Author's Note: sorry for the wait I've been kinda occupied lately. Oh and please review I'm trying to improve my writing. I don't care how negative the review is as long as it's constructive.

The living room of Fei and Elly's home was filled with a silence both angry and sad. All the guests that had arrived in Lahan expecting a wedding were now faced with burying their friends instead of congratulating them. The deep and unpleasant silence remained unbroken until Bart broke it with his enraged voice.

"So what are we going to do just stand here? We need to find out who did this and pay the bastards back!"

"And who would you propose we target?" Uzuki calmly asked, "The men who attacked the village had nothing to identify them and none of us recognized their equipment." Bart glared over at Ramsus who was standing next to the window observing his troops helping with the clean up.

"I can think of one person who would want him dead. How about it Ramsus? You figured since you can't win in a fair fight you'd send assassins after him." Ramsus refused to allow Bart's accusation to phase him and chose to say nothing, "You say you were all buddy, buddy but that's a load of crap! You wanted him dead!"

"Shut your mouth!" Dominia demanded. She had no intention of allowing Ramsus to be further insulted by Bart.

"Why should I it's what we are all thinking."

"He does make a good point," Rico added, "The only place they could have gotten gear like that would be from an advanced country like Solaris."

"Solaris is gone! Any one could have scavenge that equipment and there's no proof it's even Solarian." Dominia's anger was steadily increasing. Rico pointed towards Ramsus.

"I know you don't want to think about it but your leader there is no saint," Rico's words further upset her, "I can only think of two possibilities here. One he had him killed out of some need for pay back or two some other group with military ties wanted them dead."

"Then it's obvious it wasn't Ramsus," Dominia saw a chance to prove her point, "New Solaris Insurgents must have done this! They would definitely have a grudge against Fei!"

"I'm afraid that's unlikely." Uzuki who was maintaining is place as the steady rock of reason with in the increasingly unreasonable conversation told them, "If it were Insurgents or terrorists its more likely they would have used a bomb. Also if they did indeed choose to use a method such as this there would have been far more civilian casualties."

"So your saying you believe this morons clams?" Dominia's rage was beginning to boil over, the fact that Ramsus refused to say anything seemed to only make matters worse.

"No I'm simply stating that it is a logical conclusion. However I doubt very much Khar had any hand in this."

"Citan why are you defending him?" Bart demanded.

"Just shut up Bart your to hot headed to think strait." Maria got up from the couch, "I hate Ramsus as much as you and his past does speak for it's self, but your forgetting one important thing." Bart glared at her, "He wanted to defeat Fei himself he's obsessed with this he'd even attack his allies if they tried to interfere. There's no way he'd send some one else in to kill him. Besides why would he kill Elly as well?"

"We need to stop arguing like this!" Margie spoke up clenching her fists in her lap, "Do you really think the two of them would want use yelling at each other right now." Her words ended Bart's verbal rampage and with displeased look he sat down next to her.

"At the moment all we can do is take stock of what has happened and start a proper investigation into this," Uzuki's calm words seemed to sooth the situation.

Ramsus stepped away from the window and made his way to the front door. He felt no need to be with these people though they were no longer enemies they were far from friends. Uzuki looked to him as if he was going to ask him to stay but said nothing, while leaving the house Dominia followed after him. He paused out side with a quick clench of his fist he slammed his hand against the wall before continuing away from the house.

"Sir are you alright?" Dominia asked with concern as she put a hand on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry Dominia I need time to think." Dominia tried to raise a comment of support, to her dismay nothing came to mind and she was forced by her lack of resolve to simply watch him leave.

"Not going to chase after em?" Cherenkov asked. Looking off to her right she saw him siting in the grass leaned up against the wall of the house. He held out a silver flask to her, "Yell'n makes people thirsty ave a swig." She took the flask from him in an almost hostel manner and took a long drink from it before handing it back.

"What are you doing here I would think you'd be with Emeralda?" He pointed to the open window above him.

"Eaves dropping."

"So you left her alone?"

"Hell no, Kelvena's with er. I'm no good in situations like this" He examined the top of his flask, "Better then second hand smoke," the grin on his face slightly bothered her.

"What?" she asked confused.

"Nothing," He put the flask to his lips but when he tipped it back not a drop flowed from it, "Crap you drank all of it? Shit."

"I guess I can understand how they feel." changing the subject suddenly seemed to become her chief concern, "After what happened to Tolone I was just as furious." Cherenkov stared at his blurry reflection in the sliver flask.

