"WE ARE THE STRONGEST!"
"THE STRONGEST! THE STRONGEST! THE STRONGEST!"
"WE ARE INVINCIBLE!"
"INVINCIBLE! INVINCIBLE! INVINCIBLE!"
"OH, INEVITABLE FATE."
"BRING IT ON! BRING IT ON! BRING IT ON!"
Soldiers prepared, they witnessed the chant of war the army in front of them spoke, ready to fight, they were imperial Soldiers, under Vincent Vollachia. They were originally sent to dispatch a rebellion on the gladiator island, but suddenly they were informed of an army, under the banner of seven stars, marching towards them.
The enemy had around 5000 troops, a thousand more than double of their troops, but by the reports they were mainly civilians who took up arms, and considering the presence of two divine generals, their victory was assured.
"I must admit, their leader does have some qualities, the Pleiades have defeated some of our squads already, but this is their first real battle, even if we do have the lake behind our backs." A soldier spoke with a bit of admiration, their army was filled with battle hardened warriors, all chosen to defeat far more powerful opponents.
The enemy army, their footsteps could be heard even before they were seen, their shouts filled the sky, and their morale was as high as mountains, and they all followed a single boy, with black hair and black eyes, it was said, and the soldiers saw him, leading the army in the front. Their steps roared in the ground, their chant filled the air, it felt as the world itself began to shake.
"Finally a public worthy of the leading actor!" A blue haired boy spoke, while in the middle of the enemy army, the soldiers were completely surprised, the boy in a pink kimono smiled at them.
"What are you blabbering about!?" Shouted one of the soldiers, confused by the presence of this boy, who appeared out of nowhere and started to fight, the boy danced in their blades, avoiding with ease their strikes.
"Don't be so tactless, to question the star of the show! Ah, look, now I'm speaking like the boss." The boy stated as he punched many of the soldiers, his strikes were quick and powerful, and his movements were unpredictable.
"Boss? Who the hell!?" Another soldier shouted, trying to figure out what this enemy was talking about, then with that question the boy stopped, as the soldiers around him were all on the ground.
"Oh right! He's our… the Pleiades battalion leader!" The boy shouted as the armies clashed, even if the boy was already a powerful opponent, the rest of their army was simply too strong for mere farmers.
The two armies clashed, the Pleiades charged with all their might, breaking the formation of the enemy, but they didn't simply use brute strength, they were in formation, triangle shaped with the strongest person as the pinnacle of that triangle.
It was like seeing hot iron melt ice, such was the devastation of the assault, and even more incredible.
"Don't kill them! They do not stand a chance regardless!"
"Yes boss!" The leader declared this childish wish, for a warrior this was simply foolish, yet this army was making it possible.
In a nearby hill, someone was witnessing the battle, with a vicious smile on his face, he smiled and prepared to go.
"Ahhh, to be defeated by weak people, such a shame." An old man spoke as he stroked his chin, he seemed a fickle old man, maybe ninety years old, not someone fit for the battlefield, yet there he was, overlooking the battle.
"Yet they aren't weak, their hearts are united, and their power is tremendous." The old man looked at the enemy, and stood up, deciding on what to do.
"Go in the battle, and cut off the head of the snake." A smooth and deep voice called out, the old man turned around, and saw a wolf man in a dark kimono, the fur of the wolf was gray, and he had a pipe in his mouth.
"So before I even knew what to do, you young ones already figured me out." The old man said as he looked at his opponent, they both took out kukris, and prepared to fight.
"You can run old man, the boss gave you this mercy." The wolf spoke as he glared at the shinobi.
"A wolf man in Vollachia? This young man sure doesn't care." The old man smiled with a hint of hate in his eyes, he looked at the boy at the head of the assault, the wolf man laughed.
