~ ~Glimmer Spire, Spire City, Phoenicia~ ~
Shuichi was apparently forgotten...
This... is too weird. He didn't really wonder what happened, but in a few seconds he was left alone. Then again he heard weird noises and all kind of stuff happened. "I'll just follow Indher"
When he reached the roof... he could only see a powerful blast and flash.
"This is too complicated!" He yelled holding himself to not fall from the explosion.
~ ~Ze Forest ~ ~
"NEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEE~ ~!!'
Puco fell of Sienna and screamed loudly. Not a scream of fear, nor one of being amused. Just one of... overreaction? She screamed end fell on the earth, and then she saw a man kicking a younger girl.
"Wha?" She didn't see the lost city, because the chaos around her overwhelmed her enough.
She did know one thing. Kicking girls is no good!
"Hey fatty! Stop kicking her!" She yelled moving her arms angrily around her.
~ ~ South-Eastern Kandarinian battle ~ ~
...What was this? These two knew what they were talking about for sure, and he even began to like them but that wasn’t the problem. He was here to teach them... what did they expect of him, teaching two already good necrolytes while he felt weaker than them?
Czernn as always was feeling his low self-esteem, and he felt unsure however his face didn’t twitch and noone could read his feelings. That was his strength after all, being unpredictable and all.
- “Ooo... an another massacre? Fights only to weaken the enemy, i now we should take care of the rest... okropne...”
He clapped his hands.
“Let nas move... show me what wasze panstwo can do, and I shall cover wy. You kill, kill, zabijaj, kill and kill. Search for the strong and them challenge them. If oni shall fail then nas will finish all of this...
Ja said that I shall cover wy, so do not be worried, the small fry will not leave this place in the radius of...”
With that he halted, stretched his right hand, and held it to his right, and a blue looking bird who was flying above them suddenly landed on it. A normal bird...
On touch with his body the bird began to ... decay and grew. It beautiful blue was now fading towards black and became dim and lost its power. However the bird looked more powerful now, and with a keen eye you could see the lines of the bones, now twice as big, thought its body.
Czernn lowered his arm and the bird flew away, high into the sky. You could swear it shone, it lighted.
He looked upwards. At the sky... I wish I could fly in them now, instead of being tied to these blooded earths.
The bird changed course and flew right at the battle, with speed not seen in a bird, nor in anything else with wings. From where it came couldn’t be said, but it could be said it was dangerous... very dangerous.
A few soldiers looked up at the bird, and tried to run away or guard with their shields but it didn’t matter.
In a few seconds three man had lost their face, being stung by the iron peck of the bird.
“... jeden kilometre.”
They didn’t see it, but in one kilometre radius around Czernn all kind of animals became black and furious... just waiting to tear something apart that seemed but a little suspicious.
~ ~ Black storage building ~ ~
- “Our infiltrators made contact.”
Ray said this with an amused voice looking at the chess looking map.
- “Soon they eliminate our ... enemies in Silver Root.”
- “What about the unlife masters? Have we infiltrated them yet?” The long hatted glassed man asked softly.
“No Chaud, not yet.”
The white suited man answered.
- “We have men plenty on their grounds... but the infiltration of the military hasn’t started yet.”
- “When will it start Frederic?”
Frederic took a cigarette out of his pocket. It was slim, and it looked like it wasn’t packed with nicotine...
- “As soon as Heil is eliminated, and that will happen at a crucial point. We need to make the Kand’s think that Silver Root has enormous power... it has maybe, but not enough. We need them to think that they may be the force that they need to conquer the rest of Gaian. We need to make them believe that making an alliance with them will give them sure success. All hope will be put on Silver Root. The Sovereignty will only this once have someone to rely on. Maybe that moment will be short, for soon they would try to absorb Silver Root or they would just see them as “some alliance”, but there will be a moment that they will feel that with them they will conquer Gaian without problem. On that short moment, on the most crucial day, Heil shall fall. The sovereignty shall trip, and fall on our knifes. At least, that is our plan.”
- “How will we gain this?” Ray asked with a curious tone, but her amusement rose even more.
- “Our men are already spreading the word in the villages that with the alliance of Silver Root things will be better, and that kind of stuff. Maybe it won’t be accepted at first but after a while the whole country will whisper. Whispers and hope is a knife that is overlooked by many and once they pass it to take the sword, it can hit their backs...”
- “The normal people will be easy for their minds are simple...” Chaud continued for Frederic.
“...but the lords of these countries won’t. The influence of the normal people will be small but still will be there, and once the parasite will settle... I personally will convince them.”
Ray laughed.
“Personally? What a ironic way of using that word.”
~ ~Crow ~ ~
A dark night, the sky is deep blue. Some solemn stars flash in the sky, and give a glassy effect over the thick and green wood. Where the wood stops, where an opening lies a castle is placed. Some thumbs of old trees are lying around it for the opening is human made, the castle is build on remains of death trees... and men.
The castle isn’t really that big, or high it’s just that impression that you get when seeing the towers. The stones are light brow, maybe the colour of sand with a little tone of green. It’s almost completely made from towers, standing close to each other with some small buildings in a church form connecting them in between.
The castle is made from stone and the tower’s roofs are brick. On one of these towers you see a black dot... a black crow.
