. Act 2: The terror of shadows

Chapter 9: Shadowed
we crossed the Sea and reached the White Shadow Port. We reach there to find that the kingdom has been war with the Dark Shadow. (something like Communist and Democrats, no offence!) Half of the Kingdom were brainwashed by Zemfirage, Diablo's Strongest General. And thus, the Dark Shadow was formed. The 1000 soldiers were told to stand at ease by the palace and the 6 of us went to see the king, who happen to be a Cevar (trained Warrior) and he immediately ask for our help to fight against the Dark Shadow. The 6 of us, with the King went to see the last 2 Cevar in the White Shadow. Shadow Skill(Elle) and Black Moon(Gau). In no time, we understand the Situation. White Shadow (8000 troops, 3 Civar,28 Trainees) Dark Shadow (8000 troops, 3 Demons, 10,000 Demon Elite). As we were speaking, a letter on Arrow flew in.

To: King Evi Stalla (Hawk Eye).

The Dark Shadow is plotting an attack on our kingdom. They plan to advance their troops tomorrow night to the border. Their attack should start within these three days.

Your Faithful follower: White Lightning

Another idea came into my mind and formed a plan. "King Evi Stalla. The six of us will help you in your battle. But I need to use the 8000 soldiers and the 28 Cevar Trainees in the kingdom." The permit was given. I divided the 8 of us (Me, Norika, Mai, Jason, Justin, Ricko, Elle, Gau) in to 8 teams. each of us will lead 1000 soldiers and 3 Cevar Trainees. Except for Gau's Team, will contain 2000 soldiers and 7 Cevar Trainees where this battalion will protect the king. The rest of the 7 battalions will attack the Dark Shadows first thing in the morning. Norika, Elle, Justin and My battalion will face the rival troops. Mai and Jason's battalion will go in by naval route to Dark Shadow and destroy the enemy camp. Ricko and his soldiers will act as soldiers of Ashliana and are to set camp northeast of White Shadow. Where by each soldiers will have to pitch 5 camps and make 10 fires circles where by the entrance is closely guarded.

The time had come to start the fighting. Dark Shadow's soldiers had arrived. In the morning, our troops started the advancement and crushed many of their guard stations northwards. Finally, our troops advance to the city of Elitz. and we stayed in the fort, waiting for Mai and Jason's signal. At 9pm, there was still no sign of the signal. I decided to cast Mirror and look for their location. I casted, but 'Mirror' showed me something interesting.

"Sir Zemfirage! our scouts saw an army of Ashliana troops at the border of our kingdom. An army of 50,000 soldiers. There were many firepot in the area and there were about 5000 camps.!" "What shall we do?" The scout asked. Zemfirage: "Prepare the army in the morning, we will crush the 4000 soldiers in front of us!" Overheard the plan, I decided to make full use of it. I placed my battalion at a spot where they were all concealed from Zemfirage's eyes and I carved out a phrase on the great oak tree. Then, I instructed my soldiers to fire arrow forward once the Great Oak Tree catches fire. Next, I fired a bone spear and lure Zemfirage to my location (Oak tree). I cast invisible and waited for Zemfirage to come out. Zemfirage came out and he saw my doing on the Oak tree. (Zemfirage will die near this tree). This Carving got him mad. and he spat fire to burn the tree. My battalion fired their arrows as I have instructed and about 90% of the arrow hit Zemfirage, who was without armor, and died. It was at this time where I spotted Mai and Jason Signal. They have done it! they have burn down all of Dark Shadow's Grannies. Food is essential for soldiers and yet the Dark Shadow's reserved food sources were burnt!!!!!!

With Zemfirage out of the way, our forces quickly captured important places of Dark Shadow. Within 1 month, we made our way to their capital, Rhineland. Mephiso had fortified it so well that our forces were unable to break through. War broke out and our troops had Rhineland Encircled. No matter what they did, we refuse to fight and sacrifice any more lives as we had cut their food and water supply. Keeping track of the movement through Crystal Eyes, I saw that Diablo was no longer in the Rhineland. Now the forces between White Shadow and Dark Shadow were ( 10,000 soldiers, 28 Civar trainees, 8 leaders vs. 20,000 devils troops, 5000 soldiers, 2 generals and Mephiso). We block them for 20 days and their reserved foodstuff were gone. People were starving in the streets and the devils had eaten the commoners to fill their stomach. Realizing that Mephiso was no angel, the 2 generals led their troops out on the reason that they wanted to captured our camp but they came to Elle's camp and surrender.
We were more than happy to accept their surrender.

Chapter 10: Plan!
Suddenly, I had another plan and I told the rest of the leading Generals. All of them agreed the to the plan. The 2 general who had surrender to us also agreed to the plan. We had 1 of the general escorting us pack with a company of soldiers and as we reached the entrance gate, the leading General told the devil guards that were soldiers that were captured during their Night Strike.
letting us pass, we were brought to the devil's camp. and awaits for Mephiso, who will interrogate us. As soon as the devils left, I release Saiha and release the rest of the elite fighters. Raising the smoke signal, Elle alighted it and we charge out of camp, sending those devils soldiers flying and crashing into one another. taking weapons from their armories, we were slashing while waiting for our 2000 reinforcement. Mai went around and set fire to their armories, Vaults and Jason, Ricko manage to destroy their Guard towers.

As we had expected, our reinforcement arrived and we manage to broke their defence line and I order a retreat and we went back to our camp as our pillaging was a success. We had rob their armories, destroyed there important buildings and we had killed 5000 of the devils soldiers. We estimate that there were about 15,000 left and we had about the same number of the soldiers too. We continue to encircle the Rhineland as we know that the devils will surrender sooner or later. Fighting continues to break out almost daily but each time we kill at least a few hundred of the devils. And in 10 days, the devils soldiers were left with 9000. It was that day where Mephiso led his group and declares war on me. I led Mai and the rest and all the Civar trainees and we fought hard. Fighting continue through the day. And we manage to kill all the 9000 soldiers after 48 hours of fighting. The Cevar trainees were ordered to retreat out of the battlefield where Mephiso and me fought one on one. I raised my sword and fought on... ... ...

Time past quickly, 5 hours had past and both of us were carrying injuries on our body. I begin to feel excited. It was a feeling that was hard to describe. I feel my blood boiling, I felt that there was something under the ground that I stepped. Mephiso came forward and broke my sword. I didn't care. I release Saiha and cut the ground. I felt something cold. I grabbed it and took it out. It was a Samurai Katana (Samurai Sword) about 1.2meters long. Suddenly, I had flashback and I remember something......... I was fighting with Mephiso, I defeat him. And he went into my body...I killed my self, no it was my past life. I remember everything!!! I was Kyo, the Slasher. The one who did all fear. The one who created a havoc during the Tokugawa Era and the one who defeated Mephiso... ... ...
Yes, my past came back to me and I hold the Katana on my hand and went slashing at Mephiso. I cut his leg off and told him :' Mephiso.... Given your standard, to defeat me?? Wait another Thousand Million Years!!!!' and I cut his head off.

I hold my Katana and went back with the rest. We had killed Mephiso off. The Kingdom of White Shadow was saved. However, the kingdom was in bad shape and Ricko, appointed by the king as the defender of Shadow, stayed to rebuilt the land. While the rest of us tour around and stayed in the palace to recover. We recovered soon and began to head to the Kingdom of Time Travel where Diablo was reported to be. Only by defeating Diablo, then we will get the Time portal to Dead And Hell where 'He' is waiting for us..