"He wishes to change Vollachia, and the world too, all because he hates this place, he hates how the weak are treated, just for being born without power. He hates the nobles, thinking highly of themselves, even if they were just lucky, and he hates you who are strong, since you use your power with maliciousness, for him, you are the weakest." The wolf spoke about his leader, the old man listened closely.
"Halibel, of the Pleiades battalion." Halibel spoke with a pipe in his mouth, he took a stance typical of shinobis, the old man too prepared to fight.
"Olbart, third rank divine general." The two presented themselves and immediately attacked each other, Halibel summoned his clones, and attacked the old man from different angles, at the same moment Olbart jumped in the air, avoiding the clones and responding by throwing shurikens, all blocked by the wolf.
The old man fell to the ground, and tried to attack one of the clones with a kukri, but Halibel blocked the attack, then the old man retreated with a smirk on his face, but Halibel kicked the ground, and as the dirt traveled in the air, an explosion was heard.
"These tricks won't work with me, old man." Halibel smoked from his pipe as Olbart laughed loudly, but his laughs showed his years.
"Well, that was expected, from the strongest in Kararagi, but what is your goal? To reunite such an army, and assault the vollachian soldiers?" The old man asked with a questioning look, the wolf smirked, with the pipe in his mouth.
"The boss hates Vollachia, and he wishes to teach it a lesson." The wolf answered as he prepared to fight, the two shinobis clashed again, but in the battlefield, the Pleiades were simply dominating the battle, the soldiers were overwhelmed, and yet no one was killed, some had sustained quite some injuries, but nothing fatal.
Meanwhile in the gladiator island, many sword slaves admired the battle, with then the various hostages they took.
"The leader is a fool, but he still has to suffer a loss, while the enemy is already broken and defeated." A small girl with ruby eyes spoke, in her eyes seemed to be a flame, her orange hairs complimented her eyes, same as her dress, she was undoubtedly beautiful, and yet she still had much room to grow.
This little girl's name was Priscilla, she looked at the absurd fight going in front of her, she noticed something strange in the army, some great power was at work.
"I guess that boy has some qualities." Priscilla spoke as the Vollachian army was defeated, the battle started a few minutes ago, yet the winner was already decided, many troops were taken as prisoners, others escaped, and no one was killed.
The Vollachian princess watched the army, as they raised a shout of victory, then the prisoners were reunited in front of the kid, and he spoke to them, after a few minutes some soldiers were freed and let go, others were kept in chains.
"What will that commoner do now?" Priscilla wondered as she noticed how the prisoners were taken care of, that being in a far more human way than almost anyone in these lands.
The boy then went to speak with two people of his troops, a four armed man and a boy with blue hair and a pink kimono, they discussed for a while, then they walked towards the bridge, which was for now under the water, the boy looked down, and thought for a little, then he snapped his fingers and talked with the four armed man, and the blue boy was clearly excited.
As the battle finished, another one was happening inside the island, a one armed man and a small girl against a tall woman with two blades instead of arms, fighting to the death, but even they stopped their fight to admire the devastation of the vollachian army, even if it lasted only a few minutes.
"Al sweetie, why do you have such a grin?" The woman asked as she attacked the one called Al, he always avoided her blows by an incredibly small margin, as if each time the woman attacked, a miracle happened, one after the other.
"Isn't it obvious? The stars are finally smiling." Al said as the woman prepared to fight, yet as she prepared the attack, something was heard.
"Ahhhhh ah ah ah!" A childish voice was heard, as the woman turned, she was hit in the face by a small boy, making her fall to the ground. The small girl was surprised by this, as the boy stood up and dusted off his clothes.
"Perfect landing!" The boy said while giving them a thumbs up, Al smiled at him and the boy looked at him.
"What's the matter, old man?" Al laughed and took a breath of air, the small girl too stood up with a calm face.
"Nothing, bro, it's just that seeing her get hit like that will always be great." Al stated as the boy got off the woman, who immediately stood up and looked at him, she was curious about him.
