Sola to Romansu
Sky and Romance
Return of the Legendary Heroes
First Arc: The Heritage of Ancient times
Chapter 8, Part 1. The Elder council of Shamballa.
"Now that this finally has been cleared, I wish to speak the Elder council of Shamballa!" I said and they all nodded, Hanukah and my mother left the room, together with everyone else besides of Nanooka, Iranuki and Nanukano, as well as some guards.
Together we walked forward, as the throne vanished in the ground through a trapdoor and a lift, in his stead a large round table appeared, together with stony chairs.
It was a table which only appeared for the Elder council or the Council of the 10 Kingdoms, a meeting which hasn´t been gathered ever since Valhalla´s fall, it seems that the other Kings are afraid of their Kingdoms being the next to vanish, so they all rather stay at their home to defend it in case.
And around this table we would now all gather to discuss the latest attack, elderly Wolfs and Lions already entered the throne room, and gathered around the Table.
"Honoured Elder-Council of Shamballa, I thank you all for your coming and that so sudden, time is money so I will now begin, please listen to what I tell you now.
As you know, did last night a Lycanian, with the name Beowulf Saytos, attacked my sister Blanche and me, this is a severe case because during the fight I could gather informations from the enemy!" I stated and they all murmured, some criticing the defence of Shamaballa, others appreciated the fact, that I could gather informations while fighting.
I hadn´t much fights in the past to really test my strenght, only mock battles with my teachers and Uncle Iranuki or Chief Nanukano.
"Following his words, we have some spies under us, here on Shamballa, which have the possibility of communication towards the outside, out of the Dominion.
This way they knew about the coronation and the planned wedding and most likely also wanted to attack there, the fact that the attacker from Yesterday and some dangerous soldiers infiltrated our Village and land so easily, is a severe case, it means that our Defense is quite holey.
Also the fact that they must have an atenna, strong and big enough to allow such a communication, as well as so incredebly well hidden and decoded, that we couldn´t find them, nor trace back their radio-signal already in the pas,t is just as severe.
We must strengthen our defence and guard presence, we shall show them that whatever they are planning, we won´t make it easy for them to execute their plans.
However we also have to warn the other Kingdoms, who says we are the only island which has been infiltrated!" I stated and they nodded.
"Well said I would say, however since the Vahalla case, the other Islands shield themselves off from everything, so contacting can only be made by traveling to the islands!" Lady Savurella, as one of the Elder Council, in her function as Arch-bishop, stated.
"You are right and even if we managed to make that Glen-guy flee, doesnet that mean that others wont come, either to us or to the other islands.
He said, during our fight, that he worked for Lycan the first and was send by the same to eliminate me.
It is most certainly to assume, that he really meant the murderer of my Father, the traitor Lycan Wolfenstein, the one who forced his reign upon Ragnarök, overtook the throne by nearly Killing Chief Nanukano and Chief Shanuk of Aurora.
The same wretched Lupycan, through whom you had to leave your home down on Ragnarök, and the one who brought up this terrible war, 25 years ago, between the Abyssinia Imperium and the Ragnarök Imperium, which resulted in the splitting of the first and the downfall of the latter.
He who awoke the offspring of madness himself, of the earths wrath, the dark Dragon Marohumt; Lycan was the one who once let the Lares and Lemures copies, Behemoth and Leviathan, as well as the Iron giant being constructed.
However not the one which they have found in Prairie though, even though it´s clear that the same and not only him but also the Black Colossus, were based on the construction plans of the original Iron Giant, also known as Silver Knight.
Behemoth, Leviathan and the Silver Knight, three of the strongest Lycanian war-machines, which have ever been build, and he used all three of them during the war.
Out of still unknown reasons Lycan managed to pull off a coup d´état and drove the righteous King, King Ranuk Wolvenra out of the land, alongside of his followers and his two sons, all of them searched refugee in our land which my Grandfather happily gave them.
Long time it was silent between Abyssinia and Ragnarök, then suddenly they attacked and we had nothing to set against him, until 10 years ago, the ancient Abyssinian Anti-Marohumt Weapon Draken had never been awoken nor even moved a single millimetre.