"During Op Overlord after all the Slave Generators failed and use of all Ether was lost everything went to shit. No one was expecting millions of Wels to pour out'a Deus. Kelvena ended up losing an arm you nearly bled to death from your throat while trying to rescue Tolone and Seraphita got every bone in her body broken."

"I still think we could have saved her."

"Sorry but there was no way we could make it to her. Wading through 30 yards of zombie horde would have just gotten you and use killed." There was noticeable regret in his voice that kept Dominia from being genuinely angry at him. The conversations gloomy mood seemed to suddenly irritate him so he changed the subject, "So why are you hanging around here? Shouldn't you follow after Ramsus?"

"He wants to be alone."

"Bull shit!" his sharp tone surprised her, "He clearly means the opposite even if he doesn't know it. Kinda like a woman," he snickered. Dominia looked of in the direction Ramsus had gone. She did not want to say it out loud but she knew what he said was right. With a deep breath filling her lungs she jogged off to try and find him, "Oh and make sure you tell him or I will!" avoiding a vocal response she raised one hand and flipped him the bird.

Cherenkov got to his feet and with his weapon in one hand and his pack in the other walked inside the house. Passing the entrance way to the living room Maria called out to him.

"Hey you!" Cherenkov did not acknowledge her, "Hey you!" he turned his head to look at her.

"Yea?" he asked with a droopy expression.

"Who are you? Who gave you permission to come in here?" Maria used a surprisingly commanding voice that also seemed to express a fare amount of anger.

"Sargent Alexander Cherenkov," he replied plainly.

"Cherenkov?"She seemed to recognize the name but was unable to place the name "What are you doing here?" She was maintaining her tone as she spoke trying to project a strong prescience.

"Check'n in on a friend," as he took a step forward to continue on he was stopped again this time by Bart.

"Stop!" Bart moved to block his way. "Your with Ramsus's group right? Your not welcome here." he glared up intensely at Cherenkov.

"And why's that?" although he could have explained to him that he was not a member of Ramsus unit he chose not to mention it. He felt it would be unlikely he would even listen given his emotional state.

"I wont let one of Ramsus men in here. Especially an Elruian!" The others in the room were taken aback by Bart's comment. There were some with in the international community that greatly resented the reestablished country of Elru, not because of their swift recover but because they openly welcomed former Gebler and Solarian Regular Army. In exchange for ten years of military service they would to be granted citizen ship and a full pardon for any minor crimes committed during the war. Bart was one of those who felt resentment for this, "Here's a thought maybe the Elruian government set up Fei and Elly's murder! Maybe we're next. How about it? With the use of Ether abilities no longer possible maybe your people want to make sure they become top of the food chain." It was obvious his logic was shaky and he was speaking purely out of anger but it was none the less offending Cherenkov.

"Hey blonde if ya wa'na vent yer anger go find another outlet," he could see it in his eyes Bart wanted a fight any kind of fight he wanted to hit some one until they were bloody and broken but Cherenkov was uninterested in indulging him, "Sorry but trouncing weaklings just ain't fun." He pushed his way passed Bart as he did Bart readied a fist fully intent on hitting him.

"Bart stop it!" Margie demanded, "That's enough you are acting like a child! Picking fights is no way to deal with your feelings."

"Sasha!" Cherenkov's ears perked up as Kelvena came down the hall, "What's going on?"

"Nothing just wanted to talk to you." She looked over at Bart who scowled harshly at her. It was obvious to her that Bart had started the altercation so she chose not to berate Cherenkov.

"We'll talk out side," she took his wrist and began leading him back out the door. Just as they left the house Bart muttered an insult directed at both of them wanting to some how gain a small victory in the argument.

Out side the two of them walked out towards the one of the low stone walls that surrounded the village centre. There they perched them selves while watching the goings on with in the town.

"So how's she doing?" Kelvena looked down at the grass with a worried look.

"She hasn't spoken a word. It will likely be some time until she over comes the shock."

"Loosing yer family twice must be harsh as hell." he leaned forward resting his arms on his legs, "Not much I can do though." frustration mounted in his voice, "Anything I try to say to her would just make it worse. I'm way to abrasive to be of help to her right now." Kelvena put a hand on his shoulder.

"At least your aware of that. I was worried you would walk in to see her and say something foolish" He looked over to her with wide eyed surprise.

"Damn," he chuckled, "Ya really know me well."

