空とロマンス
Sola to Romansu (Sky and Romance)
Return of the Legendary Heroes
2nd Arc: The Lost Kings unite.
Chapter 25: Breakfast and morning Lessons.
In the Kitchen, White´s Pov:
While I was beginning to cook, I also began to sing another song which came in my mind, I had a fable for music and ever since I was little, music drew me towards another world, just like others do with books.
Whenever I had to concentrate hard on something, I began to quietly sing for myself, same as right now, however I didn´t knew that I had a listener, who even managed to hear me through the Bubble spell.
The song I sang was about the days as Chief Nanuk and Chief Shanuk´s Lupycan folk has been rescued out of Ragnarök, as the same began to descend, after the Capitol of Lunaris began to rise into the vast of the sky and being hidden from all eyes ever since, shortly before a massive spear of rock was stabbed right through the hole which remained in Lunaris.
Back then Uncle Iranuki and the other, Generals of the Savannah archipelago created a magic corridor, made by two identic Gates, a wormhole so to say.
Of course the Gateway had to be secured, as well as the refugees had to be brought and defended on their way to the gate on Ragnarök.
And this was anything but easy, since they were constantly under fire, and if even one of these Gates was destroyed, those who would have been inside to that time might die.
It was a risky but valuable mission, after all we managed to save Hundreds of innocent Lupycans, who were exiled and hunted by Lycan and his hounds.
(Original: Sabaton- Hearts of Iron)
"See their Realm in flames
Try to save Lunaris in vain
It's a road through death and pain
On the other shore, there's the end of the war!
Who could ever have believed?
Seems like nothing's been achieved
Just to walk a day, go all the way
The fronts are closing in.
As the end is drawing near
The Sun´s Army interfere
Open up a route, get people out
Its forces spread out thin
It's the end of the war
(Hold the corridor!)
Reach for Savannah's shore!
It's the end, the war has been lost
Keeping them safe 'til the abyss's been crossed
Not a battle, but a rescue mission
Holding their ground 'til the final platoon.
„Hurry up, we're waiting for you"
Sons of the King and civilians too
Dispossessed and fleeing to the West!
Who'll survive and who will die?
Up to luck of war to decide
Those who made it cross without a loss
Have reason to rejoice
Cause It is not about Lunaris, it is not about their Realm
It's about these men, who fought for them
Is there any peace to expect?
It's the end of the war
(Hold the corridor!)
Reach for Savannah's shore!
It's the end, the war has been lost
Keeping them safe 'til the abyss's been crossed
Not a battle, but a rescue mission
Holding their ground 'til the final platoon.
„Hurry up, we're waiting for you"
Sons of the King and civilians too
Dispossessed and fleeing to the West!
See their Land burn on the other side
Going down in flames as two worlds collide
Who can now look back with a sense of pride?
On the other shore, there's the end of the war...
See their Land burn on the other side
Going down in flames as two worlds collide
Who can now look back with a sense of pride?
On the other shore, there's the end of the war...
It's the end, the war has been lost
Keeping them safe 'til the abyss's been crossed
Not a battle, but a rescue mission
Holding their ground 'til the final platoon.
„Hurry up, we're waiting for you"
Sons of the King and civilians too
Dispossessed and fleeing to the (West!)
See their Land burn on the other side
Going down in flames as two worlds collide
Who can now look back with a sense of pride?
On the other shore, there's the end of the war...
See their Land burn on the other side
Going down in flames as two worlds collide
Who can now look back with a sense of pride?
On the other shore, there's the end of the war...!" I ended the song, just as I was done with the first few meals.
"Clap, clap, clap!" Suddenly someone clapped, startling me and I almost let the plate, I decorated with food, falling to the ground.
I managed just through my good reflexes, sharpened through years of training, to catch it in time.
"It has been a long time, since I last heard this song and the story behind, my King!" I heard the raspy but still strong voice of my old teacher, Mrs. Cassandra Melizee.
"Well of course Mrs. Melizee, it´s been 1500 years since the war ended, if you don´t count in Abyssinia years!" I said.