"Boy, who are you? The woman asked in a gentle tone, but her murderous aura could scare even the bravest, yet the boy remained unflinching, as he pointed a finger at the sky.
"I am Natsuki Subaru, the child of war!" Subaru presented himself with pride, his eyes held confidence within them, and he gave an aura of command, yet kindness.
"Such a small child, with such a terrible title, I guess you're the one who commands that army, right?" The woman said as she crouched down Subaru looked at her with a serious expression.
"I am, and I want all of you to join me." Subaru smiled as he looked around, he looked first at the woman, then at the girl, and at last at Al.
"But first, what has happened here?" Subaru asked as he noticed how the two were hurt, he then glared at the tall woman, with angered eyes.
"Why did you do it?" Subaru asked as he noticed the glare in the woman's eyes, he simply stood there while showing his overwhelming confidence.
"I just love the thrill of the battle, you know? I can't help it." The woman explained with murderous eyes, Al was already terrified, yet Subaru remained strong, he smirked at her.
"I doubt there are any chances to have you stop, uh?" Subaru said as the woman smiled, she then prepared to attack.
"No, I wish to fight everyone on the island, and if you're going to stop me, then I'll kill you too." The woman said as she looked at the boy, she pointed her weapons towards him.
"I am called the hornet, empress of the island." She presented herself with a slight bow, the smile on her face was as terrible as the night, she rushed forward to the boy.
"Hey! Don't stand there, dodge!" Al shouted as the hornet came closer with her blades ready to hit, but as she closed in, a blue lighting struck her, and a blue haired boy appeared in front of her.
"Hey boss! So this is finally my moment, yeah?" The boy asked as the hornet groaned on the ground, and Al laughed at the display.
"Yes it is, Seshi, show her who's strong!" Subaru shouted and pointed at the hornet, who was already on her feet, licking her lips, while preparing her weapons.
"Cecilus Segmunt, vanguard of the pleiades." Cecilus presented himself while giving a bow, the hornet charged forward and with her giant blades she struck down on him, the boy swiftly dodged with a smile, the hornet continued to attack relentlessly, yet Cecilus was never hit, Al and the girl remained still, admiring the technique of the boy, while Subaru simply smirked at him.
"Seshi, you can end this whenever you want, I'll be opening the gate." Subaru walked past the two fighters, with the hornet trying to hit him, but Cecilus stopped all of her blows.
"Come on miss, let's have some fun!" Cecilus spoke in a teasing way, as he seemed to dance around the hornet, meanwhile Subaru entered in the control room, and opened the gate, after a few seconds the strongest troops of the pleiades entered inside, and they quickly dispatched the rebellion, without suffering a single loss.
"We were incredibly fast, boss!" A lizardman spoke with a smile, together with him were a tattooed man, a man with rust hair, and a small fox girl in a kimono.
"Yeah, not even what? Five minutes?" Subaru spoke as he looked around, Cecilus was break dancing on top of the hornet, who was still trying to hit him, Halibel was next to him, the sword slaves were all around him, and the hostages were secured.
"Alright, everyone might be wondering what is happening! So, we are the pleiades battalion, and we want to defeat the emperor!" Subaru shouted with everyone around him being either confused, surprised or shocked.
"The emperor!?" "How do you think you can do it?" "Are you an idiot!?" A few gladiators shouted, Subaru then smiled at them, with everyone curious.
"I might be a fool, but if you think I'll accept the stupid rules of this country, if you think I'll do nothing when seeing someone being trampled for their bad luck, then you're a greater fool than I'll ever be!" The boy shouted with pride, his men all cheered for him, and then a girl with ruby eyes spoke.
"You are indeed a fool, to think that you can make the empire your enemy, and win." The girl spoke while putting a fan over her mouth, Subaru scratched his head and then giggled.
"That's kind of my plan, you know?" Subaru spoke with a cocky smile, the girl too smiled at this boy's pride.
