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ESKK: A new chapter begins, let's get the third chapter of this fic started.

(Start the Ruined Village Afternoon)

The Elf Girl was quickly brought to the surface and already she was being looked over by the team. Their first task was to get her stabilized and warmed up. At the moment Umbra was ringing out his scarf of the water moisture inside it. "Well, this certainly changes things." Tavo said as he scratched his head a bit.

"A survivor is a good thing for us we can figure out why that dragon attacked." Balwin said as he then sighed. "But it's bad because by the looks of it, she's the sole survivor of this village." He added as there was a lot that could go wrong with this scenario.

Just then Juvina walked in as she had a calm look in her eyes. "Well, the good news is she's stable now." Juvina said but had more to say. "However, she's still out of it and we had to get her out of this wet clothing." She added which meant that they won't be getting answers anytime soon.

"Alright she's alive at least." Balwin said before Juvina added more.

"But we still need to figure out what to do with her." Juvina said before Balwin sighed.

"It's obvious we bring her along as a refugee and transport her to the nearest village." Balwin said knowing the village they passed by was their best bet. "If we left her here it would leave a bad taste in my mouth seeing as she lost everything." Balwin said recalling the Zariman incident centuries prior.

(Later on, the Road)

Once more the convey was on the move as they drove through the dirt road to their destination. "Alright Tavo get us back to base and take the route through Calma Village." Balwin said as he stood behind Tavo while Juvina and the Tenno Operative was tending to the elf girl. "We can warn them about the Dragon and hopefully they'll take the girl off our hands." Balwin said as Tavo nodded.

"Right." Tavo nodded as he drove the vehicle. He actually liked having these wheels a heavy recon vehicle similar to the Railjack but for land only. Maybe he can convince the others to let him keep it and maybe they can try it with deep sea travel. "Still, I'm worried." Tavo admitted which caused Balvin to look to his fellow Tenno. "What if we happen upon that Dragon?" Tavo asked and this got Balvin thinking.

"Hey Juvi." Balwin said as he went over to Juvina. "Think you can come up with some strategies to take on that Dragon?" Balwin asked as he looked to Juvina.

"Possibly but it might take a while since more of my computers are back at base." Juvina said which Balwin nodded.

"Alright get on it." Balvin said and thus he looked back to Tavo. "Alright Tavo that should handle that for a bit." Balvin said as Juvina figured Tavo got worried. Though why he was worried was beyond her, chances are they'll beat the dragon with their Void Power and the tools they brought with them.

(Scene Break Calma Village)

"Dear God, the entire village was destroyed." The Chief said as he looked to the Tenno in shock. The Corpus and Grineer they brought with them were scouting the area in case the Dragon showed up here.

"Yeah." Balwin's aid confirming to the old man what he heard. It seems the translation tech was working well Corpus work well when given a proper motivation and payment. "The village was burned to the ground by a giant red dragon." Balvin said as he displayed the image of the dragon.

"A flame dragon." The old man said as he was shocked at what he was seeing.

"Everyone was burned to death save for one a girl hiding in the well." Balvin said and thus he proceeded to show the old man the girl in question The Elf Girl was dressed in a warm blanket to help get her body temperature to where it needs to be.

"She's the only survivor?" The man asked shocked at what he heard. "That is awful." He said with sympathy for those whose lives were lost.

"Can you help her?" Balvin asked hoping to make progress here.

The old man sadly turned his head which was not a good sign. "We can't care for an Elf and besides, we have to leave this place now as well." The old man said which surprised the Tenno.

"Wait your leaving?" Balvin asked when he heard this surprised that these people were going to run.

"Yes, when a Flame Dragon gets a taste of human or elven flesh it will be back for more." The Village chief said, and this meant that the Tenno's job just a whole lore more complicated. Already the entire village was in a panic packing up as they needed to put as much distance between them and the Fire Dragon as possible before it came hunting them for a snack.

With this in mind Balwin was forced to make a call. "Hunhow... did you get all of that." Balwin said pausing as he was trying to get used to Hunhow being a consistent ally of there's now.

