If I didn't upload this April 26th of 2013 then I'm sorry, I hadn't finished it in time, and since the weekend is my time off, I hope you can understand. Now then, that's all I have to say... onward to the season's conclusion! In due time...
(It's been confirmed, UNSC will be arriving in chapter 13 at the soonest, until then I've got a lot of surprises for you guys.)
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"Lady Henrietta!" Exclaimed Louise and walked towards the princess with concern "What's the matter princess? Is something wrong? There has to be a reason why you would come here alone so late at night."
"Yes... I have a request, a most urgent request that I must make of you in secret..."
We both tilted our heads.
"Well... Maybe I should explain first..." the princess went over and sat on Louise's bed, while Louise knelt in front of her... but... she wasn't my princess so I felt no obligation to do so... "After much thought... I've decided to marry into a family in Germania..."
"What did you say?" Louise asked with concern and raised her head. "Your going to marry into a country of savage, upstart nobles!?"
"There's nothing I can do about it" explained the princess "To keep our small country of Tristain safe from harm, my family must form strong alliances with a larger kingdom..."
"Um..." I raised my hand "I don't get it, how will marrying into a forgone family help keep Tristain safe?"
"I believe I can explain that one Noble Six..." Said Cortana who's avatar flickered to life on my shoulder. Catching the princess of guard.
"What is that?" she asked and Louise explained while Cortana talked to me. It took a while but eventually I understood.
"Didn't Déjà teach you anything Noble Six?"
"I'm pretty sure Déjà was the teacher of the Spartan-II's Cortana... not the Spartan-III's... and all we learned was ancient warfare history, not the medieval feudal system!" I said "But anyways... back to you Ma'am" I nodded towards Henrietta...
"Well... it's ok... I am the princess of Tristain am I not? I don't mind making sacrifices and putting the need of the country in front of my own..."
I raised my hand again... what... was I in class? "Um... question... why not just form a treaty?"
"Treaty? Like... a official document of alliance?"
"Basically"
"Such documents require a noble of high status to marry into the receiver's family or country... and in this case that would be me... it's sort of a tradition, but at the same time it's also required... the alliance might fail if I didn't marry..."
I scoffed to which I got a look of horror from Louise, probably because she thought I was insulting the princess. "That's dumb... back where I come from a treaty is a word of honor! And I take it you hold honor very highly here? If the UNSC was here, I bet they'd love to have an alliance with Tristain for a reasonable deal... maybe like... trading rights and land rights... and in return, not only would Tristain have the best army in the universe guarding her, but she'd have access to other worlds, materials, weapons and more that would otherwise be un-obtainable here! But..." I paused "I'm no politician so, it's just a hunch..."
"Curious..." said the Princess "Sounds like your world has a much different way of running things then ours..."
"Well... yeah... I mean, there's no nobility or anything so-"
"WHAT!?" Both the girls yelped, then the Princess took over "B-but how!? If there are no nobles then how do you run your countries?"
"Easy, it's called a democracy... in theory... it's the best kind of government system... in theory... it works by each party gaining seats in the galactic senate by winning the ridings of each planet... the planets which have the same things happen, decide on... their municipal leader, which is a mayor by voting, then the leader of that party's local branch is put in as the mayor, and then for each province you have the... erm... what was it called... prefect? No... well whatever... you have the head of the provincial come from the party who has the most municipality wins, as in most mayors in position in that province or region..." I took a breath "Then after that the federal leader is from the party with the most provincial wins... then the planetary leader is from the party with the most federal wins and then last but not least the galactic leader is from the party with the most planetary wins..."
"Sounds complex..." Said the Princess
"I think that's how it works for us... but the thing is, the leaders don't have absolute power... they can't go making changes whenever they feel like it, no that has to pass through the appropriate level of concourse... like the federal or planetary house of commons... where more representatives from each riding will come and vote on the matter, such as passing a new law, bill or regulation..." I sighed, I never paid much attention to politics. "The idea is that the representatives will vote, based on the ideals of those who voted to put them in that position of power... meaning that, ideally, you like the ideas or attitude a politician has, then you vote for him or her and hope that they make the choices you would have made... however it seldom goes exactly as planned... hitches DO happen... that being said I highly dislike Dictatorships, Totalitarianisms, Militarists and Despotisms... Communism is another story... I hate it... but I like it at the same time..." I laughed "The principals are great... but it never... NEVER... EVER works... just look at history... all communist governments turned into Military Dictatorships... that being said, I'm only tolerating this Monarchy because you seem like a nice leader... or soon to be leader anyways..."
