Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Fractured Fate. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own Brave, Disney, Pixar and a few others do.

(DunBroch)

Basil brushed off his armor and looked around, he was waiting for the rest of his men while he looked at Merida leaning on a tree and looking at him.

"We're dealing with a lot more then I'm guessing you aren't used to stuff like this?" Basil asked, he pulled his helmet off and rested it off on his blade.

"I dealt with a cursed bear; I think I can handle some soldiers in armor." Merida replied, looking over an arrow while Basil chuckled.

"Well, I'm not saying you can't, I said a few times you can handle yourself; I'm saying you're dealing with people who can fight very well… I haven't seen better warriors outside of Tashire." Basil said, he brushed off his armor and looked at the castle.

"You guys have a nice king…. Wait…" Basil said as he looked closer, he could see soldiers, they were knights, and he saw a figure in more ornate armor hefting a massive axe over his shoulder.

"Oh no… DAMN IT, HE TRICKED US!" Basil said as he donned his helmet and put his sword on his back, it took a moment for Merida to realize that the traitors that Basil had hunted were circling around to try and attack the castle.

Her father could handle a few, but her mother and her brothers couldn't. She followed behind while Basil climbed onto his horse.

"C'mon, their burn your castle to the ground if we don't get back there fast!" Basil yelled while he patted his horse to make it rush down the hill.

"You better not have…" Merida started to say before Basil turned to her.

"I haven't tricked you, we would have set fire to your home and left if I was attacking you… I can't call for the others, they'd be too far and by the time I rallied them, we'd be coming back to nothing but fire…" Basil said, he noticed fires already coming from the docks and cursed.

"They set our boats on fire, damn him! You live here, can your father fight? Tashire traitors might be backstabbers, but they're still skilled fighters…. I'm guessing your father taught you how to fight?" Basil asked, Merida could guess by his tone that he already knew that she and her father could hold her own.

"I'll handle the ones outside; you help your family…." Basil said before he leapt off the horse when they pulled up to the burning front gate and a group of 5 traitor knights.

"Albus betrayed my father and you choose to bring them into it?" Basil asked, drawing his sword while Merida rushed around them as they advanced on Basil.

Basil looked at the castle guards and rushed the Knights before he rolled under the axe strike of one of them before he rolled into the midst of 4 guards.

"I'm on your side… Allow me to help." Basil said while 4 more Knights joined the enemy group.

Basil readied his blade for battle, he hadn't come here to let innocent people die for the actions of one traitor.

(Inside the Castle)

Merida dodged the axe of one of the knights before shooting him through the visor of his helmet, he collapsed into the damaged hallway, dead.

"Mom? Dad?" Merida asked as she looked for her parents, she could hear the sound of blades outside and in.

Her father was alive, Basil said the name of the man behind this attack was Albus. Merida couldn't see Basil as the type to kill his own men to get something, so that ruled out that Basil had been behind this.

Besides, the Knights were after her parents, if she found out Basil was behind this, she'd deal with them.

She entered the throne room and instantly knew it was a trap when the doors were slammed shut behind her and knights emerged from all corners of the room at her.

"What have you done with my parents?" Merida asked as she reached for her sword, knowing her bow wouldn't do much to the knights in the throne room.

(With Basil)

Basil dodged the swing of a sword while he parried another and used the moment to slice the head off a third knight, dropping the enemy soldier to the ground. he was knocked to the ground by a burly knight with a poleaxe.

Basil looked at the body of a dead castle guard and then back to the advancing knights, he knew the weak points of their armor, they as well.

Basil laughed as the hulking knight which had red streaks on his armor and the symbol of a figure cloaked in light.

"Albus… You damned coward..." Basil said, climbing to his feet as Albus looked at him with nothing short of contempt.

Basil prepared to fight the traitorous captain, this ended here, it seemed.

Basil and Albus lunged at each other.

Author Notes

Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out the first arc is drawing to a close. I also want to point out that next chapter will only feature Basil, Albus, Fergus and Merida and won't have any other major characters. Next chapter will be in 2 weeks or so and will show Basil fighting Albus and Merida fighting the Knights. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!