"Yes, according to reports that Dragon should not have appeared where it did, as you suspected that dragon was sent there intentionally." Hunhow said which meant that something else was at work here.

"These people have no means to protect themselves from a foe that large and considering the numbers attempting to escape." Balwin said glancing at the village as everyone there was packing up clearly in a panic.

"I concur but this mission is to your discretion, Tenno." Hunhow said and thus it was clear what was to take place now.

"Confirmed." Balwin said and in turn proceeded to issue his next orders to the crew. He needed some information however such as where to take these people or if they had a place to go. For that he needed to find out about any rulers over this area noble lords or something similar.

(Meanwhile Calma Villages Outskirts)

In a hut house next to a waterfall, the door was open with a hard kick as an old wizard guy came out with a pile of book as it seem he was having trouble carrying them out and down the steps of his home as he went, "Whao- ahhh. Son of a- eeehhh! WHAO!"

The old wizard guy fell over while dropping all of his books while landing before a blue hair mage girl in a blue robe as the old man rolled onto his back and acted like a child as he flung his arms and legs around as he cry out a bit as the girl said, "Master, we can't load anything else in the cart."

"Lelei, I need to take my books with me! You hear me!?" the old man said as he wasn't going to leave all of his books behind as he stops for a moment and said the girl, "Lelei, we got to come up with something."

"Certainly. I believe we should prioritize the most valuable books," Lelei said as the old wizard guy stood up and said, "Ah yes! You really are a genius, aren't you? Why is there a dragon here anyways? Most peculiar, 50 years sooner than I have expected."

with Lelei was tying things off as the wizard went on saying, "What am I supposed to do without any warning?"

"Master we really need to ride," Lelei said as she interrupt her master rambling as he turn to her and said with a snap, "Parden me. How can you be so lewd? I way too old to be riding a girl as young as yourself."

The old wizard soon blush as he was thinking of something dirty or perverted as he laughs then said, "Now your sister... your sister is another story. Bow-cha-bow-o-"

Before he could finish Lelei fired some sort of magic spell at the dirty old wizard which sent him flying as he cry out in pain, but it didn't hurt or too much at least as he stood up after the first hit before more came hitting him as he spoke up to make Lelei stop as he said, "Hey, magic is the most sacred thing and should not be used for trivial matters! AHHHH!"

After a little bit with Lelei stop casting the spell as her master got into the cart and said, "okay, I guess we need to wet that sense of humor."

"If I don't have one, it's because of your teaching," Lelei said as her master was about to resort but then again, she could be right and just turn his head away and give a whistle with Lelei struck the rail to the donkey that was pulling the cart, only cry out and stop right away, showing the cart was way too heavy as the two sat there for a moment before the old wizard guy said, "We're not moving. I don't suppose you overloaded the cart?"

"You wanted all of your books master, you should have expected something to happen like this," Lelei said as the old wizard guy said, "It's a good thing we are wizards. Let's just magic it out."

"Magic is the world most sacred thing, it should not be used for trivial matter," Lelei said as the old man went 'eeh' for a moment as Lelei went on saying, "Your words if I remember."

"Yeah, well," the old man started saying but it seem Lelei was already a head of him as she pulls out her magic staff and said, "but in this case, I believe we are out of options."

Lelei pointed her staff out before her as she was casing a levitation spell on the cart itself as it glows and started lifted up from the ground as the wheel was bury in the ground by the weight of the cart now hovering in the air as Lelei struck the reins again as the donkey started moving more smoothly now as the two magic user ride down the road as the old wizard guy said, "Ahh, sorry."

"It's fine, I've gotten used to it, master," Lelei said as soon headed to the village and join with the other, but it seem there was a hold up as the wagons that were ready to go were all backed up as the old wizard guy question, "Ehh, what's going on, why are we just sitting here?"

"Master Kato, Lelei. The road being block," A villager who knew the two magic user are as he came up to inform them of what's happen as he went on saying, "There's a carriage that was broken down. Someone overloaded it and snapped their axel."

"Juvina, we're going to need to use the mag's power to life this up and Tavo get the healing nanites I think someone just got hurt," Balwin called out as the two magic user look ahead and saw the black Warframe speaking as two other came around and help out as the old wizard guy said, "I never heard of a language like that before."

