Author's Note;

Jester; Well looks like the hiatus ends right?

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~September- Wand and Shifting

~October-As Bad and Edd

~November- Hollow, Fist, and Eternal

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Floating next to the two silent partners I sigh to ask, "Why do you two stay so quiet all the time? I mean you two have been with each other for a while that much I can tell. But why do you stay so quiet while hunting these killers? Or taking jobs to hunt down Red Jeans?" C stops to look off at the short stonewall next to the road. The wall not looking that new or that old just looks normal against the sweeping death plains where we are. C says "Cause my dad would always talk to himself when he went on journeys like mine. My dad was someone I thought people would compare me to cause I was some much like him when I was a kid. But unlike him me and Dree aren't doing this to find ourselves." I float closer to ask, "Then why are you two out here C?" C answers "Redemption..." Dree his red and black lizard thing forms from his neck to say "Enough of your questions little Fly. We allow you to follow us cause we don't mind it. But as I told you if you become an annoyance I will eat it."

I say, "Calm down all I want to do is hear you two talk more. My species aren't very fond of silence. We Privex may look small but if we don't talk to someone for a while we get the itch. And trust me you don't want me trying to eat away at your lips." C turns his head to to me slightly to saying "Try if you want but Dree will eat you the second your teeth touch my skin." I shrug to say "Ok you two are out for redemption them that means you're after those weird killers to get it. So who send you after them? And what did you do to make them send you here?" C says "We're war criminals... I was once a prince..." I gasp to float into C face asking, "You're kidding you a prince!" Dree uses her tail to swat me out of his path. Shaking off the hit I ask, "So if you're a prince and a war criminal why didn't your family fight for you?"

C stops to say "They couldn't if they... if my dad did people would think he was playing the protective dad card. Me going after these killers is my punishment for all the lives I caused to be lost... And all those who hate me no doubt want nothing more them for me to die a horrible and lonely death." As I float next to them I cross my arm to ask, "Did they give the war a name?" C answers, "Yes it's called the One Year war officially. But the people and media labeled it the Year of Betrayal..." Floating next to him I can tell he and Dree are really shook up about what they did. I ask, "Can you tell me about what the people your fought did? I mean you clearly were apart of the wrong side so what did the other side do to win the war?" C sighs to say, "That's just it they fought because of me and my cousin... They fought because about seventy others and myself were either brainwashed or tricked into serving the enemy... The enemy that wanted my dads death because of what he is and stands for."

I ask, "So what does your dad stand for C?" C starts to gruffly laugh only to stop and cough a bit holding his throat Dree does something to help him. Shaking off the fit he looks at the ground to say "He's everything I'm not but in the back of my soul I wanted to be... my dad's the hero of the place where we come from... and me... I'm the traitorous prince that couldn't see that he was being used and lied to. All I wanted was to actually be recognized for something great. As being someone different then my dad. Now I am and I'm labeled the prince of traitors." As we keep going I ask "So what's the connection?" C answers, " The connection is and has always been my dad... He's like a magnet for evil even though he wants to give up being the hero. He did for my siblings and me, our mothers, our family... At one point I loved his stories, his legend was so great that I forgot what he really was just my dad... I'll tell you how my dad guided the countries that fought against the people I sided with. But I'll tell you how those soldiers lived also... they lived to be their own legends during the bloody year..."

Random Knight's View

Checking over the power armor of the drop teams I nod handing my fellow knights their helmets. Hearing the resounding click and affirmation latches of the helmets the knight's nod. Radio static is still present too the destroyer and other battle ships at the gates. From the transmission we received from the infiltration teams inland the ships are their targets. And without cover from the water the landing parties are taking heavy loses. As each knight preps their energy weapons and power cell satchels I head to the front of the drop plane. The other knights outside of power armor readies to descend from the repel ropes. The radio operator says "Major we have allied vessel coming into sight range. Along with numerous enemy vessels attacked allied forces."