And also the Dahak Paladin Knight has been lost ever since the 4th World War, the first Great War of our ancestors, but as that wasn´t enough to destroy us completely, Lycan even dared to search after, reconstruct and reactivated Lares and Lemures, the original Juno Weapons.
In the end all we could do, was to build a weapon, strong enough to create a massive E.M.P., which had the ability to set every Lycanian Technology out of Function and, with its Lion-magic is able seal it´s power in certain containments, they called this weapon the Wolven Lions-roar Cannon, however it required an incredible amount of Ranono to function.
King Ranuk Wolvenra, Chief Nanukano´s father, as well as White Savage the XI, used their entire remaining force to destroy the function of Behemoth, Leviathan and the Silver Knight!" I explained and the entire Elder Council nodded.
"And your father, may he rest in the halls of heaven, used his power to seal the power of Lares and Lemures, in the two Medallions which had been secured with Magic spells and given later in the custody of the Paladins of Ragdoll!" Elder Baldur stated nodding.
"Exactly, under sacrifice of his own life, my Father managed to seal the two original Juno Weapons with his own power…, it weakened him so much that Lycan, in an unaware moment of my father, managed to stab him in the back, killing him in process.
As Chief Nanukano´s and chief Shanuk´s army as well as the remaining Felidions, gathered together and drove the Lycanians back to their own Continent, the same suddenly began to descend back to earth down through the plasma sea.
No one knows what really happened, only a few islands remained afloat in the sky, out of our and the Ragnarökian Dominion and later formed what is today called the Shepherd Republic.
But the war also took their Toll on our continent, the same broke in pieces, numerous pieces of land crashed down into the plasma-sea and numerous of people were killed, in the end all what was remaining was, what is called today the Savannah Archipelago and the Kingdom of Prairie!" I told and they each nodded again in deep sorrow.
"God may bless all the lost souls of these years of fighting and war, even those of the Lycanian-side which had been forced to fight or to die for their disobedience!" We all prayed.
Thanks to the telling of Chief Nanukano and his little brother, Chief Shanuk, shortly after the war, were we sure that not everybody on Ragnarök willingly followed Lycan, but that it was to assume, that the same staged many civil-wars until he had the control of nearly all of Ragnarök.
"Anyways, as from the attack of yesterday to assume, the Lycanians of Ragnarök have returned, and I assume that they wish to either destroy us and conquer the rest of the world once and for all, or if they aren´t able to do this, so to say as their final solution, awake Marohumt, and so trigger the destruction of the entire world, of course this is quite exaggerated, but still possible.
Lycan is mad enough to think this way, as we have seen.
However our focus of now should be the question, what we as the nation of Felidions and Lupycans can set against him, as for our power we Paladins have become less in number, especially in Master-Paladins, also our numbers of warriors are quite modest, even more so ever since the destruction of Valhalla.
Down in Shepherd live only a few true Paladins anymore, according to our returned scouts, Elh Melizee and Beluga Damiens even shall be the last ones to openly practice the forces of a Paladin.
As we know a Human, called Baion, brought destruction on the island Ragdoll 302 years ago, after being awoken from his Cryostasis, 50 years before that event, as his capsule was found in a mine.
Thanks to the telling of the five survivors, 3 A.Y. ago, the island has been attacked at night by Baion, perhaps with help of Lemures, since Lares power had just been sealed again by the young Paladin Elh Melizee.
Most of the population has been destroyed, five survivors were all our scouts found barely alive, as they investigated after the destruction.
We found traces of Plasmantium, so it is to assume that the attack at the Paladins had not alone being staged by Baion, however we still have no concrete evidences!" I explained and they nodded again.
"What we know thanks to these survivors was that Two Paladins left the island a week before, one has been Elhize Melizee, called Elh, and the other was Beluga Damiens.
Maybe you know these names still, it are the Children of Kiara and Hector Melizee and Evangeline and Richard Damiens, all of them were Paladins of Ragdoll, which all consisted of old, well-known Clans, originally from Shamballa.
However the four of them vanished three years ago, during the massacre!" I told them and they nodded.
"Wasn´t Hector Melizee the little brother of General Martos Melizee, the General of the Sky-Rider and the son of Captain Ronal Melizee, the Leader of the War-Paladins?!" Elder Norba asked.
"As much as I know it is the case, from what we know there is only one more member of the Melizee family somewhere in Shepherd, other than Elhize.
