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"What?", Yasha groaned on the bed. He gasped and sat up as memories slammed back into his head yelling his brothers name, "Rue!".
He flipped the sheets open in a panic and tried to stand immetally, Yasha tripped over his bandaged right leg not long after he stood. He grabbed his leg in pain mentally screaming as he decided to pushed through the pain, If only he could use healing magic!
Then he could try to numb the pain, he soon reached over to place a hand on his leg longing to use some sort of healing spell.
Suddenly his hand started to glow a bright red as it was able to reduce the damage from a broken leg to a ankle sprain. Yasha soon freaked as he landed on his butt and stuttered, "Healing magic, but I can't use magic. Not only that but normal healing magic is a green color and can't heal that much, so how?".
The boy complantated for a while before he stood up again this time with a limp, there was no time for this he had to find his brother!
Yasha stood determined as he went to undo the many locks on the metal door. Yasha thought out loud, "Why on earth does he have that many locks anyways". Once he was done he ascended the stairs that lead to the sitting room, when he got there he was horrified at what he had just seen.
The whole room looked like a tornado had ran right through it, the furniture was spread every which way and there was glass all over the floor. Yasha didn't even want to know about the rest of the house, but he had to see if his brother was alright. The boy quickly went up the stairs as fast as he possibly could.
He leaned on the door listening for those creatures before he heard voices shouting, "Is there anyone here?". The boy recognized the voices from the police force, they worked for Rue! Yasha tried to yank the door open after unlocking the door in a failed attempt to open the basement door then yelled answering the voices while banging on the door rapidly, "I'm here, help the door is stuck!".
They soon came to the door as they ordered, "Stand back, we're going to break the door open!". Yasha then went down the stairs a good distance before he ducked a flying door, he didn't care about that as he looked at the two men.
Yasha asked in panic yelling, "Where's Rue!?". The men seem to give each other sad looks before saying, "We're sorry yasha he's gone, the council of elders will explain everything in a few hours".
Tears rolled down the boy's face as his eyes dilated in shock, one of the men then lead Yasha out of the house in a smoothing motion as the boy came face to face with the nearly destroyed city.
Rue is gone, his only family is gone. What's going to happen to him now? Is he going to die like Rue and the others?
He wiped his tears off is face as he came to terms that Rue wouldn't want this, he would want Yasha to help the people still alive like Rue himself would. He could mourn later, right now there was people who needed help and he could still walk.
Yasha let out a cold sigh asking his rescuers, "Hey, I can still walk. Is there anything I can help you guys with?".
The two agreed and let Yasha help recover people and look for food, medical equipment, and whatever else they might need to survive in the coming days. Anyone who could help was helping, this lasted about a hour as everyone finish checking all the houses.
Once they finished up they headed to the center of the town to help the sick and injured, the two officers became two of the several surviving police officers from Shelter's police force that became guards around the group of survivors while others had taken up patrols around the city looking out for anymore of those black monsters.
As Yasha was gathering some more medical supplies he noticed a small bloodied child and that no one had time to treat him. Something in Yasha snapped and he raced towards the dying child, feeling like he'd done this several times before as he hovered his palms above the boy's injuries and remembered the strange feeling when he had healed his own broken leg.
Soon his palms glowed with red healing magic, Yasha focused really hard as the glowing spread covering the boy as it began to glow brighter. When the glowing had faded the boy's wounds had closed and all that was left was a few bruises and a small scar on the boy's stomach.
Yasha gave relieved look, the boy will survive. While Yasha was healing the boy, though, he was ignorant to the eyes watching him.
Yasha gathered his stuff and went back to collecting supplies for the doctors working really hard to save as many people as possible.
Many hours later in the late afternoon four older people in robes entered the group and stop in the middle of the now gathered crowd. People from the crowd started to whisper, "It's the council of the elders, are they finally going to explain what's going on?".
Soon one of the elders raised his hand to quiet down the crowd before saying, "Thank you all for being so patience during this horrible moment in history. I am going to skip all the formalities and get straight to the point. Those things that attacked us are called shadoumonsutas, which means Shadow monsters. These Monsters are from the war of unification, they are monsters created by the evil king that fought against the five warriors during the war".
The crowd gasped unbelievingly, if those things are from the war then the five warriors aren't a myth afterall.