Louise jabbed my side "So, can the princess get back to what she was saying? I mean that was very educating and all but you are addressing royalty!"
"Right... sorry..." I returned my attention to her highness...
"That's an intereting story Mr. Familiar... sounds like Louise got a very interesting one indeed..."
"Please, ma'am, call me Alexander or Scorch, whichever you prefer."
"OK, Alexander..." she smiled and I smiled back... for a monarch she was very cute... "But... there is something I must do before I marry..." she stood up and walked over to the window.
"What, Princess? If there is anything you need me to do just tell me and I'll do it no matter what!"said Louise. Which meant, wherever she went... I went... I sighed, full well knowing where this was going.
"That's very kind, I thank you Louise Françoise," said the Princess "I would like you to retrieve a certain item..."
"A certain item?" I commented "Yeah... way to build up dramatic tension... just cut to the chase, what is it, and what needs blowing up? This sounds like something I was made for!" I thought for a moment, I slammed my hand over Louise's mouth to shut her up before she screamed at me for being rude "Unless this is just some glorified fetch quest..."
"I want you two to journey to the country of Albion... and retrieve a letter I sent to Prince Wales."
"Albion!?" Exclaimed Louise
"Yep... glorified fetch quest right there!" I confirmed
"If the world finds out about that letter, my engagement will be called off..."
"Must be some pretty sensitive documents if it could ruin something like an alliance..." said Cortana
"You will have to be increidibly careful, Albion is in a very unstable situation... politicaly that is..." warned Henrietta.
"I heard that the nobles have started a Coup and that the royal family is about to fall..." said Louise
"I'm so sorry that I'm even asking such a close friend of mine to undertake this dangerous journey... but..." the princess pulled a weepy pause "The only people in all of Tristain I could trust to ask... are the two of you..."
Louise gasped and run behind the princess, who was still looking out the window, she knelt "Thank you so much Princess..." she said.
Henrietta turned around "Why are you thanking me Louise?"
"That you would trust me so much as to allow me to take such an important mission for you and Tristain... I couldn't be any happier then I am right now!" said Louise
"Oh Louise!" cried the Princess... what a girly moment... I thought one-sidedly, before pulling out my MA5B and cocking it, getting the attention of the girls.
"You're not my princess... or queen... or general... of leader of any kind... I don't owe you anything..." they both gasped and Louise looked like she wanted to strangle me.
"But..." I said "Louise seems to think highly of you... she trusts and cares for you very much... and I in turn trust Louise... even if she is a brat sometimes... she knows how to pick good friends... as far as I can tell... so..." I lowered my rifle and did something out of my personal military tradition... I knelt in front of the princess... "I personally, admire you for that... so... for what it's worth... I will give you my service... and if need be I will die... for you... My lady..."
I head Louise gasp, not out of anger or rage, but due to the fact she'd probably never seen me this... servile or humble... I was basically swearing fealty to this girl, but, I'd never even thought of doing it to her, even though she was supposed to be my master... big deal I though... I reserve my respect and only will take orders, from those who have earned the right... which raised the question what the fuck was going through my mind the last few weeks... guess the fear of not eating or sleeping had gotten the better of me... damned essentials...I then heard the door creak open a little bit... I flipped around and sprang to my feet, aiming my rifle at the door.
"Who goes there, identify yourself!" I declared, then the door swung fully open and I saw a blonde, curly haired prissy boy standing there.
"Guiche!" Both me and Louise exclaimed
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I was hanging around outside the dormitory tower, near the fountain next to said tower, I just wanted some fresh air and to think about what had just happened. I couldn't believe Guiche was going to tag along, the only thing he'd be good for is cannon fodder, if even that! I sighed and began to brace myself for what I thought was going to be the longest trip I'd been on since I got to... whatever the name of this world is... seriously though, I can't pronounce it nor remember it for the life of me!
I heard soft foot steps approaching me, I glanced over and saw Siesta approaching me. "Um... Mr. Alexander."
"Hey Siesta..." I said
"I am so terribly sorry... about the aphrodisiac..." she bowed apologetically "I heard that it was true... I'm sorry that I was so rude to you Mr. Alexander..."
"Meh" I shrugged "It's no big deal... we managed to get Louise back to normal anyways... thankfully..." I thought back to what the Water Spirit had said the other day "Again with that Gandalfr stuff..."
"I'm sorry?" Siesta asked
I stood up from my resting position "Happen to know anyone with a detailed knowlage of history?" I asked
"Lets see..." Siesta put a finger to her chin "History..."