Cassandra Melizee, Kiara Melizee´s mother, an Ex-Paladin and one of my old teachers, which had gone 5 years ago in retirement and travelled down towards the Shepherd Republic!" I replied and nodded.
"Anyways, let´s proceed, from what we know have both children joined their forces together with a Hero called Red Savarin and managed to defeat Lares and Lemures only a few months ago, 2 years in their Dominion.
Still both were only Half as strong as to the times as they have been commanded by Lycan, since they were controlled by two beings, which are called hybrids, loyal towards Baion.
They were so to say superhuman, but they had no idea about Rano or Nono, they must have used another force, so it was easy for the kids to defeat them and take over, thanks to the newest technology from Shepherd´s industry, Lares and Lemures and drain them of all of their power, by firing everything the machines got at the Juno Tartaros.
This way also the curse of eternal youth, or corporal-timestop-effect, of Ragdoll´s Rite of Forfeit wore off, as both had to use almost all of their Nono-force, to control both Titano-Machina long enough to break Tartaros´s shield!" I explained.
"Therefore their Nono power has to once again be refilled and we cannot count much on their assistance if the Lycanians would attack Shepherd, all we can count is on their will, courage and their firepower.
It should hopefully be enough to keep the Lycanian at bay until we arrive to fight them.
Given the case that the Lycanians are the only danger out there to fear.
In case Marohumt somehow manages to appear here, we are not sure, if Shepherd would survive, or if even we would survive it´s attack.
As we know, is Marohumt not a machine but a living being, awoken from his Ancient sleep, near to the core of the world, as the Humans destroyed their planet in a massive war against each other, the 3rd World War.
So we cannot simply kill his function as we would be able to do so with a Machine, I don´t even know if I, with help of Draken, would be strong enough to hold him at bay, perhaps not.
The being risen out of this war and the destruction by mankind, was also known as Earth´s Wrath itself, back then during the Era of the belligerent states the Dragon, the ultimate Alpha Predator of the world, awoke.
It appeared up here in the sky and set both continents in flames, the day he appeared was later known as Dies Ira, the Days of the Wrath.
His awakening during the times of the humans, was the reason, the world completely broke in pieces, the Junos then, as their last resort to save this world, initiated Operation C.O.F.A. (Continental Orientation Float Alignment), the opposite of the by Baion almost initiated Operation C.O.D.A. (Continental Orientation Defloat Alignment).
It means that the old continents, expect of the already scorched and destroyed Continent, once known as Australia, on which also the commando-central of the Juno had been build, would be lifted with a complex program called Gravity inversion/repolarization, the Continents were set afloat with inverting the Gravitation of the planet.
Afterwards the Juno created a massive Cloud made of Plasma, which covered most of the entire planet and made these clouds to the new polarization of the Continents, for this reason they build for each of the remaining Islands, a new living Core, deep within the Islands.
This core had the function to be the polarization point of the Islands toward the new gravity of the Plasma-sea, caused by the so called Fuzu-tower.
Operation C.O.D.A. would have the opposite effect, by reactivating the gravity of the Planet strong enough to pull the continents back to earth, the gravitational fields which would fight against, would increase and strengthen the plasma in such an amount that every living being which comes in contact gets instantly pulverized.
As we know are there areas in our world, in which the Plasma clouds are still deathly but long not as strong as in other areas.
Prairie even has a view down on Australia whenever their Dominion is floating by, however visiting is near impossible since the Gravity of the Plasma-sea does not allows it, she is too strong and any average Airship gets destroyed within seconds!" I explained.
"As much as we tested so far, is the Plasma-sea assumedly wide over 20 kilometre thick, under it is a space of around 50 kilometres of nothing but air.
The earth has only a gravity, strong enough to keep the vast amounts of water and the last continent, Australia, which is also known as the tiniest of them all, still on earth.
We are living between the Mesosphere and the Stratosphere, and it is to assume that the Fuzu-tower reaches through the Plasma-sea somewhere and emitted enough breathable air for our races to get used to it.
We also are still not able to say if it gives a way to safely force the planet back together yet, without killing us all, but I am sure that someday we will be able to create an Expedition ship, strong and durable enough to penetrate through the Plasma Sea.
