Genesis, A New Creation

Loyalty

-Chapter 9-

As Nocte sits in the bluegrass he watches them tie and bind his unconsciousness body into a cage made of wood that was quickly scraped together and put together. His hands tied above his head and his legs bound to a wooden pole in the middle and he sighed as he watched them do it and muttered “I could break free from it but it seems everything is going as planned….they take me prisoner and hopeful they will “Convince” me to join them.'' Then Nocte watches Annah bark some orders at her men but he can't hear her as his mortal body is unconscious but his soul is still alive and can still watch at least somewhat.

Nocte sighs and says “This is a necessary step to try and master magic and from there I need to figure out how to use my soul and body at the same time without destroying the mortal body. As the power my soul has..is more than my body can actually handle, I'm not perfect even for being a creator….i'm still mentally only sixteen, we'll that might be an understatement..” he says with a slight smile

He runs his hands through the grass as he lays down in it, looking up he sees the four planets each representing a part of creation. He made it this way as all beings are equal in his eyes even his first creations are equal to each other in their own way. Everyone and thing has a fault and a desire even himself, he understood this we'll. He remembered back when he was in his old world how he would pray and pray, asking for redemption even though he did really nothing bad or sinful besides for a few slurs and even lustful thoughts. Nocte sighed and asked himself “The real question is do I really accept the name one of my creations gave me? Or did I become two separate people..one a creator that lived before and wanted everyone to be happy and safe while the other wanted a life, a family...a normal quiet life.” he sat silently for a moment pondering it then “No i'm not, i'm one person but i'm pretending to be another. The name Nocte is nothing more than a false name, Saisho is just a title given to by the Bestia Confederation.” he feels a slight tug to him as his paradise slowly begins to get further and further away and he says “Time to wake up..”

Nocte opens his eyes and lifts his head, his hands tied above his head and he sees Annah standing there talking to an old man dressed in furs and a robe, clearly a shaman of some type. He glances at you and says “Alpha he's awake.”Annah turns her attention to Nocte and says “Oh, I didn't expect him to wake up so soon. We'll sense you're awake…..you're name was Not correct?” Nocte nods slightly and she says “I'm glad I remembered, now I got a few questions for you and you're going to answer them. First question is simple: what were you doing with those slaves and why did you rescue them from the Kingdom?”

Nocte responds partially honestly “I hate seeing people enslaved and I had a chance to prevent it and so I did by wiping out an army.” Annah interjects “An Army of potential fathers, Husbands, or children of families?” Nocte feels his heart break for a second but he composes himself and answers “Yes.” Annah seems a bit confused by not Nocte not even trying to make it sound rightful or anything and then she asks “How come you are so strong.” Nocte remains quiet for a moment then says “You call them false Gods, I call them Children. My mortality, named by one of these children Ata.” Nocte looks up at her and her facial expression is nothing but confusion but she closes her eyes, composes herself and asks “What do you mean by children and your mortality?” Nocte does not answer, keeping his mind calm so he does not do anything stupid he thinks before he answers her questions. Annah sighs then says “So you were named by one of the gods? Ata correct?” Nocte nods once and she nods her head and stands up “Then I'll make you a deal, you give me your loyalty, you're knowledge, power and I can give you something in return, name your price.”

Nocte is actually shocked for a moment that she is actually trying it so quickly, and he does not know how to respond. He thought he would have to offer her a deal so far in her favor but she just gave him a deal he could barely refuse. He thinks for a moment and then says “Alright, I want a high social status and I want full access to any magic books and scrolls.” Annah then seemingly doubles down on the deal “No, I'll give you a social status and I'll give you my best magical instructor to train you and I will give you access to all magical items within my Confederation. Now do we have a deal?”