Its red eyes penetrate you confidence and it rises and falls again flying down... and down... ignoring the towers and going to the middle of them, where a huge building is placed, not touching the ground being built into the walls filling the empty space in between all nine of them.
In the huge hall one window is open. A bright light is flowing out of it and noises of dance and laughter escape from it.
Inside a huge ball is held, many dance on the floor and some guards stand on the sides. Opposite of the window the king is dancing. He’s middle aged and has a small beard. You see that he is surrounded by five ladies, however that doesn’t catch you attention. On his left arm he has a beautiful bracelet, it actually resembles a miniature crown, and as you look at the king you begin to feel something... as if you love him, you want to serve him, you want to make him happy...
A loud scream from the crow breaks this feeling, and with rage you turn towards the window were that crow sits. But just like you, everyone around suddenly halts looking amazed at the crow.
Its red eyes shine painfully deep in your hart and around its black neck a golden necklace lies and around its right leg a ring is placed, just like a leg bracelet.
The king suddenly laughs. His laugh is painful, and only to hide his fear. He expected this moment, he expected and feared, ever since he found his bracelet. Someone to take what he had found, the bracelet with the magic power. The power to make everyone love you.
“I knew you came, and from you appearance you have stolen even more Reliqs. However you won’t gain this one, for it’s power is fully active in this hall! I shall slay you, and with that I’ll take your treasures!” His eyes were filled with greed, and the women around him looked at him with faces full of admiration. He raised his palm and yelled something like “Kill!” and you hear people drawing swords.
You suddenly notice that way more soldiers are here than you expected. Actually two third of the guests are armed, and those who aren’t still wish to follow the kings command. All soldiers are equipped with long sabres, except one cloaked figure next to the king holding a equally long gun now pointing at the bird.
“Shoot” You hear the king whisper and a loud shot is heard. But the crow isn’t there anymore, but flies at full speed at the king. In a second it already passed half of the enormous hall but a sword almost hits it. Immediately the crow raises evading the cut easily and with the same speed it pierced the head of the soldier. The crow gets right trough it... however no blood stains on it can be seen. Everything is absorbed in it’s darkness... in the darkness of its feathers.
A yell of rage you hear, a shot twice. But as men try to hit the crow it just evades and cuts them instead. Its peck is deadly and its claws a blades. The crow flies at enormous speed at the guards, penetrating the one after another coming closer to the king.
The king in his fear yells something at his cloaked sharp shooter and an another shot is heard.
That had to hit, it was right into the bird who flew to fast to turn.
But then you see something fearful. The bird is already near the cloaked figure and with its razors it opens his chest holding a bulled in its mouth.
Ladies scream, men yell. Children cry and glass breaks. The bird cut of the hand of the king, and flied high to the roof, now holding the bracelet as a crown on its head. With speed faster than the fastest river you have seen, it slices across the king turns again, and before the king manages the fall into two parts it hits him again. Blood flies everywhere, people panic.
You try to escape but people push you around. You fall on the ground and see someone falling beside you, on the body of a dead child... someone tramples you, but you try to stand up.
The birds penetrates everyone, and just broke some armours cutting across the fragile human bodies. It flies right at you. Blood covers you sight.
The crow slaughters everyone who ever saw the bracelet in the castle, and flies of from the collapsing building in the morning. Blood drips of it, but none can be seen on the wings. Everything is absorbed in the deadly black of the feathers... as if a hole in existence... and in that hole, two red eyes.
~ ~Silver Root; Pistis ~ ~
Tron was walking through the empty roads of Pistis. It was night and moon shone along the roads.
- “We have finally discovered it...” he mutters into himself. “... but Heil must are at the other ships, just great at his nights! We must hurry... who is next... we guess...” He closes his eyes impatiently.
- “...Smiech.”
He quickly walks towards the place where Smiech lived, however he meets him sooner than expected. Smiech was at a nearby park throwing rocks at birds.
- “Stop these! We have important messages!”
Smiech turned his head non-charmingly towards Tron.
- “Wa is ye problem freak?”
- “Do you remember the missions that Heil gave us? To check corruptions in our governments!”
- “Big whut, you probably found some crap. Who gives a nut, it was your job. Just kick the asses out and don’t annoy my face.”
- “You fools! We found something VERY important, just look at these reports!”
Tron gave Smiech a piece of paper with some tables drawn on them.
- “Corruption in yer goverment, so whut? It’s onl-”
He halted looked at the notes more carefully...
- “This!? Is it a joke! No, you are always too serious... “
- “You see? The cases are more dangerous than we expected! The other Generals are busy, or have to low ranks! If these would be announced, then the economies would collapse. We left a massage for Heil, but we should go out as quickly as possible!”
Smiech knew that this was no cause of humour, and that this was the time that he would proof his being a General.
- “To think that our land is being infiltrated... do you have the location?”
- “Ah, at least they are what we think that the locations are. Once we’ll arrive there we will know for sure... these communications if drawn back go back all at one places-”
- “I dun care! Let’s hurry and go! This is a case of hours, I got a special ship home... let’s leave!”
At Smiechs home they found a beautiful, car looking, ship. It was for two people and quickly the left the ship... they flew off the Sovereignty, into the sea, into the sea of islands trying to pinpoint the location of the ones that infiltrated Silver Root... Something was getting big, and it wouldn’t go unnoticed!