"Better then you might realize." the fond smile on her face further improved his mood.

"Do ya think the funeral here will be held here?"

"No they will probably transport them to Nissan. Many people with in the Nissan sect view Elly as the reincarnation of Sophia. They are also both considered hero's who helped save the world, many people will want to attend." Cherenkov looked like he disapproved.

"I dislike it when people turn death into a sceptical. They don't need to have the whole freaking world attend."

"It's all politics. Nissan will try to bank on it's current influence and use there pull to gain more followers. Having the bodies of the hero's who saved the world interred there would hold a lot of significance especial in Elly's case," Cherenkov raised an eye brow.

"Hey ya don't think?"

"No I doubt it. Margie does have trouble controlling the Senate however due to that she keeps a very close eye on their actions. I suppose it might be plausible but if it had been Nissan they would have likely made it look like the doing of Solarians rather then a random armed group."

"Maybe that was part of the plan!" he pointed at her as if doing so gave his theory more merit.

"Sasha your starting to sound like a bad conspiracy theorist. Combat arms should leave the thinking to Intelligence."

"Sounds good ta me! I don't like thinking any way."the grin on his face made Kelvena laugh.

"Come on I want to go back I really don't want to leave Emmy alone right now." as she got down from the wall Uzuki called out to Cherenkov.

"Excuse me Sargent Cherenkov, may I speak with you for a moment." Cherenkov cringed at the sound of Uzuki's unnaturally friendly voice.

"Sir," He promptly answered turning to face him.

"May I speak with you?" his friendly smile was already beginning to gnaw at his patients, "I would like to apologize for Bart's earlier behaviour and his comments."

"I don't like people apologizing for others sir. Is that all?" although Cherenkov's voice was mono tone and inexpressive Kelvena could still detect his disdain for Uzuki.

"I see, were you planing to visit Emeralda?" Cherenkov got up off the wall and looked a Uzuki waiting for him to continue, "I know from Kelvena that you are her friend however Bart is still quite angry. I feel it would be best if you waited until later."

"Sir if he has issues with me that's his problem."

"That is true however he tends to be very unreasonable when angry. I'm only asking that you wait until after he has left for the evening." Uzuki's reasonable tone and argument had finally pushed his limit.

"Sir."

"Yes?" Cherenkov half smiled.

"Go Fuck yourself," Uzuki did not seem to flinch in the least, kit in hand Cherenkov walked back towards the house along with Kelvena.

"That was brazen." she told him.

"I hate that huesos. He drives me up the wall." she looked back at Uzuki who now bore a stern unpleasant look.

"I know how you feel." Cherenkov lead her around the back of the house.

"You didn't think I was just going to barge in the front again did you?"

"Yes, actually I did."

"Even I can be reasonable some times."

"Some times huh?" Kelvena stopped him. "She's in Fei and Elly's room."

"Roger that," just as he was about to look in the window he could hear Bart's voice inside.

"Emeralda I promise we'll get the ones who did this and make them pay for it." Kelvena pushed past Cherenkov so she could peek through the window. Emeralda was sitting on the bed curled up in a ball. Bart was sitting next to her, "I think Ramsus may be the one behind this but i can't prove it yet." He placed his hand on her cheek, "I'll do what ever it takes I promise." His voice lowered to a level Kelvena could not hear.

"Bart?" They could hear Uzuki's voice inside, "The others are going back to the Yggdrasil. Hans sent an urgent message."

"Alright I'm coming," They waited for a short time until they heard both men leave.

"OK we're clear come on." The two slipped in through the window and found Emeralda still in the same place in the same huddled mass, "Rusalka?" he called softly, "It's me and Kelly we've come to pay you a visit," she did not answer she kept her face buried in her knees. Kelvena sat down next to Emeralda and she stirred leaning against her but not removing her head from her knees. Cherenkov did not say anything further after his greeting instead he sat himself on the floor in the corner of the room. Reaching into his pack he pulled a pouch from it he took three large clothes one he unrolled onto the floor it contained various small tools and cleaning implements the others he set to one side. He then began to field strip his weapon, it clicked and clacked as he methodically disassembled it placing each part in order neatly on the cloth. The sounds seemed to rouse Emeralda and she lifted her head just enough to be able to see him. While she watched him he began with cleaning the barrel. She observed him intently him as he focused on cleaning his weapon yet said nothing.

"Sasha," Kelvena asked, "Is the reason you wont work with Khar because of the attack on Elru." There was a paused before he answered not due to thought or hesitation but because he was genuinely focused on his current task.

