Chapter 5

We Fight


Subternia*

Rattlor and the snake men had been hiding here for who knows how many months in the farthest corner of Subternia. Death of their King Hiss was heavy on all of them, not to mention they had been hunted on full force by the Masters and royal soldiers with everything they got and even if one of them was caught there would be less resistance without having the faith of King Hiss if tortured for information about their hideout. And even in Subternia the Caligars teamed up with the Speleans hunted them with vengeance for taking them slaves and sacrifice them to the snake god, the snake men since their raise from ancient times hadn't been in dire situation.

But he couldn't just sit and let them all crumble, they were the last hope of snake men and as their General and second in command of King Hiss now it was on his shoulders to make sure the snake men survived and rise to power again.

" Lord Rattlor." Bowed one of the snake man at the lead in Eternians clothes and a hood. "Speak soldier, what did you find." said Rattlor, " We have beenss to Ettternian townnsss and villagess disssguissed like thosse live stockss as you commanded and I bring dire newss. It seemss thatsss Man-at-Armss is putting togettther a regiment of soldiers with sssomeone named Dekker and the master Sstratos in the lead sspeccifically trained to fight and track usss with genetically coded new plasssma weaponsss which can hurt uss ." Rattlor swiped his arms on the trays beside him and swore " That Man-at-Arms!" then he said to his men. " Good work soldiers, you all did good but do not despair I have a plan. We will rise again. " They all bowed once more and left. Things were not looking good now, it's going to be hard. But he did have a plan to take back what they had and reach the apex again. He will not fail his people they might need to make sacrifices but they will survive and thrive.

He went into a secluded cave then took out a small golden rod with snake engraved on it's full length with a red ruby embedded on it's eyes from his belt. It was given to him by King Hiss for situations like this where their entire tribe was in danger. It contained coordinates of all the locations which contained weapons and equipment with other resources magical or otherwise protected and hidden from ancient times to be used in emergencies they needed to reach these places and the things there would help them revive the tribe with more power and then they would retaliate with vigor and maybe, just maybe they can find something there to resurrect their King to lay waste to He-Man and other vermin. He pricked his finger and let a drop of green blood fall on the ruby in the eye, it shimmered and projected a map in red with green cobra head symbols all over it. The map was old, terrain and places had changed during their exile but with some effort they would find the places marked in the map.

Now it was time to put the plan into motion, he kept the rod back in his belt then summoned Squeeze and Tongue Lashor. When they arrived he explained his plan to them. "Squeeze, Tongue Lashor it is time we do something about our situation, we snake men are not meant to hide in holes."

" But Ratttlor ittss been monttthhss we are hold up here and men are losing hope even in Ssssubterrnia they are afffraid to go out because of Caligarrrsss and Ssepeliiianss what plan do you have." Said Tongue Lashor.

" I know Tongue Lashor but you see this." he took out the rod. " This is a map and a key, which leads to various weapons and resources depository from ancient times created to ensure our survival should ever the need arise and if we reach them we will have enough fire power to wipeout all our enemies including that Enforcer and He-Man we can avenge our King and maybe there is a slim chance we find something in there that can bring back our King Hiss to life."

"If you aarre rright Rattlor it isss worth trying but ourrr men are brroken they don't have the will to fight even iiif we arm ourselvesss. if we had sssolid prroof we can bring back our Kiiing we might rally our people." said Squeeze. "You are right they don't have the confidence to fight even if we have the necessary power and weapons. We just need to give them half truths to give them the will it is for the good of the entire tribe, follow me."

Kobra Khan came out behind a pillar after they they were out of eye sight having hear the whole conversation. "Ratttlor you will pay dearly for not including me in this grand plan of yours I WILL make you regret it Sss." Then went after them to see what they were up to.

Rattlor, Squeeze and Tongue Lashor arrived at the big cavern below them which housed most of the Snake men. "My fellow snake men." he said loudly, his voice echoed throughout the cavern. " I know you all are feeling down, Even I am. But we are not those live stocks and slaves that we hide underground in fear, WE are snake men and we are superior. And we fight.

He was met with hisses and boos from nearly the whole tribe. "Wiiithouttt ourrr Kiiiing annnd God we areee good assss dead!"

" Yesss weee are deefeeated our Kiing deefeated sss."

" Wee havee nottthing to Sss fight for, if we do it will only resssult in ourrr death."

Rattlor let them continue for some time then he raised his to silence them. " My fellow snake men we are defeated not extinct but I know of your concerns, we are being hunted by whole Eternia but we do have something to look up to. Something left behind by our King Hiss himself, if the same cursed day were to occur." He raised his hand with the rod and the Ruby let out a blinding red light. " This key leads us to different locations on Eternia where is buried parts of an ancient alter which when assembled has the power to Resurrect our King." Now he was met with silence but there was Faith and hope again in all of them. " I know going out to fight again will cause the death of many but tell me, is it not worth it to bring our beloved King back so we once again rule the whole of Eternia?"

He was now met with excited and willful hisses. " So now, WE FIGHT!" Shouted Rattlor and was met with the chant. " We Fight, We Fight, We Fight, We Fight."

Rattlor smiled and turned around Squeeze came to him and accused "Sss You liied to tthem." Shaking his head the General replied. " No I gave them Hope and a Chance, it was necessary." Tongue Lashor asked. "What happensss when tthey find outt ? who knowsss if we can reeally resurrect King Hiss." Rattlor turned around looked at the snake men now filled with vigor again. " We will cross the bridge when it comes." he sighed.


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