"Please Your Highness, I am long not your teacher anymore, just call me Cassandra, like everyone else too!" The old Lady said to me, she has always been my favourite teacher, even though she was strict she was just as fair, and I was really sad as she gave up on both of her jobs, she has been the high-priestess before Lady Savurella.
"Alright but then you have to call me also White, just like everyone else, beside of most of the folk of Shamballa.
I am far, far away from being a suitable king yet, but I swore to become a righteous one, and I swore to myself to become different from my ancestors.
I will be unique, and as I told Chocolat already, I will become the last White Savage, the last Number in the row!" I said with a decisive voice.
"You have grown much White, just the way I wished for you, I always saw, even though you hid it well from everyone else, of how much you hated your role, as the future King.
I wished for you to become a man, independent of his pre-set fate and the decisions of others, a man to grow strong by his own, because of what he is, not of what he shall become.
You are a young warrior, able to protect and wherever you see it yet or not, fate has you predetermined something big, not your role as king, and it will not always be easy, that's for sure.
But I believe that you, whatever may lie ahead of you, will find your destiny and you will live your life, on your own way!" Cassandra said with a warm smile.
"I believe in you White, I always did, and I know that you are meant to be here, that you were meant to meet with Red M. Savarin and Chocolat Gelato, as well as my Granddaughter Elh Melizee!" Cassandra explained.
"What makes you say that?!" I asked her.
"Do you know who the wife of White Savage the First was?" Cassandra asked.
"No, Who was it, I never really learned anything about them!" I asked her confused.
It was never truly being written into the History book, practically not many knew about the Two Kings' Families, beside of my Ancestor´s son.
White Savage the 2nd was raised by a third Party, after his Father and Uncle as well as his mother and aunt died during the Battle with Marohumt
Some say, that he was raised by Maranell, as remorse for being the only one who came alive out of this battle…, others were saying, that he was raised by the remaining members of the Melizera Clan´s, from which no one really knows where it came from.
The only thing known about them was that they were a Clan of mighty Paladins, which were the closest of the Felidae-Clans to my Ancestor White Savage the first, they swore eternal loyalty, perhaps they also made a blood oath, no one really knows that, perhaps only Cassandra, as former high-Priestess, knows something about it.
"I know some things, however I only can tell you as much as I heard from my own teacher though.
According to him and the history, passed down from one High-priestess to the next one, was his wife his own Sister, while Maranell fell in love with his sister!" Cassandra explained.
"What do you mean by that…, you mean they made incest?!" I asked in shock.
"No…, as much as I know were only White and his Brother Hanzo blood related to each other, while there were two twin-sisters, which they later married, the other two siblings, Maranell as well as his future Wife Ciarella, were both adopted since they all suffered the same loss, however what this loss was is preserved since ancient times, there are no records from before their lives as Leader of the Rebellion.
As much as I know were White´s adoptive Sisters lionesses, called Arcana and Zora Melizera being adopted by a pair which lived in a village hidden in a geothermal valley, they also adopted White, Maranell and his sister Ciarella, during the times of the Feuds and civil wars in the era of the Belligerent states!
They decided to take the five in, as they found them in the mountains near the village, freezing and starving!" Cassandra told me.
"So Lion and Wolfs have always been friends?" I asked interested, as I kept making my meals for all of them.
"Unfortunately they weren't, Anubis, the Lord of all Canidae-Clans and Taniel, the Lord of all the Felidae-Clans always fought each other bitterly and many of the clans vanished during the constant bloodsheds.
Today we only have the clans of the Caninus, the Lupycans and few Foxunes which are still alive anymore, from the Felidae had the most clans survived.
Only after the Era, the Lions and the Wolfs began to have a good relation, mostly thanks to White and Maranell, and ever since both races supported each other against the other Races, fighting side on side, during the feuds, to secure friends and families.
As Maranell and White, as Brothers in Arms and Blood Brothers, created the two Kingdoms, Abyssinia and Ragnarök and united all the 20 folks, ten folks of the sun and ten folks of the moon, peace between all these folks and the other Clans was finally ensured.
And this Peace was ensured through the Leadership of the 20 Kings and the immense power of the 10 Moon-spheres and the 10 Galaxy-Spheres!" Cassandra told.