The council had to silence the crowd once again before continuing, "These monsters were sealed away when the evil king was sealed away too, it is said that these monsters represented the evil king's dark power. Because of this we believe that the seal has been weakened releasing these monsters, but do not fear if our ancestors fought against these monsters so can we. We will finish what our ancestors failed to finish, I proclaim this war the war of the resistance and we're the resistance!"
Someone argued from the crowd, "But they could only do it with the help of the five warriors!".
That's right, they had the five warriors what do we have?
Another elder harshley yelled, "Silence! Have you forgotten about the prophecy?".
Someone else argued, "The prophecy is incomplete!". After that many people agreed with that one a female elder answered, "Then we will complete it! Prophecy or not we are stronger than we use to be with our newer innovations and we can do it! Whether you are with me or not we can do this!".
The crowd whispered then someone came up and asked, "Do you guys have a plan?"
The elder that spoke first nooded and explained, "Yes, we will spilt anyone who is willing to fight for their lives in this war into three groups: Warriors, healers, and scientists'. The warriors will be soldiers that will be fighting against these creatures in the war, while the healers will be split between a place of safety and backing up the Warriors in the war. The scientists jobs will be to research and figure out all there is about the shadoumonsutas, the prophecy, and the war with the added bonus of inventing and creating weapons to go against these things. If you don't wish to be in any of the groups you can become citizens and help out by providing food and other resources, while also constructing weapons for the war."
They made sure everyone understood before continuing, "As for a place of safety will be going underground in the old tunnels that were used during the war that are still intact today they are called the Anzen no basho, we can expand the tunnels when we get there. We've already been inform of attacks in other places than this, and we have warned others to go underground too as a result. We should not mourn for the lost, we should celebrate for this is just the beginning of a new age! That being said we will leave in a few hours to head for Anzen no basho, so collect anything you can recover while you still can. Because we won't be returning to shelter anytime soon."
With that the Elders took their leave to let everyone collect what they possibly could.
Yasha just stood there taking everything in before heading towards the ashes and huge bits of debris that use to be his home.
Yep, this will be definitely different from now on.
After many hours of walking they finally arrived to Anzen no basho. Yasha sighed in relief, luckily they didn't run into any shadoumonsutas while they were out.
It looked just like a bunch of cliffs and then flatlands until their guide used levitation magic to lift a secret door revealing a underground tunnel. The guide then instructed everyone to climb down one at a time then light a match, there should be some torches by the latter when you get down. Once that was done everyone started placing the torches on the walls for light, soon the caverns was full of light.
The caverns where huge with small pocket spaces, those must be the bedrooms. There was also several tunnels leading all around Anzen no basho, the guide said that the tunnels are rumored to use to be used as a way of passage between areas so one group could get to the next in case of a emergency. Some were even rumor to lead to places like the five warriors headquarters, sadly most of these hidden passageways have either caved in or eroded over time.
Yasha shivered, despite all these torches it is very cold all the way down here. A boy around his age with short black hair came up to Yasha and said, "Cold? I found some old firewood, do you want to sit with me until the elder's servants bring the black cloaks they were talking about?".
Yasha shrugged, "why not, it's not like I got anything better to do". Soon the two boys were sitting in a corner with a fire warming the cold air. The other boy decided to use that moment to introduce himself, "Hi, my name is mark. I've seen you around the school, what's your name?".
Yasha answered, "My name is yasha, I guess it is nice to have a familiar face around here". Mark nodded, despite being the same age as Yasha the boy seemed to have a wiser aura about him as his purple eyes studied yasha.
Something felt strange about this other boy, why did he feel so familiar to him anyways?
Before Yasha could finish his thought Mark interrupted, "You know I feel like I've known you for a long time, yet we just met. Perhaps we used to know each other in a previous life?".
Yasha gave a surprised look as Mark laugh out, "so you feel it too, maybe all this dust is making us delusional". Then he gave a knowing look and said shaking his head, "who knows".
They just sat there and chatted for a few hours until some people came into the cavern handing out the black cloaks, all of the cloaks were basically the same aside from sizes. These cloaks were to help keep them warm and protect their owners against any weather, actually they are from the few designs of armor that still exist from the war. Not only were they given these cloaks but some clothes to go underneath it, but are they just going to change in front of everyone?
