told me to tell you to meet him in Drakendurah, said he had some unfinished business and that you should find him in Crabby dogs inn.” said Theodora. “No, no, no, you are not stupid, everyone can forget something. Don’t judge yourself too harshly. If I were you, I would have forgotten who was where from our group but you didn’t, you even remembered what inn our friend mentioned to you.” said Jareth. Suddenly a shout was heard from the other side of the kitchen “Escort the guests from the kitchen and clean this mess up right now!” yelled Theodora’s mom. “Yes, mother.” Theodora complied. “I’m so sorry about her but can you and your friend please go to the tables?” asked Theodora, with nothing but sadness in her eyes “Yes, of course. Whatever you say.” said Jareth. “But do you need any help or so-Please just leave before she gets mad” Theodora interrupts Jareth. “Sorry, let’s go brother!” said Jareth to Drevid. Just as Theodora wanted to say something, Jareth and Drevid left the kitchen, so she went to clean the mess while a tear slid down her cheek. Jareth carried George from the outside while Drevid carried Milos and they both placed them on the table with Galv. They all sat on the table, waiting for Milos and George to wake up. Meanwhile in Mitraile castle, in Gaudhamms, king Voris is talking to his wife when suddenly a guard rushes into their room and before he says anything he falls on the floor and on his back some kind of infestation, full of bubbles and meat, spreads across his body and eats him alive. Behind the guard, the same witch that killed king Craude, walks in. “Damn you, Montaria! Did you have to fucking kill my soldier?” Voris screams at her. “Well your soldier got the nerve to catcall me so I told him that if he reaches you, I won't kill him but it looks like he failed. Aw, such a pity.” says Montaria. “Well, what is your business here?” asked Voris impatiently. “I have come to tell you that the boy successfully joined the group and with the power that the hidden alliance holds, we can use them and manipulate them into giving us control over the whole Fjondari region.” said Montaria while smirking. “Did it come to your stupid head that almost the whole alliance is killed? How can they wield so much power when there are a dozen of them?” asked Voris furiously. “There is one who holds special power, I can see that in his future he will do many great things. This person will endure endless trials of torture and error until he finally achieves the greatness he is yet to seek and his name is… Jareth Rook.” said Montaria. “Wait, so you are telling me his future is bigger than that of Milos AND Jonathan?” asked Voris, in disbelief. “Yes, I feel that his decisions will cast the world anew.” said Montaria. “What does that mean?” Voris asked. “I’m not sure yet but I’m sure that Dogmai has a great plan for him” responded the witch Montaria. Back to our companions, they are traversing on the road to Drakendurah when out of nowhere, 10 thieves ambush them from all sides. “Look at these fine gentlemen. I’m sure they are probably full of gold. Aren’t ya lads?” asked one thief. “Fuck off!” said Galv. “Hey! Watch your mouth, dipshit!” said another thief. The companion unsheathed their swords and started fighting with thieves. Each one fought 2 thieves at once. While Milos and Drevid had no problem defending, Jareth and Galv were getting beaten. Jareth, unlike his brother, wasn’t good in combat so his opponent quickly found his weak points and used them. Jareth jumped onto one thief and killed him but forgot about the other. The other thief raises his sword to stab Jareth but Galv stabs the thief from behind and kills him. Galv goes to Jareth to help him get up but as he stretches out his hand for Jareth’s, the fourth thief cuts Galv’s right hand clean off. Galv started screaming out of pain and everybody stopped for a moment to see what happened. Jareth took that opportunity and started fighting the thief that cut Galv’s hand. The thief was clearly stronger than him so Jareth took quite a beating where he got sliced and sliced and sliced until he couldn’t stand anymore from the pain and collapsed to the floor. In the moment he knew he was gonna die so he shed a tear “(How fucking stupid of me to die like this. I hate myself, why do I have to be so weak? I’m sorry guys, I’m a fucking failure)” Jareth thought in his mind and just before the thief killed Jareth, Milos came and stabbed the thief in the head where the tip of the sword was going through the thieves mouth. Jareth felt a little relief knowing that at least he wouldn't die before he fell unconscious. He woke up the next day in bed. He looks around and spots that Galv lies on the bed next to him. He felt happiness knowing that they are all alive and well. “Can you see me?” asked Johnny who was sitting next to Jareth. “Oh shit, you scared me!” said Jareth. “Did you not see me? No matter, I have been meaning to ask you something.” said Johnny. “Well? What is it?” asked Jareth. “I want to know all about your alliance, its history, its reason to exist and everything you can tell me and if you ask for a reason. I am simply interested” said Johnny. “Where do I start, oh yeah I can start there.”

