Yay, it's my country's birthday! Unfortunately everyone representing the Midwest seems to have gotten a fever, biggest heat wave in YEARS. Then there's Chicago, which is pretty much in the middle of it getting hit the worst, aside from southern Illinois, the actual middle, at a whopping 105 degrees Fahrenheit without heat inducts.
Never the less, I felt the need to wright something for today, so please enjoy this special edition of A Tale of 138+ Cities.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU REFUSE TO FIGHT!" You know America, if you screamed any louder, England will be able to hear you from his house.
"Like I said, I refuse to fight a "war" as you so put it against someone who has only ever taken care of us, is an infinitely superior fighter, and the issues we are having with can be easily solved by talking to him!" Said a 13-year-old New York. "In other words, I'm staying loyal to England!"
"But, but what about the stamp act, you were furious when you heard about it!" America questioned.
"I was." New York admitted. "And I still am, but that's no reason to go shooting at England!"
It was August 25 in the year of 1776, days before what would be the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War. America was facing a problem that had not occurred to him, the possibly that not all of the current representatives in America wanted to join the war.
Now don't get him wrong, he knew that some of his people would be against this, America wasn't an idiot. Just like there was a part of him that didn't want to fight England, there were Americans that didn't want to fight British rule. However, his want for freedom out weighed those feelings, so if England didn't want to give America his freedom, then America was going to take it. It's just, until this point, he was sort of taking the fact that all of the thirteen colonies (along with Philadelphia and Boston ,especially Boston) wanted their freedom as much as he did for granted.
"But, you have to fight! If you don't, if you don't, I'll... I'll make you fight for me!" Now this may seem a bit cruel of America, but to be fair, he was in a bit of shock about the whole thing.
"Look America, it is a great shame that New York dose not want to help us, but we can't force him." Ah, good old Washington, what a reasonable man.
"But, but,..." America stammered. 'But if New York doesn't fight against England, our chances of losing will skyrocket.'
Now this may sound silly to us, after all, what can one bratty 13-year-old do? But America dose have a reason to think this. England had told him that of all the battles that the British Empire had fought, in the majority of battles it had lost, he (England) was't actual present at the battle. So America concluded that by the nation being present at a battle, the army of the nation had a better chance of wining. Or, at the very lest, by not being present, the army had a better chance of losing.
"Let it go America." Now, George was just as disappointed as America that New York didn't want to fight. He to thought that by having the spirit of the nation (or in this case, the spirit of a city) fighting along side the troops probably would make a difference. But he also knew that if a nation didn't want to win, that would probably have a reflection on the troops. That and well...if he was really this admit about not fighting England, and they forced him on the battle filed...
'He might just take his riffle and point it at America.' Washington thought grimly.
"But, but...fine, lest go." And with that, America and General Washington left New York City's home, dreading what would happen at the upcoming battle.
It wasn't until they had left that New York spook in a voice barley above a whisper, with the being of tears in his eyes.
"It's not that I don't want to help you, but I just don't want to have to fight England."
Because if he did fight England, he might have to fighting his most precious friend.
During the Battle of Long Island, one of the first and the largest battle of the American Revolution, the American forces were driven out of New York and the area occupied by the British. It became a refuge for Loyalists throughout America during the war.
It should be noted that I decided that New York was going to be a Loyalist, before I fond out this bit of information. I figured at lest one of the American representatives had to be one, it just turned out that my decision correlated with history.
Also, chapter ten I will be having a Forth Wall mail box, you can ask any city any question, as many times as you like, you can also ask me questions, but that's not nearly as fun. I'm also taking introduction requests as well, so leave a review and it will most likely get featured.