It will have the mission to lift all the secrets we still have to know about our relatively new world and if it is possible for us to even survive on the old planet, maybe we also find a way to bring Ragnarök back over the Plasma-sea or us safely and without consequences down, we have to see, for the moment this is nothing but wishful thinking!" Uncle Iranuki stated.
"However it seems that Lycan Wolfenstein has found a way to penetrate the Plasma-sea.
But alone the fact that they, the Lycanians, have survived, so many of them to be able to build weapons and durable airships, might tell us that they haven´t entirely fallen down on earth, maybe they even live right within the Plasma-sea, unseen by us.
They could be right under us, without us noticing it, who knows, fact is some of them survived and they came to wage war from anew.
Unfortunately, has the Wolven Lions-roar cannon being destroyed by Lycan, and all the documentation about its manual and construction-plans have been burned down, but still, even with it, it would not be able to defeat Marohumt, but only Lycan´s machine, so if he would awake Marohumt, no one could stop that dragon anymore!" I stated, as sat down in my chair after pacing back and forth for a while.
"I would like to hear your opinions if we go with the worst-case scenario, whoever has an idea please tell us, even if it is impossible, just tell us something!" I stated.
"Uhmmm…, my King, may I speak!" Nanooka asked fidgeting.
"But of course, you are welcome to speak what´s on your mind, Nanooka!" I replied and she smiled.
"Ahem, well as our King said before, is the Ancient Cannon destroyed and we wouldn´t even be able to use it against Marohumt, as long as we don´t have a major power-up for the cannon.
As long as we wouldn´t be able to build another Wolven Lions-roar Cannon, the Lycanians will remain as a massive threat to all of us, Shepherd, Prairie, even the rest of Tailsworld, shattered continents and lands from far away which we don´t know yet.
Still I am most certain that no matter how many People we would sacrifice, we still would not be able to fuel the Cannon strong enough to blast Marohumt off with one shot, neither are we, with our current technology, able to even build a Cannon durable enough for multiple shots.
The Wolven-Lions-roar Cannon was a masterpiece and unique, without the original plans, we have no idea on how to even build a similar one.
So in the worst case our doom has come, to prevent this, we have to find Lycan and destroy him, before he is able to either conquer us or reawaken the wrath of the Earth, but we have to take precautions of it, in case it really happens!" Nanooka told us.
"Lycan used Machines build and based of old history to defeat us…, why shouldn´t we do the same, I mean there has to be something in the old histories which might help us.
I mean our ancestors once managed to defeat numerous Dictators and a Dragon without much technology!" Nanooka stated and I nodded as I thought about the just said.
"What are you thinking of, my young king?" Elder Marusur, the oldest Felidion of the Elder Council and its leader, asked me after a while of silence.
"Nanooka is right, we have to think about a solution to our current power, military and technology problem!" I said as I tried to remember everything I ever heard about our world, the entire history of the previous wars and then I got it.
"That could work, yeah, maybe its even our last chance!" I mumbled.
"My King, do you want to tell us what´s on your mind?" Nanukano asked me interested.
"According to the old stories, written up by the scholars and those who have been there, my Ancestor, King Savage the 1st managed to defeat Marohumt with help of the so called 10 sacred spheres of the Galaxy, or simply called, the Crystal spheres.
They had been used and afterwards left by his loyal friends, the later crowned Kings of the 9 Kingdoms, while the tenth he hold by himself.
However as much as I know, there also had been some spheres at the side of Maranell but I don´t know something concrete.
Anyways it would be already a good idea, to gather the 10 sacred Crystal Spheres together.
For this we have to send emissary to all eight of the Cardinal islands:
Froza in the North, where the folk of the Rabisagis (Rabbit-Usagi) are living.
Mina in the Northwest, where the folk of the Taurhizas (Taurus-Oushiza) are living.
Shadwa in the West, where the folk of the Rattos (Rat-Ratto) are living.
Tempsta in the Southwest, where the folk of the Raptkins (Raptor-Moukin) are living.
Foresa in the South, where the folk of the Racogumas (Racoon-Araiguma) are living.
Terra in the Southeast, where the folk of the Monksarus (Monkey-Saru) are living.
Volca in the East, where the folk of the Reptuuruis (Reptile-Hachuurui) are living.
