Part 3
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James Ray Edwards, Knight Commander of the Knights of Motoko. Proud but misguided, strong but with a tendency to be rather delusional, loyal but incredibly absent-minded. In Motoko's own words, Knight Commander Edwards was, simply put, quixotic. He stood at the back as the lower ranking Knights charged the enemy stronghold before them. He fully believed he was attacking a KFH stronghold, though it seemed rather poorly decorated to be one. Now that he thought about it, he never recalled the KFH having any fortresses capable of standing up to a siege by a full squadron of Knights. This one wasn't just holding its ground; it was starting to drive the Knights into a dishonorable and shameful retreat. Then, one of his lieutenants approached him.
"Sir, the Knights want to ask…why you are wearing pink armor." he asked nervously.
"It is because it is the color of Motoko-sama's preference!" James declared proudly. "It is the color of Knights! It is the color of the honorable Knights of Motoko!"
"Uhm, sir, RED is the color of Motoko-sama's preference."
"Crap." James' eyes widened with the perception of the obvious. Slamming his hand into the emblem of two katanas crossed over one another and over a samurai banner, which decorated his helmet, he thought of something to redeem himself with. "It doesn't matter! I will conquer this decadent and deplorable KFH stronghold! And then, I will be honored by Motoko-sama herself!"
"Sir, if we are supposed to be attacking KFH territory, why is the army in the middle of CoK controlled territories?" the lieutenant asked.
"CoK? By that you mean the Church of Kanako?" he asked nervously.
"Well, yes sir."
"Crap." Knight Commander Edwards smashed his head on a rather large rock repeatedly before having yet another 'bright' idea. "We launch a crusade against the darkness, corruption and evil of the Church of Kanako!"
"If you say so sir…" the lieutenant said nervously before a blade cut him in half.
"James Ray Edwards, Knight Commander of the Knights of Motoko." A grim voice called. James turned and watched in horror as he licked the lieutenant's blood from the black edge of his crescent shaped blade. He looked in horror; he wasn't prepared to face Kana the Evil himself in battle. "Do you realize where you are?"
"The…KFH frontier territories?" he guessed nervously as he began to back a few steps.
"That's the wrong answer, Edwards. You're in the territory of the Church of Kanako, MY church." Kana said vindictively. "This officially breaks the peace treaty we signed from ten years ago. I'll consider this a declaration of war."
Edwards drew his two katanas, ready to fight Kana if he had to. Edwards was a skilled warrior, a master of his two sword kendo technique but Kana had several advantages over him. It was well known that the ki power of the Knights of Motoko decreases considerably when on CoK soil, the dead bodies that littered the ground all around him were just as deadly in Kana's hands as that crescent blade was and Kana was not bound by the rules of honorable combat, unlike Edwards. Kana moved his blade swiftly, the demonically sharpened edge of his blade cutting clear through the armor of his opponent. Edwards could see the reflection of his fear-stricken face on Kana's blade as the Necromancer's hands glowed green. A sign that he was about to cast one of his many dark spells.
"Do you know how powerful my 'Soul Canon' spell is in a place with so many dead bodies? I am giving you a chance to retreat with the lives of your men. I suggest you take it."
"You have not heard the last of us, you evil!" Edwards declared as he ran towards his men. "Retreat men! Retreat, now!"
Kana stood there, his weapon vanishing into the darkness from whence it came. He stood and watched the Knights retreat and found it laughable. The rumors that Motoko's Knight Commander was less than competent may well be true but it shocked him as to how unlike Motoko the Knight Commander was. It was just laughable to the highest degree. Then, one of the shadows rapidly crawled on the ground towards him and took shape. He snickered as he watched Edwards trip over a rather large rock and fall flat on his face. Then, the shadow beside him took a female form and stood close to him. The shadow knew better than to stand too close though, Kana despised letting anyone other than Kanako laying hands on him.
"Is it wise to let Edwards and the others to run like that?" The Sadistic Shadow, the spy of the Church of Kanako within the Empire asked.
"No." Kana answered bluntly as he raised a hand that was glowing green. He had awakened the thousand or so skeletons on the field around him, all armed and ready to fight. "Go forth my skeleton army. Show them what it means to trespass in CoK land."
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"Empress, I wish to speak with you."
Kebinu knelt before the domineering, cold, heartless, despised, hated, loathed, vindictive, unjust, cruel, demonic, beautiful and intelligent absolute ruler of the Evil Naru Empire: the Evil Empress Naru Narusegawa, the only one among the goddesses of Hinata Sou to both rule her own territories and control Hinata Sou. Kebinu noticed just now that the black beady eyes of every single one of the hundreds of Liddo-kun in the entire throne room had just turned to look at him. He couldn't take the abuse anymore, the demeaning. He should have refused the job from the get go, with the fact that being Imperial Ambassador also means you are the Empress' official target practice person and scapegoat.