I call back, "They're keeping our boys and girls scattered and confused with their smaller crafts no doubt." The crewmember asks "Sir start marking targets?" I answer, "Affirmative those assholes are apart of the enemy war machine. Take your targets and engage as fast as you can." The pilot confirms giving orders to the gunners of the plane. I hold on as the pilot takes us into a short dive. Hearing the blare of energy guns going off from the front and side mounts of the plane I tap a few knights. I say, "You all know your job right. Once we get within range you are to drop, engage, and eliminate any enemy opposition. The presidents of Colony have given these orders and the world doesn't need this war to break out any further." One knight asks, "Sir is it true that one of well that king Finns son and nephews are on the enemies side?" I sigh to say, "It was confirmed by the spies we sent in some time ago. Prince Connor and Fox D. Wolfwood are considered high-risk targets.

"There families wants them back alive believing the enemy leadership has managed to brainwash and control them. It is requested by all our leadership that they are captured if possible. Special stun orbs have been given to a team to disorient them but we don't know who the team consists of. We have yet to confirm they are anywhere near the battle either. But from their last showings the brass thinks they are close by for this one to provide support if needed." As the plane levels out my radio starts to broadcast static. I say "Ok we are inside the enemy blackout zone long range radios are shit now ladies and germs. Standby while I check our status." Leaving the back portion of the plane the side gunner is opening fire on fast moving boats, as is the gunner behind her. Going to the front the pilot says "Sir main destroyer is trapped and under heavy enemy fire."

I nod to say "Get us over there our knights will throw then overboard personally." Soon heavy fire starts hitting the plane making me growl. I shout, "I just had the paint done on this bird!" Rushing to the back of the bird I lower the drop ramp. Pulling down the mounted machine gun I open fire on the boats giving chase to my plane and a few others. I shout "Shit there are a lot of these little fuckers! Tell the pilots to bank and circle the others will follow our flight path. We can't approach with this much heat on our tails." A knight rushes off with my orders as I skim the waters kicking up bursts of heated plums to make the boats back off for a moment. Soon the plane banks off to the right giving us a wide birth of the enemy fire.

Holding my fire as we get at a new angle I once again open fire on them. As we continue to fire those small boats show they have some pretty strong firepower. As more bolts hit and buzz past my head against the planes hull. To my shock the small boats have four merchant sized ships coming along their rear. As they too open fire. Trying to even the tide a knight with a gatling laser opens fire alongside me. To my shock a powerful explosion rocks our rear tail. Sending me off my feet and right on my ass. Exhaling from the chest-numbing thud two knights check me over. One knight says "Sir you're ok your body glove and combat armor took the hit. But take it slow." I nod sitting up seeing the mounted gun offline while another knight in power armor aides the other with the gatling laser.

Getting up I say "You all keep watch from the side windows and aid those two with any backup you can." Limping to the middle of the plane I tap of gunner saying "Back gun is gone the knights are providing flank fire." One gunner says, "Shit sir you ok?" I nod as the other gunner says "Fuck those are merchant crawlers why do they have that much fucking fire power?" I answer, "No doubt they're the enemy resupply teams and they're carrying the jamming device. They probably want to take a destroyer so that they'll have more muscle on the water. And we ain't going to let that happen!" As the various gunfire continues to persist one gunner says, "Mayor we need to get away from their laser flak guns they're putting holes in the planes belly!" I nod to shout "Pilot bank us we need to put more fire on the small boats! Shit these fuckers won't back off!" The pilot banks but the copilot says, "Sir we're taking too much heat should we abort?"

I say, "No if we back off now then those asshole will focus all the manpower on the destroyers. That's a risk on all the lives still on those ships. No take us lower skim the water as closely as possible. We're dropping clusters of plasma mines from the cargo ramp. Tell the knights engineers to rig them for proximity." Following my orders I take the gunners chair to I skim the water with rounds kicking up plums of heated water to cover our approach. Getting a clean few shots I take out a smaller boat to the cheer of the other gunner. As we skim the water we managed to line up along one of their cargo ships. Opening fire I riddle its haul with as many rounds as I can before I need to ease up for the gun to cool. I look behind me to say "Gun switch!" Changing seats with the gunner she continues to fire on the ship while I cover our flank with more heated plums of water. Followed by rounds to the smaller boats to make them back off or do some damage to slow the down.