"I would call thine wish childish, but considering your age I cannot judge you, in fact, you might be the only one capable of defeating the empire." The girl stated as she fanned herself, the sword slaves were surprised, knowing her identity to be Selena Dracoy, the scorching lady.
"Yeah, I don't need you to tell me, uhh… What's your name?" Subaru asked while looking at her, the girl was surprised but smiled, she pointed at him with her fan.
"Priscilla, commoner." Priscilla stated her name, and Subaru immediately noticed two swords slaves looking at her.
"You're not Selena!? You damn brat!" One shouted as he tried to strike down Priscilla, another one too tried to kill her, but before anything could touch her, two figures struck down the fighters.
"To try to kill a kid…" One of them said, this was Subaru himself, who managed to get there thanks to the four armed men.
"Is an unforgivable sin!" Another feminine voice shouted, a fox girl slightly taller than Subaru, with a purple kimono.
Priscilla looked at the fox girl for a few seconds, as if she was staring into her soul, the fox girl too turned towards her. Red and blue eyes met, the fox girl trembled, and Priscilla was confused.
"Pr, Prisca?" The girl spoke with a trembling voice, Subaru went next to her, wondering what was wrong.
"Why are you? Oh. If I think about it, you are indeed mine dear mother, aren't you?" Prisca spoke with the fan in front of her mouth, Subaru looked at the two in silence.
"Alright, you two are the same age, how does that even work!?" Subaru shouted in complete confusion, he was ignored by the two, so he remained silent.
"Wait, how can you say that with just a glance?" The girl asked with a trembling voice, Prisca smiled behind her fan.
"If you wish to fool mine eyes, then change your soul." Prisca said as she looked at the girl, who remained silent, Subaru walked away from them, not interrupting whatever they had going on.
"Anyway, I hope to end this stupid ideology of this dumb empire! If anyone wants to join me, then we can go now." Subaru ended his speech, and a woman with red hair and a scar on her face stood up.
"Conflict is in human nature, how can you separate war from Vollachia?" The woman spoke while looking at the boy, who sighed and looked at her.
"You call yourself strong, yet you can't master your own instincts, how hypocritical." Subaru said while looking at them, as he spoke those words, everyone went silent, and the woman smiled.
"So, you just wish to change the very meaning of strength?" Serena asked as she looked at him, Subaru scratched the back of his head.
"I mean, using your power to trample on the weak is just being a bully, it's harder to do good things, and to do the right thing is already a sign of strength." Subaru explained while looking around, Serena smiled and stood up.
"Natsuki Subaru, child of war, I, Serena Dracoy, shall assist you in your fight." Selena stated as her aura corresponded to her title, scorching lady, Subaru smiled as he looked at Cecilus, who finished off the hornet, he smiled in return, and jumped to him.
"Boss, I've finished, can we go now?" Cecilus stated with a smile, he walked next to Subaru and looked at the fox girl tail.
"Don't you want to just hug that fluffy tail, Seshi?" Subaru asked while scratching his cheek, Cecilus looked at Yorna and put his chin on his hand.
"Now that you make me notice, yes, I want, Shall we?" Cecilus asked and the two immediately jumped on the girl's tail, big enough for both of them, and startled both her and Priscilla.
"What are you fools doing?" Priscilla asked as Subaru and Cecilus hugged the tail of her mother, she was simply giggling at the two.
"Having fun, ever heard of that?" Subaru answered as he petted the tail, Cecilus was completely relaxing on it.
"How can that be fun?" Priscilla asked with her fan over her mouth, at that moment, Subaru and Cecilus looked at each other, and immediately grabbed Priscilla and launched her on the soft tail, her mother giggled at the display.
"Let me go, you insolent commoners!" She shouted in anger, as they had her sit beside them, she then silenced for a second.
"Well, mine self shall admit it, this is comfortable." Priscilla said as she relaxed on the tail, her mother sat down too, smiling at them.
