Hello I love you all, and I must say this. I WILL NEVER ABANDON THIS SERIES!
Book 1, Chapter 4
Sheppard's entire molecular structure had been split apart and reassembled somewhere else; it wasn't a pleasant experience. The world around her felt cold, dark and wet. It took her about ten seconds to realize that she was drowning in sewer water. She quickly swam up to the surface, grabbed whatever she could find and pulled herself up. The place was dark, large and reeked of feces and urine; she was defiantly in the sewers. She rubbed her eyes to remove the sewer water that had gotten in her eyes in order to get a better view. Fortunately since she's a Werewolf her beast blood allows her to see in the dark; the Bosmer stud up to get a better view of her surroundings.
The sewers were large and narrow with a deep trench of sewer water in the middle about twenty meters deep, and cold moldy stone walls. Sheppard walked over to the wall and slumped over. She felt dehydrated nausea and felt like throwing up from the teleporting and the sewer water; which she later did. After vomiting all over the floor; the wood elf pulled out her radio. "This is Lieutenant Ysreth Dragon-Heart Sheppard, Shanxi has been invaded requesting reinforcements," she ordered through the radio; however, the radio had been rendered useless after the teleportation and being submerged in sewer water. She quickly realized that the radio was useless and tossed it away.
The wood elf felt incredibly exhausted, but she knew she had to get moving quickly as she heard bombing from above, and the entire underground system could come down at any second. She wanted to yell out to see if anyone had been teleported alongside her; however, she knew that yelling would only give away her position. She took a quick glance around her to see if anybody was nearby; she was alone.
She checked her belt for anything she could eat or drink; she found a self-heating can of soup and a bottle of water. She opened up the two containers and began to pour the contents into her mouth. Surprisingly, neither container had any trace of sewer water in them. However, she wasn't completely sure; though, it didn't really matter because both containers were empty within minutes.
After the quick meal, Ysreth got up and started to walk north. The sound of bombing had stopped and had been replaced by the sounds of gunfire and screaming. Her entire body tensed up in anger as she desperately felt the need to punish those that decided to attack them. However, she knew that going to the surface would be suicide and she would have to find a safe spot to exit the sewers. Speaking of which, who is attacking us, she thought. She never considered who the culprits behind the attacks were and she started to weigh in the factors. The attacking vessels didn't match any ship she seen in her thirty years in the military, and the fleet looked too large and expensive to be a pirate fleet. Also, the entire fleet would have to get past the defense fleet as soon as it exits the gate, and even if it did; Shanxi would have been warned about the attack hours before it happened.
'Could it be? No that seems unlikely, there's no such thing as aliens,' she thought skeptical; however, a part of her didn't totally accept it. 'Through if so many different races could evolve and create civilizations of their own on the same planet, then I guess that it would be possible for life to evolve on other planets,' she thought realizing that was the only answer for whoever it is invading Shanxi. 'And the first thing that these aliens decide to do is murder innocent civilians and tare this city to a crisp,' she thought angrily as she tightly clinched her fists in rage. It was ironic to say the least; everyone had always thought that aliens would be peaceful and benevolent beings; not a bunch of barbarians. She punched a nearby metal pipe in anger and left a very noticeable dent in it.
She had been walking for over five hours and encountered barely any trouble on the way; save for a few Skeevers which she dispelled easily with destruction magic. The wood elf could hear the sounds of kicking, Skeevers screeching and the sound of an argonian woman yelling at the rats. "Damn, Skeevers. First my tavern most likely got destroyed by the bombings. Secondly, I'm magically teleported into the sewers and got nose bleeds, nausea, vomiting and dehydration. Finally, I'm being attacked by bloody Skeevers," she thought angrily as she tried to fend off the attacking Skeevers.
Glad to have a friendly face nearby, the wood elf quickly ran towards the argonian. When she arrived, she saw that Velia was the one being attacked. "Hey Ysreth, do you mind if you get rid of these damn Skeevers for me," she begged as she kicked several Skeevers away from her. She could see that Ysreth was soaked in sewer water and smelt of it too; however, she didn't really mind the smell as she been down in the sewers for five hours.