Nocte is stunned for a moment “uh...y-yea, we have a deal..” Annah is kinda shocked that you agreed so easily but smiles “Great, then you may call my Annah Hart. I am the Alpha but sense you are not a Demi-Human you may call me by my name sides you have proven your worth by being able to stand up against some of our best fighters.” Nocte was mostly confused as he figured she would try to lower the price of his services as he is more like an investment, rather than a full product but she opens the gate and pulls a dagger out from her hip and he tenses but she cuts the rope on his legs and on his hands. Holstering the dagger she offers him a hand and he grabs her hand. Her hand is tough and smooth but clearly she has been through plenty of battles and then she says “Come, I will give you back your sword and if I may ask...just how old are you?” Nocte looks up at her face and says “If you must know i'm sixteen.” She nods and says “I see, so you're an adult then.” Nocte freezes for a moment as she walks ahead of him and glances back at him and asks “Did I say something wrong?” Nocte shakes his head and says “No, please continue.”

She raises an eyebrow but seems not to question it and then says “Right now my men are getting ready to begin moving back to our borders as we have completed our objective of raiding the Kingdom of Kale. Once the main force splits off to their sectors and goes back to protection and drilling duties. Then from their are..” she pauses and lifts open a tarp covering an entrance to a large tent that is made from looks like a black tapestry with images sewn into it of the sixth god and what he did for them, They look Egyptian murals from his world and he wonders “Perhaps..even the mortals got some of my influence without me knowing.” Nocte follows her inside and it has a small bed, wardrobe and even her armor on a mannequin. There is a table on the far right side and it has your sword on it and she grabs it in her hands and says “You're sword….is really something else, Do you mind if I ask you about it?”

Nocte grabs his sword out of her hands and says “I do mind quite a bit actually, You may ask but I give no promises of answering.” Annah looks at him a bit shocked for a couple seconds but nods and says “Very we'll...it is you're...right after, you own sword so I guess you don't have to answer but if I may ask where did you get it?” Nocte answers simply “It was a gift from my father.” she nodded and crossed her arms, placing her hand on her chin in a thinking pose almost and continued “Where is your father?” Nocte says almost coldly “Dead.” She shows no real reaction to this but fiddles with her hair a bit, Then suddenly a man erupts from the entrance to the tent and says “Alpha! WE Have a BIG problem.” She looks at him and flicks her tail and Nocte turns and sees it's a Mage or something similar as he wears purple garments with red outlines on the robeing and he says “There is another army..on it's way, we must get ready to fight they will get here by sun high!” Annah then almost starts to yell “Then spread the command! Get armed and ready, I want every second in command to be ready to burn any scrap of intel we have incase we lose!”

Nocte then says “No….” Annah and the mage look at him for a moment and the mage says “Are you insane?! There's at least five thousand of them, even are army will have a hard time with the Warriors of Saisho they will be overwhe-” Nocte cuts him off and says “If I may suggest, Annah take all the intel and weaponry you have and begin marching back to where even you need to go. I will meet up with you and after all we had an agreement count this as….a token of gratitude for your investment.”

-Annah Hart-

She stares at him for a couple of seconds her mind racing “What is he thinking? Is he insane?! Does he really believe he can take on five thousand men alone?!” She is about to suggest something else but he holsters his sword under his robe on a holster and walks to the chair and sits down facing away from the entrance of the tent and says “Go, trust me. They will not be here by sun high you have time, at least three hours.” Annah then yells “You heard him! Spread the command, Gather all the intel,weapons and anything useful leave everything else!”

The mage quickly nods and runs out yelling “Gather all the intel,weapons and anything useful leave everything else!” his voice slowly fades as he repeats it and Annah grabs her armor and puts it on grabbing her sword and looking back at Nocte who is clearly focused on something else in his thoughts as he has his head down and her thought “I know I have a small interest in him but i'm worried for his safety, but then again all males must prove their worth.” She smiles as she mutters under her breath “I guess this is you're trail, Saisho must be watching you after all.'' With that she turns and leaves by the time she is in the middle of the camp most of the army has got everything loaded hastily on wagons or is in the middle of doing it, Men and mages using magic to help with the fatigue of doing it. The horses were poorly hitched to the wagons but it would work for the time they just needed to get farther away.

-Martian Lupical-

As he got to the field where his enemy was supposed to be there was no movement in the town and he sent three mages to scout but they didn't return. He looked at the sun for a moment and he noted “It's past sun high….?” He sighed as he got to the entrance of the camp quite quickly and he raised his hand in the air then made a signal to clear the camp and his army quickly ran not only in the camp but surrounded it.