"Subaru, I think it's time to go, you have to talk with Serena." The fox girl said as she looked at her daughter, Subaru then sighed and stood up.
"Yeah Yorna, let's go, anyway you guys, you're free to go!" Subaru shouted at the sword slaves who looked at him surprised, he went down and asked to have Serena come outside.
The two met in a tend where they could talk, even if Serena already noticed how this army didn't treat Subaru like a superior, but only as a leader, with some of them calling him brother too.
The tend was taken from the vollachian army, they had put a table in there and a few chairs, and they simply sat down, with Cecilus and Serena's guards inside.
"Alright, so what do you want to talk about?" Subaru asked as he sat on the table, he wasn't sitting like you would expect of a leader, he was with his legs crossed on the chair.
"Didn't you ask for any refreshments, you fool?" Priscilla stated as she sat beside Serena, Yorna was sitting in front of her, and she too glared at Subaru, with Serena smiling at them.
"Don't call me a fool! You red haired brat!" Subaru answered as he clenched his fists, Priscilla covered her mouth with her fan.
"Brat? As if a commoner such as yourself is better than me." Priscilla simply used her fan and looked away from him, Subaru giggled and answered.
"But I'm better than you." Subaru answered with a cheeky smile, Priscilla hardened her gaze, and stood up from her seat.
"Do you wish mine self to behead you?" Priscilla stated as she glared at Subaru, with an imposing aura, that none would dare to defy.
"Come on, do it." Except one boy, who taunted the girl with a smirk, he showed his neck as the girl looked at him in surprise, Cecilus was on the ground laughing at the display.
"What, you chicken?" Priscilla took from the air a red sword, and in anger tried to land an hit on him, she even jumped on the table, but Subaru simply looked at her with a smile, Yorna tried to intervene, but Cecilus stopped her.
"That's a cool sword!" Subaru shouted, The sword came ever closer, Subaru smiled and murmured something, as the sword made contact with him, it bounced back, Priscilla even fell to the ground, and Subaru took the sword in hand.
"Subaru, don't touch it!" Yorna shouted as Subaru took the sword in his hand, Priscilla looked at him disappointed, and yet, as she expected him to burst into flames, he simply held the sword in his hands, remained silent for a second, and then swung it around.
"Hey Seshi, isn't this cool!" Subaru shouted as he showed the sword to him, Cecilus smiled as he looked at it.
"Yeah, but it's strange, isn't it?" Cecilus spoke as everyone in the room looked at Subaru, surprised to see him with the sword in hand.
"So, he's another brother of mine…" Priscilla spoke undertone, Yorna smiled and walked next to her, and slapped her head.
"Mother, why did you strike mineself on the head?" Priscilla asked as she glanced at Yorna, she stroked her head slightly.
"I don't remember raising my daughter to result to violence against a child." Yorna had a harsh tone as she looked at the two, Priscilla sighed and answered.
"You didn't raise me, mother." Priscilla spoke with a neutral tone, Yorna laughed as she looked at the two boys.
"I better start now, as Subaru says, better late than never." Yorna, with a warm smile on her face, caressed her daughter, then gave her a little push.
"Go help your brother with that sword, he is actually full of surprises." Yorna gave her a wink, and sat down next to Serena.
"I guess I'll be the one to talk with you, so what do you wish to know?" Yorna said as she smiled at her, Serena looked at the kid surprised, and then turned towards her.
"What do you want to do after the rebellion?" She placed her head on her fist, Yorna smiled slightly and handed her a paper, filled with all kinds of notes.
"Subaru already wrote down his plan, increased security, schools for all, decrease in the power of nobles, less focus on the strong, so on, so forth, he even gave a lot of reasons for each of them." Yorna showed the papers to Serena, who started reading them one by one, paying close attention to the reasons too.
"I see, this little guy sure knows his deal." Serena said as she read the various notes, all of them were meant for the long run, but while it was a great risk, the reward would be far greater.