"I never seen armor like that before," Lelei said as she eye Balwin as they hear him call out, "And Juvina, see what you can do about the cart as well."

"I'll try, but I'm use to building and repairing metal weapons or vehicles, not wooden ones," Juvina said as the old wizard said, "A woman who also one of these warriors?"

"I shall take a look master," Lelei said as she was getting of the cart as the old wizard Kato call out to her saying, "Wait-wait! Lelei!"

Lelei didn't listen as she went ahead to see what is going on and see if she can offer any help as the sound of a horse crying out in pain was heard and a child who was also hurt as well with Balwin supported the child carefully and see what was wrong as he had some medical training, and it didn't hurt to scan the girl of any injury as he kicked up some internal bleeding and a bit of head trauma as Lelei came over and saw the girls condition and said, "Life threating injuries."

"She also has a concussion and some broken ribs as well," Balwin said as Lelei look up to him as he look to her and ask, "Do you know anyway to help her?"

"You're a healer?" Lelei asked with Balwin shake his head no and said, "I just know the basic."

Suddenly the horse cry became louder as everyone turn to see the horse freaking out, no doubt it got spooked and about to trample over the little girl and Lelei but at that moment, Balwin pulled out a tranquilizer rifle and shot the horse as it fell over unconscious before it could hurt anyone as he said, "Tavo, bring extra nanites the horse maybe hurt as well."

"Roger that," Tavo said as Balwin stood up and sighed a bit as he turn to Lelei and the girl and ask them, "You alright? Sorry about that but at least you're not hurt, are you?"

"I-I'm alright," Lelei said as Balwin nodded as Tavo came over with some red orb looking object as he gave one to Balwin as he said to Tavo, "Treat the horse, while I treat the little girl."

"Why am I always stuck on animal duty," Tavo complains as he went over to the horse to treat it as Balwin kneel down and held the red orb over the girl as it suddenly ripple a bit before it slips through Balwin's hand and onto the girl which it seem to be absorbing into the girl's body, with the pain look she had was now vanishing and the color of her skin was normal as Balwin said, "Well that take care of that, now to get her in a better place to lay."

Balwin picked up the little girl and bring her over to her parent to help her out as Lelei said, "These people save my life."

To her shock as she saw the female of the group started to use the mag ability to lift the cart up before putting some metal bars on the axel before tied it off before fusing them together with her magnetism ability before she put it down and said, "That should do it but the things in there should come out."

She soon pulled out the heavier stuff like some furniture and big cooking pots to help lighten to load on the wagon, so it doesn't break again with Lalai was speechless to see such abilities that wasn't done by magic as she soon said, "Who are these strange warriors?"

With Balwin as he took care of the little girl, handing her off to her family to rest while their cart was being repaired and reinforce by Juvina, he was look over the people and watch closely to make sure they don't hurt themselves like that one family did as Tavo join him and said, "Hey man, horse is okay now, seem like it was scared when the cart tipped over."

"Good to hear," Balwin said as he keep watching over the people with Tavo soon ask him, "So how long do you think do we have to watch over these people? I mean these people must have a ruler that take care of them, right?"

"They do, but unfortunately he was a part of those army's that came and attacked us and currently he is being held as a prisoner along with several other leaders with their men," Balwin said as Tavo was a bit surprise by this as he said, "Damn, we were first their enemies that took their leaders and people as prisoners now we're becoming their saviors, but…"

"It doesn't feel right, is that what you're going to say?" Balwin said as he cut Tavo off a bit as the volt prime user nodded and said, "Yeah I mean, if they knew what we did, would they still consider us friends?"

"Only one way to know, we keep going and help them find a safe haven from the dragon or find a way to kill it," Balwin said as either way it became their responsibility to watch over these people as they are innocent of any crime and should not be held responsible for what their leaders have done, unless they were all cruel hearted, they will protect them until the end of their mission.

(scene break)

In the middle of the night in a valley where a group of bandits were sitting around a campfire as nearby them was a cart that was tipped over with dead horses and people, no doubt those bandit was the one responsible for that as one of them started saying, "I heard everyone in coda village is gonna bail out tonight," bandit # 1 said as bandit #2 said, "Sound like easy pickings for us."