Ysreth quickly killed the Skeevers with some fire bolts. "Are you okay; you may have been bitten," she asked somewhat worried.
"Don't worry I'm fine and even if I did get bitten; well I'm an argonian for crying out loud. By the way, what are you doing down here. I got word that soldiers are coming in to rescue us," she said as she started to run north with Sheppard right behind.
"I teleported myself and probably several others down here by accident; I don't really have the spell fully mastered," replied Ysreth as she followed the argonian who seemed to have a better knowledge of direction then her.
"So that explains the teleportation sickness," she joked. "All kidding aside, thanks for your help. I would have been dead if it weren't for you." Velia could sense that they were nearing a safe haven and began to move faster with the wood elf moving quicker as well. A ladder was in there sight and they ran towards it. However, an explosive buried there exit in rubble and launched the two several feet back.
"By the gods that hurt," screamed Ysreth as she lifted herself off the ground. The blast had knocked her several feet back and the shockwave was felt throughout her entire body; though, her body armor took the majority of the damage. Her armor had been rendered completely useless and shattered from the blast; realizing this, Ysreth removed the armor from her and tossed it to the floor. Her only protection now was a black t-shirt; she would have to rely on her magic for protection.
"Velia," she yelled out worried.
"I'm over here," Velia yelled out in response.
Ysreth could see Velia was lying on the floor with her left arm buried in rubble. She quickly ran towards her and pulled the rubble off her. Velia's arm had been crushed to a pulp with pieces of bone sticking out and blood all over her arm. "You need medicine right away," she ordered worried as she checked her belt for any healing potions. "Here we go," she said as she pulled out a health potion and offered it to her.
"Thanks, but I don't need it," said Velia in slight pain. A bright yellow light formed in her right palm and her broken arm quickly began to repair and reassemble itself within seconds. Velia checked her arm to see if it was fully repaired; it most certainly was. "See, all better," she said joyfully as moved her left arm around.
"How did you heal your arm so quickly? If I tried to heal that kind of damage, it would take ten minutes at least; you did it within seconds," she asked curious, surprised and amazed by her friend's skill in restoration.
"I went to the college in Winterhold for six months; got a degree in restoration. Say you don't look to good; you want me to heal you up," she asked as she pulled out a healing hands spell.
"I'm fine, just a few broken rips and several deep cuts and bruises across my body," she said seriously.
Velia was puzzled by this and saw that she was healing just fine on her own without magical aid.
"Thanks though," she replied. "I guess we're stuck in here, unless we find another way out." The wood elf looked around the sewers for any quick exit. "Say, how far is the subway system from us."
Velia started to sniff out the scent of the subway system; it was coming south. "The tunnels are about half a mile south of us. Why?"
"They maybe our only safe way out of here. Do you know exactly where it is?"
"Don't know, but I could follow the scent." She started to move south towards the subway system. After fifteen minutes of walking, she stopped and walked towards a nearby air vent and pulled off the cover. "The subway system is just on the other side of this wall. It would save us a lot of time if we go through the air vents." She slipped into the air vent without much trouble.
"Well here we go," said Ysreth reluctantly as she squeezed into the vents. She felt cramped in the small air vents and her entire body was pressed against the walls; it made her extremely uncomfortable. "How far are these vents," she asked as she struggled to squeeze forward.
"About one-hundred meters long."
"What! Are you fucking kidding me! Why couldn't we just take the long route," she asked angrily.
"Because if we did take the long route; it would take us two hours to get to the subway tunnels. In here it would only take half an hour or less."
The wood elf let out a quiet grumble and continued to follow Velia through the vents.
