"This place is quite the fortress." I said as we walked into the town of Hoax.
"It wasn't always like this." Lavitz said sadly. "It was once a normal town, but once the war began..." He trailed off, and motioned toward the walls.
"Once the war began, this place was required because it was on the road to Bale, and was adapted to meet this purpose, right?" I asked.
"Right."
"So, where's base command? We should check in, at least."
"This way."
"Lavitz, Dart, Serem, you take the night watch. Shana, can you help prepare the meals?"
"Sure!"
"Shana cooking? Now I'm worried."
"Dart! Lavitz's mother gave me a nice compliment."
"It doesn't matter. Anything has to be better than military food."
"Lavitz too."
"I don't care about the taste. Just make a lot. Salt alone is enough for taste."
"Even Mr. Kaiser."
They all looked at me, as if expecting me to add my own comment.
"Don't look at me." I said with a laugh. "I'm staying out of this one."
That night:
"See anything?"
"Not really. But do you hear the owls? We're safe until they stop." Dart said
"I guess. Most animals quiet down when there's danger, though I almost wish something would happen. I'm bored."
As soon as the words left my mouth, the owls shut up.
"Hell....I was kidding." I grumbled.
As arrows began to fall, I jumped to my feet and began hurling fireballs, trying to intercept as many as I could.
The clink of a chain caught my attention a half second before a heavy weight crashed into my back.
"Serem!"
"Ow..." I picked my glaive around from where it fell and turned around. "You've got to be kidding. You people have ninjas too?" I groaned as I spotted a single black-clad soldier. "Dart, Lavitz, help out the others. This guy's mine."
"Right." The pair ran down the stairs to where the heavy fighting was.
"Fighting me alone? That's awfully cocky."
"Yeah right. I don't need help to take you apart."
"Let's see about that. Hyah!" The chain whipped out but bounced off my armor without doing any damage.
"Didn't feel a thing."
He lashed out with it again, and the chain wrapped itself around my left arm.
"You're finished." He pulled the chain, and yanked me off my feet, in the same instant I launched a fireball in his direction.
I heard a scream as I hit the ground, and when I got back on my feet, the ninja was in a heap on the ground with a hole burned clear through his chest.
As I picked up the glaive from where it had fallen, a shock ran through the fortress, and I stumbled as the front gate blew open. Standing in the destroyed door was the biggest person I had ever seen.
"GIGANTO!!!" one of the soldiers below yelled.
Giganto? Probably something else I'll have to ask about later. I ran down the stairs and reached the bottom as Dart and Lavitz attacked. The pair was sent flying by a massive blow from the Giganto's axe, and landed a good ten feet away.
Holy shit! What power! I can't compete with that!
I threw a pair of fireballs, but the Giganto used his axe to block them both, and lunged toward me.
I just barely managed to get the blade of my glaive up in time to catch his axe, and for a couple seconds, we were locked as he tried to push the axe forward and I tried to stop it.
He's only using one hand! SHI- The thought was broken by the impact of the Giganto's left hand into the side of my face, and I was sent flying into a wall, where I lost consciousness.
When I came to, the Giganto was standing over Dart, with his axe raised.
"Dart!" I shot off another fireball, which managed to knock the axe from the Giganto's hand.
"Serem! Catch!" I looked up, and saw a black shape fly overhead, and a sword fly at me, hilt first.
As my hand closed around the hilt, images began to rush through my mind, and everything went black.......
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