  Fjondari - year 974

  ClerDam - at evening

  “In the great Biblian Library, a scholar was studying the royal tree of Fjondari rulers but when he got to Sentras he saw that his parents were not matching with Dadrien (Sentras’s bloodline) family tree. He saw the mistake and when he went to the grandmaster to show it, the grandmaster told him to not speak of it again or all titles will be stripped of the scholar. The scholar did not listen to the grandmaster and he showed the mistake to other scholars where many of them told him to brush it off but he didn’t stop. He showed it to his friends, to civilians and even to some knights until one day when he came to the entrance of the library, the guards forbade him to get in and he knew that something unrighteous was in place so that is the story of Daniel Canny, the creator of the alliance. From then, he started gaining more and more people on his side by his story. Some scholars actually believed him and secretly stole books so they can find out more about Sentras, concreting the evidence that he is not supposed to be the king. The alliance grew bigger and bigger by the year and when I joined in 980, the alliance consisted of about 120 people. Then, when we found that the true king was held imprisoned in an island on the Lonely lake, we knew that we were his and he was our key to escape. I, along with 30 other men, planned for a year how to get him out until in 981 we set the plan in motion. On one side of the prison I and 4 other guys waited with a boat to escort Milos if he escaped this way and we were supposed to hide him in Claubust for a while and on the other side was a bridge to the island where other 5 guys ,including my late friend Clint, were waiting if he decided to take the bridge route which in end he did. Because Sentras doesn’t want the world to know about him, he went mad and sent his army all across Fjondari to search for him so they took him to Klistorm where he waited a couple months for the fire to extinguish and for Sentras to forget about him but he thought wrong because when he returned to Fjondari and got into ClerDam, one of the guys informed him of a mole in the alliance in which he told me and we escaped and I think that almost all of alliance was hanged except Daniel, who we got informed ran away to another city in Fjondari. So pretty much that is our story” said Jareth. “You said a mole, correct?” asked Johnny. “Yes?” replied Jareth. “Well, this is more fucked up than I imagined. When I was still in Klistorm, Regent Alexandris sent a spy but he didn’t tell me where since I’m too young to meddle with politics. Now it all makes sense. Regent and Sentras work together to keep Milos off the throne because they both think that if Milos gets the throne, he will help Klistorm overthrow Alexandris and put me on the throne but I don’t know what their problem is with me. Alexandris has no wish to rule, quite on the contrary, he wants me to rule!” said Johnny right as someone opened the door from the inn, a loud creak was heard along with the sound of the cold gust of wind coming in. The person that entered the inn was none other than Regent Alexandris. George rushed upstairs to tell Jareth and Johnny that someone came and when Johnny got down he and the regent were both shocked to see each other there. They took a seat on the table right next to the bar counter where Milos was sitting, drinking some beer. At that moment the regent could not recognize Milos because he could only see his back but the other guys were tense because they knew if Milos turned around, they would be uncovered, so they all prayed inside their head that he does not turn around. “What brings you here, you old man?” asked Johnny. “I have an important business meeting with King Sentras. I’m more concerned about what brings you here into another country. Care to tell me, young man?” asked the regent. “Visiting a friend,” Johnny responded quickly. “What is the meeting about?” He changed the subject. “Nothing important, just some rodents that need to be rid off, and the king asked for my help” said Regent Alexandris. “Some rodents, huh?” said Milos, angrily. “Do not indulge in private matters, sir” said Alexandris. “We are just some fucking rodents to you?” asked Milos before turning around and hitting the regent with the mug. “How dare you hit the ruler of Klistorm? You will be hanged for this!” said Alexandris in disbelief. “You, Are we nothing more than mere pests to you? You disgust me! How dare you call yourself a ruler of Klistorm when he stands right in front of you?? No, you don’t get to call yourself that anymore!” said Milos with so much rage it could kill a dozen men. “Guards! Guards!” the regent screamed. “You think those guards care for you? Right now they are in a whorehouse fucking some whores not giving two shits about you” said Milos. “No, you cannot do this! I command you to stop this or consequences will be enormous! Stop this at once!” the regent said this as Milos started getting closer to him and the regent started crawling backwards until he hit a wall. “Stop it, I beg of you! Johnny boy, help me. Tell this mad man to stop!” said the regent. “Sorry, I’m not a king” said Johnny. “Grand regent Alexandris, I charge you on being involved with my imprisonment by giving me to the king and I charge you on being involved in plotting the alliance arrest. Hereby, I sentence you death by bludgeoning. I will beat you till your last breath.” said Milos. “You can’t do that! You don’t hold the power of the court!” said the regent. “And you don’t hold the power of a king yet you command me as if you are one, so I will play by your rules. Here in this moment, I am your judge, your jury and your executioner.” said