"That's not the reason. It was mostly Id a Graphs doing any way."

"Then there's another reason?"

"Yea," He seemed to be trying to stop the conversation there but Kelvena wanted to push a little more.

"Your not going to tell me are you?" Cherenkov stopped cleaning for a moment concentrating on a thought then verbalized it.

"It's cause he has to do this himself, is that enough for now?"

"For now I suppose that's good enough." It was a small victory over his stubbornness, one she took with out further questions. Emeralda stirred again and got up from the bed. She walked over to Cherenkov and plopped herself down next to him. He handed her the bolt from the weapon and a rag, quietly she took the rag and started wiping down the bolt, "To abrasive to say anything so you have her help you clean you weapon, that's quite original." she smiled warmly at him, he shrugged.

"I always liked action more then words any way." Kelvena then joined them on the floor taking a seat on Emeralda's opposite side. Cherenkov passed her his 45 calibre pistol, "You can start with that."

"Aren't you going to strip it for me?"

"Nope." she glared at him.

"You just want to seem me do it with my feet again don't you?" Cherenkov shrugged innocently and though they did not notice the smallest of smiles creep onto Emeralda's face. The three of them spent the night on the floor cleaning Cherenkov's weapons. Through out the night it seemed Emeralda's mood had improved as she helped while listening to them make small talk until they into slumber.

Spread all across the land scape were the smoking remnants of gears tanks and various lightly armoured vehicles along with hundreds of lifeless bodies. Collums of black smoke towered high into the blue morning sky. In the distance the the ominous form of Merkaba loomed over the battle field though it had been defeated by Fei and his companions the battle out side was far from over. Rather then pinning all their hope on Fei's group the united military forces had decided on a three prong strategy. First the bulk of their forces would openly engage Dues's forces out side Merkaba, second 5 special forces teams would enter from different locations with the same objective as Fei's team. Finally should the SF teams fail to eliminate Dues withing 24 hours they would use the mass driver facility to bombard it even if it meant loosing all the troops on the ground and spreading nuclear fall out across the continent. Among the teams that had gone into the heart of Merkaba were the Elements. They had been able to escape before the emergency batteries in their gears ran out but they were far from safe. With no power to keep their cells working the Wels and Sufall gears poured out, it was like an unholy army had been unleashed from hell onto the plains surrounding Merkaba. The battle field over flowed with countless numbers of the deformed creatures each on hungry for living flesh. Dominia shouldered Kelvena's wight as they hurried away from Merkaba hopping to reach a medi-vac.

"God damn it why is this happening!" Dominia fumed looking at the blood soaked bandage that had been desperately applied to where Kelvena's arm had once been.

"I knew this would happen," Kelvena said weakly sweat dripped down her forehead, the only indication of the pain she was in, "With out Deus to control them the Wels are running a muck." She checked over her shoulder the mass of Wels was gaining on them quickly they would not be able to make it to safety. She pointed to a group of abandoned vehicles, "Head for there we can't make it to safety in time we'll have to hold out until we can get rescued." Kelvena did not want to admit it but it was very unlikely they would be rescued. Also with the use of Either no longer possible it severely reduced their over all combat effectiveness. The best chance they had was to dig in and defend them selves as long as possible.

"Dominia, put Kelvena in the back of that APC then give me a hand," Ramsus instructed pointing to the abandoned vehicle. Dominia swiftly complied, "Tolone stay with Kelvena."

"I can still fight sir!" she insisted.

"No your implants lost much of their power. You'd only get in the way, just focus on looking after Kelvena." Tolen reluctantly complied and joined her in side. Kelvena did her best to keep what remained of her arm elevated as she lied back. She had no illusions of what was going to happen next. Though holding this location did give them the best chance for survival they would only be able to hold it for a few minutes. She struggled through the pain trying to think of a way out, they had called for an e-vak before the radio was lost but they were no where near the LZ, "Get ready here they come!" Ramsus shouted readying his sword as the first of the Wels charged their position. Frustrated Kelvena tried desperately to think of a way out of this situation refusing to give up even for the briefest of moments. The battle outside intensified as more Wels assaulted them the defining groans and moans of the creatures heralding their mindless advance focused only on the need to feed. Already Ramsus and the others were struggling in a short while they would be overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. Tolones ears perked up.