"Yes, Kebinu? What is it?"
"Well, I'm here to…offer my resignation." Kebinu said as he nervously approached the Ivory Throne. He looked on as Naru eyed the document. "…"
"Stop sweating all over my pink carpet." Naru ordered. "Or I'll have the Liddo-kun…never mind. I'd rather not tell you what they do. It's too horrible, even for me."
"Yes, my Empress."
"Well, everything seems in order." Naru sighed as she stood up and in an impossibly quick move, removed three layers worth of fine silk garments. "So, where do you want to do it?"
"Eh? I don't understand?" Kebinu muttered as he stared. Naru, despite all her seemingly infinite negative qualities, was a beauty. Kebinu stared at the hair, the eyes and the unbearably attractive figure and tried his hardest not to lose any blood. One of his many boyhood fantasies as Imperial dishwasher had just been fulfilled. "Why are you…"
"Look at page 2334 of the Imperial Ambassador's handbook, section 4." Naru said as she made said handbook appear out of nowhere. "The Severance Package for the Imperial Ambassador."
""In the event that the Imperial Ambassador resigns, the severance package will be that he has the Empress herself to be his personal 'love slave' for one day for every year of service."" Kebinu's heart almost stopped. "Is this real?"
"Yes." Naru said as he made a grab for his…lower extremity (Kanako: Notice it's not plural. *grin* You better thank me for this, Kebinu. You owe me. BIG time.). "It's real. So, you've been working for me for…seven eyars right? That means for one week, I'm your personal 'love slave'."
"I've died and gone to heaven…" Kebinu stammered. "Anywhere will do…"
(Kanako: Maybe its best we leave those two alone for now…I don't want to up the rating, after all…)
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Tuxedo Jack, proud air commander of the SASA sat in his captain's seat on the SASA's command warship, the Su-ship, prepared to lead a squadron of Tama-bombers to attack their enemy, the Evil Naru Empire's borders. It would be interesting to know that the Empire is west of the SASA territories but Tuxedo Jack has them heading to the northwest, which is controlled by the Knights of Motoko. Needless to say, Motoko's not the only one with rather absent-minded commanders. Bearing the emblem of a frying pan crossed over a turtle shell with a weird eye on it, the emblem of the SASA, it was rather easy to see who was attacking. With only four or five Veritech attack units to guard the twenty or so Tama-bombers…
"Haha! Now we will deal a blow to the Evil Naru Empire! We will crush their border fortress!"
"Commander Tuxedo Jack sir! The bombs!"
"Yes, yes. I know the bombs are capable of decimating an entire city in a matter of seconds with their 30-megaton payload!" he declared proudly. "We will make Shinobu-sama and Su-sama proud!"
"No sir! The bombs are going back to US!"
"What did you say?!"
"Sir, someone's waving a sign down there. It reads 'Deflection field, a trademark owned by CoK Necro-Technologies, is up. Anything that hits it goes back to whoever threw it. Bye, suckers – Kitsune'. Sir the bombs will make contact in five seconds!"
"I am so screwed…" Jack slammed his face to the wall. "Wait…we're in KFH territory?"
As the shrapnel of the bombers and Veritechs began to rain down on the thousands upon thousands of Kitsune's followers, the party just kept on going. Surrounded by her aides and advisers, all young, attractive males with absolutely no brains whatsoever and thinking that their place in the world is to be ogled, fondled and otherwise toyed with by Kitsune, the decadent fox basked in the glory, decadence and party atmosphere of her domain, the KFH. Nearby, Eijentu, the only female in the upper ranks of the KFH administrative staff was nearby, drinking herself into unconsciousness while randomly firing shots of her two special handguns. Like Kitsune, she had a bunch of attractive males around her as well, for the same purpose as Kitsune's little collection and roughly the same level of intelligence.
"We just got rid of some invading forces!" Kitsune rose up and announced to the partying people of the KFH. "I hereby extend the party another…ten days! Let's all get drunk and party some more!"
"I'll drink to that, Boss!" Eijentu cried. "Hey you're cute. The Boss would love to have fun with you…"
To Be Continued…
Kanako: I say 'No' to your suggestion, Shalashaska. We now have our first casualties of war, a short view of the KFH and Kebinu gets lucky. Next part! We finally find out what happened to Mutsumi! The author I really don't like becomes Naru's new scapegoat! Sorry, I meant lapdog! Sorry, I meant Ambassador! Kanako and Kana get just a little more romantic! Talon finds out he's attracted to the Empress! And of course, more insanity! Kebinu, a nice way to thank me for giving you Naru would be too give ME Kana in "Road Trip"...just a "suggestion".
Kana: Of course, When my dear Kanako suggest something, it usually means it's a demand. And after much deliberation, I've decided to let her update this as often as she likes. It helps in getting a stable power base around here.