"It's not like we got a lot of guys, man," bandit #4 said cross the fire as bandit #2 said, "Well check this out. a bunch of defected soldier are camping out, they'll jump at the chance to join us. If we offer those guy's something we can make a little army of our own and take down an entire city."

"And force the lord out of the area," Bandit #3 said as he chipped in before a fifth bandit said, "But what about those devil warriors? I heard just one of them can take down an entire army themselves."

"That nothing but a story, these devil warriors don't exist, if they did, we should have heard of them by down destroy villages or toppling kingdoms," bandit #2 said as he believe if there were people that powerful, they would take or destroy anything they want unknown to them they have a code of honor as bandit #2 went on saying after giving a small laugh, "From leading a bunch of troublemakers to having my own city... I like it."

Suddenly a heavy yet sharp blade was heard as it suddenly cleave through the bandit leader it seem as his upper body suddenly slides off his lower before dropping dead freaking out the other bandit with a girls laugh that can be heard as all the bandit look up and saw who killed their leader as they said, "Good evening gentlemen."

Before them was a gothic little girl wearing a red and black dress with a battle axe like halberd weapon in hand as she went on saying, "I'm so glad you could all get together like this."

The girl licked her lips as she held her battle axe over her head ready to slaughter. "Thank you very much for giving your lives so selflessly." She said with a sadistic tone. "The All-Father is very pleased with your actions." She said and began to slaughter the bandits but cutting one of them down. "He now requests your presence." She said and began to cut down the bandits one after the other. "I am Rory Mercury, Apostle of the Dark God, Emloy." The girl now known as Rory introduced to the bandits.

"She's one of the Twelve Apostles! Death God Rory." One of the Bandits said recognizing who Rory was.

"She's wearing the Emloy Shrine Oracle Uniform!" Another Bandit cried out realizing just how screwed they were.

"Run!" Another called out and thus they started to run for their lives.

"I don't think so." Rory said and thus she charged in and started to cut down the bandits one after the other. It was a bloodbath as she moved almost like a Tenno herself. The ground was torn apart as she kept killing the men before they could escape. Rory kept going until only one of them was left cornered and terrified.

"Now then..." Rory said making her way to the last one. "What can you tell me about these... Devil Warriors?" Rory asked wanting to know about the Tenno. For some time now she had sensed something amiss, and her God Emroy had even sent a messenger down, a new God has entered these lands. But nothing beyond wanting his Apostles to investigate because this new God... was beyond even Emroy's vision. And as one of his loyal apostles Rory intended to investigate it and find the truth.

(Scene Break the next day)

Out on the road the Tenno were escorting the caravan away from their old village. They were trying to put as much distance between them and the Dragon as possible. In Balvin was sitting with his squad mates and the two Operatives they brough from the base. "What's the statues on her?" Balvin asked from the front area.

"Her vitals are stable." The Operator said as in the vehicle with them was some of the Village Children. "She should regain consciousness soon." The same Operator said as this was good news.

"Now if only we had Trinity Equipped." Juvina said cursing herself for not bringing it out sooner.

"So do these people have a destination or we just driving around like idiots?" Tavo asked as he leaned towards Balvin who saw all the carriages outside of their vehicle.

"Want me to be honest, we're driving around like idiots." Balvin said surprising Tavo.

"What?!" Tavo asked shocked at those words.

"These people are refugees, in any war civilians are forced to flee their homes in order to find a safe haven away from the war." Balvin said as he looked outside the window. "Something the Orokin didn't give a rats ass about when the Sentient attacked." Balvin said recalling how many colonies were lost to either the Sentient or the Infested.

"Shit." Tavo said as he felt this was going to be one big headache. The Orokin had used the Infested in order to create more Warframes for the war effort against the Sentient. The Tenno turned the tides yes but not without sacrifices from the Orokin.

During the trip they had a few setbacks such as a cart being stuck in the mud forcing the Tenno to push it out. This show of strength surprised the people but beyond that they kept going. "Apparently their plan is to keep running until their certain the Dragon isn't chasing them." Balwin said as he let Tavo do the driving.