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Siesta had pointed me in the direction of Profeser Colbert, so early in the morning I went over to his lab to see if he was there... sure enough he was.
When I brought up the Gandalfr stuff with him, he started off like so;
"Well you see" He said as he mixed two blue liquids together in a potion flask "Originally a long time ago, there were five elements of magic... not just earth, water, air and fire... the five elements are said to have been the pinnacles of the pentagon... the fifth element known as the lost apex of the pentagon is the element of Void. And this Gandalfr you are inquiring about was the familiar the now legendary Void mage"
"The familiar of the Void mage huh?" I said
"However, no mage in modern times" I wanted to laugh when he said modern, but I kept my mouth shut "has ever been confirmed to posses Void magic... the rune there... the one on your hand, closely resembles the rune of Gandalfr... but... unfortunately since the Void Mage no longer exists, we can speculate, but we have no way of knowing for certain whether or not you're actually Gandalfr"
I chuckled humorlessly "Well my master is hardly what you'd call legendary... being the way she is and all..." I sniffed and smelt a foul stench on the motionless wind... I glanced over and saw a flask full of a dark, brownish substance. "Hey I thought something smelled weird... I guess it's this stuff..."
"Ahhh..." sighed Colbert "That right there is dragon's blood"
"Dragon... blood?"
"Ages ago two dragons never before seen appeared in the skies accompanied by a tremendous roar... shortly after one of the dragons disappeared from the sky, while the other one plummeted to the ground... and as you can see... I happened to come across some blood rumored to have been shed at that time... I'm currently in the process of replicating it now."
"So... this is really blood? I mean... the stench..." I would have stuck around longer to ask more about this supposed dragon, but I had to go, we were meeting together with some guard the Princess had assigned to be our guide at the front gate...
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"So where is this guard anyways?" Louise asked, then a minor tremor in the ground caught our attention... something was digging out of the ground... "What's that?"
Then a large brown... mole... type... thing... came out of the ground and Louise yelped
"Oh Verdande!" squealed Guiche and jumped out of his seat on the Warthog... oh yeah, did I mention we were taking the Warthog? Anyways... Guiche ran towards his familiar and hugged... it... him... whatever... "Oh my precious little Verdande, you thought I would leave you behind again because I went to the lake without you... you touch my heart so much my Verdande! Adorable Verdande!"
Me and Louise were standing behind Guiche while watching this rather entertaining scene. "He seriously overreacts to everything huh?" I whispered
"Yup" agreed Louise, who then raised her voice "This is ridiculous...We cannot take a giant mole with us!" and as soon as she finished saying that, the mole advanced on Louise "Wh- what is it doing?" she demanded as the mole sniffed her... then it jumped on her and I cracked up... it was nice... the first time I'd laughed at her expense that was not of my doing... felt good...
"AH! What's it think it's doing!? Guiche! Get it off me get it off me get it off!" Screamed Louise, and I couldn't stop laughing... I think Guiche was trying hard not to laugh as well..."
"Oh I see, he's spotted the ring!"
"WHAT!?"
"Oh my precious Verdande has infatuation with gems, he especially likes gems which are high in value..." Guiche explained
"You've got to be kidding! This ring is the ruby of water! It was given to me by Princess Henrietta, I'm not gonna let some big mole eat it! C'mon help me out!" she pleaded... then from out of nowhere a gust of wind slammed into Verdande and sent him flying.
"My Verdande!" Guiche yelped "who did that!?" he raised his rose and looked around.
"Contact, 6 o' clock, high!" Said Cortana and I looked behind me and in the sky... a deep bellow was heard and something flew down from the fog... landing in front of us...
"A Griffon!" Exclaimed Guiche, indicating the huge creature with the head of an eagle and body of a lion... I think... and of course with huge wings and talons... to which... at this point... didn't surprise me... but it sure as hell shut me up for the next 60 seconds... "Who, who are you! Identify yourself!" said Guiche, the bastard, he stole my line from last night!
A man in an all purple musketeer looking outfit jumped of the back of the winged beast and lifted his had up so we could see his face, silver haired and bearded with grey eyes, his face reminded me of some famous ranger from an old movie trilogy about a ring... made back in the 21st century... "I'm Wardes, leader of the Griffon squad and I've been ordered by Lady Henrietta to accompany you on your journey." He glanced at my Warthog "Interesting wagon..."
