December 2nd 1923, 4:30 PM
20 km away from Napori Village
The small brigade of Polish troops tasked with taking the village of Napori were within sight of their objective when they had happened upon an encampment of survivors from the previous counter attacks on Alnus hill, still stubborn as ever they tried to resist the Polish forces to their last even when an offer was made that anyone in such a position within their right minds would have and should've have accepted but didn't, fighting to the last man they were cut down like animals led to the slaughter, though they were still enemies of Poland and of the Polish army Major Zarakowski saw fit to have them buried, ordering his men and the volunteer they had brought along to bury the bodies with whatever military honours saw fit at the time. Though the Major had fought for years against bolishiveks and now these Imperials he saw them personally as equals, though any other officer would have disagreed calling them savages and left their bodies out in the sun to rot and be eaten by the local wildlife, the Major and those under his command were on a what could be described as a "public relations and occupation" mission, so if burying the dead of their enemies helped them be seen as the peacemaker and not the aggressor in this war then so be it before the bodies were fully buried the Major had a couple troops fashion makeshift crosses from whatever tree branches could be removed and put to use as such placing them in the ground at the head of each grave then having the bodies covered in their place then continuing on to the village the Major walked ahead of the small convoy with the translator Aurelius and his second in command Lieutenant Lodynski talking with the translator while the Lieutenant followed behind the two. "So you mean to tell me that you've never seen any of our weapons before? Your people still use bows, arrows, swords, spears and armour?" Major Zarakowski spoke to the translator his rifle held at the ready encase if it was needed like before with the bandits. "Yes, we still use those weapons, but there's also others who use magic, but you never really see them in the military, they're usually at specialized collages that teach them how to control and use their magic more effectively."
Aurelius spoke with his hands folded behind his back while he walked with the Major though he would have hated to admit it, talking with someone he was supposed to view as an enemy made it harder for him to believe that the Major or any of the soldiers under his command were the enemy, more like strangers of whom were more peaceful than any other nation in the world he came from, before long their conversation turned from talking about either sides military capabilities to basic everyday life, Aurelius found that people on the otherside of the gate live in large buildings called appartments, some live in houses, others live outside of large cities in smaller villages much like in his world but they have access to machines like the three following him, the Major, and the Lieutenant behind him and use them as a faster means of going to cities across continents, and if they could afford a car there were devices called "trains" that took mass amounts of people, animals and goods across these continents as well, but what he was more interested in were the machines created recently within the decade called "areoplanes", much like these automobiles, and trains the people on the otherside of the gate had started to use these machines for military purposes in leu of not having dragons for such purposes, then the conversation turned to one of religion, though the Major himself didn't much care to admit he himself was the formost expert on the subject, more so than even his Russian subordinate.
Aurelius learned that the world the Empire he had been a proud subject of had attacked a nation of which in addition to being the most religiously devout nation in the continent of Europe used the religion of Catholicism as a beacon of hope and a reason to fight for the country's independence and the protection of it's people, in addition to this he learned Poland had already fought one war in the three years of it's existence against a large force of evil that had threatened the rest of the world called "The Soviet Union" all on it's own for the most part but with slight help from a few other countries like the United States of America, Great Britain, France, and even two countries that had occupied Poland before it's foundation called Germany and the former Russian Empire, as soon as the Russian Empire was mentioned Lieutenant Lodynski couldn't help but feel a bit prideful in the mentioning in his country, which turned to sadness over it's loss and occupation by the reds but though he had been born in the Russian Empire he was still a Pole at heart so he had come to accept it's loss. In the end the convoy reached the village after two hours of marching, the convoy of Polish troops had after almost another hour of meeting with the village elder had successfully occupied the village, setting up a large pole in the center of the village they raised the Polish flag over the village though this brought some silent discontent to a few citizens of the village others figured it wasn't much of anything to worry about.
December 3rd 1923
The next day occupation forces would arrive from the Alnus Hill encampment and secure the area around the village acting as both a police force and the military defenders of the village awaiting any counter attack that may come from the Empire only to be disappointed with small skirmishes from former imperial troops turned bandits, the village elder met with Major Zarakowski and his translator again asking why they had brought more troops into the village, complaining that it would only bring more bandits and maybe the attention of the Imperial military. Major Zarakowski could only respond saying that Poland and the Empire were at war and the village was ordered to be occupied, until the frontline moved forward to another village Polish troops would remain in Napori until orders were received from their command to leave the village and move to the next one but also assured that Polish troops would not act as any other military in this world might, if a battle were to ensue he would make the safety of the village his top priority and evacuate the inhabitants if necessary, but until then Polish troops would indeed remain in Napori village, only to act as both occupier and peacekeeper.
Author's Note: I have thought a bit on what I'm going to do next with the story but I'd like to know what you the readers would think, I might put Rory Mercury into the story but I'm not fully sure yet if you would like such an idea, so I want to know what you think, should she be added into the story or should she not be added in? I only thought it might be interesting considering she in the main actual story of Gate is an apostle to the god of death (I think... It was either death or war, one of the two). But eitherway message me what you think about it, consider it a sort of vote, if a lot of people approve of the idea then she'll be in the story, if not then she won't.