Chronicles of the darcsen brotherhood
Chapter 1: the flames of war
My name is Neroh, i'm 18 years old, darcsen and a citizen of Galia, long hair and with medium stature. I'm walking with my little sister, Zanna, who's 16 years old, she is also a darcsen, with short hair with a pair of pigtails, she seems smaller than girls of the same age as her, and sometimes still acts like a little girl.
Things would be okay if it wasn't by the fact that our hometown, the place that we were born and made lots of friends, is now in ashes, and we are now looking for somewhere safe , and after that, find a way to avenge everyone that died at the hands of the imperial soldiers.
We continued traveling north, as we had no other choice, because the Empire was right behind us, conquering every town in their way. As we try to get to a safe town we met a lot of refugees and survivors from imperial attacks, but not too many darcsens, i guess their "slave hunt" is being a success so far. We met some of them, there was Zig, a young boy of 14 years old who is pretty active and happy, he told us that he lost his parents when imperial soldiers attacked his village, he was captured and was being transported to a concentration camp in a slave wagon, and he managed to escape. He is almost of medium stature and has messy short hair, he also said that he worked helping his father at their mechanical shop. Next, there is Nazir, he used to be a famous bounty hunter, but in one of his missions, were he was supposed to assassinate an imperial officer he was found out and was forced to work in a concentration camp mining ragnite for 3 years, after that he escaped to Galia. He is 22 years old, has short hair, wears a bandana in his head, and he said to be one of the best shooters in all of Europa, never ever he had missed a shot. Now there is Mannar, he is a 32 years old man who used to be a medic, but by the fact that darcsens are not really appreciated at this society he didn't really profited much, so he had no other choice than to close his office, he said that he's going to Bruhl to find his daughter, saying that he's really worried about her. And finally, we have Nanah, a girl of 19 years old who is looking for her older brother, she said he joined the militia some months ago and had always written letters for her, but one day suddenly stoped, she said she has no news about her brother and she is so worried that she is going to the militia HQ on the north to know what happened to him.
One day we were walking by the road, traveling to Bruhl, when 3 trucks passed by us and stopped not too far ahead from us, a man in a town guard uniform got out from the first truck, he said he is in a mission to gather survivors from towns and villages attacked by the Empire and get them to Bruhl.
- We still have some space on the last truck back there, if you guys would like a ride to Bruhl.
- Seems okay to me, what about you guys? - I've turned to the others as i asked.
Everyone seemed to agree, as we passed the first two trucks we saw the looks of discrimination in the face of the survivors. The last truck was filled only with darcsens.
- not too much of a surprise if you ask me.- I thought to myself. We got in the back of the truck and started moving to the town of Bruhl, the most safe town at the moment. As we travelled, we shared our stories of how we got in this situation and how we survived the attacks from the Empire with all the darcsen survivors.
As we continued to travel to Bruhl Nazir seemed strange.
- What is it Nazir?
- Nothing, it's just that i thought i had seen something in the woods. – He said while pointing to the forest next by the road.
- The woods, i'm having a bad felling about this. - I looked around to see if anything strange was happening, i saw a glow in the middle of the bushes.
As we continued travelling north, the tension in the air around the forest continued to grow, until a shot was heard coming from the forest, the first truck was flipped by an explosion, and before we knew we were being attacked by a group of raiders, we immediately got out of the truck and got behind it for protection
- What we're going to do?
- We're doomed, we're all going to die!
The people from the truck in front of ours were freaking out, and they started to shoot at us, the town guards tried to fight back, but one by one, they were falling, winning against them seems impossible.
- Don't worry! – Said the town guard right by my side, while crouched, supporting his weapon in the side of the truck. – We will do anything that is possible to protect you all! We will in this for su-. – Before he could finish, he was shot in the head, the blood flew to my face, i was terrified!
My sister pulled my sleeve, she was crying so much…
- Neroh, we will die here? I don't wanna die! I want to live! Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh! – She starts to cry uncontrollably.
- We won't last long! We need reinforcements, or we'll die for sure!- Said the towns guard in the truck ahead of us.
- Oh no! the captain got shoot! The captain is down!
- We are all going to die!
- I'ts hopeless!
Everyone around was beginning to freak out, the only one that seems to be calm was Nazir, he looked at me and calmly asked:
- So, what do you think is going to happen now?
I closed my eyes to think, what could we possibly do now? It looked like this was the end for all of us, there was no more hope.
"What are you doing Neroh? Are you going to give up that easily? Remember who you are, if a rock gets in your way brake it with your fists, if a cliff is in your way too, run and jump over it, and if an ocean appears too, swim across it! You are destined to great things Neroh, remember this, and you'll never lose. Now get up! Get up and fight!"
- Father? – I fought to myself while i opened my eyes.
I knew from that moment that i couldn't surrender now, i made a promise to my father that i would always win! I would win and nothing in my way would stop me. I grabbed the rifle that was on the ground from the town guard who got shoot in the head.