"Anyway I guess this as good a time as any to tell you something." "What is it?" Velia asked curiously. Ysreth responds reluctantly "I know that since we're probably going into some kind of fight sooner or later I've decided to tell you that I'm a Werewolf." "WHAT!?" Velia said utterly surprised. "It's true." Ysreth said truthfully. "I… I had no idea." Velia said dumbfounded and shocked.
"Well that explains your remarkable healing and regenerative abilities," said Velia jokingly.
After thirty minutes of crawling or in Sheppard's case, an hour. They had finally arrived at the subway system.
"What took you so long," Velia joked
Velia turned off her flashlight since the subway system was well lit. "Hey, those vents are incredibly tight. My entire body was pressed against-," she said annoyed and stopping her sentence in mid track. She went on full alert mode and could hear footsteps slowly heading towards them. "You hear something," she whispered.
"Don't hear, smell," Velia whispered.
"Hide now." However, the argonian was already out of her sight. Ysreth took a quick look around for her; however, she barely had anytime as the footsteps slowly became louder and louder. She silently ran to a subway cart and hid in it. She could hear them coming closer and closer. Additionally, she could also hear the words of a strange unknown language.
"Potui occidere quinque mutum et ne unus quidm alienigeae oppugnabent. Hoc sugit," one of the aliens said bored.
The wood elf peaked around the corner to get a better view of the aliens. There were six of them. There appearance was that of a humanoid reptilian avian with pale light gray skin and looked around the same size and height of most of the races on Nirn. They had a pair of arms similar to most of the races on Nirn and with three fingers on each hand; like the Argonians. They had average size slim legs with what appeared to be bones sticking out on the back of their knee cap. They had two toes on each foot; similar to the Argonians. There face was rather bony and pale with a flat beak, a set of mandibles, black eyes and what appeared to be bony feathers on top of their heads. They were all clad in heavy plated polished light gray metal armor with large thick collars around there necks. They were all heavily armed and spread out.
Ysreth quietly used an invisibility spell and quietly moved behind two of them. She then quickly finished the two off with a spark spell. The two alien's shields flashed for a brief moment and they fell to the floor shaking uncontrollably; they then quickly died from the lightning coursing through their bodies. Surprisingly, the spell passed through there armor and shields without much effort. It somewhat confused her since it takes some effort for a sparks spell to get pass even the weakest of shields; perhaps there shields are just weaker then there's.
However, before she could think it over more; the four remaining soldiers started to fire at her. The wood elf quickly rolled to cover behind a nearby subway cart. She pulled out her Elven pistol and start to fire at her attackers. Her theory of weak shields was quickly proven false as the shots looked like they barely did any damage. Realizing that her gun is practically useless against them; she pulled out a fury spell and casted it on the alien behind the three.
Chaos quickly ensured as the enraged soldier shot one of their comrades in the back; killing him instantly. He then fired at his two other comrades; however, they managed to survive the unexpected assault. The two then quickly finished off their insane comrade with a bullet through his head. The two aliens looked rather confused and puzzled by their teammate's unexpected violence against them.
Realizing that it was the perfect time to strike; the wood elf decides to shift. As she started to shift she could feel her heart grow larger as she felt a tight pain in her chest, then her lungs and rib cage began increasing in size to accommodate her now much larger heart, the increasing in muscle mass, rearranging of bones and tendons as she shifted from her normal Bosmeri form to one that resembles something more like that of a wolf.
As the process ended she leapt out from the nearby subway cart and landed on one of the two aliens back and tore his head off with blood flowing out of his body. She then stood up and turned to face the other alien before her. He brought up his rifle and aimed it at the beast however Ysreth grabbed the rifle away from him before he could do anything she snapped the rifle in half using her large arms and pawed hands. The alien then tried to run away from the large beast before him however before he could do anything Ysreth then grabbed the alien and ripped out his throat.
"She looked around the subway for Velia; however, she could not find her. Frustrated and worried, the Bosmer in wolf form called her out for her friend with loud howl and shifted back. After which she called out for her again "Velia, you can come out now." She then spotted Velia coming out of a nearby vent.