"Thanks, I think" I said
"Wait, so your..." started Louise
"Are you really one of the famous magic guards?" Guiche finished but was ignored by Wardes.
"Ah, Louise..." he said and walked towards her... "I was under the impression that my fiancé was in trouble..."
"F-f-f-fiancé!?" I exclaimed, and I was followed up by Guiche saying;
"Y-y... your kidding right?!" to which I was inclined to agree... this guy was old enough to be her father, either this guy was so some sort of crazy pedophile... or this world had no recognition of something called an AGE DIFFERENCE! It really just creeped the fuck out of me...
This man... this Wardes guy, walked up to Louise and picked her up bridal style "Ah you my darling are as light as always, just like a bird's feather!"
"It... it's been quite a while, hasn't it Lord Wardes?" Said Louise
And so we started on our journey... Me and Guiche were on the Warthog, I'd taught him how to use a shotgun and my old MA37, since I didn't use it anymore as I replaced it with my MA5B, he caught on surprisingly quick... but a shotgun is extremely easy to use... meanwhile Louise sat on Wardes' lap up on his Griffon... I glanced at Guiche holding my MA37, then at the M41 LAAG (Light-Anti-Armor-Gun) or simply known as, The Gauss Cannon, which I'd finally mounted on the back... that gun could put a round clean through a Covenant Banshee or Revenant... thinking back about this... I started thinking about Reach and the UNSC... I wondered if they'd even noticed I was missing...
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UNSC Marine's POV
"Sgt. Stacker! You have a meeting with Fireteam Alpha through Delta up in the briefing room!" said a passing Private, I then remembered about the mission that I was supposed to be joining and double timed it up to the briefing room. I walked in the door as casually as I could given the fact I was late... I looked over the room, there was a fancy AI at the front giving us our mission details.
"Good afternoon men and women... I will be briefing you on Operation: Eclipse... gather round please..." We all took our seats and watch the holographic projector roll through the slides. "A few weeks ago, the Spartan known as Noble Six went missing, right from his apartment just a few blocks away from here... But... Almost a week ago, here on Reach, an energy disturbance was detected for the first time, building up at the location at the moon and sun's highest rising point, the point of a solar eclipse... ONI has conducted research on the energy readings and has detected a series of forerunner portals, similar to those on the Halo installations and Forerunner Shield worlds. However... this kind of portal is a long range portal similar to the one which leads from Earth to the former location of The Arc... but this time, the portal does not lead to the activation point of a weapon of galactic destruction, no... this simply leads to either the near center, or edge, of the galaxy... we have yet to determine for sure... so then, with these portals popping up all over the galaxy during solar eclipses... we are going to investigate more thoroughly... Fireteams Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta, your jobs are to enter the portal and establish a firebase on the other side. The portals are to small to send full sized ships through, so we will be sending 6 fully loaded Pelicans with you, carrying enough supplies for you to survive a year with, along with some nice firepower. Each Pelican has a Warthog loaded onto it, except for one with a Scorpion Tank on it... it's a hybrid of the older versions, with both a body machine gun turret and a coaxial machine gun on the main gun turret. So all in all, you will be getting, approximately 3 tons of supplies including ammo, food, weapons and tools... five warthogs, one Scorpion, six Pelicans all loaded for combat might I add, and ten marines per fireteam... making 30 marines and 12 pilots, since Fireteam Delta is an all ODST team, so also add 10 fully armed and lethal ODSTs... 52 personnel in total..."
Well call me a Covie's uncle, that was a lotta hardware! The briefing AI told us that this mission was to executed about a week from now, we'd go in, secure a landing area for a firebase, and recon the surrounding area... that was assuming we even landed at a planet! We knew nothing about where we were headed, with no information about the terrain or the locals... it was a job I knew the Spartans would love... however most of the Spartan IVs were either on Spartan Ops or Training... I heard Crimson Team might join this mission if they finished their training in time, but at the current rate I doubted their participation any time soon. Team Rebirth might join the mission as well... one of the new yet somehow old Spartan teams... I don't understand what ONI meant by that, then again no one ever really understands those spooks... all I knew, is we were heading into uncharted territory... we'd go in, perform our recon then get home... and there there'd be ice cream... Oorah!
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Scorch's POV
We'd finally entered the Port village... though how you could call this place a port was beyond me... this place, La Roche or whatever it was called was nestled high in the mountains, not a speck of ocean was in sight... and to boot, all the buildings were carved right out of the mountains... pretty impressive, Guiche said that it had been built by a group of Square-Class Mages... but to me, this was pretty easy work, nothing you couldn't do with a few Hydro Drills and allot of time...