- People, calm down! I have a plan, will you listen to me?
- What are you talking about boy? – Asked Mannar. – Do you really thing you can get us out of this situation?
- Yes! – I replied vigorously. – I don't know about you guys but, i was told never to surrender myself in this kind of situations, the kind that looks impossible to win, i have being treated like garbage my entire life, but i always got out of this situations with my head up high to the skies, always believing that i was more than just a piece of garbage, believing that i was destined to great thing, so my father thought the same, i will not surrender, not now, if you guys want to live too, fallow my plan, are you willing to do it?
- Neroh… - Said Nanah, encouraged by the speech. – Okay! I'll fallow your plan!
- Count me in boy! – Said Mannar really willing to do it.
- Well… - Said Nazir while using a grindstone in his knife. – If your plan is so good as your speech than i'm in too.
- Put me in too! I'm not going to die here, i still have to make those imperials pay for what they did to my parents! – Said Zig, eager to fight.
- So, b-brother, what's the p-plan? – Zanna said, i looked at her, her hands were still shaking so much, you could just look at her eyes and tell that she was clearly terrified.
I got close to her and hugged her.
- It's all right Zanna, you're going to be fine, okay?
- Okay…
I let her go, at least she seems more calm now.
- So, what's the plan?
- Here is the thing, Nazir, you said to be the best shooter in all of Europa, right?
- For sure i am!
- And you also used to be a bounty hunter right?
- What is your point?
- Have you ever made a contract with someone were you needed to do a sneaky mission?
- Of course i had! What do you think this Knife was used for?
- Okay, see the long grass right there? – i pointed to the left side of the truck.
- Yes?
- I need you Mannar, and you Nanah to go sneaking to that side of the forest and take the enemy position so that we can use against them in the other side of the road.
- But it' impossible for us to take on all those raiders!
- That's were Nazir enters, you Nazir is going to go ahead first and take them out one by one without them knowing.
- Huh! Nothing i can't handle it! – He said while looking to his knife, almost in a scary way…
- Once you have cleared them out, sign back to us with your knife, that's when you two are going to sneaky by there and use that part of the forest against them. – I said while i pointed to Nanah and mannar.
- All right!
- Got that!
Nazir was already going to move to the right into the forest, when i stopped him, i grabbed the backpack that one of the town guards was using, i took a scope and hand it to him with a rifle.
- Have a nice hunt!
He replied with a little smile and carry on to his mission
- What about us? Asked Zig, holding a machine gun on his hands, ready to use it.
- We, and the other darcsens survivors are going to give suppressive fire on the enemy, so that the survivors and the town guard on the truck ahead of us can retreat back here, are you all ready?
- Sure i am!
- I'm ready to, Neroh! - Said Zanna holding a pistol she found on the backpack i got from one of the town guards before, but with a fighting spirit burning in her eyes.
- Ready… and… now!
We all got support on the side of the truck holding rifles, machine guns, shotguns and pistols, anything we could get that was on the truck and on the backpack, we fired at the enemy for some minutes, while i tried to get the persons on the truck ahead of us to the truck we were. In the middle of this gunfire i looked on one of the trees to the northwest, a glow was coming out of the branches, that was it! That was the sign!
- You two, go now! Don't worry, we'll give you covering fire!
Nanah and Mannar have successfully passed to the left side of the forest, before they knew, they were getting suppressed by both south and west, they really didn't get what was going on.
- Why are we being shot by our own guys? Are they nuts?
- It's obviously that they took are guys out somehow and are now shooting at us from the west position!
- Dammit! We won't last long like this! Retreat! Everyone retreat! We're falling back!
The raiders have finally retreated, we got up and begun to cheer for our victory.
- We did it Neroh! We won! – Zanna jumps and hugs me with all her strength.
- Of course we did it, didn't i tell you i would never lose?
- You sure did!
I looked to the right, it was Nazir, smoking a cigar after a job well done.
- I didn't really believed in you kid, but you proved me wrong, you got potential!
- Ha ha! Thanks! – I looked behind him and coming out of the woods were Manna and Nanah.
- You're impressive kid!
- Yeah! If it wasn't for you, we would be all dead! Thanks so much! – Nanah said it with a smile on her face.
- hu- hum.. you're welcome… - I have to admit, i got really blushed at this moment.
- You're great Neroh! Said Zig, still jumping of happiness for winning this battle.
- He truly is! – I turned to see who was the person that said that, it was the captain!
- Are you okay?
- Yes, thanks to you! If it wasn't you, we would all be dead.
- That's not…
- Don't be modest, we own you our lives! Thank you very much!
- it's okay…
After a lot of talking, we continued to move to Bruhl, as we were afraid that the raiders may come back with reinforcements, we continued traveling, but this time slower since one of the trucks exploded, some needed to go on foot, accompanying the trucks, most of us continued on foot to get space on the trucks for the sick and children, and after a hill, we finally saw it, Bruhl, i know that this isn't the end of the war, but at least, we may have some days of peace here.