"But what exactly are those spheres?" I asked.
"Oh, no one knows that White, since they rarely were shown, but according to records are they existent since ancient times, already to the era of the humans, but not even they knew anything about these Spheres.
It is to assume that they never really knew about them anyways, all we can say is that there is an enormous power within them, some of us might say that they are pieces of stars and the moon or even of the eight Planets, which are circling around us.
One is even said to be made of a tiny piece of the sun, overall it is recorded that they had been arrived here on earth since so long ago, together with an Alien race, which wielded them against Marohumt and then later hid them all over the globe to create a grid over the planet, to keep Marohumt sealed.
It is to assume that maybe several primal human-civilisations deified and used these spheres to fight and seal Marohumt whenever he awoke.
No one knows it, there are no relicts of a time or civilizations like this beside of the spheres itself, and however, since the war against Marohumt, the spheres have not been seen any more anyways, no one even knows if they exist anymore, and no one knows where the old king has his own, since your father died before telling anyone about it.
Ever since they were divided by the 20 clans, the Spheres of the Moon and the Spheres of the Sun have been lost, kept and hidden from all eyes, banned in the realm or myths and legends!" Cassandra told me and it is as I thought.
"Maybe this was what we were about to do, to search the spheres by the other clans, in order to find them and to defeat Marohumt if he shall return!" I said as I thought about it, it all made sense to me now.
"Yes, such an order could probably only come from me, from a boy which rather believes in myths and legends from old times, than in the technical abilities of our current age!" I said as I sighed.
"And still, you are part of these legends, my dear White, since you have been the only King, since his creators, to reawaken Draken!" Cassandra told me.
"Not even your father was able to do it, and he was said to be as strong as White Savage the first, but it was his son, you, who has been able to awaken the old dragon-mecha.
Made out of the minerals of the earth and the power of the 10 Spheres of the sun, since this day, 1000 years ago, you also awoke your Royal Nono the first time!" She said.
"Yes and it was the first time I lost control over them!" I said sadly, I always hated to be reminded of it.
"You were young and this force in you was too strong, to fully being tamed yet, don´t you make yourself responsible for things you cannot be really balmed, it was a horryfying situation back then and all the stress and fear you felt back then hasn´t really helped!" She tried to comfort me.
"I killed 20 men with my bare hands that time, tell how much this counts as stress management!" I said to her enraged.
"Assassins, of banned clans, who lurked still somewhere on Savannah, hidden Lycanian assassins, wishing for your head and the ones of your family and friends.
No matter what you say, in life or in war, as long as you do it to defend your family, it is the right thing to do, especially when your enemy does not intend to leave you alive as well!" Cassandra told me.
"Weren´t it you, who always preached to me, to not respond violence with violence, that violence is never a solution?" I asked her doubting and with raised eyebrows.
"I also remembered to told you, that defending someone dear to you goes over every normal violence, since you only intent to protect others from harm, you don´t fully intent to harm others for your own pleasure, Like the Lycanians do, it´s only a side-effect of protecting!" she explained.
"Using violence in order to protect and defend others, is different from using violence in order to kill and destroy others, always remember this White, the force of the Heart of the sun is made by your emotions and feelings.
It´s true that it mostly appears when you are enraged, since it´s breaking your internal limiters for using Nono on the outside, almost all the life force gets changed to Nono-forces, only a little amount , enough to keep you alive, gets saved.
But afterwards it´s makes you unconscious for several hours.
This force is an ability to completely destroy your enemies with all you have, but the often you use it the more it shortens your life span.
The Ability is cladding you in elements available and forcing almost every ounce of Nono in your body to the outside, making it merging with the Rano of the outside, together they create a shield around your body, but the releasing of such a power is a two-edged sword, it hurts yourself with every second you use it, but enables you to destroy whole armies.
White savage the first, used this force only in dire situations, just like you yesterday, this way you managed to save the whole Shepherd Republic in just one night, while other defence-groups struggled even against just one of these ships.
The force is however also fuelled by the feelings you hold for your family and friends, making it stronger, the value of friendship, care and kindness as well as of love is extremely strong and it powers not only your Nono but also Red´s Rano, as much as I have seen.