Knights pushed in while Levy spearmen surrounded it or pushed in slowly in formation, He got off his horse and a then he saw it as he marched pass a tent with images of the Heretics that worshiped this God Saisho. He gripped his fist but he then noticed the entrance was stained with blood, he looked at the dirt and saw drag marks along with blood and bits of flesh or some type of meat clearly human. He gulped but he ordered two knights to follow him and they entered the tent first then Martian entered and their he saw the bodies hung by their hands to the poles that were supporting the tent, Their bodies dripping with blood and even parts of their bodies were seemingly cut by a sword as one was cleanly missing an arm and the other had his head split in two brain matter dripped and seemingly flowed down his nose and dripped in clumps onto the dirt floor, Martian threw up right then and their onto the blood stained ground but as he wiped his mouth the knights were shaking by the tell tale sound of their armor clattering together.

He looked at the Knights then ahead of them and saw someone in black robe sitting on a chair with a wooden table and two short swords both covered in blood and he then ordered “Who are you, Answer me before I cut you down!” The person clearly heard him as he turned his head slightly and he felt his heart sink as if death stared him in the face. The white pupils of that mask seemed almost inhuman, his knights already terrified by the corpses dropped their swords screaming and running out of the tent before he could stop them and then the being stood up and asked in the most polite way “Who might you be Mister?” the being clearly looked him up and down and Martian opened his mouth to speak but then “No matter, I don't need your name nor your history. I was gonna offer you a chance to leave but...I changed my mind.”

Martian quickly draws his sword but the being was faster grabbing a short sword and throwing it directly into his knee and he screamed and fell on the already bloodstained ground, now getting more blood on the dirty ground his blue suit slowly becoming stained with his own blood and the blood of the mages. The being gets closer by taking two steps but knights quickly swarm in, one grabbing Martian by his shoulders and pulling Martian out as he holds back his own screams as he hears steel crashing into steel and swords dropping onto the ground and even he hears bodies thump onto the ground as only more men charged in...into meat grinder as blood seemingly flows out from under the tent.

Then as four knights charged in together the sound of swords clashing seemingly stopped and the three bolted as fast as they could, one tripping over the other and the being stepped out stepping on one of their backs and using magic to send a fire bolt straight through the others back and out his chest, killing him instantly. Bone and melted metal was sent into the air and out words, blood turned to a red steam. The being seemed to have no mercy and was not even touched by a stain of blood; he felt adrenaline rush through him as he grabbed the short sword in his knee and ripped it out, throwing it on the ground and getting up and running for his life. The Knight that was dragging him fell onto his back clearly a bit stunned from the fear of his commander but Martian turning and bolting as fast as he could only heard screams of terror and pain but soon his own pain caught up to him as he latched onto his horse breathing heavily and trying to hold himself up but then he felt something grab his collar from behind and throw him back. Landing onto his back there he saw the being and slapped the horse and it freaked out running.

The being stared into the very depths of his soul and and tried to crawl away but the being stepped on his knee and he screamed in pain as he hit the beings leg but it did nothing as tears began to form in his eyes and the being then let what sounded like a low growl “I am a Idol of all your sins and fears.” Martian filled with fear but with some semblance of faith he says “Kill me! I do not wish to talk and waste my time with a demon!” The being then said “Talk? Oh there's much to talk about, I shall talk and the world shall tremble.” Martian tries to escape but the being pulls a sword out and stabs his right shoulder and pins him to the ground as he screams and almost with no remorse it begins speaking in a monotone voice “You will not find salvation, nor a hero to save you. The one who created you and everything you see is merely just that…” the being takes his foot off him and rips his sword out of his shoulder and Martian grits his teeth weeping as tears flow freely but the begin then says “You shall run, You shall fear….for you are a tool.” he then extends his hand a healing symbol appearing on his hand in a green glow and all of Martians wounds heal and without a second's hesitation nor thought he stumbles and runs on all fours for a second then up right as he bolts as fast and far away as possible.