It must have been a strange sight... seeing a Griffon followed by a three ton metal beast... the Warthog was probably a more amazing sight and eye grabber then the Griffon simply due to the way everyone was looking at us...
We followed a path up the hills in the village to an inn we'd be staying at... "We'll be staying here tonight, then depart tomorrow evening... alright?" said Wardes, stating the obvious...
"Y-yes! Of course Lord Wardes!" Said Guiche, I on the other hand ignored him...
"Scorch" Said Louise "The least you could do it answer him!"
"It's alright" said Wardes "I never cared much for the trappings of nobility anyways..." and he entered the Inn.
I unpacked some of our stuff, putting them into a pile near the edge of a cliff with a banister, it overlooked the whole village... the evening was fast approaching... and the sun was setting. I placed the last thing down and brushed off my hands, not noticing Louise behind me until she cleared her throat.
"Just so you know... I'll tell you this much..." she said "My parents were the ones who decided on this whole fiancé thing..."
"Mhm..." I nodded, I honestly didn't care, if that's what she was getting at.
"What!? What was the Mhm all about?"
"He's stuck up... but... he seems to be the most decent out of all the nobles I've met so far... so... he's a good enough guy right?" I asked out of mere concern.
"Hmmf... that's right... ever since I was a child I'd looked up to Lord Wardes..." I understood that... having a childhood hero was common in my world as well, so why not here. "He's lost so much, he lost his parents early on and worked really hard to become the leader of the magic guards" I could relate to that... then Louise said something that sent me off my rocker... "As opposed to you!"
*SLAM*
Louise's eyes doubled in size as I slammed her against the banister holding her by her neck, her head off one side, I was pushing down threatening to pop her head off... something I'd done before. "What. Did. You. Just. Say..." I said through gritted teeth... it seemed like we were back to day one when I'd almost shot her...
"ah, Gack... cleek, kkkkaaaaaa... ack... klk ah uuuuhhhh..." gasped Louise, I pushed forward a little more and she started flailing around, she was at her endurance's end, I didn't care... I clutched her neck and threw her away from the banister, to the floor. I didn't feel like apologizing this time... I stepped over her saying "You don't know the first thing about loss..."
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Later that night...
Me and Louise still weren't talking... I didn't care... I figured if I spoke to her I'd end up beating the crap out of her, and that would be a bad thing... all of us sat at a table in the inn, Guiche was stuffing his face, while I didn't feel like eating...
"I hear you summoned a human familiar Louise" said Wardes and I mentally scoffed. "I'd expect nothing less from you Louise." Man... this guy was even worse when it came to acting like Guiche...
"I wouldn't think you would say something like that Lord Wardes."
"No, I didn't mean it out of Sarcasm, this is an amazing thing you've done Louise..." there was a long pause... and I glanced up to find that he was staring at me... but now that he had my attention he continued "Word is you two engaged in a duel am I right?"
My mood lifted significantly and I smirked when Guiche started to choke on his food after Wardes said that... I had to hold back a snicker or two.
"I also heard that this duel marked the first time you'd wielded a sword is that true as well?"
"Well... technically... a sword of this age... I'd wielded my own version of swords from my world, which I guess weren't much different..." I admitted
"I also heard that you used the Staff of Destruction to capture Fouquet the sculptor right?"
"Yeah that is correct... man, you sure are in the know of it all huh?" I noted, but I also found it highly suspicious...
"Being in my position makes me in the privy to all sorts of detailed information" Said Wardes, which I guess was a good point...
"Even about a peasant familiar like himself?" Louise asked, aiming an insult at me which I brushed off... simply due to the fact that, in truth, she had just raised a very good counter point...
"Actually that is why I've grown an interest in you..." Wardes returned his gaze to me "And I was thinking I'd like to ask you to engage in a practice match."
"Really?" I asked "Are you sure?"
"What!?" Louise Exclaimed
"Our ship doesn't leave until tomorrow... and it does get ever so dull spending your time idling about."
"But Lord Wardes!" Protested Louise
"It's fine Louise" I said "Besides"
"I'll do my best to hold back" both me and Wardes said at the same time... catching him more my surprise then me... I knew I could beat him... easy...
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I found myself up in a separate room with two single beds, along with Guiche... Louise apparently we staying in the same room as Wardes... which again... I found highly disturbing...