Since he is the direct successor of Maranell it was to be expected, after all Maranell was said to be Compassion as well as Wrath in person, and his blood is older than anything comparable.
Meanwhile your blood has become thinner with every passing generation, between you and White Savage the First is a strong similarity of the soul, but your blood has been significantly falsified by the fact that the royal lions did merged more and more with other lions races!" Cassandra explained but something different, than the obvious fact that I was but only a poor copy of the great White Savage the First, caught my ears, something which actually surprised me greatly.
"WAIT A FREAKING SECOND, RED IS MARANELL WOLVENRA´S SON?!" I asked dumbfounded and in awe, as I remembered the nice boy from before, who was currently impregnating his girlfriend, who´s grandmother sat right across me.
"Yeah, apparently we also only found it out yesterday, around 2 hours before you landed on the deck!" Cassandra said.
"Wow….., so is that…, I somehow felt something familiar in me as I met him, however I was sure to never have seen him before!" I said as I thought about it.
"But you talked about Red´s Rano, does that mean he too can change?!" I asked her.
"Do you know how both forms are also called?" Cassandra asked.
"No I don´t, how!?" I asked curious.
"Reverse Current; your Nono, which normally is strengthen your body already constantly from the inside, where it is also assembled, breaks out of every pore and creates a defence shield around your skin, e.g. the Lion of the north appears.
On the other Hand, is Red´s Rano, which normally is made by the outer natural forces, breaking through every pore inside of his body, strengthen his muscles and changing his body, it is exactly the opposite of your ability.
This way Red can turn in his Wrath-Form, the shape of a tall black Wolf, whose only desire is to defend the ones he loves at all cost, however, since this form is made for war and fighting, Red has to train in order to master these forces and to not someday be overrun or worse overtaken by them.
As much as I have heard from Chocolat has this force being broken out today for only the second time, similar to your forces, both of you have not in the slightest any idea of what exactly you are capable of and that is the worst possible thing that could happen.
This form is a Help as it is a Danger, for you and those around you, as long as you cannot master the control over it.
Also doesn't it matter which force you bear, in the end it remains a two edged blade and it hurts you both, especially when it is time to go back to normal!" Cassandra explained to me.
"I guess you are right, it does not really feels good in anyway, it feels cold and full of darkness somehow!" I exclaimed.
"Well it is your Wrath in person after all.
Just always remember my warning White, your force is too violent to be used in a normal fight, it is your trump-card, and if you won´t die already soon, you better only use it after you learned to control it!"
"Same as Red has to learn how to enforce his own power without losing his mind.
As I said, something big is awaited of you, not your role as kings but your role in the fate of this world, as defender of our planet!" Cassandra explained.
"You are right, I still have to learn much, in order to be able to protect!" I said.
"That´s the boy I know, it's time for you to become a man, in more than just one way…, I am now gone since about 500 years, 5 years in Shamballa and still, I see no girlfriend less a potential wife on your side…, how come?!" Cassandra said.
"Well first off for a marriage is it still far too early, at least in my opinion and my parents, after the failed wedding, have finally accepted this as well, aslo as from becoming a man….., I think for this it is already too late!" I said sweat-dropping.
"I assume you talk in both cases from Nanooka, am I right?" She asked me.
"Yeah.., how come you know?!" I said in awe, I wonder how she knew that.
"I always saw the desire and her hidden love for you in her eyes until the day she came to me to speak about it….., anyways tell me, how was it…, or did you even wanted it, I know she can be really pushy and passionate, a little too much for my taste.., so tell me!?" She asked.
"Geez seriously…, well No, I was not really prepared for it, in both cases…., I was not ready for having sex, nor was I ready to marry someone so soon, especially since I only had a week to prepare for it.
The worst however is that now I cannot give my own virginity, to the girl I would love to take as my wife!" I said.
"You mean Chocolat, am I right?" She asked, and knowing, out of experience that denying the truth would be irrelevant to her, I might as well spit it out to her, of course I would never admit it to Chocolat.
"I know what you want to say, hell I know it myself, that our love is not meant to be, or that it is hopeless to try, after all we live in two different worlds.