Meanwhile Subaru and Priscilla looked at each other in silence, then Subaru spoke first while scratching his chin.
"Sorry if I exaggerated, here's your sword, it's really cool, you know?" Subaru smiled at her Priscilla sighed and didn't take the sword, but instead started talking.
"The yang sword Vollachia, those who can wield it are worthy of the throne." She spoke as Subaru looked at the blade, his interest seemed to lower.
"For thee to wield it, thou must be a bro-"
"Please stop talking like that, it annoys me a lot, it makes you sound like a shitty noble." Subaru said as he looked at the blade, he then leaned on it.
"As I was saying, you must be a brother of mine, only those worthy in the royal family can touch the sword." Priscilla explained as Subaru looked at her as if he was looking at someone crazy, then he just smiled.
"Alright sis, something else to know about this sword?" Subaru looked at her as Priscilla sighed, she then took away her fan and took the sword, and made it disappear in the air.
"You now should be able to summon it yourself, try it." Priscilla looked at Subaru, who nodded and remained silent, after a few seconds the sword reappeared in his hand, Cecilus was surprised by this, and walked around Subaru.
"Good boss, now you even have a good sword!" Cecilus smiled as Subaru made the sword disappear once again.
"Good, I see you are a fast learner, now you should also be able to use the fire of the sword, consider yourself lucky to have a goddess such as myself as a teacher." Priscilla spoke with pride as Subaru giggled, he then pinched her cheek.
"Don't call yourself a goddess, idiot!" Subaru shouted at the girl, she looked at him angry, but even more confused.
"Why? Do you hate gods?" Priscilla asked with curiosity, Subaru sighed and looked up in the sky.
"Gods are boring, what joy is there if you can't improve?" Subaru spoke annoyed, meanwhile a man with only an arm entered the end.
"Excuse me, is Natsuki Subaru here?" The man asked, Subaru immediately recognised him and smiled.
"Oh, you're that Al guy!" Subaru smiled as he looked at him, Al crouched down and looked at him in the eyes.
"So you are the star leading this cluster, uh?" Al said as Subaru recognised his words, Subaru smiled and patted his shoulder.
"So you're like me, uh?" Subaru smiled at him in surprise, Al then laughed and his eyes landed on Priscilla, who was analyzing him.
"You, jester, from now on you shall serve me." Priscilla spoke with a commanding voice, Al was surprised by that, Subaru shrugged and went back to his table.
"So, where to go next?" Subaru asked, then he signed Cecilus to call the others, after a few minutes a four armed man entered inside, he placed a map on the table, and showed him the various places.
"Subaru, from the island we could go to Mezoeria or Averyck, the city of Mezoeria is on a plateau, so the battle would be uphill, while Averyck is a village, far easier to conquer." The four armed man explained as he showed the possibilities, Subaru scratched his chin.
"It might be better to attack the village first, but we could also risk being attacked from the city, isn't it possible to convince the city to join us?" Subaru scratched his chin as he wondered what to do, Serena looked at the map.
"The city is a land full of dragons, you'll be attacked from above, and while your army is powerful, a dragon is still out of their reach, I think Madeliyn protects it, she is extremely young, but she can control dragons." Serena explained, Subaru then snapped his fingers and smiled.
"We can make the dragons fall to the ground!" Subaru smiled as Serena was curious of what he was thinking.
"And how would you accomplish that?" Serena asked as she put her head on her hands, Subaru looked at her and thought about it for a second.
"We could either launch some nets or something to block their wings, or just have all of the pleiades use bows and things like that." Subaru smirked as Serena nodded.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot, but do we know their troops? Because if they don't have a lot on the ground we could also just focus on quality and assault with like, 5 people?" Subaru looked at both Serena and Gustav, Serena then walked next to him and looked at the map.
"The city is protected by dragons, if you wish I could bring my dragon troops and bring the fight in the air." Serena made him see the distance between her mansion and the city, Subaru waved his head.