"Well, this certainly makes things difficult." Juvina said as she saw the issue with which they were now dealing.

"At least we're helping these people so yay we got a good deed under our belt." Tavo quipped as Juvina sighed and focused on the patient and their hitchhikers.

(Later)

The Caravan was forced to stop as one of the carts had broken down on them. Looking to the damage it was one of the wooden ones. "No good Tenno, the Axil is broken on this and replacing it now would leave us wide open for attack." The Operator Juvar said as he after he and the twins finished investigating the vehicle.

"Wood week, steel strong." Kahl said as he saw that they needed to get moving again and soon.

"We would only be waiting to die if we stayed." The old man said knowing hard decisions had to be made for survival. The man the cart belonged to didn't like it but knew the chief was right. "Shoulder what you can and keep going." The old man said and thus the villager nodded.

Balwin let Umbra take control for a bit as he approached the man. The man had a wife and child who he needed to focus on. Umbra gently squeezed the man's shoulder before gesturing to his family with his head. The man understood the implications and knew Umbra was right. Not long alter the same man would be seen hugging his wife and child as the broken carriage burned down behind them.

(Later)

"This is terrible." Juvina said as she didn't expect to be saving refugees like this.

"They refused to keep moving, it had to be done." Balwin said but clearly, he hated having to do it. "Just be glad they have their lives still." Balwin added knowing that at least that child won't have to watch his parents die... or worse be the one to kill them in mercy and self-defense.

"Maybe we need to call for backup." Juvina said as she approached Balwin.

"We can't." Balwin said as he got down to it. "These people may be primitive but if we bring a large force in, our enemies will react violently to it." Balwin said explaining the situation to Juvina. "Teshin once said to be ready for a battle but don't antagonize our enemies into starting an unneeded one." Balwin said recalling Teshin's words. "We bring in a large unit and it will be a spontaneous battle that could have been avoided, things will start to escalate we'll need more supplies, and before you know it, we become the orchestrators of absolute destruction a second fall of the Orokin Empire." Balwin said recalling the day they brought down the Orokin.

"But we're liberators it's our job." Juvina said but Balwin had a counter.

"We are but the last time we went full scale slaughter we were lashing out violently and it resulted in the division between Corpus and Grineer." Balwin said recalling how their actions had fucked over the Origin System for years to come.

"I hate it when your right." Juvina bemoaned as she sat back down.

"Hey guys not to break up the lovers spat but we got movement up ahead." Tavo said as he saw that there was something on his radar. Using his scanner Balwin decided to see what was up ahead.

"Crows." Balwin said as he found it odd since the last battlefield was too far away for them to gather here to pick off the remains. But then an axe appeared in his vision catching him by surprise. Moving through Balwin saw the owner of the axe a young girl in a black and red gothic outfit smiling at them.

Rory saw the vehicles and caravan and began to make her way over to them. "Where did you all come from?" Rory asked approaching the Tenno's vehicle. "Where are you going?" She asked as the Tenno were ready in case things got violent.

"Something is up with her." Balwin said as he swore this girl was similar to them somehow. This got them on edge since it made them a bit worried that this world may have its own version of the Tenno.

"Forget the girl I want that axe." Tavo quipped causing his squad mates to sigh at Tavo's love for weapons.

"Tavo that Axe is primitive." Juvina said scolding her teammate.

"So, are most of the melee weapons we use, your point?" Tavo asked as Juvina just sighed in frustration seeing as Tavo had a point

Just then the back door of their vehicle open and from it the children all ran out. "Hey wait stop!" Kiva cried out but was ignored as the children headed to the girl.

"It's the oracle!" One of the children cheered as they all ran to the girl. All of the village children were repeating the name oracle as the Tenno heard this.

"Oracle?" Balwin, Tavo, and Juvina all asked when they heard this. The three Tenno looked to each other and shrugged as none of them had any idea what this Oracle was about.

Where did you come?" Rory asked as she looked to the children around her.

"From Coda Village." One of the children revealed as Rory heard them out.

"We fled from the village." An old woman revealed as more of the villagers gathered around Rory bowing to her.