And these two worlds are as different as they can be, even in matters of time-continuum, I would be one year away from her and it would already be a hundred years after I return.
Also I would not be able to make her leaving her family just for my sake.
Still, even though I know all this…, that this love is impossible…., I strongly feel myself drawn to her, even before I knew her!" I said to her and she nodded in understanding.
"White, your live will not always be easy, but sometimes you will have to learn to bring personal sacrifices for the wellbeing of everyone….!" Cassandra said.
"Yeah I know what you mean…, Uncle Iranuki explained it to me already at great length!" I said.
"…., However you also have to know on how to follow what your heart tells you!" Cassandra spoke further and suddenly I was confused.
"Well that´s something new…, what do you mean with that, it´s not as if I would not like to do it but i´m not allowed, it was already a hard piece of work to make them canceling this stupid wedding, I know it´s not really what I should say but the attack of the Lupycans on me and Blanche that day came quite in handy back then!" I explained and I felt shame that I even felt an ounce of thankfulness for this attack.
"What I mean is, that if your heart tells you to marry and love Chocolat, then it will be restless before it cannot fulfill this love, it will hurt until you are together with the one it is beating for and no matter how you try to fill the gaps, which the longing is creating in your heart, with the love of others, it will never be able to be satisfied.
Chocolat is a fine, nice, lovely, admirable and kind and compassionate girl…, a girl most worthy to stand next to you as queen, I can assure you that.
I have seen your both natures, your souls, your memories, you two are connected to each other since her birth.
Same as Red has always been connected towards Elh, in a way, at least this tells me their souls, souls as old as yours, echoing out to each other, waiting and hoping for a response, Souls are going to be reborn, no matter the race or the gender they had before or they end up with later.
You and Chocolat are soulmates and no matter how you try to find love in someone else, you will never be whole without her, that I can tell you out of my purest conviction!" Cassandra explained.
"I see, in the end fate follows the path in which Chocolat and I will be a pair, if we aim to ever to be completely happy.
Still…., what about Red and Elh, how could I ever be so cruel and take Chocolat upwards towards Shamballa, where one year is a hundred years here in the shepherd republic, she would never be able to see her family again?" I asked her as I tried, as before, to figure things out.
"You forget that Red is the righteous prince of Ragnarök, which is, as I assume, still in the same Dominion-spell as the Savannah Archipelago, means one year in Ragnarök is just equally a hundred years here in the Shepherd Republic as it is out from Savannah.
This Dominion Spell once has been spoken from Maranell Wolvenra and White Savage the first, in order to preserve both land from being attack from the outside.
Only the Kingdom of Prairie and here in the Shepherd Republic, as well as the Capitol of Lunaris, wherever I shall be, are having no longer any connection to both lands anymore.
For them the time passes faster than for us down here, or better said, their time is running in the normal course of the time, which once ruled in ancient times,
Ragnarök's descending greatly disturbed this worlds Time-continuum and the world around us is not the world it has been 13.000 years ago it is quite complicated to explain, but this is roughly said the fact!" Cassandra explained as my head surely started to spin, I was grateful, to leave the field of academic theories and focus back on the problem at hand.
"Anyways, if we assume that both you and Red will become the Kings of both Lands for real, and Red manages to somehow rise Ragnarök back on one level with the Savannah Archipelago, as well as making Chocolat and Elh your respective Queens, than the case with different times would be closed, I guess.
All you then need to do is to build a bridge, where in the middle both Prairie and Shepherd would lie, and let´s say, every year, means every 100 years here, you would meet to speak about the news on both lands and so everybody could see each other, without having to suffer.
That would be at least the simplest solution of the problem!" Cassandra explained with outmost conviction.
"This way it would indeed work, but there are a few major faults in this plan!" I said.
"And what would that be?" She asked confused.
"Problem 1: We have no idea how to get towards Ragnarök, especially through the Plasma-storm, since we have no technology or any spell which makes metal long enough as strong as to be able to fly through.
Problem 2: We have no idea where Ragnarök even lies in the first place, ever since it has descended it´s position could have changed and if it is Invisible, it´s get even harder to locate.