Aurora in the Northeast, where the folk of the independent Lupycans (Lupine-Caninus) are living.
However…., we have no idea where the Sphere from Valhalla of the middle, where the folk of the Kumears (Kuma-Bear) were living, is at the moment.
As we searched for it on the remains of Valhalla we didn´t found anything, as much as I know!" I stated, Uncle Iranuki nodded.
"A team will search on the whole island for a clue about the last Sphere, if we are combining their power, we might be able to even fight off Marohumt, same as it happened 13.000 years ago during our ancestors time, for this we need a new weapon, a new Wolven Lions-roar Cannon!" He explained and I nodded.
"Our technic team should think about a plan, on how to build it and on how to design it, so that it can be used in 360° and multiple times, not just once, in case the first shot misses.
"But Sire, the last Sphere, the Master Sphere was said to only have been given from King to King, so only your father would have known where it is to find, unless he told Sir Iranuki about it!" Marusur said and looked hopefully at my Uncle, but the same shook his head.
"Unfortunately was White already dead as we found him, we found him and Lycan as the same just stabbed the blade through his heart.
White died, suffocating on his own blood, he held my paws with last forces and looked in my eyes, I knew he begged me to look after his son, but he had no power to tell me where the sphere might be!" Uncle Iranuki stated through gritted teeth, the memories of that day were still stuck in his mind, and might always will be.
"But I think we might find something in his personal things, no fear Shari and I gonna take upon this task!" he said.
"I know there must be somewhere a hint about its whereabouts, I´m sure you will find it, we have to find this sphere, even if we have to search every damn millimetre of this island!" I said and hit with my fist on the table startling them.
Meanwhile I and our strongest warriors will try to stop Lycan and his men, from attacking anyone!" I said and Captain Melizee nodded.
"Begin with the search here, in the old castle…., however you should also consider the rumours true, therefore I would like to speak with Lady Savurella, she might know something more about the rumoured treasure of the sacred Lake of Maranell!" I pointed on the map of Shamballa, at a certain point which, carved into the table out of strategy-planning reasons.
It was a very useful Table, driven by crystal energy and Nono, one could change the view of the map, one could zoom back and forth to the marked points, the surface of the Table, made of malleable Iron dust, then began to raise and lower towards a miniature 3D model of the islands surface, one could even create the entire map of the Savannah Archipelago in case it is needed.
As I saw it the first time I was amazed of it…, I still am.
"We have no time to lose, so get on these tasks quickly, thank you everyone for coming today!" I said before I turned and left the room together with Nanooka, Chief Nanukano and Uncle Iranuki.
Chapter 8, Parts 2. The King´s decision.
Even though it was my own decision, did I doubted it myself as to be the right one to take, this whole responsibility was totally new to me, but still, I didn´t wanted to make some mistakes right from the start.
I did learned how it would be to rule, but doing it now was something entirely different.
The slightest decision I made could have an tremendous impact on this world, that was something which I understood the moment as I looked in the eyes of all the elders of the Council, all their anticipation and believe was clear to see.
The only question was..., was I strong enough to meet their expectation?
"Did I really do the right thing, or do I send them all to their doom?" I asked my Uncle after a while.
"The Kings always knew what to do, even more in crisis situations like this one, seems to be the instinct of the Alpha Lions!" Uncle Iranuki laughed.
"But you are right, if Lycan once has managed to destroy almost our entire Continent with his weapons, and if he would think he would lose the war, he could be mad enough to awake Marohumt from its sleep and send it to destroy the world yet again.
You and Nanooka are right, once the first King fought against Marohumt and managed to put it to sleep with help of these spheres, however no one knows where these spheres even came from.
Nor do we know even where the first Kings had found them, nor do we know where the last two Spheres are hidden right now, nor what is to do or what might happen when they are all found and brought together.
To be honest our chances are standing worse since we know close to nothing, if only we would have an elder who had been once there, like Maranell perhaps, if he still lives, no one knows where he has been all this time!" Uncle Iranuki stated.
"Searching him would be like trying to catch air, with bare hands, still instead of searching after a phantom we should think about how to get these spheres, in our hands, after all they have been guarded, all of them, by the 8 Kings themselves.