"There was a fire dragon. We had to run." An old man next to the old woman said revealing the plight these people were in.

Back in the vehicle Kiva watched the entire exchange. "They seem to be praying to her." She said as Balwin was ready for trouble should it arise.

"Maybe she's sort of religious figure." Tavo said as he watched the axe wielding girl. "Maybe if join I can get an axe like that." Tavo quipped but then Balwin cut in.

"Wait guys I think she sees us." Balwin said and thus to prove his words the axe user began to walk over to the Tenno.

As they approached the vehicle, Balwin reached for his weapon in case of danger as she came over to the vehicle. "Who are these strange people?" The girl asked once she got to Balwin's side of the vehicle.

"They saved us. They're good people." One of the children said as Balwin was ready just in case.

"So, you aren't being forced out of your village." Rory said to the child as Balwin began to lower his guard a bit inside the vehicle. By the looks of it she was only concerned for the village, but at the same time it could be some sort of religious ploy. "How does this carriage move?" Rory asked as she looked at the recon vehicle.

"I don't know." The boy said as he wasn't sure either. "But its way comfier ride than our carts." The boy added which reminded the Tenno that these children were primitives.

"Oh, a comfy ride, huh?" Rory asked as she smiled over to the child.

"Excuse me but you can ask us directly." Balwin said as he got Rory's attention on him.

Rory then looked to Balwin with a sharp look one that Balwin and the other Tenno shared through their Warframes. "I see..." Rory said as she spoke almost like she can see the Tenno through their Warfames. "What God do you serve?" Rory asked as she could see the power the Tenno had. This power came from a divine being, but it was one unknown to her.

"We don't serve any Gods, not anymore." Tavo cut in from the driver's seat with a glare.

"Oh?" Rory asked as she found this odd. Why would they have this power and not serve some sort of divine being. Clearly these were the Devil Warriors she was looking for. So far, they seem benign but why does it have Emloy on edge?

But one thing both the Tenno and Rory agreed upon they were very much similar to each other, Demi-Gods. Their powers may be different, but their auras were practically mirrors of each other. For the Tenno, this girl might prove to be an asset but if she is an enemy better to keep her close by and snuff her out before she tries anything.

(Scene Break later that day)

Several hours passed as the caravan was once more on the road. They had made a lot of progress with the journey and so far, there hadn't been much for danger yet. At the moment Rory Mercury was sitting in the Recon Vehicle with them as they continued their drive. "Hey guys the scenery is changing a bit." Tavo voiced as they kept up the journey.

"Yeah, according to the radar we've put a lot of distance between ourselves and the village." Balwin said spotting the map and knowing a lot of ground had been covered. "Even then we can't keep moving like this forever at some point we're going to have to find a place to drop these people off." Balwin said being reminded of the fact that most if not all of these people are under their protection.

"No kidding." Tavo said in full agreement. "I just want this evacuation to be over already." Tavo said but then Balwin hummed a bit which got Tavo's attention.

"Juvina is our long-range scanners working?" Balwin asked as Juvina looked to check.

"Should be." Juvina said and thus she saw something had Balwin on edge. "Checking scanners now." Juvina said and began to check it out. "Oh, shit we have contact and its big." Juvina said and thus Balwin knew what this meant.

"Have everyone hit battle stations now!" Balwin ordered knowing they had to move now.

From the glare of the sun a wyvern was seen flying towards the caravan. But instead of attacking it was chomped down by the fire dragon the Tenno had encountered before. The Dragon roared out and released its blazing fire upon the caravan causing the people to run away in a panic. Many were caught in the fire as horses were killed and wagons were destroyed.

The Recon Vehicles got moving as they moved to protect the people as they transformed into battle mode. the wheels expanded into a gyro form while a large gun came out from the top side. "Tavo fly us straight, Juvina keep us loaded and shielded! I got the gun!" Balwin called out and thus he took the turret which had handles similar to the Railjack. Though it was more similar to the Grineer's turrets.

The Recon Vehicles drove around the dragon and began to open fire upon it. The three vehicles flew about as Kahl manned the main gun on one of the vehicles. Bullets were flying as the dragon was being riddled by them and tanks to the mods several of the bullets were breaking through. But it was not enough to do lasting damage to this beast.