Problem 3: Last but not least we don´t even know what will await us down there, since Problem 2 makes it quite hard to actually gather informations, even with a scout-drone, all we know is that Lycan probably is ruling the land and probably has built a giant army, in order to annihilate us.
These three problems have to be solved before Red can become anyone than himself, but whatever we can do, we have to do it quick, since out of whatever reason, although we assume some spies somewhere, the Lycanians managed to have enough information to find, penetrate our shields and attack us by suprise!" I said.
"That are indeed a couple of problems to be solved first, however our hosts told me earlier something, wait was it, ah yeah, Chocolat and Elh told me that they somehow managed to get down to the old world, but I don´t know any more how, but if they could use the same way to get towards Ragnarök we would have solved Problem 1 already!" Cassandra explained.
"If this is true, we could manage to defeat Lycan in his own land, before his own front door, we would then not even have to pull the other islands in pity!" I said.
"A big raid on their military facilities together with Asgard, Midgard and Jorthunheim, might end this war instantly!" I muttered to myself, but then again that was quite the overly exxagerated- and probably the last resort-kind of plan.
"Yeah and it probably would end up in a genocide, seriously, Lycan rather kills his own folk as if he ever freely would give off the crown, however the wolfs are simply minded, if their leader is away they don´t know what to do until a new one comes at the place.
They are pack animals, they need an Alpha to tell them what to do, I am certain that most who are fighting for Lycan doing this more or less forced, so killing Lycan and bringing Red in the Position as new leader, he soon might rise up as new king!" Cassandra said thinking.
"And then we do paint him a big fat target´s mark on the back and everything is perfect for him to be assassinated, isn´t it?!" I asked sarcasticaly.
"Now what do you mean with that?!" Cassandra asked.
"Not to mock your experience but seriously Cassandra, I highly doubt that Red would be warmly welcomed there..., although ...,maybe warm in terms of explosive bullets being fired at him..., anyways I almost can assure you that he would not live one day in peace, while being stuck in that snake-hole.
Belive me Cassandra, I know very well how it is to be constantly a victim of attempted assassinations.
I bet there are more races than just the wolves who support Lycan, so we would have to first convince them before we could make Red king, all in all we probably have to convince all of Ragnarök about that idea, which is definitely easier said than done, if not even impossible.
Once they had chosen Maranell to become king, because he put his life on the line in order to bring an end to the everlasting bloodsheds, also because he was ready and he had mustered the courage to represent the interests of the people, to revolt and to stop the dictatorship.
But this here is something entirely different, Lycan is either a good speaker or he used something different to pull them into a brainwash, he managed to convince Races, which had a neutral and friendly relationship with Abyssinia and its races, to attack and obliterate the same.
Killing him and replacing him by Red as their leader won´t help anything, they would kill him and simply search for a new master with similar dreams as Lycan.
The hatred which has been burning in the souls of these men's for 15 years, is spreading like a disease throught their continent, this hatred against Abyssinia for somehow triggering their downfall is not able to easily being erased from one day on another.
All of these men's have somehow gotten a brainwash by Lycan for the last 25 years long, ten years of war were spent to shape he hatred in their hearts until today, to unleash its wrath even stronger than of 15 years ago.
These men are going to listen to no one who speaks of coexistence with Abyssinia, not after what has happened, not after Abyssinia was somehow the reason their land fell through the Plasma Sea and probably killed millions of beings, although there are no records that anyone of us actually knows such a kind of magic, not that it would be any relevant to them anyways.
However, by god, we Felidions and Abyssinians also never forgot all the millions of burried comrades and friends as well as innocent families which have been ripped apart, all these men who died during the years of destruction, brought by the Lycanians and the Ragnarokian Clans!" I explained and Cassandra looked in concern but nodded in understanding.
"Believe me Cassandra, I might not have lived that time, but even today the hatred against Ragnarök is still able to practically touch, and even if I too wish for a coexistence with them, am I not able to forget about the war, the bloodshed and the lost family and clans since i see the result every single day i wake up, I also can´t ever forget that I lost my father to Lycan and his men, that I never would be able to hear his voice, nor ever be able to see how he really was, free from every tale others are telling about him.