She took a quick glance at the scene in front of her. Six alien bird looking soldiers lay dead on the floor; there appearance unlike anything she's ever seen before. "Glad, that's over with," she said relieved. She moved closer to the bodies to get a better view of them. "I've never seen anything like them before. Do you think that it may a mutation or an undiscovered race?"
"They're aliens," the Bosmer quickly replied without a hint of hesitation.
"What, Aliens? How can you be sure," she questioned extremely skeptical of Ysreth's answer.
"Think about it," Ysreth simply replied.
Velia thought about it and decided that Sheppard was most likely right; however, the idea of extraterrestrials seemed rather insane. "So these aliens are the ones that are invading Shanxi and started killing everyone on it," she asked angrily.
"Bingo. I can't wait for the empire to show up and blast these barbarians to a pulp," she said slightly excited trying to make light of a situation she knew was grim. "We should be near the surface; so I'll take the lead. Remember to stay close to me at all times, don't move unless I say so and if you see one of them; hid," she ordered as she and Velia walked upwards towards the surface.
The once beautiful and magnificent city had been broken and torn apart from the constant bombing. Large and deep sinkholes filled with stone and dust had formed within the roads due to the bombings. The streets were soaked in the dried up blood of innocence; with their bodies' blown apart and the pieces thrown violently all over the place. The tall and once amazing skyscrapers had been split and broken apart with rubble, fire, shards of glass and metal among the floor. The pitch black night sky was covered in dust and ash with flickers of bright yellow light shinning above them from Dragons high in the sky most likely in gauging enemy aircraft in the sky above.
It disturbed, frightened and angered Ysreth that some people could be so cruel. She had encountered similar people like mercenaries, drug dealers, slavers and other criminals on one of her monthly stealth operations; however, even they were not this desperate or insane to do something like this. "By Nocturnal," she whispered in shock.
Velia was having the same reaction as Sheppard; however, it was mostly fear as the state of the city and of her residents made her want to run. "How- how close are we to the Evac," she asked scared. However, her comrade was completely unresponsive; instead she was kneeling on the floor praying.
"Nocturnal qhixx wjixi baao xavhx tewj eavo hvpf omn kveni wjid wa Iyiokhaod," she chanted in the Daedric language. After the quick prayer, the wood elf got on her feet and turned to face Velia. "Which direction is the Evac?"
"The north end of the city."
The Bosmer mage started to walk north with Velia right behind her. "Stay close to me," she ordered quietly. Her entire mind and body was on full alert as she paid attention to every single detail of her surroundings.
They had been walking for two hours without much trouble as the lack of illumination, Sheppard's sense of her surroundings and Velia's sense of smell made it possible. The wood elf was getting somewhat tired and could tell that her partner was too. They would need a place to rest for the night as they were still twenty kilometers away from the Evac site and Velia looked too exhausted to continue. However, falling asleep would ensure their death; they would need to find a safe haven. "How are you feeling," Ysreth whispered sounding a little bit tired.
"I'm fine, tired but fine. Why do you ask," she asked tired.
"We should find a place to rest now. At the rate we're going; it would take us ten hours to get there." Sheppard looked around her; she could see a supermarket, an apartment building and a hospital building. The two moved into the apartment building. The entire complex was covered in blood and corpses; it sickened both of them down to their very bones. Sheppard looked around for each exit and entrance; blocking each one with either a rune spell or a piece of furniture in the way. After fortifying there temporally stronghold; they entered a random apartment on the third floor since Ysreth thought being on the third floor would give the most protection.
The room looked rather beautiful despite the large amount of blood and two corpses on the floor. The room was quite small having only two rooms; a bedroom and a bathroom. The bedroom had two single-sized pure white beds side by side each other. A window covered by brown drapes preventing any viewing in or out of the room. The walls were dark green and the floor a light brown carpet. A small TV was on top of a small brown desk, and an alarm clock and lamp on a drawer near the far side of one of the beds.
The two began to prepare for bed.