Milos just a moment before he jumped on the regent and started beating him. Punch after punch, blood splat after blood splat, teeth falling out and cries of the regent being so loud, the outside guards rush in to check the commotion. “The man is getting beaten because he raped this man’s daughter and got away with it. I hope you don’t interfere in such tragic situations” Johnny lied to the guards so they wouldn't stop him from killing the regent. Milos stops, seeing how much he bashed the regent’s head and how much blood he spilled. In the moment he got so sick of himself that he almost threw up but he remained calm, got up, took the regent’s body and threw in the giant fireplace in the inn. He went outside to take a few deep breaths and then he looked at the moon. “I hated him too, you know, but was it really necessary to make such an act?” asked Johnny. “If only you knew half of what he has done, you would know that what I did was not enough.” said Milos. “I guess this is probably a sensitive subject to you, but can you spare me some of your stories of him?” asked Johnny. “Fine, but all of you need to hear it so let's go upstairs,” said Milos. Jonathan went to call George and the three of them went upstairs. “What the fuck happened downstairs??” asked Jareth, who was unable to get out of bed due to the sheer amounts of wounds his body sustained. “Regent Alexandris happened downstairs.” replied Milos. “Who is that?” asked Jareth. “That is why we are here together. I’m about to tell you all the story of that piece of shit. Before I was imprisoned on the Island, I was a guard of your father, Floyd. He knew that I was of royal blood and he wanted to help me but just before he could, he died. Then the regent came on the throne. I knew that he wasn’t a good guy so I knew I had to leave Klistorm but it turns out that some guards that were helping me escape, turned out to be his spies and they directly led me to his ambush where 20 of his men arrested me. They put a bag over my head so I couldn’t see where I was taken and that’s when he appeared. “Hello Millie, some birdie told me that you proclaim your blood is royal. Do you still hold that claim?” he asked and I answered “Yes”. He chuckled a little before he stripped me naked, still with a bag on my head, and chained me to a wall. “You know that a non-pure prince can’t be a king?” he whispered into my ear. Then he called a whore into the room and left us alone. I can’t say my body didn’t enjoy those things that the woman did, but mentally I knew I was not blessed by the gods anymore because I wasn’t pure and that hurt me deeply. When she finished, a man came in and he did more unholy things to me that nobody is supposed to experience. Unlike the woman, he wasn’t gentle and he was also a sadist. He choked my cock and punched me a lot, he squeezed my bollocks until they almost burst and then laughed as I squirmed and moaned in pain. That night I lost my purity to both man and woman which scarred my honor deeply. After the torture, the regent came back and told me that he is sending me to my country. From that day, I had nothing but pure hate for him. Each day I was thinking of ways I could kill him and today when I heard his voice behind me, I knew I was supposed to punish him and I kind of did but now I think that it still wasn’t enough. Another reason I killed him was because he knew I lost my purity so he would use that against me to bring me down if I ever took the throne so I had to kill him.” said Milos. “I’m sorry you had to experience that but you kind of fucked up a lot with killing him.” said Johnny. “I know, I know, I am sorry” Milos apologized. “John. Theodora told me that you had something to do in Drakendurah, I’m just curious what it was?” asked Jareth. “Yeah, I think I found the location of ********************.” responded Johnny. :You, yes you, the reader. Whatever Jonathan said to Jareth doesn’t matter till later in the story so even if I told you the name of the thing, you would eventually forget it so think this as finding a side quest in a game and not being the right level to do it so you do the main quest until you can do the side quest. And I’m totally not telling you this because I'm too lazy to think of the thing, what would even make you think that? Back to the story:

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  Two or three weeks passed until Jareth could at least walk and he was already practicing with his sword on a dummy. With each swing, he groaned a little because of the pain that appeared from fast movement and nonetheless he swinged and swinged and swinged till sun fall. He lied on the grass ground and stared at the stars. He raised his hand in the air like he was trying to grab the stars.”They are pretty far away, you know.” said Galv. Jareth was excited to see that Galv is also out of his bed and he jumped to hug his friend. “Come, they are already eating dinner without us.” said Galv. They both headed to the inn where they ate and talked all night. The next day, Galv approached Jareth to tell him something but he was looking disappointed. Jareth noticed and asked "what is it?” to which Galv responded “I don’t think this is for me Jerry, sure I want to see Milos on the throne, sure I want to stop the corruption but I don’t want to risk my life. I already paid a huge price and I don’t think I want to pay more. I’m sorry”. Jareth took a moment before responding. “It’s okay. Do you have an idea where you will go?” asked Jareth. “I’m planning on being a merchant in Clerdam since it doesn’t really require both hands and I want to open my own shop where you all are invited.” said Galv. Later that day, Galv bid farewell to everyone and left for ClerDam.