Then two adults looking to be in their mid thirties came out answering all the questions in everyone's mind, "We are two officers selected to help guide your group by the council of elders, the elders have set up some personal rooms in the caverns for everyone. Because of how many of you there are they have made several groups spread far and wide through the caverns, we are going to pull a draw to see who goes to which caverns. Note that these caverns are spread very far and wide so your different groups will probably be at least a few hours away from each other."
Everyone nodded understanding as the woman continued, "Also we'll need to collect your choice of which of the three jobs you want by tomorrow".
She nodded to the man standing next to her as he carried a brown box around for people to draw out of the box. The woman than added, "If you have family you can come to the main cavern to rearrange your tickets so you may stay together".
Yasha reached in the box and grabbed the piece of paper, taking a look at it.
It read, "Kasai".
Mark then chimed in, "cool, it looks like were in the same group". Yasha nodded in agreement before everyone was handed a map to their destination.
The woman said, "You will go by yourselfs, help each other if you can. We will see you later".
With that they left to go to the next group, Yasha and Mark then put their cloaks on without changing their clothes underneath. Then they found a convenient pocket in each of their cloaks placing the cloths they received inside, soon they picked up their torches and lit them then left as the others started going their separate ways.
After a while of walking Mark asked, "That reminds me, what kind of job are you choosing? I am going to be a scientist!". Yasha then stopped for a minute thinking before he answered, "I don't know, it's just kinda sudden".
Mark gave a understanding look then said, "don't worry about it too much, I'm sure you'll know when you need to know". Yasha let loose a tear as Mark reminded him of his brother before he said, "You know the last thing my brother said to me before he died was to grow strong, maybe I should become a warrior. After all, it's what Rue would have done".
Mark looked at Yasha for a while before giving him a warm smile, Yasha must've really loved his brother and looked up to him a lot.
Mark then added, "I think your right". Then he said in yawning motion, "Let's find kakai, so we can hit the hay". Yasha smiled, "yeah, let's go".
A hour later they finally arrived at Kakai as they were greeted by a older woman, "hello, I am Maria your group chief. If you're wondering, yes, we are now calling the groups villages to lighten to mood".
The boys said in union, "But we weren't wondering about it".
Maria shrugged her shoulders as she showed them to their rooms saying, "Oh well, here we have two nice rooms left for you two. You two youths should be going to bed with how late it is especially after your journey".
The two just nodded while following the chatty woman to their new rooms, Mark's room was first it had a bookshelf built into cave wall so it only made sense. Yasha's room was on the complete opposite side of the cavern, so their rooms were as far apart as they were going to get.
Maria commented as Yasha went behind the curtains to his new room, "Good night, I know it's hard now but it will get better one day. Who knows you might even become the next council member one day".
Yasha sighed and said,"thank you, good night".
After she left he got a good look at his room, like the others it was just as small and it had a fire pit. It was also a little eroded in the wall making a bed like shape, at least it was better than sleeping on the floor.
Yasha soon changed out of his dirtied cloths and into the ones that were handed out, he used his new cloak as a makeshift blanket as he laid on the pure stone bed going into a deep slumber.
"Hey yasha, are you awake?" he heard mark through the room's curtains. Yasha gasped and fell out of his makeshift bed, how long had he been asleep?
Yasha growed out, "I'm awake now!".
"Hey don't complain, if I didn't wake you you'd missed your chance to choose your job today" ,the other boy replied jokenally. Soon he heard Yasha scrambling to get ready as he said, "I have to go, I'll see you later tonight".
Mark then left as yasha tucked away neatly a picture of his brother and himself into his cloak, then after making sure everything was in place he ran into the main cavern of kakai village. Then Maria piped up quickly, "about time, boy, your lucky I managed to save you some bread for breakfast.
"Sorry it won't happen again, thank you", Yasha mumbled grabbing the piece of bread from her hand. As he darted into the tunnel leading into the main cavern of Anzen no basho, that's weird he has never been able to go this fast before. Yasha shook his heads of such thoughts and went as fast as he could to the main cavern.
Thirty minutes later Yasha arrived to the main cavern panting, luckily Kakai village was only about a hour away from the main cavern of Anzen no basho.
Good, it looks like he's just on time. Yasha evened out his breath as the four elders came onto the stone stage.