However we don´t even know if they still all exist, nothing of this is sure at all, if only White would haven´t lost his habit to write a Diary, he always did in our Childhood…, I always found it girly so I teased him a lot about it, someday he just stopped to do it.
Anyways, what we can be sure of, is that the Leaders hardly will give up the spheres, if even, they would only give the spheres to those of pure heart and unbreakable courage.
Only to those who manage to earn their deepest respect and it´s said to be very hard to earn their respect at all, since they are hard to impress, at least my Brother is.
It was one of the reasons why he and his folk didn´t wanted to come here to Shamballa, like my part of our folk did it!" Chief Nanukano explained.
"Nanukano is right White, don´t think that just because you are now King of Shamballa, they instantly will do as you ask them to, or even accept you.
You have to earn the respect of each of the Kings, to be fully accepted as a leading King of the Council of the 10 Kingdoms, I had to do the same as I became the King.
I knew King Kodiak from before, because we fought side by side in the last war, so it was quite easy to convince him, but still it was not only a duty as a friend he did to me, but it was fully out of his own conviction that he accepted me.
Still you have to earn the trust and respect of all the Kings, if you want to gather the Spheres together as you intent!" Uncle Iranuki explained and I nodded.
"Yes it could be that only Maranell would know where the tenth sphere might be hidden, but as I said, searching after Maranell is like trying to catch a ghost, he could be everywhere or nowhere, given the case he still even exists!" Chief Nanukano explained.
"I see, so this situation might get harder to master than I thought, a simple emissary might not be enough, but do I even have the time to visit the other Islands, now in this situation, dammit!" I thought.
"My King, I didn´t meant to eavesdrop, but I advise you to please let me and Chief Nanukano go to fight against Lycan´s henchmen, it would be better if you travel to the clans, than an emissary.
If the King himself will go to earn the respect and trust of the surrounding Folks, then this will also strengthen your position as main-King and it might go faster this way.
No fear I swear on the grave of my Ancestors and on the blood of my family, that I will do anything to defend our home!" Uncle Iranuki´s right hand man, Captain Ronal Melizee, who appeared behind us out of the throne room corridor, said and I thought about it.
"I guess you are right, that would be best, I was not even a real match for this Beowulf, I almost lost against him if Uncle Iranuki wouldn´t have come and from my Fighting Power alone, I am still not strong enough!" I said and hit the wall, right next to one of the Portraits of my Ancestors, which hung here across the walls of the corridors.
12 White savages, with me being since this morning officially the 13th, but if we count Uncle Iranuki as the Substitute King between my Father and myself, then I am the 14th King of Abyssinia.
Under each of the Portraits was also the replicas of their Armours, each king had another style of armour, one of the several differences between each king, but one thing they all had together beside of their immense strength.
They were loyal to their friends, they had much compassion for those poor and innocent who were suffering due to the war and the battles and they were never spiteful against a folk in its entirety, only against the enemy parties.
"If only we would have more time, if only I had learned more!" I stated in wrath, feeling myself so weak all of a sudden.
The pressure and the expectation of anyone began to slowly crush me, it was my responsibility to lead my folk in times of peace, through war and death and any other disaster.
"White, you are strong, strength not always has something to do with muscles, but also with doing the right thing at the right time!" Uncle Iranuki said and Chief Nanukano nodded.
"Strength, is when a boy grows to a man that is able to protect everyone, not because only of his muscles but because of being able to make the right decisions!" Chief Nanukano said.
"White knew this and I am sure you will learn it also, sooner or later!" Uncle Iranuki stated as he looked at the Portrait of my Father, with a pained smile.
"Either are right Sire, strength is not all there is to have as a King or any person in high position, but wisdom is just as essential.
However a good portion of strength in your arms is never out of place, especially if it means to punish those who hurt your family, i´m gonna take revenge on the one who hurt my son´s family that´s for sure, and if it´s Lycan…, hmmm…., I still don´t know what to do with him, but it will not suit him at all!" Captain Melizee stated with a devilish grin, but knowing the circumstance it was quite understandable.
"You all are right I guess, anyways I will leave this then to you, meanwhile I will create a team to help me to travel to the different Islands, we must convince the other kings to trust us and stand united against the Lycanians!" I said and we were about to part as suddenly…
"My King, My King!" One of the palace guardians came storming to us, screeched to halt and kneeled before me.
