Chronicles of the darcsen brotherhood

Chapter 6: The wounded soldier

The plan was simple, we were going after the fleeing imperials to know where their warship was hiding at, but in our way we've found a wounded militia soldier, not only just a militia soldiers, it appears that this soldier is Gin, Nanah's brother who was said to be lost-in-action by the Militia. If we got back to the town right now we wouldn't be able to find out where is their warship, In the other hand if we had continued our pursuit of the imperial soldiers, Gin could die as he seemed to be in a serious condition. I had no other choice, We've got back to the town.

As we got back i asked some of the towns people to get some medicine-based ragnite, although experimental, it seemed really effective when it comes to quickly wounded treatment, we got ourselves in a building and i ordered Mannar to treat Gin immediately, i also ordered that Zig and Nazir with more eight man to return to the Militia HQ to warn them that we've founded their lost soldier.

Although everything was going well, the whole situation seemed to be a terrible nightmare to Nanah, she hold his hand the whole process.

"Is he going to be okay?" I asked Mannar.

"Yeah, he's going to be fine, he just need some rest." After Mannar said that, Nanah seemed relieved and let he's hand go.

After some time it was already noon, and i was in one of the buildings balconies just thinking to myself, something in Gin seemed wrong for me, i mean, he was a man of normal stature, just a little smaller than me, he had a clear skin, almost pale, and his hair was kind of spike, but the strange thing is that he has brown hair, and still he has a darcsen name…

"He has a darcsen name but doesn't look like darcsen." I turned my head to see who was talking, it was Nanah!

"That was what you were thinking, right?"

"S- sorry… I just couldn't help myself though"

"I know, it's okay." She walked by my side and supported herself against the balcony's fence.

"You know Neroh, when i was little me and my parents moved to Fouzen." She said while looking to the starry sky.

"Isn't that the mining city?"

"Yes, how did you know?"

"Well, my father moved from there, and sometimes he told me and my sister some stories about him and his friends"

"Oh! I see…" She looked down to the street

An awkward silence followed up for some seconds, i had to say something, anything!

"But by what i heard from him, it must've being a hard time to live there, right?"

"Well, sometimes it was, but i've also had made many friends, sometimes i had them to support me, so i didn't really cared for others saying things about me and the persecution."

"Oh, right! Fouzen is the town with the most number of Darscsens in the whole country of Galia." I thought to myself.

"So… One day, one of the drills that were used to make the tunnels for mining overheated and exploded, a house that was really closed to the tunnel collapsed, there were three people living there, some people from the town tried to help in the rescue, although they saved them, two of them didn't make it, only one survived, and her was a little boy."

"So, you mean that-" I was interrupted by her.

"Yes! Gin was the little boy! Although he was not really happy for being with a darcsen family, he managed to accept this fact over the years. One day i was trying to get some medicine for my dad who was pretty sick, but the pharmaceutical didn't want to sell them to me because i was a darcsen, he said that 'it would be better that all the darcsens vanished from the land once and for all'. After hearing that, Gin came into the drugstore and almost got into a fight with the pharmaceutical, but in the end he gave in the medicine."

"Well, he seems to be a great brother hun?"

"Yes, and after being so much time with us, he changed his name, he used to be Alexander Armenius, and now he's Gin."

After some more conversation between us, Mannar came running, almost without breath.

"He's awake!" Nanah didn't think twice, she got running down the stairs to get to the room were her brother is.

After a while of running we've finally made to the Gin's room, and when we got in front of the doorway we saw Gin, sitting in the bed getting his bandages off.

"Gin!" Nanah screamed while running in his direction with open arms.

She hugged him with all the strength that she had

"You idiot! You know how much worried i was about you?" She just keep screaming while crying at the same time.

"Nanah…" Said Gin in a very calm way.

"And may i know who this people are?" He asked Nanah while looking to me and Mannar.

"Oh, sorry, *sob*… This two are my friends, Neroh and Mannar, and Neroh have helped us a lot since we all meet, actually, if it wasn't for him, we would never be able to find you!"

"So i guess i am on a debt with you, thanks!" He said looking at me while letting out a smile.

"It was nothing!" after saying that everyone in the room lets out a good laught.

After that we just got ourselves in a room with some couches and chairs…

"So, can you tell us how did you got all the way here, to the north part of Galia? Since when we asked the militia recruitment director he said that you were lost-in-action in the enemy territory, that would be south of Galia…" I know it may sound a bit rude, but it still was too strange to find him in that side of the country.

He was quite for a while…

" In one of the last missions, i got promoted to commanding officer of squad 12 of the Militia, we were on a mission where we were supposed to hold off the imperials while the towns guard get the civilians out of the town, things gone totally wrong, many of my squad were injured and could not fight back. So i gave the order for them to retreat while i hold them off, i grabbed a heavy machine gun that was closed to me and started shooting from the second floor of a building near the towns entrance. In the end they captured me and kept me months torturing me, after they saw that they wouldn't get anything for me they decided to execute me in their capital as a sign of their power over Galia, they were going to use me as an example for anyone that contradicted them, when i was being transported to a imperial battleship i saw the chance to escape, i took it, killing two of the guards that were transporting me i ran away from the wagon and made the imperials lost sight of me, but i was still too tired from all the tortures that couldn't run anymore and passed out, the last thing i know, i wake up in a room where i was being treated by some soldiers."

"Why did you do that? I was really worried about you!" Nanah screamed at him.

"Sorry…" He said while lowing his head down, it looked like he was having some negatives thoughts.

"But at least you survived." I said it.

"And you posses a quality that many commanders lacks of."

"And that would be?" He asked looking me.

"You decided to stay and fight to give enough time for your troops to escape, risking your own life for the sake of others, that is a quality that i respect very much!"

"Neroh…" Said Nanah, with an air of admiration.

"Thanks! I just wished that i knew were my armband is."

"Arm band?" Asked Zanna.

"Yes, an armband that i had, with darcsen colors, given to me by our father"

"You mean this?" I pulled an armband out of my pocket.

"Were did you find it?"

"It was just some meters away from where we've found you, here, take it." I extended my arm towards him.

"Thanks!" He said while grabbing the armband from my hand.

Nobody could explain that moment that we just stood there looking in each other's eyes, but we knew that was a sign meaning that we respected each other.

The next morning Nazir, Zig and the man are back with squad 12 right behind them, after sometime everyone was relieved that their commanding officer was okay, sme of them thanked us for finding him. After some time, two scouts from the squad 12 that we're send to find out the location of the imperials battleship have come back, they founded him, now we got even more chances to take them down, we had 2 tanks, and a total of at least 74 people to fight them off, without excitation, the war pack marched fallowing the militia squad that was showing the way, after two hours marching, we've finally made it to the location of the battleship, from a cliff near the beach we could see the imperials landing more forces and supplies…

"Wow! It's huge!" Said Zig, really surprised by seeing a battleship for the first time.

"Yeah, it is, and it's not going to be easy to take him, are you all ready?" I shouted to the entire warpack.

They all raised their pistols, rifles and machineguns, screaming in excitement.

"YES SIR!"

This is the time, the time to show the imperials all the power of the darcsen brotherhood, to show them that it's no playing around when fighting us!

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