"I'd rather keep it a secret, otherwise in the capital they could prepare for the assault, for now, if anyone asks, you've been kidnapped." Subaru then took his arms upwards and decided.
"Screw it, Cecilus, Halibel, we three should be enough, Yorna, make sure no one here gets hurt." Subaru spoke as Halibel appeared next to him, Cecilus smiled and cracked his neck.
"We three against a city? Now that sounds fun, boss." Subaru and Cecilus showed a devilish smile, one you wouldn't expect from a child.
"Alright, so here's the plan, Me, Halibel, and Cecilus shall go as the vanguard, we enter the city by jumping on the dragons, the pleiades will remain behind and make sure no one gets away, while Yorna and some of our most powerful warriors remain behind as rearguard." Subaru smiled as Cecilus and Halibel nodded, then Priscilla walked next to him.
"The plan doesn't seem that well thought, they will probably place traps all over the place, and the army needs a leader." Priscilla smiled as she spoke those words, but Subaru shrugged and looked at her.
"If you can do a good job, then lead them yourself." Subaru answered with a nonchalant tone, Priscilla looked at him with widened eyes, but she smiled.
"Fine, I shall show you how to lead these commoners." Priscilla pointed her fan at Subaru and he smiled.
"They're my comrades, each one of them is far more worthy than you believe." Subaru smirked and walked outside, and the march of the pleiades shocked the earth once more.
The army passed by Glarasia, during their last battle they gained a total of 1200 troops from the gladiators and the enemy soldiers, in Glarasia they took the weapons needed and they managed to prepare large quantities of food.
The battle won at the gladiator island soon spread, and the rumors of the child of war started spreading, even the emperor took matters seriously, after a week, they were walking towards the city of Mezoeria, were they shook the earth once again, and as they approached the city, they raised the banners, and shouted as one.
"WE ARE THE STRONGEST!"
"THE STRONGEST! THE STRONGEST! THE STRONGEST!"
"WE ARE INVINCIBLE!"
"INVINCIBLE! INVINCIBLE! INVINCIBLE!"
"OH, INEVITABLE FATE."
"BRING IT ON! BRING IT ON! BRING IT ON!"
This war cry, shouted before the battle, during the battle, and after it, was already a sign, the troops in the city were calm, as they had various dragons flying over them, and a certain general on their side, the city was on a plateau, covered in the front by massive walls, and the back by the mountains, filled with dragons, and as they expected them to come forward, only three walked instead, two kids, one with black hair, one with blue, and a black wolf man.
Roars were heard, the dragons descended on them, and as they expected them to be taken, they fought back, the blue kid seemed like lighting as he struck down dragons, suddenly twenty wolf people appeared, all looked the same, and he struck down the dragons efficiently with various techniques, either explosion, aimed hits, and for last, the black haired kid bursts into flames, and his sword struck down the dragons in front of him, burning them to a crisp, and all dragons that managed to touch him, were burned to ashes before they could do anything.
"Attack!" A young voice was heard as the pleiades sent out a volley of arrows, they were armed with ballistas and crossbows, some of them held a bow, some threw javelins, some even used harpoons and took the dragons to the ground, where the fighters overwhelmed them with their power and number.
The battle went on, with dragons falling one after the other, the pleiades fighting as one, and the three warriors walking towards the city, the battle was over, until..
"I, am Mezoreia. In accordance with the voice of mine dear child, I shalt become the wind from the heavenly skies."
A white dragon, descending from the sky, flew towards the three who laid waste to the dragons, he spoke with a solemn voice, as he glared at the three, standing in front of him, this was no flying dragon, it was far more majestic, this was a divine dragon, something one would hear only in legends, and yet, the enemy wasn't worried, instead the three warriors stood in front of him.
"Boss, you weren't joking when you said you had a stage worthy of the star actor." The blue lighting smiled as he cracked his hands, smiling intensely, then, the black haired kid, now covered in flames, took two swords.