"The Lycanians of Ragnarök are attacking, with a fleet of giant war-airship!" He said.
"WHAT?!" We shouted and rushed outside where he led us.
"Oh holy crap!" I shouted, as I saw the giant Black airships attacking the island, everywhere, lasers and cannonballs were fired, houses and other buildings were destroyed in a blink, I saw wolfs attacking other wolfs and Felidions.
"YOU THINK YOU CAN DO THIS SO EASILY TO OUR HOME; WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES; MY MEN WE ARE AT WAR AND WE GOING TO TEACH THESE LYCANIANS A LESSON THEY WON´T FORGET, LET´S KICK SOME ASS!" Captain Melizee shouted, as he summoned his Weapon, a giant War-axe, out of metal-dust, which he carries in small containments in the back of his armour.
It was so to say malleable material, shaped and hold together by Lion-magic, due to its extreme hardening made of compressed metal, it was incredibly durable and needed no re-sharpening, since the blade could easily be replaced by rearranging the metal-dust.
However it was also so heavy, that beside of Captain Melizee no one was able to lift it, perhaps only Uncle Iranuki.
He ran down towards the battlefields, killing every Lycanian who attacked, they were easy to make out since they were the ugliest abomination of Lupycans I ever had seen before.
"Guess he has it fairly under control, but someone has to contact the Sky-Riders, we really could need some more Cannons here to take down these ships from the sky and we need a team which evacuates the Village, bring them to the bunkers, every single one of them.
You guys gather our men together and bring them here, understood!" Uncle Iranuki ordered two guardians, who appeared to take on orders.
"Roger Sire!" They saluted before running off.
"How the hell did that happen, why was there no Alarm which warned us!" I asked dumbfounded.
"They suddenly were there, their camouflage technic is incredible and perfect as ever, I still remember their ambush-attacks from the last war…., our radar hadn´t picked anything, until they practically appeared out of thin air right before us.
The earth shook and the air seemed to vibrate due to their turbine and the wind suddenly smelled after metal, fire and blood, which was the only hint we had, that something was out of place all of a sudden.
It´s as the saying goes: the Wind will whisper when the Nightwitchers come.
Before we knew what happened to us, the military camp has been under fire and within a few minutes 1/10 has been bombed away!" The Palace guard reported with gritted teeth.
"White we got this, you have to go to the other islands as fast as possible and warn as well as mobilize the other Kingdoms, as you said, the Lycanians are a threat not only to us but to whole Tailsworld….., go with Nanooka, there is no time to find a team, go as long as you can!" Iranuki said and Chief Nanukano nodded.
"Nanooka I trust you with the life of my son, I hope you understand that!" Uncle Iranuki stated as he held her back, and his glance spoke volumes.
"We are counting on you, my Daughter, it´s time to show how honest you meant the unbreakable oath.
Go, I will explain everything to your Mother!" Chief Nanukano explained to his daughter.
"I will not disappoint you father, Lord Savage, not anymore!" Nanooka nodded with iron determination.
"You, go get a team of 50 men, Nanukano goes with you, bring the seniors, women and kids to the Ark and bring them to the bunker at the other side of the Volcano.
The rest of you will help me to attack these ships, contact the Sky-riders at once, they shall dispatch a small squad which accompany and escort White towards Aurora!" Uncle Iranuki gave his orders to the Guardians and Paladins which gathered here and I knew that now was not the time for great goodbyes, so I did as told, after all he was older and more wise than I might ever be.
"Tell mom and the twins that I love them, I will need Blanche with me, we gonna get the Sky Sweeper, she is the fastest ship here!" I explained, before turning around.
"Do that son, you would make my Brother proud and you do make me proud, get us that reinforcement, we…, no.., whole Tailsworld really need it!" Uncle Iranuki stated, before he summoned his weapon, to fight along our men, who gave their anything to defend Home and Family.
Just like they all had a duty to do, ha di my own to fulfill, this was no cowardly retreat, I would not run from Confrontation.
That´s what I said to myself, as the self-doubt about my decisions tried to return, before it could spread any further I grabbed Nanooka´s wrist and pulled her along.
"Come Nanooka!" I said to her and so we made our way to the Sky Sweeper, to travel into an uncertain future.
To be continued...