One of them raised his hand to quiet the crowd, then he came forward to give a speak. He took a deep breath before starting, "Welcome to Anzen no basho I hope your first night here was okay. Many if not all of you already know that am Elder Royce and that I typically give speeches to the public, and these are the other Elders: Elder Mary, Elder Hunk, and finally Elder Josh. We are all here today to see you all choose your jobs, but before we start there are a few things I'd like to discuss with you all. We've all come to an agreement that we should hold a meeting every few months to discuss the war of the resistance and other findings. Also as soon as the scientists are assigned they will began a few projects for us. First they will work on restoring Anzen no basho to how things used to be before the people of old abandon it, secondly they will come up with a team to seek out information regarding the five warriors and the prophecy, and finally they will hone their skills to make the well crafted weapons against the shadoumonsutas. We will inform you of any advancements regarding these three things during those meetings we've already discussed. Also soon we will be starting to send the already trained warriors into the battlefield, so be prepared. Now with that out of the way let's began the choosing ceremony".
With that the council left the stage to do more important things, three adults in their mid forties then lined up in front of the stage.
The one in the middle with his strong sounding voice said, "So here's how it is going to go, the woman behind me is mira and she teaches medicine and advance healing magic and the wimpy nerd next to her is Walter the science professor. Finally but not last I am Aazz and I teach the ones courageous enough to risk their lives in battle to be warriors, only if you have the guts to do so".
People were sweating fear for the man, but there were some that didn't shake in fear as they held their head high. Yasha was sweating fear but he knew that he has to do this, if not for himself then for Rue and the others that died during that incident.
"Very well, proceed with caution then. Just follow the teacher with the job you choose if you want to be a citizen than head back to your assigned group villages, they will take you to a separate area to start your training", Aazz explained to the crowd.
Then the teachers took off in different directions with some people staying behind, Yasha choose to follow Aazz despite his fear.
They walked for a while before they arrived at the barracks, the place was different from the rest of the caverns Yasha has seen so far. Unlike the normal stone rock it seemed for metallic with a few crystals hanging on the walls, this place seemed to go even further into Anzen no basho. There are three tunnels connected to the rooms, one tunnel looked like went further down into the caverns judging by the sloping path and the crystals that seem to increase inside the crystal.
Torches seem to alline the walls reflecting off the crystal so the room is completely lit up. There was also ancient carvings on the walls faded from time, but Yasha could still clearly tell that some of it depict the war of unification. There seemed to be a big chunk missing, it must've been a pictures of the five warriors before it was eroded too much.
In other words, Yasha was amazed by the barracks of Anzen no basho. He just couldn't believe he'd get to train here, soon Aazz echoed his voice in a commanding tone, "Listen up and listen good!".
Everyone then turned and gathered around Aazz for his speech. Once everyone was settled Aazz began, "You may call me master or master Aazz, because I am going to be the one to turn you tadpoles into warriors!"
Everyone cheered at his morale as he continued, "These are the barracks of Anzen no basho! Where we not only prepare our best soldiers but train them as well! Actually it is said hundreds of years ago even the five warriors trained and fought each other here! So let's train hard so we can become even stronger than the five warriors!"
Yasha gave a knowing look, the five warriors had rare powerful abilities that only they could use. They'd be lucky if they came close to the warriors great power.
Suddenly the master shouted, "Actually, let's not waste anymore time! Let's get you tadpoles into shape! One hundred laps around the barracks! What are you waiting for? I'll make it two hundreds laps!".
Before anyone could complain they were forced to start running, except Yasha who stood there in shock. One hundred laps, seriously!?
Master Aazz gave Yasah a glare before yelling, "You there, what's your name!".
Yasha answered in a nervous tone, "Yasha, sir?".
The master noded and spoke, "well then, Yasha, for you incolence you get to do three hundred laps! Can you handle that? Because you're skinnier than the rest of these tadpoles!"
Before Yasha could reply Azz interrupted, "What are you waiting for? Go, I am watching you Yasha!".
Yasha then ran quickly in fear of his new master's wrath, he could of sworn he heard Master Aazz laughing at him as he ran in fear.
Here are some translations for certain names or words:
Anzen no basho = Place of safety
Shadoamonsuta = Shadow monster
Kasai = Fire
Aazz = Someone mightier, stronger
Mira = extremely lovable and smartest in their class
