Due to the demand for the story to continue, more chapters will be posted and it will turn into a storyline centeerd around Hektor and our Grey Wizard. And the story will be featuring characters from the lore. Anyone who wants to take part in help writing this story is welcome to come in and try their hand at it. Anyway, let's begin
Altdorf 2509 Reign of Emperor Karl Franz
Several hours after accepting Kurt's offer, Hektor went down to the courtyard of the Reiksguard barracks in Altdorf to inspect the forces given to him. He expected a recieve a regiment consisting of the best Reiksguard the order has to offer. What he got was exactly what Kurt offered him, a normal Reikland regiment. He thought "Kurty, i'm beginning to think that you don't like me." The regiment was ten thousand soldiers strong. Consisting of three thousand swordsmen, three thousand halberdiers, two thousand riflemen, one thousand greatswordsmen, nine-hundred knights, and one-hundred artillery men. Twenty-five for five cannons, another twenty-five for five mortars, another twenty-five for five hellblaster volley guns, and another twenty-five for five hellstorm rocket batteries.
It may seem like a lot, but against an entire Ork WAAAGH?... It still was a lot, but not that much in comparison to the Orks themselves. He walked up to the front line of swordsmen, halbediers, and riflemen. In terms of armor they were evenly distributed, each having a cuirass, a helmet, metal shin guards, metal plates on their forearms, and that was about it. Aside from the red with a white trim color scheme there was nothing special. A minute after he arrived a soldier then gone running up to him. He had the same armor as the other soldiers, but his helmet was open at that moment showing his face. When he got to him he stood at attention.
He was a middle aged man, with a white skin tone and appeared to be growing a mustache. Unlike him this soldier had his helmet on, meaning that Hektor couldn't see his hair. But despite that, he could see the man has green iris's, and also a scar streching from the top of his helmet visor in-between his nose and right eye which gone from there to the bottom of his left cheek. Hektor said "Name and rank?" He said "Captain Axel Koltheim reporting for duty sir." Hektor said "Take your helmet off, i want to see your hair." Axel looked at him like he had some sort of mental deficiency, but complied. Hektor could see that the Captain wasn't exactly bald but his hair was still cut short, so his hair could still be felt if touched.
Hektor turned towards the regiment and said "You may put your helmet back on." Axel said "May i ask what that was for sir?" Hektor said "I wanted to see every detail that you have, wouldn't want someone trying to pose as you like an imposter." Without looking at him Hektor then said "What are the soldiers moral?" Axel said "I can assure you that they are in top condition and ready for battle sir." Hektor said "I will require more than just your word Captain." He then walked up to the nearest soldier, a swordsmen, and said "You, soldier." The person Hektor was talking to stood straiter than before.
Hektor said "Why did you join the Reikland army soldier? What was your reason to fight in the name of the Empire and for your Emperor?" The soldier replied "Sir i thought that the army would help me straighten out my life sir." Hektor had the feeling that this soldier just made an anachronistic reference to a piece of media but decided to move on. He then stopped in front of another one, this time a halberdier, and said "You, what was your reason for joining up?" The soldier said "I joined up because my family was living in poverty and i thought that this might be a way for them to be given more money."
Hektor put his right hand on the soldiers left shoulder and said "At least there's some people in this world who aren't total asses." He then walked up to another one, this time a riflemen, and said "You, what was your reason to fight against the enemies of the Emperor and Sigmar?" The Riflemen said "I'm here to fight in the name of Sigmar, to destroy his enemies and fight in the name of our Empire sir." Hektor after several seconds of looking at him said "You should have signed up for writting literature and stayed at home if that is what you think war is like." Hektor then walked up to Axel and said "I feel as if some of them signed up for the wrong job."
Axel said "Would you like a different regiment?" Hektor said "I can't, since i have i feeling that i don't exactly have a choice in what regiment that i get. Which regiment is this?" Axel said "This regiment is the Reikland XV." So i'm getting a regiment that i've never even heard about before, and am going with them to fight against a WAAAGH which could possibly mean my death?" Axel said "That appears to be so sir." Hektor then sighed and facepalmed with his right hand, with his other arm folded across his chest. He then whispered "I am going to die."
Hektor said "Alright, next thing. What mount ill i be recieving for this mission?" Axel said "A Demigryph, it's ready for you in the stables to use as your mount." Hektor said "Take me to it." What followed was a five minute walk to the barracks, and as soon as he walked inside Hektor held the back of his hand over his nostrils. He never liked the smell of stables, smelled like something that one might expect from a greenskin camp than the inside of a building of the Empire. Thirty seconds later, they arrived at a pen, and as soon as he looked inside what he saw was a beak trying to bite down on his head, forcing him to lean backward.
The Demigryph then walked back around and layed down at the back of the pen. Hektor said "Seeing as it tried to bite me the moment my face came into sight, do you think it likes me?" Axel said "Oh, i'm sure your new mount is very interested in you sir." Hektor walked to the door of the pen and saw that it was normal sized for a Demigryph, and not the unusally large ones that generals of the Empire recieve. He was really starting to think that Kurt didn't like him. And while Hektor was examining it, Axel said "In more ways than one."
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