To my grinning joy the other planes our following our movement. Keeping fair enough apart but still closeby to assist. Another plane comes along the cargo ships others side to do more damage to the ship. We cheer seeing it burst into flames as a loud alarm goes off on its deck. We cheer louder as the plasma mines go off creating more hull damage. Moving on to another ship we provide back up as the plane drops ordinates onto enemy ship deck. On impact if blasts a good chunk of the bow off along with causing stress factures to appear along the hull. Opening fire we take pot shots at anyone on the shipping looking to fire back. I say, "We need to wrap this up and help those destroyers." The radio operator says in my ear with static, "Sir comms are working mildly I think the jamming signals are from the crawlers." I grin to say "Tell all planes in flight these are our last passes over the enemies we need to begin to assist our forces." Relaying the message I tell the nose gunner to lay down all the firepower she's go into the cargo ship we're approaching. Opening fire all planes nose gunners slam the cargo ships until they are just floating pieces of flaming metal and wood.

As small explosions for the enemies firepower go off I nod as the side gunners call that the smaller boats are still trying to fight us off. I say "Gunners switch to heavy sling rounds. Lets lick these assholes fast." Switching their fire settings the gunners fire off powerful focused single control beams. As the long beams fire the boats that get hit are super heated until the explode in a shockwave of energized particles. One gunner whistles saying "No wonder the brass says we need to be moderate when using this setting." I agree saying "Yeah a mounted death laser is scary sure. But the cool down time for it is a bitch." Once more the gunners fire the lasers taking down the smaller boats that aren't already racing back to their shores. Getting a hail from Booth another mayor in the plane alongside mine he says, "Damn those fuckers we like a bad flea infestation." I agree to say, "I know Booth but you got some smoke trailing from your second engine. Your pilots holding your bird together?"

Booth answers "Looking over them now. Gauges aren't in the red but they are a little shaky. Our birds holding fine so long as we don't have to take that much fire again we can maintain mission." I turn as another plane radios to all channels "All air bound teams we have need orders that destroyers are boarded and are broadcasting distress calls to all channels in range. New primary is clearly to get to them and drop the counter teams fast." Agreeing we head onto our main mission in hope we can reach for the counter attack faster. As we fly in route another plane radios us saying that they will be landing in the water to aid sailors that are stuck in that water without help. But before we can a scream goes off by our right side. To my horror we lost Blight five and seven as the scream goes into that air. I radio on all channels catching sight of the screams to say, "We have a meta being in the air. Take her down fast stay spaced but watch each others flanks."

As the gunners open fire she hits Booths plane taking out his second engine. Booths pilot radios "I got too much stress on the pedals. Brace for emergency touch down!" Seeing Booth still smoking first engine I radio the remaining planes to push for the destroyers. Seeing more smaller boats hitting the lead destroyer we move to make hover. But as we get closer the Meta flyer makes another pass. She bashes into one of my planes wings and hits another's tail gauge. Pilot says, "Sir the clipped wing is making us lose air we can't hold for hovering". I say "Fuck she's coming back all planes break off we can't lose our counter teams." Before we can bank several waves of fire blasts at the flying Meta being. Coming from out rear six Fireflies gives chase as none other then the queen of Fire herself appearance. Seeing her and her three personal escorts it's a nice relief.

A Firefly says "All Gear knights sorry for the late reinforcements but Sky Fire and us Fireflies will aid your push. Our queen is also here personally to discipline her son when she finds him. We'll keep the heavy fire off of you all. Land your teams and return to the backup positions for repairs." Sending our thanks we move to make an emergency landing of our own on the destroyers runway. But we're forced to land on the gates destroyed pieces of rubble. Touching down the knights in armor get off with the foot knights following after them. I tell them "Give of hell and send them to the underworld in pain knights." They nod as I say "Loff patch us up as fast as you can. We need to get airborne and back to the forward platform base fast."

Third person's View

As the Privex flouts close by he watches as C and Dree use the blood like power to kill a group of bandits in the cold moonlit night. As one bandit fires a series of arrows. C effortlessly cuts the arrows with his liquid saw sword ready for the next attack. Spreading his stance C takes a familiar stance as his father would take but slightly modified to take in account of his powers. A bandit says, "Some rich bastards really want you die kid. Don't know who so why don't you surrender and we'll kill you as quick as possible." C just puts a peppermint cigar into his mouth and lights it with a pipe liter. The bandit says, "Why does everyone got to be a tough guy? Alright kiddies lets make this quick. I got a hot piece of ass waiting for me." With that a few bandits charge at C while another takes aim with and explosive arrow. Charging at C from all sides the bandit fires the explosive arrow. As it leaves his crossbows long barrel it rockets to C almost like a gunshot.