Guiche was standing out on the balcony when he said "This is turning out to be quite the romantic evening"
I was laying on my bed with my arms crossed behind my head and leg crossed over one another. "No... not really..." I said casually
"It's just a shame that you'll be the one lying next to me tonight..." I don't know where he got that, we had separate beds... but I'd humor him...
"I feel the same way Guiche..." I said
Guiche returned to the room "Oh! I just remembered I have something to do!"
"Something to do?" I inquired
"I just remembered that while we were eating earlier I spotted a young lady in the room... I must find her and speak with her, it would be a shame not to don't you think?" and he quickly left the room...
"What kind of messed up logic is that?" I muttered "Hey Derf"
Derf popped out of his sheath... "Yeah what is it partner?"
"Do you know anything about Gandalfr?"
"What are you talking about? This late in the game?" he said and I sat up.
"What?"
"What are you, who are you if your not Gandalfr! For six thousand years from past to present, my partner has always been Gandalfr, and that's you!"
"Huh..." I nodded and took in the information... I grabbed Derf and walked out to the balcony, leaning him against the banister. "We just happened to buy something from the bargain bin in the armory you know... it was just a coincidence."
"In this world there are no such things as coincidence, you've always been my partner Gandalfr... that's the sole reason I'm here... doesn't that make sense?" said Derf
"If that's true then why didn't you say anything sooner?" I asked
"Because you didn't bother askin'!"
"That's a lame excuse" said Cortana who appeared on my shoulder "I mean you told me!"
"Oh c'mon! You'll tell my AI something, but you won't tell me!? Some partner!" I joked "But... still..." I looked at the back of my left hand "The power to freely wield weapons... handy..."
"I will however tell you that the power only applies to weapons that were made to be weapons... it won't work with ornamental weapons like that shiny sword Kirche bought you, or say a kitchen knife."
"Ok..." I processed the information "So if I wield you or any weapon in battle so long as Gandalfr works, will I win, even against this Wardes guy?"
"Are you stupid or something? It's up to you whether to win of lose! A weapon is just a weapon, sure it matters who's got the bigger stick, but it matters a hell of allot more who's swingin' it!"
"Right right... where have I heard that before..." I mused.
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In the morning me and Wardes found a quiet ally just outside the inn to have our duel...
"So shall we begin?" he asked me
"Whenever you're ready..." I replied
"Stop the madness you two!" shouted Louise, what madness... the duel hadn't even begun... not to mention this wasn't Sparta... also there was no epic deep well I could kick Wardes down... sadly...
"We can't help it Louise, we nobles are troublesome folk... when we start wondering if we are stronger then someone, then we must take action." Said Wardes
"Scorch! This is an order! Stop this at once!"
"I uh... can't hold anything back..." I said
"Don't be so humble my boy, come at me with full force!" said Wardes
"As you wish..." I drew Derf and charged, slashing at him but he dodged the attack easily, in fact he seemed to dodge each of my attacks easily enough... I tried to feint an attack then go in the other direction but that didn't work either...
"Your quite agile... and strong... I can sense you have plenty of training, you leave very little open to attacks..." he commented... "But can you stand up to this? Delm, Wild, Solv, Nav, Winde..." and a force shoved me back and I landed on my backside, but I used the momentum from impact to perform a backwards roll to my feet.
"Hey! You know I can't use magic! You don't play fair Lord Wardes!" I said
"your enemies won't play fair in a real battle, Sir Alexander, that's something I'm willing to teach you!"
"Well... two can play at that game!" and Wardes came at me again, I stood perfectly still, and as soon as he was about to strike me and reached to my side and the sound of fierce plasma crackling to life sounded as my energy sword sparked to life, cleaving Wardes's foil in half, leaving him holding only the hilt and handle with an expression of shock on his face.
"I hope you have an extra dildo sword, Sir Wardes..." I taunted
"Well played Alexander..." Said Wardes "A cunning opponent will seize every opportunity they can get to gain the advantage over their enemy. We are evenly matched I would say."
'Riiiiiight... you keep thinking that... whatever tickles your peach...' I thought, knowing full well I could kill him before he drew his sword...
"Perhaps another time I can prove you wrong... Sir Wardes..." I said
"I look forward to it..." Replied Wardes with a smirk...
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Ugh... might be the longest chapter I've written so far... maybe not... but meh...
Also the UNSC will actually appear in Harkaginia (I think that's what it's called, or at least that's what it sounded like when Wardes said it in episode ten...) until episode 13, or the finale of season one... you'll know it when you see it so don't worry... the plot is a-change-a-nin... slowly but surely
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