I never would feel his love, care and kindness as a father, thanks to Lycan!" I stated in hatred.
"The Hatred between both lands is the main factor, that lies between us and a possible coexistence.
No one can survive, as long as the other one lives, that was a speech I learned from many people on Shamballa, too many as to be able to not get influenced by it.
It would get hard to try to make Red to a new King of Ragnarök, but even harder it would be, to convince, as their king, the folks of the Savannah Archipelago to go all friendly on Ragnarök.
They would see it as the biggest treason, and believe me I don´t really care about what others are thinking of me, as long as it won´t cost me my life then.
We could try it, dear Cassandra, but that it won´t even work only partly, is an undisputable fact.
As I said, 10 years of hatred, bloodshed and war cannot be simply wiped away, not even during 15 years after this war.
It was Ragnarök who once attacked us, not vice-versa and it was also the Lycanians who kept on discriminating the Felinekos and keeping their hostility.
It´s true, maybe we all were happy about the peace for the last 15 years, even though we always expected deep down that Ragnarök had survived and would soon start new hostile acts, just as it has happened now, as they attacked the Shepherd Republic and Shamaballa as well as Valhalla.
It is most certain that they seek to wage war, so we have to find a way to prevent this war and in order to crown a new King there, we must first find out the reason of how Lycan became so powerfull and why he managed to seize control of Ragnarök, why all these Clans follow him and attacked Abyssinia after ages of peace and mutual help!" I said with a grim expression and a final tone.
"I know, I too cannot forgive the deaths of my family and my friends, but I still try not to hate them!" Cassandra said.
"I know, still, we shall never forget the most important fact, as I said before: It was not Abyssinia, which started the war 25 years ago!" I said and she nodded sadly.
"Still….., I wish that my love to Chocolat and the love of Red to Elh, could change anything….., somehow, someday and somewhere!" I said as looked outside, watching the birds in the sky.
I looked at two birds, a crow and a dove, flying alongside, a sight rarely seen and still it made me hoping for a better future, as if the both birds represent the both lands.
Suddenly a big black bird appeared and attacked the dove, the crow tried to save the dove, by attacking the black bird and then, released from its claws, both, dove and crow, attacked the black bird and made him fleeing, this sight made me think.
"The only possibility would be if Red and I would manage to accomplish an act, so serious as our ancestors once did, an act, which shows the two nations, that there are things that you can only accomplish together!" I said.
"Well if you two manage to prevent a war of both nation, it would be a good start!" Cassandra said.
"Abyssinia would only state that it would be the ultimate evidence that one cannot trust Ragnarök, since it is Lycan who tries to throw the world back in a war.
It has to be something different, an act, not only done by just us two, but by emissaries of each clan, from both nations, just like once our ancestors did, it might have been Maranell and White Savage the first who defeated Marohumt, but without their friends of the several clans, they would have never been able to defeat him!"
"You mean?" Cassandra, said shocked as it dawned to her.
"I know, and I wished that I don't would have to speak it out loud.
But only a new defeat of Marohumt, together with members of all races, would probably be able to stop the hatred, maybe not instantly, but the races would hopefully then began to trust each other again.
However in order to get such a chance for such an act, Lycan would have to bring Marohumt back, which we cannot let be, millions of people would die then.
As honourable as the wish is, but I cannot justify that millions of beings lose their lives, for a vague conjecture, and an even vaguer desire for peace!" I said.
"Guess you are right!" Cassandra said with a heavy heart.
"No matter which way we turn it, the peace and the trust we had in each other, before the war, will never come back.
We only can hope that we might be able to build up new trust!" I said and she nodded.
"Anyways, I guess that we should now stop with this depressing theme we cannot do anything now anyways, as long as we are stuck here.
So I might as well finish this here and then we get us some breakfast, I will call the others, could you and Mr. Melizee please put up the table!" I said and she nodded, I was about to go out of the room as I felt her hand on my shoulder.
"No matter what happens, never lose your heart White…., your heart is pure and this way it shall stay!" Cassandra said.
"I will do my very best!" I assured her, gently pressing her hand before I went to wake up Chocolat and the two Lovebirds.
To be continued...