"Keep up the fire rate, if we can do enough damage to this dragon, we can either kill it or make it flee," Balwin said as Tavo keep the ride steady as he observe the battle as he said, "Maybe but it looks like we're hardly doing much to it at, or if nothing at all."

"We are hurting it, pieces of its scars are being chipped off by our guns," Juvina said as she observe things herself while also leading a hand as needed, as then Balwin saw he dragon's mouth was glowing as he soon announce, "Fire breath incoming! Evade-evade!"

Tavo turn hard with the other recon vehicles getting out of the way of the fire breath the best they can as they did take a hit, but the shield held up, as Juvina said, "Shield held, but at 32 percent, we can't take a direct hit from that."

"All teams keep firing we need the dragon attention on us," Balwin said as Rory smile seeing the battle even if it from the back seat, she sees how each Tenno is working in sync with one another to fight the dragon, but with all their fire power wasn't enough as from the dust and smoke around, it just seem the dragon is just getting enrage as Balwin said, "It seem we may not have any other choice at this point, I'll try to attack the dragon head on."

"You can't be serious?" Tavo asked, as around this time the blonde elf girl was waking up and soon hears what the Tenno are saying, as Balwin looks at Tavo and said, "You got a better idea right now because the only thing I can think of is going for its joints but its keep to get a clear shot and that breath is deadly from the distant, we need to get up close and personal with it."

"Not that I don't agree with your plan, but how can you get close to it, it would just attack you if it saw you coming," Juvina said as at that point, at that moment the elf girl stood up while keeping the blanket she had covering her held up at her chest as she came to them as Tavo said, "Great sleeping beauty is awake."

"Aim for its eyes," the elf girl said, as Balwin can understand her well enough thank to all the translation Ordis is doing for them, as Balwin looks at her and said, "Its eyes?"

"Yes, its eyes, go for its eyes!" The elf girl said as he pointed at her own eye to get her point across as Balwin look up at the dragon and get a good look at its eyes, using his scanner and saw there was an arrow within one of the dragon's eyes as it was hurt by it, no doubt one of the elves from the burn village may have hit it as Balwin said, "All teams, aim for the dragons eyes, that's its soft point."

"Understood!" the other team call out as at that moment the other recon vehicles redirected their aim at the dragon's head aiming for its eyes, which the bullet was hitting, but not at the eyes but enough to make the dragon covers its remaining good eye giving Balwin an opening as he jumps out of his team ride and summon forth his archwing and flew out before the dragon realize what he is doing as he drew his katana before disengage his archwings and attacked the dragon, tearing a few scales off in the process as it cry out in pain to this.

Rory watch as Balwin fight the dragon single handedly, watching how he moves and use his sword, she smile happily as she said, "I never seen such a warrior do such a thing, he must be a demigod."

Balwin went for the dragon's knee and ankles before pulling out his main weapon and aim for the elbow joint to see how much damage he can cause before leaping away as the dragon swipe at him with its claws as he said, "This dragon is bigger than an Eidolon, but it's not as slow as one. I need hurt it badly but where?"

He soon dodge another strike from the dragons claw before clashing at its left arm and saw the damage he cause tis as he looks closely, he sees the arm around the dragon had less scales, meaning it was weak in that area as he said, "Alright then aim for its arms."

Balwin charge at the dragon fast not giving it any room it attack as then he leaps into the air, aiming for the dragon's arm with his sword but the dragon moved quickly as it quickly twist around and smack Balwin with its tail, as he drop his sword while being sent him across the lands like a smooth rock skipping on water, he grunted a bit with every skip before he came to a stop.

As the dragon looks down at Balwin as it prepares a fire breath attack as he ready himself, but then Rory came in at the last moment as she had leap into the air and throw her weapon, making it spin in the air before it impacted on the ground near the dragon's feet, making the ground become unstable to stand on and made the dragon fall back a bit giving Balwin time to move as he look to the gothic Lolita as he saw her giving him a smile and a wink, as Balwin give a smile to her within his Warframe before he summon forth his archwings again and flew at the dragon, full speed before he summon forth his exalted sword.