"Do you hear that?" she asked Kelvena sticking her head outside the APC. Kelvena focused for a moment trying to filter out the sounds of the battle out side. Then she heard it that unmistakeable sound of a rotor beating the air into submission, It was a helicopter. Looking out, two olive drab twin hue's were fast approaching. From their course they were going to land just behind them. Tolen helped Kelvena back onto her feet, "Commander! It's the e-vac they found us!" Tolone struggled with Kelvena's weight as they got out of the wrecked APC. Dominia rushed over to them and crouched down.

"Kelvena get on my back!" Tolone helped Kelvena over to her and onto her back, "Commander the e vac is here." She told him as she stood.

"Seraphita and I will guard the rear get going!" Dominia was reluctant to leave Ramsus behind but she also knew it was the best choice. She sprinted off towards the helicopters followed by Tolen. The five of them ran as hard and fast as they could. Even though their legs were exhausted and the minds weary they pushed them selves as hard as they could. As the helicopters stopped and hovered a mere foot off the ground the soldiers inside leaped out and formed a perimeter, "Hurry there are more coming from the right!" even as he said it a swell of Wels moved towards their right side. Tolone spotted them and readied the laser mounted inside her arm out of instinct. Unfortunately with no either to power the weapon it did not so much as glow. Realizing her mistake she quickly gave up. Something grabbed her arm, "Commander?" when she looked beside her the one holding her wrist was not Ramsus but a Wels. It pulled her in boar it's teeth then clamped its jaw onto her neck. Tolone shouted and cursed as she tried to force it off her but the harder she tried the harder it bit down. The creature twisted it's head trying to tear a chuck of flesh from her body. Peaces of circuit boards and servos mixed with the blood from her wound as it tried to gorge itself.

"Tolone!" Dominia shouted. Nearly to the helicopters she decided to put Kelvena down, "I have to help her!" Even as she said it when she looked back a mass of Wels had built up around Tolone but she did not care she wanted to rescue her comrade no matter the risk. Tolones screams pulled at her heart even the calm Kelvena desperately wanted to help her. Dominia rushed towards the leading edge of the horde only to be quickly attacked. She slashed violently at them with her sword but one of the larger creatures swiped at her neck opening a large wound.

"What the hell are you doing!" a commanding voice yelled. Running towards them from the helicopters were two soldiers wearing bandana's over there faces and green ball caps on their heads. The shorter of the two drew a pair of .45 calibre pistols and fired on the Wels that were attacking Dominia. The taller soldier grabbed her arm, "We are leaving!"

"We cant leave! Tolone is still out their!" Ramsus countered, "I'm not leaving her behind!" The tall soldier looked over into the sea of Wels. He could see her upper half screaming as the Wels tore into her flesh but she was to far into the sea talons and teeth. It was no longer possible to reach her. He quickly readied his weapon. Tapping the trigger twice he fired two 7.62 rounds into her chest. Her screams ceased along with her struggling. Wasting no time he slung Kelvena over his shoulder and looked over to Ramsus.

"Get your asses in gear! Now damn it!" Ramsus glared at the man but said nothing because he knew it was all that could be done, "Mr. Black Take rear guard!" The tall one started sprinting towards the LZ.

"Damn it!" Dominia cried out as she chased after him.

Upon reaching the helicopters they hastened to get on board. The tall man set Kelvena down on the floor then leaned over to the door gunner.

"Mow the fuckers down!" The door gunner gleefully pulled down on the trigger of his weapon as the helicopter took to the air the moving wall of lead maiming and killing and the Wels that crossed it. Kelvena observed the tall man as he sat down on the bench and leaned back against the bulkhead, "Damn Kelvena what happened to ya? The Wels get you?" She recognized the concerned yet condescending tone.

"Of all the people in the world that could rescue us why did it have to be you Cherenkov." Though he was not much of a friend it would be best to call him an enemy she was on good terms with. His unit and the Elements had crossed paths many times but all their encounters never seemed to leave a poor taste in any of their mouths. Had things been different she had no doubt they could have easily been friends.

"That's easy, we're fated to be together." The serious yet overly exuberant tone in his voice frustrated her but still she felt a small embarrassment as if he was some how confessing feelings of affection towards her. His partner snickered behind his bandana.

"The things that come out of your mouth amaze me Mr. Cherenkov." Kelvena recognized the young voice of his partner but it was not until he pulled down his bandana down the she recognized him.

"Would you expect anything else Mr. Black?" The young man sitting across from Cherenkov was Billy Lee Black an ex-Etone however he had traded in his habit for a tactical vest filled with pouches containing .45 automatic magazines.