"I can't believe Shanxi got attacked; it happened so fast," said Velia shocked as she looked down at the destruction below.
Ysreth walked up behind her and stared at the streets below. The scene below would be a shock for anyone without the will to bear the sight of so much death and blood. Surprisingly, Velia looked rather calm despite their current situation. She should be in panic mode like a normal civilian; perhaps she is just good at hiding her emotions, she thought to herself. "Say, are you okay," she asked worried.
"I'm fine; you don't have to worry about me," she said with a hint of guilt.
Ysreth could sense that she was lying. "Are you sure?"
"In all opinion, I'm not okay. I just don't want to talk about it," she said annoyed.
The wood elf took another look at the scene below; memories began to flood back in her head. The memories were quiet fuzzy; however, she could hear screaming, crying, several gunshots then silence. The sounds of sirens followed shortly after. She drummed her fingers rapidly against the wall, her eyes blinking rapidly and her entire body shaking.
"Are you okay," asked Velia worried.
"I'm fine. Say, how come you didn't become a doctor," she asked surprisingly extremely calm as her entire body had stopped shaking in an instance. Her emotional state had also changed in an instance.
It slightly disturbed Velia that her friends mood could change so quickly. She wanted to dig further, but decided it would be best not to. "Being a doctor is too time consuming; not enough time for the family," she said as she crawled into bed.
Sheppard satisfied with Velia's answer; slipped into bed.
"Glad to have you by my side," Velia said happy.
"Why?"
"Are you kidding?! You're amazing! she said sounding rather impressed.
"So how long have you been in the military and what kind of stuff did they teach you?" Velia asked curiously
"I joined when I was twenty; so that means I've been in the army for thirty years. Learned the basics of warfare in boot camp eventually, became an expert at sniping, stealth operations, a black belt at thirteen different martial arts, alchemy, destruction and illusion magic," she bragged.
"You're absolutely amazing you know that," said Velia sounding quite impressed. She then quickly fell asleep.
A small smile formed around the wood elf's face and she quickly drifted asleep.
Sunlight passed through the drapes and entered the room. The light pierced the two's eyes and they then quickly got up; realizing that it was morning. Ysreth took a glance at the alarm clock; it read ten am on it. After checking if any aliens were nearby (there weren't any); the two carefully slipped out of the apartment building and into the streets. They left the apartment with much of the traps and barricades intact.
They started to walk towards the Evac site. There plan was similar to their last; don't get caught and/or get killed. However, being broad daylight made it difficult; though they managed to slip through the city unseen. After five hours of walking; the two heard the sounds of magic, a Frost Atronach and gunfire. Ysreth carefully approached the source of the sound; not knowing how many hostiles there were.
She and Velia could see an Altmer hiding behind a rock casually shooting fire bolts and a frost Atronach fighting four aliens; whom they then quickly killed after fifteen minutes. The high elf's Atronach fizzled away and he walked towards them. 'Oh gods, not him,' she cringed. The high-elf's face was covered in make-up and his rich colorful non-protective crimson red and gold thin robes. He had tanned light yellow skin and long silver white hair. He looked like someone who belonged at a ball, not in the army.
The high-elf walked towards the two. "Hello Sheppard, hello citizen," he said somewhat rudely.
"Hello Arnus. How far is the evacuation si," said Ysreth who was rudely interrupted.
"Why aren't you wearing your armor?"
"Got destroyed in an explosion; had to remove it. Now how far is the evacuation site?"
"Typical," he rudely whispered quietly. The wood elf gave him a quick stare that signaled her knowledge. Realizing this, he turned his entire focus on Ysreth. "About three hours away, 'ma'am'," he said rudely. Sheppard gave him another glance. "I mean lieutenant," he corrected himself quickly.
"We better get moving private," she said as she, Velia and Arnus started to walk towards the evacuation site.
"Actually, its second class private now," he replied sounding surprised at his minor accomplishment.
"Good for you; now you just have fifty-seven more ranks to go to catch up with me," she joked.