He was on top of the dragon before he swing his sword sending exalted energy slashes at the dragon, aiming for tis arm as when the cuts landed with the dragon roar out in pain before Balwin came down and slash through the dragon arm all the way making it fall down to the side of the dragon foot, with the dragon itself cry out and took flight before flying to escape the Tenno's reach as Balwin hover in the air seeing the dragon retreating as he said, "Target retreating, mission accomplish."

"That was kind of kick ass I won't lie." Tavos said as he leaned back on his chair with some relief.

"Guys that's all well and good but we have another issue to sort out." Juvina said reminding the crew that they had other problems and one of said problems being the dead they had to bury.

(Later that evening)

The sun had set as flowers of this world gave off a soft glow which aided in the somber mood. Before the Tenno, their allies, and the refugees were mounds of dirt marked by broken wood to signify graves.

"May these people find peace in the Void. May they watch from the infinite those of us who remain. May the day come when we join them in the void." Balwin said offering a prayer to those who had fallen this day. "We accept this pain and move beyond its reach. We use this pain and for it to fuel wills to live. We return this pain to the void and find peace in our emptiness." Balwin said finishing the prayer. It was a Tenno prayer that their caste had made during the Old War. Despite becoming their enemies during the fall, the Tenno had fought alongside the Dax Soldiers and considered many of them something of allies even mentors until the fall.

Just then Umbra heard the cries of a child and with Balwin turned around to face the child. Walking over Umbra saw the little girl and for a moment recalled Isa in his childhood. Balwin knowing what Umbra wanted to do at least for the children who lost their families and loved ones gave his Warframe control.

With Umbra now in control he drew his Shawzin and proceeded to sit down and offered a hand to the girl. The little one looked to Umbra confused before he gestured for her to sit down. Once the little girl was seated Umbra began to play a song he knew well, Smiles from Juran. As the tune played many of the children such as the girl began to calm down from their tears. Moving towards them the children who lost families gathered around Umbra as he played the song to ease their pain. Once upon a time Umbra himself was a father to a marvelous young man who followed in his footsteps and became a Dax of renown.

The guilt and pain Umbra felt when Ballas forced him to murder Isa never truly went away. But easing the suffering of this children helped ease his own pain much like his Tenno Operator had done. As this happened Juvina was speaking with the village chief with Tavo. Many of the refugees had relatives nearby who can house them and had made some arrangements for housing as well. But this left a lot of young children and a few of the older people without homes seeing as the dragon had just wiped out their families.

"Are you sure you can't take them?" Juvina asked as she let Balwin, and Umbra calm the children.

"I know it might seem heartless, but we have our hands full trying to find another place to live." The old man said with a sad tone in his voice. "We cannot stretch ourselves any thinner by adding someone else." He said as Juvina looked to the children as the Tenno all knew the pain they were going through.

"Your leaving without them." Tavo said as he saw what this meant for them.

The old chief then took off his cap and held it over his chest. "Thank you, you'll always have our upmost gratitude." The old village chief said to the Tenno. Juvina and Tavo knew that even if Balwin didn't outwardly say it they were not about to leave orphans to struggle on their own. The Void knew that the Tenno went through that on the Zariman and would never wish that upon anyone else. They understood the chiefs reasons even if they didn't like it.

Eventually the refugees took their leave as the Tenno bid them farewell. Waving them off Juvina looked over to Balwin as they now had the other matter to deal with. "So, we're all in agreement." Juvina said as the pair looked over to the kids and saw Tavo and the Operatives all standing with the children, the old wizard, Lelei, and Rory. The naked elf was still inside the recon vehicle, but it was Balwin who sighed a bit.

"Of course, we are." Balwin said making it clear that he was not going to leave these kids behind. "Alright people load up we're heading to Almas Hill!" Balwin called out as it was time to return to base and give Hunhow their report.

(TBC)

ESKK: Finally finished this chapter. Now if you will excuse me, I need to go to bed so I can wake up for work in the morning. You all know the drill leave a review before leaving and as I always say on here, ja-ne.