C snaps into action swinging his sword and splitting the arrow. Leaping the arrow explodes killing or wounding a few bandits as C lands with ease. As the bandits look on in disbelief C turns to literally disarm a bandit. Who screams as both his arms drop to the ground as he continues to scream and bleed. Dree adds to the fight swinging her tail to dig into the belly of one bandit pulling out his guts. While C pivots and cuts upward along the chest and sternum of another trying to get behind them. Moving into a clean punch Cs hardened crimson fist breaks the jaw and pushes pieces of bone into the female bandits brain. The bandit falls backwards dying slowly of brain hemorrhaging.

Dree signals C mentally making him duck down as several spreads pass over his head. Dree morphs her tail into a scythe to cleave the bandit's heads off in one swing. As blood spills from their last moments the dying bandits can understand who C is. One bandit throws several throwing knives at C to which he jumps letting the knives hit the bandits behind him. As they scream C cuts into them in a quick series of downward cuts or slashes. Cleaving down into the skull of another bandits. The remaining look on in horror as C cuts all the way down into the bandit's chest. C follows this with a hand jab to another bandit's chest while Dree impales the woman's skull with her tail. Splitting the female bandits head C slides into his next attack of backhanding another bandit into one with a spear. Impaled on his allies weapon the other bandit tries to take him off. Only for C to thrust his sword through the both of them.

C looks up as several bandits had jumped to try and pounce of him. But C quickly has Dree leap and morph into a large three-headed serpent. Dree cleanly bites off all their heads as C kicks two other bandits away in a backflip. He lands to go in a powerful upward cut slicing another bandit in two. As the bandit gargles his last scream more blood spills onto the already blood grounds. From a tree just a few yards away someone is watching the fighting. Taking note of Cs moves as he drops kicks on bandit until their head is stuck into their chest. To deflect another bandits blade and cutting off her arm as well as cutting into her throat. Dree now transformed into a large hawk swoops down and stabs her large beak into the skull of another bandit close by. The person watching hums with interests as they continue to write down what they see.

However they take a moment to examine Cs neck seeing a particular marking on it. Writing further as C with his hardened crimson hand snaps the neck of a bandit. He uses the limp body life a ram sending two bandits off their feet. With allows Dree to stomp down on their skulls in her new large lizard form. Hissing she swings her tail sending another bandit off their feet and landing on a cluster of rocks. C continues his battle as from one side you see two bandits get killed by cuts to their chest. Another loses her head along with her hands holding two long knives. Another bandit gets their face cut in half from one ear to the other as they try to block with their shield. As the fighting continues it soon becomes clear how skilled C and Dree really are.

As a cloud slowly drifts across the moonlit sky another bandit drops. His head showing several jagged punctures in it from Dree biting down on his skull. Across the open but dead grass field you see body after body. The ground is very much glowing with the three different colors of blood that has been spilled this night. As with one final stomp to the skull of a wounded bandit C stands looking over the damage. As the Privex finally comes over to comb the bandits for any money or valuables to sell or keep. C transforms his sword until it is just a handle and clips it to his belt. Spitting out his used cigar C exhales to scratch his neck. Slowly a wounded bandit the one that had spoke early slumps against a rock. You can see a deep cut going along one of his arms. As said arm is now completely limp and looking to cause him major blood lose.

The bandit says "I took the contract cause I thought this was just a joke. I thought you we're some kind of punk joke... Just some made up rumor to tell kids about being a good guy. But you're really... the punk who wants to challenge the demons of legend." The bandit seeing C not responding screams "What the hell do you want from all this!?" Still no getting an answer the bandit says, "I bet you want to be the great hero out to make the world a better place. Then how shitty and sticken it already is. So why you got to kill my gang?... Why did you have to kill me too?" The bandit slowly slips back to the ground dying, as C finally says "Nothing personal... Its just redemption." As C begins to walk away the Privex comes after him and Dree while holding three large sacks of valuables.

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