However, the high-elf however didn't pick up on the humor. "Let me remind you that my father owns one of the largest mega corporations on Nirn. I could easily-," he said quit rudely.
"It was a joke," replied Ysreth annoyed.
"Are you sure? Because it sounded like a threat to me," he said rudely. Ysreth let out several loud giggles. "What's so funny?"
"You still think I'm actually threatened by you and your money; your riches pose no threat to me. I'm too valuable of a soldier to be vulnerable to bribing," she replied calmly.
The high elf opened up his mouth, but quickly closed it when he noticed his superior glaring at him with her yellow, green eyes seemingly piercing into his soul.
"Arnus, can you call a shuttle to come pick us up; my radio got destroyed," ordered Sheppard.
Without hesitation, the Altmer pulled out his radio. "This is second-class private Arnus-delemeri; I'm requesting a shuttle for pick up."
"Roger that, where are you and how many are needed for pick-up," said the radio-operator.
"Three and we're somewhere in the north end of day-star; there's lots of buildings that have exploded," he replied completely clueless.
Ysreth cringed at the private's lack of location.
"Can you be more specific," asked the radio operator.
"Umm-," he replied as he looked around to get a better idea where he is. Ysreth snatched the radio out of Arnus' hand. "Hey!"
"This is Lieutenant Ysreth Dragon-Heart Sheppard, our coordinates are N17 E13."
"Roger that Lieutenant, a shuttle will arrive in fifteen minutes."
Sheppard turned off the radio and handed it back to Arnus. "Shuttle will be here in fifteen minutes. I suggest that we stay out of sight until the shuttle arrives; we wouldn't want get to spotted by one of those damn birds," she ordered.
"Birds," replied Arnus and Velia in sync with each other.
"You know the aliens that were fighting; birds as I like to call them."
"I don't think that's what they're called," replied Velia.
"So what I'm supposed to; walk right up to one and ask them," she replied sarcastically.
"Well we can always ask them," said Arnus as he pointed at ten birds coming their way.
"Oblivion," yelled out Ysreth as she tossed herself, Arnus and Velia behind and a car seconds before bullets began to fly. "Velia, stay here and don't move until I say so." The argonian nodded her head in agreement. The wood elf turned and faced Arnus. "Arnus, how close can you get a Storm Atronach to the birds?"
"About fifty meters. Also, the Atronachs I know how to summon are flame and frost; not storm."
The Bosmer quickly peaked over the car; the ten birds were attempting to get into defensive positions. She then slipped back into cover behind the car. "Arnus, get as close as you can to the birds then summon an Atronach; doesn't matter which kind. I'll cover you; now go," she ordered as she started to throw bullets and destructive magic towards their attackers. She managed to down at least three so far.
Arnus ran passed the attacking aliens; who appeared to not even notice him. After about five minutes of hiding and running really fast to another hiding spot; the Altmer summoned a Frost Atronach near three of the birds. It started to run towards the three; who in return, unloaded there clips on the large frost beast. However, the Atronach seemed completely unfazed by bullets as he rushed towards the three with its arms flawing around madly; managing to cause serious damage to the three aliens.
Ysreth used the chaos around her to her advantage as she hit one of the birds with a fury spell. Unexpectedly, another bird quickly fired at his comrade without hesitation as soon as he noticed that his fellow teammate was glowing bright red. "Crap; I guess that's out of the picture." She then casted a invisibility spell and sneaked behind the three Birds that were currently fighting a Frost Atronach. Her cloak quickly disappeared and she then unleashed a flaming explosion; the three birds dropped to the floor in pain attempting to stop the burning; after a few seconds, they dropped to the floor dead. One of the aliens then tossed a grenade towards the Frost Atronach and Sheppard. Ysreth quickly rolled out of the way before she could get caught in the blast; however, the grenade managed to kill the Atronach.