The two helicopters made their way over the battle field towards a large grass air strip that was being used to land transport planes for the evacuation of the area. When they were on the ground Billy and Cherenkov carefully lifted Kelvena of the chopper then placed her gingerly onto a stretcher. When Cherenkov tried to stand for a reason she could not understand she reached out and weakly grabbed his wrist .

"Sargent!" A large bear of a man ran up to him, "The supply tech says there's not much 7.62 left and all the 45 is being scooped up by the Echo's."

"Damn Etones take'n all my .45, Well what's left?" Cherenkov asked displeased.

"5.56 and 12 gauge."

"Tell them to get use some shot guns then for when we get back from the next run. I will not fight the fucking Zombie horde with a damn BB gun."

"Roger that." He turned to jog off.

"Don't let any one evacuate with out handing over their ammo we are going to need it all, pass it on."

"Roger he shouted." Kelvena looked around the Forward Operation Location, it was alive with soldiers. They rushed to and fro from the helicopters carrying wounded and ammunition, scurrying all about following a well thought out chaos of individual tasks. The atmosphere was strange each person had a spring in their step filled with drive to complete their tasks instead of the panic she was expecting. There was no sense of defeat or fear there was only a great energy filling the air an energy that made you want to pick up a rifle get on a helicopter and do what you could to help no matter what. Cherenkov crouched down next to her but rather then take his wrist away from her he slid it through her grasp and held her hand in his.

"Sorry about Tolone."

"It's fine you made the right choice," she paused, "Are you going back?" he let go of her hand then stood.

"Hell yea," he looked of in the direction of Merkaba, "How many chances does a soldier get to fight the Zombie horde!" The excitement on his face was unmistakeable, "Until now the strength of the rifle man was underrated, but now with Either gone we're going to show the world just how good we really are." He looked down at her, "Beside we still got troops out there we ain't going to leave any one behind if their still breathing. Right Mr. Black?" Billy folded his arms.

"Absolutely, the former Etones also feel the same if we can put our skills to use to save those still left out there we will." The two men started to walk towards the waiting helicopters.

"Either never meant much to us regular soldiers as long as we have our rifles and ammo we'll fight any one and any thing, this new world just makes it easier." Cherenkov raised his rifle into the air, "God is dead and all is fucking right in the world!" His proud and strangely happy shout garnished a cheer from the soldiers gathered near by.

When morning came all three had fallen asleep up right the weapons fully cleaned resting on the floor next to Cherenkov. There was a quite knock on the door before it slowly opened revealing Ramsus standing in the door way.

"Kelvena," He whispered, Cherenkov staying unnaturally still opened one eye and looked directly at him, Kelvena stirred and slowly opened her eye's. "Somethings happened." the concern in his voice denoted the severity of the information he had to pass on. Slowly, being careful no to wake Emeralda she stood up and joined Ramsus in the hall, "You can go back to sleep Sargent." Cherenkov's eye closed and for a moment Ramsus wondered if he had really woken up or if he was just reacting to the sound some how.

The front door had been left open and the days first breaths of sunlight made their way into the home some what brightening the mood, "Here," he handed her a slip of paper with a message on it. Reading it over carefully she then looked to Ramsus with doubt.

"Is this true?" she knew it was most likely true but she felt she had to hear him say it.

"Yes there's three of them in Lunar orbit. It's been confirmed by four other observatories. As well as several private individuals."

"When did they appear?" Ramsus crossed his arms.

"Two days ago." Kelvena handed the note back to Ramsus.

"Do you think they came regarding the Zohar." Kelvena gave Ramsus a concerned look, "Have they tried to make contact?"

"Not yet, but the timing of their appearance is concerning me."

"I agree. Regardless of their intentions I do not see them being openly welcomed," she looked over to the closed door behind witch Cherenkov and Emeralda were sleeping, "We must hope for talks and prepare for war, unfortunately I believe we may face another conflict"

"If they do start a conflict with us they would be well out of their leuge." Ramsus grinned slightly, "More then 80% of the worlds population has combat experience if they tried they would not last a month." There was an overwhelming confidence in his voice with not a trace of doubt and it reminder her of the day she watched Cherenkov and Billy walk away towards the helicopters. How ever at the same time she felt concerned, you do not simply attack two people like Fei and Elly with out a reason. This was something she would have to think carefully on, though she had some theories on why this had happened she did not wish to voice those theories with out evidence.