"Uh!? Are these for me?" Cecilus smiled as you would expect from a kid, he took the two swords, one blue, the other red, the fiend sword, and the dream sword, he held them in his hand, and smiled.
"Alright guys, let's have some fun." Subaru pointed the yang sword at the dragon, and it attacked, the dragon was surprisingly fast for its size, and it used his tail to hit the three, Cecilus jumped, while Halibel disappeared, while Subaru remained there, he raised his left hand towards the tail of the dragon.
"Reality break." The kid pronounced two words, and the tail of the dragon, which could shake the earth, and destroy armies with a single swing, was stopped by a boy, the shockwave of the hit was felt by everyone.
"You damn lizard! This took me too many tries!" Yet the boy remained still, untouched and unarmed, leaving all shocked, then as everyone tried to process what just happened.
"The boss is so cool!" Another voice was heard, and the dragon fell backwards, it seemed like a blue lightning had struck him from the earth.
"But now it's the star actor moment." Cecilus was at the head of the dragon, swords in hand, he quickly jumped forward as the dragon stood up, it quickly tried to crush Cecilus with its claws, sharp enough to seem like blades, but Cecilus jumped on top of its arm, and ran towards the head, with his blades he prepared to strike, the dragon instead opened his mouth and flames started appearing.
Cecilus struck the arm and went down, and then Subaru was launched at the dragon's shoulder, where the flames were fired, and all were aimed at the pleiades, who would have been destroyed.
"Absolute cancel!" Subaru shouted as the flames engulfed him, but around him, the flames disappeared, and nothing was armed, as the dragon tried to tear him apart with his claws, Cecilus struck the hand, and Halibel appeared and took Subaru away, who went back to the army.
"Let's go!" Subaru shouted again, the warcry raised once more, they walked around the fight between Cecilus and Mezoeria, and assaulted the city, which was guarded by dragons for the city was under Serena.
They quickly destroyed the gate, some fought off the dragons, and the city was quickly overwhelmed, no one of the inhabitants fought off the army, and they searched for Madelyn.
The soldiers searched all the city, they made sure no one was hurt, and Subaru with Halibel made their way in the main building, there they found Madeliyn.
"You, how are you this strong!?" Madeliyn, a young girl, no older than Subaru shouted with angered eyes, Subaru sighed and looked at her.
"You may surrender, none of us want to hurt you." Subaru had the yang sword in hand, the flames that surrounded him now stayed behind his back, and it seemed as if he had wings of fire.
"Don't underestimate the dragons!" Madeliyn shouted as the roof was taken down, and a dragon took Madeliyn in the air, Halibel went to attack her, but Subaru stopped him.
"Even if she goes back, the word of pleiades taking down even the mighty dragons will spread, the morale of the enemy troops will lower further." Subaru smiled as he looked at the dragons even Mezoeria retreated, and Cecilus ran behind him, so Subaru quickly shouted.
"STOP SESHI!" Cecilus did as he was told, and quickly ran to Subaru, he had a gloomy face, as he looked at him.
"I'm here boss." Cecilus looked down as he sheathed his swords, they were looking at the city.
"Seshi, next time you'll have an even bigger audience, the capital shall be our grand finale of our rebellion." Subaru smiled and Cecilus too was excited by his words, he then sighed and placed his hands behind his head.
"Alright then, how long before we arrive at the capital?" Cecilus asked as he walked forward while looking behind him, Halibel lit his pipe and Subaru smirked.
"Next stop, the capital!" Subaru shouted, as the pleiades let out a scream, the city was taken without too much effort, they didn't need to kill too many dragons, most of them were captured for Serena.
Subaru gave a speech at the city with the help of Serena, and around 3000 people joined his cause, he intended to reunite as many people as possible, pleiades was made of various races, all valued for their specialties, and so, the earth shook once more, and the day of the final battle came closer.