The wood elf then quickly fired off lightning bolts at two nearby aliens; they fell to the floor twitching uncontrollably. She then focused her attention towards the two remaining aliens and charged up her magic for another lightning spell. However, before she could fire; the sound of heavy armor clinking approached her. "Arnus take out those birds," she ordered. Arnus immediately started to fire at the two aliens. She shot flames towards the sound of the clinking. The flames hit the target spot on; disabling his cloak. However, the armor that he was wearing remained untouched and appeared to be fire-proof. He was clad in pearl white thin metal plated armor and looked only twenty; through, it was difficult to tell which age he was.
The white armored alien raised his rifle towards the Bosmer; in response, she charged towards him seconds before he could fire. Ysreth elbowed her opponent in the stomach then quickly grabbed control of his rifle. She then tossed him to the ground and forcibly removed the rifle from the alien's fingers. She pointed it towards the bird and prepared to fire; however, the alien pulled his side arm and aimed it at Ysreth. Several shots were fired towards her; she managed to dodge each shot without any trouble. However, a single shot managed to hit her in the right shoulder causing her to drop the rifle in pain. She gritted her teeth and clinched her bleeding right shoulder in pain. Her opponent let out a small smirk and aimed his sidearm towards her; unfortunately, the sidearm had overheated and was of no use. He then reactivated his cloak before the elf could witness him doing it.
After quickly recovering from the gun wound (thanks to her beast blood); the young elf looked around for her opponent who had seemingly vanish. Her entire mind and body went on full alert as she looked and listened for wherever he might be. Suddenly, she could feel her entire body being squeezed and a knife at the top of her neck. She quickly cloaked herself in lightning causing her attacker to release her, causing his cloak to deactivate and him to become stunned by the cloak. Ysreth quickly pulled out her steel dagger and sprinted towards him attempting to finish him. The bird quickly recovered from the shock and noticed the Bosmer charging towards him with her dagger in her right hand. He evaded the wood elf's slashes and swings at him with ease; he then pulled out his own knife and began to swing it around near the wood elf.
The battle seemed rather equal as both opponents easily evaded or blocked each other's cut, punch and kick thrown at them. Eventually one of them gained the upper hand when the wood elf grabbed hold of the bird's collar and placed her dagger under his left arm. She then violently threw the man to the ground as her steel dagger cut through his flesh and bones. His left arm fell on the floor and he gripped his stump of a arm in pain; which was bleeding immensely.
Ysreth charged up a fireball attempting to finish off her opponent. However, the alien head butted her, punched her in the gut, grabbed her by her hair and kneed her in the face. He then smashed her against a wall then a glass window which quickly shattered and then tossed her to the ground. He crouched down and pulled out his knife; however, before he could finish her off, the approaching distinct sound of an engine approached. He turned around and noticed two people and a boxy blue and white shuttle behind him. Not knowing whether the shuttle was armed or not; he throw several smoke bombs on the ground and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.
Codex: Imperial Military Ranks and Sub-divisions.
There are nine primary ranks in the Imperial Army and are divided into nine sub ranks. Private, sergeant, corporal, lieutenant, commander, captain, admiral, colonel and general are the nine primary ranks in order. The sub-ranks are divided into eight; first-class to eighth class.
The Imperial Army is also divided up into ten Sub-divisions which consist of five ranks for each one; novice, apprentice, adept, expert and master. Scouts and snipers are masters at long range combat, heavy soldiers; the heavy armored soldiers are great at large scale battles, light soldiers; the light armored soldiers are great at small skirmishes, battle mages; the warrior/mage conjurers; mages great for providing extra troops, mages; excellent for raw damage, healing and support, Nightblades; the mage/assassin, infiltrators; a combination between stealth and normal combat, assassins; the Intel gathering and target eliminating agents and blades; a deadly and powerful warrior who has mastered magic, stealth and basic combat perfectly, these are the ten sub-divisions.
Author's notice: Before people ask why I called the Turians birds and aliens instead of just Turians. Is because none of the primary characters know right now what the Turians are actually called.